By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday October 19, 2019
Former World No.14 Alexander Volkov has passed away at the age of 52.
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Alexander Volkov, a former World No.14 who earned over 300 victories in his ATP career and later served as a mentor to Marat Safin, has passed away at 52.
He won three ATP titles and played in 11 finals, and earned one of the biggest Grand Slam upsets in recent memory when he snapped the 21-match winning streak of top-seeded Stefan Edberg in the first-round of the 1990 US Open.
“I practiced very well the past few weeks and I was ready to play,” Volkov, ranked 52nd in the world, said at the time, adding: “Then I saw the draw and I said, ‘Ohhhh.’ But you see, anything can happen.”
Volkov played in two Olympic Games and helped Russia reach the Davis Cup final in 1994—the Kaliningrad, Russia native earned 17 Top 10 victories over the course of his career.