Karuê Sell

Karuê Sell
	Sell at the 2025 Washington Open
Country (sports)	Brazil
Residence	Torrance, California, US
Born	13 November 1993; Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	UCLA
Prize money	US $110,172
Singles
Career record	0–1
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 258 (18 November 2024)
Current ranking	No. 280 (28 July 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Junior	1R (2011)
French Open Junior	1R (2010)
US Open Junior	2R (2010)
Doubles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 581 (24 December 2018)
Current ranking	No. 1365 (28 July 2025)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open Junior	SF (2011)
French Open Junior	1R (2010)
US Open Junior	QF (2010)
	Last updated on: 28 July 2025.

Karuê Wiele Sell (born 13 November 1993)^[1] is a Brazilian professional tennis player, YouTube content creator and former tennis coach. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 258, achieved on 18 November 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 581, achieved on 24 December 2018.^[2]

Personal life

Sell is a YouTuber^[3]^[4] whose eponymous YouTube channel, formerly known as MyTennisHQ,^[5] has more than 168,000 subscribers as of May 2025.^[6] The channel began as an online tennis academy,^[7] before pivoting to focus on Karuê's YouTube series: Turning Pro at 30. With this change, Sell announced that he would rebrand his channel from MyTennisHQ to just Karuê Sell on 25 July 2023.

He moved from his native Brazil to the US aged 18 to attend college at UCLA , graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Geography.^[8]

In 2019, Sell played a pro beach tennis event in Hermosa Beach alongside Kevin Michael Schmitz.^[9]

Sell lives with his wife and their two dogs in Torrance, California.

Junior career

Sell competed on the juniors professional tour, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 33 and playing in all Grand Slams except Wimbledon. He won the first junior tournament he entered in October 2009 at Porto Seguro. He won his second singles title in March 2010 at a tournament held in Montevideo. Sell reached the semifinals of the 2011 Australian Open doubles draw. He competed in his last junior tournament at US Open qualifying that same year.^[10]

College and coaching career

Sell played college tennis at UCLA.^[11] He subsequently coached the men's tennis team at Pepperdine University for a year,^[8] before playing on the ITF Men's Circuit. Following college tennis and collegiate coaching, Sell returned to competition in 2017, before retiring in 2019 to join Naomi Osaka's team^[12] where he worked as Osaka's hitting partner for close to two years. In 2021, Sell later returned to coach at UCLA.^[13] In 2023 he started coaching ATP tennis pro Marcos Giron.^[14]

Professional career

In May 2011, while still a junior, Sell won his first pro doubles title at a Futures event in Teresina.

In 2023, while working at UCLA and coaching Marcos Giron, Sell won three UTR Pro Tennis Tour tournaments. Sell turned pro with the aim of entering tournaments as an on-site alternate whilst traveling with Giron.^[14] Sell continued to travel and build his world ranking after departing Giron's team, mainly competing in ITF and ATP Challenger Tour events. Sell made his ATP main draw debut at the 2025 Geneva Open after qualifying for the singles main draw.^[15]

ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend
ITF Futures/WTT (6–2)

Finals by surface
Hard (5–2)
Clay (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2017	US F30, Claremont	Futures	Hard	Martin Redlicki	6–7^(4–7), 6–4, 6–3
Win	2–0	Jan 2018	US F1, Los Angeles	Futures	Hard	Christopher Eubanks	6–7^(5–7), 6–2, 6–2
Win	3–0	Apr 2018	US F10, Little Rock	Futures	Hard	Nicolaas Scholtz	7–5, 6–2
Loss	3–1	Feb 2019	M15 Tucson, US	WTT	Hard	Martin Redlicki	4–6, 4–6
Win	4–1	Oct 2023	M15 Morelia, Mexico	WTT	Hard	Johan Alexander Rodríguez	7–5, 6–2
Win	5–1	Jan 2024	M25 Ithaca, US	WTT	Hard (i)	Tristan McCormick	6–3, 3–0 ret.
Loss	5–2	May 2024	M15 San Diego, US	WTT	Hard	Learner Tien	7–6^(8–6), 2–6, 2–6
Win	6–2	Aug 2024	M25 Londrina, Brazil	WTT	Clay	José Pereira	6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend
ITF Futures/WTT (4–2)

Finals by surface
Hard (3–2)
Clay (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2011	Brazil F12, Teresina	Futures	Clay	Bruno Sant'Anna	Rodrigo Pérez Juan Carlos Sáez	6–2, 6–7^(3–7), [10–7]
Win	2–0	Sep 2017	US F30, Claremont	Futures	Hard	Deiton Baughman	Evan Song Benjamin Lock	6–4, 7–5
Loss	2–1	Sep 2017	US F32, Fountain Valley	Futures	Hard	Martin Redlicki	Elliott Orkin Ronnie Schneider	walkover
Win	3–1	Jan 2018	US F1, Los Angeles	Futures	Hard	Martin Redlicki	Luke Bambridge Hans Hach Verdugo	6–4, 6–3
Win	4–1	Feb 2019	M15 Tucson, US	WTT	Hard	Martin Redlicki	Julian Bradley Strong Kirchheimer	6–4, 6–1
Loss	4–2	Mar 2019	M15 Cancún, Mexico	WTT	Hard	Mateus Alves	Wilfredo González José Olivares	2–6, 7–6^(7–3), [8–10]

References

^ "Iamachkine and Pane to Compete in USTA Regional Championships". 18 October 2015.
^ "Karue Sell | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.
^ Eccleshare, Charlie; Futterman, Matthew (December 3, 2024). "Tennis pro and YouTuber Karue Sell questions Challenger ranking points, UTS final arrives" – via NYTimes.com.
^ L.A.’s challenger: Former UCLA star rejoins pro tennis tour at 30, with a YouTube channel
^ https://youtube.com/watch?v=YR-iyi1eNUc
^ https://youtube.com/@karue-sell?si=C-d1dVqtWpszV2ai
^ https://mytennishq.com/about-my-tennis-hq/
^ ^a ^b Karue Sell Pepperdine
^ https://www.itftennis.com/en/players/karue-sell/800743050/bra/bt/d/activity/
^ https://www.itftennis.com/en/players/karue-sell/800743050/bra/jt/s/overview/
^ "Karue Sell - Men's Tennis". UCLA.
^ "Naomi Osaka", Wikipedia, 2025-07-05, retrieved 2025-07-09
^ KARUE SELL UCLA coach
^ ^a ^b "Karue Sell Rekindles Competitive Spirt with Two Titles on UTR Pro Tennis Tour". 31 May 2023.
^ "Age Is Just a Number: Karue Sell's Re-Birth Into Tennis as a 30-Something". 24 June 2025.

External links

Karuê Sell at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Karuê Sell at the International Tennis Federation

[1] "Iamachkine and Pane to Compete in USTA Regional Championships". 18 October 2015.

[2] "Karue Sell | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.

[3] Eccleshare, Charlie; Futterman, Matthew (December 3, 2024). "Tennis pro and YouTuber Karue Sell questions Challenger ranking points, UTS final arrives" – via NYTimes.com.

[4] L.A.’s challenger: Former UCLA star rejoins pro tennis tour at 30, with a YouTube channel

[5] ttps://youtube.com/watch?v=YR-iyi1eNUc

[6] ttps://youtube.com/@karue-sell?si=C-d1dVqtWpszV2ai

[7] ttps://mytennishq.com/about-my-tennis-hq/

[Pepperdine-8] Karue Sell Pepperdine

[9] ttps://www.itftennis.com/en/players/karue-sell/800743050/bra/bt/d/activity/

[10] ttps://www.itftennis.com/en/players/karue-sell/800743050/bra/jt/s/overview/

[11] "Karue Sell - Men's Tennis". UCLA.

[12] "Naomi Osaka", Wikipedia, 2025-07-05, retrieved 2025-07-09

[13] KARUE SELL UCLA coach

[UTR-14] "Karue Sell Rekindles Competitive Spirt with Two Titles on UTR Pro Tennis Tour". 31 May 2023.

[15] "Age Is Just a Number: Karue Sell's Re-Birth Into Tennis as a 30-Something". 24 June 2025.

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Association of Tennis Professionals Top Brazilian male singles tennis players
As of Aug 8, 2025
1. Joao Fonseca (52 3) 2. Thiago Seyboth Wild (137 4) 3. Felipe Meligeni Alves (160 ) 4. Thiago Monteiro (168 2) 5. Joao Lucas Reis Da Silva (241 4)
6. Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida (278 1) 7. Karue Sell (280 ) 8. Gustavo Heide (324 25) 9. Daniel Dutra da Silva (333 9) 10. Pedro Boscardin Dias (334 21)