Daniel Cukierman

Daniel Cukierman (; born 9 July 1995) is an Israeli tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 115 achieved on 30 June 2025. He also has a career-high singles ranking of No. 339 achieved on 29 May 2023. He has two brothers, Michael and Ariel.

He was in the Israel Defense Forces for three years. After Cukierman was released from the IDF, Cukierman had a mandatory eight-month break from competition.

College careeer In 2017 Cukierman started his studies at the University of Southern California (USC), where he is playing for the USC Trojans tennis team. He also won the Oracle ITA National Fall Singles Championship. He was the first USC player to be ranked #1 in the nation since Steve Johnson in 2012. He was 26–2 in singles in 2019–20. He and Smith ranked No. 5 in the US in doubles when competition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Cukierman reached the singles finals at the 2016 Greece F9 Futures, and the 2016 Israel F14 Futures and F13 Futures, and reached the doubles final at the 2016 Israel F15 Futures. In December 2019, he won the Israel National Championship in singles.

In January 2020, partnering with Riley Smith, Cukierman won the M25 Los Angeles doubles championship.

National representation Davis Cup Cukierman plays for the Israel Davis Cup team in the Davis Cup. He was first nominated to the team for the 2017 Davis Cup, and played in a match against Portuguese tennis player Frederico Ferreira Silva. In March 2020 he won both singles (defeating Cem Ilkel, ranked #195 in the world, 7–6(4), 6–2 and doubles (with Australian Open doubles champion Jonathan Erlich; defeating Yanki Erel and Ilkel, 6–3, 6–1) matches against Turkey at the Davis Cup Group 1 qualifiers in Antalya, Turkey.

Performance timeline

Doubles

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 10 (3–7) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (3–7)Finals by surfaceHard (3–5)Clay (0–2)

Doubles: 37 (21-17) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (5–10)Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (16–7)Finals by surfaceHard (15–11)Clay (6–6)