Sergiy Stakhovsky

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Sergiy Stakhovsky
Country Flag of Ukraine Ukraine
Residence Prostějov, Czech Republic
Date of birth January 6, 1986 (1986-01-06) (age 22)
Place of birth Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 80 kg (180 lb/13 st)
Turned pro 2003
Plays Right-handed
Career prize money US$351,861
Singles
Career record: 11 - 13
Career titles: 1
Highest ranking: No. 123 (March 3, 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open Qual. 2R (2007)
French Open Qual. 3R (2007)
Wimbledon Qual. 2R (2006)
US Open Qual. 1R (2006)
Doubles
Career record: 3 - 2
Career titles: 0
Highest ranking: No. 128 (August 13, 2007)

Infobox last updated on: March 3, 2008.

Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukrainian: Сергій Стаховський)(born January 6, 1986 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian male tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and has been playing mostly at the Challenger level since 2005. He career high in singles of #158 was reached in October, 2006, and his high of #128 in doubles was reached in August, 2007.[1] He won his first career title on 1 March 2008, as a lucky loser ranked #209, defeating #1 seed Ivan Ljubičić in the final, thus becoming the first lucky loser to win a title since Christian Miniussi in 1991.

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[edit] Junior career

Stakhovsky reached career highs of #28 in singles and #32 in doubles in the world junior rankings in 2003. In 2004, he had his best junior result, losing in the final of the U.S. Open to Andy Murray and beating Donald Young in the first round. In 2002 in Luxembourg, he beat Novak Đoković in the quarterfinals before losing to Dudi Sela in the final.[2]

[edit] Professional career

[edit] 2004

Stakhovsky played his first ATP-level singles match in October in Moscow's Kremlin Cup. After beating Alejandro Falla in qualifying to reach the main draw, he lost to Nikolay Davydenko in the first round. He then reached the quartefinals of a couple Challengers to finish the year ranked #335 in singles.

[edit] 2005

Stakhovsky began 2005 where he left off, qualifying into the ATP stop in Qatar in January and losing to Hyung-Taik Lee in the first round. In February, he won his first ATP-level singles match, qualifying into the main draw, where he beat #100 Christophe Rochus and #29 Mario Ančić before losing to #37 Robin Söderling in the quarterfinals. He spent most of the rest of the year having moderate success at the Challenger level, but did qualify once more into an ATP tournament in Russia in October, reaching the 2nd round. He finished the year ranked #173 in singles.

In doubles, he won two Challenger tournaments, in Spain in July and Prague in November.

[edit] 2006

Stakhovsky started the year out rough in January, losing in the first round of qualifying at three straight ATP stops. By May, his ranking had slipped back to #260 before he began making progress again on the Challenger circuit. Semifinal results at major Challengers in Spain and Istanbul in July got his ranking back to #181.

In October, he qualified into ATP main draws two weeks in a row, losing in the first round to #26 Richard Gasquet in France and beating #21 Dmitry Tursunov in the first round in Moscow before losting to #54 Arnaud Clément. That brought his singles ranking to a career high of #158.

Although he did win his 4th career doubles Challanger title in Ukraine in November, he had no further singles succes and finished the year ranked #198 in singles.

[edit] 2007

Stakhovsky was not as successful in 2007 in singles. He qualified twice into ATP main draws in January and February, but lost in the first round. He had more success in doubles, winning two more Challenger titles to get to a career high doubles ranking of #128 in August. But by October, his singles ranking had slipped to #294 before he began making progress on the Challenger circuit again. He reached his first Challenger singles final in a major tournament in Malaysia in his final tournament of 2007, to finish the year ranked #199 in singles.

[edit] 2008

Stakhovsky began 2008 by failing to qualify into several ATP and Challenger tournaments, before qualifying and reaching the quarterfinals of a major Challenger in Poland in February, losing to #68 Simone Bolelli. He then entered the qualifications of the Zagreb tournament, losing in the final round to Slovenian Blaž Kavčič, but due to Michaël Llodra's withdrawal, he entered the main draw as a lucky loser. He went on to win the tournament, defeating top players along the way, including #2 seed Ivo Karlović in the first round, #8 seed Janko Tipsarević in the quarterfinals, Simone Bolelli in the semifinals, and #1 seed Ivan Ljubičić in the final.

[edit] ATP Tour titles (1)

[edit] Singles (1)

No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. March 1, 2008 Zagreb, Croatia Hard (i) Flag of Croatia Ivan Ljubičić 7–5, 6–4

[edit] References

  1. ^ Stakhovsky ATP Profile
  2. ^ Stakhovsky ITF Juniors Page

[edit] External links