1. Sergiy Stakhovsky won his first career title in March 2008, as a lucky loser ranked No 209, defeating top seed Ivan Ljubicic in the final, thus becoming the first lucky loser to win a title since Christian Miniussi in 1991.
29 Facts About Sergiy Stakhovsky
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Sergiy Stakhovsky is the elder brother of tennis player Leonard Stakhovsky.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky is perhaps best known for beating eight-time winner and defending champion Roger Federer in the second round of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, ending the latter's record run of 36 consecutive major quarterfinals.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky retired from tennis in January 2022, and following the Russian invasion of Ukraine he joined the Ukrainian Army.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky reached career-high world rankings of No 28 in singles and No 32 in doubles in 2003.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky then reached the quarterfinals of a couple Challengers to finish the year ranked No 335 in singles.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky began 2005 where he left off, qualifying into the ATP stop in Qatar in January and losing to Lee Hyung-taik in the first round.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky finished the year ranked No 173 in singles.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky had a rough start to the year, losing in the first round of qualifying at three straight ATP stops.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky reached his first Challenger singles final in Malaysia in his final tournament of 2007 to finish the year ranked No 199 in singles.
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Sergiy 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 No 68 Simone Bolelli.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky then entered qualifying of the Zagreb Indoors, losing in the final round to Slovenian Blaz Kavcic, but due to Michael Llodra's withdrawal, he entered the main draw as a lucky loser.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky went on to win the tournament, defeating top players along the way, including No 2 seed Ivo Karlovic in the first round, eighth seed Janko Tipsarevic in the quarterfinals, Simone Bolelli in the semifinals, and top seed Ivan Ljubicic in the final.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky played Andy Murray once more in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships and, after being one set up and with a break in the second, he twisted his ankle whilst trying to volley.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky won his maiden Grand Slam singles and doubles matches at Roland Garros.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky won his second career title in St Petersburg, after winning epic matches against former world No 1, two time Grand Slam champion and twice St Petersburg Open champion, Marat Safin, and he narrowly defeated Horacio Zeballos in the final.
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At the 2010 US Open, after knocking out Australian Peter Luczak in the first round, Sergiy Stakhovsky battled into the third round with a five-set win over American qualifier Ryan Harrison, coming back from triple match point down in a fifth-set tiebreaker to win a match marked by dramatic serve-and-volleying, rallies at net, and leaping overheads from both players.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky reached a career high ranking of No 31 on 27 September 2010.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky ended the 2010 season ranked No 46 and would begin 2011 at the Qatar Open in Doha.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky was the 31st seed in the 2011 French Open, he faced David Guez who he beat in four sets he then beat future US Open finalist Kei Nishikori.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky represented Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Olympics, losing in the first round of the men's singles to Lleyton Hewitt.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky got his first top-10 win when he defeated seven-time winner and defending champion Roger Federer at Wimbledon in four sets in the second round, to give Federer his earliest Grand Slam defeat since the 2003 French Open.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky was ranked 116 at the time, and Federer was ranked No 3.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky subsequently lost to Jurgen Melzer in the third round, going down in four sets.
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At the beginning of the war Sergiy Stakhovsky joined a unit of the special forces of Ukraine.
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In Ukraine, Sergiy Stakhovsky was interviewed by Australian journalist Sarah Ferguson for Four Corners.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky believes that if Putin is not stopped in Ukraine, that he would continue further into Europe.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky was married to Russian-Hungarian beauty coach Anfisa Bulgakova, they are now divorced.
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Sergiy Stakhovsky has three children and has lived in Budapest in Hungary since 2014.