Sergiy Stakhovsky

Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky (Сергій Едуардович Стаховський, ; born January 6, 1986) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player.

In 2002, he beat Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals of Luxembourg, before losing to Dudi Sela in the final.

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 quarterfinals of a couple Challengers to finish the year ranked No. 335 in singles.

Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and played mostly at the Challenger level from 2005 to 2008.

Stakhovsky reached career-high world rankings of No. 28 in singles and No. 32 in doubles in 2003.

In 2004, he had his best junior result, losing in the final of the U.S. Open to Andy Murray, beating Donald Young in the first round.

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.

Stakhovsky had a rough start to the year, 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 losing to #54 Arnaud Clément.

That brought his singles ranking to a career high of #158.

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.

Stakhovsky won his first career title in March 2008, as a lucky loser ranked no. 209, defeating top seed Ivan Ljubičić in the final, thus becoming the first lucky loser to win a title since Christian Miniussi in 1991.

He is the elder brother of tennis player Leonard Stakhovsky.

He was coached by Burghard Riehemann.

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.

This year has seen Stakhovsky match it with the best in a number of ATP World Tour events.

In the season opener in Doha, Stakhovsky lost in the quarter-finals to #3 seed Andy Murray.

In Zagreb, as defending champion, he once again made the quarter-finals, losing to Viktor Troicki.

Stakhovsky played Andy Murray once more in the first round of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships and after being one set up and with a break in the second, he twisted his ankle whilst trying to volley.

Unable to finish the match, Stakhovsky retired hurt.

As the leading player in the Ukrainian Davis Cup team, Stakhovsky defeated Chris Eaton on the opening day of the Europe/Africa Zone Playoff versus Great Britain in Scotland and partnered Sergei Bubka Jr. in closing out the tie by winning the doubles in five sets.

Stakhovsky won his maiden Grand Slam Singles and Doubles matches at Roland Garros.

His career-high rankings were World No. 31 in singles (September 2010) and No. 33 in doubles (June 2011).

He 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.

Stakhovsky retired from tennis in January 2022, and following the Russian invasion of Ukraine he joined the Ukrainian Army.

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