Uladzimir Ignatik

Uladzimir Ignatik
Уладзімір Ігнацік

Country (sports)	Belarus
Residence	Minsk, Belarus
Born	(1990-07-14) 14 July 1990 Minsk, Belarus
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$353,603
Singles
Career record	11–11
Career titles	0 Challenger Tour: 2, Futures: 6
Highest ranking	No. 144 (29 October 2012)
Current ranking	No. 246 (04 August 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2012, 2013)
French Open	Q2 (2008, 2014)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2011, 2014)
US Open	Q2 (2010, 2015)
Doubles
Career record	3–1
Career titles	0 Challenger Tour: 3, Futures: 2
Highest ranking	No. 117 (19 November 2012)
Current ranking	No. 121 (14 January 2013)
Last updated on: 21 January 2013.

Uladzimir Ignatik (Belarusian: Уладзімір Ігнацік; Russian: Владимир Игнатик; born 14 July 1990 in Belarus) is a Belarusian professional tennis player, who is the top-ranked male Belarusian tennis player in singles.

Career

Junior career

Igantik was ranked the no. 1 junior in the world in June 2007 after winning the boy's singles title at 2007 Roland Garros, and later finished runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. Then as the top seed, Ignatik lost in the quarterfinals of the 2007 US Open.

Early career

Ignatik gained ATP points mainly by playing in Futures tournaments. He finished 2007 ranked 864 in the world, and 2008 ranked 431 in the world. Ignatik played his first two rubbers for Belarus in Davis Cup in 2008, at the age of 17, against Switzerland, losing in four sets to top 20 player Stanislas Wawrinka, as well as losing a dead rubber to Yves Allegro in two sets. Ignatik got his first two wins in his next fixture against Georgia, beating Lado Chikhladze in three sets, and beating Nodar Itonishvili in one set, in a dead rubber.

2009

Ignatik continued to play Futures in 2009. In May 2009, Ignatik retired in his first rubber against South Africa, which Belarus would go on to lose 5–0. In June Ignatik won his first Futures tournament in Poland. In August Ignatik hit a rich vein of form, reaching the final in a Futures in Serbia, followed by a win two weeks later in Poland. Two weeks later he won another Futures in Turkey, and the following week he won another in Spain. After this win Ignatik was ranked within the top 300, and began to participate in some Challenger level tournaments. In November Ignatik got back-to-back quarter-finals in Jersey and Yokohama, before winning the Tokyo Challenger at the end of the month. He finished the year ranked 192 in the world.

2010

Ignatik began the year playing in the Futures circuit again, making it to the finals in one Futures tournament in Britain. After this, he went back to playing in the Challenger tour, but as of May, hadn't made it to the quarterfinals of any of these tournaments. In the Davis Cup, Ignatik lost both of his singles rubbers in a tie against Italy.

2011

Ignatik won his first Challenger of 2011 at the Guangzhou event, beating Alexandre Kudryavtsev in the final.

Career finals

Singles

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	000000002008-01-20-000020 January 2008	North Miami Beach, USA	Hard	Todd Paul	4–6, 7–6(10–8), 6–2
Runner-up	000000002008-05-11-000011 May 2008	Vic, Spain	Clay	Javier Genaro-Martinez	4–6, 5–7
Winner	000000002008-06-15-000015 June 2008	Minsk, Belarus	Hard	Deniss Pavlovs	6–1, 2–0 ret.
Runner-up	000000002009-03-01-00001 March 2009	Harlingen, USA	Hard	Jesse Witten	5–7, 4–6
Winner	000000002009-06-07-00007 June 2009	Koszalin, Poland	Clay	Marcin Gawron	6–1, 4–6, 6–2
Runner-up	000000002009-08-09-00009 August 2009	Novi Sad, Serbia	Clay	Dejan Katić	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Winner	000000002009-08-23-000023 August 2009	Olsztyn, Poland	Clay	Marcin Gawron	6–1, 6–3
Winner	000000002009-09-20-000020 September 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Denys Molchanov	6–2, 6–2
Winner	000000002009-10-04-00004 October 2009	Martos, Spain	Hard	Roberto Bautista Agut	6–1, 3–6, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	000000002009-11-29-000029 November 2009	Dunlop World Challenge	Carpet (i)	Tatsuma Ito	7–6(9–7), 7–6(7–3)
Runner-up	000000002010-01-24-000024 January 2010	Sheffield, UK	Hard (i)	Stefano Galvani	4–6, 6–4, 0–6
Winner	000000002011-03-20-000020 March 2011	ATP Challenger Guangzhou	Hard	Alexander Kudryavtsev	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	000000002012-04-22-000022 April 2012	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Ivan Sergeyev	6–7(5–7), 1–6
Winner	000000002012-07-08-00008 July 2012	Kassel, Germany	Clay	Jan Minář	6–4, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	000000002012-10-14-000014 October 2012	Tashkent Challenger	Hard	Lukáš Lacko	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	000000002013-11-24-000024 November 2013	Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Karol Beck	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	000000002013-12-01-00001 December 2013	Opava, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Laurynas Grigelis	6–4, 3–6, 6–7(2–7)
Winner	000000002014-01-19-000019 January 2014	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard (i)	Karol Beck	4-6, 6-3, 7-6(3)
Winner	000000002014-02-22-000022 February 2014	Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Nikola Mektić	5-7, 6-3, 6-3
Winner	000000002014-03-16-000016 March 2014	Vrsar, Croatia	Clay	Tak Khunn Wang	6-2, 6-4

Doubles

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winners	000000002008-01-27-000027 January 2008	Boca Raton, USA	Hard	Andrey Kumantsov	Brian Battistone Dann Battistone	7–5, 6–4
Runners-up	000000002008-03-09-00009 March 2008	McAllen, USA	Hard	Adam El Mihdawy	Ričardas Berankis Siarhei Betau	3–6, 3–6
Winners	000000002009-01-18-000018 January 2009	Boca Raton, USA	Clay	Tigran Martirosyan	Milan Pokrajac Aleksander Slović	6–4, 6–7(4–7), [10–7]
Runners-up	000000002009-05-31-000031 May 2009	Kraków, Poland	Clay	Denys Molchanov	Martin Emmrich Hans Podlipnik-Castillo	4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Runners-up	000000002009-10-25-000025 October 2009	Glasgow, UK	Hard (i)	Daniel Cox	Chris Eaton Dominic Inglot	0–6, 6–7(5–7)
Runners-up	000000002010-02-21-000021 February 2010	Morocco Tennis Tour – Tanger	Clay	Martin Kližan	Steve Darcis Dominik Meffert	7–5, 5–7, [7–10]
Runners-up	000000002010-03-20-000020 March 2010	Città di Caltanissetta	Clay	Martin Kližan	David Marrero Santiago Ventura	6–7(3–7), 4–6
Winners	000000002010-04-04-00004 April 2010	Open Prévadiès Saint–Brieuc	Clay (i)	David Marrero	Brian Battistone Ryler DeHeart	4–6, 6–4, [10–5]
Runners-up	000000002010-08-22-000022 August 2010	Aberto de Bahia	Hard	Martin Kližan	Franco Ferreiro André Sá	2–6, 4–6
Runners-up	000000002011-01-02-00002 January 2011	São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Thomas Fabbiano	Franco Ferreiro André Ghem	7–6(7–3), 4–6, [3–10]
Runners-up	000000002011-07-03-00003 July 2011	Sporting Challenger	Clay	Martin Kližan	Martin Fischer Philipp Oswald	3–6, 4–6
Winners	000000002012-02-26-000026 February 2012	Volkswagen Challenger	Carpet (i)	Laurynas Grigelis	Tomasz Bednarek Olivier Charroin	7–5, 4–6, [10–5]
Winners	000000002012-03-04-00004 March 2012	Challenger La Manche	Hard (i)	Laurynas Grigelis	Dustin Brown Jonathan Marray	4–6, 7–6(11–9), [10–0]
Winners	000000002012-04-29-000029 April 2012	Andijan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Deniss Pavlovs	Vladyslav Manafov Yaraslau Shyla	6–4, 6–2
Runners-up	000000002012-06-17-000017 June 2012	Košice Open	Clay	Andrei Vasilevski	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	2–6, 7–5, [12–14]
Winners	000000002012-09-08-00008 September 2012	Trophée des Alpilles	Hard	Laurynas Grigelis	Jordi Marsé-Vidri Carles Poch-Gradin	6–7(4–7), 6–3, [10–6]
Runners-up	000000002012-11-17-000017 November 2012	IPP Open	Hard	Jimmy Wang	Mikhail Elgin Igor Zelenay	6–4, 6–7(0–7), [4–10]
Runners-up	000000002013-08-04-00004 August 2013	Open Castilla y León	Hard	Mikhail Elgin	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	3–6, 7–6(7–4), [6–10]
Runners-up	000000002014-01-26-000026 January 2014	Kaarst, Germany	Carpet (i)	Dimitar Kutrovsky	Nikoloz Basilashvili Alexander Bury	6–4, 4–6, [6–10]

Singles performance timeline

References

External links

• Uladzimir Ignatik at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Uladzimir Ignatik at the International Tennis Federation
• Uladzimir Ignatik at the Davis Cup

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Belarusian male singles tennis players as of 12 December 2016
1. Ilya Ivashka (179 1) 2. Uladzimir Ignatik (192 ) 3. Egor Gerasimov (297 2) 4. Dzmitry Zhyrmont (318 4) 5. Maxim Dubarenco (434 3)
6. Yaraslav Shyla (515 1) 7. Sergey Betov (571 4) 8. Artur Dubinski (731 3) 9. Andrei Vasilevski (739 2) 10. Maxim Tybar (1,139 8)