Illja Marchenko

Illja Marchenko
Illja Martschenko 2016 at the US Open
Nation:	Ukraine
Birthday:	September 8, 1987
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	82 kg
1st professional season:	2006
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Tibor Toth
Prize money:	$ 2,019,667
singles
Career record:	61:86
Highest ranking:	49 (September 26, 2016)
Current placement:	275
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	5:12
Highest ranking:	268 (August 25, 2014)
Current placement:	315
Last update of the infobox: October 7, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Illja Martschenko ( Ukrainian Илья Марченко , English transcription: Illya Marchenko ; born September 8, 1987 in Dniprodzerzhynsk , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian tennis player .

life and career

Illja Martschenko started playing tennis at the age of seven. His older brother Ihor Martschenko is a former figure skater who finished 11th at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano with his partner Evgenia Filonenko.

Martschenko played future tournaments from 2005, and in 2006 he won his first title at such a tournament. The first victories in Challenger tournaments followed. The year 2007 passed without any major highlights, in 2008 Martschenko reached the final of a Challenger tournament in Buxoro for the first time, in which he was defeated by local hero Denis Istomin in three sets. In September 2008 he played for the Ukrainian Davis Cup team for the first time and contributed to a 5-0 win over João Sousa .

In January 2009, Martschenko played his first qualification for a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open , he failed in the first qualifying round. A month later he was able to qualify for an ATP tournament for the first time in Marseille , but lost to Mischa Zverev in the first round . In July 2009 Martschenko reached his second Challenger final in Penza and a month later he won his first title in Istanbul with a final victory over Florian Mayer . Thanks to these two successes, he improved into the top 200 of the ATP world rankings . At the US Open in 2009 he reached the third qualifying round, in which he was defeated by Marco Chiudinelli . In October 2009 he had his greatest success to date at an ATP tournament; in Moscow he survived the qualification and then reached after victories over Denis Istomin , Andrei Golubew and Yevgeny Koroljow the semi-finals, in which he was subject to Janko Tipsarević . A month later he reached another Challenger final in Astana and finished the year in world number 120.

The year 2010 started successfully. At the Australian Open , Martschenko was able to qualify for the main draw and defeated former world number one Carlos Moyá in the first round before he was eliminated without a chance against Nikolai Dawydenko , who was sixth . In February 2010, he reached the quarter-finals at the ATP tournaments in Zagreb and Marseille and then entered the top 100 in the world rankings. In March 2010, he was able to defeat a top 50 player for the first time in the first round of the Masters tournament in Miami with Paul-Henri Mathieu . After a first round defeat at the French Open , Martschenko reached a quarter-finals again at the Eastbourne lawn tournament in June 2010 . At Wimbledon he made it to the second round, but had to cancel his match due to a shoulder injury against Gilles Simon . During the following American hard court season he was in the third round at the tournaments in Washington and New Haven in August 2010 . At the US Open , he failed in round one to Marin Čilić, who was 11th . After further first round defeats, Marchenko fell back to 99th place in the world rankings, but was then able to reach an ATP semi-finals for the second time in his career in St. Petersburg at the end of October . He lost this against the eventual tournament winner Mikhail Kukuschkin .

In early 2011 he reached the second round in Doha . At the Australian Open , too , by defeating Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo, as in the previous year, he made it into the second round, in which he had no chance against the later finalist Andy Murray , who was fifth . At the following tournament in Zagreb , Martschenko was eliminated from the eventual tournament winner Ivan Dodig in the second round.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (10)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 16, 2009	Istanbul	Hard court	Florian Mayer	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	July 22, 2012	Penza	Hard court	Yevgeny Donskoy	7: 5, 6: 3
3.	November 16, 2014	Brescia	Hard court (i)	Farrux Do'stov	6: 4, 5: 7, 6: 2
4th	October 11, 2015	Mons	Hard court (i)	Benjamin Becker	6: 2, 6: 7 8 , 6: 4
5.	July 24, 2016	Recanati	Hard court	Ilya Ivashka	6: 4, 6: 4
6th	September 24, 2017	Izmir	Hard court	Stéphane Robert	7: 6 2 , 6: 0
7th	October 6, 2019	Nur-Sultan III	Hard court	Yannick Maden	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	29th September 2013	Orleans	Hard court (i)	Serhiy Stachowskyj	Ričardas Berankis Franko Škugor	7: 5, 6: 3
2.	November 16, 2014	Brescia	Hard court (i)	Denys Molchanov	Roman Jebavý Błażej Koniusz	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
3.	5th October 2019	Nur-Sultan III	Hard court	Harri Heliövaara	Karol Drzewiecki Szymon Walków	6: 4, 6: 4

Web links

Commons : Illja Martschenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Illja Martschenko (English)
• ITF profile of Illja Martschenko (English)
• Davis Cup statistics from Illja Martschenko (English)

Individual evidence