In 2005 Martin Kližan won the U16 European Championships in singles and doubles (together with Andrej Martin ). A year later he triumphed as a junior at the 2006 French Open . That win secured him a wild card to qualify for the 2007 French Open . There, as number 729 in the world, he was surprisingly able to defeat Israeli Noam Okun (then number 180 in the ATP rankings ) in the first qualifying round and was eliminated in the second round against Juan Pablo Brzezicki in just three sets. Then Kližan played various Challenger and Future tournaments. Countable successes were a long time coming, however, his first tournament victory at professional level was at a future tournament in Slovakia in August 2009. In the next six months he was able to win future tournaments in Italy and Morocco. In April 2010 he won the ATP tournament in Casablanca for the first time against a current top 100 player ( Oleksandr Dolhopolow ) and was eliminated in the second round in just three sets against Stanislas Wawrinka . Kližan won four Challenger tournaments in 2012. At the US Open he surprisingly won the second round against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga , who was seeded at five ; Kližan had not previously won a game against a player from the top 40. He finally reached the round of 16, where he was the last unset player to lose to Marin Čilić . The good performance in Flushing Meadows secured him a jump into the top 50. Kližan won his first ATP title in September 2012 by winning the St. Petersburg Open . He won the second ATP title in May 2014 in Munich . Both times he defeated Fabio Fognini in the final . In April 2015 he won his third tournament with the Grand Prix Hassan II . His final opponent this time was Daniel Gimeno Traver .
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Slovakia
St. Petersburg
Fabio Fognini
Munich
Casablanca
Daniel Gimeno Traver
Rotterdam
Gaël Monfils
Pablo Cuevas
Kitzbühel
Denis Istomin
Leonardo Mayer
Adrian Ungur
San Marino
Indian Wells
Darian King
Umag (1)
Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Rio de Janeiro
Sander Gillé Joran Viegen