Michal Mertiňák

Michal Mertiňák
Michal Mertiňák at the 2013 French Open
Nation:	Slovakia
Birthday:	October 10, 1979
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	92 kg
1st professional season:	1999
Resignation:	2016
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 1,511,590
singles
Career record:	10:16
Highest ranking:	129 (July 11, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	208: 172
Career title:	13
Highest ranking:	12 (February 8, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Michal Mertiňák (born October 10, 1979 in Považská Bystrica , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak tennis player .

Career

The right-hander won 13 doubles tournaments on the ATP World Tour and reached 12 other finals. In 2005 he was part of the squad of the Slovak Davis Cup team , which only had to admit defeat to Croatia in the final . He made his team debut back in 2003.

Mertiňák achieved his highest world rankings in July 2005 with 129th place in singles and in February 2010 with 12th place in doubles.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series (3) ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (10) ATP Challenger Tour (14)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (4) Sand (8) Lawn (0) Carpet (1)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 28, 2004	Buxoro	Hard court	Teimuras Gabashvili	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
2.	November 12, 2006	Bratislava	Hard court (i)	Lukáš Dlouhý	7: 6 4 , 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 2, 2006	Chennai	Hard court	Petr Pála	Prakash Amritraj Rohan Bopanna	6: 2, 7: 5
2.	January 30, 2006	Zagreb	Carpet (i)	Jaroslav Levinsky	Davide Sanguinetti Andreas Seppi	7: 6, 6: 1
3.	July 29, 2007	Umag (1)	sand	Lukáš Dlouhý	Jaroslav Levinský David Škoch	6: 1, 6: 1
4th	September 17, 2007	Bucharest (1)	sand	Oliver Marach	Martín García Sebastián Prieto	7: 6, 7: 6
5.	March 1, 2008	Acapulco (1)	sand	Oliver Marach	Agustín Calleri Luis Horna	6: 2, 6: 7 3 , [10: 7]
6th	July 20, 2008	Umag (2)	sand	Petr Pála	Carlos Berlocq Fabio Fognini	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
7th	February 23, 2009	Acapulco (2)	sand	František Čermák	Oliver Marach Łukasz Kubot	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 7]
8th.	July 19, 2009	Stuttgart	sand	František Čermák	Victor Hănescu Horia Tecău	7: 5, 6: 4
9.	August 2, 2009	Umag (3)	sand	František Čermák	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	6: 4, 6: 4
10.	September 27, 2009	Bucharest (2)	sand	František Čermák	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	6: 2, 6: 4
11.	November 8, 2009	Valencia	Hard court (i)	František Čermák	Marcel Granollers Tommy Robredo	6: 4, 6: 3
12.	October 3, 2010	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court (i)	František Čermák	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	7: 6 3 , 7: 6 5
13.	20th October 2012	Moscow	Hard court (i)	František Čermák	Simone Bolelli Daniele Bracciali	7: 5, 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 31, 2005	Umag (1)	sand	David Škoch	Jiří Novák Petr Pála	3: 6, 3: 6
2.	February 8, 2009	Viña del Mar	Carpet (i)	František Čermák	Pablo Cuevas Brian Dabul	3: 6, 3: 6
3.	October 25, 2009	Moscow	Hard court (i)	František Čermák	Pablo Cuevas Marcel Granollers	6: 4, 5: 7, [8:10]
4th	January 9, 2010	Doha	Hard court	František Čermák	Guillermo García-López Albert Montañés	4: 6, 5: 7
5.	August 1, 2010	Umag (2)	sand	František Čermák	Leoš Friedl Filip Polášek	3: 6, 6: 7 7
6th	19th February 2012	Sao Paulo (1)	Sand (i)	André Sá	Eric Butorac Bruno Soares	6: 3, 4: 6, [8:10]
7th	February 26, 2012	Buenos Aires	sand	André Sá	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	4: 6, 4: 6
8th.	March 4, 2012	Delray Beach	Hard court	André Sá	Colin Fleming Ross Hutchins	6: 2, 6: 7 5 , [13:15]
9.	July 15, 2012	Stuttgart	sand	André Sá	Jérémy Chardy Łukasz Kubot	1: 6, 3: 6
10.	17th February 2013	Sao Paulo (2)	sand	František Čermák	Bruno Soares Alexander Peya	7: 6 5 , 2: 6, [7:10]
11.	February 9, 2014	Zagreb	Hard court (i)	Philipp Marx	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	6: 3, 4: 6, [2:10]
12.	July 27, 2014	Gstaad	sand	Rameez Junaid	Andre Begemann Robin Haase	3: 6, 4: 6

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 18, 2003	Belgaum	Hard court	Branislav Sekáč	Mustafa Ghouse Vishal Uppal	7: 6 3 , 7: 6 2
2.	February 14, 2004	Cherbourg (1)	Hard court (i)	Alexander Waske	Emilio Benfele Álvarez Jun Katō	6: 4, 7: 6 1
3.	August 27, 2004	Buxoro	Hard court	Pavel Šnobel	Paul Logtens Melle van Gemerden	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	January 29, 2005	Heilbronn	Carpet (i)	Sébastien de Chaunac	Gilles Elseneer Gilles Muller	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 3
5.	March 19, 2005	Sarajevo	Hard court (i)	Serhiy Stachowskyj	Lukáš Dlouhý Jan Vacek	6: 7 8 , 6: 2, 6: 2
6th	May 13, 2006	Dresden	sand	Yves Allegro	Christopher Kas Philipp Petzschner	6: 3, 6: 0
7th	May 20, 2006	Zagreb	sand	Yves Allegro	Julien Jeanpierre Nicolas Renavand	6: 1, 6: 2
8th.	March 3, 2007	Cherbourg (2)	Hard court (i)	Robin Vik	Łukasz Kubot Dick Norman	6: 2, 6: 4
9.	October 4, 2008	Mons	Hard court (i)	Lovro Zovko	Yves Allegro Horia Tecau	7: 5, 6: 3
10.	August 11, 2012	San Marino	sand	Lukáš Dlouhý	Stefano Ianni Matteo Viola	1: 6, 7: 6 3 , [11: 9]
11.	August 18, 2012	Cordenons	sand	Lukáš Dlouhý	Philipp Marx Florin Mergea	5: 7, 7: 5, [10: 7]
12.	15th February 2014	Bergamo	Hard court (i)	Karol Beck	Konstantin Kravchuk Denys Molchanov	4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 6]

Web links

Commons : Michal Mertiňák  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Michal Mertiňák (English)
• ITF profile of Michal Mertiňák (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Michal Mertiňák (English)