Uladzimir Ignatik


Uladzimir Ignatik is a Belarusian professional tennis player.

Career

Junior career

Igantik was ranked the no. 1 junior in the world in June 2007 after winning the boys' 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 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.

ITF finals (31–26)

Singles (22–10)

ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Winner01.20 January 2008USA F2 FuturesHard Todd Paul4–6, 7–6, 6–2
Runner-up02.11 May 2008Spain F18 FuturesClay Javier Genaro-Martinez4–6, 5–7
Winner03.14 June 2008Belarus F1 FuturesHard Deniss Pavlovs6–1, 2–0, ret.
Runner-up04.1 March 2009USA F5 FuturesHard Jesse Witten5–7, 4–6
Winner05.7 June 2009Poland F3 FuturesClay Marcin Gawron6–1, 4–6, 6–2
Runner-up06.9 August 2009Serbia F4 FuturesClay Dejan Katic6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Winner07.23 August 2009Poland F4 FuturesClay Marcin Gawron6–1, 6–3
Winner08.20 September 2009Turkey F9 FuturesHard Denys Molchanov6–2, 6–2
Winner09.4 October 2009Spain F33 FuturesHard Roberto Bautista Agut6–1, 3–6, 7–6
Winner10.29 November 2009Dunlop World Challenge, JapanCarpet Tatsuma Ito7–6, 7–6
Runner-up11.23 January 2010Great Britain F2 FuturesHard Stefano Galvani4–6, 6–4, 0–6
Winner12.19 March 2011ATP Challenger Guangzhou, ChinaHard Alexander Kudryavtsev6–4, 6–4
Runner-up13.21 April 2012Uzbekistan F1 FuturesHard Ivan Sergeyev6–7, 1–6
Winner14.8 July 2012Germany F8 FuturesClay Jan Minář6–4, 7–6
Winner15.14 October 2012Tashkent Challenger, UzbekistanHard Lukáš Lacko6–3, 7–6
Winner16.24 November 2013Czech Republic F6 FuturesCarpet Karol Beck6–2, 6–3
Runner-up17.1 December 2013Czech Republic F7 FuturesCarpet Laurynas Grigelis6–4, 3–6, 6–7
Winner18.19 January 2014Germany F2 FuturesHard Karol Beck4–6, 6–3, 7–6
Winner19.22 February 2014Croatia F2 FuturesHard Nikola Mektić5–7, 6–3, 6–3
Winner20.16 March 2014Croatia F3 FuturesClay Tak Khunn Wang6–2, 6–4
Runner-up21.18 January 2015Germany F2 FuturesHard Maximilian Marterer4–6, 6–4, 5–7
Winner22.17 May 2015Czech Republic F1 FuturesClay Jan Mertl6–1, 6–3
Runner-up23.24 May 2015Czech Republic F2 FuturesClay Marek Michalička6–7, 5–7
Winner24.11 July 2015Czech Republic F6 FuturesClay Jan Mertl6–7, 6–4, 6–1
Winner25.2 August 2015Slovakia F3 FuturesClay Filip Horanský6–3, 7–5
Winner26.13 February 2016Switzerland F1 FuturesCarpet Jan Choinski6–4, 6–3
Winner27.8 July 2016Czech Republic F5 FuturesClay Pawel Cias6–1, 6–4
Runner-up28.31 July 2016Advantage Cars Prague Open, Czech RepublicClay Santiago Giraldo4–6, 6–3, 6–7
Winner29.7 August 2016Slovakia F2 FuturesClay Pavel Nejedly6–0, 6–1
Runner-up30.17 September 2016Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes, MoroccoClay Maximilian Marterer6–7, 3–6
Winner31.29 January 2017Open de Rennes, FranceHard Andrey Rublev6–7, 6–3, 7–6
Winner32.26 November 2017Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte, ItalyHard Christopher Heyman6–7, 6–4, 7–6

Doubles (9–16)

ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
Winner01.27 January 2008USA F3 FuturesHard Andrey Kumantsov Brian Battistone
Dann Battistone		7–5, 6–4
Runner-up02.9 March 2008USA F6 FuturesHard Adam El Mihdawy Ričardas Berankis
Sergey Betov		3–6, 3–6
Winner03.18 January 2009USA F1 FuturesClay Tigran Martirosyan Milan Pokrajac
Aleksander Slovic		6–4, 6–7,
Runner-up04.30 May 2009Poland F2 FuturesClay Denys Molchanov Martin Emmrich
Hans Podlipnik-Castillo		4–6, 6–7
Runner-up05.24 October 2009Great Britain F15 FuturesHard Daniel Cox Chris Eaton
Dominic Inglot		0–6, 6–7
Runner-up06.20 February 2010Morocco Tennis Tour – Tanger, MoroccoClay Martin Kližan Steve Darcis
Dominik Meffert		7–5, 5–7,
Runner-up07.21 March 2010Città di Caltanissetta, ItalyClay Martin Kližan David Marrero
Santiago Ventura		6–7, 4–6
Winner08.4 April 2010Open Prévadiès Saint–Brieuc, FranceClay David Marrero Brian Battistone
Ryler DeHeart		4–6, 6–4,
Runner-up09.21 August 2010Aberto de Bahia, BrazilHard Martin Kližan Franco Ferreiro
André Sá		2–6, 4–6
Runner-up10.1 January 2011Brazil F1 FuturesHard Thomas Fabbiano Franco Ferreiro
André Ghem		7–6, 4–6,
Runner-up11.3 July 2011Sporting Challenger, ItalyClay Martin Kližan Martin Fischer
Philipp Oswald		3–6, 4–6
Winner12.26 February 2012Volkswagen Challenger, GermanyCarpet Laurynas Grigelis Tomasz Bednarek
Olivier Charroin		7–5, 4–6,
Winner13.4 March 2012Challenger La Manche, FranceHard Laurynas Grigelis Dustin Brown
Jonathan Marray		4–6, 7–6,
Winner14.28 April 2012Uzbekistan F2 FuturesHard Deniss Pavlovs Vladyslav Manafov
Yaraslav Shyla		6–4, 6–2
Runner-up15.17 June 2012Košice Open, SlovakiaClay Andrei Vasilevski Tomasz Bednarek
Mateusz Kowalczyk		2–6, 7–5,
Winner16.9 September 2012Trophée des Alpilles, FranceHard Laurynas Grigelis Jordi Marse-Vidri
Carlos Poch Gradin		6–7, 6–3,
Runner-up17.18 November 2012IPP Open, FinlandHard Jimmy Wang Mikhail Elgin
Igor Zelenay		6–4, 6–7,
Runner-up18.4 August 2013Open Castilla y León, SpainHard Mikhail Elgin Ken Skupski
Neal Skupski		3–6, 7–6,
Runner-up19.26 January 2014Germany F3 FuturesCarpet Dimitar Kutrovsky Nikoloz Basilashvili
Aliaksandr Bury		6–4, 4–6,
Runner-up20.31 May 2015Czech Republic F3 FuturesClay Dominik Kellovsky Roman Jebavý
Jan Šátral		4–6, 6–4,
Winner21.11 July 2015Czech Republic F6 FuturesClay Roman Jebavý Dušan Lojda
Václav Šafránek		6–1, 6–4
Runner-up22.31 January 2016Germany F3 FuturesCarpet Niels Desein Johannes Härteis
Kevin Krawietz		7–6, 4–6,
Winner23.20 February 2016Switzerland F2 FuturesCarpet Adrian Sikora Johannes Härteis
Kevin Krawietz		6–4, 5–7,
Runner-up24.24 September 2016Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra, MoroccoClay Michael Linzer Kevin Krawietz
Maximilian Marterer		6–7, 6–4,
Runner-up25.9 April 2017Verrazzano Open, FranceClay Jozef Kovalík Tristan Lamasine
Franko Škugor		2–6, 2–6

Singles performance timeline