Uladzimir Ignatik

Uladzimir Ignatik
Уладзімір Ігнацік

Country	Belarus
Residence	Belarus
Born	14 July 1990 (1990-07-14) Belarus
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$166,504
Singles
Career record	9-10
Career titles	0 Challenger Tour: 2, Futures: 6
Highest ranking	No. 153 (4 July 2011)
Current ranking	No. 197 (5 March 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	Q1 (2012)
French Open	Q2 (2008)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2011)
US Open	Q2 (2010)
Doubles
Career record	3-1
Career titles	0 Challenger Tour: 3, Futures: 2
Highest ranking	No. 151 (27 September 2010)
Current ranking	No. 187 (27 February 2012)
Last updated on: 27 February 2012.

Uladzimir Ignatik (Belarusian: Уладзімір Ігнацік; Russian: Владимир Игнатик; born 14 July 1990 in Belarus) is a Belarusian tennis player, who is currently ranked 201st in the world (ATP official rating from Jan 2011), and is the top ranked Belarusian tennis player in singles.

Career

Junior career

Igantik was ranked the number one junior in the world in June 2007, after winning the Boy's Singles Title at 2007 Roland Garros, and then later finished runner up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. Then as the Top Seed, Ignatik lost in the Quarter-finals of the 2007 US Open. It is been said by many coaches and players who used to know Uladzimir in an early age that his mother (Snegana) was putting a lot of physical and mental pressure on young player. Sometimes Ignatik was slapped right on the court for, in Snegana's opinion, underperforming. Also there were those, including Uladzimir's former coach Eduard Dubrou, that Belarussian changed his age of birth (from 1988 to 1990) in order to compete in lower age categories at the tournaments till he would turn 18 and become a pro^{[citation needed]}. That partly explains his success at Roland Garros and Wimbledon Championships in 2007.

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 of a 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 quarter-finals of any of these tournaments. In the Davis Cup, Ignatik lost both of his singles rubbers in a fixture against Italy.

2011

Ignatik won his first challenger in 2011 at the Guangzhou event, beating Alexandre Kudryavtsev 6-4, 6-4 in the final.

Career finals

Legend Singles Doubles Grand Slam tournaments 0–0 0–0 ATP World Tour Finals 0–0 0–0 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 0–0 0–0 ATP World Tour 500 Series 0–0 0–0 ATP World Tour 250 Series 0–0 0–0 Challenger Tour 2–0 3–4 Futures 6–4 2–4

Surface Singles Doubles Hard 5–2 2–4 Clay 2–2 2–4 Grass 0–0 0–0 Carpet 1–0 1–0

Singles

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	02008-01-20 January 20, 2008	North Miami Beach, Florida, USA	Hard	Todd Paul	4–6, 7–6(10–8), 6–2
Runner-up	02008-05-11 May 11, 2008	Vic, Spain	Clay	Javier Genaro-Martinez	4–6, 5–7
Winner	02008-06-15 June 15, 2008	Minsk, Belarus	Hard	Deniss Pavlovs	6–1, 2–0 ret.
Runner-up	02009-03-01 March 1, 2009	Harlingen, Texas, USA	Hard	Jesse Witten	5–7, 4–6
Winner	02009-06-07 June 7, 2009	Koszalin, Poland	Clay	Marcin Gawron	6–1, 4–6, 6–2
Runner-up	02009-08-09 August 9, 2009	Novi Sad, Serbia	Clay	Dejan Katic	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Winner	02009-08-23 August 23, 2009	Olsztyn, Poland	Clay	Marcin Gawron	6–1, 6–3
Winner	02009-09-20 September 20, 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Denys Molchanov	6–2, 6–2
Winner	02009-10-04 October 4, 2009	Martos, Spain	Hard	Roberto Bautista-Agut	6–1, 3–6, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	02009-11-29 November 29, 2009	Dunlop World Challenge	Carpet (i)	Tatsuma Ito	7–6(9–7), 7–6(7–3)
Runner-up	02010-01-24 January 24, 2010	Sheffield, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Stefano Galvani	4–6, 6–4, 0–6
Winner	02011-03-20 March 20, 2011	ATP Challenger Guangzhou	Hard	Alexander Kudryavtsev	6–4, 6–4

Doubles

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	02008-01-27 January 27, 2008	Boca Raton, Florida, USA	Hard	Andrey Kumantsov	Brian Battistone Dann Battistone	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	02008-03-09 March 9, 2008	McAllen, Texas, USA	Hard	Adam El Mihdawy	Ričardas Berankis Sergey Betov	3–6, 3–6
Winner	02009-01-18 January 18, 2009	Boca Raton, Florida, USA	Clay	Tigran Martirosyan	Milan Pokrajac Aleksander Slovic	6–4, 6–7(4–7), [10–7]
Runner-up	02009-05-31 May 31, 2009	Kraków, Poland	Clay	Denys Molchanov	Martin Emmrich Hans Podlipnik-Castillo	4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Runner-up	02009-10-25 October 25, 2009	Glasgow, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Daniel Cox	Chris Eaton Dominic Inglot	0–6, 6–7(5–7)
Runner-up	02010-02-21 February 21, 2010	Morocco Tennis Tour – Tanger	Clay	Martin Kližan	Steve Darcis Dominik Meffert	7–5, 5–7, [7–10]
Runner-up	02010-03-20 March 20, 2010	Città di Caltanissetta	Clay	Martin Kližan	David Marrero Santiago Ventura	6–7(3–7), 4–6
Winner	02010-04-04 April 4, 2010	Open Prévadiès Saint–Brieuc	Clay (i)	David Marrero	Brian Battistone Ryler DeHeart	4–6, 6–4, [10–5]
Runner-up	02010-08-22 August 22, 2010	Aberto de Bahia	Hard	Martin Kližan	Franco Ferreiro André Sá	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	02011-01-02 January 2, 2011	São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Thomas Fabbiano	Franco Ferreiro André Ghem	7–6(7–3), 4–6, [3–10]
Runner-up	02011-07-03 July 3, 2011	Sporting Challenger	Clay	Martin Kližan	Martin Fischer Philipp Oswald	3–6, 4–6
Winner	02012-02-26 February 26, 2012	Volkswagen Challenger	Carpet (i)	Laurynas Grigelis	Tomasz Bednarek Olivier Charroin	7–5, 4–6, [10–5]
Winner	02012-03-04 March 4, 2012	Challenger La Manche	Hard (i)	Laurynas Grigelis	Dustin Brown Jonathan Marray	4–6, 7–6(11–9), [10–0]

External links

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