All you need to know about Sergiy Stakhovsky, the man who beat Federer

FP Sports June 27, 2013, 10:13:44 IST

Here are a few things you you should know about the 27-year-old who ended Federer’s streak of reaching 36 consecutive Grand Slam quarter-finals.

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All you need to know about Sergiy Stakhovsky, the man who beat Federer

The upsets just keep coming at Wimbledon 2013. One round after Rafael Nadal was shockingly bounced from the tournament, seven-times champions Roger Federer followed him out the door, beaten in four sets by 116th ranked Ukrainian Segiy Stakhovsky.

If you are thinking ‘Sergiy who?’, you are not alone. Here are a few things you you should know about the 27-year-old who ended Federer’s streak of reaching consecutive Grand Slam quarter-finals at 36:

- He was born on 6 January, 1986, in Kiev, Ukraine.

- He began playing tennis at the age of six at the Kiev Olympic Stadium. He comes from an educational background. His father, Eduard, is a urology professor and his mother, Olga, is a retired university economics teacher. His brother, Leonard Stakhovsky, also plays tennis.

- He speaks five languages - Ukranian, Slovak, Czech, Russian and English – and claims to enjoy reading classic Russian literature (with some easy reading mixed in).

- He grew up watching and idolising Patrick Rafter and Pete Sampras (which might explain his coming to net so often against Federer).

- He is married to Russian modal Anfisa Bulgakova.

- Made his ATP tour debut in 2003.

- Has a career high ranking of 31, which he reached in September 2010.

- Has a career win-loss record of 104-121 on the ATP Tour.

- He has won four singles titles: New Haven and Hertogenbosch im 2010, St. Petersburg in 2009 and Zagreb in 2008. Three of those titles came on hard courts, while his win in Hertogenbosch came on grass.

- In 2008 he became the first Ukrainian to finish the year in the top 100 since Andrei Medvedev in 2000.

- The third round is the furthest he has been at Wimbledon. He has never made it to the fourth round in a Grand Slam.

Source: ATP Tour

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