Illya Marchenko
Ilya Marchenko (Ukrainian Илья Марченко, English transcription. Illya Marchenko; born September 8, 1987 in Dniprodserschynsk ) is a Ukrainian tennis player.
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Life and career
Ilya Marchenko began at the age of seven years, to play tennis. His parents Vassili and Anna are both engineers, his older brother Igor Marchenko is a former figure skater who finished at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano with his partner Evgenia Filonenko the 11th Place.
Ilya played since 2005 Futures tournaments, and won his first title at such a tournament in 2006. In addition, he was also able to celebrate first match gains in Challenger tournaments and move into the top 500 of the world tennis rankings.
The year 2007 passed without major highlights of 2008 Marchenko reached in Bukhara for the first time the finals of a Challenger tournament, where he, however, in three sets to the local hero Denis Istomin defeated. In September 2008, he first played for the Ukrainian Davis Cup team and contributed to the 5-0 victory over Joao Sousa at. Since then he has played a total of six times for Ukraine, and it can win three games.
In January 2009, the first time Marchenko tried at the Australian Open, to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament, but failed in the first qualifying round. A month later he was able to qualify in Marseille for the first time for an ATP tournament, but lost in the first round against Mischa Zverev. In July 2009, Marchenko reached in Penza his second Challenger final, and a month later he was the first to win a Challenger tournament in Istanbul against Florian Mayer. With these two successes he first got into the top 200 in the world rankings. At the U.S. Open 2009, he made it into the third qualifying round, defeated Marco Chiudinelli but there. In October 2009, Marchenko achieved his biggest success in an ATP tournament: In Moscow, he came through the qualifying and then reached after beating Denis Istomin, Andrei Golubev and Evgeny Korolev the semi-finals, where he was Janko Tipsarevic defeated. A month later, he arrived in Astana another Challenger Finals, and ended the year on his best ever world ranking 120th
The year 2010 started successfully: At the Australian Open Ilya Marchenko could qualify for the main draw and defeated in the first round to former world number one Carlos Moyá. However, in the second round he had no chance against the set at position 6 Nikolay Davydenko. In February 2010, he reached for the ATP tournaments of Zagreb and Marseille respectively the quarter-finals, and then climbed into the top 100 in the world rankings. In March 2010, he first defeated a Top 50 player in the first round of the Masters tournament in Miami with Paul -Henri Mathieu. After a first round defeat at the French Open in 2010 Marchenko could reach a quarter final in June 2010 at the Lawn Tournament Eastbourne again. At Wimbledon, he reached the second round, had to cancel his match against Gilles Simon due to a shoulder injury there, however. During the next American hard court season Ilya Marchenko could be reached the third round at the Tournament of Washington and New Haven in August 2010. At the U.S. Open but he failed in the first round on set at position 11 Marin Cilic. After a few more Erstrundenniederlagen Marchenko fell in the rankings back to rank 99, but was then the end of October reached an ATP semifinal for the second time in his career in St. Petersburg. There, however, he lost to eventual champions Mikhail Kukushkin.
Early 2011 could reach the second round in Doha Ilya Marchenko. Also at the Australian Open as he succeeded in the previous year by defeating Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo of the way into the second round, but where he was then a chance against the set at position 5 finalists Andy Murray. Also in the next tournament in Zagreb Marchenko difference in the second round against the eventual tournament winner Ivan Dodig.