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Vitaliy Sachko (Ukrainian: Віталій Дмитрович Сачко; born 14 July 1997) is a Ukrainian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 187 achieved on 19 June 2023 and also reached as high as No. 149 in doubles on 2 May 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Ukrainian tennis player.
Professional career
2020: ATP debut
He made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 Erste Bank Open in the singles draw as lucky loser, where he was defeated by Dominic Thiem, 4–6, 5–7.
2021: Challenger Tour success, Top 250 debut
In March, ranked No. 389 in the world, he made it to the final of the Challenger Tour event in Lugano, Switzerland, where he lost to Dominic Stephan Stricker. In July, he made another Challenger final in Perugia, Italy losing to Tomas Martin Etcheverry in singles. At the same tournament, he took his revenge, winning his third Challenger doubles title for 2021 by defeating the Argentinian pair Tomas Etcheverry/Renzo Olivo, partnering Dominic Stricker. As a result, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 269 in singles and No. 220 in doubles on 12 July 2021.
2022
Ranked No. 265, in July, he qualified for his second ATP singles main draw at the 2022 Generali Open Kitzbühel as a lucky loser where he lost to Dusan Lajovic.
2023: First Challenger title, top 200
Ranked No. 286, in May, he qualified for the 2023 Geneva Open.
He won his first Challenger in Bratislava defeating Dimitar Kuzmanov. As a result he moved close to 80 positions into the top 200 at world No. 187 on 19 June 2023.
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 6 (3–3)
| Finals by surface |
|---|
| Legend |
| ATP Challenger (1–2) |
| ITF World Tennis Tour (2–1) |
| Finals by surface |
| Hard (1–2) |
| Clay (2–1) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
| ATP Challenger (1–2) |
| ITF World Tennis Tour (2–1) |
| Hard (1–2) |
| Clay (2–1) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | Sep 2019 | M15 Chornomorsk, Ukraine | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Marco Bortolotti | 7–5, 4–6, 6–1 | |
| Loss | Dec 2019 | M15 Heraklion, Greece | World Tennis Tour | Hard | David Pichler | 1–6, ret. | |
| Win | Mar 2021 | M15 Bratislava, Slovakia | World Tennis Tour | Hard (i) | Jurgen Briand | 6–1, 2–6, 7–6 | |
| Loss | Mar 2021 | Lugano, Switzerland | Challenger | Hard (i) | Dominic Stricker | 4–6, 2–6 | |
| Loss | Jul 2021 | Perugia, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Tomás Martín Etcheverry | 5–7, 2–6 | |
| Win | Jun 2023 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Challenger | Clay | Dimitar Kuzmanov | 2–6, 6–2, 7–6 |
Doubles: 16 (9–7)
| Finals by surface |
|---|
| Legend |
| ATP Challenger (4–2) |
| ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (5–5) |
| Finals by surface |
| Hard (4–4) |
| Clay (5–3) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
| ATP Challenger (4–2) |
| ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (5–5) |
| Hard (4–4) |
| Clay (5–3) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | Oct 2015 | Ukraine F6, Cherkassy | Futures | Clay | Vitalii Shcherba | Marat Deviatiarov Libor Salaba | 4–6, 3–6 | |
| Loss | Apr 2018 | Turkey F16, Antalya | Futures | Clay | Artem Smirnov | Alexander Boborykin Timur Kiyamov | 3–6, 6–4, [8–10] | |
| Loss | Mar 2019 | M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Vitalii Shcherba | Andrés Artuñedo Pablo Vivero González | 5–7, 7–5, [9–11] | |
| Win | Jul 2019 | M15 Telfs, Austria | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Michal Konečný | Vít Kopřiva David Pichler | 6–2, 6–3 | |
| Win | Nov 2019 | M15 Mishref, Kuwait | World Tennis Tour | Hard | David Pichler | Adil Kalyanpur Kai Wehnelt | 6–4, 6–1 | |
| Loss | Nov 2019 | M15 Mishref, Kuwait | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Mátyás Füle | Soichiro Moritani Kento Takeuchi | 6–7, 4–6 | |
| Win | Nov 2019 | M15 Heraklion, Greece | World Tennis Tour | Hard | David Pichler | Rémy Bertola Daniel Masur | 7–6, 6–4 | |
| Loss | Dec 2019 | M15 Heraklion, Greece | World Tennis Tour | Hard | David Pichler | Aristotelis Thanos Eleftherios Theodorou | walkover | |
| Win | Sep 2020 | M15 Curtea de Argeș, Romania | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Michał Dembek | Adrian Barbu Stefan Palosi | 6–4, 6–3 | |
| Win | Oct 2020 | M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Vladyslav Manafov | Yurii Dzhavakian Mārtiņš Podžus | 6–3, 6–3 | |
| Loss | Nov 2020 | Lima, Peru | Challenger | Hard | Collin Altamirano | Íñigo Cervantes Oriol Roca Batalla | 3–6, 4–6 | |
| Win | Jun 2021 | Almaty, Kazakhstan | Challenger | Clay | Jesper de Jong | Vladyslav Manafov Evgenii Tiurnev | 7–6, 6–1 | |
| Win | Jun 2021 | Almaty, Kazakhstan | Challenger | Clay | Vladyslav Manafov | Corentin Denolly Adrián Menéndez Maceiras | 6–1, 6–4 | |
| Win | Jul 2021 | Perugia, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Dominic Stricker | Tomás Martín Etcheverry Renzo Olivo | 6–3, 5–7, [10–8] | |
| Loss | Dec 2021 | Forli, Italy | Challenger | Hard (i) | Lukáš Rosol | Antonio Šančić Tristan-Samuel Weissborn | 6-7, 6-4, [7-10] | |
| Win | Feb 2022 | Forli, Italy | Challenger | Hard (i) | Marco Bortolotti | Victor Vlad Cornea Fabian Fallert | 7–6, 3–6, [10–5] |
Record against top 10 players
Sachko's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10 (as of 27 October 2020):
| Player | Record | Win% | Hard | Clay | Grass | Last Match | |
| No. 3 ranked players | |||||||
| Dominic Thiem | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | Lost (4–6, 5–7) at 2020 Vienna | |
| Total | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 (0%) | 0–0 ( – ) | 0–0 ( – ) | ||