Vitaliy Sachko

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. 156 achieved on 31 July 2023 and also reached as high as No. 149 in doubles on 2 May 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Ukrainian tennis player.

Vitaliy Sachko
Віталій Сачко

Country (sports)	Ukraine
Residence	Prostějov, Czech Republic
Born	(1997-07-14) 14 July 1997 Kremenchuk, Ukraine
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2013
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 308,038
Singles
Career record	0–6 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 156 (31 July 2023)
Current ranking	No. 189 (22 April 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2022, 2024)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2022)
US Open	Q1 (2023)
Doubles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 149 (2 May 2022)
Current ranking	No. 298 (15 January 2024)
Last updated on: 20 January 2024.

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.

Ranked No. 167, he also qualified for the 2023 Sofia Open.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 7 (3–4)

Legend ATP Challenger (1–3) ITF World Tennis Tour (2–1)

Finals by surface Hard (1–2) Clay (2–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2019	M15 Chornomorsk, Ukraine	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Marco Bortolotti	7–5, 4–6, 6–1
Loss	1–1	Dec 2019	M15 Heraklion, Greece	World Tennis Tour	Hard	David Pichler	1–6, ret.
Win	2–1	Mar 2021	M15 Bratislava, Slovakia	World Tennis Tour	Hard (i)	Jurgen Briand	6–1, 2–6, 7–6(7–3)
Loss	2–2	Mar 2021	Lugano, Switzerland	Challenger	Hard (i)	Dominic Stricker	4–6, 2–6
Loss	2–3	Jul 2021	Perugia, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Tomás Martín Etcheverry	5–7, 2–6
Win	3–3	Jun 2023	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Dimitar Kuzmanov	2–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–2)
Loss	2–4	Jul 2023	Verona, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Vít Kopřiva	6–1, 6–7(3–7), 2–6

Doubles: 17 (10–7)

Legend ATP Challenger (5–2) ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (5–5)

Finals by surface Hard (4–4) Clay (6–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2015	Ukraine F6, Cherkassy	Futures	Clay	Vitalii Shcherba	Marat Deviatiarov Libor Salaba	4–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Apr 2018	Turkey F16, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Artem Smirnov	Alexander Boborykin Timur Kiyamov	3–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Loss	0–3	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	1–3	Jul 2019	M15 Telfs, Austria	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Michal Konečný	Vít Kopřiva David Pichler	6–2, 6–3
Win	2–3	Nov 2019	M15 Mishref, Kuwait	World Tennis Tour	Hard	David Pichler	Adil Kalyanpur Kai Wehnelt	6–4, 6–1
Loss	2–4	Nov 2019	M15 Mishref, Kuwait	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Mátyás Füle	Soichiro Moritani Kento Takeuchi	6–7(1–7), 4–6
Win	3–4	Nov 2019	M15 Heraklion, Greece	World Tennis Tour	Hard	David Pichler	Rémy Bertola Daniel Masur	7–6(7–2), 6–4
Loss	3–5	Dec 2019	M15 Heraklion, Greece	World Tennis Tour	Hard	David Pichler	Aristotelis Thanos Eleftherios Theodorou	walkover
Win	4–5	Sep 2020	M15 Curtea de Argeș, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Michał Dembek	Adrian Barbu Stefan Palosi	6–4, 6–3
Win	5–5	Oct 2020	M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Vladyslav Manafov	Yurii Dzhavakian Mārtiņš Podžus	6–3, 6–3
Loss	5–6	Nov 2020	Lima, Peru	Challenger	Hard	Collin Altamirano	Íñigo Cervantes Oriol Roca Batalla	3–6, 4–6
Win	6–6	Jun 2021	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Clay	Jesper de Jong	Vladyslav Manafov Evgenii Tiurnev	7–6(7–4), 6–1
Win	7–6	Jun 2021	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Clay	Vladyslav Manafov	Corentin Denolly Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	6–1, 6–4
Win	8–6	Jul 2021	Perugia, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Dominic Stricker	Tomás Martín Etcheverry Renzo Olivo	6–3, 5–7, [10–8]
Loss	8–7	Dec 2021	Forli, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Lukáš Rosol	Antonio Šančić Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6-7(4-7), 6-4, [7-10]
Win	9–7	Feb 2022	Forli, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Marco Bortolotti	Victor Vlad Cornea Fabian Fallert	7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–5]
Win	10–7	Sep 2023	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Andrew Paulson	Zdenek Kolar Sergio Martos Gornés	6–1, 7–6 (8–6)

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 ( – )

External links

• Vitaliy Sachko at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Vitaliy Sachko at the International Tennis Federation