Where Does Sergiy Stakhovsky Live?

Former Ukrainian tennis star, Sergiy Stakhovsky, lives in Hungary, but has returned to Kharkiv, Ukraine, to fight, following the Russian invasion.

Sergiy had been playing mostly at the Challenger level from 2005 to 2008. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 31 and he has reached as high as No. 33 in doubles.

He got his first top-10 win when he defeated seven-time winner and defending champion Roger Federer at Wimbledon in four sets in the second round, 6–7 (5), 7–6 (5), 7–5, 7–6 (5) to give Federer his earliest Grand Slam defeat since the 2003 French Open.

This ended Federer’s run of 36 consecutive Grand Slams where he had reached at least the quarterfinals. Stakhovsky was ranked 116 at the time, and Federer was ranked 3. Stakhovsky subsequently lost to Jürgen Melzer in the third round, going down in four sets.

After his first round qualifying loss to Jeffrey John Wolf at the Australian Open, Stakhovsky announced his retirement from professional tennis after 19 years.