Vitaliy Sachko
| Native name | Віталій Сачко |
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| Country (sports) | Ukraine |
| Residence | Prostějov, Czech Republic |
| Born | 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 $620,178 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 3–9 |
| Career titles | 1 Challenger |
| Highest ranking | No. 156 (31 July 2023) |
| Current ranking | No. 186 (16 March 2026) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | Q2 (2022, 2024, 2026) |
| French Open | Q1 (2024) |
| Wimbledon | Q1 (2022, 2024, 2025) |
| US Open | Q1 (2023, 2025) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 0–0 |
| Career titles | 9 Challengers |
| Highest ranking | No. 122 (28 July 2025) |
| Current ranking | No. 198 (16 March 2026) |
| Last updated on: 16 March 2025. | |
Vitaliy Sachko (Ukrainian: Віталій Дмитрович Сачко; born 14 July 1997) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 156, achieved on 31 July 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 122, achieved on 28 July 2025.[1] He is currently the No. 1 player from Ukraine.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4] As a result, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 269 in singles and No. 220 in doubles on 12 July 2021.
2022-2024: First Challenger title, top 200
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.[5]
Ranked No. 286, in May, he qualified for the 2023 Geneva Open but lost to Bernabe Zapata Miralles.[6] He won his first singles Challenger at the 2023 Bratislava Open defeating Dimitar Kuzmanov. As a result he moved close to 80 positions into the top 200 at world No. 187 on 19 June 2023.[7] Ranked No. 166, he also qualified for the 2023 Sofia Open but lost to Sebastian Ofner.[8][9]
2025: First ATP wins and semifinal
At the 2025 Moselle Open, as a lucky loser, he recorded his first match wins at the tour-level to reach his first ATP Tour quarterfinal, defeating third seed Alexander Bublik in the round of 16. As a result he moved back up 36 spots to world No. 186 in the ATP singles rankings and became the first Ukrainian to reach a tour-level quarterfinal since Sergiy Stakhovsky in 2019 Marseille, who also reached the last eight as a lucky loser.[10] Sashko reached his first ATP semifinal getting his revenge over qualifier Clément Tabur, having previously lost to him in the last qualifying round.[11]
ATP Challenger Tour finals
Singles: 6 (1 title, 5 runner-ups)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Mar 2021 | Challenger Città di Lugano, Switzerland | Challenger | Hard (i) | Dominic Stricker | 4–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Jul 2021 | Internazionali Città di Perugia, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Tomás Martín Etcheverry | 5–7, 2–6 |
| Win | 1–2 | Jun 2023 | Bratislava Open, Slovakia | Challenger | Clay | Dimitar Kuzmanov | 2–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–2) |
| Loss | 1–3 | Jul 2023 | Internazionali Città di Verona, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Vít Kopřiva | 6–1, 6–7(3–7), 2–6 |
| Loss | 1–4 | Apr 2025 | Open Città della Disfida, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Dalibor Svrčina | 5–7, 3–6 |
| Loss | 1–5 | Apr 2025 | Monza Open, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Raphaël Collignon | 3–6, 5–7 |
Doubles: 14 (10 titles, 4 runner-ups)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Nov 2020 | Lima Challenger, Peru | Challenger | Hard | Collin Altamirano | Íñigo Cervantes Oriol Roca Batalla |
3–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Jun 2021 | Almaty Challenger, Kazakhstan | Challenger | Clay | Jesper de Jong | Vladyslav Manafov Evgenii Tiurnev |
7–6(7–4), 6–1 |
| Win | 2–1 | Jun 2021 | Almaty Challenger II, Kazakhstan | Challenger | Clay | Vladyslav Manafov | Corentin Denolly Adrián Menéndez Maceiras |
6–1, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–1 | Jul 2021 | Internazionali Città di Perugia, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Dominic Stricker | Tomás Martín Etcheverry Renzo Olivo |
6–3, 5–7, [10–8] |
| Loss | 3–2 | Dec 2021 | Città di Forlì II, Italy | Challenger | Hard (i) | Lukáš Rosol | Antonio Šančić Tristan-Samuel Weissborn |
6-7(4-7), 6-4, [7-10] |
| Win | 4–2 | Feb 2022 | Città di Forlì V, Italy | Challenger | Hard (i) | Marco Bortolotti | Victor Vlad Cornea Fabian Fallert |
7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–5] |
| Win | 5–2 | Sep 2023 | Szczecin Open, Poland | Challenger | Clay | Andrew Paulson | Zdeněk Kolář |
6–1, 7–6 (8–6) |
| Win | 6–2 | Sep 2024 | NÖ Open, Austria | Challenger | Clay | Miloš Karol | Piotr Matuszewski Karol Drzewiecki |
6–4, 2–6, [11–9] |
| Win | 7–2 | Oct 2024 | Olbia Challenger, Italy | Challenger | Hard | Oleksii Krutykh | Íñigo Cervantes David Pichler |
4–6, 6–1, [10–5] |
| Win | 8–2 | Feb 2025 | Bahrain Challenger, Bahrain | Challenger | Hard | Beibit Zhukayev | Ivan Liutarevich Luca Sanchez |
6–4, 6–0 |
| Win | 9–2 | Mar 2025 | Challenger La Manche, France | Challenger | Hard (i) | Oleg Prihodko | Lukáš Pokorný Giorgio Ricca |
6–2, 6–2 |
| Loss | 9–3 | Jul 2025 | San Marino Open, San Marino | Challenger | Clay | Miloš Karol | Karol Drzewiecki Ray Ho |
5–7, 6–7(3–7) |
| Loss | 9–4 | Sep 2025 | NÖ Open, Austria | Challenger | Clay | Oleg Prihodko | Neil Oberleitner Joel Schwärzler |
7–5, 3–6, [7–10] |
| Win | 10–4 | Feb 2026 | Lugano Challenger, Switzerland | Challenger | Hard (i) | Stefan Latinović | Mirza Bašić Nerman Fatić |
6–3, 6–4 |
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Sep 2019 | M15 Chornomorsk, Ukraine | WTT | Clay | Marco Bortolotti | 7–5, 4–6, 6–1 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Dec 2019 | M15 Heraklion, Greece | WTT | Hard | David Pichler | 1–6, ret. |
| Win | 2–1 | Mar 2021 | M15 Bratislava, Slovakia | WTT | Hard (i) | Jurgen Briand | 6–1, 2–6, 7–6(7–3) |
| Loss | 2–2 | May 2021 | M25 Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic | WTT | Clay | Jiří Lehečka | 3–6, 2–6 |
Doubles: 13 (5 titles, 8 runner-ups)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2015 | Ukraine F6, Cherkassy | Futures | Clay | Vitalii Shcherba | Libor Salaba Marat Deviatiarov |
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 | WTT | Hard | Vitalii Shcherba | Pablo Vivero González Andrés Artuñedo |
5–7, 7–5, [9–11] |
| Win | 1–3 | Jul 2019 | M15 Telfs, Austria | WTT | Clay | Michal Konečný | Vít Kopřiva David Pichler |
6–2, 6–3 |
| Win | 2–3 | Nov 2019 | M15 Mishref, Kuwait | WTT | Hard | David Pichler | Adil Kalyanpur Kai Wehnelt |
6–4, 6–1 |
| Loss | 2–4 | Nov 2019 | M15 Mishref, Kuwait | WTT | Hard | Mátyás Füle | Soichiro Moritani Kento Takeuchi |
6–7(1–7), 4–6 |
| Win | 3–4 | Nov 2019 | M15 Heraklion, Greece | WTT | Hard | David Pichler | Rémy Bertola Daniel Masur |
7–6(7–2), 6–4 |
| Loss | 3–5 | Dec 2019 | M15 Heraklion, Greece | WTT | Hard | David Pichler | Eleftherios Theodorou Aristotelis Thanos |
walkover |
| Win | 4–5 | Sep 2020 | M15 Curtea de Argeș, Romania | WTT | Clay | Michał Dembek | Adrian Barbu Stefan Palosi |
6–4, 6–3 |
| Win | 5–5 | Oct 2020 | M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | WTT | Hard | Vladyslav Manafov | Yurii Dzhavakian Mārtiņš Podžus |
6–3, 6–3 |
| Loss | 5–6 | Mar 2021 | M15 Bratislava, Slovakia | WTT | Hard (i) | Michał Dembek | Michał Mikuła Neil Oberleitner |
7–6(7–2), 3–6, [5–10] |
| Loss | 5–7 | May 2021 | M25 Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic | WTT | Clay | Uladzimir Ignatik | Andrew Paulson Patrik Rikl |
6–0, 2–6, [7–10] |
| Loss | 5–8 | Oct 2024 | M25 Trnava, Slovakia | Futures | Hard (i) | Miloš Karol | Rémy Bertola Filippo Romano |
3–6, 3–6 |
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 ( – ) |
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References
- ^ "Sachko ATP Profile". Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ "Ukraine ATP Rankings | ATP Tour | Tennis".
- ^ "Thiem Passes Early Test In Vienna". ATP Tour. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "ATP Challenger Tour Weekly Recap: Altmaier and Etcheverry off the Mark". 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Misolic Wins Memorable Kitzbühel Debut". 25 July 2022. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ "Geneva Open: Zapata Miralles advances to second round".
- ^ "Ukrainian Vitaliy Sachko is the winner!". bratislavaopen.com.
- ^ "Purcell, Ofner Advance at Sofia Open; Fognini Wins in Metz". 7 November 2023.
- ^ "ATP Sofia: Ofner und Rodionov erkämpfen sich Auftaktsiege" (in German). 7 November 2023.
- ^ "Sachko upsets Bublik, Tien reaches QFs in Metz". ATPTour. 5 November 2025.
- ^ "Sachko's Fairy Tale in Metz: "After the Qualifiers, I Was Looking for Tickets to Go Home"". 7 November 2025.