Country (sports) Georgia Career titles 0 Turned pro 2010 Height 2.07 m (6 ft 9 ⁄2 in) Name Nikoloz Basilashvili Residence Istanbul, Turkey | Prize money $207,536 Role Tennis Player Highest ranking 86 Career record 3–6 Weight 75 kg | |
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Born 23 February 1992 (age 32)
Tbilisi, Georgia ( 1992-02-23 ) Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Similar People Feliciano Lopez, Roberto Bautista Agut, Facundo Bagnis, Sam Groth, Andrey Kuznetsov | ||
Roger federer vs nikoloz basilashvili highlights australian open 2016
Nikoloz Basilashvili (Georgian: ნიკოლოზ ბასილაშვილი; born 23 February 1992) is a Georgian professional tennis player. He reached two ATP finals and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world no. 51 on 19th June 2017.
Contents
- Roger federer vs nikoloz basilashvili highlights australian open 2016
- Playing with nikoloz basilashvili
- Junior career
- Senior career
- Singles performance timeline
- References
Playing with nikoloz basilashvili
Junior career
Nikoloz didn't play in any Grand Slams during his junior career. He reached a career high combined (singles and doubles) of World No. 59 on January 5, 2009. He ended his junior career with a 35–22 record on singles and 14–17 on doubles.
Basilashvili played in his first ITF Junior Circuit tournament in later 2006 at the G2 Jerry Simmons Tournament. He lost in the first qualifying round. In 2007, he managed to break through the qualifying of two G4 tournaments in Israel and a G3 in Romania. Nikoloz lost in the Round of 16 in all of them. Later that year, he reached his first semifinal at any junior tournament doing that in doubles for the first time at the US Junior Hard Court Championships, partnering Patrick Daciek. In singles, he reached that round at the G4 USTA Illinois losing to Filip Krajinovic, in September.
In 2008, Nikoloz won his only junior title, the G4 Tennis Express tournament, defeating Raymond Sarmiento in three sets. The Georgian played mostly at G1 and GA tournaments that year, breaking through the qualifiers of the Eddie Herr Tennis Championship and the Orange Bowl. He reached the round of 16 in the first and the quarterfinals in the later. The Orange Bowl was his last Junior tournament.
Senior career
In 2015, he qualified for his first Grand Slam Tournament – Roland Garros, losing in the first round to Thanasi Kokkinakis. Later in the same year he managed to qualify for Wimbledon, where he beat Facundo Bagnis and the 15th seed Feliciano López, advancing to the third round of a major for the first time in his career. Later that year he managed to qualify for US Open too, where he lost to Feliciano López in the first round in straight sets.
In 2016, he qualified for his first Australian Open, losing the first round in straight sets to Roger Federer. That year in July Basilashvili played in his first ATP tournament final, the Austrian Open Kitzbühel that is part of the 250 series, where he lost to Paolo Lorenzi in two sets. In October Georgian player got his first Top 10 win, when he defeated world number 10 Tomáš Berdych in Vienna Open.
In February 2017 Basilashvili participated in the Sofia event, grabbing victories over Adrian Mannarino, 1st seed Dominic Thiem and 8th seed Martin Kližan, before losing to 3rd seed and eventual winner Grigor Dimitrov in the semifinals. Basilashvili continued his good form on Memphis Open, where he defeated 1st seed Ivo Karlović and went to reach the final, but lost to Ryan Harrison in straight sets.
In June 2017, Basilashvili achieved a career-high singles ranking of 51.
At the 2017 French Open, after defeating Gilles Simon and Viktor Troicki, Basilashvili lost to eventual champion Rafael Nadal in the third round, winning just one game across three sets.
Singles performance timeline
Current through the 2017 US Open – Men's Singles.