Illya Marchenko | Bio | ATP Tour

Began playing tennis at age 7.
Father, Vassili, and mother, Anna, are both engineers; brother, Igor, is a former ice skater who took part in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
Idols growing up were Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer.
Favourite surface is hard.
Considers backhand as best shot.
Likes computer games, music (rock) and movies (Bruce Willis).

(UPDATED 8 JULY 2021)

Broke into Top 100 in 2010, then became No. 1 Ukrainian and achieved career-high No. 49 in 2016.
Advanced to 3 ATP Tour SFs: 2009 Moscow as Q, 2010 St. Petersburg and 2016 Doha, where he defeated No. 7 Ferrer for biggest win of career.
Reached Grand Slam 4R for 1st time at 2016 US Open and has qualified at 7 Grand Slam events.
Defeated former World No. 1 Murray for 8th Challenger title at 2021 Biella-1.
Owns 228-160 Challenger record with wins over one-time Top-10 players Goffin, Gulbis, Khachanov, Nishikori, Pouille and Stepanek.