Nikoloz Basilashvili

Junior career

Nikoloz did not play at any Grand Slams during his junior career. He reached a career high combined (singles and doubles) of world No. 59 on 5 January 2009. He ended his junior career with a 35–22 record on singles and 14–17 on doubles.^[3]

Basilashvili played in his first ITF Junior Circuit tournament in late 2006 at the G2 Jerry Simmons Tournament. He lost in the first qualifying round.^[4] 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.^[5][6]

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 former and the quarterfinals in the latter. The Orange Bowl was his last junior tournament.^[7]

Senior career

In 2015, he qualified for his first Grand Slam tournament – Roland Garros, losing in the first round to Thanasi Kokkinakis. He also managed to qualify for Wimbledon later that year, where he beat Facundo Bagnis and 15th seed Feliciano López, advancing to the third round of a major for the first time in his career. Additionally, he managed to qualify for the US Open, 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. Later that same year, in July, Basilashvili reached his first ATP tournament final – the Austrian Open Kitzbühel, where he lost to Paolo Lorenzi in two sets. He recorded his first win over a Top 10 player in October, when he defeated world number 10 Tomáš Berdych at the Vienna Open.

In February 2017, Basilashvili participated at the Sofia event, grabbing victories over Adrian Mannarino, 1st seed Dominic Thiem and 8th seed Martin Kližan, before losing to 3rd seed and eventual champion Grigor Dimitrov in the semifinals. Basilashvili continued his good form at the Memphis Open, where he defeated 1st seed Ivo Karlović and went on to subsequently reach the final, losing to Ryan Harrison in straight sets. In June 2017, Basilashvili achieved a then career-high singles ranking of 51. He reached three semifinals and one final throughout the year. 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 in three sets.^[8]

In July 2018, he made it into the main draw of the German Open in Hamburg as a qualifier and went on to win the tournament, defeating Leonardo Mayer 6–4, 0–6, 7–5 in the final and becoming the first Georgian player ever to win an ATP tournament. After winning his first title, Basilashvili moved to No. 35 in the world standings, his highest ever singles ranking and also the highest ever by a player from Georgia. In October 2018, he won his second ATP title by upsetting top seed Juan Martín del Potro in the final of the China Open.

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runners-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2016	Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Austria	250 Series	Clay	Paolo Lorenzi	3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–2	Feb 2017	Memphis Open, United States	250 Series	Hard (i)	Ryan Harrison	1–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Jul 2018	German Open, Germany	500 Series	Clay	Leonardo Mayer	6–4, 0–6, 7–5
Win	2–2	Oct 2018	China Open, China	500 Series	Hard	Juan Martín del Potro	6–4, 6–4

Singles: 20 (15–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	24 August 2009	Sochi, Russia	Clay	Mikhail Fufygin	2–6, 7–5, 7–5
Winner	2.	18 June 2012	Kazan, Russia	Clay	Ivan Sergeyev	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	3.	2 July 2012	Yerevan, Armenia	Clay	Arthur De Greef	0–6, 1–6
Runner-up	4.	6 August 2012	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Boy Westerhof	4–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	13 August 2012	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Alexander Lobkov	6–3, 7–6(7–0)
Winner	6.	10 September 2012	Tbilisi, Georgia	Clay	Toni Androić	6–3, 4–6, 7–6(7–1)
Winner	7.	3 December 2012	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Vladimir Uzhylovsky	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Winner	8.	10 December 2012	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Guillermo Olaso	6–2, 6–2
Winner	9.	12 August 2013	Appiano, Italy	Clay	Matteo Trevisan	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	10.	4 November 2013	Antalya Turkey	Hard	Robin Kern	6–4, 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	11.	11 November 2013	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Marc Rath	1–6, 3–6
Winner	12.	20 January 2014	Kaarst, Germany	Carpet (i)	Miloslav Mečíř	2–6, 7–5, 6–3
Winner	13.	19 May 2014	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Hard	Chase Buchanan	7–6(7–2), 6–2
Runner-up	14.	17 November 2014	Andria, Italy	Carpet (i)	Ričardas Berankis	4–6, 0–1 RET
Winner	15.	8 December 2014	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Ramkumar Ramanathan	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Winner	16.	15 December 2014	Doha, Qatar	Hard	James Marsalek	6–1, 6–2
Winner	17.	5 March 2015	Ra'anana, Israel	Hard	Lukáš Lacko	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
Winner	18.	26 July 2015	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Clay	Andrey Kuznetsov	6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–3
Winner	19.	21 March 2016	Guangzhou, PR China	Hard	Lukáš Lacko	6–1, 6–7(6–8), 7–5
Winner	20.	14 May 2016	Heilbronn, Germany	Clay	Jan-Lennard Struff	6–4, 7–6(7–3)

Doubles: 6 (2–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	7 March 2010	McAllen, USA	Hard	Chen Ti	Jared Easton Matheson Klein	7–5, 4–6, [10–4]
Runner-up	2.	28 February 2011	Brownsville, USA	Hard	Boris Nicola Bakalov	Devin Britton Greg Ouellette	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	18 November 2013	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Miljan Zekić	Tom Schonenberg Matthias Wunner	0–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	16 December 2013	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Yahor Yatsyk	Evan Hoyt Skander Mansouri	4–6, 6–7(2–7)
Winner	5.	27 January 2014	Kaarst, Germany	Carpet (i)	Alexander Bury	Uladzimir Ignatik Dimitar Kutrovsky	4–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Runner-up	6.	12 April 2015	Naples, Italy	Clay	Alexander Bury	Ilija Bozoljac Filip Krajinović	1–6, 2–6