Vasko Mladenov

Vasko Mladenov

Vasko Mladenov
Country (sports)	Bulgaria
Residence	Sofia, Bulgaria
Born	(1989-07-30) 30 July 1989 Sofia, Bulgaria
Turned pro	2005
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$36,258
Singles
Career record	1–0 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 0 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 637 (20 June 2016)
Current ranking	No. 987 (28 May 2018)
Doubles
Career record	1–2 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 359 (20 June 2016)
Current ranking	No. 601 (28 May 2018)
Last updated on: 08 June 2018.

Vasko Mladenov (Bulgarian: Васко Младенов, born 30 July 1989) is a professional Bulgarian tennis player. On 6 June 2016, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 637 in June 2016 whilst his best doubles ranking was 359 in June 2016. Mladenov is a two time Bulgarian National Champion (2016 and 2017). He participated in Davis Cup in doubles in March 2016 against Turkey, bringing Bulgaria a historic win 7:6, 6:7, 6:7, 7:6, 6:4 alongside fellow Bulgarian Alexander Lazov. Mladenov also took part in the Davis Cup tie against Tunisia in August 2016, where he won his singles match against Moez Echargui in a thrilling 6:7, 7:5, 7:6 match.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Early and personal life

Vasko was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, as the only child of Vasil, who is from Bulgaria and, Elena, who is from Russia. When he was five he began to play with his grandfather, Lev Shulga, who is a well known coach from the former U.S.S.R. Vasko speaks fluent Bulgarian, Russian and English. He is known for his aggressive and all-court style of play. Mladenov has a right-handed forehand and Double-handed backhand. His favourite surface is hard. His hobbies are listening to music, playing the piano, playing snooker, billiards and playing football. Currently he resides in Sofia, and is coached by Levar Harper-Griffith and Miroslav Gergov.

Junior career

He won three tournaments as a junior. The first one was in 2005, he defeated Plamen Avramov in Plovdiv in straight sets, final score was 6-0 6-1. The second one also was in 2005, in Timisoara, he defeated Maksim Bakunin in three sets, 6–4 4–6 7–6(4). The third and final one was in 2006, in Kiev, he won the tournament after beating Uladzimir Ignatik in three sets, 3–6 6–3 6–1. All these tournaments were played on clay court. In 2007, in France, he played the European Junior. Bulgaria was represented by Vasko, Valentin Dimov and Aleksandar Lazov, they were runners-up.

Year-end rankings

Futures and Challenger finals: 22 (12–10)

Singles: 2 (0–2)

Legend

ATP Challengers (0–0)

ITF Futures (0–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	17 July 2015	Ankara, Turkey ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Ivan Nedelko	5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	17 October 2015	Cherkasy, Ukraine ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Ivan Nedelko	5–7, 4–6

Doubles: 20 (12–8)

Legend

ATP Challengers (0–0)

ITF Futures (12–8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	27 May 2007	Pleven, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Pirmin Haenle	Roman Kelecic Nikola Martinovic	2–6, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	3 June 2007	Sofia, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Ilia Kushev	David Savić Miljan Zekić	4–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	2 September 2007	Burgas, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Sergey Betov	Roman Kelecic Nikola Martinovic	3–0, Ret.
Winner	3.	14 September 2008	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Boris Nicola Bakalov	Ivan Bjelica Miljan Zekić	6–3, 6–4
Winner	4.	20 December 2008	São Paulo, Brazil ITF Futures $10,000	Hard (I)	Nikita Kryvonos	Diogo Cruz Rodrigo-Antonio Grilli	4–6, 6–1, [10–5]
Runner-up	2.	28 December 2008	São Paulo, Brazil ITF Futures $10,000	Hard (I)	Nicolás Pastor	Mario Eckardt Patrick Taubert	2–6, 2–6
Winner	5.	3 January 2009	São Paulo, Brazil ITF Futures $10,000	Hard (I)	Lars Poerschke	Diego Matos Eládio Ribeiro Neto	6–1, 6–2
Winner	6.	18 May 2014	Rivne, Ukraine ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Nikita Kryvonos	Yurii Dzhavakian Vladimir Uzhylovsky	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	25 May 2014	Rivne, Ukraine ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Nikita Kryvonos	Yurii Dzhavakian Vladimir Uzhylovsky	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	11 July 2014	Plovdiv, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Dinko Halachev	Romain Arneodo Luca Margaroli	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Winner	7.	11 April 2015	El Kantaoui, Tunisia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Anis Ghorbel	Remy Chala Daniil Medvedev	4–6, 6–1, [11–9]
Runner-up	5.	17 May 2015	Cherkasy, Ukraine ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Vadym Ursu	Sergiy Sergiienko Artem Smirnov	6–3, 4–6, [7–10]
Runner-up	6.	24 July 2015	Ankara, Turkey ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Alexander Igoshin	Daniele Capecchi Federico Maccari	6–7(6–8), 6–3, [7–10]
Winner	8.	6 September 2015	El Kantaoui, Tunisia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Anis Ghorbel	Aziz Dougaz Jordan Dyke	6–2, 6–7(6–8), [10–6]
Winner	9.	13 September 2015	El Kantaoui, Tunisia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Anis Ghorbel	Romain Bauvy Ugo Nastasi	2–6, 7–5, [12–10]
Runner-up	7.	29 November 2015	El Kantaoui, Tunisia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Anis Ghorbel	Jordi Muñoz Abreu David Perez Sanz	3–6, 1–6
Winner	10.	6 December 2015	El Kantaoui, Tunisia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Anis Ghorbel	David Perez Sanz David Vega Hernandez	6–7(2–7), 6–4, [10-8]
Runner-up	8.	13 December 2015	El Kantaoui, Tunisia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Anis Ghorbel	Peter Bothwell Lloyd Glasspool	1–6, 4–6
Winner	11.	28 May 2016	Cherkasy, Ukraine ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Vladimir Uzhylovsky	Denys Mylokostov Danylo Veremeychuk	6–4, 6–1
Winner	12.	5 June 2016	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Yan Sabanin	Carlos Calderón-Rodríguez Pedro Martínez	6–2, 7–6(7–2)

Davis Cup

Vasko Mladenov debuted for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team in 2016 against Turkey in Ankara. Since then he has a 1–0 singles record and a 0–1 doubles record (1–1 overall).

Doubles (1–0)

Edition	Round	Date	Partner	Surface	Opponents	W/L	Result
2016 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	5 March 2016	Alexander Lazov	Hard (I)	Cem İlkel Tuna Altuna	W	7–6(8–6), 6–7(5–7), 6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–5), 6–4

• RPO = Relegation Play–off
• PPO = Promotion Play–off
• RR = Round Robin

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vasko Mladenov.

• Vasko Mladenov at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Vasko Mladenov at the International Tennis Federation
• Davis Cup profile