Sergei Bubka (tennis)
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Sergei Bubka is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. He is a member of the Ukraine Davis Cup team
Ukraine Davis Cup team
The Ukraine Davis Cup team represents Ukraine in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Ukrainian Tennis Federation.-History:Ukraine competed in its first Davis Cup in 1993. Ukraine currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group II. They have reached the Group I quarter-finals...

 and is coached by Tibor Toth, who is also the coach of Sergiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Stakhovsky is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and had been playing mostly at the Challenger level from 2005–2008. His career high in singles of #31 and his high of #86 in doubles...

. Sergei Bubka is also the son of famous pole vaulter Sergey Bubka.

Career summary

His biggest success so far in his career was beating the 5th-seeded Ivan Ljubičić
Ivan Ljubicic
----Ivan Ljubičić is a Croatian tennis player born in Bosnia and Herzegovina . His career-high ATP ranking to date has been no. 3, and he stands at no. 37....

 in the first round of the 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships
2011 Dubai Tennis Championships
The 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships was a 500 Series event on the 2011 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2011 WTA Tour. The tournament was known as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons...

 (Ljubičić had to retire due to injury).

He also hit a 157 MPH serve during qualifying of the 2011 US Open, which would have been the record had the serve not been out.

Singles Title (1)

Legend
ATP Challenger Series

No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
1. 2009   Kyoto
Kyoto
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, Japan
Japan
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Carpet   Takao Suzuki
Takao Suzuki
----Takao Suzuki is a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from Japan....

7–6(8–6), 6–4

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