Irakli Labadze


Irakli Labadze is a Georgian retired professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 42, which he attained in July 2004.

Career

Juniors

Labadze had a successful junior career, notably reaching the final of the Wimbledon boys' singles in 1998 and losing to future World No.1 Roger Federer. Together with Lovro Zovko he won the 1999 French Open boys' doubles.

Pro tour

Labadze's most successful appearance at a Grand Slam event came at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the fourth round. After eliminating Gastón Gaudio and Mardy Fish, he was defeated by the eventual runner-up Rafael Nadal in three sets. It was to be his last appearance in the singles main draw at a major championship.
Labadze's best result in Masters 1000 tournaments was reaching the semifinals of the 2004 Indian Wells Masters. After defeating Carlos Moyá and James Blake, he lost to Tim Henman in straight sets.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss2001Orange Warsaw Open, PolandClay Attila Sávolt Paul Hanley
Nathan Healey		6–7, 2–6
Loss2001St. Petersburg Open, RussiaHard Marat Safin Denis Golovanov
Yevgeny Kafelnikov		5–7, 4–6
Loss2002St. Petersburg Open, RussiaHard Marat Safin David Adams
Jared Palmer		6–7, 3–6

Singles performance timeline

Titles

Singles (10)

No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponent in finalScore in final
1.2000 Boca RatonHard Marcos Daniel6–4, 6–4
2.2000 FurthClay Daniel Elsner6–4, 6–4
3.2001 BirminghamClay James Blake6–2, 6–3
4.2001 BucharestClay Emilio Benfele Álvarez6–4, 6–2
5.2002 BrestCarpet Paradorn Srichaphan6–4, 7–5
6.2002 KievClay Gorka Fraile6–0, 4–6, 6–4
7.2003 KievClay Petr Kralert6–1, 6–2
8.2003 Saint-Jean-de-LuzHard Fabrice Santoro1–6, 7–6, 6–4
9.2003 DnepropetrovskHard Harel Levy6–3, 3–6, 6–1
10.2005 BiellaHard Carlos Berlocq7–6, 6–0

Doubles: (6)