Michal Mertiňák

Michal Mertiňák (born 11 October 1979) is a retired professional tennis player from Slovakia. He turned professional in 1999, and has won six doubles titles in his career on the ATP Tour. He reached his career high doubles ranking of World No. 12 in February 2010. He played in the 2005 Davis Cup for Slovakia, who finished runner-up to Croatia. Mertiňák played two ties in the final, including losing the deciding fifth rubber to Mario Ančić.

Michal Mertiňák

Mertiňák in 2013
Country (sports)	Slovakia
Residence	Bratislava, Slovakia
Born	(1979-10-11) 11 October 1979 Považská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	1999
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$1,511,590
Singles
Career record	10–16
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 129 (11 July 2005)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2007)
French Open	Q2 (2007)
Wimbledon	1R (2003)
US Open	Q3 (2003)
Doubles
Career record	208–172
Career titles	13
Highest ranking	No. 12 (8 February 2010)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012)
French Open	3R (2006, 2008, 2010)
Wimbledon	QF (2005)
US Open	3R (2008, 2012)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2010)
French Open	QF (2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2009)
US Open	1R (2009, 2010)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	F (2005)
Last updated on: 4 February 2022.

From 2009 until 2010 his doubles partner was Czech František Čermák. He won five tournaments with him in the 2009 season. Subsequently he partnered up with André Sá.

Performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q1	Q1	Q1	Q3	Q1	0 / 0	0–0	–
French Open	A	Q1	Q1	Q1	Q2	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Wimbledon	1R	Q3	Q2	Q1	Q1	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
US Open	Q2	A	Q3	A	Q2	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 1	0–1	0%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Miami	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 0	0–0	–

Doubles

Tournament	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	0 / 8	5–8	38%
French Open	A	3R	2R	3R	2R	3R	1R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 9	9–9	50%
Wimbledon	QF	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	A	1R	2R	A	0 / 8	7–8	47%
US Open	2R	1R	2R	3R	2R	1R	A	3R	1R	A	0 / 8	7–8	47%
Win–loss	4–2	4–4	3–4	4–4	4–4	3–4	1–2	3–4	2–4	0–1	0 / 33	28–33	46%
Year-end Championships
ATP Finals	Did not qualify				SF	Did not qualify					0 / 1	2–2	50%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	QF	A	A	A	0 / 3	4–3	57%
Miami Open	A	1R	A	A	QF	2R	2R	A	A	A	0 / 4	4–4	50%
Monte Carlo Masters	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 2	0–2	0%
Madrid Open	A	A	A	A	QF	2R	2R	A	A	A	0 / 3	3–3	50%
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	A	A	A	0 / 2	2–2	50%
Canadian Open	A	A	A	A	A	SF	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	3–1	75%
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	2–2	–
Shanghai Masters	Not Held				QF	QF	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	3–2	60%
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	SF	SF	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	4–2	67%
Win–loss	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	8–6	12–9	5–5	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 21	25–21	54%

Mixed doubles

Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
French Open	A	A	A	A	2R	QF	A	A	0 / 2	3–2	60%
Wimbledon	1R	A	A	2R	1R	A	A	1R	0 / 4	1–4	20%
US Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 2	0–2	0%
Win–loss	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–4	2–1	0–0	0–1	0 / 9	4–9	31%

ATP career finals

Doubles: 23 (13 titles, 10 runner-ups)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP Masters Series (0–0) ATP Championship Series (3–0) ATP International Series (10–10)

Finals by surface Hard (4–4) Clay (8–6) Grass (0–0) Carpet (1–0)

Finals by setting Outdoors (9–6) Indoors (4–4)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 2006	Chennai, India	International Series	Hard	Petr Pála	Prakash Amritraj Rohan Bopanna	6–2, 7–5
Win	2–0	Jan 2006	Zagreb, Croatia	International Series	Carpet	Jaroslav Levinský	Davide Sanguinetti Andreas Seppi	7–6(9–7), 6–1
Win	3–0	Jul 2007	Umag, Croatia	International Series	Clay	Lukáš Dlouhý	Jaroslav Levinský David Škoch	6–1, 6–1
Win	4–0	Sep 2007	Bucharest, Romania	International Series	Clay	Oliver Marach	Martín García Sebastián Prieto	7–6(7–2), 7–6(10–8)
Win	5–0	Mar 2008	Acapulco, Mexico	Championship Series	Clay	Oliver Marach	Agustín Calleri Luis Horna	6–2, 6–7(3–7), [10–7]
Win	6–0	Jul 2008	Umag, Croatia	International Series	Clay	Petr Pála	Fabio Fognini Carlos Berlocq	2–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Win	7–0	Feb 2009	Acapulco, Mexico	500 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Win	8–0	Jul 2009	Stuttgart, Germany	250 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Victor Hănescu Horia Tecău	7–5, 6–4
Win	9–0	Aug 2009	Umag, Croatia	250 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	6–4, 6–4
Win	10–0	Sep 2009	Bucharest, Romania	250 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	6–2, 6–4
Loss	10–1	Oct 2009	Moscow, Russia	250 Series	Hard	František Čermák	Pablo Cuevas Marcel Granollers	4–6, 7–5, [10–8]
Win	11–1	Nov 2009	Valencia, Spain	500 Series	Hard	František Čermák	Marcel Granollers Tommy Robredo	6–4, 6–3
Loss	11–2	Jan 2010	Doha, Qatar	250 Series	Hard	František Čermák	Guillermo García López Albert Montañés	6–4, 7–5
Loss	11–3	Aug 2010	Umag, Croatia	250 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Leoš Friedl Filip Polášek	6–3, 7–6(9–7)
Win	12–3	Oct 2010	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	250 Series	Hard	František Čermák	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–5)
Loss	12–4	Feb 2012	São Paulo, Brazil	250 Series	Clay	André Sá	Eric Butorac Bruno Soares	6–3, 4–6, [8–10]
Loss	12–5	Feb 2012	Buenos Aires, Argentina	250 Series	Clay	André Sá	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	4–6, 4–6
Loss	12–6	Mar 2012	Delray Beach, United States	250 Series	Hard	André Sá	Colin Fleming Ross Hutchins	6–2, 6–7(5–7), [13–15]
Loss	12–7	Jul 2012	Stuttgart, Germany	250 Series	Clay	André Sá	Jérémy Chardy Łukasz Kubot	1–6, 3–6
Win	13–7	Oct 2012	Moscow, Russia	250 Series	Hard	František Čermák	Simone Bolelli Daniele Bracciali	7–5, 6–3
Loss	13–8	Feb 2013	São Paulo, Brazil	250 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	7–6(7–5), 2–6, [7–10]
Loss	13–9	Feb 2014	Zagreb, Croatia	250 Series	Hard	Philipp Marx	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	6–3, 4–6, [2–10]
Loss	13–10	Jul 2014	Gstaad, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Rameez Junaid	Andre Begemann Robin Haase	3–6, 4–6

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 14 (6–8)

Legend ATP Challenger (2–4) ITF Futures (4–4)

Finals by surface Hard (2–2) Clay (4–5) Grass (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2000	Egypt F1, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Amr Ghoneim	5–7, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Aug 2000	Egypt F2, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Hisham Hemeda	6–7(4–7), 6–3, 3–6
Loss	0–3	Oct 2000	Uzbekistan F3, Guliston	Futures	Hard	Alexander Shvets	7–6(12–10), 1–6, 4–6
Win	1–3	Jun 2001	Hungary F1, Sopron	Futures	Clay	Andreas Fasching	6–3, 6–2
Win	2–3	Jun 2002	Czech Repiblic F3, Karlovy Vary	Futures	Clay	Radim Zitko	walkover
Win	3–3	Feb 2003	Portugal F3, Espinho	Futures	Clay	Roberto Menendez Ferre	6–1, 6–1
Loss	3–4	Mar 2003	Portugal F6, Carcavelos	Futures	Clay	Nicolás Almagro	1–6, 0–6
Win	4–4	May 2003	Hungary F2, Hódmezővásárhely	Futures	Clay	Leonardo Azzaro	7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–1)
Loss	4–5	Aug 2003	St. Petersburg, Russia	Challenger	Clay	Florian Mayer	6–4, 6–7(3–7), 1–6
Loss	4–6	Aug 2003	Saransk, Russia	Challenger	Clay	Martin Štěpánek	1–6, 1–6
Loss	4–7	Jul 2004	Manchester, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Alex Bogdanovic	1–6, 3–6
Win	5–7	Aug 2004	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Teymuraz Gabashvili	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
Loss	5–8	Mar 2005	Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	Challenger	Hard	Vladimir Voltchkov	6–7(1–7), 3–6
Win	6–8	Nov 2006	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard	Lukáš Dlouhý	7–6(7–4), 6–4

Doubles: 41 (19–22)

Legend ATP Challenger (12–12) ITF Futures (7–10)

Finals by surface Hard (9–9) Clay (8–13) Grass (0–0) Carpet (2–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2000	Egypt F1, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Tomas Janci	Amr Ghoneim Karim Maamoun	6–3, 7–5
Loss	1–1	Aug 2000	Egypt F2, Cairo	Futures	Clay	Tomas Janci	Amr Ghoneim Karim Maamoun	6–3, 2–6, 3–6
Win	2–1	Nov 2000	India F5, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Tomas Janci	Branislav Sekáč Viktor Bruthans	6–4, 6–1
Loss	2–2	Feb 2001	Croatia F1, Zagreb	Futures	Hard	Tomas Janci	Andrej Kračman Borut Urh	6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Loss	2–3	May 2001	Slovakia F1, Levice	Futures	Clay	Tomas Janci	Petr Dezort Radomír Vašek	walkover
Loss	2–4	May 2001	Slovakia F3, Trnava	Futures	Clay	Tomas Janci	Bartlomiej Dabrowski Mariusz Fyrstenberg	4–6, 4–6
Loss	2–5	Jun 2001	Hungary F1, Sopron	Futures	Clay	Branislav Sekáč	Kornél Bardóczky Zoltán Nagy	6–7(3–7), 3–6
Loss	2–6	Apr 2002	Greece F1, Syros	Futures	Hard	Karol Beck	Thierry Ascione Florent Serra	6–3, 4–6, 2–6
Win	3–6	Apr 2002	Greece F2, Kalamata	Futures	Hard	Karol Beck	Tapio Nurminen Marko Tkalec	6–1, 6–2
Loss	3–7	May 2002	Poland F1, Wrocław	Futures	Clay	Tomas Janci	Lauri Kiiski Tero Vilen	0–6, 3–6
Loss	3–8	Jun 2002	Slovakia F1A, Košice	Futures	Clay	Frantisek Babej	Juraj Hasko Igor Zelenay	6–3, 4–6, 3–6
Win	4–8	Aug 2002	Austria F4, Seefeld	Futures	Clay	David Sebok	Jiri Folber David Miketa	6–4, 6–3
Loss	4–9	Oct 2002	Jamaica F17, Negril	Futures	Hard	Darko Madjarovski	Cedric Kauffmann Miles Maclagan	3–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–7(2–7)
Win	5–9	Jan 2003	Germany F1C, Munich	Futures	Carpet	Igor Zelenay	Daniel Elsner Philipp Petzschner	4–6, 7–6(20–18), 7–6(7–5)
Loss	5–10	Feb 2003	Portugal F1, Espinho	Futures	Clay	Marco Mirnegg	Christopher Kas Mike Scheidweiler	3–6, 2–6
Win	6–10	Feb 2003	Portugal F2, Espinho	Futures	Clay	Marco Mirnegg	Kornél Bardóczky Gergely Kisgyörgy	7–5, 4–6, 6–3
Win	7–10	Feb 2003	Portugal F3, Espinho	Futures	Clay	Marco Mirnegg	Kornél Bardóczky Gergely Kisgyörgy	6–4, 6–4
Loss	7–11	Oct 2003	Tumkur, India	Challenger	Hard	Branislav Sekáč	Prakash Amritraj Rik de Voest	4–6, 3–6
Win	8–11	Oct 2003	Belgaum, India	Challenger	Hard	Branislav Sekáč	Mustafa Ghouse Vishal Uppal	7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–2)
Win	9–11	Feb 2004	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard	Alexander Waske	Jun Kato Emilio Benfele Álvarez	6–4, 7–6(7–1)
Win	10–11	Aug 2004	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Pavel Šnobel	Paul Logtens Melle van Gemerden	6–4, 6–2
Win	11–11	Jan 2005	Heilbronn, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Sébastien de Chaunac	Gilles Elseneer Gilles Müller	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
Loss	11–12	Feb 2005	Besançon, France	Challenger	Hard	Jean-Claude Scherrer	Jason Marshall Huntley Montgomery	7–6(9–7), 2–6, 3–6
Win	12–12	Mar 2005	Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	Challenger	Hard	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Lukáš Dlouhý Jan Vacek	6–7(8–10), 6–2, 6–2
Loss	12–13	Mar 2005	Saint-Brieuc, France	Challenger	Clay	Jan Vacek	Victor Ioniță Gabriel Moraru	1–6, 4–6
Loss	12–14	Nov 2005	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard	Dominik Hrbatý	Jean-Claude Scherrer Chris Haggard	3–6, 6–2, 6–7(4–7)
Win	13–14	May 2006	Dresden, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Yves Allegro	Christopher Kas Philipp Petzschner	6–3, 6–0
Win	14–14	May 2006	Zagreb, Croatia	Challenger	Clay	Yves Allegro	Julien Jeanpierre Nicolas Renavand	6–1, 6–2
Loss	14–15	Feb 2007	Wrocław, Poland	Challenger	Hard	Jean-Claude Scherrer	Lukáš Rosol Jan Vacek	5–7, 6–7(4–7)
Win	15–15	Mar 2007	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard	Robin Vik	Łukasz Kubot Dick Norman	6–2, 6–4
Loss	15–16	Apr 2007	Casablanca, Morocco	Challenger	Clay	Robin Vik	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	3–6, 3–6
Loss	15–17	Apr 2007	Marrakech, Morocco	Challenger	Clay	Leoš Friedl	Tomáš Cibulec Jordan Kerr	2–6, 4–6
Loss	15–18	Mar 2008	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Oliver Marach	Flavio Cipolla Marcel Granollers	3–6, 6–2, [9–11]
Loss	15–19	Sep 2008	Trnava, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Daniel Köllerer	Igor Zelenay David Škoch	3–6, 1–6
Win	16–19	Oct 2008	Mons, Belgium	Challenger	Hard	Lovro Zovko	Yves Allegro Horia Tecău	7–5, 6–3
Loss	16–20	Nov 2011	Helsinki, Finland	Challenger	Hard	James Cerretani	Martin Emmrich Andreas Siljeström	4–6, 4–6
Loss	16–21	Mar 2012	Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	Challenger	Hard	Igor Zelenay	Dustin Brown Jonathan Marray	6–7(2–7), 6–2, [9–11]
Win	17–21	Aug 2012	San Marino, San Marino	Challenger	Clay	Lukáš Dlouhý	Stefano Ianni Matteo Viola	2–6, 7–6(7–3), [11–9]
Win	18–21	Aug 2012	Cordenons, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Lukáš Dlouhý	Philipp Marx Florin Mergea	5–7, 7–5, [10–7]
Win	19–21	Feb 2014	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard	Karol Beck	Konstantin Kravchuk Denys Molchanov	4–6, 7–5, [10–6]
Loss	19–22	Jul 2014	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Rameez Junaid	Andreas Siljeström Igor Zelenay	5–7, 4–6

External links

• Michal Mertiňák at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Michal Mertiňák at the International Tennis Federation
• Michal Mertiňák at the Davis Cup