Career
Ivanov-Smolensky was a boy"s singles semi-finalist in the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. He also made the semi-finals in the boy"s doubles, with Slovakian Frantisek Babej, which matched his efforts from Wimbledon the previous year, when he partnered Adrian Barnes to the semi-finals. During his junior career he played a doubles tournament with Roger Federer, held at the Bollettieri Sports Academy in 1997.
He played one match, a dead rubber against Takao Suzuki, which he lost in straight sets.
On the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour, he appeared in the main singles draw of four tournaments, the 1998 Saint St. Petersburg Open, 1999 Heineken Trophy, 2002 President"s Cup and 2002 Ordina Open. At each of those events he was beaten in the opening round, by four different Germans.
He did however make two doubles quarter-finals, at Tashkent in 1998 (with Dmitri Tomashevich) and Chennai in 2000 (with Orlin Stanoytchev).