Blaž KavÄiÄ
Blaž Kavčič ( born March 5, 1987 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian tennis player.
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Life and career
To 2005: career, junior career and first experiences on Futures tournaments
Blaž Kavčič began at the age of four years, to play tennis. The inspiration came from his grandfather Ludvig Dornik, who had been a successful Skilrennläufer himself and had taken part in the Winter Olympics 1956 in Cortina d' Ampezzo among others. The parents Alexander and Bojana Kavčič were professional Skilrennläufer.
Even as a junior Blaž Kavčič celebrated international successes, and so he decided in 2005 for a career as a professional tennis player. As early as 2003 he had tried to qualify for tournaments in the adult area, which for a Futures tournament in Qatar in December 2004, he succeeded the first time.
2006-2008: Future title and ATP debut
After he had reached the finals of a Satellite tournament in March 2006, Blaž Kavčič was appointed in April 2006 for the game against Algeria for the first time in the Slovenian Davis Cup team. Despite a victory, he could not prevent the 2:3 defeat. In August and September 2006 Kavčič won two Futures tournaments in Croatia, and then managed at the end of the leap into the top 500 of the world tennis rankings. In 2007 he was able to win any tournaments, but for this he recorded first match gains in Challenger tournaments, and was able to improve his ranking further.
In February 2008, Blaž Kavčič could qualify for the main draw of an ATP tournament in Zagreb for the first time. However, he lost his first round match in three tight sets against Roko Karanusic. Better he made it in May 2008 in Pörtschach, where in the first round against Teimuraz Gabashvili he won his first ATP match as a qualifier before he retired in the second round against Igor Kunizyn. During the year 2008, he also reached the semifinals twice a Challenger tournament, and reached the meantime with rank 232 had hitherto been his best world ranking.
2009-2010: Challenger title, Grand Slam debut and first-time entry into the Top 100
In 2009, then came the breakthrough: In May 2009, Blaž Kavčič reached in three Challenger tournaments in the final. After he had lost in Sanremo and Busan respectively, he finally won in Alessandria against Jesse Levine his first title. Just one month later, in Constanta by beating Julian Reister of the next title before he lost another final in Rijeka. He defeated in the semifinals Mathieu Montcourt, who died suddenly a few days later and had thus denied his last tournament here. On ATP level Kavčič denied this year, only a single match in Umag when he got a wild card, in July 2009, but lost his first round match against Nicolás Massú. When qualifying for the Grand Slam tournaments at Wimbledon and New York Kavčič failed each in the third qualifying round. During the year he had been working in the world ranking of 285 to place at No. 125.
Then at the beginning of 2010 it worked at the Australian Open for the first time with the qualification for a Grand Slam tournament. In the first round against Wayne Odesnik Blaž Kavčič was able to win the first set, but ultimately lost in four sets. A month later, he arrived in Johannesburg by a victory over Thierry Ascione for the second time the second round of the ATP tournament, but where he retired against eventual champions Feliciano López. He was able to achieve a place in the top 100 in the world rankings by good results in Challenger tournaments in March 2010, with rank 96 for the first time. He was thus directly qualified for the French Open, and met in the first round on the top 50 player Eduardo Schwank. This was at the match, as Blaž Kavčič already led 2-1 sentences and, at 4-0 lead in the fourth set. In the second round Kavčič met on the set at position 6 Andy Roddick, he lost to the after several rain delays in four sets. A month later advanced to Wimbledon as a replacement to the main draw, but retired in the first round against Lukasz Kubot from. As a consolation, however, he was then able to watch the World Cup match Slovenia against England at home. As he had now lost the points of the tournament wins from last year, Kavčič fell in July 2010 in the world rankings back to number 157 He then hired the Romanian Adrian Voinea as their new coach, who himself had been a professional tennis player, and in 1999 an ATP tournament had won. The collaboration was quickly fruit, because in August 2010 Blaž Kavčič could win his third Challenger title in Qarshi against Michael Venus. The September 2010 was even more successful: Both in Rijeka Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo and in his hometown of Ljubljana against David Goffin Kavčič went as a tournament win. This enabled him to work your way in the world rankings again at # 102. In addition, he managed with the Slovenian Davis Cup team to smooth victories over Norway and Bulgaria in the decider against Lithuania a 3-2 victory and promotion to the Europe / Africa Group I.
2011-2012: Establishment in the top 100
In January 2011, Blaž Kavčič reached in Chennai, among others, by a victory over the top -50 Jérémy Chardy first time an ATP quarterfinal. There he was indeed a chance against the set at position 1 Tomáš Berdych, rose through the world ranking points won but the first time in nine months back in the Top 100. At the Australian Open, Kavčič has successfully qualified, and sat down in the first round in four sets against Kevin Anderson by. In the second round against the set at position 10 Mikhail Youzhny could be Kavčič after 0-2 set deficit to fight in a fifth set, but lost to these favorites. Two weeks later Kavčič could in Zagreb again qualify for an ATP main draw and reached after a victory over Mischa Zverev the second round. There, however, he then lost to eventual finalist Michael Berrer. During this second tournament in Delray Beach Blaž Kavčič difference as a qualifier in the second round to eventual finalist Janko Tipsarevic from. In April 2011 Kavčič reached after a further second-round defeats in Casablanca and Barcelona in Belgrade for the second time this season, an ATP quarter-final, but there was a chance against the set at position 1 eventual winner Novak Djokovic. At the French Open he reached through a victory over Ernests Gulbis, as last year the second round where he was defeated by Juan set at position 25 Martín del Potro. The following grass season was less successful for Blaž Kavčič: In three tournaments, including Wimbledon, he was parted from each in the first round. Things went better in July 2011 at the clay tournament in Båstad where he lost in the quarterfinals, as in Chennai against Tomáš Berdych. In August 2011, Kavčič separated after one year of his coach Adrian Voinea and committed Blaž Trupej as their new coach. When Challenger tournament in Qarshi he reached then like last year, the finals had to be there but in three sets to the local hero Denis Istomin defeated. After a second-round defeat at the U.S. Open warm-up tournament in Winston Salem Blaž Kavčič difference at the U.S. Open in the first round in four sets against Ivan Ljubičić from. In September 2011 he won in Banja Luka by a final victory over Pere Riba his first Challenger title this year and ended the year in the top 100
At the Australian Open 2012 Blaž Kavčič reached by a victory over James Ward, as last year the second round, where he retired against the set at position 11 later quarter-finalists Juan Martín del Potro. On ATP levels he could not recorded a single win the match otherwise in four tournaments this year, but he reached in early March in Florianópolis a Challenger final, which he lost to Simone Bolelli. End of April 2012 stood Kavčič in São Paulo in another Challenger Finals and won there against Júlio Silva his first title of the year. After he was beginning June 2012, resigned at the French Open in the second round against world number one Novak Djokovic and eventual finalists, he won a week later in Fürth by a final victory over Sergiy Stachowskyj his second Challenger title of the year. After a semi-final at the next Challenger tournament in Monza Kavčič then reached rank 71 its best ever ranking in the world rankings.
Special
With a ranking of 71 in the tennis world rankings Blaž Kavčič is the best -placed Slovenia's tennis player of all time and also the first to make it into the top 100 in the world rankings. With its qualification for the 2010 Australian Open, he became only the third player from Slovenia, who managed to qualify for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament by Grega Zemlja, and Luka Gregorc. At the French Open 2010, he was together with Zemlja (who won his first round match also parallel ) of the first Slovene, who won a Grand Slam match.