Ivan Dodig
Ivan Dodig (born 2 January 1985 in Medjugorje, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a Croatian tennis player.
- 2.1 Single 2.1.1 Siege 2.1.1.1 ATP World Tour
- 2.1.1.2 ATP Challenger Tour
- 2.2.1 Siege 2.2.1.1 ATP World Tour
- 2.2.1.2 ATP Challenger Tour
Life and career
To 2006: career and first experiences in the Davis Cup and Futures Tournaments
Ivan Dodig began at the age of eight years with the tennis games. Since 2000 he has played tournaments on the junior tour, and was able to win a tournament there in September 2002. Already in April 2002 Dodig played for the first time for the Davis Cup team of Bosnia - Herzegovina in a double, but lost both games. By the year 2006, he played a total of 22 matches in singles and doubles for Bosnia - Herzegovina, of which he won seven.
Since 2002 Ivan Dodig tried to qualify for Satellite and Futures tournaments in the adult area. After reaching the quarter-finals in a Futures tournament in September 2003, he was first performed in the tennis world rankings.
It was not until August 2005, until he reached a Future - finals for the first time in Croatia. In June 2006, he won in Bosnia-Herzegovina 's first futures title and two weeks later reached another final. After being in Nigeria for the second time to win a Futures tournament in October 2006, he went into the top 500 in the world rankings.
2007-2008: success on the Challenger Tour, Croatian citizenship and ATP debut
After he had reached in May 2007, another Future Finals, he tried from now on to take on the ATP Challenger Tour on foot. He also played several qualifications for ATP tournaments, but at first without success. Later in the year he reached a challenger semi-finals and four quarter- finals, and was led in the meantime to Rank 256 in the world rankings. In doubles, he could even win two Challenger tournaments.
In early 2008 took Ivan Dodig at the Croatian citizenship because he got too little support as Bosnian No. 1 player by his association. In February 2008, Dodig was able to qualify for an ATP tournament by defeating Andrei Golubev in Marseille for the first time, but was there in the first round chance against the world rankings Novak Djokovic third party. The more year passed without major highlights; Dodig reached only once the quarter-finals of a Challenger tournament, he also won a Futures singles titles and a Challenger title in doubles.
2009: first Challenger title and ATP match wins
The year 2009 began with a successful qualification for the ATP tournament in Zagreb, where Dodig after victories over Top 50 players Igor Andreev and Ernests Gulbis reached the quarterfinals. He then lost but against his compatriot Mario Ančić. In March 2009 Ivan Dodig won in Sarajevo after a victory over Dominik Meffert his first individual title at a Challenger tournament. A month later, he reached another Challenger final, which he lost against Jan Hajek in Ostrava. This year, he first attempted to qualify for the Grand Slam tournaments, but without success. For the ATP tournament in Umag, he got a wild card, but lost in the first round against Pablo Cuevas. In October 2009, there was the Challenger tournament in Kolding to a scandal: Dodig reached the final, and had already won there the first set against Alex Bogdanovic. In the tie-break of the second set, there was a controversial decision, and Dodig lost the set. Then he had insulted a line judge and was therefore disqualified. From anger he smashed the trophy afterwards. On his website he protested his innocence, and apologized for the broken trophy. At the end of Ivan Dodig was ranked 180 in the world rankings.
2010: Grand Slam debut and entry into the Top 100
In January 2010, Dodig qualified at the Australian Open for the first time for a Grand Slam tournament. In the first round he met on the set at position 23 Juan Carlos Ferrero. After he already was behind 0-2 in sets, he turned the game yet, defeating the former world number one. In the second round he lost to Stefan Koubek then, however. Also at the ATP tournament in Zagreb, for which he received a wild card, Dodig reached the second round. In March, he first played for his new home Croatia in the Davis Cup. After he had in April 2010, lost the final of the Challenger tournament in Ostrava, like last year, Ivan Dodig could qualify for the main draw at Wimbledon in July 2010. After a first round victory over Óscar Hernández, he lost in the second round against Sam Querrey. After a Zweitrundenaus at the ATP tournament in Umag Dodig could qualify for the third time this year for a Grand Slam tournament at the U.S. Open 2010. And as with the other two tournaments he reached the second round. He benefited from the task of his opponent Fernando González, who had to cancel the match at 1-1 set tie due to a knee injury. In the second round against Thiemo de Bakker Dodig had to give up but himself, as he was behind with 1:2 sets. In October 2010, Ivan Dodig reached in Stockholm as a qualifier after beating Tommy Robredo and Tobias Kamke for the second time in his career, an ATP quarterfinal. There he was able to win against his set at position 4 compatriot Ivan Ljubičić the first set, the match but still lost in three sets. Nevertheless, he achieved then with place 118 his best ever world ranking placement. Just two weeks later reached Dodig in Astana after a victory over Rainer Schuettler for the second time this year a Challenger final. There he defeated Igor Kunizyn the second Challenger title in his career, and then moved for the first time into the top 100 in the world rankings.
2011: first ATP title and establishment as a top 50 player
At the beginning of 2011, Ivan Dodig difference at the ATP tournament in Chennai in the second round against the set at position 1 Tomáš Berdych out. In doubles, he was stopped at the side of Marin Cilic in the semifinals only slightly by the eventual tournament champions Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes. At the Australian Open Dodig met in the first round of his countryman Ivo Karlović. Although this suggested a total of 48 aces in the match history to Dodig was able to prevail in five sets at the end. His next opponent was at position 3 Novak Djokovic set. Dodig was able to keep two sentences long good, but eventually lost in four sets to eventual tournament winner. It was during the whole tournament the only player who was able to remove a set of Djokovic. In the following ATP tournament in Zagreb early February 2011 Dodig reached after victories including through the top 50 player Marcel Granollers, Ivan Ljubičić and Guillermo García- López for the first time an ATP final. There he sat down in two sets against Michael Berrer through and thus won his first title. In the world rankings, he then made a jump to No. 60, his best ever placing. The next big success came Ivan Dodig in April 2011 at the ATP clay court tournament in Barcelona, where he moved among other things, a victory over top-10 player Robin Soderling in the semifinals. There, however, he had no chance against the world number one and eventual winner Rafael Nadal. After he had retired to his French Open debut in the first round against Pere Riba, Ivan Dodig was in June 2011 when racing tournament in 's- Hertogenbosch, inter alia, by a victory over the set at position 2 Marcos Baghdatis for the second time his career reach an ATP final, but which he lost in straight sets against Dmitry Tursunov. At Wimbledon, as well as in Hamburg and at home tournament in Umag but then again followed Erstrundenniederlagen against each significantly lower ranked opponents. In August 2011, Ivan Dodig made at the Masters tournament in Montreal for a surprise when he was in the second round, the world number two Rafael Nadal threw out the competition. Nadal had won the first set and clear out both the second and in the third set with each break, but Dodig did not give up and fought his way after more than three hours of play to victory over the favorites. Thereafter, however, he was defeated by eventual semi-finalists Janko Tipsarevic.