Frank Dancevic
Frank Russell Dancevic ( born September 26, 1984 in Niagara Falls, Ontario ) is a Canadian tennis player.
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Career
The Canadians defeated surprise at his ATP debut in 2002 in Washington Nikolay Davydenko. A year later, he received a wild card for the first time the Canadian Open and it lost to Davydenko 6:7, 6:4, 3:6. 2004 was Dancevic in the second round at the grass tournament in Queens and came in 2005 in Memphis and San Jose each in the second round. He won a Challenger tournament in early 2006 in Hawaii and was shortly thereafter at another Challenger in the final. His best performance he showed in the summer on grass. When ATP Queen's Club, he was defeated by world ranking fifth Andy Roddick in round two almost 6:2, 4:6, 3:6, and in Newport, he lost in round two against Juergen Melzer 4:6, 6:3, 4: 6 He won in late summer at the Challenger tournament in Granby and managed by for the first time into the top 100 in the world rankings. Then he came at four ATP tournaments in a row each in the second round. In Bangkok he lost 6:2, 6:7, 4:6 after a hard fight against world ranked 17th Jarkko Nieminen, against which he retired in Toronto. In Tokyo, he had no chance against Tim Henman and in Stockholm was in round two Kristof Vliegen after three sets terminus. He thus ended the year as number 87 in the ATP world rankings.
In early 2007 he was at the Australian Open in the second round, where he was inferior against local favorite Lleyton Hewitt 4:6, 4:6, 6:3, 4:6. In Indian Wells, he lost in round two against the world ranking fifth Fernando González with 6:7, 6:1, 5:7. As the number 109 in the world rankings, he moved to Indianapolis in late July in the final. After victories over the set Ben Becker and Del Potro he met in the first semifinal of his career to the top-seeded Andy Roddick. At 43 degrees Celsius, he defeated the world ranked fourth with 15 aces. In the final he defeated Dmitry Tursunov and managed once again made it into the top 100
At the Canadian Open in Montreal, he was standing in front of his home crowd at the last eight and gave the world rankings Second Rafael Nadal a tough fight. He was defeated by the Spaniard 6-4, 2:6, 3:6 and climbed to number 65 At the U.S. Open against Marat Safin lost Dancevic 5:7, 6:7, 6:7, and in the twin he was in Tokyo reach the final. In 2008 he was defeated in the Australian Open Jarkko Nieminen in the set of five sentences. After a disappointing season by then the Canadians made at Wimbledon for a big surprise. He received a wild card and in the first round he beat the set of seven former finalists David Nalbandian in three sets. One lap later, his high-altitude flight was abruptly stopped when he lost against Bobby Reynolds. Shortly after Dancevic reached after a victory over the set of four Kunitsyn the semi-finals lawn tournament in Newport, where he met with 6:7, 6:4, 3:6 surprisingly lost against Amritray. In Indianapolis last year's finalist failed in round one to Bobby Reynolds in three sets and fell in the ranking far behind. In Toronto Dancevic received a wildcard and surprised in the first round with a win over Mario Ancic. Then he retired against defending champion Novak Djokovic of 4:6, 4:6.
In early 2009 Dancevic qualified both in Sydney and at the Australian Open for the main round, where he lost against James Blake after a victory over Xavier Malisse in qualifying round three in the main field. In Miami, he surprisingly won against Philipp Kohlschreiber, before the world ranking third Novak Djokovic was beaten.