Goran Ivanišević
Goran Ivanisevic Simun [ ɡɔran iʋani ʃɛʋitɕ ː ] (* September 13, 1971 in Split, Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian tennis player.
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Life
Goran is the son of Srdjan Ivanisevic and Gorana (born Skaricic ). Ivanisevic won in 1987 at the site of Diego Nargiso the doubles final the junior competition of the U.S. Open and was the following year professional tennis player. In 1990, he reached the semifinals of Wimbledon at the age of 18 years. Two years later he reached the final, where he failed in five sets to Andre Agassi. After two final defeats against Pete Sampras (1994 and 1998) finally succeeded in 2001 his only Grand Slam victory. Since its ranking position did not allow a Fall in the main draw, he received a wild card by the organizer. In the semifinals, it came to a duel against the favored Lokalmadator Tim Henman, which he won in five sets after several rain interruptions. In the final, he defeated Australians Patrick Rafter 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 2:6, 9:7. He is next to Iva Majoli, the only Croatian Grand Slam winner. In addition, he was twice in the doubles final of the French Open; In 1990 he was defeated at the side of Petr Korda against the Spaniards Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez Vicario, 1999, he was inferior to the side of Jeff Tarango the Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes.
At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, he won the first medal ( bronze ) for the independent Croatia. Overall, Ivanisevic won 22 ATP tournaments on all surfaces, and holds the record for hitting aces within one calendar year (1477 ) which gives the requirements applicable up today titled " Lord of the Aces" lent. In addition, he held the speed record for premiums with 218 km / h for a short time, outperforming the long-standing record of 215 km / h Marc Rosset.
His last appearance at Wimbledon was the defeat in the third round against Lleyton Hewitt in June 2004. Afterwards, he announced his retirement as a professional tennis player and sat once only when the Davis Cup final in 2005 as a substitute on the bench. Between 1988 and 1991 he played for the Yugoslav Davis Cup team, in his 19 games, he was 15 times victorious, among them were ten consecutive victories. From 1993 to 2003 he played for Croatia, in 2002, he was with his two individual victories against Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler and the double victory at the side of Ivan Ljubičić the match-winner against Germany. He also won in 1990 with Yugoslavia the World Team Cup with Croatia and the Hopman Cup 1996.
Because of the loss of financial resources denies Ivanisevic since 2005 tournaments in the ATP Champions Tour and was able to win some of these tournaments.