Marinko Matosevic
Marinko Matosevic ( born August 8, 1985 in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is an Australian tennis player.
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Life and career
To 2009: The first successes on Futures and Challenger tournaments
Marinko Matosevic emigrated as a child with his parents to Australia and trained at the Melbourne Tennis Academy since 1998.
In 2003 he first came to Australia in Futures tournaments, but it took until November 2004 before he could win his first major round match and was thus out for the first time in the tennis world rankings. In September 2007 Matosevic reached in Indonesia for the first time a futures - finals, and in May 2008 he won his first two titles in two consecutive Futures tournaments in Mexico. This the first time he went into the top 500 in the world rankings, and was able to work ahead on other successes on Futures level (two more titles and two finals ) until the end of the year up to rank 294.
Marinko Matosevic tried in early 2009 at the Australian Open for the first time, to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament, but he left in the first round against Giovanni Lapentti from. In February 2009 he won another Futures title, and was in the following week in his hometown of Melbourne for the first time to reach the final of a Challenger tournament. This, however, he lost against the then sixteen -year-old Bernard Tomic. From now on, he played mainly Challenger tournaments, and could reach three semi-finals later in the year. For ATP and Grand Slam tournaments he could not qualify this year, but he improved in the world rankings by over 100 positions, and stood in the meantime on his previously best rank 159
2010-2011: Grand Slam debut and Challenger title
In January 2010, Marinko Matosevic succeeded in Sydney for the first time qualifying for an ATP tournament. However, he was eliminated in the first round against Andreas Seppi. For the 2010 Australian Open, he got a wild card, but he lost his Grand Slam debut in four tight sets against Marco Chiudinelli. In March 2010, Matosevic qualified at the Masters tournament in Indian Wells for the main draw, where she won against the top 100 players Michaël Llodra his first ATP match. But in the second round he had no chance against Jo -Wilfried Tsonga. In June 2010, he was in Ojai for the second time in the finals of a Challenger tournament, but it lost to Bobby Reynolds. Finally, a month later, he was able to win his first Challenger title in Aptos, after initially in the first round at position 1 set Rajeev Ram defeated and finally in the finals of the 3-position set Donald Young. It should not be the last meeting with Young: During the year 2010, the two met each other four times in total, and all four encounters Matosevic could decide for themselves. So in October 2010 at the Challenger tournament in Calabasas, where Matosevic won the semi-final against Young and then sat through the final against Ryan Sweeting and thus took his second title. A week earlier Matosevic had awarded two match points in the semifinals of the Challenger tournament in Tiburon against the top 100 players Tobias Kamke and the match finally lost. The annual financial statements of his best ever season Marinko Matosevic could, who had been working in the world rankings now up to rank 138 win at the Australian Open Wildcard Playoffs by defeating Peter Luczak a wildcard for the Australian Open 2011.
At the beginning of 2011, Marinko Matosevic received a wildcard for the ATP tournament in Brisbane, but it was in the first round to eventual finalist Andy Roddick chance. Difference also in the Australian Open Matosevic in the first round against Ričardas Berankis. In February 2011 Matosevic defeated in Delray Beach in the final qualifying round of the top 100 players Igor Kunizyn, but then lost in the first round against Dudi Sela. Then he reached his best-ever ranking in the world rankings with rank 131. As the year progresses Marinko Matosevic succeeded yet another four ATP tournaments to qualify for the main draw. He was able to achieve in Atlanta by a new victory over Kunizyn and in Washington by a revenge on each Berankis the second round. Another success was the initial qualification for the Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon, where, however Matosevic in the first round in four sets against the retired set at position 25 Juan Ignacio Chela. In July 2011 he gave his debut against China for the Australian Davis Cup team, but lost his single in five sets against the much worse placed Wu Di At the U.S. Open, for Matosevic a wildcard was given, he met in the first round again Chela, the match but had to retire with an ankle injury after less than half an hour of play. Since he did not it past on Challenger level this year on the quarter-finals, Matosevic fell to the end of the year despite his success on the ATP Tour from the top 200 in the world rankings addition.
2012: First ATP finals and into the top 100
The year 2012 began for Marinko Matosevic four Erstrundenniederlagen including in Brisbane and at the Australian Open. In February 2012, he won his third Challenger title in Caloundra by a smooth final win over Greg Jones. Three weeks later, Matosevic qualified at the ATP tournament in Delray Beach without dropping a set for the main draw. There he defeated successively the top 50 player Ivo Karlović and Alex Bogomolov junior, reaching a first ATP quarterfinal. After further victories over Ernests Gulbis and Dudi Sela against which he caught up a 0-1 sets each residue, Matosevic was surprising in his first ATP final. Even if he won there after a total of twelve consecutive matches in straight sets losing to Kevin Anderson, this was the biggest success of his career. After the beginning of May 2012 in Munich reached as another qualifier ATP quarterfinals, Matosevic won a week later in Athens with a win over Ruben Bemelmans his second Challenger title of the year. Thus he drew for the first time in his career in the top 100 in the world ranking. After he was beginning in June 2012 failed at the French Open in qualifying, Matosevic reached the grass tournament in Eastbourne as a qualifier the quarter-finals and defeated Among other things, the set at position 1 top 20 player Richard Gasquet.