Frank Dancevic
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Frank Dancevic (born 26 September 1984 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a professional touring and Canadian Davis Cup tennis player. He is currently the country's top player at 88 in the ATP rankings.
The 6'1, right-handed Dancevic turned pro in 2003 and reached his career high singles ranking in October 2006 of World No. 82. He has had career wins over Nikolay Davydenko, Ivo Heuberger, George Bastl (twice), Kevin Kim (thrice), Greg Rusedski, Yen-Hsun Lu, Brian Baker, Bobby Reynolds (twice), Björn Phau, Cecil Mamiit (twice), Jeff Morrison (twice), Yeu-Tzuoo Wang (thrice), Amer Delic (twice), Brian Vahaly, Jan-Michael Gambill, Vladimir Voltchkov in Davis Cup, Rik De Voest, Lars Burgsmüller, Kenneth Carlsen, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Marcos Daniel, Harel Levy, and Rajeev Ram. He is the highest a Canadian singles player has been since Sebastien Lareau was ranked World No. 78 in January 1999.
Dancevic's career record in full-fledged ATP events (International Series or higher) is 16-30 to date. His best tournament result to date has been winning the 2003 Granby and Lexington, and the 2006 Waikoloa and Granby Challenger Series events. He has reached the second round in eight of fifteen International Series events he has contested, but only once in five attempts at the Canada Masters series (n 2006). He qualified to compete in the regular draw of the 2006 Wimbledon Championships; [1] however, Dancevic was defeated in the first round by Radek Stepanek in straight sets.
In Davis Cup, Dancevic has a 8 and 10 win-lose record in 11 ties, all in singles play. His effort over Voltchkov was not enough to see Canada through to the World Group for 2006 as the Canadians fell 2-3 to Belarus in their September 2005 World Group play-off tie. In 2003 however, Dancevic's win over Flavio Saretta in the deciding 5th match saw Canada defeat Brazil and enter the World Group for only the second. They subsequently lost to the Netherlands in the 2004 World Group as Dancevic went down to both Sjeng Schalken and Martin Verkerk, both matches going four sets.
Dancevic's paternal grandparents were born in Slavonia, Croatia. He grandfather is of Polish extraction while his grandmother is of Ukrainian descent.
