Janko Tipsarević
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| Nickname(s) | Tipsy, Marathon Man | |
| Country |  Serbia |
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| Residence | Belgrade, Serbia | |
| Date of birth | June 22, 1984 | |
| Place of birth | Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |
| Weight | 80 kg (180 lb) | |
| Turned Pro | 2002 | |
| Plays | Right-handed; two-handed backhand | |
| Career Prize Money | $1,199,008 | |
| Singles | ||
| Career record: | 63 - 75 | |
| Career titles: | 0 | |
| Highest ranking: | No. 33 (May 12, 2008) | |
| Grand Slam results | ||
| Australian Open | 3R (2008) | |
| French Open | 3R (2007) | |
| Wimbledon | 4R (2007) | |
| US Open | 2R (2007) | |
| Doubles | ||
| Career record: | 7 - 22 | |
| Career titles: | 0 | |
| Highest ranking: | No. 173 (April 23, 2007) | |
Janko Tipsarevic (Serbian: Јанко Типсаревић, Janko Tipsarević; born on June 22, 1984 in Belgrade) is a Serbian tennis player. His career high was #33, achieved on May 12, 2008.
In his career, he has won two Futures and nine tournaments from ATP Challenger Series. Tipsarevic has also won the 2001 Australian Open junior title. He is currently ranked No. 33 player on ATP singles rankings; and is the second highest ranked male Serbian tennis player, after Novak Djokovic. Janko finished the 2007 season as world #49.
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[edit] Tennis career
Tipsarevic began playing at age six and in 1993, at age eight, started playing at New Belgrade Tennis Club with Russian coach Roman Savochkin.
As a junior, he won the 2001 Australian Open title in boys' singles; reached the quarterfinals at the French Open; and finished No. 2 in the world junior rankings in 2001. The same year he made a debut on the Yugoslav Davis Cup team, winning three points against Poland. The following week, he won his first career Futures title in his home city of Belgrade. In 2002, he won his second futures title in Mexico.
After winning his first tournament from ATP Challenger Series in Germany, he made ATP debut at Indianapolis in 2003; after beating fellow Serb Nenad Zimonjic in the first round, he then lost in the second round to Yevgeny Kafelnikov in straight sets. He also made his Grand Slam debut on U.S. Open as a qualifier; he lost to No. 20 seed, Mark Philippoussis in the first round. In 2004, as a a qualifier, he made his first appearances at the French Open and Wimbledon, losing in the first round of each. Later that year, he won two challenger titles in singles and one in doubles.
Tipsarevic played in 15 ATP tournaments in 2005, and broke the top 100 for the first time. He also reached second rounds at Australian Open and French Open; he lost to Dominik Hrbaty on Australian Open, but he beat him on French Open. He also reached third round on Wimbledon Championships, beating Tommy Haas and Yen-Hsun Lu, he then lost to Thomas Johansson. In doubles, together with Jiri Vanek, won Napoli Challenger title; and he also reached quarterfinals with Novak Djokovic in Croatia Open Umag and Vietnam Open, with Marcos Baghdatis.
He finished 2006 as a No. 2 Serbian tennis player, after Novak Djokovic, and for the first time in Top 100, at No. 65 ATP Ranking. He won four Challenger titles with a 31–8 record. On ATP Tour, he reached quarterfinals in Nottingham Open, after losing to Robin Soderling from Sweden. After he had won Zagreb Challenger title on May 2007, Tipsarevic has been playing full time on ATP Tour; reaching third round on French Open and a quarterfinals on Ordina Open. He has also reached his best Grand Slam performance so far by reaching the fourth round of the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. He won his first three matches in five sets each, which marked the first time since 1974 that someone won 3 straight 5-set matches at Wimbledon.[1] The win saw him rise to #48 in the world, his first time inside the top 50.
He stretched Roger Federer in the Third Round of the 2008 Australian Open, losing 7–6(7–5), 6–7(1–7), 7–5, 1–6, 8–10. Federer has never played a fifth set with eighteen games before. The match took 4 and a half hours. This effort to make the third round of the Australian Open 2008 made Tipsarevic's ranking rise from 49 to a career high of 42.
[edit] Davis Cup
Tipsarevic has played Davis Cup every year since 2000. For FR Yugoslavia in 2001 and 2002, Serbia and Montenegro between 2003 and 2006 and currently represents Serbia in Serbia Davis Cup team (2007). His record is 20–7 in singles and 5–1 in doubles.
[edit] Personal life
Tipsarevic was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then SFR Yugoslavia). His father, Pavle, is a professor; mother, Vesna, is a housewife. He has also a younger brother, Veljko. He finished high school and in 2006 completed university studies in Belgrade, studying Sports Management. His love of classic literature is often mentioned by commentators and the press as something unusual for a high-level athlete. He has a quotation, tattooed in Japanese, from Dostoyevsky ("Beauty will save the world", from The Idiot) on his left arm. He also has a Japanese tattoo on his right arm, which represent the first two letters of the names of his father, his mother, himself and his brother, in Katakana. According to US Open announcers Ted Robinson and John McEnroe, he also has a tattoo of a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer on his back.
[edit] Challengers and futures singles titles (14)
[edit] Singles (11)
| Legend |
| Challengers (9) |
| Futures (2) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score |
| 1. | 21 May 2001 | Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia | Clay |  Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo |
6–2, 4–6, 6–3 |
| 2. | 11 November 2002 | Mexico City, Mexico | Hard |  Lazaro Navarro |
6–1, 6–3 |
| 3. | 30 June 2003 | Zell, Germany | Clay |  Jan Frode Andersen |
7–6(1), 5–7, 6–4 |
| 4. | 20 October 2003 | Torrance, U.S. | Hard |  Zack Fleishman |
6–4, 6–3 |
| 5. | 3 May 2004 | Ostrava, Czech Republic | Clay |  Peter Luczak |
6–3, 7–6(5) |
| 6. | 26 July 2004 | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Clay |  Ricardo Mello |
6–4, 5–7, 6–4 |
| 7. | 13 February 2006 | Belgrade, Serbia | Carpet |  Tomas Cakl |
6–4, 4–1 ret. |
| 8. | 14 August 2006 | Samarkand, Uzbekistan | Clay |  Edouard Roger-Vasselin |
6–3, 6–2 |
| 9. | 21 August 2006 | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | Hard |  Rohan Bopanna |
6–2, 6–4 |
| 10. | 2 October 2006 | Mons, Belgium | Hard |  Alex Bogdanovic |
6–4, 1–6, 6–2 |
| 11. | 14 May 2007 | Zagreb, Croatia | Clay | Julio Silva |
3–6, 6–3, 6–3 |
[edit] Doubles (3)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partnering | Opponents in the final | Score |
| 1. | May 31, 2004 | Furth, Germany | Clay |  Adrian Garcia |
 Simon Aspelin & Graydon Oliver |
6–4, 6–4 |
| 2. | June 7, 2004 | Weiden, Germany | Clay |  Lovro Zovko |
 Mariano Delfino & Patricio Rudi |
6–4, 7–6(6) |
| 3. | March 25, 2005 | Napoli, Italy | Clay | Jiri Vanek |
 Massimo Bertolini & Uros Vico |
3–6, 6–4, 6–2 |
[edit] Grand Slam performance timeline
| Tournament | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | Career SR | Career win-loss |
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| Australian Open | A | A | 2R | 2R | 1R | 3R | 0 / 4 | 4–4 |
| French Open | A | 1R | 2R | 1R | 3R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 3–5 |
| Wimbledon | A | 1R | 3R | 1R | 4R | 0 / 4 | 5–4 | |
| U.S. Open | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | 2R | 0 / 4 | 1–4 | |
| Grand Slam Win-Loss | 0-1 | 0-3 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 6-4 | 2-1 | 0 / 16 | 13-16 |
| Tournament Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 |
| Year End Ranking | 161 | 117 | 139 | 64 | 52 | N/A | N/A |
- A = did not participate in the tournament.
- SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
