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.
Tipsarević has achieved victories against eleven players from the Top 10, three against Tomáš Berdych, two against Andy Roddick and one against Fernando González, Mikhail Youzhny, David Ferrer, James Blake, Gaël Monfils, Andy Murray. He also has wins against former World No.1 players, Marat Safin and Lleyton Hewitt. His most notable match to date was his Third Round match at the 2008 Australian Open, where he lost to Roger Federer by the score of 6–7(5), 7–6(1), 5–7, 6–1, 10–8.
Contents
* 1 Tennis career
* 2 Davis Cup
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Career finals
o 4.1 Singles: 4 (0–4)
+ 4.1.1 Doubles: 2 (0–2)
+ 4.1.2 Team competition finals 2 (2–0)
* 5 Singles performance timeline
* 6 References
* 7 External links
Tennis career
Tipsarević 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 his debut for 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 his ATP debut in Indianapolis in 2003; after beating fellow Serb Nenad Zimonjić in the first round, he then lost in the second round to Yevgeny Kafelnikov in straight sets. He also made his Grand Slam debut in the U.S. Open as a qualifier; he lost to No. 20 seed, Mark Philippoussis in the first round. In 2004, as 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.
Tipsarević played in 15 ATP tournaments in 2005, and broke into the top 100 for the first time. He also reached the second rounds of the Australian Open and French Open; he lost to Dominik Hrbatý in Melbourne Australian Open, but was able to beat him at Roland Garros. He also reached the third round of the Wimbledon Championships, beating Tommy Haas and Yen-Hsun Lu, but then lost to Thomas Johansson. In doubles, he partnered with Jiří Vaněk to win the Napoli Challenger title; he also reached quarterfinals with fellow Serb Novak Djokovic in the Croatia Open Umag and theVietnam Open with Marcos Baghdatis.
He finished 2006 as the No. 2 Serbian tennis player after Novak Djokovic, and in the top 100 for the first time at 65. He won four Challenger titles, compiling a 31–8 record at that level. On the ATP Tour, he reached the quarterfinals of the Nottingham Open, losing to Robin Söderling from Sweden. After he had won Zagreb Challenger title on May 2007, Tipsarević has been playing full-time on the ATP Tour. He reached the third round of the French Open and the quarterfinals of the Ordina Open. He has also achieved his best Grand Slam performance so far by reaching the fourth round of the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. He won all of his first three matches in five sets, and this marked the first time since 1974 that someone had 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.
Janko pushed Roger Federer in the third round of the 2008 Australian Open, losing 7–6(5), 6–7(1), 7–5, 1–6, 8–10. At that time, Federer had never played a fifth set with eighteen games before. The match took 4 and a half hours to complete. His effort in making the third round of the 2008 Australian Open made Tipsarevic's ranking rise from 49 to a career-high of 42.
At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, Tipsarević pulled off a second-round upset of sixth-seeded American Andy Roddick in four sets, 6–7(5), 7–5, 6–4, 7–6(4). It was his fourth top 10 win. He followed that up with a 7–6(1), 7–6(3), 6–3 win over twenty-fifth seed Dmitry Tursunov to make his second straight round of 16 appearance at Wimbledon. He then lost his fourth round match to Rainer Schüttler because of a leg injury.
In October 2009, at the Kremlin Cup tournament in Moscow, he advanced to his first-ever ATP final, beating Daniel Köllerer, Christophe Rochus, Robby Ginepri (beating him for the first time in three meetings), and qualifier Illya Marchenko en route. He lost to Mikhail Youzhny in final 7–6(5), 0–6, 4–6.
Despite his disappointing loss in his first final, he came out firing in the very next week, as he reached his second consecutive semi-final (for the first time) at the 2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, beating 8th seed John Isner (7–64 6–4), Michael Berrer (7–63 6–1), and 3rd seed Gaël Monfils (6–4 6–78 6–3) en route. He lost to Jürgen Melzer in the semifinal, after being a set up and two points away from victory (6–4 6–75 4–6).
Janko Tipsarevic
Janko Tipsarevic
Janko Tipsarevic
Janko Tipsarevic
Janko Tipsarevic
Janko Tipsarevic
Janko Tipsarevic
Janko Tipsarevic
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