Antonio Veić

Antonio Veić
Antonio Veić in 2011 at the Davis Cup match against Germany
Nation:	Croatia
Birthday:	February 18, 1988
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	74 kg
1st professional season:	2006
Resignation:	2015
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Hakan Dahlbo
Prize money:	$ 560,536
singles
Career record:	11:24
Highest ranking:	119 (May 14, 2012)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	3: 5
Highest ranking:	120 (November 19, 2012)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Antonio Veić (born February 18, 1988 in Mali Lošinj , SR Croatia ) is a former Croatian tennis player and today's coach.

Career

2007: Starting difficulties and first future successes

Veić, who has been playing tennis since he was six, began his professional career in 2006. This was initially marked by failures: He rarely got past the early rounds in future tournaments and all attempts to qualify for Challenger events failed.

In July 2007 Veić reached his first future final, which he lost in two sets against Andreas Beck . A few weeks later he failed again in a final before he secured his first tournament victory in Croatia with a 6: 4, 6: 3 against Darko Madjarovski . He also won the double tournament there together with Vilim Višak. These successes brought him into the top 500 in the world rankings .

2008–2009: Further tournament victories and first Challenger successes

In April 2008 Veić lost again in a final in Italy, but celebrated his second future tournament victory two weeks later. A little later he qualified for the Challenger tournament in Zagreb, where he won against Blaž Kavčič in the first round and then profited from the abandonment of the top 100 player Denis Gremelmayr before he beat Pere Riba 5-7, 6 : 4, 5: 7 eliminated. Good results at Challenger level remained an exception for the time being, so that Veić had to compete again in future tournaments, where he won the final against Alexander Satschko in Iran in November .

Veić won his last tournament win in March 2009 in Croatia. In April of the same year he moved into a Challenger final for the first time in Monza , which he lost to the Spaniard David Marrero 7: 5, 4: 6, 4: 6.

2010–2011: Grand Slam debut

Veić qualified for the main field of the Australian Open 2010 and defeated Daniel Köllerer 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 7 (3: 7), 6: 1, 6: 4. In the second round he met Gaël Monfils and lost to the French in three sets. In October of that year he was ranked 157th in the world, his best position so far.

In 2011 he successfully qualified for the French Open and won against his first-round opponent Pablo Cuevas , who had to give up in the fifth set due to an injury. In the second round he surprisingly defeated number 30 in the world, Nikolai Dawydenko , with 3: 6, 6: 2, 7: 5, 3: 6, 6: 1. Then he met world number one Rafael Nadal , to whom he lost in three sets without a chance. In 2015 he played his last professional tournament after falling steadily in the world rankings from 2012. He achieved his best placement in 2012 with 119th place in singles and 120th place in doubles.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (8)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 15, 2012	Blumenau	sand	Paul Capdeville	3: 6, 6: 4, 5: 2 up.

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 2, 2011	Naples	sand	Yuri Shchukin	Hsieh Cheng-peng Lee Hsin-han	6: 7 5 , 7: 5, [10: 8]
2.	March 4, 2012	Florianópolis	sand	Blaž Kavčič	Javier Martí Leonardo Tavares	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	June 10, 2012	Caltanissetta	sand	Marcel Felder	Daniel Gimeno Traver Iván Navarro	5: 7, 7: 6 5 , [10: 6]
4th	July 8, 2012	Arad (1)	sand	Nikola Mektic	Marin Draganja Dino Marcan	7: 6 5 , 4: 6, [10: 3]
5.	4th November 2012	Montevideo	sand	Nikola Mektic	Blaž Kavčič Franko Škugor	6: 3, 5: 7, [10: 7]
6th	June 8, 2013	Arad (2)	sand	Franko Škugor	Facundo Bagnis Júlio César Campozano	7: 6 5 , 4: 6, [11: 9]
7th	June 7, 2014	Arad (3)	sand	Franko Škugor	Radu Albot Artem Sitak	6: 4, 7: 6 3

Web links

Commons : Antonio Veić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Antonio Veić (English)
• ITF profile Antonio Veić (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Antonio Veić (English)
• In 2015 Veić ended his playing career and then began his coaching career