Dušan Vemić

Dušan Vemić
Dušan Vemić at the 2009 US Open
Nation:	Serbia
Birthday:	17th June 1976
Size:	190 cm
Weight:	92 kg
1st professional season:	1995
Resignation:	2011
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Dušan Janičijević
Prize money:	$ 821,902
singles
Career record:	13:17
Highest ranking:	146 (February 25, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	51:76
Highest ranking:	31 (January 12, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Dušan Vemić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Душан Вемић ; born June 17, 1976 in Zadar , SR Croatia , Yugoslavia ) is a former Serbian tennis player .

Career

Vemić was able to achieve greater success as a double specialist, even if he was denied a title on the ATP World Tour . He won a total of 15 doubles, but also a single title on the second-rate Challenger Tour , while he lost both of the ATP finals that he could reach. In Grand Slam tournaments , he reached the semifinals at both the French Open 2008 and the Australian Open 2010 . Vemić played from 1996 to 2005 for the Yugoslav and the Serbian Davis Cup team . In 18 participations he recorded 20 wins, 11 in singles and 9 in doubles. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , he competed under the flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in men's doubles . Together with Nenad Zimonjić , he retired after a defeat against the French Arnaud Clément and Nicolas Escudé in the first round.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals

ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series

ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series

ATP Challenger Tour (16)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 28, 1997	Skopje	sand	Clemens Trimmel	6: 3, 6: 7, 6: 3

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 13, 1997	Budapest	sand	Nebojša Đorđević	Kornél Bardóczky Miklós Jancsó	6: 1, 3: 6, 6: 4
2.	February 14, 1998	Wolfsburg	Carpet (i)	Marat Safin	Jan-Ralph Brandt Thomas Messmer	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2
3.	June 12, 1999	Pastures (1)	sand	Emilio Benfele Álvarez	Simon Aspelin Johan Landsberg	6: 7, 6: 2, 6: 4
4th	August 12, 2000	Tolyatti	Hard court	Lovro Zovko	Ionuț Moldovan Yuri Shchukin	6: 4, 6: 4
5.	November 11, 2000	Santiago de Chile	sand	Irakli Labadze	Juan Balcells Germán Puentes	6: 3, 6: 4
6th	September 8, 2001	Aschaffenburg	sand	Aleksandar Kitinov	Karsten Braasch Franz Stauder	6: 7 3 , 6: 4, 7: 6 6
7th	February 9, 2002	Belgrade	Carpet (i)	Lovro Zovko	Jaroslav Levinský Tomáš Zíb	without a fight
8th.	June 15, 2002	Pastures (2)	sand	Jens Knippschild	Sergio Roitman Andrés Schneiter	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
9.	May 6, 2005	Tunica resorts	Sand (i)	Michael Russell	Juan-Pablo Brzezicki Juan Pablo Guzmán	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
10.	January 19, 2008	Miami	sand	Ilija Bozoljac	Jean-Julien Rojer Márcio Torres	7: 5, 6: 4
11.	March 24, 2008	Sunrise	Hard court	Janko Tipsarevic	Kristof Viegen Peter Wessels	6: 2, 7: 6 5
12.	April 26, 2008	Cremona	Hard court	Eduardo Schwank	Florin Mergea Horia Tecau	6: 3, 6: 2
13.	September 19, 2008	Waco	Hard court	Alex Bogomolov junior	Alberto Francis Nicholas Monroe	6: 4, 5: 7, [10: 8]
14th	October 18, 2008	Calabasas	Hard court	Ilija Bozoljac	Somdev Devvarman Nathan Healey	1: 6, 6: 3, [13:11]
15th	August 14, 2010	Istanbul	Hard court	Leoš Friedl	Brian Battistone Andreas Siljeström	7: 6 6 , 7: 6 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 3, 1999	Kitzbühel	sand	Alex Calatrava	Chris Haggard Peter Nyborg	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 7 4
2.	October 24, 2008	los Angeles	Hard court	Travis Parrott	Rohan Bopanna Eric Butorac	6: 7 5 , 6: 7 5

Web links

Commons : Dušan Vemić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Dušan Vemić (English)
• ITF profile Dušan Vemić (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Dušan Vemić (English)