Ilija Bozoljac

Ilija Bozoljac
Ilija Bozoljac at Wimbledon 2014
Nation:	Serbia
Birthday:	2nd August 1985
Size:	193 cm
Weight:	86 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Daniel Meyers
Prize money:	$ 742,198
singles
Career record:	11:20
Highest ranking:	101 (January 29, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	9:18
Highest ranking:	99 (February 22, 2016)
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: October 22, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ilija Bozoljac ( Serbian - Cyrillic Илија Бозољац ; born August 2, 1985 in Aleksandrovac , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian tennis player .

Career

He started his professional career in 2002. In 2006 he reached the quarter-finals at the ATP tournament in Zagreb . After beating Dudi Sela , he qualified for the main draw, where he defeated Daniele Bracciali and Feliciano López before losing to Novak Đoković in the quarter-finals . At the French Open 2006 he was in the second round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and achieved number 101 in the world rankings, his best placement so far. In early 2007 he made it to the second round at the Australian Open , as well as at Wimbledon . As a result, he reached rank 101 in the world rankings , his highest ranking. In 2009 he qualified for the French Open , where he narrowly lost to Nicolas Kiefer . He reached three Challenger finals and was back on the jump into the top 100. In 2010 he reached the Challenger finals in the tournament in Belgrade .

Since 2003 he has been playing for the Serbian Davis Cup team .

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 (19)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 10, 2006	Donetsk	Hard court	Tomáš Cakl	6: 4, 3: 6, 7: 5
2.	September 14, 2008	Ljubljana	sand	Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	6: 4, 6: 3
3.	September 21, 2008	Banja Luka	sand	Daniel Gimeno Traver	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	15th February 2014	Calcutta	Hard court	Yevgeny Donskoy	6: 1, 6: 1

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 9, 2003	Belgrade (1)	Carpet (i)	Nenad Zimonjić	Darko Madjarovski Janko Tipsarević	6: 1, 6: 4
2.	November 12, 2005	Nashville	Hard court (i)	Brian Wilson	Santiago González Diego Hartfield	7: 6 6 , 6: 4
3.	March 19, 2006	Sarajevo	Hard court (i)	Viktor Troicki	Alexander Peya Lars Uebel	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	January 19, 2008	Miami	sand	Dušan Vemić	Jean-Julien Rojer Márcio Torres	7: 5, 6: 4
5.	October 19, 2008	Calabasas	Hard court	Dušan Vemić	Somdev Devvarman Nathan Healey	1: 6, 6: 3, [13:11]
6th	February 21, 2010	Belgrade (2)	Carpet (i)	Jamie Delgado	Dustin Brown Martin Slanar	6: 3, 6: 3
7th	March 14, 2010	Rabat	sand	Daniele Bracciali	Oleksandr Dolhopolov Dmitri Sitak	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	March 21, 2010	Marrakech	sand	Horia Tecau	James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin	6: 1, 6: 1
9.	April 21, 2013	Sarasota	sand	Somdev Devvarman	Steve Johnson Bradley Klahn	6: 7 5 , 7: 6 3 , [11: 9]
10.	April 27, 2014	Savannah	sand	Michael Venus	Facundo Bagnis Alex Bogomolov junior	7: 5, 6: 2
11.	20th July 2014	Recanati	Hard court	Goran Tošić	James Cluskey Laurynas Grigelis	5: 7, 6: 4, [10: 5]
12.	April 11, 2015	Naples	sand	Filip Krajinović	Nikolos Bassilashvili Alyaksandr Bury	6: 1, 6: 2
13.	19th September 2015	Banja Luka	sand	Flavio Cipolla	Jaroslav Pospíšil Jan Šátral	6: 2, 7: 5
14th	November 14, 2015	Bratislava	Hard court (i)	Igor Zelenay	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	7: 6 3 , 4: 6, [10: 5]
15th	November 21, 2015	Brescia	Hard court (i)	Igor Zelenay	Mirza Bašić Nikola Mektić	6: 0, 6: 3

Web links

Commons : Ilija Bozoljac  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Ilija Bozoljac (English)
• ITF profile of Ilija Bozoljac (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Ilija Bozoljac (English)