Nenad Zimonjić

Nenad Zimonjić
Nenad Zimonjić at the 2013 French Open
Nickname:	Ziki, Zimo, Zimone
Nation:	Serbia
Birthday:	4th June 1976
Size:	191 cm
Weight:	91 kg
1st professional season:	1995
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Marko Nesic
Prize money:	$ 8,431,888
singles
Career record:	12:25
Highest ranking:	176 (March 29 1999)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	710: 425
Career title:	54
Highest ranking:	1 (November 17, 2008)
Current placement:	407
Weeks as No. 1:	41
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: December 18, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Nenad Zimonjić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ненад Зимоњић ; born June 4, 1976 in Belgrade , then SR Serbia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian tennis player . He is particularly successful in doubles and mixed games.

Career

Zimonjić has been a professional player since 1995. On November 17, 2008 he was at the top of the ATP world rankings in doubles for the first time , his best position in singles was place 176 (March 29, 1999).

At the ATP tournament in St. Pölten , a preparatory tournament for the French Open , he caused a sensation in May 2004 when he reached the main field of the tournament via qualification and was number six in the world as number 339 in the world rankings in the first round, Andre Agassi , 6-2, 7-6 ⁶ defeated. Experts reckoned with Agassis 800 in this match. Individual victory, which, however, had to pause for almost two months due to an injury break. Zimonjić managed another surprise in June 2005 at the lawn tournament in Halle . In the first round he defeated Nicolas Kiefer as a qualifier 6: 7 ¹ , 6: 3, 6: 4.

But his strength lies in the doubles, where he celebrated his greatest successes. He won a total of 53 tournaments, in a further 36 tournaments he was in the finals. He won his first title in Delray Beach in 1999 together with Max Mirny . In the following years he played with various partners and continuously worked his way up the double world rankings.

Julian Knowle was his permanent partner from October 2003 to 2004 . During the 2005 season Zimonjić then played alongside Leander Paes and from the beginning of 2006 to June 2007 he formed a team with Fabrice Santoro . After separating from Santoro, Zimonjić teamed up with Daniel Nestor , who had been denied further success at the side of Mark Knowles . Zimonjić said he had waited several years for a world-class doubles player to become available. The irony of the story: When the Canadian and the Serb decided to work together after the 2007 Wimbledon tournament, Knowles / Nestor surprisingly won the French Open .

At the side of Novak Đoković , Zimonjić defeated the Australian pairing Paul Hanley and Lleyton Hewitt in the Davis Cup 2008 in Belgrade in front of 20,000 spectators in the sold-out Beogradska Arena . They secured the team's promotion to the world group. Until then, there had only been more viewers at a Davis Cup game at one final.

2008 was Zimonjićs most successful season, in which he won five tournaments with Nestor. In addition to two wins at Masters tournaments at Rothenbaum in Hamburg and in Toronto , the two Belgrade-borns won their first joint Grand Slam title. While Zimonjić celebrated his first Grand Slam title in doubles at Wimbledon , Nestor completed his career Grand Slam in doubles with this victory. With his long-term partner Mark Knowles, Nestor had previously won the double competitions at the French Open, the Australian Open and the US Open. He had already won his third Grand Slam mixed title at the Australian Open. Before the Wimbledon tournament, Nestor and Zimonjić also played their way into the final at the French Open , but surprisingly lost 2: 6 and 3: 6 to the unseeded Pablo Cuevas and Luis Horna in the final . At the Masters Cup in Shanghai they survived the preliminary round without defeat and defeated the Bryan twins Bob and Mike 7: 6 ³ , 6: 2 in the final . Since the American brothers and sisters had lost a match in the preliminary round, Nestor and Zimonjić overtook them in the season's final sprint and ended the year number 1 in the team ranking.

In early 2009, Zimonjić reached the finals in Doha and Sydney with his partner , but they did not win the tournaments. At the Australian Open , the second round was over. The first tournament victory of the year followed in Rotterdam . In April she won the Masters in Monte Carlo , Barcelona and the Masters in Rome . Zimonjić and his partner also won the Masters in Madrid . At the French Open they reached the semifinals. In Wimbledon , Zimonjić defended his double title.

At the French Open 2010 , Zimonjić won both the men's doubles (with Nestor) and the mixed (with Katarina Srebotnik ). At the end of 2010 he won the ATP World Tour Finals in London with Nestor . This was his last tournament with the Canadian. His new doubles partner was Michaël Llodra from the 2011 season , with whom he won four tournaments during the season and stood in four other finals. At the beginning of 2012 there was another title as well as a final appearance before he and Llodra parted again. With changing partners, he closed the season with two more titles and another finals. He started the 2013 season with Robert Lindstedt , but played alongside Julien Benneteau from the middle of the season . With Lindstedt he won one, with Benneteau two titles. For the 2014 season Zimonjić and Daniel Nestor formed a team again and they won the title three times in five finals, two of them in a Masters tournament. He also won the mixed competition at Wimbledon with Samantha Stosur .

Zimonjic has played for the Serbian Davis Cup team since 1995 , which won the Davis Cup in 2010. In the early years he was part of a Yugoslav Davis Cup team before the Serbian one was introduced in 1995.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (3) Tennis Masters Cup / ATP World Tour Finals (2) ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (15) ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (17) ATP International Series / ATP World Tour 250 Series (17)

Title after covering Hard Court (31) Sand (16) Grass (4) Carpet (3)

Double

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 9, 1999	Delray Beach (1)	sand	Max Mirny	Doug Flat Brian MacPhie	7: 6 3 , 3: 6, 6: 3
2.	March 5, 2000	Delray Beach (2)	Hard court	Brian MacPhie	Joshua Eagle Andrew Florent	7: 5, 6: 4
3.	October 15, 2000	Vienna (1)	Hard court (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	October 14, 2001	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Daniel Nestor	Arnaud Clément Sébastien Grosjean	6: 1, 6: 2
5.	February 24, 2002	Memphis	Hard court (i)	Brian MacPhie	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 4
6th	March 9, 2003	Delray Beach (3)	Hard court	Leander Paes	Raemon Sluiter Martin Verkerk	7: 5, 3: 6, 7: 5
7th	October 26, 2003	St. Petersburg (1)	Hard court (i)	Julian Knowle	Michael Kohlmann Rainer Schüttler	7: 6 1 , 6: 3
8th.	April 25, 2004	Monte Carlo (1)	sand	Tim Henman	Gastón Etlis Martín Rodríguez	7: 5, 6: 2
9.	April 17, 2005	Monte Carlo (2)	sand	Leander Paes	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	walkover
10.	April 24, 2005	Barcelona (1)	sand	Leander Paes	Feliciano López Rafael Nadal	6: 3, 6: 3
11.	January 15, 2006	Sydney (1)	Hard court	Fabrice Santoro	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	6: 1, 6: 4
12.	June 18, 2006	Hall	race	Fabrice Santoro	Michael Kohlmann Rainer Schüttler	6-0, 6-4
13.	October 15, 2006	Moscow	Carpet (i)	Fabrice Santoro	František Čermák Jaroslav Levinský	6: 1, 7: 5
14th	January 5, 2007	Doha	Hard court	Mikhail Juschny	Martin Damm Leander Paes	6: 1, 7: 6 3
15th	February 26, 2007	Dubai	Hard court	Fabrice Santoro	Mahesh Bhupathi Radek Štěpánek	7: 5, 6: 7 3 , [10: 7]
16.	May 7, 2007	Rome (1)	sand	Fabrice Santoro	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 4, 6: 7 3 , [10: 7]
17th	August 25, 2007	New Haven	Hard court	Mahesh Bhupathi	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6: 3, 6: 3
18th	October 28, 2007	St. Petersburg (2)	Carpet (i)	Daniel Nestor	Jürgen Melzer Todd Perry	6: 1, 7: 6 3
19th	May 18, 2008	Hamburg	sand	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 4, 5: 7, [10: 8]
20th	June 15, 2008	Queen's Club	race	Daniel Nestor	Marcelo Melo André Sá	6: 4, 7: 6 3
21st	July 5, 2008	Wimbledon (1)	race	Daniel Nestor	Jonas Björkman Kevin Ullyett	7: 6 12 , 6: 7 3 , 6: 3, 6: 3
22nd	July 27, 2008	Toronto	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 2, 4: 6, [10: 6]
23.	November 16, 2008	Masters Cup	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7: 6 3 , 6: 2
24.	February 15, 2009	Rotterdam (1)	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	6: 2, 7: 5
25th	April 19, 2009	Monte Carlo (3)	sand	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 4, 6: 1
26th	April 26, 2009	Barcelona (2)	sand	Daniel Nestor	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	6: 3, 7: 6 9
27.	May 3, 2009	Rome (2)	sand	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
28.	May 17, 2009	Madrid (1)	sand	Daniel Nestor	Simon Aspelin Wesley Moodie	6: 4, 6: 4
29	4th July 2009	Wimbledon (2)	race	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7: 6 7 , 6: 7 3 , 7: 6 3 , 6: 3
30th	August 16, 2009	Cincinnati	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 7: 6 2 , [15:13]
31.	November 2, 2009	Basel (1)	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 2, 6: 3
32.	November 15, 2009	Paris	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Marcel Granollers Tommy Robredo	6: 4, 6: 3
33.	January 16, 2010	Sydney (2)	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Ross Hutchins Jordan Kerr	6: 3, 7: 6 5
34.	February 15, 2010	Rotterdam (2)	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Simon Aspelin Paul Hanley	6: 4, 4: 6, [10: 7]
35.	April 17, 2010	Monte Carlo (4)	sand	Daniel Nestor	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirny	6: 3, 2: 0 task
36.	April 25, 2010	Barcelona (3)	sand	Daniel Nestor	Lleyton Hewitt Mark Knowles	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]
37.	June 5, 2010	French Open	sand	Daniel Nestor	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	7: 5, 6: 2
38.	October 31, 2010	Vienna (2)	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	7: 5, 3: 6, [10: 5]
39.	November 28, 2010	World Tour Finals (2)	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirny	7: 6 6 , 6: 4
40.	August 6, 2011	Washington (1)	Hard court	Michaël Llodra	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecau	6: 7 3 , 7: 6 6 , [10: 7]
41.	August 14, 2011	Montréal (2)	Hard court	Michaël Llodra	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , [10: 5]
42.	October 9, 2011	Beijing	Hard court	Michaël Llodra	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecau	7: 6 2 , 7: 6 4
43.	November 6, 2011	Basel (2)	Hard court (i)	Michaël Llodra	Max Mirny Daniel Nestor	6: 4, 7: 5
44.	19th February 2012	Rotterdam (3)	Hard court (i)	Michaël Llodra	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecau	4: 6, 7: 5, [16:14]
45.	September 24, 2012	St. Petersburg (3)	Hard court (i)	Rajeev Ram	Lukáš Lacko Igor Zelenay	6: 2, 4: 6, [10: 6]
46.	October 28, 2012	Basel (3)	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Treat Conrad Huey Dominic Inglot	7: 5, 6: 7 4 , [10: 5]
47.	17th February 2013	Rotterdam (4)	Hard court (i)	Robert Lindstedt	Thiemo de Bakker Jesse Huta Galung	5: 7, 6: 3, [10: 8]
48.	April 21, 2013	Monte Carlo (5)	sand	Julien Benneteau	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4: 6, 7: 6 4 , [14:12]
49.	4th August 2013	Washington (2)	Hard court	Julien Benneteau	Mardy Fish Radek Štěpánek	7: 6 5 , 7: 5
50.	January 11, 2014	Sydney (3)	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7: 6 3 , 7: 6 3
51.	May 11, 2014	Madrid (2)	sand	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 4, 6: 2
52.	May 18, 2014	Rome (3)	sand	Daniel Nestor	Robin Haase Feliciano López	6: 4, 7: 6 2
53.	October 26, 2014	Basel (4)	Hard court (i)	Vasek Pospisil	Marin Draganja Henri Kontinen	7: 6 13 , 1: 6, [10: 5]
54.	February 12, 2017	Sofia	Hard court (i)	Viktor Troicki	Mikhail Yelgin Andrei Kuznetsov	6: 4, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 14, 1999	San Jose	Hard court (i)	Aleksandar Kitinov	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	5: 7, 7: 6 3 , 4: 6
2.	May 7, 2000	Munich (1)	sand	Max Mirny	David Adams John-Laffnie de Jager	4: 6, 4: 6
3.	March 4, 2001	Dubai (1)	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Joshua Eagle Sandon Stolle	4: 6, 4: 6
4th	April 15, 2001	Estoril	sand	Donald Johnson	Radek Štěpánek Michal Tabara	4: 6, 1: 6
5.	May 4, 2003	Valencia	sand	Brian MacPhie	Lucas Arnold Ker Mariano Hood	1: 6, 7: 6 7 , 4: 6
6th	May 25, 2003	St. Polten	sand	Sargis Sargsian	Simon Aspelin Massimo Bertolini	4: 6, 7: 6 10 , 3: 6
7th	May 2, 2004	Munich (2)	sand	Julian Knowle	James Blake Mark Merklein	2: 6, 4: 6
8th.	4th July 2004	Wimbledon (1)	race	Julian Knowle	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	1: 6, 4: 6, 6: 4, 4: 6
9.	October 16, 2005	Stockholm (1)	Hard court (i)	Leander Paes	Wayne Arthurs Paul Hanley	3: 5, 3: 5
10.	October 23, 2005	Madrid (1)	Hard court (i)	Leander Paes	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6: 3, 3: 6, 2: 6
11.	November 13, 2005	Shanghai	Carpet (i)	Leander Paes	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	7: 6 6 , 3: 6, 6: 7 4
12.	April 23, 2006	Monte Carlo	sand	Fabrice Santoro	Jonas Björkman Max Mirny	2: 6, 6: 7 2
13.	July 9, 2006	Wimbledon (2)	race	Fabrice Santoro	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 6: 4, 4: 6, 2: 6
14th	November 5, 2006	Paris (1)	Carpet (i)	Fabrice Santoro	Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra	6: 7 4 , 2: 6
15th	June 17, 2007	Hall	race	Fabrice Santoro	Simon Aspelin Julian Knowle	4: 6, 6: 7 5
16.	November 4, 2007	Paris (2)	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 6: 7 4
17th	March 21, 2008	Indian Wells (1)	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	4: 6, 4: 6
18th	May 11, 2008	Rome	sand	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 3, 4: 6, [8:10]
19th	June 7, 2008	French Open	sand	Daniel Nestor	Pablo Cuevas Luis Horna	2: 6, 3: 6
20th	January 9, 2009	Doha	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Marc López Rafael Nadal	6: 4, 4: 6, [8:10]
21st	January 17, 2009	Sydney	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	1: 6, 6: 7 3
22nd	January 30, 2010	Australian Open	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 7: 6 5 , 3: 6
23.	March 20, 2010	Indian Wells (2)	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Marc López Rafael Nadal	6: 7 8 , 3: 6
24.	May 15, 2010	Madrid (2)	sand	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 4: 6
25th	November 7, 2010	Basel	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 6: 3, [3:10]
26th	February 13, 2011	Rotterdam	Hard court (i)	Michaël Llodra	Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner	6: 4, 3: 6, [5:10]
27.	May 8, 2011	Madrid (3)	sand	Michaël Llodra	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 3: 6
28.	August 21, 2011	Cincinnati (1)	Hard court	Michaël Llodra	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6: 7 4 , 6: 7 2
29	October 16, 2011	Shanghai	Hard court	Michaël Llodra	Max Mirny Daniel Nestor	6: 3, 1: 6, [10:12]
30th	October 21, 2012	Stockholm (2)	Hard court (i)	Robert Lindstedt	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	7: 6 4 , 5: 7, [6:10]
31.	March 3, 2013	Dubai (2)	Hard court	Robert Lindstedt	Mahesh Bhupathi Michaël Llodra	6: 7 6 , 6: 7 6
32.	March 1, 2014	Dubai (3)	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	4: 6, 3: 6
33.	April 27, 2014	Barcelona	sand	Daniel Nestor	Jesse Huta Galung Stéphane Robert	3: 6, 3: 6
34.	February 28, 2015	Dubai (4)	Hard court	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Rohan Bopanna Daniel Nestor	4: 6, 1: 6
35.	May 10, 2015	Madrid (4)	sand	Marcin Matkowski	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	2: 6, 7: 6 5 , [9:11]
36.	June 21, 2015	Queen's Club	race	Marcin Matkowski	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	2: 6, 2: 6
37.	23rd August 2015	Cincinnati (2)	Hard court	Marcin Matkowski	Daniel Nestor Édouard Roger-Vasselin	2: 6, 2: 6

Mixed

No.	date	competition	Topping	Partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 1, 2004	Australian Open (1)	Hard court	Jelena Bowina	Leander Paes Martina Navrátilová	6: 1, 7: 6 3
2.	June 11, 2006	French Open (1)	sand	Katarina Srebotnik	Daniel Nestor Jelena Lichowzewa	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	January 27, 2008	Australian Open (2)	Hard court	Sun Tiantian	Sania Mirza Mahesh Bhupathi	7: 6 4 , 6: 4
4th	June 6, 2010	French Open (2)	sand	Katarina Srebotnik	Jaroslawa Schwedowa Julian Knowle	4: 6, 7: 6 5 , [11: 9]
5.	July 6, 2014	Wimbledon	race	Samantha Stosur	Chan Hao-ching Max Mirny	6: 4, 6: 2

Web links

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