Roco Karanušić

Roco Karanušić
Roko Karanušić at the Croatia Open in Umag in 2008
Nation:	Croatia
Birthday:	5th September 1982
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	75 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Resignation:	2012
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Robert Suevic
Prize money:	$ 789,254
singles
Career record:	13:43
Highest ranking:	88 (February 2, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	1: 7
Highest ranking:	308 (March 7, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Roko Karanušić (born September 5, 1982 in Zagreb ) is a former Croatian tennis player .

Career

Karanušić began playing tennis at the age of six and was trained by his father Vibor, a tennis instructor, until he was 13. His preferred surfaces are the fast hall floors as well as hard courts and grass.

He began his professional career in 2000, where he reached the junior semifinals of the Canadian Open and US Open. At the Future in Italy he reached the final.

In 2001 he won his first future title in the Czech Republic and reached the final at a tournament in Slovenia. He was also able to win a title in doubles at the tournament in Zagreb.

In 2002 he reached three finals in future tournaments and won the final in future in Spain

In 2003 Karanušić started with two titles in three finals and another three semi-finals in the first six tournaments played. In June he made his debut on the ATP tour in qualifying for the tournament in Umag, where he lost to Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round . In the same year he also reached the qualifying field of the US Open , where he lost in the first round to Juan Ignacio Chela . In doubles he was able to reach the final at the Challenger in Helsinki together with Janko Tipsarević .

In 2004 he reached qualification at the Australian Open , where he lost to Wayne Arthurs in five sets . In Cherbourg, France, he reached the final of a Challenger tournament for the first time, where he had to admit defeat to Julien Jeanpierre.

In 2005 he made his debut in the Davis Cup for Croatia. In the first round match against the United States , he lost in a match that was meaningless for the outcome of the match on the third day against Bob Bryan . In the same year he reached three Challenger finals within four weeks, but couldn't win any of the games. In October he celebrated his first victory in a match on the ATP Tour against Danai Udomchoke .

In 2006 he was in the final of the Challenger in Istanbul, where he was defeated by Alexander Peya . In doubles he reached the final at the Challenger of Chiasso.

In 2007, Karanušić, who was now number four in Croatia, scored two more games on the ATP tour and played two Davis Cup matches when Croatia played against Great Britain at Wimbledon. In Donetsk he was able to celebrate another victory at a Challenger tournament and reached the final at the tournament in Eckental.

The Croatian had his breakthrough in 2008 when he reached the quarterfinals of an ATP tournament for the first time and won two other challengers. On the Challenger Tour, he won 28 of 38 games and thus reached a position in the top 100 for the first time.

Karanušić achieved his best placement in the ATP world rankings on January 9, 2009 with 89th place. In the course of the year he slipped continuously to 189th place until the end of the year. In 2010 he was unable to achieve any further successes and was only listed on position 426 at the end of the year. In the period that followed, the former top 100 player ranked between 350 and 450 positions.

Since his debut in the Croatian Davis Cup team , he has been able to decide three in his favor in three appearances out of four games.

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

ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (3)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 9, 2007	Donetsk	Hard court	Dick Norman	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	February 17, 2008	Belgrade	Carpet (i)	Philipp Petzschner	5: 7, 6: 1, 7: 6 5
3.	October 19, 2008	Kolding	Hard court (i)	Karol Beck	6: 4, 6: 4

Web links

Commons : Roko Karanušić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Roko Karanušić (English)
• ITF profile Roko Karanušić (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Roko Karanušić (English)