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| Country (sports) |  Yugoslavia (1995–2003) Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006) Serbia (2006–) |
|---|---|
| Residence | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Born | (1976-06-04)4 June 1976 (age 49)[1] Belgrade,SR Serbia,SFR Yugoslavia |
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Turned pro | 1995 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Coach | Marko Nešić[citation needed] |
| Prize money | US$8,437,703 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 12–25 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 176 (29 March 1999) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2001) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (1999) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 710–427 |
| Career titles | 54 |
| Highest ranking | No.1 (17 November 2008) |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | F (2010) |
| French Open | W (2010) |
| Wimbledon | W (2008,2009) |
| US Open | QF (2006,2009,2015) |
| Other doubles tournaments | |
| Tour Finals | W (2008,2010) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Career titles | 5 |
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (2004,2008) |
| French Open | W (2006,2010) |
| Wimbledon | W (2014) |
| US Open | F (2005) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | W (2010) |
Nenad Zimonjić (Serbian Cyrillic:Ненад Зимоњић,pronounced[nênaːdzǐmoɲitɕ];[2] born 4 June 1976) is a Serbian former professionaltennis player who was rankedworld No. 1 in doubles.
He is an eight-timeGrand Slam champion, having won the2008 and2009 Wimbledon Championships as well as the2010 French Open in men's doubles partneringDaniel Nestor. In mixed doubles, Zimonjić won the2004 Australian Open partneringElena Bovina, the2006 and2010 French Opens partneringKatarina Srebotnik, the2008 Australian Open partneringSun Tiantian, and the2014 Wimbledon Championships partneringSamantha Stosur. He has also reached nine further major finals across the two disciplines.
Zimonjić won 54 doubles titles on theATP Tour, including the2008 and2010 Tour Finals, and 15Masters 1000-level titles. He became the world No. 1 for the first time in November 2008, going on to spend 50 weeks at the top of the rankings over the next two years. Zimonjić was the second Serbian to top the doubles rankings, afterSlobodan Živojinović in 1986.
In singles, he reached his career-high ranking of world No. 176 in March 1999, and achieved his best major result at theWimbledon Championships that year, reaching the third round. Zimonjić represented Serbia in theDavis Cup from 1995 to 2017, competing in 55 ties and earning 43 victories, making him the most successful Davis Cup player in Serbian history. He was also part of the team that won the tournament in2010, and served as captain from 2017 to 2020, overseeing Serbia's victory at the inaugural ATP Cup in2020.[3][4] Zimonjić also competed at theOlympic Games on four occasions.[5]
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Zimonjić turned pro in 1995 and remained relatively unknown outside his native country until a surprise victory in the mixed doubles at the2004 Australian Open. Paired for the first time with RussianElena Bovina, he beat defending championsMartina Navratilova andLeander Paes in straight sets in an hour and nine minutes. AlongsideKatarina Srebotnik ofSlovenia, he won the2006 French Open crown with a straight-sets victory overDaniel Nestor andElena Likhovtseva. At the2006 Wimbledon Championships, Zimonjić reached the final of the men's doubles alongside France'sFabrice Santoro and the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles.
In 2007, Zimonjić reached the2007 French Open mixed doubles final as the defending champions withKatarina Srebotnik and lost toNathalie Dechy andAndy Ram. He left Santoro after Wimbledon and teamed withMahesh Bhupathi until after the2007 US Open. After the US Open, Nenad left Bhupathi and partnered withDaniel Nestor,[6] who won the French Open earlier in the year alongsideMark Knowles. The team won the2007 St. Petersburg Open, without losing a set. Nestor and Zimonjić later won2008 Wimbledon[7] On 27 January 2008, he won the mixed doubles title at theAustralian Open, partnering withSun Tiantian to defeatSania Mirza andMahesh Bhupathi in straight sets.[8]
In 2009, Zimonjić and Nestor defended their Wimbledon title & won 5 Masters 1000 titles. At theWorld Team Cup as a part of the Serbian team. WithVictor Troicki, he won two decisive games against Italian and Argentinian teams; as a result, Serbia finished first in its group, and then proceeded to beat Germany in the final encounter. In 2010, they finished runners-up at the Australian Open, later on in the year he won both the doubles withDaniel Nestor and the mixed doubles withKatarina Srebotnik at Roland Garros. Zimonjic ended his partnership with Nestor after winning theATP World Tour Finals. In 2011, he partnered withMichaël Llodra, with whom he won one Masters 1000 title & four ATP 500 titles. Their partnership ended mid-way through 2012, afterRoland Garros. In 2014, Zimonjic & Nestor renewed their partnership, which saw them both return to the top 10 by May & ranked 3 by the end of the year. In 2015 he started the year partneringAisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, then teamed up withMarcin Matkowski; despite not winning a title together, the Polish-Serbian duo qualified for theWorld Tour Finals. Zimonjic won titles each year for 16 straight seasons and finished 12 consecutive seasons, starting in 2004, ranked in the ATP doubles top 20. Since 2016, when he played doubles at theRio Olympics withNovak Djokovic, Zimonjic hasn't had a steady partner for a full season.
On 26 July 2017 the Serbian became the 10th player to record 700 doubles match wins (or more).[9]
In June 2018, Zimonjic underwent bilateral hip replacement surgery.[10] He returned to the ATP tour in February 2019 at theSofia Open, where he and compatriotViktor Troicki had won the doubles title two years prior.
Although Zimonjic never officially announced his retirement, he did not play on the ATP Tour for more than two years from the2021 Dubai Tennis Championships until 2023.[citation needed]
PartneringMarion Bartoli, Zimonjic won the inaugural2022 Wimbledon mixed invitational in doubles. They beatTodd Woodbridge andCara Black in straight sets in the final.[11]
In 2023, partneringRennae Stubbs, Zimonjic successfully defended hisWimbledon mixed invitation doubles title. They beatGreg Rusedski andConchita Martinez in straight sets in the final.[12]
In 2023 he announced his intention to return to theATP Tour.[13] During the summer of 2023 he played three ATP Challenger Tour events, but he lost in the first round in all three occasions.[citation needed]
In 2024, partneringBarbara Schett, he reached the final of2024 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed invitation doubles. They were defeated byMark Woodforde and his partnerDominika Cibulkova.[14]
In August 1994, Zimonjić won his first professional singles title, beatingMiles MacLagan on clay at a satellite tournament in Hungary. He went on to win four otherITF satellite events, as well as fourChallenger tour titles in singles: Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1998, Belo Horizonte (Brazil) in 2000, Andrezieux (France) in 2001, and Belgrade (Serbia) in 2004. In 2004, he defeatedAndre Agassi inSt Pölten, and in 2005 on the grass ofHalle, he defeatedNicolas Kiefer. Other recognised opponents includeIvo Karlovic in 2000,Nicolas Mahut in 2001.
Zimonjić has been a member ofSerbia Davis Cup team (previouslyYugoslavia Davis Cup team andSerbia and Montenegro Davis Cup team, respectively) since 1995, playing both singles and doubles, and in 2003–2004 he was the playing captain of the national team. In recent years, with the emergence of highly ranked Serbian singles playersNovak Djokovic,Janko Tipsarević, andViktor Troicki, Zimonjić became a doubles specialist on the team, partnering all of them, as well asDušan Vemić andIlija Bozoljac.
In 2010, Serbia won its first ever Davis Cup title, following the victories overUnited States (3–2),Croatia (4–1),Czech Republic (3–2), andFrance in the final match (3–2). Zimonjić played in all four doubles rubbers over the course of the competition, winning once (against Croatia, partnering Tipsarević) and losing the other three times (partnering Tipsarević, Djokovic, and Troicki, respectively). To celebrate the win, all the players shaved their heads. The central celebration was held in Belgrade in front of several thousand fans, andthe Serbian national postal service issued a stamp picturing the players.[15]
In the 2013 quarterfinals against the United States, he andIlija Bozoljac had an impressive five set victory against the no. 1 rankedBryan brothers.[16]
Zimonjić was namedSerbia Davis Cup team captain in 2003-2004 and from January 2017 till December 2020 when he was unexpectedly replaced byVictor Troicki.[17][18][19] He was also the2020 ATP Cup captain when Serbia won the inaugural 2020 cup.[20]
Zimonjić was born inBelgrade, and was brought up in theBorča suburb, while he is currently living inNew Belgrade. Zimonjić's paternal family hails from theGacko region inHerzegovina, from where it settled inVučkovica nearKragujevac, while his mother was born inGospić, inLika.[21] The family'sslava (feast day) isAranđelovdan.[22] He is related toBogdan Zimonjić (1813–1909), a Serbian Orthodox priest and guerilla leader.[21]
In 2008, he married former model Mina Knežević. On 3 December 2008 his wife gave birth to twins, Leon and Luna.[23][24]
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
| Yugoslavia | FRY | Serbia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tournament | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | SR | W–L | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | SF | 2R | 1R | 2R | 3R | 1R | QF | QF | 2R | F | QF | 3R | 2R | SF | 3R | A | 2R | 1R | A | A | A | A | 0 / 19 | 35–19 | 65% |
| French Open | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A | 2R | 2R | QF | 1R | SF | F | SF | W | SF | QF | 2R | QF | QF | 3R | SF | A | A | A | A | A | 1 / 17 | 44–16 | 73% |
| Wimbledon | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | 3R | 3R | 3R | F | QF | F | SF | W | W | 2R | SF | 1R | QF | QF | QF | 3R | A | A | A | NH | A | A | 2 / 18 | 51–16 | 76% |
| US Open | A | A | Q2 | A | 3R | 3R | 3R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 1R | QF | 2R | 3R | QF | 3R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 3R | QF | 1R | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 18 | 28–18 | 61% |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 2–4 | 8–4 | 5–3 | 3–4 | 8–4 | 8–4 | 10–4 | 12–4 | 16–3 | 14–3 | 14–3 | 13–4 | 5–4 | 6–4 | 12–4 | 11–4 | 4–3 | 5–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3 / 72 | 158–69 | 70% |
| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | A | A | QF | A | A | W | 2R | 1R | 2R | W | 1R | 1R | SF | A | 2R | 1R | 1R | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 2 / 12 |
| French Open | A | A | 1R | A | A | SF | 2R | W | F | F | 1R | W | F | 2R | QF | F | 1R | 2R | A | A | A | NH | A | A | 2 / 14 |
| Wimbledon | 2R | 1R | A | 1R | QF | A | 3R | QF | 1R | 2R | 2R | 3R | 3R | SF | SF | W | 3R | 3R | 1R | A | A | NH | A | A | 1 / 17 |
| US Open | A | A | 1R | A | 1R | QF | F | 2R | 1R | QF | QF | 2R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 2R | SF | 2R | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 16 |
| SR | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 2 | 1 / 3 | 0 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 5 / 59 |
| Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 2004 | Wimbledon | Grass |  Julian Knowle |  Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge | 1–6, 4–6, 6–4, 4–6 |
| Loss | 2006 | Wimbledon | Grass |  Fabrice Santoro |  Bob BryanMike Bryan | 3–6, 6–4, 4–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 2008 | French Open | Clay |  Daniel Nestor |  Pablo Cuevas Luis Horna | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 2008 | Wimbledon | Grass | Daniel Nestor | Jonas Björkman Kevin Ullyett | 7–6(14–12), 6–7(6–8), 6–3, 6–3 |
| Win | 2009 | Wimbledon(2) | Grass | Daniel Nestor | Bob Bryan Mike Bryan | 7–6(9–7), 6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–3), 6–3 |
| Loss | 2010 | Australian Open | Hard | Daniel Nestor | Bob Bryan Mike Bryan | 3–6, 7–6(7–5), 3–6 |
| Win | 2010 | French Open | Clay | Daniel Nestor |  Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes | 7–5, 6–2 |
| Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 2004 | Australian Open | Hard |  Elena Bovina | Martina NavratilovaLeander Paes | 6–1, 7–6(7–3) |
| Loss | 2005 | US Open | Hard |  Katarina Srebotnik |  Daniela HantuchováMahesh Bhupathi | 4–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 2006 | French Open | Clay | Katarina Srebotnik | Elena LikhovtsevaDaniel Nestor | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Loss | 2007 | French Open | Clay | Katarina Srebotnik | Nathalie Dechy Andy Ram | 5–7, 3–6 |
| Win | 2008 | Australian Open(2) | Hard |  Sun Tiantian | Sania MirzaMahesh Bhupathi | 7–6(7–4), 6–4 |
| Loss | 2008 | French Open | Clay | Katarina Srebotnik |  Victoria AzarenkaBob Bryan | 2–6, 6–7(4–7) |
| Win | 2010 | French Open(2) | Clay | Katarina Srebotnik |  Yaroslava ShvedovaJulian Knowle | 4–6, 7–6(7–5), [11–9] |
| Loss | 2011 | French Open | Clay | Katarina Srebotnik | Casey DellacquaScott Lipsky | 6–7(6–8), 6–4, [7–10] |
| Loss | 2014 | French Open | Clay |  Julia Görges | Anna-Lena Grönefeld Jean-Julien Rojer | 6–4, 2–6, [7–10] |
| Win | 2014 | Wimbledon | Grass | Samantha Stosur |  Chan Hao-ching Max Mirnyi | 6–4, 6–2 |
| Yugoslavia | FRY | Serbia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tournament | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | SR | W–L | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATP Finals | Did not qualify | F | RR | DNQ | W | RR | W | RR | DNQ | RR | RR | Did not qualify | 2 / 8 | 16–14 | 53% | ||||||||||||||||
| Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 2005 | Shanghai | Hard (i) | Leander Paes | Michaël LlodraFabrice Santoro | 7–6(8–6), 3–6, 6–7(4–7) |
| Win | 2008 | Shanghai | Hard (i) | Daniel Nestor | Bob BryanMike Bryan | 7–6(7–3), 6–2 |
| Win | 2010 | London | Hard (i) | Daniel Nestor | Mahesh BhupathiMax Mirnyi | 7–6(8–6), 6–4 |
| Grand Slam tournaments | Time span | Records at each Grand Slam tournament | Players matched |
|---|---|---|---|
| French Open | 2010 | Won men's doubles and mixed doubles titles at the same tournament | Frew McMillan Jim Pugh Rick Leach John Fitzgerald Mark Woodforde Todd Woodbridge Leander Paes Mike Bryan Bob Bryan Bruno Soares Mate Pavić Joe Salisbury |
| Time span | Other selected records | Players matched | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATP Masters 1000 records | |||
| 2004–2013 | 5Monte-Carlo Masters titles | Bob Bryan Mike Bryan | |
| Davis Cup records | |||
| 1998 | Most games in a singles fifth set vs.Nuno Marques (38)[25] | Richard Ashby Jose Medrano Nuno Marques | |
| 2013 | Oldest player in Davis Cup World Group Final (37 years, 5 months) | Stands alone | |
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