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06. February 2012
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PBZ Zagreb Indoors 1/4 final
Ivan Dodig vs. Marco Baghdatis
4-6 5-7

Ljubicic Bows Out From Professional Tennis

Monte-Carlo, Monaco
by ATP Staff 15.04.2012

During his 15 years on tour, Ljubicic won 10 ATP World Tour titles, including an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crown at the 2010 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells (d. Roddick), and was a semi-finalist at Roland Garros in 2006 (l. to Nadal). He also served on the ATP Player Council and was the European player representative on the ATP Board of Directors from August 2008 until January 2009.

The No. 59-ranked Dodig broke serve six times from 10 opportunities and won 81 per cent of points behind his first serve as he defeated the 33-year-old Ljubicic in 71 minutes. It was his seventh win of the season and sees him set up a second-round clash with either No. 13 seed Fernando Verdasco of Spain or Belgium’s Olivier Rochus.

"I think this is the first time that I'm not happy that I won the match," said Dodig. "I'm happy and proud that I played the match against such a good player who made history, especially for Croatian people, Croatian tennis.

"He had always great advice, suggestions. I think I used every word [he said] to become a better player and I have to thank him for this."


Ljubicic Bows Out From Professional Tennis

Ljubicic Bows Out From Professional Tennisrn

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Monte-Carlo, Monacorn
rnby ATP Staffrn15.04.2012

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rnDuring his 15 years on tour, Ljubicic won 10 ATP World Tour titles, rnincluding an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crown at the 2010 BNP Paribas rnOpen in Indian Wells (d. Roddick), and was a semi-finalist at Roland rnGarros in 2006 (l. to Nadal). He also served on the ATP Player Council rnand was the European player representative on the ATP Board of Directorsrnfrom August 2008 until January 2009.rn

rnThe No. 59-ranked Dodig broke serve six times from 10 opportunitiesrnand won 81 per cent of points behind his first serve as he defeated thern33-year-old Ljubicic in 71 minutes. It was his seventh win of the rnseason and sees him set up a second-round clash with either No. 13 seed rnFernando Verdasco of Spain or Belgium’s Olivier Rochus.rn

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rn"I think this is the first time that I'm not happy that I won the rnmatch," said Dodig. "I'm happy and proud that I played the match againstrnsuch a good player who made history, especially for Croatian people, rnCroatian tennis. rn

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rn"He had always great advice, suggestions. I think I used every wordrn[he said] to become a better player and I have to thank him for this." rn

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Personal

Began playing at age eight...Father, Tomislav; mother, Davorka; brothers Zeljko and Mladen...Speaks Croatian and English...Enjoys music, movies, table tennis and video games...Childhood idol was countryman Goran Ivanisevic...Considers clays his favorite and his forehand favorite shot...Physical trainer is Stjepan Medak and coached by Martin Stepanek...Practices at Gerry Weber Breakpoint Team in Halle, Germany.

Career

2010 -- The Zagreb resident finished in Top 100 for first time at a year-end best No. 88, highlighted by his second career ATP World Tour QF in Stockholm (l. to Ljubicic) as a qualifer…Qualified five times during season, including Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open, reaching second round each time…His best win of the season came at Australian Open where he beat No. 23 Ferrero in five sets before losing to Koubek in 2nd RD…In Challenger play, compiled a 19-12 match record, winning title at Astana-2 (d. Kunitsyn) in November and reaching final at Ostrava (l. Rosol) in May…Went 8-7 in ATP play

2011 In Review

The Croatian enjoyed a career-best start to the season in the first four months...Following a 2nd RD defeat (l. to Berdych) in Chennai, was the only player to take a set off eventual champion Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open in a four-set 2nd RD loss...Two weeks later won his maiden ATP World Tour title in Zagreb...Defeated Michael Berrer 63 64 in the title match having beaten No. 2 seed Ivan Ljubicic in QFs and No. 3 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in SFs...Had never previously advanced past the QFs of an ATP World Tour-level event...

Only won four matches in his following four tournaments, with two of those wins taking him to the Delray Beach QFs (l. to Tipsarevic)...In second European clay-court tournament he beat World No. 5 Robin Soderling, Milos Raonic and Feliciano Lopez to reach the SFs of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, where he lost 36 26 to Rafael Nadal...Afterwards rose to a career-high World No. 44, having begun the season at No. 88.
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