Frank Dancevic
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Frank Russell Dancevic (born September 26, 1984) is a Canadian professional tennis
player. He first became the country's top singles player, according to ATP rankings, on February 10, 2003, as an eighteen-year old, and remained so from January 30, 2006 until June 20, 2010. He is the Canada No. 3 in singles.
In August 2011, Dancevic became the first men's singles player ever to qualify, in the same calendar year, for all four grand slam
events.http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2011/09/35/US-Open-Tuesday-Dancevic-Is-Qualifying-Grand-Slam-Man.aspx
, he was the highest ranked men's Canadian singles player since Daniel Nestor
, who was ranked World No. 61 in September 1999. (The highest ranking ever achieved by a Canadian is World No. 25, by Milos Raonic
in May 2011.) It was Fred Niemeyer whom Dancevic overtook to become, in early 2006, Canada's top-ranked singles player.
Dancevic's best tournament results to date, all in singles, have been reaching the final of the 2007 Indianapolis Tennis Championships
, the final of the 2009 AEGON International
, the quarter-finals of the 2007 Rogers Cup, the semi-finals again in Indianapolis in 2009
, the semi-finals of the 2008 Campbell's Hall of Fame Championships
, and winning the 2003 and 2006 Granby
and 2003 Lexington
, 2006 Waikoloa, and 2008 Surbiton
Challenger Series events. His best doubles result has been reaching the final of the 2007 Japan Open
, partnering Stephen Huss
and winning Granby in 2004 while playing with Brian Baker
.
Dancevic became Canada's top ATP-ranked singles player on February 10, 2003, replacing Simon Larose
. He held the position until May 19, 2003, when he was surpassed by Larose. Dancevic regained the Canada 1 ranking on July 28, 2003, replacing Fred Niemeyer, and held it until August 11. He would not be so ranked again, however, until the following June 14, when he held the position for the week, and again for the week beginning July 12, 2004. Dancevic next was Canada's top-ranked player on August 16, 2004, and remained so this time until July 18, 2005, when he was replaced again by Niemeyer. He regained the ranking once more, nevertheless, from August 1 to October 17, 2005, only to lose it once more to Niemeyer.
Dancevic was coached by former tour player Leo Lavalle from sometime in 2008 until June 2009, when he returned to former mentor and Canadian Davis Cup captain, Martin Laurendeau
. From May 2008 until hiring Lavalle, Dancevic worked with Frenchman Boris Vallejo.
team, going 1–1 in two dead rubbers. In his first Futures event, U.S.A. F10 in May, he won his first three matches in straight sets, reaching the semi-finals. Losing in the first round of F11, he reached the finals of F12. Then in July in reached the second round of the Granby Challenger (in his third appearance). Dancevic then lost his first full-fledged tour event match, at the Canada Masters
, to Fabrice Santoro
5–7, 3–6. The following week Dancevic was entered into the Legg Mason Tennis Classic
as a wildcard and proceeded to defeat World No. 90 and future World No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko
in the first round 6–4, 6–7, 6–3. He ended the year however losing two singles matches in a Davis Cup tie with Brazil
and in the first round of a Tyler, Texas
challenger. He finished 2002 ranked World No. 434 in singles and No. 414 in doubles.
. Winning a Davis Cup match in a tie against Peru
in April, he reached the final of Canada F1 in June, then won Canada F2 and the Granby and Lexington challengers in July. This saw his singles ranking climb to World No. 198, allowing him to play in qualifying for the US Open, where he reached the second round. He finished the year however losing 5 of 7 matches, and his first five of 2004. He lost in qualifying for the 2004 Australian Open
in his debut in the second round.
In March 2004 Frank's fortunes changed as he reached the final of France F5. He reached the second round in the next two challengers, the quarters in the next, and then the semis in Surbiton
on grass. The following week, again on grass at Queen's
, Dancevic reached the second round in just his third full-fledged ATP event. He attempted to qualify for Wimbledon
but lost in the first round. In summer play, he reached the semis at Granby and the finals at Aptos, California
challenger in July, but lost again in the first round at the Canada Masters. He followed this up though by reaching the semi-finals at the Binghamton, New York
challenger and the second round in US Open qualifying. He had a better autumn playing the American challenger circuit, going 11 wins and 5 losses. Dancevic finished 2004 ranked World No. 171 in singles and No. 462 in doubles.
or higher events, going two wins, four losses. He went one step better in grand slam play too, reaching the third round of qualifying for the 2005 Australian Open
. He improved at Wimbledon
too, reaching the second round in qualifying. Dancevic did not get out of the second round of the main draw in any event, however, until reaching the quarters at the Granby challenger in June. He lost in the first round at the Canada Masters
to Xavier Malisse
2–6, 2–6 and did not enter qualifying for the US Open.
Despite a disappointing year, in September Frank narrowly lost to Max Mirnyi
in the deciding rubber of a Davis Cup
World Group Play Off tie. In five American challenger events in the fall, he only got past the second round once, when he reached finals of the Boston, Massachusetts Challenger. He lost this match 7–5, 5–7, 3–6 to American Paul Goldstein. Dancevic finished 2005 ranked World No. 188 in singles and No. 403 in doubles.
Challenger, and then the semis of the Cherbourg Challenger. After moderate success on clay in four events in Mexico played around a tie against the Mexico Davis Cup team
, where he lost both of his singles matches, he reached the final of the Atlanta, Georgia
Challenger played on har-tru.
In June for the second time Dancevic reached the second round at Queen's. He then qualified for his first grand slam
main draw, at the 2006
Wimbledon Championships
. He was defeated in the first round by Radek Štěpánek
in straight sets, however. Dancevic's better year continued as he won the Granby
Challenger in July and in August reached the second round of the Canada Masters
for the first time in five attempts. His singles ranking cracked the top 100 for the first time with his title victory in Granby. The top seed for qualifying for the US Open he failed to make the main draw, nevertheless.
In the autumn, Dancevic reached the second round in three straight ATP Tour tournaments, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Stockholm. Following a first round loss in St. Petersburg, he reached the quarter-finals in two straight challengers, Louisville and Nashville. He retired from his final match of the year, in the first round of the Champaign Challenger. Frank finished the year ranked World No. 88 in singles and No. 479 in doubles.
with a straight sets win over Victor Hănescu
and lost in the second round to #19 seed Lleyton Hewitt
in four sets. He then lost in the second round of the PBZ Zagreb Indoors
to Marcos Baghdatis
after a straight sets win over Alexander Waske
. Dancevic lost in the first round of the next three International Series events he appeared in San Jose
, Memphis, and Las Vegas
, losing to Andy Roddick
, Andy Murray, and Igor Kunitsyn
respectively. He then reached the second round at the ATP Masters Series Indian Wells, defeating Waske again and losing to Fernando González
. Dancevic then dropped down to the challenger circuit, reaching the finals in Bermuda
, the second round in Naples, Florida
, and losing in the first round at Tunica Resorts and Forest Hills.
Dancevic went 3–3 for the grass court season. He defeated Sergio Roitman
in reaching the second round at Queen's Club
. He lost in the final round of qualifying in 2007 Wimbledon Championships
but reached the main draw as a lucky loser
(with the withdrawal of Mario Ančić
). He reached the second round defeating World No. 60 Stefan Koubek
6–2, 6–4, 6–2 and then losing to No. 25 David Nalbandian
2–6, 3–6, 7–5, 3–6.
He then reached the second round of the Campbell's Hall of Fame Championships, defeating Kevin Kim
in the first round 6–3 6–3 (in 2006, he defeated the same player in the same round at this same tournament by almost the same score, 6–4 6–3). He then lost to eventual champion Fabrice Santoro
7–6, 3–6, 4–6.
In July at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships, Dancevic defeated World No. 46 Benjamin Becker
6–4, 6–3 marking Dancevic's first defeat of a top 50 player. He has followed that with a victory over No. 54 Juan Martín del Potro
3–6, 7–6, 6–4. He then defeated Igor Kunitsyn
in a rain-delayed match that finished almost 9 hours after it began 6–4, 7–6. He has become the first Canadian to reach the semifinals (and quarterfinals, too) of a top-level ATP tournament since Sébastien Lareau
did so in February 2001. He followed that up with the biggest win of his career to date, by far, beating World No. 5 Andy Roddick
6–4, 7–6, to reach the finals. He became the first Canadian to reach an ATP final since Greg Rusedski
did so in 1995 (before Rusedski changed his citizenship to that of Great Britain.) He then lost in the finals to No. 3 seed Dmitry Tursunov
of Russia 4–6, 5–7.
Dancevic has continued his elevated play into August, defeating del Potro again, Wayne Odesnik
, and World No. 35 Fernando Verdasco
to reach the quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup where he lost to World No. 2 Rafael Nadal
, 6–4 2–6 3–6. This effort raised his ranking to World No. 65, his highest ranking to date. He played his first US Open in 2007, and lost a hard-fought three-set match to former World No. 1 and 2000 US Open Champion Marat Safin
, the 25th seed. Having come through qualifying, whereas in 2006 he was the top seed but failed to make the main draw, Dancevic lost to Safin 5–7, 6–7, 6–7, despite serving for the second set up 5–3 and the third set, up 6–5 in the tiebreak.
Dancevic's form took a slight dip in autumn, as he reached second round of the Thailand Open
, lost in the first round of Japan Open Tennis
, and in the second round of the Stockholm Open
to top seed James Blake
2–6, 3–6.
main draw, where in his first round match against #24 seed Jarkko Nieminen
he came back from being down 2 sets to love to level at 2 sets apiece before losing the fifth 1–6. He was out of action from January with a facet joint strain of the thoracic spine. After returning to play in May he struggled, going 1–1 twice in back-to-back Challenger tournaments in Morocco (on clay) before losing in the first round of the Grand Prix Hassan II
International Series tourney. Dancevic's ranking was good enough however to allow him to gain entry into the main draw of the 2008 French Open, which marked the first time a Canadian had done so since Daniel Nestor
in 1999
. He lost however in the first round in 4 sets to unheralded Miguel Ángel López Jaén
.
Dancevic began his 2008 grass court tennis season in style, winning the Surbiton
challenger in late May – early June as he defeated Kevin Anderson
in the final in three sets. The 57 ATP points he gained saw his ranking jump from No. 111 to 90. At Wimbledon
, Dancevic was given a wild card entry. In the first round, he pulled off an impressive upset in defeating the number 7 seed and former finalist, David Nalbandian
in straight sets 6–4, 6–2, 6–4. After the match, Dancevic called it "one of the best matches of my career, if not the best". He was unable to sustain this level of play and fell to 102nd ranked Bobby Reynolds
in second round 6–4, 6–7, 4–6, 4–6. In the final grass court event of the year, the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Dancevic defeated Taylor Dent
, Brendan Evans
, and Igor Kunitsyn
to reach the semi-finals where he lost to Prakash Amritraj
.
Dancevic, after losing in the first round at Indianapolis, again to Reynolds, had a solid win over World No. 24 Mario Ančić
, 6–3, 6–4, before falling to World No. 3 Novak Djokovic
4–6, 4–6 at the 2008 Rogers Cup in Toronto. He was not ranked high enough to enter directly the main draw in Cincinnati
or Los Angeles, but took part in the singles event the Olympics
as a late alternate replacement, losing in the first round to No. 9 seed Stanislas Wawrinka
6–4, 3–6, 2–6. Despite being ranked outside the top 110 in the world since July 27, Dancevic received direct entry in the main singles draw of the US Open where he lost in straight sets to No. 18 seed Nicolás Almagro
.
On the American challenger circuit in the autumn, injury once again flared up as Dancevic was forced to retire in his quarter-final match at the Tulsa, Oklahoma event and skip Waco, Texas. He reached the finals however in Lubbock, Texas
, defeating Peter Polansky
, Tim Smyczek
, Rajeev Ram
, and Dušan Vemić
before falling to John Isner
. He then lost in the first round in Sacramento, California
, to Filipino-American veteran Cecil Mamiit
before reaching the semi-finals at the Calabasas, California
Challenger, beating Michael McClune
, Alex Bogomolov, Jr.
, and Michael Russell
before falling to Vincent Spadea 6–4, 5–7, 3–6. Dancevic next lost in the first round of the next two challengers, in Louisville
and Nashville
. He then reached the quarters of the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
challenger, where he lost to Wayne Odesnik
4–6, 6–2, 4–6. He most recently, as the tournament No. 6 seed, lost to Luka Gregorc
4–6, 6–1, 3–6 in the semis of the Knoxville, Tennessee challenger. His record for the autumn circuit has finished at 14 wins, 8 loses.
, in the first week of the schedule. He came through qualifying at the Medibank International in Sydney but lost in the first round to No. 5 seed Igor Andreev
6–7, 3–6. Dancevic lost in the final qualifying round of the 2009 Australian Open
as the No. 14 seed but has been entered into the main draw as a lucky loser, where he lost in the first round to No. 9 seed James Blake
in straight sets. He then lost the following week 4–6, 1–6 to Ramón Delgado
in the first round of the Carson, California challenger
. Two weeks later Dancevic lost in the first round of qualifying of the 2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup
. He followed this result by qualifying and losing in the first round of the 2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships
, 5–7, 3–6 to top seed Mardy Fish
.
After Canada's first Davis Cup
tie of the year (see section below), Dancevic took a week off. He next qualified for the main draw of the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open
, defeating Nicolas Mahut
and top seed Dudi Sela
, 6–2, 6–4. Dancevic then upset Philipp Kohlschreiber
6–4, 7–6 in the first round before losing to World No. 3 Novak Djokovic
3–6, 2–6. Dancevic then returned to poor form, losing in the first round of three consecutive Challenger events. After taking a few weeks off from competition, he lost in the first round of qualifying for the French Open
, to World No. 221 Jean-René Lisnard
in straight sets, despite having been the No. 7 seed. He then lost in the first round of the AEGON Trophy
Challenger and second round of qualifying for the AEGON Championships
as the top seed. Both of these tournaments are played on grass which is arguably Dancevic's best surface, although the at least his first match at Queen's Club was played indoors on a synthetic surface due to rain.
Dancevic has rebounded in a big way on the eve of Wimbledon, having reached the final of an ATP Tour event for only his second time, the AEGON International
. He first easily qualified for the grass court tourney, and then defeated top seed Igor Andreev
, 7–6, 6–2, in the first round. Dancevic then defeated British Wildcard James Ward
7–6, 6–4 to advance to the quarterfinals where he faced Leonardo Mayer
. After a three set win, he beat veteran Frenchman Fabrice Santoro
6–4, 6–4 to advance to his second ever ATP tour final, which he lost to Dmitry Tursunov
, 3–6, 6–7, who coincidentally defeated Dancevic in his first ATP final. Frank has attributed his turnaround with returning to work with his former coach, Martin Laurendeau
. Despite this good form however, he went on to lose 6–4, 7–6, 6–3 to Belgian Steve Darcis
in the first round of Wimbledon. Forturnately for him, despite this lose, Dancevic only dropped one place in the ATP rankings.
Dancevic lost in the first round of the 2009 Hall of Fame Championships
, to No. 8 seed Sergiy Stakhovsky
6–7, 6–2, 5–7. Having reached the semi-finals of this tourney last season, he has dropped 150 ranking points and his ranking has fallen from World No. 93 to No. 123. After a week off, Dancevic reached the semi-finals of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships
, defeating Bobby Reynolds
6–2, 7–6, No. 5 seed Benjamin Becker
6–2, 7–5, and No. 1 seed Dmitry Tursunov 3–6, 7–6, 6–2, before falling to No. 2 seed Sam Querrey
4–6, 4–6. It was the second time that Dancevic reached the later rounds of this tournament, having reached the final in 2007, when he lost to Tursunov. Dancevic had not beaten the Russian No. 2 in 3 previous attempts. This result saw his ranking raise 7 spots to World No. 114.
The following week Dancevic fell in straight sets in the opening round of the LA Tennis Open
to Marcos Baghdatis
. Last week Dancevic defeated qualifier Santiago Giraldo
in the first round of the Legg Mason Classic
, but has lost to No. 10 seed Tommy Haas
in the second, 1–6, 6–4, 4–6. Last week Dancevic lost convincingly in the first round match of the Rogers Cup to No. 9 seed Gilles Simon
1–6, 2–6. Playing doubles in a tournament for the first time since March 2008, he and partner Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
, a wild card entry, reached the second round. His sudden poor form has continued as he has lost in the first round of qualifying in singles for the 2009 US Open
to Dominik Meffert
6–1, 4–6, 1–6, despite being the No. 6 seed. Dancevic has not played in a tour event since the US Open. In December he underwent back surgery to treat a herniated disk.
, he instead returned to action in June at the 2010 AEGON Trophy
where he has lost to fellow unseeded player and eventual champion Ričardas Berankis
in the first round, 5–7, 6–7. The week after Dancevic, as the No. 8 seed, defeated Kaden Hensel, André Sá
, and Daniel Cox
to qualify for the main draw of the 2010 AEGON Championships
, where he lost in the first round to Dustin Brown
5–7, 7–6, 4–6.
Unseeded Dancevic lost soundly his qualifying in singles opening 3–6, 0–6 to No. 27 seed and grass-court specialist Nicolas Mahut
. He and Canadian doubles specialist Adil Shamasdin
also lost in the first round of doubles qualifying, in three sets. For the first time since January 2006, Dancevic is not Canada's top-ranked singles player, having plummeted to World No. 316. This is the lowest he has been ranked by the ATP in singles since July 2003.
Dancevic has a protected ranking of World No. 119 that he can use in 9 tournaments before next February. He used one of these to be a regular entrant in the main draw of the 2010 Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
, a tournament with a entry cut-off ranking of World No. 140. Having defeated Marc Gicquel
in straight sets in the opening round and Nicolas Mahut in the second, Dancevic lost to Mardy Fish
7–6, 4–6, 4–6. After a week off, Dancevic, unseeded, lost in qualifying for the inaugural Atlanta Tennis Championships
. He has defeated World No. 629 Mark Verryth in the first round, 7–5, 7–6 but fell to No. 6 seed Nick Lindahl
in the second 6–7, 6–4, 3–6.
Dancevic next received a wild-card into the main draw of the 2010 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby
and reached the semi-finals. He beat No. 6 seed Igor Sijsling
7–5, 6–3, Toshihide Matsui
6–4, 7–5, and veteran and two-time singles champion here Takao Suzuki
in the quarters 7–6, 6–3, before retiring due to an injured thigh in his semi-final tie against No. 1 seed Tobias Kamke
while trailing 2–6, 0–1. He did not play doubles. The following week Frank was given a special exempt place in the main draw of the 2010 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open
where he has lost his opening match to Harel Levy
3–6, 4–6. Next he received a wild card into the singles main draw of the 2010 Rogers Cup
and lost to Stanislas Wawrinka
in the first round, 1–6, 4–6. Dancevic also lost in the first round in doubles, partnering Adil Shamasdin
.
After a week off, Dancevic lost in the qualifying round of the US Open
qualifying tournament. Having defeated Ivo Minář
6–2, 6–3, and No. 12 seed Stéphane Bohli
3–6, 7–5, 7–6 he lost to No. 24 seed Kei Nishikori
4–6, 1–6. Two weeks ago Dancevic was part of the Canadian Davis Cup team
in a playoff series versus the Dominican Republic
. With the winner to stay in the Americas Zone Group 1, Canada prevailed 5–0, at a tie played at home at the Rexall Centre
. Frank joined Daniel Nestor
to win the doubles rubber in straight sets and he also won a dead rubber in singles. Last week he is the No. 3 seed at Canada F5 and was upset in the quarter-finals, to No. 5 seed Nikolaus Moser
6–2, 5–7, 6–7. It is the first time he has played in an ITF Futures event since March, 2004. He also played doubles partnering compatriot Vasek Pospisil
and the duo reached the semi-finals, having upset the No. 1 seeds Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
and Nicholas Monroe in the second round.
After a week off, Dancevic again used one of his protected ranking allotments to reach the second round of the Ethias Trophy
in Belgium, knocking out No. 2 seed Arnaud Clément
in the first round. Playing doubles too as a PR entrant, he doubles specialist Tomasz Bednarek
lost in the first round. The following week playing just singles, Dancevic reached the semi-finals of the 2010 Open de Rennes
, defeating again Clément, the No. 1 seed, in the quarterfinals, before falling to No. 5 seed Stéphane Bohli
9–7 in a third set tie break. The very next week however Dancevic lost in the first round in both singles, to unseeded and eventual semi-finalist David Guez
, 5–7, 1–6, and in doubles partnering Ilija Bozoljac
.
The following week, the last of October, Frank lost in the first qualifying round of the 2010 Open Sud de France
World Tour event, to Belgian teenager David Goffin
, 2–6, 3–6. After a couple of weeks off, last week, he used his protected ranking to compete in the main singles draw of the 2010 Ritro Slovak Open
, where he has lost to No. 5 seed and new Slovak No. 1 Lukáš Lacko
, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6. This week Dancevic is once again using protected ranking to enter straight into the singles main draw of the 2010 IPP Open
. He defeated veteran Frenchman and former top-60 player Antony Dupuis easily in the opening round, 6–1, 6–2, and veteran Russian and former top-40 player Igor Kunitsyn
in the second round, 6–4, 6–4. Against Kunitsyn, Dancevic broke the Russian's serve three times out of four chances while saving 3 of 4 break points against. He has lost in the quarter-finals however to Ričardas Berankis
4–6, 2–6, in a match where Dancevic's opponent won 79% of points on Frank's second serve, and Frank, just 11% on his opponent's.
Dancevic ended 2010 ranked World No. 269 in singles and No. 1299 in doubles.
, where he lost in the first round to No. 8 seed Robin Haase
7–6, 4–6, 4–6. He next successfully qualified
for the 2011 Australian Open
, winning his three matches without dropping a set. He lost in the first round of the main draw, however, to No. 28 seed Richard Gasquet
3–6, 4–6, 4–6.
At the SA Tennis Open
, Dancevic upset defending champion and No. 1 seed Feliciano López
in the first round 7–6, 2–6, 7–6 and defeated wild card Fritz Wolmarans
to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to No. 6 seed Adrian Mannarino
in straight sets. Three weeks later he lost in the qualifying round of the 2011 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships
, to Alejandro Falla
.
Early March saw Canada
win their 2011 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group I
tie away to Mexico, despite Dancevic squandering a two-set lead to loss to the in-form Daniel Garza
in the opening rubber. The next two weeks saw Frank reach the second round of qualifying for the month's two ATP World Tour Masters 1000
events in the US At Indian Wells
he fell in three sets to Alex Bogomolov, Jr.
while in Miami
he bowed out to Donald Young, 5–7 in the third.
Dancevic has had likely his best clay court
season ever, culminating in qualifying for the main draw of the French Open
for the first time ever. He began by reaching the third round of qualifying for the 2011 US Men's Clay Court Championships. Following a first round exit at the Tallahassee Challenger, he reached the semi-finals of the 2011 Sarasota Open
. He next lost soundly, however, in the first round of the 2011 Savannah Challenger
to Donald Young, 1–6, 2–6. Without any European clay match play, he opened French Open qualifying
with a convincing 6–2, 6–2 win over No. 15 seed Lukáš Lacko
. He then took out clay-courter Eduardo Schwank
in two tie breaks. He qualified with a solid 6–1, 6–3 win over journeyman Victor Crivoi
. Despite a favourable draw for the first round Dancevic advanced no further however, falling to Lucky Loser entrant Simone Bolelli
in four sets.
Perhaps buoyed by his French Open success, Dancevic opted to enter directly into the main draw of the smaller clay court 2011 Rijeka Open
rather than go through qualifying for the year's first grass court tourney, the 2011 AEGON Trophy
. He drew top seed Blaž Kavčič
, and lost 4–6, 5–7.
Dancevic played well to qualify for the main draw of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships
, not dropping more than four games in a set over three matches. He began in the same vein in his main draw first round match, against veteran Brazilian Ricardo Mello
, winning the first two sets 6–3, 6–3, but failed twice to hold his own serve in a deciding game in the next two sets and then to convert two match points, in a tie break. Mello handily won the deciding set 6–2. This week Dancevic is playing neither Davis Cup nor defending ranking points for a quarter-finals appearance at the Hall of Fame Championships, on grass. Rumour is that his back has been acting up for the past month and he has been adviced to take time of.Dancevic qualified For The 2011 US Open
Setting a record in men's tennis becoming the first person to qualify for all 4 majors in one year.http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=116243&page=87.
, Dancevic has a 13 and 12 win-lose record in 15 ties, 19–12 in singles play and 3–0 in doubles. His effort over Voltchkov was not enough to see Canada through to the World Group for 2006 as the Canadians fell 2–3 to Belarus
in their September 2005 World Group play-off tie. In 2003 however, Dancevic's win over Flávio Saretta
in the deciding 5th match saw Canada defeat Brazil and enter the World Group for only the second time. They subsequently lost to the Netherlands
in the 2004 World Group as Dancevic went down to both Sjeng Schalken
and Martin Verkerk
, both matches going four sets.
In the 2007 Americas Group I semifinals Dancevic lost a close Round 1 match to Ricardo Mello
6–3, 7–6, 3–6, 3–6, 7–9 as Canada lost the tie, played away in Florianópolis
, to Brazil
, 1–3. He missed 2008 Davis Cup action due to injury and/or lack of fitness, as the team again lost in the Americas Group I semifinal stage.
Dancevic defeated Giovanni Lapentti
in straight sets to level Canada at 1 with Ecuador
in a 2009 first-round Americas Zone 1 tie played indoors at the Rexall Centre
. He lost the fourth rubber to Nicolás Lapentti
3–6, 7–5, 6–4, 6–7, 6–1 despite having two match points in the fourth set tie-break. Canada went on to lose the tie 2–3.
Dancevic was again named to the Davis Cup team, this time for a September, 2010, in a tie versus the Dominican Republic
. The winner to stay in the Americas Group 1 for 2011. Canada won the tie 5–0 as Dancevic partnered Daniel Nestor
to a victory in the doubles rubber. He also won a dead singles rubber.
, from Rouyn-Noranda, and his has paternal family roots from the former Yugoslavia
. Dancevic has three younger sisters. Monika, born in 1986, is a top-ranked tennis player who in 2009 completed her NCAA tennis career at the University of Georgia. She was the NCAA number 35 ranked singles player as a sophomore for the Bulldogs in 2006–07 and has been ranked by the WTA as high as World No. 775. Sonja and Kristina are twins born in 1989.
Tennis
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player. He first became the country's top singles player, according to ATP rankings, on February 10, 2003, as an eighteen-year old, and remained so from January 30, 2006 until June 20, 2010. He is the Canada No. 3 in singles.
In August 2011, Dancevic became the first men's singles player ever to qualify, in the same calendar year, for all four grand slam
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events.http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2011/09/35/US-Open-Tuesday-Dancevic-Is-Qualifying-Grand-Slam-Man.aspx
Professional tour career
The right-handed Dancevic turned pro in 2003 and reached his career high singles ranking in September 2007 at World No. 65. A native of Niagara Falls, OntarioNiagara Falls, Ontario
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, he was the highest ranked men's Canadian singles player since Daniel Nestor
Daniel Nestor
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, who was ranked World No. 61 in September 1999. (The highest ranking ever achieved by a Canadian is World No. 25, by Milos Raonic
Milos Raonic
Milos Raonic is a Canadian professional tennis player from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada.Born in what is now Podgorica, Montenegro, Raonic moved to Canada with his family at the age of 3. Raonic is Canada's highest ATP ranked male singles player and the country's highest ever ranked player since...
in May 2011.) It was Fred Niemeyer whom Dancevic overtook to become, in early 2006, Canada's top-ranked singles player.
Dancevic's best tournament results to date, all in singles, have been reaching the final of the 2007 Indianapolis Tennis Championships
2007 Indianapolis Tennis Championships
The 2007 Indianapolis Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 20th edition of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships, and was part of the International Series of the 2007 ATP Tour. It took place at the Indianapolis Tennis Center in Indianapolis,...
, the final of the 2009 AEGON International
2009 AEGON International
The 2009 AEGON International is a combined men's and women's tennis tournament to be played on outdoor grass courts. It will be the 34th edition of the event for the women and the 1st edition for the men. It is classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour and as an ATP World Tour 250...
, the quarter-finals of the 2007 Rogers Cup, the semi-finals again in Indianapolis in 2009
2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships
The 2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 22nd edition of the event known that year as the Indianapolis Tennis Championships and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour...
, the semi-finals of the 2008 Campbell's Hall of Fame Championships
2008 Campbell's Hall of Fame Championships
The 2008 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 33rd edition of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, and was part of the International Series of the 2008 ATP Tour...
, and winning the 2003 and 2006 Granby
Granby Challenger
The Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Granby, Quebec, Canada, since 1993....
and 2003 Lexington
Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships
The Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour and the ITF Women's tour. It is held annually at the Hilary J...
, 2006 Waikoloa, and 2008 Surbiton
The Surbiton Trophy
The Surbiton Trophy was a tennis tournament for male professional players played on grass courts. The event was held annually in Surbiton, England, from 1998 through 2008 as part of the ATP Challenger Series. In 2009 it was replaced by the AEGON Trophy in Nottingham-Singles:-Doubles:-External links:*...
Challenger Series events. His best doubles result has been reaching the final of the 2007 Japan Open
Japan Open Tennis Championships
The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...
, partnering Stephen Huss
Stephen Huss (tennis)
Stephen Huss , is a professional tennis player from Australia. He is also citizen of Sweden....
and winning Granby in 2004 while playing with Brian Baker
Brian Baker (tennis)
Brian Baker is a professionally ranked tennis player from Nashville, Tennessee.Baker's biggest win occurred on On August 29, 2005, when he scored an upset victory over ninth seeded Gastón Gaudio in the 2005 US Open, in Baker's only appearance in the grand slam event main draw.Baker originally...
.
Dancevic became Canada's top ATP-ranked singles player on February 10, 2003, replacing Simon Larose
Simon Larose
Simon Larose is a former professional tennis player. He was Canada's top-ranked singles player for some months during 2003 and 2004...
. He held the position until May 19, 2003, when he was surpassed by Larose. Dancevic regained the Canada 1 ranking on July 28, 2003, replacing Fred Niemeyer, and held it until August 11. He would not be so ranked again, however, until the following June 14, when he held the position for the week, and again for the week beginning July 12, 2004. Dancevic next was Canada's top-ranked player on August 16, 2004, and remained so this time until July 18, 2005, when he was replaced again by Niemeyer. He regained the ranking once more, nevertheless, from August 1 to October 17, 2005, only to lose it once more to Niemeyer.
Dancevic was coached by former tour player Leo Lavalle from sometime in 2008 until June 2009, when he returned to former mentor and Canadian Davis Cup captain, Martin Laurendeau
Martin Laurendeau
Martin Laurendeau is a former touring professional tennis player, and present coach and captain of the Canadian Davis Cup team....
. From May 2008 until hiring Lavalle, Dancevic worked with Frenchman Boris Vallejo.
2000–2002
Dancevic played his professional tour event in July 2000, the Granby Challenger, and lost in the first round to the World No. 381 player, Philip King, in three sets. He lost in the first round in the same event a year later in straight sets to the World No. 157 player, Axel Pretzsch. In February and April 2002, Dancevic played on Canada's Davis CupDavis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
team, going 1–1 in two dead rubbers. In his first Futures event, U.S.A. F10 in May, he won his first three matches in straight sets, reaching the semi-finals. Losing in the first round of F11, he reached the finals of F12. Then in July in reached the second round of the Granby Challenger (in his third appearance). Dancevic then lost his first full-fledged tour event match, at the Canada Masters
Canada Masters
The Canada Masters , currently sponsored as the Rogers Cup, is an annual tennis tournament held in Canada. The men's competition is a Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour. The women's competition is a Premier 5 tournament on the Women's Tennis Association tour...
, to Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Vetea Santoro is a retired French professional male tennis player from Tahiti. Though not counted among the top ranked players, he had an unusually long professional career – with many of his accomplishments coming toward the end of his career – and he is popular among spectators and other...
5–7, 3–6. The following week Dancevic was entered into the Legg Mason Tennis Classic
Legg Mason Tennis Classic
The Legg Mason Tennis Classic is an annual late-summer men's tennis tournament played in Washington, D.C. as part of the ATP Tour. It was first held in 1969. It was later known as the Sovran Bank Classic. . Originally an event of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour and part of the Grand Prix Championship...
as a wildcard and proceeded to defeat World No. 90 and future World No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko is a Ukrainian-Russian tennis player. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam tournament has been reaching the semifinals, which he has done on four occasions: twice each at the French Open and the U.S. Open. His biggest achievement to date was winning the 2009 ATP...
in the first round 6–4, 6–7, 6–3. He ended the year however losing two singles matches in a Davis Cup tie with Brazil
Brazil Davis Cup team
The Brazil Davis Cup team represents Brazil in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Brazilian Tennis Confederation.Brazil currently compete in the Americas Zone of Group I...
and in the first round of a Tyler, Texas
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...
challenger. He finished 2002 ranked World No. 434 in singles and No. 414 in doubles.
2003, 2004
Dancevic began 2003 on a roll, winning the first two tournaments he entered and reaching the semis of a third, all Futures played in consecutive weeks in January in FloridaFlorida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
. Winning a Davis Cup match in a tie against Peru
Peru Davis Cup team
The Peru Davis Cup Team is the Davis Cup team that represents the nation of Peru. The team is governed by the Federación de Tenis de Peru. They currently compete in the Americas Zone Group I, and their best result was reaching the World Group in 2008....
in April, he reached the final of Canada F1 in June, then won Canada F2 and the Granby and Lexington challengers in July. This saw his singles ranking climb to World No. 198, allowing him to play in qualifying for the US Open, where he reached the second round. He finished the year however losing 5 of 7 matches, and his first five of 2004. He lost in qualifying for the 2004 Australian Open
2004 Australian Open
The 2004 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tournament held in Melbourne, Australia 19 January to 1 February, 2004.-Men's Singles: Roger Federer def. Marat Safin, 7–6, 6–4, 6–2...
in his debut in the second round.
In March 2004 Frank's fortunes changed as he reached the final of France F5. He reached the second round in the next two challengers, the quarters in the next, and then the semis in Surbiton
Surbiton
Surbiton, a suburban area of London in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is situated next to the River Thames, with a mixture of Art-Deco courts, more recent residential blocks and grand, spacious 19th century townhouses blending into a sea of semi-detached 20th century housing estates...
on grass. The following week, again on grass at Queen's
2004 Queen's Club Championships
The 2004 Stella Artois Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the International Series of the 2004 ATP Tour...
, Dancevic reached the second round in just his third full-fledged ATP event. He attempted to qualify for Wimbledon
2004 Wimbledon Championships
List of the 2004 Wimbledon Champions:-Men's Singles: Roger Federer def. Andy Roddick, 4–6, 7–5, 7–6, 6–4*It was Federer's sixth title of the year, and his 17th overall. It was his third career Grand Slam title, and his 2nd at Wimbledon....
but lost in the first round. In summer play, he reached the semis at Granby and the finals at Aptos, California
Aptos, California
Aptos is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The population was 6,220 at the 2010 census.Aptos is an unincorporated area of Santa Cruz county, consisting of several small communities...
challenger in July, but lost again in the first round at the Canada Masters. He followed this up though by reaching the semi-finals at the Binghamton, New York
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers...
challenger and the second round in US Open qualifying. He had a better autumn playing the American challenger circuit, going 11 wins and 5 losses. Dancevic finished 2004 ranked World No. 171 in singles and No. 462 in doubles.
2005
Dancevic began 2005 playing four consecutive International SeriesATP International Series
The International Series was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally as part of the ATP Tour until 2008....
or higher events, going two wins, four losses. He went one step better in grand slam play too, reaching the third round of qualifying for the 2005 Australian Open
2005 Australian Open
The 2005 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament held in Melbourne, Australia from 17 until 30 January 2005.-Men's Singles: Marat Safin def. Lleyton Hewitt, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4...
. He improved at Wimbledon
2005 Wimbledon Championships
The 2005 Wimbledon Championships was the 119 edition. It was held at the All England Club between 20 June and 3 July.Roger Federer successfully defended the men's singles crown defeating Andy Roddick in straight sets. Whilst Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport played the longest women's final in...
too, reaching the second round in qualifying. Dancevic did not get out of the second round of the main draw in any event, however, until reaching the quarters at the Granby challenger in June. He lost in the first round at the Canada Masters
2005 Canada Masters
The 2005 Canada Masters was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 116th edition of the Canada Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2005 ATP Tour, and of the Tier I Series of the 2005 WTA Tour...
to Xavier Malisse
Xavier Malisse
Xavier Malisse is a Belgian tennis player. Born in Kortrijk, Belgium, he is the only men's player from his country to have been ranked in the top 20 of the ATP tour. He is sponsored by Prince and Lotto. His nickname is "The X-Man"....
2–6, 2–6 and did not enter qualifying for the US Open.
Despite a disappointing year, in September Frank narrowly lost to Max Mirnyi
Max Mirnyi
Max Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus.Today Mirnyi is a doubles specialist, but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years, as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a...
in the deciding rubber of a Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
World Group Play Off tie. In five American challenger events in the fall, he only got past the second round once, when he reached finals of the Boston, Massachusetts Challenger. He lost this match 7–5, 5–7, 3–6 to American Paul Goldstein. Dancevic finished 2005 ranked World No. 188 in singles and No. 403 in doubles.
2006
Dancevic began the year with a bang in winning the first event that he entered, the Waikoloa Challenger, reaching finals of his next event, the BesançonBesançon
Besançon , is the capital and principal city of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It had a population of about 237,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2008...
Challenger, and then the semis of the Cherbourg Challenger. After moderate success on clay in four events in Mexico played around a tie against the Mexico Davis Cup team
Mexico Davis Cup team
The Mexico Davis Cup team represents Mexico in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Federación Mexicana de Tenis.Mexico finished as runners-up in 1962. They currently compete in the Americas Zone Group II. They last competed in the World Group in 1997.-History:Mexico competed in...
, where he lost both of his singles matches, he reached the final of the Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
Challenger played on har-tru.
In June for the second time Dancevic reached the second round at Queen's. He then qualified for his first grand slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
main draw, at the 2006
2006 Wimbledon Championships
The 2006 Wimbledon Championships began on 26 June and finished on 9 July 2006.-Gentlemen's singles: Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal 6-0 7-6 6-7 6-3-Ladies' singles: Amélie Mauresmo defeated Justine Henin-Hardenne 2-6 6-3 6-4...
Wimbledon Championships
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
. He was defeated in the first round by Radek Štěpánek
Radek Štepánek
Radek Štěpánek is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.-Career:Štěpánek turned professional in 1997. He started on tour as a doubles specialist, winning 12 ATP titles. Since 2002, Štěpánek has focused on being a better singles player while still playing top-level doubles...
in straight sets, however. Dancevic's better year continued as he won the Granby
Granby, Quebec
Granby is a city in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 47,637. Granby is the seat of La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality. It is the fifth most populated city in Montérégie after Longueuil, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Brossard and...
Challenger in July and in August reached the second round of the Canada Masters
Canada Masters
The Canada Masters , currently sponsored as the Rogers Cup, is an annual tennis tournament held in Canada. The men's competition is a Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour. The women's competition is a Premier 5 tournament on the Women's Tennis Association tour...
for the first time in five attempts. His singles ranking cracked the top 100 for the first time with his title victory in Granby. The top seed for qualifying for the US Open he failed to make the main draw, nevertheless.
In the autumn, Dancevic reached the second round in three straight ATP Tour tournaments, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Stockholm. Following a first round loss in St. Petersburg, he reached the quarter-finals in two straight challengers, Louisville and Nashville. He retired from his final match of the year, in the first round of the Champaign Challenger. Frank finished the year ranked World No. 88 in singles and No. 479 in doubles.
2007
Dancevic began 2007 going 1–2 in round robin matches at the Next Generation Adelaide International International Series event. He opened the 2007 Australian Open2007 Australian Open
The 2007 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament held in Melbourne, Australia from 15 January until 28 January 2007.The total prize pool was set at exactly A$20 million, with the winners of both the men's and women's singles competition each receiving A$1,281,000. Over 500 players...
with a straight sets win over Victor Hănescu
Victor Hanescu
Victor Hănescu is a Romanian tennis player. He achieved his career high rank of no. 26 on July 6, 2009.- Professional career :...
and lost in the second round to #19 seed Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...
in four sets. He then lost in the second round of the PBZ Zagreb Indoors
PBZ Zagreb Indoors
PBZ Zagreb Indoors is a tennis event on the ATP Tour held in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. From 2009 it is part of the ATP 250 Series and offered 250 ranking points. The tournament is played on a fast and hard indoor surface and features both a men's singles and a men's doubles tournament.The...
to Marcos Baghdatis
Marcos Baghdatis
At the French Open, Baghdatis lost in the second round in five sets to Frenchman Julien Benneteau, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 7-6, 4-6.At Wimbledon, Baghdatis defeated British player Andy Murray in the fourth round in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, Baghdatis beat the 2002 champion and former world no. 1...
after a straight sets win over Alexander Waske
Alexander Waske
Alexander Waske is a professional male tennis player from Germany. He turned pro in 2000.On June 12, 2006, Waske achieved his career-high singles ranking: World No. 89.-Doubles: 7 :-External links:...
. Dancevic lost in the first round of the next three International Series events he appeared in San Jose
SAP Open
The SAP Open is a men's tennis tournament held annually in San Jose, California. It is the second-oldest tennis tournament in the United States, which is still played. It is an ATP World Tour 250 series event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour...
, Memphis, and Las Vegas
Tennis Channel Open
The Tennis Channel Open was a tennis tournament on the ATP International Series which was held for the first time in Las Vegas, Nevada from February 27 to March 5, 2006. In the men's singles final, James Blake defeated Lleyton Hewitt 7–5, 2–6, 6–3...
, losing to Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the second highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish....
, Andy Murray, and Igor Kunitsyn
Igor Kunitsyn
Igor Kunitsyn is a professional male tennis player from Russia. He made it into the top 100 for the first time in 2006, and reached a career-high singles ranking of 35 on July 6, 2009.-Early life:...
respectively. He then reached the second round at the ATP Masters Series Indian Wells, defeating Waske again and losing to Fernando González
Fernando González
----Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El Bombardero de La Reina and Mano de Piedra...
. Dancevic then dropped down to the challenger circuit, reaching the finals in Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
, the second round in Naples, Florida
Naples, Florida
Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of July 1, 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on July 1, 2007...
, and losing in the first round at Tunica Resorts and Forest Hills.
Dancevic went 3–3 for the grass court season. He defeated Sergio Roitman
Sergio Roitman
Sergio Andres Roitman in Buenos Aires, Argentina, nicknamed Escopeta is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina....
in reaching the second round at Queen's Club
Queen's Club
The Queen's Club is a private sporting club in West Kensington, London, England. Founded in 1886, the Queen's Club was the world's first multipurpose sports complex and named after Queen Victoria, its first patron...
. He lost in the final round of qualifying in 2007 Wimbledon Championships
2007 Wimbledon Championships
The 2007 Wimbledon Championships were held between 25 June and 8 July 2007. For the first time there was equal prize money for the men's and women's singles champions. Reconstruction work on Centre Court was in progress and thus it had no roof....
but reached the main draw as a lucky loser
Lucky Loser
Lucky Loser is a 2006 Thai sports-comedy about a small, fictional Southeast Asian country's bid to play in the World Cup...
(with the withdrawal of Mario Ančić
Mario Ancic
Mario Ančić is a retired Croatian professional tennis player. He won three singles titles and five doubles titles. His highest international ranking came during the 2006 ATP Tour, when he reached no. 7 in singles...
). He reached the second round defeating World No. 60 Stefan Koubek
Stefan Koubek
Stefan Koubek is a tennis player from Austria. Koubek plays left-handed with a double-handed backhand. His idol when growing up was Thomas Muster. Koubek has won three titles, two of which have come on hardcourts; despite this, he says his favorite surface is clay.His nickname is Cooley or Stef...
6–2, 6–4, 6–2 and then losing to No. 25 David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine professional tennis player and former world no. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.-Biography:...
2–6, 3–6, 7–5, 3–6.
He then reached the second round of the Campbell's Hall of Fame Championships, defeating Kevin Kim
Kevin Kim
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in the first round 6–3 6–3 (in 2006, he defeated the same player in the same round at this same tournament by almost the same score, 6–4 6–3). He then lost to eventual champion Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Vetea Santoro is a retired French professional male tennis player from Tahiti. Though not counted among the top ranked players, he had an unusually long professional career – with many of his accomplishments coming toward the end of his career – and he is popular among spectators and other...
7–6, 3–6, 4–6.
In July at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships, Dancevic defeated World No. 46 Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker is a German professional tennis player. Becker's primary weapon is a very big serve that he can hit at up to 220km/h, along with powerful groundstrokes....
6–4, 6–3 marking Dancevic's first defeat of a top 50 player. He has followed that with a victory over No. 54 Juan Martín del Potro
Juan Martin Del Potro
Juan Martín del Potro is an Argentine professional tennis player. Del Potro achieved a top-10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals for the first time on October 6, 2008. In January 2010, he reached a career-high ranking of world no. 4...
3–6, 7–6, 6–4. He then defeated Igor Kunitsyn
Igor Kunitsyn
Igor Kunitsyn is a professional male tennis player from Russia. He made it into the top 100 for the first time in 2006, and reached a career-high singles ranking of 35 on July 6, 2009.-Early life:...
in a rain-delayed match that finished almost 9 hours after it began 6–4, 7–6. He has become the first Canadian to reach the semifinals (and quarterfinals, too) of a top-level ATP tournament since Sébastien Lareau
Sébastien Lareau
Sébastien Lareau is a former touring professional tennis player.-As a singles player:The right-handed Lareau achieved a career best singles ranking of World No. 76 in April 1995. In January 1999 he reached a career second best ranking of World No. 78. He had a career ATP tour event win-loss...
did so in February 2001. He followed that up with the biggest win of his career to date, by far, beating World No. 5 Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the second highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish....
6–4, 7–6, to reach the finals. He became the first Canadian to reach an ATP final since Greg Rusedski
Greg Rusedski
Gregory "Greg" Rusedski is a British Canadian former tennis player who turned professional in 1991 and played until his retirement on 7 April 2007, at the age of 33...
did so in 1995 (before Rusedski changed his citizenship to that of Great Britain.) He then lost in the finals to No. 3 seed Dmitry Tursunov
Dmitry Tursunov
Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov is a Russian professional male tennis player. He was 12 years old when he came to the United States to train and further his prospects of becoming a professional player....
of Russia 4–6, 5–7.
Dancevic has continued his elevated play into August, defeating del Potro again, Wayne Odesnik
Wayne Odesnik
Wayne Odesnik is a professional left-handed American tennis player, with a two-handed backhand.His career-high in singles was # 77, as of April 13, 2009...
, and World No. 35 Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona is a professional tennis player. He is currently ranked no. 22 in the world. Verdasco started playing tennis at four years of age and had a full-time coach when he was eight...
to reach the quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup where he lost to World No. 2 Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. , he is ranked No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals...
, 6–4 2–6 3–6. This effort raised his ranking to World No. 65, his highest ranking to date. He played his first US Open in 2007, and lost a hard-fought three-set match to former World No. 1 and 2000 US Open Champion Marat Safin
Marat Safin
Marat Mikhailovich Safin is a retired Russian tennis player of Tatar descent. Safin won two grand slams and reached the world number 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin also holds the record for most broken...
, the 25th seed. Having come through qualifying, whereas in 2006 he was the top seed but failed to make the main draw, Dancevic lost to Safin 5–7, 6–7, 6–7, despite serving for the second set up 5–3 and the third set, up 6–5 in the tiebreak.
Dancevic's form took a slight dip in autumn, as he reached second round of the Thailand Open
Thailand Open (tennis)
The Thailand Open is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour...
, lost in the first round of Japan Open Tennis
Japan Open Tennis Championships
The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...
, and in the second round of the Stockholm Open
Stockholm Open
The If Stockholm Open is a tennis event on the ATP Tour held in Stockholm, Sweden in the end of October or beginning of November each year. The organizer of the tournament is The Royal Lawn Tennis Club of Stockholm....
to top seed James Blake
James Blake
James Riley Blake is an American professional tennis player. Blake is known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. As of August 2011, Blake is ranked no. 63 among active male players with 24 career finals appearances...
2–6, 3–6.
2008
Dancevic's ranking allowed him to enter directly into the 2008 Australian Open2008 Australian Open
The 2008 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 96th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 14 through 27 January 2008.After twenty years of playing on...
main draw, where in his first round match against #24 seed Jarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen is a professional tennis player from Finland.His highest ranking is 13th, which was achieved on July 10, 2006. He has won one ATP singles title and two doubles titles in his career so far. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the quarter-finals...
he came back from being down 2 sets to love to level at 2 sets apiece before losing the fifth 1–6. He was out of action from January with a facet joint strain of the thoracic spine. After returning to play in May he struggled, going 1–1 twice in back-to-back Challenger tournaments in Morocco (on clay) before losing in the first round of the Grand Prix Hassan II
Grand Prix Hassan II
The Grand Prix Hassan II is an annual tennis tournament on the ATP Tour and is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series. The event is held annually at the Complexe Al Amal in Casablanca, Morocco and is played on clay courts. Between 1986 and 1989 it was part of the Challenger...
International Series tourney. Dancevic's ranking was good enough however to allow him to gain entry into the main draw of the 2008 French Open, which marked the first time a Canadian had done so since Daniel Nestor
Daniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
in 1999
1999 French Open
-Men's Singles:* Men's SinglesList of the 1999 French Open champions:-Men's singles: Andre Agassi def. Andrei Medvedev, 1–6, 2–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–4...
. He lost however in the first round in 4 sets to unheralded Miguel Ángel López Jaén
Miguel Angel Lopez Jaen
Miguel Ángel López Jaén is a professional tennis player from Spain.- Junior career :López Jaén had a brief career at the top level of Juniors play, reaching a high of #76 in April, 2000 before turning his sights on pro tournaments.- 2000 to 2007 :López Jaén cracked the top-300 as a 20 year old in...
.
Dancevic began his 2008 grass court tennis season in style, winning the Surbiton
Surbiton
Surbiton, a suburban area of London in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is situated next to the River Thames, with a mixture of Art-Deco courts, more recent residential blocks and grand, spacious 19th century townhouses blending into a sea of semi-detached 20th century housing estates...
challenger in late May – early June as he defeated Kevin Anderson
Kevin Anderson (tennis)
Kevin Anderson is a male South African tennis player.He became the top-ranked South African player on 10 March 2008 after making the final at the 2008 Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas...
in the final in three sets. The 57 ATP points he gained saw his ranking jump from No. 111 to 90. At Wimbledon
2008 Wimbledon Championships
The 2008 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 122nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam event of the year...
, Dancevic was given a wild card entry. In the first round, he pulled off an impressive upset in defeating the number 7 seed and former finalist, David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine professional tennis player and former world no. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.-Biography:...
in straight sets 6–4, 6–2, 6–4. After the match, Dancevic called it "one of the best matches of my career, if not the best". He was unable to sustain this level of play and fell to 102nd ranked Bobby Reynolds
Bobby Reynolds
----Robert "Bobby" Thomas Reynolds in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) is an American professional tennis player who resides in Acworth, Georgia.-Professional career:...
in second round 6–4, 6–7, 4–6, 4–6. In the final grass court event of the year, the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Dancevic defeated Taylor Dent
Taylor Dent
Taylor Phillip Dent is a retired professional tennis player from the United States.-Early career and back injury:He won 4 ATP singles titles during his career: Newport , Bangkok , Memphis , and Moscow , and reached the finals of three other events on tour...
, Brendan Evans
Brendan Evans
Brendan Evans is an American professional tennis player. On the junior circuit, Evans reached a career-high combined ranking of No. 2 in 2004, when he won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open doubles titles alongside Scott Oudesma. Evans competes today on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP...
, and Igor Kunitsyn
Igor Kunitsyn
Igor Kunitsyn is a professional male tennis player from Russia. He made it into the top 100 for the first time in 2006, and reached a career-high singles ranking of 35 on July 6, 2009.-Early life:...
to reach the semi-finals where he lost to Prakash Amritraj
Prakash Amritraj
Prakash Amritraj is a now inactive tour professional tennis player.-Background:Amritaj is the son of Indian tennis great Vijay Amritraj, who played at Wimbledon for 17 years and in the Davis Cup for 20 years. He is also the cousin of fellow tour pro Stephen Amritraj, whose father Anand was also a...
.
Dancevic, after losing in the first round at Indianapolis, again to Reynolds, had a solid win over World No. 24 Mario Ančić
Mario Ancic
Mario Ančić is a retired Croatian professional tennis player. He won three singles titles and five doubles titles. His highest international ranking came during the 2006 ATP Tour, when he reached no. 7 in singles...
, 6–3, 6–4, before falling to World No. 3 Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked world no. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals since 4 July 2011. He has won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008 and 2011 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open...
4–6, 4–6 at the 2008 Rogers Cup in Toronto. He was not ranked high enough to enter directly the main draw in Cincinnati
2008 Cincinnati Masters
The 2008 Cincinnati Masters was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts...
or Los Angeles, but took part in the singles event the Olympics
Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Tennis competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 10 to August 17 at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. The DecoTurf surface rendered the event a hardcourt tournament....
as a late alternate replacement, losing in the first round to No. 9 seed Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka is a Swiss professional tennis player. He also holds German citizenship as his father is German. His career ranking high is no. 9, achieved on 9 June 2008. He considers clay his best surface and his backhand his best shot...
6–4, 3–6, 2–6. Despite being ranked outside the top 110 in the world since July 27, Dancevic received direct entry in the main singles draw of the US Open where he lost in straight sets to No. 18 seed Nicolás Almagro
Nicolás Almagro
Nicolas Almagro Sanchez Rolle is a professional Spanish tennis player, ranked 10 on the ATP World Tour.-2005:...
.
On the American challenger circuit in the autumn, injury once again flared up as Dancevic was forced to retire in his quarter-final match at the Tulsa, Oklahoma event and skip Waco, Texas. He reached the finals however in Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock Challenger
The Lubbock Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Lubbock, Texas since 2005. The event is part of the challenger series and is played on outdoor hard courts.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :**...
, defeating Peter Polansky
Peter Polansky
Peter Polansky is a Canadian professional tennis player. He is now Canada's seventh-ranked singles performer, according to the ATP; he was however the country's top singles player from June 21, 2010 until January 17, 2011. Previously he was also Canada's No...
, Tim Smyczek
Tim Smyczek
Tim Smyczek is an American professional tennis player. Tim Smyczek Qualified into his first ATP main draw tournament in SAP Open – San Jose by winning eight qualifying matches before losing to Mardy Fish in the first round...Stayed in Fish's house for a year...Plays the violin...Wants to be a...
, Rajeev Ram
Rajeev Ram
Rajeev Ram is an American professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. Rajeev is a tall, lanky player with a serve-and-volley style who is known best as a doubles specialist. He has advanced as far as the quarter-finals in doubles at three Grand Slams, most recently with Scott Lipsky at the 2011...
, and Dušan Vemić
Dušan Vemic
Dušan Vemić is a Serbian professional tennis player. He was born on June 17, 1976, in Zadar, in Yugoslavia, now Croatia; he currently lives in Belgrade.-Professional career:...
before falling to John Isner
John Isner
John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of no. 18 on July 5, 2010, and has been as high as the second-ranked American tennis player behind Andy Roddick...
. He then lost in the first round in Sacramento, California
Swanston Challenger
The Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament is a tennis tournament held in Sacramento, California, USA since 2005. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on outdoor hard courts.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :**...
, to Filipino-American veteran Cecil Mamiit
Cecil Mamiit
Cecil Valdeavilla Mamiit is a tennis player from the United States who now represents the Philippines. He began his professional career in 1996. He reached his highest individual ranking in the ATP Tour on October 11, 1999, when he became World No...
before reaching the semi-finals at the Calabasas, California
Mercedes Benz of Calabasas
The Calabasas Pro Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Calabasas, California, USA since 2001. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on outdoor hard courts. Former French Open champion Michael Chang won the event in 2002....
Challenger, beating Michael McClune
Michael McClune
Michael McClune is an American professional tennis player.He turned professional in 2007, is represented by Olivier van Lindonk of IMG, and signed a lucrative contract with Nike.-Junior career:...
, Alex Bogomolov, Jr.
Alex Bogomolov, Jr.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolov, most known as Alex Bogomolov Jr. , nicknamed Bogie, is a Russian professional tennis player.-Tennis career:...
, and Michael Russell
Michael Russell (tennis)
Michael Craig Russell is an American tennis player.Russell is best known for, on two occasions, holding surprise two-set leads in Grand Slam tournaments against former Grand Slam champions before eventually being defeated both times...
before falling to Vincent Spadea 6–4, 5–7, 3–6. Dancevic next lost in the first round of the next two challengers, in Louisville
Ford Tennis Championships
The Ford Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Louisville, Kentucky since 2006. The event is part of the challenger series and is played on indoor hard courts.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :**...
and Nashville
Music City Challenger
The Music City Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Nashville, Tennessee since 2004. The event is part of the challenger series and is played on indoor hard courts.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :**...
. He then reached the quarters of the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
JSM Challenger
The JSM Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois since 1996. The event is part of the challenger series and is played on indoor hard courts.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :***...
challenger, where he lost to Wayne Odesnik
Wayne Odesnik
Wayne Odesnik is a professional left-handed American tennis player, with a two-handed backhand.His career-high in singles was # 77, as of April 13, 2009...
4–6, 6–2, 4–6. He most recently, as the tournament No. 6 seed, lost to Luka Gregorc
Luka Gregorc
Luka Gregorc is a tennis player from Slovenia. Gregorc reached his highest singles ranking of World Number 172 on August 3, 2009, and highest doubles ranking on September 12, 2005, reaching World Number 557...
4–6, 6–1, 3–6 in the semis of the Knoxville, Tennessee challenger. His record for the autumn circuit has finished at 14 wins, 8 loses.
2009
Dancevic opened 2009 failing to qualify for the main draw of the Brisbane InternationalBrisbane International
The Brisbane International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour and of the WTA Premier tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association Tour...
, in the first week of the schedule. He came through qualifying at the Medibank International in Sydney but lost in the first round to No. 5 seed Igor Andreev
Igor Andreev
Igor Valerievich Andreev is a Russian professional tennis player, born in Moscow.-2003:Andreev made his ATP debut in September 2003 at Bucharest, Romania as a qualifier and defeated top seed Nikolay Davydenko 7–5, 6–7, 6–0 in the first round, before losing in the next round to José Acasuso.At the...
6–7, 3–6. Dancevic lost in the final qualifying round of the 2009 Australian Open
2009 Australian Open - Men's Singles
The 2009 men's tournament is considered to be one of the best Grand Slam tournaments in open era history. It is remembered for containing many of the best matches of the 2009 year, including the Nadal v Verdasco semi final and the Nadal v Federer final...
as the No. 14 seed but has been entered into the main draw as a lucky loser, where he lost in the first round to No. 9 seed James Blake
James Blake
James Riley Blake is an American professional tennis player. Blake is known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. As of August 2011, Blake is ranked no. 63 among active male players with 24 career finals appearances...
in straight sets. He then lost the following week 4–6, 1–6 to Ramón Delgado
Ramon Delgado
Ramón Delgado is a tennis player from Paraguay, who turned professional in 1995. At the 1998 French Open, he defeated Pete Sampras in the second round. He has not won a single title during his career so far...
in the first round of the Carson, California challenger
Countrywide Classic USTA Challenger
The USTA LA Tennis Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour and the ITF Women's circuit. It is held annually at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California, USA, since...
. Two weeks later Dancevic lost in the first round of qualifying of the 2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup
2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup
The 2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup was an ATP World Tour and WTA Tour event held at the hardcourts of the Racquet Club of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. It was the 34th edition of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the 23rd edition of the Cellular South...
. He followed this result by qualifying and losing in the first round of the 2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships
2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships
The 2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 17th edition of the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, and was part of the International Series of the 2009 ATP Tour...
, 5–7, 3–6 to top seed Mardy Fish
Mardy Fish
Mardy Simpson Fish is an American professional tennis player, and Olympic silver medalist. He is a hardcourt specialist...
.
After Canada's first Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
tie of the year (see section below), Dancevic took a week off. He next qualified for the main draw of the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open
2009 Sony Ericsson Open
The 2009 Sony Ericsson Open was a men's and women's tennis tournament held from March 23 to April 5, 2009. It was the 25th edition of the Miami Masters event and was played on outdoor hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida, located near Miami...
, defeating Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut is a French tennis player. Mahut is right-handed and has previously won the Orange Bowl in 1999, becoming professional in 2000. He is a good serve and volleyer and a doubles expert, having won many tournaments with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. His career high...
and top seed Dudi Sela
Dudi Sela
David "Dudi" Sela is an Israeli professional tennis player.Sela reached a career-high singles ranking of # 29 in July 2009. He is currently Israel's top men's singles player, ahead of Amir Weintraub.As a 17-year-old junior, he won the 2003 French Open boys' doubles championship with his doubles...
, 6–2, 6–4. Dancevic then upset Philipp Kohlschreiber
Philipp Kohlschreiber
Philipp Kohlschreiber is a tennis player from Germany, who turned professional in 2001. The right-hander has won six doubles and three singles titles. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 28 September 2009, when he achieved a ranking of World No. 22...
6–4, 7–6 in the first round before losing to World No. 3 Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked world no. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals since 4 July 2011. He has won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008 and 2011 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open...
3–6, 2–6. Dancevic then returned to poor form, losing in the first round of three consecutive Challenger events. After taking a few weeks off from competition, he lost in the first round of qualifying for the French Open
2009 French Open
The 2009 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 108th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...
, to World No. 221 Jean-René Lisnard
Jean-René Lisnard
Jean-René Lisnard is a professional tennis player who represents Monaco, and formerly France. He has been a member of the Monaco Davis Cup team since 2007...
in straight sets, despite having been the No. 7 seed. He then lost in the first round of the AEGON Trophy
AEGON Trophy
The AEGON Trophy is an yearly tennis tournament played in Nottingham, England. The tournament is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour, and of the International Tennis Federation Women's Circuit as a 50k event. The tournament's key sponor is Dutch insurance...
Challenger and second round of qualifying for the AEGON Championships
2009 AEGON Championships
The 2009 AEGON Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 38th edition of the event known that year as the AEGON Championships, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour...
as the top seed. Both of these tournaments are played on grass which is arguably Dancevic's best surface, although the at least his first match at Queen's Club was played indoors on a synthetic surface due to rain.
Dancevic has rebounded in a big way on the eve of Wimbledon, having reached the final of an ATP Tour event for only his second time, the AEGON International
2009 AEGON International
The 2009 AEGON International is a combined men's and women's tennis tournament to be played on outdoor grass courts. It will be the 34th edition of the event for the women and the 1st edition for the men. It is classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour and as an ATP World Tour 250...
. He first easily qualified for the grass court tourney, and then defeated top seed Igor Andreev
Igor Andreev
Igor Valerievich Andreev is a Russian professional tennis player, born in Moscow.-2003:Andreev made his ATP debut in September 2003 at Bucharest, Romania as a qualifier and defeated top seed Nikolay Davydenko 7–5, 6–7, 6–0 in the first round, before losing in the next round to José Acasuso.At the...
, 7–6, 6–2, in the first round. Dancevic then defeated British Wildcard James Ward
James Ward (tennis)
James Ward is a British tennis player, and British no. 2 behind Andy Murray. As of 22 August 2011 he is ranked 139 in the ATP singles rankings and 234 in doubles...
7–6, 6–4 to advance to the quarterfinals where he faced Leonardo Mayer
Leonardo Mayer
Leonardo Martin Mayer is an Argentine professional tennis player.Mayer achieved a singles career high of world no. 51 on June 7, 2010. His career high in doubles was world no. 94 on March 1, 2010.http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/player.asp?player=100049039 He is coached by Emiliano Redondi...
. After a three set win, he beat veteran Frenchman Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Vetea Santoro is a retired French professional male tennis player from Tahiti. Though not counted among the top ranked players, he had an unusually long professional career – with many of his accomplishments coming toward the end of his career – and he is popular among spectators and other...
6–4, 6–4 to advance to his second ever ATP tour final, which he lost to Dmitry Tursunov
Dmitry Tursunov
Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov is a Russian professional male tennis player. He was 12 years old when he came to the United States to train and further his prospects of becoming a professional player....
, 3–6, 6–7, who coincidentally defeated Dancevic in his first ATP final. Frank has attributed his turnaround with returning to work with his former coach, Martin Laurendeau
Martin Laurendeau
Martin Laurendeau is a former touring professional tennis player, and present coach and captain of the Canadian Davis Cup team....
. Despite this good form however, he went on to lose 6–4, 7–6, 6–3 to Belgian Steve Darcis
Steve Darcis
Steve Darcis is a male professional tennis player. He achieved his career high ranking of #44 on 12 May 2008.-2007:...
in the first round of Wimbledon. Forturnately for him, despite this lose, Dancevic only dropped one place in the ATP rankings.
Dancevic lost in the first round of the 2009 Hall of Fame Championships
2009 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships - Singles
Fabrice Santoro was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Sam Querrey.-Seeds:# Mardy Fish # Fabrice Santoro # Sam Querrey # Benjamin Becker ...
, to No. 8 seed Sergiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Stakhovsky is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and had been playing mostly at the Challenger level from 2005–2008. His career high in singles of #31 and his high of #86 in doubles...
6–7, 6–2, 5–7. Having reached the semi-finals of this tourney last season, he has dropped 150 ranking points and his ranking has fallen from World No. 93 to No. 123. After a week off, Dancevic reached the semi-finals of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships
2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships - Singles
Gilles Simon was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.Robby Ginepri won in the final, 6–2, 6–4, against Sam Querrey.-Seeds:# Dmitry Tursunov # Dudi Sela # Sam Querrey ...
, defeating Bobby Reynolds
Bobby Reynolds
----Robert "Bobby" Thomas Reynolds in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) is an American professional tennis player who resides in Acworth, Georgia.-Professional career:...
6–2, 7–6, No. 5 seed Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker is a German professional tennis player. Becker's primary weapon is a very big serve that he can hit at up to 220km/h, along with powerful groundstrokes....
6–2, 7–5, and No. 1 seed Dmitry Tursunov 3–6, 7–6, 6–2, before falling to No. 2 seed Sam Querrey
Sam Querrey
Sam Austin Querrey is a professional American tennis player from Thousand Oaks, California currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of August 2010, he is the fourth-highest ranked American. His career high rank was #17, achieved on January 31, 2011. His height allows him to play with a strong...
4–6, 4–6. It was the second time that Dancevic reached the later rounds of this tournament, having reached the final in 2007, when he lost to Tursunov. Dancevic had not beaten the Russian No. 2 in 3 previous attempts. This result saw his ranking raise 7 spots to World No. 114.
The following week Dancevic fell in straight sets in the opening round of the LA Tennis Open
2009 LA Tennis Open - Singles
Juan Martín del Potro was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.-Seeds:The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.# Tommy Haas # Mardy Fish ...
to Marcos Baghdatis
Marcos Baghdatis
At the French Open, Baghdatis lost in the second round in five sets to Frenchman Julien Benneteau, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 7-6, 4-6.At Wimbledon, Baghdatis defeated British player Andy Murray in the fourth round in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, Baghdatis beat the 2002 champion and former world no. 1...
. Last week Dancevic defeated qualifier Santiago Giraldo
Santiago Giraldo
Santiago Giraldo Salazar is a Colombian male tennis player from Pereira in Colombia. He plays on the ATP tour and represents Colombia in the Davis Cup competition.-ATP Tour:...
in the first round of the Legg Mason Classic
2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic - Singles
Juan Martín del Potro was the defending champion, and won for the second straight year in the final 3-6, 7-5, 7-6, over Andy Roddick.-Seeds:All seeds receive a bye into the second round.# Andy Roddick # Juan Martín del Potro...
, but has lost to No. 10 seed Tommy Haas
Tommy Haas
Tommy Haas is a German and recently naturalized American professional tennis player. He has competed on the ATP Tour since 1996. After breaking into the world top 100 in 1997, and reaching a career-high ranking of world no...
in the second, 1–6, 6–4, 4–6. Last week Dancevic lost convincingly in the first round match of the Rogers Cup to No. 9 seed Gilles Simon
Gilles Simon
Gilles Simon is a French professional tennis player and former world no. 6. He is a nine-time winner on the ATP World Tour...
1–6, 2–6. Playing doubles in a tournament for the first time since March 2008, he and partner Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
Pierre-Ludovic Duclos-Lasnier, commonly referred to as Pierre-Ludovic Duclos, is a Canadian professional tennis player...
, a wild card entry, reached the second round. His sudden poor form has continued as he has lost in the first round of qualifying in singles for the 2009 US Open
2009 US Open (tennis)
The 2009 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 31 to September 14, 2009 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, New York City, United States. Originally, it was scheduled to end with the mens' singles final match on Sunday,...
to Dominik Meffert
Dominik Meffert
Dominik Meffert is a German professional tennis player. He qualified for the 2007 US Open, to this date his first and only Grand Slam competition, but lost in the first round. He is 6'6" tall and 210 lbs...
6–1, 4–6, 1–6, despite being the No. 6 seed. Dancevic has not played in a tour event since the US Open. In December he underwent back surgery to treat a herniated disk.
2010
Dancevic was first expected to return for either Indian Wells or Miami in March but did not. After then aiming to return at the Serbia Open2010 Serbia Open
The 2010 Serbia Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 2nd edition of the event. It was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour...
, he instead returned to action in June at the 2010 AEGON Trophy
2010 AEGON Trophy
The 2010 AEGON Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Nottingham, Great Britain between May 31 and June 6, 2010.-Seeds:*Rankings are as of May 24, 2010....
where he has lost to fellow unseeded player and eventual champion Ričardas Berankis
Ricardas Berankis
Ričardas Berankis is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the highest ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time.- Early career :Berankis began playing tennis at the age of two...
in the first round, 5–7, 6–7. The week after Dancevic, as the No. 8 seed, defeated Kaden Hensel, André Sá
André Sá
André Rezende Sá is a professional Brazilian tennis player. He is number 29 for doubles, and 467 for singles.-Personal:...
, and Daniel Cox
Daniel Cox
Daniel Cox , is a British tennis player.Daniel, whilst playing tennis for Lancashire, first came into international prominence when he reached the finals of Le Petit As, Tarbes...
to qualify for the main draw of the 2010 AEGON Championships
2010 AEGON Championships
The 2010 AEGON Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 39th edition of the AEGON Championships and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Queen's Club in London, United Kingdom, from June 7 through June 13,...
, where he lost in the first round to Dustin Brown
Dustin Brown (tennis)
Dustin Brown is a German-Jamaican professional tennis player. Brown competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 89, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No...
5–7, 7–6, 4–6.
Unseeded Dancevic lost soundly his qualifying in singles opening 3–6, 0–6 to No. 27 seed and grass-court specialist Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut is a French tennis player. Mahut is right-handed and has previously won the Orange Bowl in 1999, becoming professional in 2000. He is a good serve and volleyer and a doubles expert, having won many tournaments with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. His career high...
. He and Canadian doubles specialist Adil Shamasdin
Adil Shamasdin
Adil Shamasdin is a Canadian professional tennis player who specialises in doubles tennis.-Career:Adil's junior career saw him finish ranked #5 in singles and #1 in doubles in Canada. He reached his highest doubles ranking of World No. 67 on 14 February 2011...
also lost in the first round of doubles qualifying, in three sets. For the first time since January 2006, Dancevic is not Canada's top-ranked singles player, having plummeted to World No. 316. This is the lowest he has been ranked by the ATP in singles since July 2003.
Dancevic has a protected ranking of World No. 119 that he can use in 9 tournaments before next February. He used one of these to be a regular entrant in the main draw of the 2010 Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
2010 Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
The 2010 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 35th edition of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, and is part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour...
, a tournament with a entry cut-off ranking of World No. 140. Having defeated Marc Gicquel
Marc Gicquel
Marc Gicquel is a professional male tennis player from France. He turned pro in 1999.-Tennis career:...
in straight sets in the opening round and Nicolas Mahut in the second, Dancevic lost to Mardy Fish
Mardy Fish
Mardy Simpson Fish is an American professional tennis player, and Olympic silver medalist. He is a hardcourt specialist...
7–6, 4–6, 4–6. After a week off, Dancevic, unseeded, lost in qualifying for the inaugural Atlanta Tennis Championships
Atlanta Tennis Championships
The Atlanta Tennis Championships is an annual men's tennis tournament that is now played at the Atlanta Athletic Club in the Atlanta suburb of Johns Creek, Georgia as part of the ATP Tour....
. He has defeated World No. 629 Mark Verryth in the first round, 7–5, 7–6 but fell to No. 6 seed Nick Lindahl
Nick Lindahl
Nick Lindahl is a professional Australian tennis player.-Personal Life:Although he was born in Australia he has Swedish father and Indonesian mother. He has one older brother, David Lindahl.-Early career:...
in the second 6–7, 6–4, 3–6.
Dancevic next received a wild-card into the main draw of the 2010 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby
2010 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby
The 2010 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. It was the seventeenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour...
and reached the semi-finals. He beat No. 6 seed Igor Sijsling
Igor Sijsling
Igor Sijsling is a Dutch tennis player. He is coached by Dennis Schenk. He reached his career high ATP ranking of 126 on 13 December 2010.-External links:*...
7–5, 6–3, Toshihide Matsui
Toshihide Matsui
Toshihide Matsui is a Japanese tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On June 12, 2006, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 261 whilst his highest doubles ranking was 231 achieved on June 7, 2004....
6–4, 7–5, and veteran and two-time singles champion here Takao Suzuki
Takao Suzuki
----Takao Suzuki is a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from Japan....
in the quarters 7–6, 6–3, before retiring due to an injured thigh in his semi-final tie against No. 1 seed Tobias Kamke
Tobias Kamke
Tobias Kamke is a German tennis player. He reached his career high ranking in singles at No. 64 on 31 January 2011 and in doubles at No. 419 on 17 October 2011.-2008:...
while trailing 2–6, 0–1. He did not play doubles. The following week Frank was given a special exempt place in the main draw of the 2010 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open
2010 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open
The 2010 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2010 ITF Women's Circuit...
where he has lost his opening match to Harel Levy
Harel Levy
Har'el Levy is an Israeli professional male tennis player. Levy's best singles ranking was # 30 in the world in 2001, and his best doubles ranking was # 76 in 2007....
3–6, 4–6. Next he received a wild card into the singles main draw of the 2010 Rogers Cup
2010 Rogers Cup
The 2010 Canada Masters was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Canada. It was the 121st edition of the Canada Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2010 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier Series of the 2010 WTA Tour...
and lost to Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka is a Swiss professional tennis player. He also holds German citizenship as his father is German. His career ranking high is no. 9, achieved on 9 June 2008. He considers clay his best surface and his backhand his best shot...
in the first round, 1–6, 4–6. Dancevic also lost in the first round in doubles, partnering Adil Shamasdin
Adil Shamasdin
Adil Shamasdin is a Canadian professional tennis player who specialises in doubles tennis.-Career:Adil's junior career saw him finish ranked #5 in singles and #1 in doubles in Canada. He reached his highest doubles ranking of World No. 67 on 14 February 2011...
.
After a week off, Dancevic lost in the qualifying round of the US Open
2010 US Open (tennis)
The 2010 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 30 to September 13, 2010 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City, United States....
qualifying tournament. Having defeated Ivo Minář
Ivo Minár
Ivo Minář is a professional male tennis player from the Czech Republic. On July 20, 2009, Minář reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 62...
6–2, 6–3, and No. 12 seed Stéphane Bohli
Stéphane Bohli
Stéphane Bohli is a professional tennis player from Switzerland.-Doubles: 1 :-Challengers Wins:-External links:* Official Website of Stéphane Bohli...
3–6, 7–5, 7–6 he lost to No. 24 seed Kei Nishikori
Kei Nishikori
is a Japanese tennis player, currently ranked 25th in the world, as of 10 October 2011. He began playing tennis at the age of five, and on 17 July 2007 he qualified for his first ATP main draw event at the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles, California at the age of 17.-Junior career:Nishikori won...
4–6, 1–6. Two weeks ago Dancevic was part of the Canadian Davis Cup team
Canada Davis Cup team
The Canada Davis Cup team represents Canada in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by Tennis Canada.Canada currently competes in the Americas Zone of Group I. The team's best result came in its first appearance in 1913 when it reached the World Group final, losing to the United States 0–3...
in a playoff series versus the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic Davis Cup team
The Dominican Republic Davis Cup team represents the Dominican Republic in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Federación Dominicana de Tenis....
. With the winner to stay in the Americas Zone Group 1, Canada prevailed 5–0, at a tie played at home at the Rexall Centre
Rexall Centre
Rexall Centre is a tennis stadium in Toronto, Ontario. Rexall Centre is the venue for the professional Canada Masters tournament, held annually. The facility also is a year-round tennis training facility. The main stadium is occasionally used for seasonal concerts...
. Frank joined Daniel Nestor
Daniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
to win the doubles rubber in straight sets and he also won a dead rubber in singles. Last week he is the No. 3 seed at Canada F5 and was upset in the quarter-finals, to No. 5 seed Nikolaus Moser
Nikolaus Moser
Nikolaus Moser is a Austrian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On October 4, 2010, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 401, whilst his highest doubles ranking of 183 was reached on November 8, 2010....
6–2, 5–7, 6–7. It is the first time he has played in an ITF Futures event since March, 2004. He also played doubles partnering compatriot Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil is a Canadian professional tennis player. Pospisil is currently ranked World No. 124 in singles and No. 115 in doubles, both career highs. As Canada's No. 2 in singles and No...
and the duo reached the semi-finals, having upset the No. 1 seeds Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
Pierre-Ludovic Duclos-Lasnier, commonly referred to as Pierre-Ludovic Duclos, is a Canadian professional tennis player...
and Nicholas Monroe in the second round.
After a week off, Dancevic again used one of his protected ranking allotments to reach the second round of the Ethias Trophy
2010 Ethias Trophy – Singles
Janko Tipsarević, the last year's champion, did not defend his title.Adrian Mannarino defeated Steve Darcis 7–5, 6–2 in this year's final.-Seeds:# Xavier Malisse # Arnaud Clément # Olivier Rochus ...
in Belgium, knocking out No. 2 seed Arnaud Clément
Arnaud Clément
Arnaud Clément is a professional tennis player from France. His best achievement is reaching the final of the 2001 Australian Open.-Career:Clément was born in Aix-en-Provence, and currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland...
in the first round. Playing doubles too as a PR entrant, he doubles specialist Tomasz Bednarek
Tomasz Bednarek
Tomasz Bednarek born November 12, 1981 in Pabianice, Poland) is a professional tennis player from Poland.-Career:He is a doubles' specialist. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of 81 on April 19, 2010...
lost in the first round. The following week playing just singles, Dancevic reached the semi-finals of the 2010 Open de Rennes
2010 Open de Rennes
The 2010 Open de Rennes was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour...
, defeating again Clément, the No. 1 seed, in the quarterfinals, before falling to No. 5 seed Stéphane Bohli
Stéphane Bohli
Stéphane Bohli is a professional tennis player from Switzerland.-Doubles: 1 :-Challengers Wins:-External links:* Official Website of Stéphane Bohli...
9–7 in a third set tie break. The very next week however Dancevic lost in the first round in both singles, to unseeded and eventual semi-finalist David Guez
David Guez
David Guez is a French tennis player. He has a career high-ranking of 116 .-Career:Guez has played six major singles tournaments at professional level. At the 2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon he won with Rajeev Ram and reached to the second round, where he lost with Gilles Simon...
, 5–7, 1–6, and in doubles partnering Ilija Bozoljac
Ilija Bozoljac
Ilija Bozoljac or Ilia Bozoljac is a professional male tennis player from Serbia....
.
The following week, the last of October, Frank lost in the first qualifying round of the 2010 Open Sud de France
2010 Open Sud de France
The 2010 Open Sud de France was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is the 24th edition of the Open Sud de France, and is part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Arena Montpellier in Montpellier, France, from October 25 through 31, 2010...
World Tour event, to Belgian teenager David Goffin
David Goffin
David Goffin is a Belgian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He was born in Rocourt, Belgium, and currently resides in Liège, Belgium...
, 2–6, 3–6. After a couple of weeks off, last week, he used his protected ranking to compete in the main singles draw of the 2010 Ritro Slovak Open
2010 Ritro Slovak Open
The 2010 Ritro Slovak Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ series of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2010 ITF Women's Circuit...
, where he has lost to No. 5 seed and new Slovak No. 1 Lukáš Lacko
Lukáš Lacko
Lukáš Lacko is a professional Slovak tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking was 60, which he reached on February 22, 2010. His career high doubles ranking was 213 on November 30, 2009.- Tennis career :...
, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6. This week Dancevic is once again using protected ranking to enter straight into the singles main draw of the 2010 IPP Open
2010 IPP Open
The 2010 IPP Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour...
. He defeated veteran Frenchman and former top-60 player Antony Dupuis easily in the opening round, 6–1, 6–2, and veteran Russian and former top-40 player Igor Kunitsyn
Igor Kunitsyn
Igor Kunitsyn is a professional male tennis player from Russia. He made it into the top 100 for the first time in 2006, and reached a career-high singles ranking of 35 on July 6, 2009.-Early life:...
in the second round, 6–4, 6–4. Against Kunitsyn, Dancevic broke the Russian's serve three times out of four chances while saving 3 of 4 break points against. He has lost in the quarter-finals however to Ričardas Berankis
Ricardas Berankis
Ričardas Berankis is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the highest ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time.- Early career :Berankis began playing tennis at the age of two...
4–6, 2–6, in a match where Dancevic's opponent won 79% of points on Frank's second serve, and Frank, just 11% on his opponent's.
Dancevic ended 2010 ranked World No. 269 in singles and No. 1299 in doubles.
2011
Dancevic began 2011 by competing in the Chennai Open2011 Aircel Chennai Open – Singles
Marin Čilić was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the first round to Kei Nishikori.3rd seed Stanislas Wawrinka defeated 7th seed Xavier Malisse 7–5, 4–6, 6–1 in the final match.- Seeds :# Tomáš Berdych # Marin Čilić ...
, where he lost in the first round to No. 8 seed Robin Haase
Robin Haase
Robin Haase is a Dutch tennis player. Haase is currently the highest-ranked Dutch player, with his career high of No. 41 coming on 29 August 2011. He is endorsed by Head and SNS Reaal.-Career:...
7–6, 4–6, 4–6. He next successfully qualified
2011 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying
The 2011 Australian Open was a tennis tournament featuring six different competitions, and part of the 2011 ATP World Tour, the 2011 WTA Tour, ITF Junior Tour and the NEC Tour, as tournaments for professional, junior and wheelchair players were held...
for the 2011 Australian Open
2011 Australian Open
The 2011 Australian Open was a tennis tournament featuring six different competitions, and part of the 2011 ATP World Tour, the 2011 WTA Tour, ITF Junior Tour and the NEC Tour, as tournaments for professional, junior and wheelchair players were held...
, winning his three matches without dropping a set. He lost in the first round of the main draw, however, to No. 28 seed Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet is a French professional tennis player. He won the mixed doubles Grand Slam title at the 2004 French Open, partnering Tatiana Golovin. His highest ranking in singles is #7. His best achievements in tennis are reaching the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 2007 and later that year...
3–6, 4–6, 4–6.
At the SA Tennis Open
2011 SA Tennis Open – Singles
Feliciano López was the defending champion, but lost to Frank Dancevic in the first round.Kevin Anderson won this tournament. He defeated Somdev Devvarman 4–6, 6–3, 6–2 in the final.-Seeds:# Feliciano López # Lu Yen-hsun ...
, Dancevic upset defending champion and No. 1 seed Feliciano López
Feliciano López
Feliciano López Diaz-Guerra is a Spanish professional male tennis player. He was born in Toledo and now lives in the Spanish capital Madrid....
in the first round 7–6, 2–6, 7–6 and defeated wild card Fritz Wolmarans
Fritz Wolmarans
Fritz Wolmarans is a South African tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has also played for the South Africa Davis Cup team....
to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to No. 6 seed Adrian Mannarino
Adrian Mannarino
Adrian Mannarino is a professional tennis player from France. Mannarino competes predominantly on the ATP Challenger Series and Futures circuit. His career high rank is #53, achieved on 16 May 2011....
in straight sets. Three weeks later he lost in the qualifying round of the 2011 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships
2011 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships
The 2011 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP World Tour...
, to Alejandro Falla
Alejandro Falla
Alejandro Falla Ramirez is a professional male tennis player from Colombia. He turned pro in 2000, plays left-handed, weighs 169 lb and measures 6'1" . At the 2006 Wimbledon tournament, Falla upset 9th seed Nikolay Davydenko and at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open he beat 9th seed Tommy Haas in...
.
Early March saw Canada
Canada Davis Cup team
The Canada Davis Cup team represents Canada in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by Tennis Canada.Canada currently competes in the Americas Zone of Group I. The team's best result came in its first appearance in 1913 when it reached the World Group final, losing to the United States 0–3...
win their 2011 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group I
2011 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group I
The Americas Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2011.In the Americas Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.-Draw:-Mexico vs. Canada:...
tie away to Mexico, despite Dancevic squandering a two-set lead to loss to the in-form Daniel Garza
Daniel Garza
Daniel Garza Garza is a Mexican tennis playerHe participated in the Davis Cup representing Mexico eight times, his most important victory was during the 2008 Davis Cup tie against Uruguay which he win 6-7, 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 to Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas on Carpet.-Titles :-Singles:-External links:**...
in the opening rubber. The next two weeks saw Frank reach the second round of qualifying for the month's two ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
The ATP World Tour Masters 1000 is a series of nine tennis tournaments that are part of the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, held annually throughout the year in Europe, North America and Asia...
events in the US At Indian Wells
2011 BNP Paribas Open
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2011. It was the 36th edition of the event, known as the BNP Paribas Open, and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2011 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2011...
he fell in three sets to Alex Bogomolov, Jr.
Alex Bogomolov, Jr.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolov, most known as Alex Bogomolov Jr. , nicknamed Bogie, is a Russian professional tennis player.-Tennis career:...
while in Miami
2011 Sony Ericsson Open
The 2011 Sony Ericsson Open , a men's and women's tennis tournament, was held from March 21 to April 3, 2011. It was the 27th edition of the Miami Masters event and played on outdoor hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Miami...
he bowed out to Donald Young, 5–7 in the third.
Dancevic has had likely his best clay court
Clay court
A clay court is one of the four different types of tennis court. Clay courts are made of crushed shale, stone or brick. The red clay is slower than the green, or Har-Tru "American" clay. The French Open uses clay courts, making it unique among the Grand Slam tournaments.Clay courts are more common...
season ever, culminating in qualifying for the main draw of the French Open
2011 French Open
The 2011 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 110th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...
for the first time ever. He began by reaching the third round of qualifying for the 2011 US Men's Clay Court Championships. Following a first round exit at the Tallahassee Challenger, he reached the semi-finals of the 2011 Sarasota Open
2011 Sarasota Open
The 2011 Sarasota Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts. It was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Longboat Key, Florida, United States between April 23 and May 1, 2011.-Seeds:...
. He next lost soundly, however, in the first round of the 2011 Savannah Challenger
2011 Savannah Challenger
The 2011 Savannah Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour...
to Donald Young, 1–6, 2–6. Without any European clay match play, he opened French Open qualifying
2011 French Open – Men's Singles Qualifying
-Seeds:# Alex Bogomolov Jr. # Horacio Zeballos # Matthias Bachinger # Illya Marchenko # Denis Gremelmayr # Jaroslav Pospíšil ...
with a convincing 6–2, 6–2 win over No. 15 seed Lukáš Lacko
Lukáš Lacko
Lukáš Lacko is a professional Slovak tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking was 60, which he reached on February 22, 2010. His career high doubles ranking was 213 on November 30, 2009.- Tennis career :...
. He then took out clay-courter Eduardo Schwank
Eduardo Schwank
Eduardo Jonatan Schwank is a professional tennis player from Argentina on the ATP Tour. He is currently coached by Javier Nalbandian, the brother of David Nalbandian....
in two tie breaks. He qualified with a solid 6–1, 6–3 win over journeyman Victor Crivoi
Victor Crivoi
Victor Crivoi is a Romanian tennis player who lives in Bucharest. In 2005, he played in the International Tennis Federation's Professional Circuit and won seven titles. As a result, he was named the ITF's "Player Of The Year" for 2005. At the end of 2005, he was ranked #269 by the ATP, up from...
. Despite a favourable draw for the first round Dancevic advanced no further however, falling to Lucky Loser entrant Simone Bolelli
Simone Bolelli
Simone Bolelli is a professional Italian tennis player.- 2003 :In 2003, Bolelli reached his first ITF Futures tournament semifinal at Egypt F1, losing to 485th-ranked Jaroslav Pospíšil. He played entirely Futures events except for one Challenger tournament in Brindisi, losing to Galo Blanco in the...
in four sets.
Perhaps buoyed by his French Open success, Dancevic opted to enter directly into the main draw of the smaller clay court 2011 Rijeka Open
2011 Rijeka Open
The 2011 Rijeka Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour...
rather than go through qualifying for the year's first grass court tourney, the 2011 AEGON Trophy
2011 AEGON Trophy
The 2011 AEGON Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2011 ITF Women's Circuit...
. He drew top seed Blaž Kavčič
Blaž Kavčič
Blaž Kavčič is a Slovenian professional tennis player, turned professional in 2005. He considers clay his favourite surface...
, and lost 4–6, 5–7.
Dancevic played well to qualify for the main draw of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships
2011 Wimbledon Championships
The 2011 Wimbledon Championships took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, from 20 June to 3 July 2011. It was the 125th edition of the championships, and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was played on grass courts and was part of the...
, not dropping more than four games in a set over three matches. He began in the same vein in his main draw first round match, against veteran Brazilian Ricardo Mello
Ricardo Mello
Ricardo Mello is a Brazilian tennis player. His preference is for clay courts. He has had the occasional win in hard court tournaments. His best singles rank was no. 50 in 2005...
, winning the first two sets 6–3, 6–3, but failed twice to hold his own serve in a deciding game in the next two sets and then to convert two match points, in a tie break. Mello handily won the deciding set 6–2. This week Dancevic is playing neither Davis Cup nor defending ranking points for a quarter-finals appearance at the Hall of Fame Championships, on grass. Rumour is that his back has been acting up for the past month and he has been adviced to take time of.Dancevic qualified For The 2011 US Open
2011 US Open (tennis)
The 2011 US Open was a tennis tournament played on the outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park, of Queens, New York City, United States...
Setting a record in men's tennis becoming the first person to qualify for all 4 majors in one year.http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=116243&page=87.
Titles (7)
| Legend (Singles) |
|---|
| ATP Tour (0) |
| Challengers (5) |
| Futures (2) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | January 19, 2003 |  Gainesville, USA |
Hard |  Wolfgang Schranz |
7–6(7–3), 6–4 |
| 2. | June 22, 2003 |  Montreal, Canada |
Hard | Huntley Montgomery |
6–4, 4–6, 6–3 |
| 3. | July 13, 2003 | Granby Granby Challenger The Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Granby, Quebec, Canada, since 1993.... , Canada |
Hard |  Eric TainoEric Taino Eric Taino is a retired minor tour tennis player who represented the Philippines. He started a professional career in 1997. Before turning pro, he played for the UCLA Bruins along with fellow pros Justin Gimelstob and Kevin Kim.Taino achieved his highest ranking of World No... |
7–6(12–10), 6–1 |
| 4. | July 27, 2003 | Lexington Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships The Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour and the ITF Women's tour. It is held annually at the Hilary J... , USA |
Hard |  Petr Kralert |
7–5, 6–4 |
| 5. | January 29, 2006 | Waikoloa, USA |
Hard |  Yen-Hsun Lu |
6–7(15–17), 6–2, 6–2 |
| 6. | July 30, 2006 | Granby, Canada |
Hard |  Tobias Clemens |
6–7(2–7), 7–6(8–6), 6–3 |
| 7. | June 8, 2008 |  SurbitonThe Surbiton Trophy The Surbiton Trophy was a tennis tournament for male professional players played on grass courts. The event was held annually in Surbiton, England, from 1998 through 2008 as part of the ATP Challenger Series. In 2009 it was replaced by the AEGON Trophy in Nottingham-Singles:-Doubles:-External links:*... , United Kingdom |
Grass |  Kevin AndersonKevin Anderson (tennis) Kevin Anderson is a male South African tennis player.He became the top-ranked South African player on 10 March 2008 after making the final at the 2008 Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas... |
4–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–4) |
Runners-up (12)
| Legend (Singles) |
|---|
| ATP Tour (2) |
| Challengers (6) |
| Futures (4) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | May 26, 2002 | Tampa, USA |
Hard |  José de ArmasJosé de Armas José de Armas is a Venezuelan professional tennis player.-Runner-Up :-External links:*... |
6–7(6–8), 7–5, 4–6 |
| 2. | January 26, 2003 | Kissimmee, USA |
Hard | Matias Boeker |
2–6, 6–7(6–8) |
| 3. | June 15, 2003 | Mississauga, CAN |
Hard |  Rameez JunaidRameez Junaid Rameez Junaid is an Australian tennis player of Pakistani descent.Junaid is based in Melbourne, Victoria. He usually plays doubles with Philipp Marx from Germany. Rameez is currently ranked top 100 in doubles, and has also played doubles with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi before, in Dubai in... |
2–6, 6–3, 3–6 |
| 4. | March 21, 2004 |  Poitiers, FRA |
Hard (Indoor) |  Uros VicoUros Vico Uros Vico is a Croatian-born Italian tennis player.Vico has yet to win any titles on the ATP Tour and has reached one final, in doubles. He plays mainly challenger tournaments.-Wins :-Runners-up :... |
6–7(6–8), 4–6 |
| 5. | July 25, 2004 | Aptos Comerica Bank Challenger The Comerica Bank Challenger is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Seascape Sports Club in Aptos, California, USA, since 1988.-Singles:-Doubles:-External links:**... , USA |
Hard | Kevin Kim Kevin Kim - External links :* *... |
6–7(2–7), 3–6 |
| 6. | November 5, 2005 | Boston, USA |
Hard (Indoor) | Paul Goldstein |
7–5, 5–7, 3–6 |
| 7. | February 26, 2006 | Besançon Internationaux du Doubs – Open de Franche-Comté The Internationaux du Doubs – Open de Franche-Comté is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Besançon, France, since 1996 .-Singles:-Doubles:-External links:**... , FRA |
Hard (Indoor) | Nicolas Mahut Nicolas Mahut Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut is a French tennis player. Mahut is right-handed and has previously won the Orange Bowl in 1999, becoming professional in 2000. He is a good serve and volleyer and a doubles expert, having won many tournaments with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. His career high... |
3–6, 4–6 |
| 8. | May 7, 2006 | Atlanta, USA |
Har Tru |  Diego HartfieldDiego Hartfield Diego Hartfield , nicknamed El Gato Hartfield is a tennis player on the ATP Tour from Argentina.-Career:... |
5–7, 0–6 |
| 9. | April 22, 2007 |  PagetXL Bermuda Open The XL Bermuda Open is a tennis tournament played since 1995 on clay courts. The event is held annually in Paget in Bermuda and is part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It was part of the ATP World Tour in 1995 and 1996.-Key:-Singles:-Doubles:... , BER |
Har Tru | Mariano Zabaleta Mariano Zabaleta Mariano Zabaleta is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. He turned professional in 1996. He had an unusual but effective service motion and fighting spirit... |
5–7, 7–5, 3–6 |
| 10. | July 29, 2007 | Indianapolis, USA |
Hard |  Dmitry TursunovDmitry Tursunov Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov is a Russian professional male tennis player. He was 12 years old when he came to the United States to train and further his prospects of becoming a professional player.... |
4–6, 5–7 |
| 11. | September 28, 2008 | Lubbock Lubbock Challenger The Lubbock Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Lubbock, Texas since 2005. The event is part of the challenger series and is played on outdoor hard courts.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :**... , USA |
Hard | John Isner John Isner John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of no. 18 on July 5, 2010, and has been as high as the second-ranked American tennis player behind Andy Roddick... |
6–7(2–7), 6–4, 2–6 |
| 12. | June 20, 2009 | Eastbourne 2009 AEGON International The 2009 AEGON International is a combined men's and women's tennis tournament to be played on outdoor grass courts. It will be the 34th edition of the event for the women and the 1st edition for the men. It is classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour and as an ATP World Tour 250... , GBR |
Grass | Dmitry Tursunov Dmitry Tursunov Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov is a Russian professional male tennis player. He was 12 years old when he came to the United States to train and further his prospects of becoming a professional player.... |
3–6, 6–7(5–7) |
Titles (2)
| Legend (Singles) |
|---|
| ATP Tour (0) |
| Challengers (1) |
| Futures (1) |
| No. | |Date | |Tournament | |Surface | |Partner | |Opponent in the final | |Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 13 January 2003 | U.S.A. F1, Gainesville Gainesville Gainesville is the name of several places in the United States of America:*Gainesville, Alabama*Gainesville, Florida, largest municipality with this name*Gainesville, Georgia*Gainesville, Missouri*Gainesville , New York... |
Hard (Outdoor) | Simon Larose Simon Larose Simon Larose is a former professional tennis player. He was Canada's top-ranked singles player for some months during 2003 and 2004... |
Benjamin Cassaigne  Aisam-ul-Haq QureshiAisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi is a professional tennis player from Pakistan. He is currently Pakistan's top player. A top 10 doubles player, his highest Singles Race ranking is 103rd and is the former Asian No. 3... |
6–3, 6–4 |
| 2. | 12 July 2004 | Granby Challenger Granby Challenger The Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Granby, Quebec, Canada, since 1993.... , Granby Granby, Quebec Granby is a city in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 47,637. Granby is the seat of La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality. It is the fifth most populated city in Montérégie after Longueuil, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Brossard and... |
Hard (Outdoor) | Brian Baker Brian Baker (tennis) Brian Baker is a professionally ranked tennis player from Nashville, Tennessee.Baker's biggest win occurred on On August 29, 2005, when he scored an upset victory over ninth seeded Gastón Gaudio in the 2005 US Open, in Baker's only appearance in the grand slam event main draw.Baker originally... |
 Harel LevyHarel Levy Har'el Levy is an Israeli professional male tennis player. Levy's best singles ranking was # 30 in the world in 2001, and his best doubles ranking was # 76 in 2007.... Davide SanguinettiDavide Sanguinetti Davide Sanguinetti is an Italian former professional male tennis player.Born in Viareggio in Tuscany, he attended the Harry Hopman academy in Florida and then UCLA... |
6–2, 7–6(7–5) |
Runner-up (4)
| Legend (Singles) |
|---|
| ATP Tour (1) |
| Challengers (2) |
| Futures (1) |
| No. | |Date | |Tournament | |Surface | |Partner | |Opponent in the final | |Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 9 June 2003 | Canada F1, Mississauga | Hard (Outdoor) |  Ryan Russell |
Trace Fielding Andrew Nisker |
4–6, 6–7(2–7) |
| 2. | 25 July 2005 | Granby Challenger Granby Challenger The Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Granby, Quebec, Canada, since 1993.... , Granby Granby, Quebec Granby is a city in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 47,637. Granby is the seat of La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality. It is the fifth most populated city in Montérégie after Longueuil, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Brossard and... |
Hard (Outdoor) | Philip Bester Philip Bester Philip Bester is a Canadian professional tennis player from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Bester was a finalist at the 2006 junior French Open. In doing so he became the first Canadian to reach a grand slam final in singles, and is only the second ever to do so.-As a junior:Bester... |
 Johan Landsberg Yen-Hsun Lu |
6–4, 6–7(5–7), 5–7 |
| 3. | 1 October 2007 | Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo | Hard (Outdoor) | Stephen Huss Stephen Huss (tennis) Stephen Huss , is a professional tennis player from Australia. He is also citizen of Sweden.... |
Jordan Kerr Jordan Kerr Jordan Kerr is an Australian professional tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 356th, which he reached on 7 August 2000. His career high in doubles was at 23rd, which he reached on 18 August 2008... Robert LindstedtRobert Lindstedt Robert Lindstedt is a Swedish professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1998, and is a doubles specialist... |
4–6, 4–6 |
| 4. | 27 October 2008 | Ford Tennis Championships Ford Tennis Championships The Ford Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Louisville, Kentucky since 2006. The event is part of the challenger series and is played on indoor hard courts.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :**... , Louisville Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096... |
Hard (Outdoor) |  Dušan VemićDušan Vemic Dušan Vemić is a Serbian professional tennis player. He was born on June 17, 1976, in Zadar, in Yugoslavia, now Croatia; he currently lives in Belgrade.-Professional career:... |
 Prakash AmritrajPrakash Amritraj Prakash Amritraj is a now inactive tour professional tennis player.-Background:Amritaj is the son of Indian tennis great Vijay Amritraj, who played at Wimbledon for 17 years and in the Davis Cup for 20 years. He is also the cousin of fellow tour pro Stephen Amritraj, whose father Anand was also a... Jesse LevineJesse Levine Jesse Levine is a Canadian-born American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles rank of No. 94 on November 3, 2008.... |
3–6, 6–7(10–12) |
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
| Tournament | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | SR | W–L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open Australian Open The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court... |
A | Q2 | Q3 | Q3 | 2R | 1R | 1R | A | 1R | 0 / 4 | 1–4 |
| French Open | A | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | 1R | Q1 | A | 1R | 0 / 2 | 0–2 |
| Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors... |
A | Q1 | Q2 | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | Q1 | 1R | 0 / 5 | 2–5 |
| US Open | Q2 | Q2 | A | Q2 | 1R | 1R | Q1 | Q3 | 1R | 0 / 3 | 0–3 |
| Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 0 / 14 | 3–14 |
Davis Cup
In Davis CupDavis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
, Dancevic has a 13 and 12 win-lose record in 15 ties, 19–12 in singles play and 3–0 in doubles. His effort over Voltchkov was not enough to see Canada through to the World Group for 2006 as the Canadians fell 2–3 to Belarus
Belarus Davis Cup team
The Belarus Davis Cup team represents Belarus in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Belarus Tennis Association.In 2007, Belarus competed in the World Group for the 4th successive year. Until then it was the only team that never relegated from the World Group...
in their September 2005 World Group play-off tie. In 2003 however, Dancevic's win over Flávio Saretta
Flávio Saretta
Flávio Saretta Filho is a professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1998....
in the deciding 5th match saw Canada defeat Brazil and enter the World Group for only the second time. They subsequently lost to the Netherlands
Netherlands Davis Cup team
The Netherlands Davis Cup team represents the Netherlands in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Royal Dutch Lawn Tennis Federation.The Netherlands currently competes in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I...
in the 2004 World Group as Dancevic went down to both Sjeng Schalken
Sjeng Schalken
Sjeng Schalken is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.-Playing style:A right-handed baseliner with a single-handed backhand, Schalken's game is characterised by his consistency of both wings and his continental technique on both the forehand and backhand...
and Martin Verkerk
Martin Verkerk
Martin Willem Verkerk is a retired Dutch tennis player. As a relatively unknown player, he had a brilliant run at the French Open in 2003, reaching the final before losing to Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero...
, both matches going four sets.
In the 2007 Americas Group I semifinals Dancevic lost a close Round 1 match to Ricardo Mello
Ricardo Mello
Ricardo Mello is a Brazilian tennis player. His preference is for clay courts. He has had the occasional win in hard court tournaments. His best singles rank was no. 50 in 2005...
6–3, 7–6, 3–6, 3–6, 7–9 as Canada lost the tie, played away in Florianópolis
Florianópolis
-Climate:Florianópolis experiences a warm humid subtropical climate, falling just short of a true tropical climate. The seasons of the year are distinct, with a well-defined summer and winter, and characteristic weather for autumn and spring. Frost is infrequent, but occurs occasionally in the winter...
, to Brazil
Brazil Davis Cup team
The Brazil Davis Cup team represents Brazil in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Brazilian Tennis Confederation.Brazil currently compete in the Americas Zone of Group I...
, 1–3. He missed 2008 Davis Cup action due to injury and/or lack of fitness, as the team again lost in the Americas Group I semifinal stage.
Dancevic defeated Giovanni Lapentti
Giovanni Lapentti
Giovanni Lapentti Gómez is a Ecuadorian tennis player. His brother is Nicolás Lapentti, another professional tennis player, while a third brother, Leonardo, has also been active at the lower levels of professional tennis....
in straight sets to level Canada at 1 with Ecuador
Ecuador Davis Cup team
The Ecuador Davis Cup team represents Ecuador in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Ecuador Tennis Federation.Ecuador currently compete in the Americas Zone of Group II...
in a 2009 first-round Americas Zone 1 tie played indoors at the Rexall Centre
Rexall Centre
Rexall Centre is a tennis stadium in Toronto, Ontario. Rexall Centre is the venue for the professional Canada Masters tournament, held annually. The facility also is a year-round tennis training facility. The main stadium is occasionally used for seasonal concerts...
. He lost the fourth rubber to Nicolás Lapentti
Nicolás Lapentti
----Nicolás Alexander Lapentti Gómez is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador who is ranked 214th...
3–6, 7–5, 6–4, 6–7, 6–1 despite having two match points in the fourth set tie-break. Canada went on to lose the tie 2–3.
Dancevic was again named to the Davis Cup team, this time for a September, 2010, in a tie versus the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic Davis Cup team
The Dominican Republic Davis Cup team represents the Dominican Republic in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Federación Dominicana de Tenis....
. The winner to stay in the Americas Group 1 for 2011. Canada won the tie 5–0 as Dancevic partnered Daniel Nestor
Daniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
to a victory in the doubles rubber. He also won a dead singles rubber.
Personal
Dancevic's father is John and mother Doris. His mother is QuébécoiseFrench-speaking Quebecer
French-speaking Quebecers are francophone residents of the Canadian province of Quebec....
, from Rouyn-Noranda, and his has paternal family roots from the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
. Dancevic has three younger sisters. Monika, born in 1986, is a top-ranked tennis player who in 2009 completed her NCAA tennis career at the University of Georgia. She was the NCAA number 35 ranked singles player as a sophomore for the Bulldogs in 2006–07 and has been ranked by the WTA as high as World No. 775. Sonja and Kristina are twins born in 1989.