Ivica Ančić is a professional tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player from Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

. His younger siblings, Mario

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...

 and Sanja

Sanja Ancic

Sanja Ančić is a Croatian professional tennis player born in Split to Stipe and Nilda Ančić. Ančić plays right-handed, has a two-handed backhand and is the sister of professional tennis players Ivica and Mario Ančić....

, are also professional tennis players.

Tennis career

During his career, from 1996 until 2001, Ančić played Challenger

Challenger

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 and Futures tournaments.

Twice however he did appear in a main draw match at the ATP Tour-level, both times in doubles. In his second-ever professional tour match in fact Ančić partnered Ivo Karlović

Ivo Karlovic

Ivo Karlović is a Croatian tennis player. He has won four ATP singles titles: three in 2007 and one in 2008. Karlović is the tallest player ever on the ATP Tour at 208 cm . He is a serve-and-volleyer, Karlovic holds the fastest serve recorded in professional tennis, measured at 251 km/h ...

 in the 1997 Croatian Indoors Grand Prix event in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

. The pair lost to eventual finalists Brent Haygarth

Brent Haygarth

Brent Haygarth , is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 6 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 6 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No...

 and Mark Keil

Mark Keil

Mark Keil is a former professional tennis player from the United States and now tennis coach who won 5 ATP World Tour doubles tournaments and was runner up at 8 more.-Early life and college:...

 in a third set tie-break. A year later at the same tournament (but in Split), Ančić partnered another future Croatian star, Ivan Ljubičić

Ivan Ljubicic

----Ivan Ljubičić is a Croatian tennis player born in Bosnia and Herzegovina . His career-high ATP ranking to date has been no. 3, and he stands at no. 37....

 in a first round lose to Dino Pescariu and Davide Sanguinetti

Davide 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...

, 3-6, 6-7.

Ančić captured one Futures title, Croatia F1 in 2000 in doubles partnering his brother Mario

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...

. In May, 1997, he finished second in the Croatia #2 Satellite

Satellite tournament

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 series, collecting 41 ATP Tour points in the process.

As for grand slam

Grand Slam (tennis)

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 tennis action, in 1998 Ančić lost in the first round of singles qualifying for the Australian Open

Australian Open

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, 2-6, 6-7(6) to No. 29 seed Doug Flach

Doug Flach

Doug Flach is a former tennis player from the United States.Flach won two doubles titles during his career. The right-hander reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on March 21, 1994, when he reached World No. 108. He defeated Andre Agassi in the first round at Wimbledon in...

.

Ančić's career highest singles ranking was World No. 378, which he reached October 27, 1997. His best doubles ranking was World No. 562, which he achieved April 20, 1998. His total career prize money is $10,208.

Since September 2011 he is the coach of Dutch tennis player Thiemo de Bakker.

Doubles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	February 14, 2000	Croatia F1 Zagreb Zagreb Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...	Clay	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...	Roko Karanušić Roko Karanušic Roko Karanušić is a Croatian professional tennis player. He turned pro in 2000, and his career high was on February 2, 2009, when he reached No. 88 in the ATP rankings.-Singles Titles:...  &   Željko Krajan Željko Krajan Željko Krajan is a Croatian tennis coach and former professional tennis player.Krajan, a native of Varaždin, began playing tennis at age six. His greatest success as a junior player was winning the Orange Bowl doubles tournament with Ivan Ljubičić in 1995.Krajan started his pro career at the ATP...	6-4, 5-7, 7-5

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