Viktor Troicki

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**Viktor Troicki**
Troicki at the 2007 Croatia Open Umag
Country	Serbia
Residence	Belgrade, Serbia
Date of birth	February 10, 1986 (1986-02-10) (age 22)
Place of birth	Belgrade, Serbia (then SFRY)
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	85 kg (190 lb)
Turned pro	2006
Plays	right-handed
Career prize money	$227,745
Singles
Career record:	8–12
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	98 (May 12, 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1R (2008)
French Open	1R (2008)
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-
Doubles
Career record:	2–5
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	247 (February 11, 2008)
Infobox last updated on: March 25, 2008.

Viktor Troicki (Serbian Cyrillic: Виктор Троицки, born February 10, 1986 in Belgrade) is a professional tennis player from Serbia. He is currently ranked No. 98 player on ATP singles rankings; fourth Serbian tennis player. Viktor Troicki is of Russian descent. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Tver to Serbia in 1917. ^[1]

1 Career
2 Challengers and futures singles titles (4)
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

He started playing tennis at the age of 5. From 2003, he started playing Futures tournaments in Serbia; and in 2004, he won his first tennis tournament in his home town of Belgrade. He won his first Challenger Tournaments also in Belgrade, on January 20, 2005, beating Fabio Colangelo from Italy 6–2, 6–1.

He made his debut on ATP Tour in Tokyo, in October 2006. He passed the first round, beating Fernando Vicente from Spain 6–7(4), 6–4, 6-2; after losing to No. 1 tennis player, Roger Federer in a tight match, 7–6(2), 7–6(3).

In July 2007, in Umag, where he, as a qualifier, made his biggest win over No. 3 tennis player, a countryman and friend Novak Đoković in a second round; he eventually lost in the semifinals to Andrei Pavel of Romania.

Troicki's first grand slam tournament came when he advanced as a qualifier for the 2008 Australian Open. Facing No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal in the first round, he played a tight match and held a set point in the first set, but lost 7–6(3), 7–5, 6–1.

His next appearance was in the ATP Masters Series in Miami, Florida on 24 March 2008. He faced former No. 1 (Ranked and Seeded 6th) Andy Roddick in the second round, where Troicki was ranked 119th. It was an interesting match, taking the first set off Roddick, where he attempted an angled drop-shot in which Roddick returned it with an even more angled shot on his backhand. After this, it seemed to go downhill for Troicki and he eventually lost 5-7, 6-2, 6-4.

[edit] Challengers and futures singles titles (4)

Legend
Challengers (1)
Futures (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	August 16, 2004	Belgrade, Serbia	Clay	Alberto Soriano	6–2, 6–1
2.	June 20, 2005	Belgrade, Serbia	Clay	Fabio Colangelo	6–2, 6–1
3.	April 3, 2006	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Philipp Petzschner	6–4, 6–0
4.	April 24, 2006	Dharwad, India	Hard	Łukasz Kubot	2–6, 6–4, 6–4