Dejan Petrović

Dejan Petrović
Country (sports)	Australia; (until 2003); Serbia and Montenegro; (2003–2006); Serbia; (from 2006)
Residence	Kragujevac, Serbia
Born	3 April 1978 (age 46); Adelaide, Australia
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	US$165,819
Singles
Career record	2–6 (25.0%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 157 (7 August 2000)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2000, 2001)
Wimbledon	1R (2000)
Doubles
Career record	5–8 (38.5%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 116 (15 July 2002)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (1999, 2002)
Wimbledon	2R (2002)
US Open	1R (2001)
Coaching career (2003–)
	Novak Djokovic (2004–2005); Serbia and Montenegro Davis Cup team (2005–2006); Serbia Davis Cup team (2006–2007); Jelena Janković (2006); Nikola Milojević (2011–2012); Ana Ivanovic (2014–2015); Ivana Jorović (2015–2016); Laslo Djere (2016–2018); Malek Jaziri (?–);

Dejan Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Петровић; born 3 April 1978) is an Australian-born Serbian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. He played Davis Cup for Serbia and Montenegro.

Career[edit]

Petrović made his Grand Slam debut in the 1998 Australian Open, partnering Grant Silcock in the doubles. They were eliminated in the opening round but made it into the second round a year later, at the 1999 Australian Open. In 2002 he reached the second round at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, partnering Todd Perry and then David Škoch.^[1]

As a singles player, Petrović made two Australian Open appearances and played once at Wimbledon, but didn't win a match in either event. He lost four set matches to Leander Paes and Sargis Sargsian in the Australian Opens and lost in straight sets to Martin Damm at Wimbledon.^[2]

He was a wildcard entrant in the 2000 AAPT Championships, held in his hometown, Adelaide. After defeating Frenchman Stéphane Huet, Petrović was beaten comfortably by another local, Lleyton Hewitt, who courted controversy when he called the crowd "stupid" for not cheering for him.

Petrović relocated in 2003 to Serbia, where his sister and parents lived.^[3] He immediately represented his new country in the Davis Cup, playing doubles with Nenad Zimonjić. The pair would play three matches together in total, winning two of them.^[4]

He is now running a tennis academy in the Serbian city of Kragujevac. The most successful player that he has coached is Novak Djokovic, who first starting working with Petrović at the age of 16. Under the mentoring of Petrović, Djokovic went from being ranked outside the top 300 to breaking into the top 100 in less than a year.^[5]

Petrović coached Ana Ivanovic until 2015.^[6]

Challenger titles[edit]

Doubles: (8)[edit]

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	2000	Manchester Challenger, Manchester, Great Britain	Grass	Andy Ram	Yves Allegro Ivo Heuberger	6–2, 7–6^(7–1)
2.	2000	Córdoba Challenger, Córdoba, Spain	Hard	Andy Ram	Óscar Burrieza Daniel Melo	6–1, 6–4
3.	2000	Sofia Challenger, Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Orlin Stanoytchev	Radoslav Lukaev Luben Pampoulov	6–2, 6–7^(5–7), 7–6^(7–5)
4.	2001	MasterCard Tennis Cup, Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Hard	Andy Ram	Adriano Ferreira Daniel Melo	6–3, 6–4
5.	2001	Belo Horizonte Challenger, Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Hard	Andy Ram	Barry Cowan Eric Taino	6–3, 6–4
6.	2001	Gramado Challenger, Gramado, Brazil	Hard	Andy Ram	Adriano Ferreira Daniel Melo	6–4, 6–4
7.	2002	Bristol Challenger, Bristol, Great Britain	Grass	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Daniele Bracciali Gianluca Pozzi	6–3, 6–2
8.	2002	Gramado Challenger, Gramado, Brazil	Hard	Alessandro Guevara	Denis Golovanov Michael Joyce	3–6, 7–5, 6–2