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Иван Любичич Иван Любичич (на хърватски: Ivan Ljubičić) е хърватски тенисист, роден на 19 март 1979 в Баня Лука, Босна и Херцеговина. Известен е със силния си сервис. В момента заема длъжността председател на Съвета на тенисистите. През 2005 г. печели Купа Дейвис с отбора на Хърватия, а заедно с Марио Анчич печели бронзов медал от турнира на двойки на Олимпийските игри в Атина през 2004. Негов треньор от 1997 г. е италианецът Рикардо Пиати. Съдържание - 1 Семейство и ранни години - 2 Професионална кариера - 3 Титли и участия на финал - 4 Източници - 5 Външни препратки Семейство и ранни години[редактиране | редактиране на кода] Майката на Любичич е бошнячка, а баща му е хърватин. Има по-голям брат. От 8 ноември 2004 Любичич е женен за Аида Шалаби. Любичич започва да се занимава с тенис през 1988 г. и скоро след това печели първите си награди. През месец май 1992 Иван, брат му и майка му напускат Босна поради избухналата там гражданска война и се установяват в Опатия, Хърватия. Няколко месеца по-късно бащата се присъединява към тях и семейството се мести в Риека. През април 1993 Любичич заминава за Италия, където се записва в тенис академия в Монкалиери, близо до Торино. Скоро идват първите успехи - Иван става шампион на Хърватия за юноши до 16 г. и заедно с Желко Краян печели Ориндж Боул, неофициалното световно първенство за юноши до 16 г. През 1996 г. семейството на Любичич се мести в Загреб. Успехите на Любичич в юношески турнири продължават, като най-големият от тях е участието му на финал на Уимбълдън. Професионална кариера[редактиране | редактиране на кода] 1998 - 2002[редактиране | редактиране на кода] След като става професионалист, Любичич играе на множество турнири от ниска категория, като печели няколко от тях. През 2000 г. Любичич играе на два полуфинала на турнири от висока категория и стига до третия кръг на Олимпийските игри в Сидни. На 14 октомври 2001 хърватинът печели първата си ATP Tour титла - в Лион, където побеждава тенисисти от ранга на Густаво Кюртен, Гастон Гаудио, Марат Сафин и Юнес ел Айнауи. През 2002 г. Любичич успява за първи път в кариерата си да прескочи първи кръг на турнир от Големия шлем. На Откритото първенство на Австралия той отпада в третия кръг от Уейн Ферейра. Най-добрите му постижения са двата полуфинала в Ротердам и Гстаад. В годишната класация за най-много директни точки от сервис Иван заема второто място след австралиеца Уейн Артърс. 2003 г. също не е особено успешна за него, като в Милано, Дубай, Банкок и Базел играе на полуфинал. 2004 - 2006[редактиране | редактиране на кода] През 2004 г. на сметката на Любичич има един загубен финал в Доха, както и участия на полуфинал в Индианаполис и на Мастърсите в Хамбург и Мадрид. През лятото в турнира на двойки на Олимпийските игри в Атина отпада на полуфинала от бъдещите шампиони Николас Масу и Фернандо Гонсалес. В мача за третото място той и Марио Анчич надделяват над индийците Махеш Бупати и Леандер Паеш. През 2005-а резултатите на Любичич значително се подобряват. В рамките на две седмици през октомври той печели турнирите в Мец и Виена. Иван е финалист на още шест турнира, сред които Мастърсите в Мадрид и Париж. В три от тези срещи той губи от Роджър Федерер. Добрите резултати го изпражат в топ 10 в световната ранглиста, което му позволява да вземе участие на Мастърс Къп, където обаче отпада след груповата фаза. Любичич е с основен принос за спечелването на Купа Дейвис през същата година. В първия кръг Хърватия изненадващо надделява над САЩ, като американците за първи път в историята отпадат за Купа Дейвис в първи кръг като домакин. В тези срещи Любичич надделява над Андре Агаси и Анди Родик, както и в мача на двойки с Анчич срещу Боб и Майк Браян. На четвъртфинала срещу Румъния Любичич побеждава на сингъл Виктор Ханеску и Андрей Павел, а на двойки с Анчич - Павел и Габриел Трифу. В полуфиналната среща с Русия надделява над Михаил Южни и Николай Давиденко на сингъл и Игор Андреев и Дмитрий Турсунов на двойки (отново с Анчич). На финала срещу Словакия побеждава Карол Кучера и Доминик Хърбати/Михал Мертинак на двойки (с Анчич) и губи от Хърбати на сингъл. През 2006 г. Любичич печели турнирите в Ченай, Загреб и Виена, играе на финал на Мастърса в Маями и на турнира в Банкок, стига полуфинал на Ролан Гарос и четвъртфинал на Откритото първенство на Австралия. Спечелва Световната отборна купа. На първи май регистрира най-доброто си класиране в ранглистата - 3-то място. 2007[редактиране | редактиране на кода] 2007-а започва с титла на турнира в Доха, последвана от загубени финали в Загреб и Ротердам. Стига до полуфинал на Маями Мастърс. През месец юни печели един от подготвителните турнири преди Уимбълдън - в холандския Хертогенбош.
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Ivan Ljubičić Ivan Ljubičić (Croatian pronunciation: [ǐv̞an ʎûbitʃitɕ]; 19 March 1979) is a retired Croatian tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking was World No. 3.[1] He achieved his best results in indoor tournaments played on carpet or hardcourt. Mostly a baseliner, he approached the net selectively (Ljubičić was a good volleyer and plays doubles occasionally). On his backhand, he used a slice or a drop-shot to great effect to draw a player or put him out of position. Ljubičić used the Head Youtek Extreme Pro Racquet, after using the Babolat Pure Drive for most of his professional career.[citation needed] Ljubičić served as the ATP Players' Council president and in 2008 became one of the few active players to serve on the ATP Board of Directors.[2] Ljubičić and Mario Ančić are only the third doubles team ever to defeat Bob and Mike Bryan in Davis Cup history, the other teams being France's Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra, Brazil's Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjić and Ilija Bozoljac. Ljubičić helped Croatia win the 2005 Davis Cup, where they triumphed over the Slovakian Davis Cup team in the final.[citation needed] Contents - 1 Early years - 2 Pro tour - 3 Major finals - 4 ATP Career Finals - 5 Singles performance timeline - 6 References - 7 External links Early years[edit] Ljubičić was born in Banja Luka, at the time SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia to a Bosnian Croat father, Marko, and a Bosniak mother, Hazira. He started playing tennis as a child in 1988, and he soon won his first local awards as a junior. In May 1992, because of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the family left Banja Luka, and Ivan, his mother and his brother moved to Opatija, Croatia, while his father was unable to leave. In November 1992, they were reunited and moved to Rijeka. Soon after, in April 1993, Ljubičić went to a tennis club in Moncalieri near Torino, Italy. During the next three years, Ljubičić grew into a promising prospect. He decided to play for Croatia and in 1995 won his first junior championship, becoming the Croatian under-16 champion. The same year, he won his first ATP points and played for the Croatian team in the Winter Cup (European under-16 indoors championship). Pairing up with Željko Krajan, he won the Orange Bowl (the unofficial world under-16 championship).[citation needed] In 1996, the family moved to Zagreb, while Ivan continued his successes. He joined the tennis club Mladost and played in more and more junior ITF tournaments. His biggest success as a junior was the final at Wimbledon, where he was defeated by Vladimir Voltchkov of Belarus. He played in the Australian Open junior semifinal in 1997 and won the Eddie Harre tournament, which made him the No. 2 junior in the world. In early 1997, he started training with the Italian professional coach Riccardo Piatti. His successes continued: quarterfinals of the junior French Open, and entering professional tennis. After a lot of success, Ivan bought a Porsche GT which is, according to Ljubičić "His craziest ever buy". Soon after that, in 2004, Ivan married his wife Aida, who is always with him at ATP tournaments. They have two children.[3][4] Junior Slam results: Australian Open: SF (1997) French Open: QF (1997) Wimbledon: F (1996) US Open: 3R (1996) Pro tour[edit] Ljubičić entered professional tennis in 1998 and played in the final of the ATP Challenger in Zagreb, where he lost to Alberto Berasategui. He played a number of smaller tournaments the same year, but had little success and finished the year as No. 293. In 1999, his luck turned, and he won two Futures tournaments, as well as a Challenger in Besançon, France. He won two more victories in the qualifications for the Casablanca Tour event, where he was defeated by Juan Carlos Ferrero. He then entered the Super 9 tournament in Monte Carlo (today's Monte Carlo Masters), where he reached the third round after an amazing run in which he defeated Andrei Medvedev and Yevgeny Kafelnikov. He also played in the Croatia Open in Umag, where he was eliminated only in the semifinal by Magnus Norman. He finished the year ranked World No. 77.[citation needed] In 2000, Ljubičić played two semifinals, in Sydney and in Båstad, and three quarterfinals (Marseille, Copenhagen, and Brighton). He also played in the third round of the Olympic tournament. He won his first ATP singles title at Lyon in 2001, after defeating Gustavo Kuerten, Gastón Gaudio, Marat Safin, and Younes El Aynaoui. At that point he reached no. 29 in the professional rankings and continued to play well, participating in seven ATP Tour semifinals: Adelaide, Rotterdam, Miami, St. Polten, Gstaad, Umag, Cincinnati. He finished the year 2001 as No. 37. In 2002, he was in two semifinals (Rotterdam and Gstaad) and four quarterfinals (Adelaide, Dubai, Umag, and Tashkent) on the ATP Tour, and it the first time he passed the first round at a Grand Slam, when he reached the third round of the Australian Open, where he was stopped by Wayne Ferreira in five sets. He ended the year as No. 49, and also No. 2 in the number of aces, behind Wayne Arthurs.[citation needed] In 2003, he reached the semifinals of Milan, Dubai, Bangkok, and Basel, and also the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters and the quarterfinals in the Rome Masters. He lost in the second round in the U. S Open to Andy Roddick, who would then go on to become the champion that year. The score was 3–6, 7–6, 3–6, 6–7. In 2004, he started the year as the runner-up to Nicolas Escudé in Doha, and also played semifinals in Hamburg Masters, in Indianapolis, and in the Madrid Masters. He also reached the quarterfinals in Basel and 1/8 finals in the Miami Masters. At the 2004 Olympics, he teamed up with Mario Ančić to win the bronze medal in doubles, winning against the Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes, after having been defeated by the Chilean duo of Fernando González and Nicolás Massú, the eventual gold medalists, in the semifinals.[citation needed] In 2005, Ljubičić produced markedly better results. He won two ATP titles and was the runner-up at another six, losing to World No. 1 Roger Federer in three of them, and World No. 2 Rafael Nadal in another one. Most notably, he reached the finals of two Masters Series Events, losing to Nadal in Madrid and to Tomáš Berdych at the Paris Indoor Tournament. He finished the year ranked No. 9 in the world and earned his first appearance at the year-end Masters Cup, where he was eliminated in the group stage (Ljubičić was one of a number of entrants who were invited due to the withdrawal of higher-ranked players, such as No. 2 Rafael Nadal). Ljubičić has been the top player of the Croatian Davis Cup team since the departure of Goran Ivanišević. In Davis Cup 2005, the Croatian team defeated the United States in the first round played in March 2005. Ljubičić defeated Andre Agassi convincingly in straight sets in his first singles match. He then teamed with Mario Ančić to defeat the Bryan Brothers, then the world's second-ranked doubles team. He finally clinched victory for his country, defeating America's No. 1 player and former World No. 1 Andy Roddick in five sets.[citation needed] In the July quarterfinal, Ljubičić again won his singles games against Romania's Victor Hănescu, as well as Andrei Pavel, and then together with Ančić defeated the Pavel-Gabriel Trifu duo in five sets. In the semifinal held in September against the Russian team, Ljubičić defeated Mikhail Youzhny in five sets, together with Ančić defeated Igor Andreev and Dmitry Tursunov in another five-set game, and finally defeated Nikolay Davydenko to secure victory for Croatia. Then, in the finals, Ljubičić defeated Karol Kučera and also paired with Mario Ančić to help secure Croatia's first Davis Cup victory.[citation needed] Prior to the Australian Open, Ljubičić played a tournament in Chennai. Seeded first, he was expected to do well on the hard courts there. He reached the final and defeated Spaniard Carlos Moyà 7–6, 6–2. At the 2006 Australian Open, he reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. He defeated Thomas Johansson of Sweden 6–2, 6–4, 6–4, in the fourth round. He lost to eventual finalist Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus in the quarterfinals 4–6, 2–6, 6–4, 6–3, 3–6. After the Australian Open, he played at the Zagreb Indoor Open, which is played on carpet, a surface typically favoured by Ljubičić. He reached the final once more and defeated Stefan Koubek 6–3, 6–4.[citation needed] He bettered this feat when he made the semifinals of the 2006 French Open, a run that ended with a loss to Rafael Nadal, who holds the record for the longest win streak on clay. It was speculated that Ljubičić was able to make it this far because his highest-ranked opponent was not even ranked in the top 70. After the match, Ljubičić made controversial comments about how Nadal took too much time between points. He stated he hoped Roger Federer would defeat him in the final. (Nadal went on to beat Federer in the final.) Ljubičić then traveled to Queen's Club, defeating Răzvan Sabău 7–6, 6–2, before losing to Gaël Monfils 6–7, 5–7, in the round of 16. Many people have speculated about why Ljubičić does not do well on grass in spite of his huge serve, but analysts have said that Ljubičić needs more time on groundstrokes that the grass surface does not give.[citation needed] At the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, Ljubičić faced 2005 quarterfinalist Feliciano López. He won 11–9 in the fifth. He then defeated Justin Gimelstob, before losing in the third round to Dmitry Tursunov, after being up two sets to none. He then traveled to Gstaad, Switzerland to play in the Allianz Suisse Open on red clay. Being the top seed, he defeated Spaniard Albert Portas in the first round and Marco Chiudinelli in the second round, before losing to seed Feliciano López in straight sets. In the Canada Masters, he reached the third round, before losing out to Fernando González. He then went to the Bangkok Open, where he was the top seed and reached the final round. He met America's James Blake, but was defeated 3–6, 1–6, and moved to no. 3 on the ATP ace list. He did not remain no. 3, due to David Nalbandian, who pushed him down by advancing to the semifinals in Madrid. At the US Open, Ljubičić was drawn against Feliciano López of Spain in the first round, as he had been at Wimbledon. Lopez defeated Ljubičić, 6–3, 6–3, 6–3. Ljubičić began his 2007 season in style with a victory at the $1 million Qatar Qatar ExxonMobil Open. En route to his victory, he defeated Andy Murray in the finals. In doing so, he became the race leader in the 2007 Indesit ATP Race. In this tournament, Ljubičić played his first competitive match with a Head racquet, after abandoning his previous racket sponsor, Babolat.[citation needed] He played in the 2007 Australian Open and was seeded fourth, but was surprisingly defeated in the first round by Mardy Fish. Ljubičić bounced back well to make the final of the Zagreb Indoor Open, against Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis. Baghdatis waited until match point to claim his only break of serve against Ljubičić to win the thrilling final with a 7–6, 4–6, 6–4 victory. At the Open 13 tournament in Marseille, Ljubičić, the second seed, was one of four seeds to lose in the first round, losing to qualifier but local favorite Nicolas Mahut 4–6, 4–6. In Rotterdam, he made it to the final, where, exhausted, he was beaten 2–6, 4–6 by Mikhail Youzhny. At the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, Ljubičić lost to Andy Roddick in the quarterfinals 6–7, 6–7.[citation needed] Prior to Wimbledon, Ivan Ljubičić hit form on the grass courts, a surface in which he had previously failed to reach the last eight before. Playing at s'Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, he defeated Dutch home crowd favourite, Peter Wessels in three tight sets. Ljubičić won the final set 7–6, securing his victory, regardless of the fact that he did not break the Dutchman's serve in the match. As the 15th seed (ranked no. 12), he opened his 2007 Wimbledon campaign against American Vince Spadea, followed by a win over Jan Hernych, but fell in four sets to Paul-Henri Mathieu. He and Ernests Gulbis lost in the men's doubles competition in the first round. In September, just one day before start of Davis Cup tie against Great Britain, he discovered blood in his urine. After tests, it was announced that he had two small stones in the kidney. He was then advised to take a break for the next couple of weeks.[citation needed] Ivan then had an average fall season, reaching the semifinals of the China Open, losing to Fernando González, the quarterfinals in Vienna, and the quarterfinals in Lyon. However, he failed to win a match in the two Masters Series tournaments, losing to Stefan Koubek in Madrid and Marcos Baghdatis in Paris. Ljubičić's first tournament of 2008 was in Doha, where he reached the semifinals, losing to Stanislas Wawrinka. However, Ivan suffered a shocking first-round defeat at the 2008 Australian Open, losing to Dutchman Robin Haase in four sets. He was then granted a wildcard to a Challenger in East London, South Africa, where he defeated Stefan Koubek in straight sets. It was Ljubičić's first Challenger in over two years. His next significant result was in Zagreb, where, as the home crowd favorite, he reached the final, only to suffer a shocking upset by Ukrainian lucky loser Sergiy Stakhovsky 5–7, 4–6. At the 2008 French Open, Ljubičić produced the biggest upset of the tournament (at that time) by coming back from a two-set deficit to defeat world no. 4, and 2007 French Open semifinalist Nikolay Davydenko 4–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–2, 6–4. He had previously lost to Davydenko on clay at Hamburg in 2008 4–6, 1–6. At Wimbledon, Ivan played three-hour thriller against Austrian Jürgen Melzer and lost 4–6, 6–7, 6–4, 6–2, 3–6.[citation needed] Ljubičić started the season as world no. 58. His first tournament was the Australian Open, where he beat Igor Kunitsyn in the first round 4–6, 7–6, 7–6, 5–7, 6–3, before losing in the second round to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7–6, 6–7, 6–7, 2–6. He then participated at Zagreb, where he defeated Christophe Rochus in the first round 6–4, 6–1, before losing to Viktor Troicki 4–6, 7–5, 4–6, in the second. He then lost in the opening match in three tournaments: in Rotterdam to Andy Murray 3–6, 2–6, in Marseille to Feliciano López 6–3, 4–6, 5–7, and in the Dubai to David Ferrer 6–3, 2–6, 1–6. His ranking fell to No. 74. His next tournament was the 2009 BNP Paribas Open. He defeated Kei Nishikori in the first round, and fellow Croatian Mario Ančić in the second when Ančić retired with illness at 3–3. He then upset eighth seeded Gilles Simon 6–3, 7–6, in the third, and outlasted Igor Andreev 4–6, 7–6, 7–6, in the fourth to reach the quarterfinals, where he was at last beaten by fourth seeded Andy Murray 5–7, 6–7. Ljubičić received a wild card into the Monte Carlo Masters and in the second round defeated Juan Martín del Potro 4–6, 6–1, 6–4. He proceeded to the quarterfinals, where he was defeated by four-time defending champion Rafael Nadal 3–6, 3–6. Due to his strong play at Monte Carlo, he received a wild card into the 2009 Madrid Masters. He again defeated a top-10 player in the second round, beating ninth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6–4, 7–5. He then defeated eighth seed Gilles Simon 3–6, 6–4, 6–3, to reach his third quarterfinal at a Masters 1000 event. He was defeated by Novak Djokovic 4–6, 4–6, in the quarterfinals. His performances during the clay-court season have helped his ranking improve to No. 43, his highest since August 2008. His clay-court form did not carry into the 2009 French Open, as he suffered a disappointing defeat by Juan Carlos Ferrero 6–2, 4–6, 4–6, 6–3, 3–6, in the first round. Ljubičić didn't compete at Wimbledon due to an injury.[citation needed] Ljubičić returned to form in China. At the China Open, he reached the quarterfinals, losing to Robin Söderling. At the inaugural Shanghai Masters event, Ljubičić reached the quarterfinals for the fourth time at a Masters 1000 event. He defeated Julien Benneteau in the first round 6–3, 3–6, 6–1. He defeated world no. 9 Fernando Verdasco in straight sets 6–4, 7–6, in the second round. Ljubičić was cruising over Gaël Monfils 6–2, 3–0, before the Frenchman retired. Ljubičić then retired from his quarterfinal match against Rafael Nadal, after splitting the first two sets 6–3, 3–6. Ljubičić was the eighth player to retire during the event. Ljubičić won his first title since June 2007, at the 2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon event. Seeded third, Ljubičić did not defeat a single seeded player, benefitting from several seeded players losing early. After defeating Martín Vassallo Argüello and Nicolas Kiefer, Ljubičić defeated three Frenchmen in a row to take the title. He defeated Florent Serra, and wild cards Arnaud Clément in the semifinal and Michaël Llodra in the final. Ljubičić began the season with a third-round finish at the Australian Open, losing to Ivo Karlović. He also made the quarterfinals in the 2010 Dubai Tennis Championships, where he lost to eventual champion and world no. 2 Novak Djokovic, in three sets. At the 2010 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, he got revenge by beating Djokovic 7–5, 6–3, in the fourth round. He proceeded to upset defending champion Rafael Nadal 3–6, 6–4, 7–6, in the semifinals, avenging his loss against him in the 2005 Madrid Masters final and sending Ivan to his fourth career Masters 1000 final. He successfully broke his trend of three previous final losses in these master series tournaments by defeating American favorite Andy Roddick in the final 7–6, 7–6, to lift his first ever Masters Series trophy.[citation needed] He became the first Croat to ever win the tournament; the third 26th-ranked player to win this tournament (following Àlex Corretja and Jim Courier);[citation needed] the second-oldest winner at the tournament (behind Jimmy Connors who was five months older when he won in 1984); and the oldest first-time winner of a Master Series 1000 event.[5] As a result of his performance in the tournament, in which he defeated three top-10 players—Djokovic (No. 2) in the quarterfinals, Nadal (No. 3) in the semifinals, and Roddick (No. 8) in the final, en route to the title—he broke into the top 20 in the rankings for the first time in nearly two years, No. 13 as of March 22.[6] Ljubicic had a solid 2011, reaching the latter rounds of the Monte Carlo clay-court tournament and the third round at Wimbledon, where he lost to Andy Murray. Ljubicic lost to David Nalbandian in the second round at the US Open. He reached the finals in Metz in September, where he lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 3–6, 7–6, 3–6. He reached the semifinals of the China Open, but lost to Marin Čilić 4–6, 3–6.[citation needed] Ljubicic played the last tournament of his professional career at Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in April.[7] He ended his career by losing in the first round to Ivan Dodig 6–0, 6–3.[8] Post retirement[edit] In 2013, Ljubičić became Canadian player Milos Raonic's coach [9] and Czech top-10 player Tomáš Berdych's manager.[10] Major finals[edit] ATP Masters Series finals[edit] Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)[edit] ATP Career Finals[edit] Singles: 24 (10–14)[edit] Doubles: 4 (0–4)[edit] Albert Portas Sandon Stolle Andrés Schneiter Nicolas Mahut Singles performance timeline[edit] 1Held as Madrid Masters from 2009-2012. 2Held as Shanghai Masters from 2009-2012. References[edit] - ^ "ATP World Tour – Tennis Players — Ivan Ljubičić". ATPWorldTour.com. Retrieved 8 March 2012. - ^ "Ivan Ljubicic: The Journey Continues". atpworldtour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals. Retrieved 27 June 2012. - ^ Baby Boom: Tennis Players Become Parents Tennis.com, 30 December 2008. - ^ Ivan Ljubičić: A proud leader, Tennis.com, 17 April 2012. - ^ "Ljubicic wins first Masters title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 22 March 2010. - ^ "Ljubicic Celebrates First ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Title". BNP Paribas Open. Retrieved 16 April 2012. - ^ "Ljubicic To Retire Next Month". ATP World Tour. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2012. - ^ "Tennis - Sunday - Ljubicic Bows Out From Professional Tennis". Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2012. - ^ "Milos Raonic's new tennis coach is Ivan Ljubicic". The Canadian Press. Retrieved 5 October 2013. - ^ "ATP - Tomas Berydch hires Ivan Ljubicic as manager". ATP Tennis. Retrieved 5 October 2013. 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