Dušan Vemić

Dušan Vemić

Country (sports)	FR Yugoslavia (1995–2003)  Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)  Serbia (2006–2011)
Residence	Los Angeles, United States
Born	(1976-06-17) 17 June 1976 (age 45) Zadar, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	2011
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$821,902
Singles
Career record	14–19 (42.42%)
Career titles	0 1 Challenger, 2 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 146 (25 February 2008)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2000)
French Open	1R (2007)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2000, 2006, 2007)
US Open	Q2 (2007)
Doubles
Career record	54–76 (41.54%)
Career titles	0 15 Challenger, 1 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 31 (12 January 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2010)
French Open	SF (2008)
Wimbledon	3R (2006)
US Open	QF (2008)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2009)
French Open	2R (2009)
Wimbledon	3R (2000)
US Open	QF (2008)
Last updated on: 31 January 2022.

Dušan Vemić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Вемић; born June 17, 1976) is a Serbian tennis coach^[1][2] and former professional tennis player.

Professional career[]

His professional tennis career started in 1995, and his career high was No. 146 in singles (reached on February 25, 2008), and No.31 in doubles (on January 12, 2009). Vemić ranks 19th in Fastest recorded tennis serves (235 km/h / 146 mph) in Tour history.

Vemić began 2007 ranked #406, down 170 spots from the start of 2006. He had success in 2007 playing at all levels of the tennis tour: Futures, Challenger, and ATP events. Two Futures semifinals and a final, qualifying into 3 ATP events, and qualifying into and winning a match in a top-level Challenger moved his ranking back into the top-300 in mid-April. He then reached the semifinal of a top-level Challenger in Bermuda in April and qualified into the main draw of the French Open in May, where he lost in four sets to eventual third-rounder Janko Tipsarević. In August, a semifinal performance in a top-level Challenger in Segovia followed by a finals appearance the next week in a Challenger in Binghamton pushed his ranking back into the top-200 for the first time since he was there for two weeks in 2004, and was his highest ranking since May 1998, when he spent 5 weeks in the top-200.

In 2008, Vemić competed in World Team Tennis with the Kansas City Explorers entry, which narrowly lost the league championship to the New York Buzz.

Highlights of his 2008-year include winning 5 doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour: Miami, FL, United States with Ilija Bozoljac (SRB); Sunrise, FL, USA with Janko Tipsarevic (SRB); Cremona, Italy with Eduardo Schwank (ARG); Waco, TX, USA with Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA); and Calabasas, CA, USA with Ilija Bozoljac (SRB).

Vemić also reached both the semifinals of the French Open and the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open with partner Bruno Soares.

Always versatile in his partner choice, Dusan Vemić has partnered with players such as Jamie Murray, Ivo Karlović, Novak Djokovic, and Mischa Zverev in 2009.^[3]

In the 2010 Australian Open, Vemić and Ivo Karlović made the semifinals, losing to Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić 6–4,6–4

Coaching career[]

Following his career on tour, Vemić briefly coached WTA player Andrea Petkovic, helping her and coach Petar Popović to reach an all-time WTA ranking high of #9.

Soon afterward, Vemić joined the world number one tennis team for Novak Djokovic. As part of the Djokovic team, Vemić coached alongside Djokovic's longtime coach Marian Vajda in US Open '11, '12; Australian Open '12, '13; French Open '12, '13; Wimbledon '12, '13. During that time, Djokovic won two grand slam titles at the Australian Open and one grand slam title at the US Open in Flushing Meadows, NY, as well as the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals in London. In 2016, Vemic coached Djokovic at the ATP Miami Open, where he won the Championship against Kei Nishikori 6–3, 6–3, and surpassed Roger Federer in career prize money earnings.

In January 2013, Vemić joined the coaching staff of the Serbian Davis Cup team, seeing it to the Davis Cup finals against Czech Republic. He remains a coach of the Serbian team, helping lead them through the 2016 Davis Cup World Group competition.

In August 2016, Vemić was the official coach for the Serbian men's tennis team, for team Serbia, at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro. The team consisted of world #1 Novak Djokovic, former #1 ATP doubles player Nenad Zimonjic and ATP top 30 player Viktor Troicki.

From August 2016 to 2017, Vemić was the head coach for the most successful doubles team of all time, Americans Mike and Bob Bryan, also known as the Bryan brothers.

He is working with Brandon Nakashima since May 2020.^[4]

ATP career finals[]

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 1999	Kitzbühel, Austria	Championship Series	Clay	Álex Calatrava	Chris Haggard Peter Nyborg	3–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–7(4–7)
Loss	0–2	Aug 2008	Los Angeles, United States	International Series	Hard	Travis Parrott	Rohan Bopanna Eric Butorac	6–7(5–7), 6–7(5–7)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals[]

Singles: 12 (3–9)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1-0	Sep 1997	Skopje, Macedonia	Challenger	Clay	Clemens Trimmel	6–3, 6–7, 6–3
Loss	1-1	Mar 2003	USA F5, Harlingen	Futures	Hard	Huntley Montgomery	4–6, 7–6(7–4), 5–7
Win	2-1	May 2003	USA F12, Tampa	Futures	Clay	Francisco Rodriguez	6–1, 6–4
Win	3-1	Oct 2003	USA F28, Lubbock	Futures	Hard	Bruno Soares	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–3), 6–3
Loss	3-2	Oct 2003	USA F29, Arlington	Futures	Hard	Juan-Pablo Guzman	3–6, 5–7
Loss	3-3	Jun 2004	Forest Hills, United States	Challenger	Grass	Justin Gimelstob	6–7(7–9), 2–6
Loss	3-4	May 2005	Forest Hills, United States	Challenger	Clay	James Blake	3–6, 4–6
Loss	3-5	Jan 2007	USA F2, North Miami Beach	Futures	Hard	Bruno Echagaray	2–6, 7–6(7–5), 5–7
Loss	3-6	Aug 2007	Binghamton, United States	Challenger	Hard	Thomas Johansson	4–6, 6–7(7–9)
Loss	3-7	Sep 2007	Lubbock, United States	Challenger	Hard	Robert Smeets	3–6, 6–7(7–9)
Loss	3-8	Jan 2008	USA F1, Wesley Chapel	Futures	Hard	Somdev Devvarman	6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Loss	3-9	May 2008	Tunis, Tunisia	Challenger	Clay	Thomaz Bellucci	2–6, 4–6

Doubles: 37 (16–21)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 1996	Budva, Yugoslavia	Challenger	Clay	Nenad Zimonjic	Nebojsa Djordjevic Aleksandar Kitinov	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Sep 1997	Budapest, Hungary	Challenger	Clay	Nebojsa Djordjevic	Kornel Bardoczky Miklos Jancso	6–1, 3–6, 6–4
Loss	1–2	Sep 1997	Skopje, Macedonia	Challenger	Clay	Nebojsa Djordjevic	Thomas Buchmayer Thomas Strengberger	4–6, 6–7
Win	2–2	Feb 1998	Wolfsburg, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Marat Safin	Jan-Ralph Brandt Thomas Messmer	6–4, 4–6, 6–2
Loss	2–3	Apr 1998	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Thomas Strengberger	Joan Balcells Juan Ignacio Carrasco	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Loss	2–4	Jul 1998	Oberstaufen, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Omar Camporese	Nuno Marques Rogier Wassen	6–7, 6–7
Loss	2–5	Jul 1998	Newcastle, United Kingdom	Challenger	Clay	Nebojsa Djordjevic	Jeff Coetzee Edwin Kempes	6–1, 6–7, 2–6
Win	3–5	Jun 1999	Weiden, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Emilio Benfele Álvarez	Simon Aspelin Johan Landsberg	6–7, 6–2, 6–4
Loss	3–6	Sep 1999	Sofia, Bulgaria	Challenger	Clay	Nebojsa Djordjevic	Massimo Ardinghi Davide Sanguinetti	4–6, 2–6
Loss	3–7	Nov 1999	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Paul Rosner	Guillermo Cañas Martín García	4–6, 4–6
Loss	3–8	Jul 2000	Tampere, Finland	Challenger	Clay	Steven Randjelovic	Ville Liukko Jarkko Nieminen	0–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	4–8	Aug 2000	Togliatti, Russia	Challenger	Hard	Lovro Zovko	Ionut Moldovan Yuri Schukin	6–4, 6–4
Win	5–8	Nov 2000	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Irakli Labadze	Joan Balcells German Puentes-Alcaniz	6–3, 6–4
Loss	5–9	Feb 2001	Dallas, United States	Challenger	Hard	Lovro Zovko	Gavin Sontag Jerry Turek	6–3, 5–7, 5–7
Win	6–9	Sep 2001	Aschaffenburg, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Aleksandar Kitinov	Karsten Braasch Franz Stauder	6–7(3–7), 6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Loss	6–10	Nov 2001	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Daniel Melo	Andre Sa Alexandre Simoni	6–3, 3–6, 6–7(3–7)
Loss	6–11	Dec 2001	San Jose, Costa Rica	Challenger	Hard	Daniel Melo	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	3–6, 3–6
Win	7–11	Feb 2002	Belgrade, Serbia	Challenger	Carpet	Lovro Zovko	Jaroslav Levinsky Tomas Zib	walkover
Win	8–11	Jun 2002	Weiden, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Jens Knippschild	Sergio Roitman Andres Schneiter	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Loss	8–12	Aug 2002	Córdoba, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Emilio Benfele-Alvarez	Paul Rosner Ota Fukarek	6–7(7–9), 4–6
Loss	8–13	Aug 2002	Manerbio, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Anthony Ross	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	8–14	Oct 2002	San Antonio, United States	Challenger	Hard	Hugo Armando	Diego Ayala Robert Kendrick	2–6, 4–6
Loss	8-15	Feb 2003	USA F4, Brownsville	Futures	Hard	Lazar Magdinchev	Tripp Phillips Ryan Sachire	2–6, 1–6
Win	9–15	May 2005	Tunica Resorts, United States	Challenger	Clay	Michael Russell	Juan-Pablo Brzezicki Juan-Pablo Guzman	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Loss	9–16	Feb 2006	Dallas, United States	Challenger	Hard	Mirko Pehar	Rajeev Ram Bobby Reynolds	3–6, 4–6
Win	10–16	Jan 2008	Miami, United States	Challenger	Clay	Ilija Bozoljac	Jean-Julien Rojer Marcio Torres	7–5, 6–4
Win	11–16	Mar 2008	Sunrise, United States	Challenger	Hard	Janko Tipsarevic	Kristof Vliegen Peter Wessels	6–2, 7–6(7–5)
Win	12–16	Apr 2008	Cremona, Italy	Challenger	Hard	Eduardo Schwank	Florin Mergea Horia Tecau	6–3, 6–2
Loss	12–17	May 2008	Dresden, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Ilija Bozoljac	Daniel Brands Jun Woong-sun	6–2, 6–7(4–7), [6–10]
Loss	12–18	May 2008	Bordeaux, France	Challenger	Clay	Tomasz Bednarek	Diego Hartfield Sergio Roitman	4–6, 4–6
Win	13–18	Sep 2008	Waco, United States	Challenger	Hard	Alex Bogomolov Jr.	Alberto Francis Nicholas Monroe	6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
Loss	13–19	Sep 2008	Lubbock, United States	Challenger	Hard	Alex Bogomolov Jr.	Roman Borvanov Artem Sitak	2–6, 3–6
Win	14–19	Oct 2008	Calabasas, United States	Challenger	Hard	Ilija Bozoljac	Nathan Healey Somdev Devvarman	1–6, 6–3, [13–11]
Loss	14–20	Nov 2008	Louisville, United States	Challenger	Hard	Frank Dancevic	Prakash Amritraj Jesse Levine	3–6, 6–7(10–12)
Loss	14–21	Oct 2009	Tiburon, United States	Challenger	Hard	Ilija Bozoljac	Harsh Mankad Treat Huey	4–6, 4–6
Win	15–21	Aug 2010	Istanbul, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Leos Friedl	Brian Battistone Andreas Siljestrom	7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–3)
Win	16–21	Jul 2011	Serbia F3, Belgrade	Futures	Clay	Boris Conkic	Vadim Alekseenko Petar Djukic	6–4, 4–6, [10–5]

Performance timelines[]

Singles[]

Doubles[]

Mixed Doubles[]

Awards[]

1995

• Best Male Tennis Player in FR Yugoslavia

1997

• Best Male Tennis Player in FR Yugoslavia

References[]

External links[]

• Dušan Vemić at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Dušan Vemić at the International Tennis Federation
• Dušan Vemić at the Davis Cup
• Vemic World Ranking History

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