Zimonjić back on court

He said it was the end but did not bid an actual farewell to tennis because champions don’t do that. He left the door slightly open, enough to be seen and widely open to him by Srpska Open Director Đorđe Đoković who invited Nenad Zimonjić to demonstrate to the citizens of Banjaluka why he was a member of the world’s number one doubles team for 50 weeks.

Zimonjić officially embarked on his path to stardom in 1995 and added his name to the history of tennis at the Australian Open in 2004. Elena Bovina and Nenad Zimonjić defeated defending champions Martina Navratilova and Leander Paes in two sets (6:1, 7:6) to win the Australian Open mixed doubles title. He continued his tennis career with several back-to-back successes with his triumph at Wimbledon in 2008 and 2009 in men’s doubles partnering Canadian player Daniel Nestor, Roland-Garros in 2010, the 2008 and 2010 ATP Tour Finals, as well as numerous titles at, so to speak, smaller tournaments.

Nenad Zimonjić

The name of the best Serbian doubles team player is written in gold letters in the history of tennis when he won the mixed doubles with Katarina Srebotnik and the doubles with Daniel Nestor at Roland-Garros in 2010. Zimonjić has thus become the only tennis player in history, in addition to Mike Bryan, to win the double crown.

Besides the abovementioned title in mixed doubles with the Slovenian tennis player in 2010, Zimonjić also won the Australian Open in 2004 and 2008, Roland-Garros in 2006 and Wimbledon in 2014.

As a record-holder according to the number of matches and wins for the Serbian national team in doubles, Zimonjić thrilled the nation as a member of the national team, together with Novak Đoković, Janko Tipsarević and Viktor Troicki, who won the Davis Cup title in 2010. In 2009, Zimonjić won the World Team Cup in Düsseldorf when the Serbian national team.