Viktor Troicki

Began playing tennis at age five with countryman Nenad Trifunovic as his coach...Nicknamed Vik...Speaks Serbian and English...Inspired by Andre Agassi who was his childhood idol...Parents are Aleksandar, a lawyer; and Mila, an economist...Lived and practised in Boca Raton, Florida from age 13-15...Enjoys all sports and when he was younger he used to play soccer and wasn’t sure whether he would continue with tennis since soccer was his favorite sport...Fan of Partisan Belgrade team...Favorite shot is serve and considers hard courts his favorite surface...Has a 6-2 career Davis Cup record (4-2 in singles) in four ties...Coached by Jan de Witt (since 2005), who also works with Marco Chiudinelli.

2009 -- The young Serb had a breakthrough season with personal-best 32 match wins and reaching his second career ATP World Tour final in Bangkok (l. to Simon) in October…In January advanced to QF in Auckland (l. to eventual champion del Potro) and following month reached SF in Zagreb (l. to Cilic) and followed with a title run at Belgrade Challenger (d. Hrbaty)…Went on to reach 3rd RD at first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 in Indian Wells (l. to Nalbandian) and 4th RD in Miami* (d. Nalbandian, l. to eventual champion Murray)…Helped Serbia claim ARAG World Team Championships, winning six of his eight matches (singles and doubles)…Advanced to QF in Hamburg before struggling with a foot injury next two months…Helped Serbia to defeat Uzbekistan in Davis Cup play-offs…Went 1-9 vs. Top 10 opponents and compiled marks of 21-17 on hard, 9-10 on clay and 2-2 on grass…Earned a career-high $772,781.

2008 -- The Serb finished in Top 100 for first time highlighted by a career-high 21 match wins, 16 more from previous season...Reached his first ATP final and QF in three other tournaments...In Challenger play, compiled a 16-7 mark and reached Bermuda final (l. to Nishikori) and SF in four other events...Qualified into his first Grand Slam at Australian Open and lost to Nadal in 1st RD...Following month, played in Davis Cup 1st RD tie vs. Russia, losing to No. 4 Davydenko in five sets and beating Tursunov in dead rubber...In June, reached QF in 's-Hertogenbosch (l. to Canas) and won first Grand Slam match at Wimbledon (d. Lapentti, l. to Stepanek in five sets)...In August in Washington, posted second career Top 10 win over No. 9 Roddick in QF before losing to del Potro in final... Afterwards, improved from No. 93 to No. 71...At US Open, lost to No. 1 Nadal in 3rd RD, his best Grand Slam result...Closed season with QF showings in Tokyo (l. to Roddick) and Moscow (l. to Zverev)...Went 1-7 vs. Top 10 opponents and compiled marks of 16-13 on hard, 4-3 on grass and 1-4 on clay...Earned a career-high $399,859.

2007 -- Finished in Top 130 highlighted by his first ATP SF...Compiled a 20-14 record in Challenger play with one runner-up showing and went 5-7 in ATP competition...Opened year with SF at Bergamo (l. to Bolelli) and two months later reached same round in Marrakech (l. to El Aynaoui)...In June, advanced to back-to-back QF in Bytom and Milan Challengers...One month later, surprised countryman and No. 3 Djokovic in 2nd RD in Umag en route to SF (l. to Pavel)...In September, reached SF at Donetsk Challenger (l. to D. Norman) and followed with 2nd RD showings in Beijing (d. Gabashvili, l. to No. 12 Ljubicic) and Mumbai (d. Qureshi, l. to Schuettler)...Closed season with runner-up at Busan Challenger (l. to I. Minar).

2006 -- Won Futures title in Dubai and Dharwad Challenger (d. Kubot), both on hard...Made ATP debut in Tokyo as a qualifier (d. Vicente, l. to Federer)...Also QF in three other Challengers...

2005 -- Competed in 15 Futures events, winning Serbia #3 and reaching final at Serbia #4, both on clay...In second career Challenger in Banja Luka, reached final (l. to Mazarakis)...

2004 -- Best result in five Futures events was title at Serbia #6 stop in August on clay...

2003 -- Played in five Serbian Futures tournaments, reaching 2nd RD four times...

2010

Went 8-6 through first two months of the year, highlighted by Doha SF exit (l. to Nadal) and run to Zagreb QFs (l. to Berrer)...Made an Australian Open 2nd RD exit (l. to F. Mayer)...

In March, helped Serbia reach its first Davis Cup QF with 3-2 win over United States in Belgrade...Beat John Isner in four sets...As No. 29 seed in Indian Wells, reached the 4th RD before losing to No. 19 seed Berdych 61 63... It equalled his best ATP World Tour Masters 1000 performance (2009-Miami)...