Damir Dzumhur

[Damian]

Damir ogrywa Kukuszkina i po raz pierwszy awansuje do ćwierćfinału w Rotterdamie.

Spoiler:

W całej karierze to już będzie 17 ćwierćfinał ATP (8-8).

[Damian]

Earlier in the day, Damir Dzumhur, winless this year prior to arriving at the ATP 500-level tournament, is through to his first ATP Tour quarter-final for six months (2018 Shenzhen Open) after he beat Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 6-4, 7-6(3) in one hour and 43 minutes. He will next play France’s Gael Monfils.

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On Stadium Court, Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia and Herzegovina held off American wild card Christopher Eubanks 1-6, 6-4, 7-6(5). Dzumhur, a two-time ATP Tour titlist, took a medical timeout at 6-5 in the third set because of back pain, but he held on to beat the 22-year-old Eubanks, who's at a career-high No. 150 in the ATP Rankings.

"It was a good win at the end for me. I didn't have many wins this year. I was struggling with my confidence. I think in some matches I was playing good but without confidence you cannot play... Today I was much better," said Dzuhmhur, who improved to 3-7 on the season. "Matches like this... they are giving you more energy, they are giving you a lot of confidence."

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[Barty]

Dzumhur Ousts Wawrinka In Geneva

Spoiler:

Dzumhur to face Albot in quarter-finals
Damir Dzumhur put a quick end to Stan Wawrinka's hopes of winning a third title at the Banque Eric Sturdza Geneva Open, defeating the second-seeded Swiss 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in his second-round opening match Wednesday. Wawrinka had won the Geneva title in 2016-17.

Wawrinka led 3-0 to start the decisive set, but Dzumhur countered to win the next five games. He closed out the victory on serve in just under two hours. The 57th-ranked Dzumhur, a qualifier at the ATP 250 clay-court event, also rallied from a set down to defeat Feliciano Lopez in the first round.

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"It looked good, but it didn’t finish well. It was a tough match out there for sure," said Wawrinka. "Again, this is typical the match that I’m still losing, still missing. I know I’m playing well, I’m moving well, but maybe I think a bit too much with what I want to do, how I want to do it, and I don’t play simple enough. Those little moments in the second set and third set turned the match. That’s what I’m working forward to change up.

"Even if I lost today, in general I’m playing well, so I need to keep pushing myself, keep trying to find a way to win those tight match, and I know that things can change quickly."


Dzumhur will next meet fifth-seeded Moldovan Radu Albot, who edged past Juan Ignacio Londero of Argentina 6-1, 6-7(3), 6-4 for a place in his third ATP Tour quarter-final of the year.

“There is no easy game in tennis,” said Albot, the Delray Beach finalist (d. Evans) in February. “It was a tough one. It was a good match to watch for spectators, with lots of rallies.”

Japan’s Taro Daniel knocked out third seed Cristian Garin, one of the most consistent clay-court performers of 2019, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in just over two hours. Daniel took a 3-0 lead in the first set and broke in the opening game of the decider against this season’s Houston and Munich champion, who is now 19-6 on red dirt.

Daniel will need to beat another Chilean, Nicolas Jarry, a 6-3, 6-3 winner over American Denis Kudla, if he wishes to reach his first ATP Tour semi-final since August 2018 in Winston-Salem (l. to Medvedev).

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Elsewhere, Argentina’s Federico Delbonis proved to be too strong for fourth seed and defending champion Marton Fucsovics of Hungary 6-4, 6-2. He next meets Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who reached the Geneva quarter-finals for the first time in four years by saving all four break points he faced to beat Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-0, 6-3 in 77 minutes.

"I played really good today," said Ramos-Vinolas. "I'm really happy. I was really concentrating during all the match, and I think I played a great level, maybe I played the same level as two years ago, when I was playing really good."

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[Damian]

Defending Champion Dzumhur Makes Strong Start In Antalya

Spoiler:

#NextGenATP Frenchman Humbert also advances
Defending champion Damir Dzumhur made a strong start to his Turkish Airlines Open Antalya campaign on Monday, defeating Australian Matthew Ebden 6-4, 7-5 to reach the second round.

The fifth seed is trying to become the first player to retain the Antalya trophy. This is the third edition of the ATP 250 tournament, which was won by Yuichi Sugita in 2017. This was Dzumhur and Ebden's first FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting, and Dzumhur, despite winning just two more points overall in the match, converted three of the seven break points he earned to advance after one hour and 22 minutes.

Dzumhur is trying to win an ATP Tour title for the third consecutive year. In 2017, he lifted his first two tour-level trophies, in St. Petersburg and Moscow, en route to reaching a career-high of No. 23 in the ATP Rankings. In the next round, the 27-year-old will face Turkish wild card Altug Celikbilek, who upset former World No. 10 Ernests Gulbis 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in one hour and 53 minutes. It was the first ATP Tour main draw match in World No. 443 Celikbilek's career.

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#NextGenATP Frenchman Ugo Humbert also moved into the second round. The 20-year-old beat Argentine Federico Delbonis 6-3, 7-5 in 78 minutes. It is the sixth seed's sixth tour-level victory of the year, and he entered 2019 with just two wins in his career. He will face another #NextGenATP player in 19-year-old Miomir Kecmanovic, who advanced on Sunday. Both men are currently inside the Top 10 in the ATP Race To Milan.

Indian Prajnesh Gunneswaran eliminated former World No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic 6-0, 7-6(6) to set a clash with Italian Lorenzo Sonego.

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Roland Garros Champions Eliminated
Jonathan Erlich and Artem Sitak beat Roland Garros champions Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies, the top seeds, 6-3, 7-6(3) to reach the second round. Krawietz and Mies also lost in the first round of last week's NOVENTI OPEN.

Second seeds Marcelo Demoliner and Divij Sharan avoided the upset bug, defeating wild cards Tuna Altuna and Cem Ilkel 7-5, 6-2.

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[arti]

The Champ Returns: Dzumhur downed Mannarino in last year’s final, giving the Bosnian his third career ATP Tour singles title. Dzumhur was 13-17 last year coming into Antalya, but he pulled himself up to a 50 per cent success rate for the season and a career-high ATP Ranking of No. 23, after clinching the title. This year, the World No. 62 enters the draw with a 5-10 record in 2019.

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[Damian]

Damir Dzumhur, the Bosnia and Herzegovina right-hander, overcame seventh seed Casper Ruud of Norway 6-4, 6-2 in 86 minutes and will next play Roberto Carballes Baena, who knocked out his fellow Spaniard and doubles partner this week, Jaume Munar in three sets on Monday.

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[Razing]

[arti]

[Damian]

Damir Dzumhur, who beat French qualifier Elliot Benchetrit 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-0, awaits in the next round. Federer will take confidence knowing he defeated the three-time ATP Tour champion in straight sets at Roland Garros and Wimbledon in 2015.

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[Damian]

Dzumhur On Facing Idol Federer: 'Many Matches He Won Before The Match'

Spoiler:

World No. 99 seeks his fifth Top 10 win
World No. 99 Damir Dzumhur has long idolised Roger Federer. At the age of 18, he was lucky enough to hit with the Swiss superstar at Roland Garros. Dzumhur has since spent a few offseasons with Federer training in Dubai, too.

But competing against Federer is a different animal. And while the Bosnian has done so two times previously — both coming four years ago — Dzumhur will play the third seed in the second round of the US Open Wednesday afternoon on one of the sport’s biggest stages.

“He was my idol. He was a person out of the court and on the court I was following. I was rooting for him. He was definitely, for me, the best player in tennis history,” Dzumhur told ATPTour.com. “I just think that I have to get in the match to try to play good, to try to do what I was doing in practice. Doesn’t matter really the result If I play a really good game, I can always make trouble for any player. So I’m hoping to just go out there and have a good game.”

Dzumhur’s first two attempts against Federer did not go his way. The Swiss won 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 in the third round of 2015 Roland Garros before triumphing 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 just weeks later at Wimbledon.

“I remember the first time playing him it was a big thing for me. I really couldn’t expect I was going to one day play Roger Federer. One of my dreams came true playing at Roland Garros against him. I remember it was a nice match, a lot of good points. I was playing quite good that match,” Dzumhur said. “Then I remember just a month later I was playing him in the first round at Wimbledon. I said, ‘Okay, my dream came true, but I don’t need another match against him.’

“It was much harder on a grass court. It wasn’t easy to play there. I remember it was one of the toughest matches for me to play mentally knowing he won there seven times, knowing it’s his court. It was tough to compete against him.”


Dzumhur has no intentions of walking on the court Wednesday just to compete against Federer, though. The 27-year-old understands that if he does not start the match believing he can win, actually doing so will become that much more difficult.

“You have to somehow take it out of your head. I think many of the matches he won before the match, he won in the locker room. You don’t want to do that. You want to try to think that you can do it. If you’re thinking you can’t do something, there’s no way you can do it,” Dzumhur said. “There’s just no way, because mentally you will give up, and you don’t want to give up mentally. Even though your game is maybe not working or it’s not going by plan, it’s not going how you want, mentally you cannot give up. If you give up mentally, it’s over.”

It has been a tough season for the former World No. 23. Before the preseason, Dzumhur had surgery on two of his toes, which took a month and a half to recover from rather than the 20 days he expected. That eliminated his offseason. He only began running two days before his first match of the year in Doha, and that inhibited his movement for the first few months of the year, which was tough for a player who relies on his footwork.

Then Dzumhur suffered a back injury in Miami that he needed two weeks to recover from. Two days before Monte-Carlo, he ruptured his abdominal, which took him out for a month. After returning from that and finding his rhythm, Dzumhur fell on his left shoulder at Roland Garros, breaking two ligaments.


But Dzumhur feels that he is trending in the right direction. After Wimbledon, he hired Petar Popovic, who has coached Ivo Karlovic and Filip Krajinovic. He also knows that he has won three ATP Tour titles within the past two years, showing what he is capable of.

“I think sometimes in my mind I am missing it. I made good results, I won three ATP titles and I think that I should remember that and I should think that I am able to do it again. Without thinking that you can do it again, you definitely can’t,” Dzumhur said. “Always having it in your mind that you made it and you can make it again, I think I can do it. That’s what I’m talking to my coach a lot about and he’s always reminding me that I was No. 23 in the world. If I do things well and if I’m really a professional, I can do it again.”

First, though, Dzumhur will focus on the task at hand: trying to stun his idol.

Did You Know?
Dzumhur owns a 4-15 record against opponents inside the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings. His victories against the elite group have come against Rafael Nadal, Stan Wawrinka, Alexander Zverev and Tomas Berdych.

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[arti]

USO19: będzie mecz z Federerem.

Damir Dzumhur d. [Q] Elliot Benchetrit 4-6 6-2 6-3 6-0

[Damian]

Why Dzumhur Is Polite When Asking Federer, Djokovic For A Photo

Spoiler:

The three-time ATP titlist talks about the 'Last Time' with ATPTour.com
Editor's Note: This interview was originally published on 31 January 2019. Damir Dzumhur faces his idol, Roger Federer, in the second round of the US Open.

Damir Dzumhur has had two of the best seasons of his career, winning three ATP titles in the past two years. Now if he could only remember where he put his keys.

Dzumhur, who's representing Bosnia and Herzegovina in Davis Cup action against Australia this weekend, talked with ATPTour.com about "The Last Time" he lost those keys, the vital lesson his father taught him and why he still feels like he has to politely ask Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic for a photo after a practice session.

The last time... I lost something important?
My home keys I lost a few months ago, but it's not the first time that I've lost them. I'm not really good with keys... I had four pairs of home keys at home. I always make enough so in case I lose a pair, I have one.

I paid money to rent a tennis court or buy tennis balls?
In March, in Los Angeles, between Indian Wells and Miami... I had to pay for a tennis court. Balls, I had with me from Indian Wells... I played at a club where my coach used to play sometimes, and he knows people at that club but we still had to pay... I definitely need better connections. I think we had two hours of court time, about $15 an hour.

Watch: Born Into War, Dzumhur's Inspirational Journey To ATP Titlist


I strung a tennis racquet?
When I was a kid [ages 14-20], I was stringing my racquets. Of course, [with the support of my] father or even brother, because he learned to string racquets when he was very young and would sometimes help me. But I was the one taking care of it.

My father wanted me to know what are my responsibilities, that I'm not going to get everything served on a plate, so I had to work for something. That's why today I don't have problems with doing those kinds of things, with expecting everything to just come to me; I have to get it.

I like that my father was always trying to teach me, to get the things, to not wait for them... He wanted me to know that it's one of my responsibilities. He's working all day on the courts as well, he doesn't have time to do it.

I cooked for myself and others?
Last time I did maybe two months ago when I was home... I cooked some beef. Beef is really easy to make, you just put one side, the other side, some oil, some salt, and if the meat is very good in five or six minutes, you're OK. I like beef medium so I don't have to cook it a long time and it goes very easy. With some beef I would get some corn with it. That's easy.

Dzumhur

I met a childhood idol?
Roger Federer, I met him four years ago for the first time... We played three years ago at Roland Garros and Wimbledon but I met him the year before, in Australia.

Meeting him [off the court] is a big thing, but I would say the real meeting was on the court. After the first match between the two of us, I had a chance to practise with him, to talk more with him, and I'm really happy to say that today when I see Roger he always comes and says, "Hi". In your head, it's a big thing when you know somebody who has won 20 Grand Slams, who's one of the best players ever, and he comes and talks to you.

I think this is something special that can happen in your life, especially if that is a guy who you were cheering for and watching on TV when you were 11, 12 years old, winning Grand Slam tournaments. That is really something special.

Read more in the 'Last Time' series: Federer | Kyrgios | Tsitsipas

I asked someone famous for an autograph or selfie?
When I finished a practice with Roger, I asked for a picture. Of course I do it not just with him, but with other players as well. But I would say, with him, it's a question, with other guys it's, 'Let's make a photo.' With him, it's like, 'Hey Roger, can we make a photo, please?'

Or with Novak Djokovic as well, with Novak, in Queens, in July, we were practising together and I just asked him... Those big guys who you have a lot of respect for, you just feel like you have to ask.

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[arti]

Damir Dzumhur, a qualifier from Bosnia and Herzegovina, worked hard to break a four-match losing streak against Italian Marco Cecchinato 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 in one hour and 58 minutes. Dzumhur will next face fifth seed Lucas Pouille or South Korean qualifier Soonwoo Kwon.

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[Barty]

Finał CH w Bratysławie:
* 1. finał CH w 2019 (0-1)
* 12. finał CH w karierze (7-5);

[Damian]

2019 w liczbach:

Ranking: 93
Bilans meczów: 13-21
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 0
Zarobki: $640,500

[Lleyton]

Korupcja w tenisie. Ojciec Dzumhura: Damir nigdy nie był zamieszany w ustawianie meczów

Spoiler:

Już wkrótce powinny być znane wyniki śledztwa prowadzonego w sprawie ustawiania meczów w tenisie. Po ostatnich rewelacjach niemieckich mediów pojawiło się sporo spekulacji. Ojciec Damira Dzumhura jest przekonany, że nie dotyczy to jego syna.Niemiecka telewizja ZDF i gazeta "Die Welt" ujawniły, że w aferę korupcyjną w tenisie jest zamieszanych około 135 graczy (więcej tutaj). Sprawa dotyczy siedmiu europejskich krajów, a wśród podejrzanych ma być zawodnik klasyfikowany w Top 30 rankingu ATP i mający na koncie trzy trofea głównego cyklu. To właśnie ta informacja wywołała falę spekulacji. Fani zastanawiają się, kto może być tą "grubą rybą".

Gdy przyjmie się, że chodzi o tenisistę, który kiedykolwiek w swojej karierze był notowany w najlepszej "30", to grono podejrzanych powiększy się. Jedną z takich osób jest Damir Dzumhur, aktualny 93. singlista świata, który w lipcu 2018 był 23. w rankingu ATP. Do tego Bośniak ma na koncie trzy tytuły imprez ATP Tour, które wywalczył w Petersburgu i Moskwie (2017) oraz Antalyi (2018).

Wszelkim podejrzeniom i spekulacjom na temat Dzumhura zaprzeczył jego ojciec Nerfid. - Faktem jest, że żaden z organów zaangażowanych w takie sprawy, w tym ostatnie śledztwo z udziałem 135 tenisistów, nie potraktował Damira jako kogoś, kogo można by podejrzewać. W karierze sportowej Damira nigdy nie było żadnych działań sprzecznych z etyką sportową i zasadami obowiązującymi w tenisie - stwierdził w rozmowie z bośniackim portalem Avaz Sport.

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Pierwsze dymy w związku z niedopuszczeniem Damira do RG (Petar Popović, trener, miał pozytywny wynik testu na covid). Dzumhur chce pozwać organzatorów RG:
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