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

Dušan Vemić
Country (sports) Yugoslavia (1995–2003)
 Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)
 Serbia (2006–2011)
ResidenceLos Angeles, United States
Born (1976-06-17) 17 June 1976 (age 48)
Zadar, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro1995
Retired2011
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$821,902
Singles
Career record14–19 (42.42%)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 146 (25 February 2008)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ3 (2000)
French Open1R (2007)
WimbledonQ2 (2000, 2006, 2007)
US OpenQ2 (2007)
Doubles
Career record54–76 (41.54%)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 31 (12 January 2009)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenSF (2010)
French OpenSF (2008)
Wimbledon3R (2006)
US OpenQF (2008)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open2R (2009)
French Open2R (2009)
Wimbledon3R (2000)
US OpenQF (2008)
Last updated on: 31 January 2022.

Professional career

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His professional tennis career started in 1995, and his career high was No. 146 in singles (reached on 25 February 2008), and No.31 in doubles (on 12 January 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, United States with Ilija Bozoljac (SRB); Sunrise, Florida, USA with Janko Tipsarević (SRB); Cremona, Italy with Eduardo Schwank (ARG); Waco, Texas, USA with Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA); and Calabasas, California, 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

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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 Marián 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, New York, 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 Zimonjić 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 then worked with Brandon Nakashima from May 2020[4] to February 2022.

ATP career finals

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Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

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Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–1)
ATP World Series (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (0–2)
Indoors (0–0)
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

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Singles: 12 (3–9)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (1–5)
ITF Futures (2–4)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–6)
Clay (2–2)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
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 Rodríguez 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 Guzmán 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)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (15–20)
ITF Futures (1–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (6–9)
Clay (8–12)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (2–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 1996 Budva, Yugoslavia Challenger Clay   Nenad Zimonjić   Nebojsa Djordjevic
  Aleksandar Kitinov
3–6, 2–6
Win 1–1 Sep 1997 Budapest, Hungary Challenger Clay   Nebojsa Djordjevic   Kornél Bardóczky
  Miklós Jancsó
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   Ionuț Moldovan
  Yuri Schukin
6–4, 6–4
Win 5–8 Nov 2000 Santiago, Chile Challenger Clay   Irakli Labadze   Joan Balcells
  Germán 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   André Sá
  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 Levinský
  Tomáš Zíb
walkover
Win 8–11 Jun 2002 Weiden, Germany Challenger Clay   Jens Knippschild   Sergio Roitman
  Andrés Schneiter
7–6(7–5), 6–2
Loss 8–12 Aug 2002 Córdoba, Spain Challenger Hard   Emilio Benfele Álvarez   Paul Rosner
  Ota Fukárek
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 Guzmán
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
  Márcio Torres
7–5, 6–4
Win 11–16 Mar 2008 Sunrise, United States Challenger Hard   Janko Tipsarević   Kristof Vliegen
  Peter Wessels
6–2, 7–6(7–5)
Win 12–16 Apr 2008 Cremona, Italy Challenger Hard   Eduardo Schwank   Florin Mergea
  Horia Tecău
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   Leoš Friedl   Brian Battistone
  Andreas Siljeström
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

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

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Tournament 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 SR W–L Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open Q1 A Q3 A A A A A A A A Q1 A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
French Open Q1 A A A A A Q1 Q1 Q1 1R Q2 A A A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Wimbledon Q1 A Q2 A A A Q1 Q1 Q2 Q2 Q1 A A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
US Open A A Q1 A A Q1 Q1 Q1 A Q2 Q1 A A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 1 0–1 0%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells A A A A A A Q1 A A Q2 1R Q1 A Q1 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Miami A A A A A A A A A A Q2 A A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Monte Carlo Q2 A A A A A A A A A A A A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Rome 1R A A A A A A A A A A A A A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Madrid Not Held A A A A A A A Q2 A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 2 0–2 0%

Doubles

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Tournament 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 SR W–L Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A 2R A A A A A A A A 1R SF 1R 0 / 4 5–4 56%
French Open A A 1R A A A A A A A SF 2R 2R A 0 / 4 6–4 60%
Wimbledon Q1 A 1R A A A A A 3R A 1R 1R 1R A 0 / 5 2–5 29%
US Open A Q1 Q1 A 1R A A A A A QF 2R 1R A 0 / 4 4–4 50%
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 1–3 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 7–3 2–4 5–4 0–1 0 / 17 17–17 50%
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics NH 1R Not Held A NH A NH 0 / 1 0–1 0%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells A A A A A A A A A A A 1R QF A 0 / 2 2–2 50%
Miami A A A A A A A A A A A 2R 1R A 0 / 2 1–2 33%
Monte Carlo 1R A A A A A A A A A A A A A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Rome 1R A A A A A A A A A A 2R A A 0 / 2 1–2 33%
Madrid Not Held A A A A A A A QF 1R A 0 / 2 2–2 50%
Canada A A A A A A A A A A A 1R A A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Win–loss 0–2 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 4–5 2–3 0–0 0 / 10 6–10 38%

Mixed doubles

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Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 SR W–L Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A A A A A A A 2R A 0 / 1 1–1 50%
French Open A A A A A A A A A 2R A 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Wimbledon 3R A A A A A A A 2R 1R 1R 0 / 4 3–4 43%
US Open A A A A A A A A QF 2R A 0 / 2 3–2 60%
Win–loss 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 3–2 3–4 0–1 0 / 8 8–8 50%

Awards

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1995
1997
  • Best Male Tennis Player in FR Yugoslavia

References

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  1. ^ "Dusan Vemic". ATP Tour.
  2. ^ "The Global Professional Tennis Coach Association (GPTCA)".
  3. ^ "News".
  4. ^ ""Not a fluke": Brandon Nakashima craving for bigger breakthrough".
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