Ivan Ljubicic
Ivan Ljubicic
Ivan Ljubičićis a retired Croatian tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking was world No. 3...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth19 March 1979
huge realize takes time
It takes time to realize how big this is, but I do realize it's huge for us, for our sport and our country, because we are really small.
aggressive ball bit both returns serve similar
We play similar tennis. I use my serve a little bit more than he does, he probably returns a lot better than I do, but when the ball is in play we both try to be aggressive off the baseline.
definitely numbers player showing
Definitely I feel like No. 2 player in the world. It's not just a feeling. Also I think the numbers are showing the same.
acting great grow kid
He's a little weird, ... He can play great or he can play horrible. He's spoiled. I think he'll grow as a person, but right now, he's a kid and he's acting as a kid.
beginning bronze cup davis deal highlight learned match medal olympic pressure terrible
I always thought my Olympic bronze medal was the highlight of my career, ... But this is even better. I had some terrible times at the beginning of my Davis Cup career, but through the years I've learned how to deal with the pressure match after match.
bronze highlight medal olympic
I always thought my Olympic bronze medal was the highlight of my career,
crowd key serve
My serve was the key today, and the crowd were fantastic,
against close couple hope maybe time
Every time when I have to play against him, it's like, 'OK, maybe this is the one. But it's never happening. A couple times I was very close. I really just hope to be at least close on Sunday.
struggle tennis time totally
I really feel like this time is different. My tennis is totally different than it was before. I think this struggle time is over.
confidence cup davis fantastic great played stayed tennis
I played some great tennis there (in Metz), really. The confidence from the Davis Cup stayed there and I played fantastic all week.
ball break felt fifth game left lose pushing running service third unlucky win
After the third set, I thought I'm going to win because I felt everything much better. I think he was just pushing the ball back and running left and right. I think I was very unlucky in the fifth set not to get the break in the beginning, then to lose service game after.
decent difficult played pushing quite statement
He played quite well and he was the one who was pushing me over the limits. When it's like that, it's very difficult to make a statement out there, to make a decent match.
difficult expect five hung mistakes number won
I am number five in the world so I expect to play well. We made some mistakes and it got difficult but we hung in and won it.
anyone close consider five mean player top
I consider myself a top five player in the world, which doesn't mean that I'm close to Roger. I think he's really much better than I am, and probably anyone else.