Amer Delic
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Amer Delić is a Bosnian
tennis
player. Representing the United States as a tour player until 2009, he now represents the country of his birth, Bosnia and Herzegovina
, and is a member of its Davis Cup team
.
Delić was born in Tuzla
, then in Yugoslavia
, now in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1996, his family emigrated to Jacksonville, Florida
where he attended Samuel W. Wolfson High School
.
. At Illinois
he won both the NCAA Division I singles championship and the team championship in 2003.
In Grand Slams
, Delić's best performance has been reaching the third round at the 2009 Australian Open
. At the 2005 U.S. Open Delić and Jeff Morrison
reached the third round in doubles, upsetting the team of Leander Paes
and Nenad Zimonjić
in the first round.
On March 26, 2007, Delić upset World Number 4 (and 4th seed) Nikolay Davydenko
in the third round at the Miami Masters
, winning 7–6(5), 6–3.
Delić trains at the Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel, Florida
, where he resides when not on tour. He is known to be a good friend and practice partner of American no. 2 John Isner
.
6-7(2) 7-6(4) 6-7(6). In Sydney he was defeated in the first round by Denis Gremelmayr
4-6 6-7(4). At the Australian Open, Amer finally started to win. He came through three qualifying matches. In the first round of the main draw he defeated Taylor Dent
6-4 3-6 4-6 6-3 6-4. In the second round he defeated Paul-Henri Mathieu
1-6 3-6 6-3 7-6(3) 9-7. In the third round he was stopped by Novak Djokovic
2-6 6-4 3-6 6-7(4). After the match spectators were caught throwing chairs at each other due to the conflict between Bosnians and Serbs. Due to a knee injury, Delić's last 2009 appearance on the ATP tour was a first round loss against Nicolas Mahut
at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
in July.
, Delić tried a comeback but lost in the first qualification round against Michael Yani
. In September, he joined the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team
for a tie in the Europe/Africa Group II
against Portugal. He lost both his singles match against Frederico Gil
in five sets and his doubles match on the side of Aldin Šetkić to Gil and Leonardo Tavares
in four sets. Overall, after a 2:3 loss, his team stayed in Group II.
tie in the Europe/Africa Zone Group II against Morocco. He won one of his two singles matches and the doubles match (on the side of Ismar Gorčić), thereby securing his team's victory. In the next tie against Estonia played in July, Delić won all his three matches decidedly helping his team to advance to the next stage against Denmark.
Bosniaks
The Bosniaks or Bosniacs are a South Slavic ethnic group, living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a smaller minority also present in other lands of the Balkan Peninsula especially in Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia...
tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
player. Representing the United States as a tour player until 2009, he now represents the country of his birth, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, and is a member of its Davis Cup team
Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Tennis Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Bosnia and Herzegovina was promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in April 2009...
.
Delić was born in Tuzla
Tuzla
Tuzla is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the time of the 1991 census, it had 83,770 inhabitants, while the municipality 131,318. Taking the influx of refugees into account, the city is currently estimated to have 174,558 inhabitants...
, then in Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
, now in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1996, his family emigrated to Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
where he attended Samuel W. Wolfson High School
Samuel W. Wolfson High School
Samuel W. Wolfson High School is a public high school, named after Samuel W. Wolfson, located in the Duval County Public School district, serving students of the diverse south side area of Jacksonville, Florida. Samuel W. Wolfson High School serves grades 9-12 in the Duval County Public Schools...
.
Tennis career
Delić played collegiate tennis at the University of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
. At Illinois
Illinois Fighting Illini men's tennis
The Illinois Fighting Illini men's tennis team is a NCAA Division I college tennis team competing in the Big Ten Conference. The team plays its home matches at the in Champaign, Illinois.-History:...
he won both the NCAA Division I singles championship and the team championship in 2003.
In Grand Slams
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
, Delić's best performance has been reaching the third round at the 2009 Australian Open
2009 Australian Open
The 2009 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 97th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 19 January through 1 February 2009. The 2009 men's...
. At the 2005 U.S. Open Delić and Jeff Morrison
Jeff Morrison
Jeffrey Alan "Jeff" Morrison is an American professional tennis player.Morrison is perhaps best known for being the last American male left standing in the singles draw at Wimbledon in 2002....
reached the third round in doubles, upsetting the team of Leander Paes
Leander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes, pronounced pās, is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament...
and Nenad Zimonjić
Nenad Zimonjic
Nenad Zimonjić is a professional Serbian tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 3 in men's doubles. He is the second tennis doubles player from Serbia to hold the World No.1, after Slobodan Živojinović.-Career:...
in the first round.
On March 26, 2007, Delić upset World Number 4 (and 4th seed) Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko is a Ukrainian-Russian tennis player. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam tournament has been reaching the semifinals, which he has done on four occasions: twice each at the French Open and the U.S. Open. His biggest achievement to date was winning the 2009 ATP...
in the third round at the Miami Masters
Miami Masters
The Miami Masters is an annual tennis tournament for men and women held in Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida. It is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the women's tour and is played on hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park...
, winning 7–6(5), 6–3.
Delić trains at the Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel, Florida
Wesley Chapel, Florida
Wesley Chapel is a census-designated place in Pasco County, Florida, United States. Wesley Chapel is considered part of the Tampa Bay Area metro. The population was 44,092 at the 2010 census. In 2003, some residents of Wesley Chapel started a movement to incorporate the community...
, where he resides when not on tour. He is known to be a good friend and practice partner of American no. 2 John Isner
John Isner
John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of no. 18 on July 5, 2010, and has been as high as the second-ranked American tennis player behind Andy Roddick...
.
2009
Delić started off the year in Brisbane, where he won three qualifying matches, but was defeated in the first round by Mario AnčićMario Ancic
Mario Ančić is a retired Croatian professional tennis player. He won three singles titles and five doubles titles. His highest international ranking came during the 2006 ATP Tour, when he reached no. 7 in singles...
6-7(2) 7-6(4) 6-7(6). In Sydney he was defeated in the first round by Denis Gremelmayr
Denis Gremelmayr
Denis Gremelmayr is a German male tennis player. Gremelmayr turned pro in 2000 and reached #97 in August, 2006. He spent 2007 in the top 200 and finished the year at #119...
4-6 6-7(4). At the Australian Open, Amer finally started to win. He came through three qualifying matches. In the first round of the main draw he defeated Taylor Dent
Taylor Dent
Taylor Phillip Dent is a retired professional tennis player from the United States.-Early career and back injury:He won 4 ATP singles titles during his career: Newport , Bangkok , Memphis , and Moscow , and reached the finals of three other events on tour...
6-4 3-6 4-6 6-3 6-4. In the second round he defeated Paul-Henri Mathieu
Paul-Henri Mathieu
Paul-Henri Mathieu is a French tennis player.-Tennis career:Mathieu was born in Strasbourg, France. He first began playing tennis at age 3, with his older brother Pierre-Yves. Between 1997 and 2000 he trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida...
1-6 3-6 6-3 7-6(3) 9-7. In the third round he was stopped by Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked world no. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals since 4 July 2011. He has won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008 and 2011 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open...
2-6 6-4 3-6 6-7(4). After the match spectators were caught throwing chairs at each other due to the conflict between Bosnians and Serbs. Due to a knee injury, Delić's last 2009 appearance on the ATP tour was a first round loss against Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut is a French tennis player. Mahut is right-handed and has previously won the Orange Bowl in 1999, becoming professional in 2000. He is a good serve and volleyer and a doubles expert, having won many tournaments with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. His career high...
at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
The Hall of Fame Championships is an international tennis tournament that has been held every year in July since 1976 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island...
in July.
2010: Comeback and Davis Cup play for Bosnia and Herzegovina
At the US Open2010 US Open (tennis)
The 2010 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 30 to September 13, 2010 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City, United States....
, Delić tried a comeback but lost in the first qualification round against Michael Yani
Michael Yani
Michael Yani is a Singaporean-American tennis player. He turned professional in 2003.Yani is 6 ft 1 in and 75 kg . He resides in Durham, North Carolina. His high singles ranking to date is World No. 143, which he reached March 1, 2010.Yani qualified for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and 2009...
. In September, he joined the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team
Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Tennis Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Bosnia and Herzegovina was promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in April 2009...
for a tie in the Europe/Africa Group II
2010 Davis Cup
The 2010 Davis Cup was the 99th edition of the most important annual tournament among national teams in men's tennis worldwide...
against Portugal. He lost both his singles match against Frederico Gil
Frederico Gil
Frederico Gil is a Portuguese professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Tour. In April 2011, he achieved a career-high singles world ranking no. 62, the highest ranking a Portuguese player has ever held until September when Rui Machado placed 61st in the rankings...
in five sets and his doubles match on the side of Aldin Šetkić to Gil and Leonardo Tavares
Leonardo Tavares
Leonardo Tavares is a Portuguese professional tennis player. He competes on the ATP Tour. On August 2010, he achieved a career-high singles world ranking of no. 186....
in four sets. Overall, after a 2:3 loss, his team stayed in Group II.
2011
In March, Delić participated in the Bosnia and Herzegovina team's Davis Cup2011 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II
The European and African Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2011.In the European and African Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.-Seeds:# # # # #...
tie in the Europe/Africa Zone Group II against Morocco. He won one of his two singles matches and the doubles match (on the side of Ismar Gorčić), thereby securing his team's victory. In the next tie against Estonia played in July, Delić won all his three matches decidedly helping his team to advance to the next stage against Denmark.
Singles titles (8)
| Legend (Singles) |
| Grand Slam (0) |
| Tennis Masters Cup (0) |
| ATP Masters Series (0) |
| ATP Tour (0) |
| Challengers (6) |
| Futures (2) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score |
| 1. | July 7, 2003 |  PeoriaPeoria, Illinois Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. It is named after the Peoria tribe. As of the 2010 census, the city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 115,007, and is the third-most populated... |
Clay |  Francisco RodriguezFrancisco Rodriguez Francisco Rodriguez may refer to:*Francisco Rodríguez , Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers who is nicknamed "K-Rod"... |
6–1 4–6 6–2 |
| 2. | June 21, 2004 | Auburn Auburn, California Auburn is the county seat of Placer County, California. Its population at the 2010 census was 13,330. Auburn is known for its California Gold Rush history.Auburn is part of the Greater Sacramento area.- History :... |
Hard | K. J. Hippensteel K. J. Hippensteel K. J. Hippensteel is an American tennis player from Roanoke, Virginia.Hippensteel attended Stanford University, where he was a four-time All-American. He was the #1 ranked player in NCAA tennis his sophomore and senior year. Before attending Stanford, Hippensteel was a US Open Juniors doubles... |
7–6 6–3 |
| 3. | April 11, 2005 |  Mexico CityMexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... |
Clay | Jeff Morrison Jeff Morrison Jeffrey Alan "Jeff" Morrison is an American professional tennis player.Morrison is perhaps best known for being the last American male left standing in the singles draw at Wimbledon in 2002.... |
6–4 3–6 6–3 |
| 4. | October 30, 2006 | Louisville Ford Tennis Championships The Ford Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Louisville, Kentucky since 2006. The event is part of the challenger series and is played on indoor hard courts.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :**... |
Hard (i) |  Stéphane BohliStéphane Bohli Stéphane Bohli is a professional tennis player from Switzerland.-Doubles: 1 :-Challengers Wins:-External links:* Official Website of Stéphane Bohli... |
3–6 6–2 6–3 |
| 5. | November 13, 2006 | Champaign JSM Challenger The JSM Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois since 1996. The event is part of the challenger series and is played on indoor hard courts.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :***... |
Hard (i) | Zack Fleishman Zack Fleishman Zachary Rodin "Zack" Fleishman is a right-handed professional tennis player from the United States.-Tennis career:Fleishman began playing tennis at the age of 8.... |
6–3 6–0 |
| 6. | January 28, 2008 | Dallas Challenger of Dallas The Challenger of Dallas is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the T Bar M Racquet Club in Dallas, Texas, USA, since 1998.... |
Hard (i) | Stéphane Bohli Stéphane Bohli Stéphane Bohli is a professional tennis player from Switzerland.-Doubles: 1 :-Challengers Wins:-External links:* Official Website of Stéphane Bohli... |
6–4 7–5 |
| 7. | May 24, 2008 | Carson |
Hard | Alex Bogomolov, Jr. Alex Bogomolov, Jr. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolov, most known as Alex Bogomolov Jr. , nicknamed Bogie, is a Russian professional tennis player.-Tennis career:... |
7–6 6–4 |
| 8. | March 13, 2011 |  Sarajevo2011 BH Telecom Indoors The 2011 BH Telecom Indoors was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour... |
Hard |  Karol BeckKarol Beck Karol Beck is a male tennis player from Slovakia, who turned professional in 2001. He has been ranked as high as 36th in the world .- Career :On October 25, 2004, Beck lost in the final of the St... |
Walkover Walkover In British English, a walkover or W.O. is the awarding of a victory to a contestant because there are no other contestants, or because the other contestants have been disqualified or have forfeited. The term can apply in sport, but can also apply to elections... |
Singles runners-up (8)
- 2004: Dallas/ lost to
Sébastien de ChaunacSébastien de ChaunacSébastien de Chaunac is a now inactive French professional tennis player. He mainly played ATP Challenger Series tournaments, capturing one singles and two doubles titles...
(4–6 6–7) - 2004: Nashville/ lost to Justin GimelstobJustin GimelstobJustin Jeremy Gimelstob is a retired American tennis player. Gimelstob has been a resident of Morristown, New Jersey and as of 2009 resided in Santa Monica, California....
(6–7 6–7) - 2005: Carson/ lost to Justin GimelstobJustin GimelstobJustin Jeremy Gimelstob is a retired American tennis player. Gimelstob has been a resident of Morristown, New Jersey and as of 2009 resided in Santa Monica, California....
(6–7 2–6) - 2006: Lexington/ lost to
Hyung-Taik Lee (7–5 2–6 3–6) - 2006: Vancouver/ lost to
Rik de VoestRik de VoestRik de Voest is a professional South African tennis player. As of September 6, 2007, de Voest's career-high ranking was World Number 110, which he achieved on August 21, 2006....
(6–7 2–6) - 2006: New Orleans/ lost to
Cecil MamiitCecil MamiitCecil Valdeavilla Mamiit is a tennis player from the United States who now represents the Philippines. He began his professional career in 1996. He reached his highest individual ranking in the ATP Tour on October 11, 1999, when he became World No...
(3–6 6–7) - 2006: Calabasas/ lost to
Mark PhilippoussisMark PhilippoussisMark Anthony Philippoussis is an Australian tennis player. He turned professional in 1994. His father is Greek, while his mother is of Italian ancestry....
(7–6 6–7 3–6)