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Mario Ancic retires

Postby Moralspain » Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:40

Sad news:

Due to a back injury that plagued him in recent years and before that mononucleosis Mario Ancic decided to terminate his professional career at 26 year.


Mario Ancic decided to say goodbye to tennis. Four-year battle with a back injury and mononucleosis earlier proved to be too demanding and young Splićanin decided to retire.

Ancic was announced that the reasons for leaving and their thoughts with the general public to share on Wednesday in Split, at a press conference.

One of our best players ever in his career he won three ATP titles, with the Croatian Davis Cup 2005th and an Olympic bronze medal in Athens 2004. paired with Ivan Ljubicic. In addition, he played semi-finals at Wimbledon, Roland Garros quarterfinals, and in July 2006. was the seventh player of the world.

Everything went downhill in February 2007. before the Davis Cup meetings with Germany. Then he was diagnosed with a severe form of mononucleosis. Several times he returned, 2009. he played the finals of Zagreb and Rotterdam semifinals, but in May last year reached a new severe injury, this time back that proved decisive for the end of his career.


Source: Croatian website http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrsport.net%2Fvijesti%2F412904%2Ftenis%2Fmario-ancic-prekida-karijeru, maybe there're grammatical errors, sorry no time to translate it myself
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Postby VillaJ100 » Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:27

This is quite sad but not surprising. I quite liked ancic as well.
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Postby willjonesjrSUSPENDED » Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:40

Unfortunate. He had a good career even though it was plauged with injuries. Now it is up to Cilic. Mario will be ok, I think he has a law degree or something. He's a smart guy and he will do well even though his specialty is now behind him.
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Postby Coolhand Texas » Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:49

Sad.

But I do hear the champions tour calling his name
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Postby djarvik » Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:47

I don't think he can play in Champions tour. I think you have to be either GS finalist of Winner. No?
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Postby JJ_DUBZ_87 » Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:50

There's guys on the champs tour who didn't win grand slams...
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Postby emate007 » Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:48

Top 5, GS finalist, OR...

be part of a winning davis cup team!
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Postby Elargento » Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:22

btw, what the hell happened to that guy from sweeden, joachim johanson?
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Postby jayl0ve » Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:25

I heard he's planning a comeback actually.
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Postby KluddKalle » Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:51

Elargento wrote:btw, what the hell happened to that guy from sweeden, joachim johanson?


He actually have already made his comeback. He played a Challenger in Italy a few weeks ago. He won his first match (25 aces in 11 serve games) but lost his second (he apparantely had a cold). From what I saw and know about him he definately has potential to enter top 100 or 50 again. He actually had more potential than Söderling back in the day (due to a much better psyche)

Next weekend he is playing Davis Cup for Sweden. He'll be playing singles.
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