Viktor Troicki finished the season at number 21
25-year-old Serbian, Viktor Troicki, has finished off his 2011 ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) season as the world number 21 after the BNP Paribas Masters.
The Serb took off the season as the world number 28 and had some brilliant runs in the ATP events earlier on to climb up to the 12th spot at the start of June. His inconsistent performances then kept pushing him down the rankings and he reached the number 19th spot at the start of this month. It was expected that Troicki will finish in the Top-20 this season but his third round defeat at the Paris Masters pushed him down to number 21 in the end.
The crafty right-hander has just one ATP championship title under his belt, which he bagged last year at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, Russia. Troicki has been in the finals of four other tournaments but has finished on the losing side every time. His runs in the 2011 season was pretty decent, despite the fact he didn’t bag a single championship title and failed to qualify for the ATP World Tour Finals.
Troicki registered victories in 40 of the 66 singles matches he took part in, while suffering defeats on 26 occurrences. He had a brilliant start to this year’s ATP season by reaching the final at Sydney but eventually fell to France’s Gilles Simon to fritter away the title opportunity. His run in the Australian Open was halted by the reigning world number one, Novak Djokovic, in the third round, followed by a semi-final run in Rotterdam.
The Serb assisted his side to a comprehensive victory in the Davis Cup World Group finals encounter against India, winning both of his singles rubbers against Rohan Bopanna and Somdev Devvarman. He was outdone by Djokovic in the round of 16 at the Miami Masters but then went on to reach the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters, losing to the sixth ranked David Ferrer. His rankings swelled to number 16 but he suffered early dismissals in a couple of tournaments to follow.
Troicki was defeated by the current world number three, Andy Murray, in the fourth round of the Roland Garros but his brilliant run in the Grand Slam took him to his career best rankings of world number 12. He was the quarter-finalist in Washington and finished semi-finalist in Kuala Lumpur before he got his second title opportunity of the year at the Kremlin Cup in October but lost to Janko Tipsarevic in the final. His opening round defeat at the Swiss Indoors Basel, followed by a third round loss in the Paris Masters finished off the ATP season for him at number 21 in the world.
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