Dušan Lajović

Dušan Lajović (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Лајовић; born 30 June 1990) is a Serbian professional tennis player.
Lajović has won one doubles title on the ATP Tour in his career. On 27 October 2014, Lajović reached his best singles rankings of world number 57. On 8 June 2015, he peaked at world number 104 in the doubles rankings.

Lajović reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on 27 October 2014, when he became World No. 57. For a long time, he primarily played on the Futures circuit and the Challenger circuit. In 2011 he qualified for the Kremlin Cup, and lost in the first round of the main draw. In the 2011 St. Petersburg Open, he reached the quarter finals. In 2012, he began working with a new coach, Boris Bošnjaković, played in the Davis Cup for the first time, reached the finals of 2012 Orbetello Challenger and won the 2012 Samarkand Challenger. Replacing an injured Janko Tipsarevic, he played two live rubbers in the 2013 Davis Cup final, including the deciding rubber against Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic. He was defeated comfortably in both but was praised by team-mate Novak Djokovic for how he coped with the big occasion. His first appearance in main draw of grand slam was at 2014 Australian Open and he reached 2nd round where he lost to Kei Nishikori. He bettered this at the 2014 French Open by reaching the fourth round where he was beaten in straight sets by world number one & eventual champion Rafael Nadal. The following year, at the French Open he lost to eventual champion Stan Wawrinka in the second round. At the 2016 Argentina Open, Lajovic reached quarterfinals defeating world No. 12 John Isner en route. He reached semifinals of the 2016 Brasil Open after beating top seed and world No. 20 Benoît Paire in the second round, that was his first tour-level semifinal appearance after losing all eight prior quarterfinals matches before in his career.

Doubles: 2 (1 title; 1 runner-up)

Result	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	27 July 2014	250 Series	ATP Vegeta Croatia Open Umag, Croatia	Clay	Franko Škugor	František Čermák Lukáš Rosol	4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Winner	3 May 2015	250 Series	Istanbul Open, Turkey	Clay	Radu Albot	Robert Lindstedt Jürgen Melzer	6–4, 7–6(7–2)

Result	Date	Team competition	Surface	Partner/Team	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	15–17 November 2013	Davis Cup, Belgrade, Serbia	Hard (i)	Novak Djokovic Nenad Zimonjić Ilija Bozoljac	Tomáš Berdych Radek Štěpánek Lukáš Rosol Jan Hájek	2–3

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 15 (10–5)

Result	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	10 August 2009	Futures	Sombor, Serbia	Clay	Aleksandar Slović	6–3, 6–4
Runner–up	14 June 2010	Futures	Belgrade, Serbia	Clay	Oleksandr Nedovyesov	4–6, 2–6
Winner	2 August 2010	Futures	Novi Sad, Serbia	Clay	Aldin Šetkić	6–0, 4–6, 6–3
Runner–up	22 August 2010	Futures	Este Padova, Italy	Clay	Matteo Viola	5–7, 1–6
Runner–up	31 October 2010	Futures	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Miljan Zekić	1–6, 6–3, 4–6
Winner	23 January 2011	Futures	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Artem Smirnov	WEA
Winner	19 March 2011	Futures	Cividino, Italy	Hard	Andrea Stoppini	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
Winner	25 March 2011	Futures	Foggia, Italy	Clay	Walter Trusendi	6–2, 6–7(7–9), 6–2
Winner	2 October 2011	Futures	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Andrey Kuznetsov	6–4, 0–6, 7–5
Runner–up	29 July 2012	Challenger	Orbetello, Italy	Clay	Roberto Bautista Agut	3–6, 1–6
Winner	11 August 2012	Challenger	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Clay	Farrukh Dustov	6–3, 6–2
Winner	9 June 2013	Challenger	Caltanissetta, Italy	Clay	Robin Haase	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Runner–up	16 June 2013	Challenger	Blois, France	Clay	Julian Reister	1–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–7(2–7)
Winner	2 November 2013	Challenger	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Julian Reister	W/O
Winner	21 September 2015	Challenger	Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hard	Victor Hănescu	7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–5)

Doubles: 5 (4–1)

Result	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	29 June 2008	Futures	Belgrade, Serbia	Clay	Nikola Čačić	David Savić Miljan Zekić	7–6(8–6), 3–6, [10–8]
Runner–up	25 October 2009	Futures	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Nikola Ćirić	Oscar Burrieza-Lopez Javier Marti	4–6, 6–1, [9–11]
Winner	16 May 2010	Futures	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Miljan Zekić	Mirza Bašić Zlatan Kadrić	6–3, 6–4
Winner	15 August 2010	Futures	Novi Sad, Serbia	Clay	Ilija Vučić	Javier Herrera-Eguiluz Brendan Moore	7–5, 5–7, [10–8]
Winner	24 October 2010	Futures	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Miljan Zekić	Alexander Lobkov Alexander Rumyantsev	7–6(7–5), 7–6(10–8)