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Serbia · Novak Tennis Center, Belgrade

Major honours

1 (2010)Davis Cup
3World No. 1 players
24Grand Slam singles (Djokovic)
1 (2024)Olympic singles gold

Tracing to the 1922 Yugoslav Lawn Tennis Association in Zagreb, today's Tennis Serbia was effectively rebuilt from nothing after state breakup, sanctions and war. Yet in 2008 alone it produced three world No. 1 players: Ana Ivanovic won Roland Garros and topped the WTA in June; Jelena Janković followed in August; Novak Djokovic won his first major at the Australian Open that year and went on to 428 weeks at No. 1 — an all-time record from 2011 onward. Individual paths, not infrastructure, drove the results. Djokovic started on small courts in Kopaonik, left for Nikic Pilic's academy in Munich at 12, and the Novak Tennis Center in Belgrade was built after his success. Team peaks: beating France 3–2 in Belgrade for the 2010 Davis Cup, and winning the inaugural ATP Cup in 2020. Monica Seles, from Novi Sad, was another world No. 1 from the former Yugoslav space.

Record comparison

Davis Cup titles
1
Billie Jean King Cup titles
0
World No. 1 players (M/F singles)
3
Olympic singles gold
1

Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.

Club legends

Novak DjokovicAna IvanovicJelena JankovićNenad ZimonjićJanko Tipsarević

Rivalry

Serbia and Croatia, as successor states of Yugoslavia, treat each other as the primary Davis Cup foe — symbolized by Djokovic versus Marin Čilić.

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