Slobodan Živojinović

Živojinović represented SFR Yugoslavia as the number 15 seed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was defeated in the second round by France's Guy Forget.

The right-hander won two career singles titles (Houston, 1986 and Sydney, 1988), as well as eight doubles titles. He reached his highest singles ATP ranking on October 26, 1987, when he became world No. 19.

Živojinović's most notable Grand Slam results were two semifinals. As an unseeded player at the 1985 Australian Open, he memorably beat John McEnroe in a five-set quarterfinal to reach the semifinals (where he lost in straight sets to Mats Wilander). The next year, at the 1986 Wimbledon semifinal, again as an unseeded player, he lost to Ivan Lendl in a five-set match.

Over the course of his career, Živojinović amassed an overall singles record of 150 wins and 138 defeats. He was much more successful in doubles competition, winning the US Open in 1986 with Andrés Gómez. The same year, he won three more tournaments. He was ranked as the world No. 1 doubles player on September 8, 1986.

• A = did not participate in the tournament
• NH = tournament not held
• SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

Živojinović at Wimbledon in the mid-1980s

Živojinović was engaged to Zorica Desnica with whom he has a son Filip. The couple did not marry. Desnica later married basketball player Ivo Nakic and is mother of another basketball player Mario Nakić and a daughter named Iva.

In 1991, Živojinović married Yugoslav folk singer Fahreta Jahić known as Lepa Brena.

Živojinović's media prominence, especially in the years since his retirement, owes much to his marriage to Lepa Brena, Yugoslavia's biggest commercial folk singing star. Their wedding on December 7, 1991 was a media event throughout the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The lavish ceremony took place at Belgrade's InterContinental Hotel with Ion Ţiriac as the groom's best man. The level of interest in the event was such that Brena's manager Raka Đokić released a VHS tape of the wedding for commercial exploitation.[1] Their very public relationship has been providing steady fodder for various yellow media publications ever since.

The couple have two sons — Stefan (born in New York City in May 1992) and Viktor. In the afternoon hours of Thursday, November 23, 2000, 8-year-old Stefan was kidnapped by members of Zemun mafia clan and returned on Tuesday five days later on the side of Belgrade–Niš highway for the ransom sum reported to be more than DM 2 million.[2]

Throughout 2005 and 2006, there were numerous tabloid reports about Živojinović's supposed infidelity and bad state of his marriage. In April 2006, he reportedly moved out of the family home following an argument with Brena.[3] Although the reports of a separation were frequent and detailed,[4] the couple are still together.

• Slobodan Živojinović at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Slobodan Živojinović at the International Tennis Federation

Sporting positions
Preceded by Yannick Noah Andrés Gómez Andrés Gómez	World No. 1 (doubles) August 25, 1986 - September 7, 1986 September 22, 1986 - October 19, 1986 November 10, 1986 - November 23, 1986	Succeeded by Andrés Gómez Andrés Gómez Andrés Gómez
Preceded by Boško Ivanović	President of the Tennis Federation of Serbia 2006–2011	Succeeded by Vuk Jeremić