Career
Together with Nenad Zimonjić he is the only tennis player from Serbia to be the World Number. 1 in doubles. 19.
Živojinović represented SFR Yugoslavia as the number fifteen seed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South of Korea, where he was defeated in the second round by France"s Guy Forget. He reached his highest singles Association of Tennis Professionals ranking on October 26, 1987, when he became World Number.
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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 gruelling 5-set quarterfinal to reach the semi-finals (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 hard fought 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 United States. Open in 1986 with Andrés Gómez. He was ranked as the Number.
1 doubles player in the world on September 8, 1986. Career titles (10)
= Singles (2) = Doubles (8) = Team competition titles (1) = Grand Slam Singles performance timeline A = did not participate in the tournament
New Hampshire = tournament not held
In 1991, Živojinović married popular Bosnian folk singer Fahreta Jahic known as Lepa Brena.
The lavish ceremony took place at Belgrade"s InterContinental Hotel with Ion Ţiriac as the groom"s best manitoba
The level of interest in the event was such that Brena"s manager Raka Đokić even released a VHS tape of the wedding for commercial exploitation. 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.
Finally, in April 2006 he reportedly even moved out of the family home following yet another argument with Brena.
Though the reports of a separation were frequent and detailed, the couple are still together.