Slobodan Živojinović
Živojinović at Wimbledon in the 1980s
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| Country (sports) |
 Yugoslavia
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| Residence | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Born |
July 23, 1963 Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| Turned pro | 1981 |
| Retired | 1992 |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Prize money | $1,450,654 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 150–138 |
| Career titles | 2 |
| Highest ranking | No. 19 (October 26, 1987) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (1985) |
| French Open | 3R (1988) |
| Wimbledon | SF (1986) |
| US Open | 3R (1987) |
| Professional majors | |
| US Pro | W (1985) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 151–102 |
| Career titles | 8 |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (September 8, 1986) |
Slobodan "Boba" Živojinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Живојиновић, Serbian pronunciation: [slɔbɔ̌dan ʒiʋɔjǐːnɔʋit͡ɕ]; born on July 23, 1963) is a retired Serbian tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. Together with Nenad Zimonjić he is the only tennis player from Serbia to be the World No. 1 in doubles. As a singles player, he reached the semi-finals of the 1985 Australian Open and the 1986 Wimbledon Championships, achieving a career-high ranking of World No. 19.
Živojinović represented SFR Yugoslavia as the number fifteen seed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, 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 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.
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