Laslo
Serbian Cyrillic (Hungarian: Györe László; born on 2 June 1995) is a professional tennis player from Serbia.
He's Hungarian descent. He won two ATP Tour singles championships, one at Rio's 2019 ATP 500 Series tournament, after which he achieved a breakthrough into the top 30 and the inaugural Forte Village Sardegna Open in 2020, an ATP 250.
On June 10, 2019, Djere attained World No. 27 career-high singles. On March 22, 2021, in double rankings, he hit his career-high of world No. 346. Djere made his debut at the 2013 PTT Thailand Open, where he was a wild card. His first effort to play main-draw at any grand-slam was on the 2015 French Open, while his first successful attempt was on the 2016 French Open. U.S. Open 2018 earned his maiden grand-slam triumph, defeating Leonardo Mayer in the first round.
Early life and background
Mother Hajnalka and father Csaba (or Čaba) were born in Senta, Serbia, on 2 June 1995. His parents lost died from cancer.
Age 5, Djere started playing tennis with his father. He also has a sister, Judit. He's fluent in Serbian, English, Hungarian. His favourite is clay. His inspirations were Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt, Novak Djokovic. He supports Chicago Bulls (NBA) and Seattle Seahawks (NFL)
Junior career
On the junior tour, Djere won five singles in 10 finals (one final cancelled), while in doubles he won two titles in as many finals. In December 2012, he finished in back-to-back events at Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl, losing the first (Grade 1 event) 6–0, 4–6, 5–7 against Cristian Garín while leading 6–0, 4–1 but winning the latter over Elias Ymer 6–4, 6–4. This came following Hajnalka's recent passing. [11] In May 2013, he played another Grade A event, Trofeo Bonfiglio, but lost 6–7(5), 7–5, 5–7 to Alexander Zverev. Nevertheless, on 27 May 2013, he attained a career-high combined No.3 rating.
Professional tour
Djere started season 2013, playing mainly at Futures. He won F6 Futures at Kikinda in July 2013, winning Teodor-Dacian Crăciun in the final. Month later, in Zlatibor, Serbia F7 won another Futures. He made his ATP main draw debut as a wildcard participant at the 2013 PTT Thailand Open in September 2013. Feliciano López lost sixth seed in the first round. He was runner-up at two Futures in Cyprus by year-end.
In 2014, Laslo competed just at Futures and two unsuccessful Challengers attempts. At Prosperita Open in Ostrava, Marek Michalička lost in the third round of qualifying. He won Croatia F8 Futures in Bol in May, finally defeating Mike Urbanija. He later won another Futures in Prijedor, Bosnia&Herzegovina (F2). At Vicenza International, he lost his third qualifying round, to Zhang Ze. He won F13 Futures in Niš in September.
His last season tournament of 2014 came in December at Senegal F2 Futures in Dakar, where he succeeded, winning the title against Aldin Šetkić.
Laslo began the 2015 season successfully, playing in the Morocco Tennis Tour semifinal – Casablanca, where Javier Martí stopped him for his maiden Challenger final. He won Cairo's Egypt F3 Futures late January, defeating Kamil Majchrzak in straight-sets.
He made his maiden effort at an ATP 500 Series tournament in Dubai Tennis Championships, but failed in the second qualifying round, losing Lucas Pouille.
He competed in qualifying at the French Open, hoping to reach his first main draw at any grand-slams, but lost Nikoloz Basilashvili's first round. He fell against No. 2 seed Jiří Veselý (ranked No. 41 at the time) in the final of the Czech Open challenger event in Prostějov in June 2015, beating three other top 80 players on his route to the final, No. 1 seed Martin Kližan, No. 6 seed Dušan Lajović, and No. 7 seed João Souza, respectively.
After that result, he debuted in top 200 on June 8, achieving 182. He also reached quarterfinal in Milan's Aspria Tennis Cup. He failed to make main-draw at US Open, falling in Mathias Bourgue's first round of qualifying.
He played quarterfinal at Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca II and semifinal at Sparkassen ATP Challenger in Ortisei by year's finish.
He first played in a Grand Slam main draw in May 2016 after the French Open qualifying draw. During summer 2016, he reached two challenger finals.
2017–2018: Single breakthrough, top 100
Wimbledon Championships 2018 Djere
In January, Djere played at the Australian Open qualification, but lost Ivan Dodig's second round, missing his chance to debut in the main event.
He later won the Croatian F4 Futures title in Opatija, finally defeating Zdeněk Kolář. In April 2017, Djere achieved his first ATP main draw win over Martin Kližan at the Hassan II Grand Prix before falling to Albert Ramos Viñolas.
He reached his first ATP semifinal in his following tournament, the Hungarian Open, after overcoming Daniil Medvedev, Viktor Troicki and Fernando Verdasco, before Aljaž Bedene defeated.
He followed with a quarter-final in Istanbul Open, where Troicki defeated him.
At French Open, he lost Oscar Otte's second qualifying round. Following the victories at the ATP level, he participated in challengers during the summer, winning one (2017 Internazionali di Perugia) and reaching three more finals, allowing him to crack the top 100 for the first time at No. 91 on 24 July 2017. In September, Djere made his Davis Cup debut for Serbia in their 2017 semifinal game against France, losing Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets.
He played his debut ATP Masters 1000 in November but wasn't good enough to overcome Filip Krajinović in the second round and qualify for the main draw.
Ranked No. 88 year-end.
In January, Djere finally debuted in main-draw at Australian Open, playing against Ivo Karlović in the first round, but didn't make it to the second round. His ATP Masters 1000 debut in the 2018 BNP Paribas Open, where Tim Smyczek defeated him.
He reached two ATP semifinals in 2018, Istanbul Open in May and Swiss Open Gstaad in July, when he defeated Borna u.a. [18] He achieved his first major Grand Slam draw win by overcoming Leonardo Mayer at the U.S. Open, before losing to Richard Gasquet in the second round as he failed to convert all 12 of his break point chances.
Next, he played a home tie against India in the Davis Cup World Play-offs, where he overcame Ramkumar Ramanathan in the opener for his first career win in the Davis Cup match and finally Serbia won a tie 4–0.
On 24 September 2018, after making the quarterfinal at Sibiu Open, Djere achieved World No. 83 on 24 September 2018, which was his highest ranking till 2019.
2019: First ATP, top 30
Djere's opening in 2019
In February, Djere won his maiden ATP championship at the Rio Open, defeating Dominic Thiem in the process for his career's first top 10 triumph and reaching No. 37's then-career high-ranking. During Rio's trophy ceremony, Djere dedicated the victory to his late parents in an emotional speech.
This championship enabled him initially join the top 50 and climbed to 37. [23] After that, at the 2019 Brasil Open in São Paulo, Guido Pella lost.
He next competed in Indian Wells, where he was seeded in an ATP event for the first time in his career (despite being a wildcard entrant), gaining a first round bye and then defeating Guido Andreozzi for his first Masters 1000 win, before being upset in the third round by Miomir Kecmanović.
A Hungarian Open semifinal saw him climb a world high 29 career.
Next, he reached the third round of Madrid Masters, defeating Juan Martín del Potro for his second top 10 win before succumbing to Marin Čilić.
Winning only one match at the Rome Masters (lost in round two against Basilashvili), along with a few withdrawals, proved to be enough for Djere to be seeded first in his career at a Grand Slam. He competed as seed No. 31 at French Open, making his best grand-slam result so far. He finished third, winning against Albert Ramos Viñolas and Alexei Popyrin in the first two rounds, before losing Kei Nishikori in the third.
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