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'''Frank Dancevic''' (born September 26, 1984 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 65 on September 10, 2007 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 175 on January 28, 2008.
In 2001, on the junior circuit, he won the Wimbledon doubles title and reached the Australian Open doubles final. Dancevic has reached two ATP singles finals, in 2007 in Indianapolis and in 2009 in Eastbourne. Also in 2007, he reached the ATP doubles final in Tokyo. He advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2007 [[Canadian Open|Rogers Cup]] in Montréal. He competed in singles at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, losing in the first round to the 9th seed Stan Wawrinka. In 2011, Dancevic became the first player, in one calendar year, to enter the main draw of all four Grand Slams by playing the qualifying competition for each event. He was named Male Player of the Year by Tennis Canada in 2006 and received the Davis Cup Commitment Award in 2014. He retired in 2019.
Dancevic's father is John and mother Doris. His mother is Québécoise, from Rouyn-Noranda, and his father is Serbian who originates from Apatin in Serbia. Dancevic has three younger sisters, Monika, born in 1986, who completed her NCAA tennis career at the University of Georgia in 2009. She was the NCAA number 35 ranked singles player as a sophomore for the Bulldogs in 2006–07 and has been ranked by the WTA as high as World No. 775. Also, Sonja and Kristina who are twins and born in 1989. Frank is married to Serbian model Nikolina Bojić. They married in September 2013 in a Serbian Orthodox church in his father's hometown of Apatin. In 2017, he was named captain of the [[Canadian Davis Cup team]].
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