Viktor Durasovic Explained

Viktor Durasovic (sr|Viktor Đurasović; born 19 March 1997) is a Norwegian professional tennis player.

Durasovic has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 298, which he achieved in October 2019.^{[2] [3]} He also attained his career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 173 in October 2022.

Background

Durasovic is of Bosnian Serbian origin.^[4]

Career

Durasovic made the semifinals of the 2014 US Open boys' doubles competition where he partnered Nicolae Frunză.

Playing for Norway in Davis Cup, Durasovic has a W/L record of 11–10 in singles and 5–8 in doubles.

In August 2019, Durasovic reached his first ATP Challenger final at the 2019 Tilia Slovenia Open, where he lost 5–7, 3–6 to Slovenian Aljaž Bedene.

Durasovic qualified for his first ATP Tour tournament at the 2021 Stockholm Open where he lost in the first round to wildcard and former world No. 1 Andy Murray in straight sets. He qualified for his second tournament at the 2022 Sydney International where he again met and lost to Andy Murray in the first round.

He represented Norway at the 2020 ATP Cup, the 2022 ATP Cup and the 2023 United Cup.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 16 (8–8)

Legend ATP Challenger (0–1) ITF Futures (8–7)

Finals by surface Hard (6–7) Clay (2–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1		Portugal F8, Oliveira de Azeméis	Futures	Hard	Jaime Pulgar-Garcia	2–6, 3–6
Win	1–1		Tunisia F7, El Kantaoui	Futures	Hard	Yannick Jankovits	2–6, 6–4, 6–0
Win	2–1		Italy F6, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Viktor Galović	6–3, 6–2
Loss	2–2		Bosnia & Herzegovina F1, Doboj	Futures	Clay	Pascal Meis	4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Loss	2–3		Norway F2, Oslo	Futures	Hard	Scott Griekspoor	2–6, 7–6(7–4), 5–7
Loss	2–4		Spain F25, Ourense	Futures	Hard	Andrés Artuñedo	3–6, 2–6
Loss	2–5		Bahrain F2, Manama	Futures	Hard	Mick Lescure	5–7, 6–7(4–7)
Win	3–5		Egypt F28, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Tomas Papik	2–6, 6–3, 7–5
Win	4–5		Egypt F33, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Pablo Vivero Gonzalez	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 6–4
Loss	4–6		Spain F16, Palma del Río	Futures	Hard	Lucas Miedler	2–6, 6–7(6–8)
Win	5–6		M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	ITF World Tour	Hard	Daniel Altmaier	6–7(5–7), 6–4, 6–4
Loss	5–7		Portorož, Slovenia	Challenger	Hard	Aljaž Bedene	5–7, 3–6
Win	6–7		M25 Bourg-en-Bresse, France	ITF World Tour	Clay	Franco Agamenone	6–1, 6–1
Loss	6–8		M25 Jönköping, Sweden	ITF World Tour	Hard (i)	Otto Virtanen	4–6, 0–6
Win	7–8		M25 Nevers, France	ITF World Tour	Hard (i)	Arthur Reymond	6–2, 6–4
Win	8–8		M25 Nevers, France (2)	ITF World Tour	Hard (i)	Theo Papamalamis	6–2, 6–4

Doubles: 16 (10–6)

Legend ATP Challenger (2–0) ITF Futures (8–6)

Finals by surface Hard (9–3) Clay (1–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0		Spain F31, Sabadell	Futures	Clay	Bernabé Zapata Miralles	J-S Arauzo-Martinez Jean-Marc Werner	6–4, 6–1
Loss	1–1		Italy F8, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Samuel Bensoussan	Francisco Bahamonde Andrea Pellegrino	4–6, 4–6
Win	2–1		Spain F19, Bakio	Futures	Hard	Jaume Munar	Juan Lizariturry Jaume Pla Malfeito	6–3, 6–4
Win	3–1		Norway F1, Oslo	Futures	Hard	Lucas Miedler	David Norfeldt Robin Thour	6–1, 6–1
Win	4–1		Turkey F1, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Nino Serdarušić	Liam Broady Luke Johnson	6–3, 6–3
Loss	4–2		Portugal F1, Vale do Lobo	Futures	Hard	Lucas Miedler	Erik Crepaldi Gonçalo Oliveira	6–1, 2–6, [5–10]
Loss	4–3		Nigeria F1, Abuja	Futures	Hard	Alessandro Bega	Fabiano de Paula Fernando Romboli	4–6, 7–6(7–5), [7–10]
Win	5–3		Nigeria F2, Abuja	Futures	Hard	Alessandro Bega	Sylvester Emmanuel Calvin Hemery	6–4, 6–0
Loss	5–4		Spain F28, Oviedo	Futures	Clay	Miguel Semmler	Franco Agamenone João Menezes	5–7, 3–6
Win	6–4		Dominican Republic F1, Santo Domingo	Futures	Hard	Adrian Andrzejczuk	Alejandro Gómez John Lamble	3–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Win	7–4		France F5, Poitiers	Futures	Hard	Emil Ruusuvuori	Christian Hirschmueller David Novotny	6–4, 7–6(7–1)
Win	8–4		M25 Hamburg, Germany	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Markus Eriksson	Raúl Brancaccio Mark Vervoort	6–3, 5–7, [11–9]
Loss	8–5		M25 Meerbusch, Germany	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Markus Eriksson	Jiří Lehečka Michael Vrbenský	3–6, 3–6
Loss	8–6		M25 Hamburg, Germany	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Vladyslav Orlov	Leandro Riedi Yannik Steinegger	3–6, 2–6
Win	9–6		Lille, France	Challenger	Hard	Patrik Niklas-Salminen	Jonathan Eysseric Quentin Halys	7–5, 7–6(7–1)
Win	10–6		Brest, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Otto Virtanen	Filip Bergevi Petros Tsitsipas	6–4, 6–4

United Cup (0–4)

Matches by Type Singles (0–2) Doubles (0–2)

Matches by setting Outdoors (0–4) Indoors (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Surface	Match type (partner)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
2023
29 December–8 January Pat Rafter Arena, Brisbane, Australia; Group stage; Hard surface
Loss	1.	Hard	Singles	Brazil	Felipe Meligeni Alves	3–6, 3–6
Loss	2.		Mixed doubles (with Ulrikke Eikeri)		Rafael Matos / Luisa Stefani	4–6, 5–7
Loss	3.		Singles	Italy	Lorenzo Musetti	6–7(7–9), 3–6
Loss	4.		Mixed doubles (with Ulrikke Eikeri)		Lorenzo Musetti / Camilla Rosatello	6–7(6–8), 2–6

Notes and References

1. https://www.atptour.com/en/players/viktor-durasovic/dc76/overview ATP Profile
2. Web site: Viktor Durasovic – Tennis Explorer. s.r.o.. LiveSport. www.tennisexplorer.com. 2018-01-31.
3. Web site: Viktor DURASOVIC. www.itftennis.com. 2018-01-31.
4. 1 February 2016. A Serbian among Norway's tennis hopes. Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade. (Archive)