Jelena Genčić
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Jelena Genčić is a Serbia
n retired tennis and handball
player. After retiring from playing sports in mid 1970s she started a career as a tennis coach, an endevour where she's had lots of success, discovering and coaching future great champions Novak Đoković, Monika Seleš, and Goran Ivanišević
.
Parallel to sports, she graduated art history
at the University of Belgrade
Faculty of Philosophy
and worked for decades as a television director at the state-owned television network TV Belgrade that eventually transfromed into Radio Television of Serbia
.
before returning to Serbia and becoming the country's first surgeon. Following the outbreak of World War I
, he took an active part in the Serbian war effort
, surviving the gruelling conflict as a decorated veteran with the rank of general. At the time of her birth, the family was very well-off with her grandfather running a hospital and his brother Đorđe Genčić performing the role of interior minister in the cabinet of Nikola Pašić
.
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n retired tennis and handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
player. After retiring from playing sports in mid 1970s she started a career as a tennis coach, an endevour where she's had lots of success, discovering and coaching future great champions Novak Đoković, Monika Seleš, and Goran Ivanišević
Goran Ivaniševic
Goran Ivanišević is a retired Croatian professional tennis player. He is best remembered for being the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Ivanišević is famous...
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Parallel to sports, she graduated art history
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
at the University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
The University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Serbia, founded in the early 19th century within the Belgrade Higher School...
and worked for decades as a television director at the state-owned television network TV Belgrade that eventually transfromed into Radio Television of Serbia
Radio Television of Serbia
Radio Television of Serbia or Serbian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is, since July 2001, a member of the European Broadcasting Union. RTS is...
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Early life
Born as one of seven siblings to Serbian father Jovan and Austrian mother Hermina, Jelena comes from a prominent Serbian family. Her grandfather Lazar Genčić studied medicine in ViennaVienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
before returning to Serbia and becoming the country's first surgeon. Following the outbreak of World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, he took an active part in the Serbian war effort
Serbian Campaign (World War I)
The Serbian Campaign was fought from late July 1914, when Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia at the outset of the First World War, until late 1915, when the Macedonian Front was formed...
, surviving the gruelling conflict as a decorated veteran with the rank of general. At the time of her birth, the family was very well-off with her grandfather running a hospital and his brother Đorđe Genčić performing the role of interior minister in the cabinet of Nikola Pašić
Nikola Pašic
Nikola P. Pašić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat, the most important Serbian political figure for almost 40 years, leader of the People's Radical Party who, among other posts, was twice a mayor of Belgrade...
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