Retired Croatian professional tennis player Mario Ancic has switched codes – in a professional capacity at least. The former world number 7 and Davis Cup winner has landed a job with the NBA basketball league in New York.
Ancic, who retired from the game because of illness in 2009, is a law school graduate and landed a job in the legal department of the NBA at their New York offices. Ancic, who attended Harvard Law, enrolled at Columbia Law School in 2012 where he graduated with a master’s degree.
Ancic, who made a name for himself when he beat Roger Federer in his Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon as a teenager, beat of thousands of applicants for the job.