WIMBLEDON, England -- Janko Tipsarevic, with facial piercings, a beard and a tattoo quoting Fyodor Dostoyevsky on his arm, doesn't look like your regular tennis player.
Still, Tipsarevic joined a wave of successful Serbian players at Wimbledon on Friday, upsetting fifth-seeded Fernando Gonzalez 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 8-6 to advance to the fourth round at the All England Club.
There are four Serbian players still in the tournament. French Open semifinalist Novak Djokovic plays his third-round match on Saturday, and Jelena Jankovic reached the fourth round. Ana Ivanovic, the French Open runner-up, plays her third-round match on Saturday.
"You can only imagine tennis, one of the most expensive sports in the world, how it is possible we have so good players today. I really don't know," the 23-year-old Tipsarevic said. "When I was growing up as a tennis player, there were no sponsors, no federation, no nothing."
Tipsarevic, who won his third consecutive five-set match at Wimbledon, reached the third round of the French Open and the first round of the Australian Open this year.
Tipsarevic said his tattoo -- "The beauty will save the world" -- is from the book "The Idiot."
"The main character believes in the idea that the inner beauty will save the world, and because of that idea he dies at the end," Tipsarevic said. "This book means a lot to me in my personal ways because I have a lot of ideas about life because of this quote."
Tipsarevic said his personal style is not premeditated.
"This is a phase of my life, as let's say, piercings that I have at the moment," Tipsarevic said. "Probably some day, I'm going to take them off."
Looking back
Patty Schnyder is writing a tell-all book about her colorful tennis career and promises some shocking revelations.
Schnyder was a top-10 player at the beginning of 1999 when she fired her coach and teamed with self-proclaimed faith healer Rainer Harnecker, a German who was twice her age and became her boyfriend and coach.
Among other unusual philosophies, Harnecker told Schnyder to drink excessive amounts of orange juice each day because it was "almost identical to mother's milk," according to media reports at the time.
Schnyder split with Harnecker in May 1999 but it took several years to regain her tennis reputation. She has rarely spoken about that time, but is now reflecting on her life in writing with husband and coach Rainer Hofmann, who she married in December 2003.
The 28-year-old Swiss player supposedly met Hofmann when her family hired him a private detective when Harnecker was stalking her.
"That was - yeah, sort of," she said. "But that's not the story you're going to read about. That's nothing compared to the other stuff. We have been involved in some things that haven't been nice and pretty scary."
Schnyder wouldn't elaborate, but said the book would first be published in German, then English, hopefully by next year.
On Thursday, the 15th-seeded Swiss player equaled her best Wimbledon performance by advancing to the fourth round by beating Alona Bondarenko 6-4, 3-6, 8-6.
Just tennis
Justine Henin has won six Grand Slam titles. Just don't ask her to cook dinner -- or sing.
The top-seeded Belgian said she was happy enough with her tennis ability.
"I've been lucky that I was born with this talent to play tennis," Henin said. "You cannot be talented in everything, unfortunately. I would love to sing well. That's my frustration. I don't cook that much. It's not a big talent either.
"No, I just live normally. Only for tennis that it's been a little bit different."
Henin advanced to the fourth round by beating Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-1, 6-3.
