Jürgen Zopp

Jürgen Zopp

Zopp at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Estonia
Residence	Tallinn, Estonia
Born	(1988-03-29) 29 March 1988 (age 33) Tallinn, Estonia
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Turned pro	2008
Retired	2020
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,120,084
Singles
Career record	26–39 (40.0%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 71 (10 September 2012)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2012)
French Open	3R (2018)
Wimbledon	1R (2012, 2013, 2014)
US Open	2R (2012)
Doubles
Career record	6–4 (60.0%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 218 (11 July 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
US Open	1R (2012)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	42–19
Last updated on: 19 March 2021.

Jürgen Zopp (born 29 March 1988) is a retired professional Estonian tennis player. He is considered to be Estonia's all-time greatest male tennis player with a career high ranking of 71 in 2012.

Career[]

Zopp started playing tennis at the age of 6 and grew up idolizing Pete Sampras, Marat Safin, and Roger Federer. Zopp had a somewhat successful junior career, reaching the second round of the Australian and US Open Boys' tournaments in 2006. In 2008, he would officially turn pro.

Zopp made a breakthrough on the ATP tour in 2012, qualifying for the main draws of the Australian Open, Roland-Garros and Wimbledon boosting his ranking to the point where he didn’t have to go through qualifying by the time the US Open came around. and achieving his first main draw ATP tournament win at the 2012 Bucharest Open establishing himself as a top-100 player in the ATP rankings at world No. 71.

2013-2014 would see a huge dip in form and rankings as his ranking plummeted all the way down to the 300s in 2014. Early 2017 would be the lowest of his career as his ranking dropped to 500 on June 12, 2017. Late 2017 would see a steady increase of form and rankings grabbing a handful of challenger and ITF finals. However still struggling to even qualify for an ATP event.

In qualifying for the 2018 French Open he defeated Thanasi Kokkinakis.^[2] Although he lost in the final round of qualifying to Denis Kudla^[3] it was enough for him to make the main draw as a lucky loser.^[4] In the first round he defeated American seed Jack Sock for his sixth tour level win on clay.^[5] He then defeated fellow lucky loser Ruben Bemelmans despite losing the first two sets, therefore reaching a career-best third round at Grand Slam events. His run ended in the third round following a defeat to Maximilian Marterer.^[6] At the 2018 Swiss Open Gstaad, he defeated the 1st seed Fabio Fognini and made it all the way to the semifinals before losing to Matteo Berrettini. 2018 is considered by some to be the best year of his career as he returned to the top 100 for the first time since 2012 and started consistently qualifying for ATP events again.

2019 would see a dip in form and rankings again. He failed to make an ATP event or a challenger final the entire year and his ranking dropped back down to the 400s again by the end of the year.

Zopp played his last match at an ITF event in Estonia against Kārlis Ozoliņš on November 4, 2020. On December 18, 2020, Zopp announced his retirement from tennis.^[7]

Career finals[]

Singles (17–6)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	18 August 2008	Finland F1, Vierumäki, Finland	Hard	Timo Nieminen	6–4, 6–2
Winner	2.	9 March 2009	Switzerland F2, Greifensee, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Philipp Oswald	6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–3
Winner	3.	13 July 2009	Estonia F1, Tallinn, Estonia	Clay	Jaak Põldma	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Winner	4.	12 April 2010	Turkey F7, Adana, Turkey	Clay	Augustin Gensse	6–2, 4–6, 6–4
Winner	5.	19 April 2010	Turkey F8, Tarsus, Turkey	Clay	Alexandre Folie	6–3, 6–1
Winner	6.	3 May 2010	Czech Republic F1, Teplice, Czech Republic	Clay	Alexander Flock	4–6, 6–2, 7–5
Winner	7.	19 July 2010	Estonia F2, Tallinn, Estonia	Clay	Timo Nieminen	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	8.	25 October 2010	Great Britain F17, Cardiff, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Daniel Evans	6–4, 7–5
Winner	9.	18 July 2011	Estonia F1, Tallinn, Estonia	Clay	Hans Podlipnik	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	12 September 2011	Ningbo, China	Hard	Lu Yen-hsun	2–6, 6–3, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	19 September 2011	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Denis Istomin	4–6, 3–6
Winner	10.	30 January 2012	Kazan, Russia	Hard (i)	Marius Copil	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–4)
Winner	11.	20 September 2014	Sweden F4, Danderyd, Sweden	Hard (i)	Peter Kobelt	7–6(8–6), 6–4
Runner-up	3.	4 October 2014	Sweden F6, Jonkoping, Sweden	Hard (i)	Edward Corrie	6–3, 3–6, 3–6
Winner	12.	8 November 2014	Estonia F4, Tallinn, Estonia	Hard (i)	Evgeny Elistratov	6–1, 6–4
Winner	13.	16 November 2014	Helsinki, Finland	Hard (i)	Dudi Sela	6–4, 5–7, 7–6(8–6)
Runner-up	4.	25 October 2015	Ningbo, China	Hard (i)	Lu Yen-Hsun	6–7(3–7), 1–6
Winner	14.	23 July 2017	Germany F8, Kassel, Germany	Clay	Jan Choinski	6–3, 6–2
Winner	15.	29 July 2017	Estonia F1, Pärnu, Estonia	Clay	George Von Massow	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	5.	12 August 2017	Finland F2, Hyvinkaa, Finland	Clay	Julien Cagnina	6–0, 5–7, 0–6
Winner	16.	19 August 2017	Finland F3, Helsinki, Finland	Clay	Filippo Baldi	6–4, 6–0
Winner	17.	10 September 2017	Alphen, Netherlands	Clay	Tommy Robredo	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	6.	7 October 2017	Sweden F4, Falun, Sweden	Hard (i)	Tallon Griekspoor	4–6, 1–6

Jürgen Zopp at the 2018 French Open

Doubles (4–7)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	30 July 2007	Latvia F1, Jūrmala, Latvia	Clay	Mait Künnap	Dušan Karol Mikhail Vasiliev	3–6, 6–7(3–7)
Runner-up	2.	24 March 2008	Italy F6, Monterotondo, Italy	Clay	Mikhail Vasiliev	Lazar Magdinčev Predrag Rusevski	6–3, 4–6, [5–10]
Winner	1.	2 June 2008	Poland F4, Koszalin, Poland	Clay	Artur Romanowski	Marek Mrozek Mateusz Szmigiel	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	26 January 2009	Israel F2, Eilat, Israel	Hard	Tim van Terheijden	Harel Levy Noam Okun	3–6, 0–6
Runner-up	4.	13 April 2009	Turkey F6, Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Mait Künnap	Martin Emmrich Juho Paukku	3–6, 4–6
Winner	2.	13 July 2009	Estonia F1, Tallinn, Estonia	Clay	Mait Künnap	Mikk Irdoja Jaak Põldma	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	15 March 2010	Switzerland F2, Wetzikon, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Walter Trusendi	Kevin Krawietz Marcel Zimmermann	2–6, 6–3, [5–10]
Runner-up	6.	3 May 2010	Czech Republic F1, Teplice, Czech Republic	Clay	Ricardo Urzúa Rivera	Jan Mertl Grzegorz Panfil	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	7.	12 September 2011	Ningbo, China	Hard	Jan Hernych	Karan Rastogi Divij Sharan	6–3, 6–7(3–7), [11–13]
Winner	3.	30 April 2012	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Jerzy Janowicz	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	7–6(7–1), 6–3
Winner	4.	20 September 2015	Nanchang, China	Hard	Jonathan Eysseric	Lee Hsin-han Amir Weintraub	6–4, 6–2

Grand Slam performance timeline[]

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External links[]

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