Mate Pavić

Mate Pavić

Pavić at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Croatia
Residence	Freeport, Bahamas
Born	(1993-07-04) 4 July 1993 (age 28) Split, Croatia
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro	2011
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	John Farrington Nađa Pavić
Prize money	$3,913,585
Singles
Career record	3–10 (23.1%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 295 (6 May 2013)
Doubles
Career record	308–157 (66.2%)
Career titles	25
Highest ranking	No. 1 (21 May 2018)
Current ranking	No. 1 (5 April 2021)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	W (2018)
French Open	F (2018, 2020)
Wimbledon	W (2021)
US Open	W (2020)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	RR (2017, 2018)
Olympic Games	(2020)
Mixed doubles
Career titles	2
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	W (2018)
French Open	F (2018, 2019)
Wimbledon	QF (2017, 2021)
US Open	W (2016)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (2018)
hide Medal record Representing  Croatia Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Men's Doubles
Last updated on: 12 July 2021.

Mate Pavić (Croatian pronunciation: [mǎːte pǎːʋitɕ];^[1][2] born 4 July 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 1 in men's doubles.

Pavić is a five-time Grand Slam champion, having won three titles in men's doubles: the 2018 Australian Open with Oliver Marach, the 2020 US Open with Bruno Soares, and the 2021 Wimbledon Championships with Nikola Mektić.^[3] Pavić also won mixed doubles titles at the 2016 US Open with Laura Siegemund,^[4] and the 2018 Australian Open with Gabriela Dabrowski.^[5] He finished runner-up at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, the 2018 French Open and the 2020 French Open in men's doubles, and at the 2018 and 2019 French Opens in mixed doubles.

In May 2018, Pavić became world No. 1 in doubles, making him the 52nd player history to hold the top ranking. He was the youngest doubles No. 1 since Todd Woodbridge in 1996, and the first player from Croatia, male or female, to be world No. 1 in singles or doubles.^[6] He has won 25 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including 4 at Masters 1000 level. Pavić was also part of the Croatian team which won the 2018 Davis Cup, and won an Olympic gold medal for Croatia at the Tokyo Olympics alongside Mektić. In singles, Pavić reached a career-high ranking of No. 295 in May 2013.

Early and personal life[]

Pavić was born in Split, Croatia to Jakov, a tennis coach, and Snježana, a kindergarten teacher. He has two sisters, Nadja and Matea. He started playing tennis at the age of 5, after watching his father coach his sister Nadja. His nickname is Fifty.

Tennis career[]

Juniors[]

As a junior Pavić posted a singles win/loss record of 95–51 (90–39 in doubles) and reached a combined ranking of No. 5 in January 2011. In singles, in 2010 he reached the French Open QF and in 2011 again the QF, this time at the Wimbledon Championship. His biggest success as a junior came at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles where he won the title partnering George Morgan (UK). ^[7]

Early career[]

After winning the Boy's Doubles title at Wimbledon Championship, Pavić received a wild card to the 2012 Zagreb Indoors doubles tournament. Partnering Ivan Dodig, he reached his first ATP doubles finals at the age of 18 years and 7 months. In singles, his first ATP-level tour match came at the 2011 ATP Croatia Open in Umag, where he lost to Filippo Volandri in the first round. His first victory at the ATP-tour level came at 2012 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships in s-Hertogenbosch where he upset world No. 40 Robin Haase in the first round. The same year he defeated world No 37. Juan Carlos Ferrero. The following year he reached his career high ranking in singles at world No. 295.

Pavić wanted to pursue his tennis career in both singles and doubles, but when doubles qualifying events were introduced in 2016, this new rule enabled him to get into bigger ATP doubles tournaments and decided to focus more on doubles. He is quoted saying he regrets not being able to see where his singles career would have taken him.

2015-2017: First doubles title, Grand Slam mixed title and doubles final[]

Pavić won his first ATP doubles title at ATP Nice Open in May 2015, partnering Michael Venus. From May 2015 to October 2016 Pavić and Venus made it to 11 ATP doubles finals, winning five of them. However, they never made it past 3rd round at a Grand Slam tournament and decide to split at the end of 2016.

The same year Mate went on to win the mixed doubles title with Laura Siegemund. Not being able to secure a permanent partner after the 2017 Miami Open, Pavić temporarily teamed with Austria's doubles veteran Oliver Marach during the European clay court season. Their clay swing was not successful and they decided to split after 2017 Wimbledon Championship. However, Pavić and Marach then made it to three consecutive grass court finals, including the 2017 Wimbledon Championship where they lost 11–13 in the fifth set to (at the time) No. 1 ranked doubles team of Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo. ^[8]

After reaching the finals at Wimbledon, at the 2017 US Open Pavić and Marach lost in the 3rd round. In October Pavić and Marach won their first tournament as a team at the Stockholm Open. In November they qualified for the 2017 ATP Finals as first alternates and played one match, beating the Bryan brothers in Round robin. Pavić finished the season at no. 17

2018: Grand Slam doubles and mixed doubles titles, Masters 1000 finals, No. 1 ranking[]

Pavić and Marach had a great start to 2018. They went on to win 17 matches in a row, capturing titles at the Qatar Open, Auckland Open and then winning their first Grand Slam title at the 2018 Australian Open. In Melbourne, Mate also won his second mixed doubles Grand Slam title, this time with Gabriela Dabrowski. Pavić and Marach's winning streak came to an end at the Rotterdam Open in February, where they lost in the final. In April, Pavić and Marach reached their first ATP 1000 Masters Series finals in Monte Carlo (losing to Bryan brothers).

On the 21st of May 2018, Pavić became the No. 1 ranked player in the world in doubles, and spent 8 weeks at the top. He was the youngest No. 1 doubles player in the world since Todd Woodbridge in 1996.^[9] Pavić and Marach also made it to the 2018 French Open final, where they lost to Mahut and Herbert. After the French Open, Pavić and Marach went 10–8, losing in both 2018 Wimbledon Championship and 2018 US Open first rounds. They bounced back by reaching the China Open final in October (l. to Kubot and Melo). Pavić finished the 2018 season at no. 3.

2019-2020: US Open and Masters 1000 titles, return to top 10, year-end No. 1[]

After the 2019 French Open, Marach and Pavić terminated their partnership and Mate teamed with Bruno Soares and won his first Masters title at 2019 Shanghai Rolex Masters in October. The same month they reached the final of Stockholm Open, and Pavić briefly returned to top 10 rankings, but finished the 2019 season ranked 18th in the world.

In September 2020 Pavić and Soares won the 2020 US Open - Men's Doubles tournament. It was the second men's doubles Grand Slam title of Pavić's career. They followed it with a run to the 2020 French Open and 2020 Rolex Paris Masters finals where they lost after having 5 match points. The pair finished No. 1 in the 2020 doubles race.

2021: New partnership, eight ATP titles, return to No. 1, historic Wimbledon title, Olympic champion[]

Starting 2021 Pavić partnered successfully with his compatriot Nikola Mektić. They won four ATP titles including the doubles title at the 2021 Miami Open in April^[10] and reached the 2021 Australian Open doubles semifinals and 2021 Dubai Tennis Championships final in the first three months of the year. Following these results, Pavić returned to the No. 1 ranking in doubles on April 5.^[11] On April 18, Pavić clinched his fifth overall and second ATP Masters title of the year at the 2021 Monte-Carlo Masters, along with retaining the No. 1 ranking, as he was in contention with Robert Farah for it, who lost in the semifinals at the event.^[12] Seeded No. 2 the pair also reached the final at the 2021 Mutua Madrid Open Masters where they lost to the No. 3 seeded pair of Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers and the final of the 2021 Italian Open (tennis) where they won the title defeating No. 5 seeded pair Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury.^[13]

In their first Grand Slam doubles final, top seeds Pavic and Mektić had the biggest victory of their 2021 season as a team defeating Granollers and Zeballos to triumph in doubles at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. They became the first Croatian players to win the Wimbledon men’s doubles title. They are also the first players from their country to win at the All England Club since Goran Ivanisevic’s 2001 victory in singles and Ivan Dodig's 2019 mixed doubles win with Latisha Chan.^[14]

At the Olympics he won the gold medal with Mektić in an all-Croatian final defeating Ivan Dodig and Marin Cilic.^[15] It was the country’s first gold medal in the sport and the third time in the Olympics men's doubles' history that the same country won both gold and silver, and the first one since 1908.^[16]

Significant finals[]

Grand Slam tournament finals[]

Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runners-up)[]

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2017	Wimbledon	Grass	Oliver Marach	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	7–5, 5–7, 6–7(2–7), 6–3, 11–13
Win	2018	Australian Open	Hard	Oliver Marach	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2018	French Open	Clay	Oliver Marach	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	2–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	2020	US Open	Hard	Bruno Soares	Wesley Koolhof Nikola Mektić	7–5, 6–3
Loss	2020	French Open	Clay	Bruno Soares	Kevin Krawietz Andreas Mies	3–6, 5–7
Win	2021	Wimbledon	Grass	Nikola Mektić	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6–4, 7–6(7–5), 2–6, 7–5

Mixed doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runners-up)[]

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2016	US Open	Hard	Laura Siegemund	Coco Vandeweghe Rajeev Ram	6–4, 6–4
Win	2018	Australian Open	Hard	Gabriela Dabrowski	Tímea Babos Rohan Bopanna	2–6, 6–4, [11–9]
Loss	2018	French Open	Clay	Gabriela Dabrowski	Latisha Chan Ivan Dodig	1–6, 7–6(7–5), [8–10]
Loss	2019	French Open	Clay	Gabriela Dabrowski	Latisha Chan Ivan Dodig	1–6, 6–7(5–7)

Olympic finals[]

Doubles: 1 (1 Gold medal)[]

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Gold	2021	Summer Olympics	Hard	Nikola Mektić	Marin Čilić Ivan Dodig	6–4, 3–6, [10–6]

Masters 1000 finals[]

Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)[]

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2018	Monte-Carlo Masters	Clay	Oliver Marach	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Win	2019	Shanghai Masters	Hard	Bruno Soares	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6–4, 6–2
Loss	2020	Paris Masters	Hard (i)	Bruno Soares	Félix Auger-Aliassime Hubert Hurkacz	7–6(7–3), 6–7(7–9), [2–10]
Win	2021	Miami Open	Hard	Nikola Mektić	Dan Evans Neal Skupski	6–4, 6–4
Win	2021	Monte-Carlo Masters	Clay	Nikola Mektić	Dan Evans Neal Skupski	6–3, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss	2021	Madrid Open	Clay	Nikola Mektić	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6–1, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	2021	Italian Open	Clay	Nikola Mektić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	2021	Canadian Open	Hard	Nikola Mektić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	3–6, 6–4, [3–10]

ATP career finals[]

Doubles: 51 (26 titles, 25 runner-ups)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2012	Zagreb Indoors, Croatia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Ivan Dodig	Marcos Baghdatis Mikhail Youzhny	2–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Feb 2013	Zagreb Indoors, Croatia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Ivan Dodig	Julian Knowle Filip Polášek	3–6, 3–6
Loss	0–3	Jan 2014	Chennai Open, India	250 Series	Hard	Marin Draganja	Johan Brunström Frederik Nielsen	2–6, 6–4, [7–10]
Win	1–3	May 2015	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, France	250 Series	Clay	Michael Venus	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	7–6(7–4), 2–6, [10–7]
Loss	1–4	Jul 2015	Hall of Fame Championships, United States	250 Series	Grass	Nicholas Monroe	Jonathan Marray Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6–4, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss	1–5	Jul 2015	Colombia Open, Colombia	250 Series	Hard	Michael Venus	Édouard Roger-Vasselin Radek Štěpánek	5–7, 3–6
Loss	1–6	Oct 2015	Stockholm Open, Sweden	250 Series	Hard (i)	Michael Venus	Nicholas Monroe Jack Sock	5–7, 2–6
Win	2–6	Jan 2016	Auckland Open, New Zealand	250 Series	Hard	Michael Venus	Eric Butorac Scott Lipsky	7–5, 6–4
Win	3–6	Feb 2016	Open Sud de France, France	250 Series	Hard (i)	Michael Venus	Alexander Zverev Mischa Zverev	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Win	4–6	Feb 2016	Open 13, France	250 Series	Hard (i)	Michael Venus	Jonathan Erlich Colin Fleming	6–2, 6–3
Loss	4–7	May 2016	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, France	250 Series	Clay	Michael Venus	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–4, 4–6, [8–10]
Win	5–7	Jun 2016	Rosmalen Championships, Netherlands	250 Series	Grass	Michael Venus	Dominic Inglot Raven Klaasen	3–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Loss	5–8	Jul 2016	Swiss Open, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Michael Venus	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	6–7(2–7), 2–6
Loss	5–9	Sep 2016	Moselle Open, France	250 Series	Hard (i)	Michael Venus	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	5–10	Oct 2016	Stockholm Open, Sweden	250 Series	Hard (i)	Michael Venus	Elias Ymer Mikael Ymer	1–6, 1–6
Win	6–10	Apr 2017	Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco	250 Series	Clay	Dominic Inglot	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–4, 2–6, [11–9]
Loss	6–11	Jun 2017	Stuttgart Open, Germany	250 Series	Grass	Oliver Marach	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	7–6(7–4), 5–7, [5–10]
Loss	6–12	Jun 2017	Antalya Open, Turkey	250 Series	Grass	Oliver Marach	Robert Lindstedt Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	5–7, 1–4 ret.
Loss	6–13	Jul 2017	Wimbledon Championships, United Kingdom	Grand Slam	Grass	Oliver Marach	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	7–5, 5–7, 6–7(2–7), 6–3, 11–13
Win	7–13	Jul 2017	German Open, Germany	500 Series	Clay	Ivan Dodig	Pablo Cuevas Marc López	6–3, 6–4
Win	8–13	Oct 2017	Stockholm Open, Sweden	250 Series	Hard (i)	Oliver Marach	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Jean-Julien Rojer	3–6, 7–6(8–6), [10–4]
Win	9–13	Jan 2018	Qatar Open, Qatar	250 Series	Hard	Oliver Marach	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	6–2, 7–6(8–6)
Win	10–13	Jan 2018	Auckland Open, New Zealand (2)	250 Series	Hard	Oliver Marach	Max Mirnyi Philipp Oswald	6–4, 5–7, [10–7]
Win	11–13	Jan 2018	Australian Open, Australia	Grand Slam	Hard	Oliver Marach	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–4, 6–4
Loss	11–14	Feb 2018	Rotterdam Open, Netherlands	500 Series	Hard (i)	Oliver Marach	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6–2, 2–6, [7–10]
Loss	11–15	Apr 2018	Monte-Carlo Masters, Monaco	Masters 1000	Clay	Oliver Marach	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Win	12–15	May 2018	Geneva Open, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Oliver Marach	Ivan Dodig Rajeev Ram	3–6, 7–6(7–3), [11–9]
Loss	12–16	Jun 2018	French Open, France	Grand Slam	Clay	Oliver Marach	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	2–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	12–17	Jul 2018	German Open, Germany	500 Series	Clay	Oliver Marach	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	1–6, 6–4, [6–10]
Win	13–17	Sep 2018	Chengdu Open, China	250 Series	Hard	Ivan Dodig	Austin Krajicek Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	6–2, 6–4
Loss	13–18	Oct 2018	China Open, China	500 Series	Hard	Oliver Marach	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	1–6, 4–6
Win	14–18	May 2019	Geneva Open, Switzerland (2)	250 Series	Clay	Oliver Marach	Matthew Ebden Robert Lindstedt	6–4, 6–4
Win	15–18	Oct 2019	Shanghai Masters, China	Masters 1000	Hard	Bruno Soares	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6–4, 6–2
Loss	15–19	Oct 2019	Stockholm Open, Sweden	250 Series	Hard (i)	Bruno Soares	Henri Kontinen Édouard Roger-Vasselin	4–6, 2–6
Win	16–19	Feb 2020	Open Sud de France, France (2)	250 Series	Hard (i)	Nikola Ćaćić	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Dominic Inglot	6–4, 6–7(4–7), [10–4]
Win	17–19	Sep 2020	US Open, United States	Grand Slam	Hard	Bruno Soares	Wesley Koolhof Nikola Mektić	7–5, 6–3
Loss	17–20	Sep 2020	Hamburg Open, Germany	500 Series	Clay	Ivan Dodig	John Peers Michael Venus	3–6, 4–6
Loss	17–21	Oct 2020	French Open, France	Grand Slam	Clay	Bruno Soares	Kevin Krawietz Andreas Mies	3–6, 5–7
Loss	17–22	Nov 2020	Paris Masters, France	Masters 1000	Hard (i)	Bruno Soares	Félix Auger-Aliassime Hubert Hurkacz	7–6(7–3), 6–7(7–9), [2–10]
Win	18–22	Jan 2021	Antalya Open, Turkey	250 Series	Hard	Nikola Mektić	Ivan Dodig Filip Polášek	6–2, 6–4
Win	19–22	Feb 2021	Murray River Open, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Nikola Mektić	Jérémy Chardy Fabrice Martin	7–6(7–2), 6–3
Win	20–22	Mar 2021	Rotterdam Open, Netherlands	500 Series	Hard (i)	Nikola Mektić	Kevin Krawietz Horia Tecău	7–6(9–7), 6–2
Loss	20–23	Mar 2021	Dubai Tennis Championships, United Arab Emirates	500 Series	Hard	Nikola Mektić	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–7(0–7), 6–7(4–7)
Win	21–23	Apr 2021	Miami Open, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	Nikola Mektić	Dan Evans Neal Skupski	6–4, 6–4
Win	22–23	Apr 2021	Monte-Carlo Masters, Monaco	Masters 1000	Clay	Nikola Mektić	Dan Evans Neal Skupski	6–3, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss	22–24	May 2021	Madrid Open, Spain	Masters 1000	Clay	Nikola Mektić	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6–1, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	23–24	May 2021	Italian Open, Italy	Masters 1000	Clay	Nikola Mektić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Win	24–24	Jun 2021	Eastbourne International, United Kingdom	250 Series	Grass	Nikola Mektić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–4, 6–3
Win	25–24	Jul 2021	Wimbledon Championships, United Kingdom	Grand Slam	Grass	Nikola Mektić	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6–4, 7–6(7–5), 2–6, 7–5
Win	26–24	Jul 2021	Olympics Games, Japan	Olympics	Hard	Nikola Mektić	Ivan Dodig Marin Čilić	6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Loss	26–25	Aug 2021	Canadian Open, Canada	Masters 1000	Hard	Nikola Mektić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	3–6, 6–4, [3–10]

Doubles performance timeline[]

Current through the 2021 Western & Southern Open.

References[]

External links[]

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• Mate Pavić at the International Tennis Federation
• Mate Pavić at the Davis Cup
• 2011 Wimbledon report

Awards
Preceded by Łukasz Kubot & Marcelo Melo	ATP Doubles Team of the Year (with Oliver Marach) 2018	Succeeded by Juan Sebastián Cabal & Robert Farah