Nikola Mektić
Country (sports) | Croatia |
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Residence | Freeport, Bahamas |
Born | Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia | 24 December 1988
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Turned pro | 2006 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | $3,012,193 |
Singles | |
Career record | 3–9 (25.0% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 213 (6 May 2013) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | Q2 (2011) |
French Open | Q1 (2013) |
Wimbledon | Q3 (2011) |
US Open | Q2 (2010) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 191–109 (63.7% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) |
Career titles | 16 |
Highest ranking | No. 2 (17 May 2021) |
Current ranking | No. 2 (12 July 2021)[1] |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | SF (2021) |
French Open | SF (2018, 2020) |
Wimbledon | W (2021) |
US Open | F (2020) |
Other doubles tournaments | |
Tour Finals | W (2020) |
Olympic Games | (2020) |
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
Australian Open | W (2020) |
French Open | QF (2019) |
Wimbledon | 3R (2017) |
US Open | F (2018) |
Team competitions | |
Davis Cup | W (2018) |
Last updated on: 12 July 2021. |
Nikola Mektić (born 24 December 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, he has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 2, achieved on 17 May 2021.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2021 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles partnering compariot Mate Pavić, and the 2020 Australian Open with Barbora Krejčíková in mixed doubles. Mektić also finished runner-up at the 2020 US Open with Wesley Koolhof in men's doubles, and the 2018 US Open with Alicja Rosolska in mixed doubles.
Mektić has won 16 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including six at Masters 1000 level with four different partners. Mektić also won the 2020 ATP Finals with Koolhof. In singles, he reached his highest ranking of world No. 213 in May 2013. Mektić was part of the Croatian team which won the 2018 Davis Cup, and won an Olympic gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games alongside Pavić.
Early and personal life[]
Mektić was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1988 to Mirko (father) and Višnja (mother). He began playing tennis at age 6 after his brother Luka took up the sport.
Career[]
After spending a better part of a decade on the ATP challenger tour and achieving a career high ranking of No. 213 in singles (on May 6, 2013),[2] in 2016 Mektić decided to focus on doubles. The same year he reached his first ATP men's doubles final as a wildcard at the 2016 Croatia Open Umag with his compatriot Antonio Šančić. Since then, he has won sixteen ATP men's doubles titles, including one doubles Grand Slam title, six Masters 1000 titles, one mixed doubles Grand Slam and the 2020 ATP Finals.
2018-2019: First Grand Slam final, three Masters titles[]
In 2018 Mektic and Alexander Peya qualified for the 2018 ATP Finals in London. The same year Mektić reached his first Grand Slam finals (in mixed doubles) at the 2018 US Open, partnering Alicja Rosolska, and won the Davis Cup playing for Croatia. He also won three Masters 1000 with three different partners in Madrid (2018), Indian Wells (2019) and Monte Carlo (2019).
2020: ATP Finals doubles title, Australian Open mixed title, top 10 doubles ranking[]
2020 was the most successful year for Mektić in his career thus far. He won the 2020 ATP Finals in doubles partnering Wesley Koolhof and the 2020 Australian Open mixed doubles event partnering Barbora Krejčíková. He also reached the doubles final at the 2020 US Open partnering again with Wesley Koolhof. As a result he finished the year at No. 8 in the top 10 rankings in doubles and No. 3 in the doubles race with his partner Wesley Koolhof.
2021: New partnership, eight ATP titles, World No. 2 in doubles, historic Wimbledon title, Olympic champion[]
Starting 2021, Mektić partnered successfully with his compatriot Mate Pavić. They won four ATP titles including the doubles title at the 2021 Miami Open in the beginning of April[3] 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, Mektić returned to his No. 4 high-career ranking on April 5.
On April 18, Mektić clinched his fifth ATP Masters 1000 in a row and second Masters title of the year at the 2021 Monte-Carlo Masters where the pair defeated, for the second time in the final of a Masters in 2021, the British pair of Neal Skupski and Dan Evans.[4]
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 Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers[5] and the final of the Italian Open where they won the title defeating No. 5 seeded pair Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury. After the win, Mektić moved to his career-high ranking of World No. 2 on 17 May 2021.[6]
In their first Grand Slam doubles final, top seeds Mektić and Pavić 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.[7]
At the Olympics he won the gold medal with Pavić in an all-Croatian final defeating Ivan Dodig and Marin Cilic.[8] 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.[9]
Significant finals[]
Grand Slam tournament finals[]
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)[]
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 2020 | US Open | Hard | Wesley Koolhof | Mate Pavić Bruno Soares |
5–7, 3–6 |
Win | 2021 | Wimbledon | Grass | Mate Pavić | Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos |
6–4, 7–6(7–5), 2–6, 7–5 |
Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)[]
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 2018 | US Open | Hard | Alicja Rosolska | Bethanie Mattek-Sands Jamie Murray |
6–2, 3–6, [9–11] |
Win | 2020 | Australian Open | Hard | Barbora Krejčíková | Bethanie Mattek-Sands Jamie Murray |
5–7, 6–4, [10–1] |
Olympic finals[]
Doubles: 1 (1 Gold medal)[]
Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Gold | 2021 | Summer Olympics | Hard | Mate Pavić | Marin Čilić Ivan Dodig |
6–4, 3–6, [10–6] |
Year-end championships[]
Doubles: 1 (1 title)[]
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 2020 | ATP Finals, London | Hard (i) | Wesley Koolhof | Jürgen Melzer Édouard Roger-Vasselin |
6–2, 3–6, [10–5] |
Masters 1000 finals[]
Doubles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner-ups)[]
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 2018 | Madrid Open | Clay | Alexander Peya | Bob Bryan Mike Bryan |
5–3 ret. |
Win | 2019 | Indian Wells Masters | Hard | Horacio Zeballos | Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo |
4–6, 6–4, [10–3] |
Win | 2019 | Monte-Carlo Masters | Clay | Franko Škugor | Robin Haase Wesley Koolhof |
6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–3), [11–9] |
Win | 2021 | Miami Open | Hard | Mate Pavić | Dan Evans Neal Skupski |
6–4, 6–4 |
Win | 2021 | Monte-Carlo Masters (2) | Clay | Mate Pavić | Dan Evans Neal Skupski |
6–3, 4–6, [10–7] |
Loss | 2021 | Madrid Open | Clay | Mate Pavić | Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos |
6–1, 3–6, [8–10] |
Win | 2021 | Italian Open | Clay | Mate Pavić | Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury |
6–4, 7–6(7–4) |
Loss | 2021 | Canadian Open | Hard | Mate Pavić | Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury |
3–6, 6–4, [3–10] |
ATP career finals[]
Doubles: 28 (17 titles, 11 runner-ups)[]
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Jul 2016 | Croatia Open, Croatia | 250 Series | Clay | Antonio Šančić | Martin Kližan David Marrero |
4–6, 2–6 |
Win | 1–1 | Feb 2017 | Memphis Open, US | 250 Series | Hard (i) | Brian Baker | Ryan Harrison Steve Johnson |
6–3, 6–4 |
Win | 2–1 | Apr 2017 | Hungarian Open, Hungary | 250 Series | Clay | Brian Baker | Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah |
7–6(7–2), 6–4 |
Loss | 2–2 | Oct 2017 | Shenzhen Open, China | 250 Series | Hard | Nicholas Monroe | Alexander Peya Rajeev Ram |
3–6, 2–6 |
Loss | 2–3 | Feb 2018 | Sofia Open, Bulgaria | 250 Series | Hard (i) | Alexander Peya | Robin Haase Matwé Middelkoop |
7–5, 4–6, [4–10] |
Loss | 2–4 | Feb 2018 | Rio Open, Brazil | 500 Series | Clay | Alexander Peya | David Marrero Fernando Verdasco |
7–5, 5–7, [8–10] |
Win | 3–4 | Apr 2018 | Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco | 250 Series | Clay | Alexander Peya | Benoît Paire Édouard Roger-Vasselin |
7–5, 3–6, [10–7] |
Loss | 3–5 | May 2018 | Bavarian Championships, Germany | 250 Series | Clay | Alexander Peya | Ivan Dodig Rajeev Ram |
3–6, 5–7 |
Win | 4–5 | May 2018 | Madrid Open, Spain | Masters 1000 | Clay | Alexander Peya | Bob Bryan Mike Bryan |
5–3, ret. |
Win | 5–5 | Feb 2019 | Sofia Open, Bulgaria | 250 Series | Hard (i) | Jürgen Melzer | Hsieh Cheng-peng Christopher Rungkat |
6–2, 4–6, [10–2] |
Win | 6–5 | Mar 2019 | Indian Wells Masters, US | Masters 1000 | Hard | Horacio Zeballos | Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo |
4–6, 6–4, [10–3] |
Win | 7–5 | Apr 2019 | Monte-Carlo Masters, Monaco | Masters 1000 | Clay | Franko Škugor | Robin Haase Wesley Koolhof |
6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–3), [11–9] |
Loss | 7–6 | Oct 2019 | Japan Open, Japan | 500 Series | Hard | Franko Škugor | Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin |
6–7(7–9), 4–6 |
Loss | 7–7 | Feb 2020 | Open 13, France | 250 Series | Hard (i) | Wesley Koolhof | Nicolas Mahut Vasek Pospisil |
3–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 7–8 | Sep 2020 | US Open, US | Grand Slam | Hard | Wesley Koolhof | Mate Pavić Bruno Soares |
5–7, 3–6 |
Win | 8–8 | Nov 2020 | ATP Finals, UK | Tour Finals | Hard (i) | Wesley Koolhof | Jürgen Melzer Édouard Roger-Vasselin |
6–2, 3–6, [10–5] |
Win | 9–8 | Jan 2021 | Antalya Open, Turkey | 250 Series | Hard | Mate Pavić | Ivan Dodig Filip Polášek |
6–2, 6–4 |
Win | 10–8 | Feb 2021 | Murray River Open, Australia | 250 Series | Hard | Mate Pavić | Jérémy Chardy Fabrice Martin |
7–6(7–2), 6–3 |
Win | 11–8 | Mar 2021 | Rotterdam Open, Netherlands | 500 Series | Hard (i) | Mate Pavić | Kevin Krawietz Horia Tecău |
7–6(9–7), 6–2 |
Loss | 11–9 | Mar 2021 | Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE | 500 Series | Hard | Mate Pavić | Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah |
6–7(0–7), 6–7(4–7) |
Win | 12–9 | Apr 2021 | Miami Open, US | Masters 1000 | Hard | Mate Pavić | Dan Evans Neal Skupski |
6–4, 6–4 |
Win | 13–9 | Apr 2021 | Monte-Carlo Masters, Monaco (2) | Masters 1000 | Clay | Mate Pavić | Dan Evans Neal Skupski |
6–3, 4–6, [10–7] |
Loss | 13–10 | May 2021 | Madrid Open, Spain | Masters 1000 | Clay | Mate Pavić | Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos |
6–1, 3–6, [8–10] |
Win | 14–10 | May 2021 | Italian Open, Italy | Masters 1000 | Clay | Mate Pavić | Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury |
6–4, 7–6(7–4) |
Win | 15–10 | Jun 2021 | Eastbourne International, UK | 250 Series | Grass | Mate Pavić | Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury |
6–4, 6–3 |
Win | 16–10 | Jul 2021 | Wimbledon Championships, UK | Grand Slam | Grass | Mate Pavić | Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos |
6–4, 7–6(7–5), 2–6, 7–5 |
Win | 17–10 | Jul 2021 | Olympics Games, Japan | Olympics | Hard | Mate Pavić | Ivan Dodig Marin Čilić |
6–4, 3–6, [10–6] |
Loss | 17–11 | Aug 2021 | Canadian Open, Canada | Masters 1000 | Hard | Mate Pavić | Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury |
3–6, 6–4, [3–10] |
ATP Challenger and ITF Future titles[]
Singles (15)[]
Challengers (0) |
Futures (15) |
No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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1. | 25 May 2008 | Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Clay | Dennis Blömke | 6–2, 6–3 |
2. | 10 May 2009 | Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Clay | Ivan Bjelica | 7–6, 4–6, 6–3 |
3. | 31 May 2009 | Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Clay | Aleksander Slović | 7–6, 7–5 |
4. | 23 August 2009 | Vinkovci, Croatia | Clay | Ismar Gorčić | 7–6, 7–6 |
5. | 30 August 2009 | Čakovec, Croatia | Clay | Attila Balázs | 6–3, 7–5 |
6. | 6 September 2009 | Osijek, Croatia | Clay | Aldin Šetkić | 2–6, 6–4, 6–2 |
7. | 6 June 2010 | Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia | Clay | Denys Molchanov | 6–3, 4–2 ret. |
8. | 18 July 2010 | Fano, Italy | Clay | Stefano Ianni | 6–2, 6–0 |
9. | 27 February 2011 | Zagreb, Croatia | Clay | Michael Lammer | 7–6, ret. |
10. | 27 May 2012 | Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Clay | Marin Bradarić | 5–7, 7–5, 6–0 |
11. | 3 June 2012 | Bled, Slovenia | Clay | Marcel Zimmermann | 1–6, 6–2, 6–4 |
12. | 29 September 2013 | Sokobanja, Serbia | Clay | Marc Rath | 6–6, 5–2, ret. |
13. | 13 October 2013 | Solin, Croatia | Clay | Mate Delić | 7–6, 7–6 |
14. | 2 March 2014 | Trento, Italy | Carpet | Roman Jebavý | 6–3, 5–7, 6–1 |
15. | 26 October 2014 | Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic | Carpet | Jan Hernych | 6–4, 6–4 |
Doubles (15)[]
Challengers (9) |
Futures (6) |
Doubles performance timeline[]
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | F-S | SF-B | NMS | P | NH |
Current through the 2021 Western & Southern Open.
Tournament | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | SR | W–L | |
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Grand Slam tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||
Australian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 3R | 2R | 3R | 2R | SF | 0 / 5 | 10–5 | |
French Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | SF | 1R | SF | A | 0 / 4 | 8–4 | |
Wimbledon | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | SF | 3R | 3R | NH | W | 1 / 5 | 14–4 | |
US Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 3R | 2R | F | 0 / 4 | 7–4 | ||
Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 6–4 | 9–4 | 5–4 | 9–3 | 10–1 | 1 / 18 | 39–17 | |
Year-end championship | |||||||||||||||||||
ATP Finals | Did Not Qualify | RR | DNQ | W | 1 / 2 | 4–3 | |||||||||||||
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | |||||||||||||||||||
Indian Wells Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | W | NH | 1 / 3 | 5–2 | ||
Miami Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | QF | QF | 2R | NH | W | 1 / 4 | 10–3 | |
Monte-Carlo Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | W | NH | W | 2 / 2 | 9–0 | |
Madrid Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | W | 2R | NH | F | 1 / 3 | 9–2 | |
Italian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 2R | 1R | 2R | 2R | W | 1 / 5 | 8–4 | |
Canadian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | SF | 1R | NH | F | 0 / 4 | 6–4 | |
Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | QF | 1R | QF | 2R | 0 / 5 | 4–4 | |
Shanghai Masters | Not Held | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | QF | 1R | NH | 0 / 3 | 1–3 | ||||
Paris Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 2R | 1R | QF | 0 / 4 | 2–4 | ||
Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–7 | 14–6 | 13–7 | 4–3 | 20–3 | 6 / 33 | 53–26 | |
National representation | |||||||||||||||||||
Davis Cup | A | A | A | A | A | PO | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | W | RR | A | 1 / 4 | 3–1 | ||
Summer Olympics | Not Held | A | Not Held | A | Not Held | A | Not Held | G | 1 / 1 | 5–0 | |||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Career | |||
Tournaments | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 13 | 14 | 109 | ||
Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 17 | ||
Finals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 28 | ||
Overall Win–Loss | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 4–5 | 34–26 | 45–26 | 34–26 | 26–14 | 56–7 | 199–111 | ||
Year-end ranking | 1430 | 755 | 517 | 442 | 265 | 670 | 236 | 261 | 276 | 177 | 74 | 32 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 64.19% |
References[]
- ^ ATP Rankings
- ^ "Mektić biography at ITF". Retrieved 2010-07-15.
- ^ https://www.atptour.com/en/news/miami-2021-doubles-final
- ^ "Mektic/Pavic Clinch Monte-Carlo Crown; Fifth Doubles Title Of Year". ATP Tour. 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
- ^ https://www.atptour.com/en/news/mektic-pavic-granollers-zeballos-madrid-2021-doubles-final
- ^ https://www.atptour.com/en/news/mektic-pavic-ram-salisbury-rome-2021-doubles-final
- ^ https://www.atptour.com/en/news/mektic-pavic-wimbledon-2021-final-saturday
- ^ https://www.atptour.com/en/news/mektic-pavic-cilic-dodig-tokyo-final-2021-friday
- ^ https://www.total-croatia-news.com/sport/54949-gold-medal-match
External links[]
- Nikola Mektić at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Nikola Mektić at the International Tennis Federation
- Nikola Mektić at the Davis Cup
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Croatian male tennis players
- Sportspeople from Zagreb
- Australian Open (tennis) champions
- Wimbledon champions
- Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic tennis players of Croatia
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Croatia
- Olympic medalists in tennis