Mate Pavić

Mate Pavić (Croatian pronunciation: [mǎːte pǎːʋitɕ];[1][2] born 4 July 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player specialising in doubles. He reached the final of all four men's dobules Grand Slams tournaments, winning the 2018 Australian Open and the 2020 US Open. [3] Pavić also reached the 2017 Wimbledon Championships men's doubles finals, and the 2018 French Open men's doubles finals. He also won mixed doubles titles at the 2016 US Open in partnership with Laura Siegemund[4] and at the 2018 Australian Open with Gabriela Dabrowski.[5]

Mate Pavić

Pavić at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Croatia
Residence	Freeport, Bahamas
Born	4 July 1993 Split, Croatia
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2011
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	John Farrington Nađa Pavić
Prize money	$3,404,801
Singles
Career record	3–10 (23.1%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 295 (6 May 2013)
Doubles
Career record	260–151 (63.3%)
Career titles	18
Highest ranking	No. 1 (21 May 2018)
Current ranking	No. 4 (9 November 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	W (2018)
French Open	F (2018, 2020)
Wimbledon	F (2017)
US Open	W (2020)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	RR (2017, 2018)
Mixed doubles
Career titles	2
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	W (2018)
French Open	F (2018, 2019)
Wimbledon	QF (2017)
US Open	W (2016)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (2018)
Last updated on: 23 November 2020.

In May 2018 Pavić rose to world No. 1, making him the 52^nd player ever to do so in the history of the ATP Doubles rankings. He was the youngest doubles No. 1 since Todd Woodbridge in 1996, and the first tennis player from Croatia to ever hold this ranking. [6]

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.

First ATP doubles title

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]

First Grand Slam doubles title and No. 1 ranking

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.

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 spend 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.

After the 2019 French Open, Marach and Pavić terminated their partnership and Mate teamed with Bruno Soares and won his first Masters title at Shanghai Masters in October 2019. The same month they reached the final of Stockholm Open, and Pavić briefly returned to top 10 rankings, but finished 2019 season ranked 18th in the world. In September 2020 Pavić and Soares won the 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 Rolex Paris Masters final where they lost after having 5 match points.

Significant finals

Doubles: 5 (2 title, 3 runners-up)

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

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

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

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2018	Monte-Carlo Masters	Clay	Oliver Marach	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–7^(5–7), 3–6
Winner	2019	Shanghai Masters	Hard	Bruno Soares	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	2020	Paris Masters	Hard (i)	Bruno Soares	Félix Auger-Aliassime Hubert Hurkacz	7–6^(7–3), 6–7^(7–9), [2–10]

ATP career finals

Doubles: 41 (18 titles, 22 runner-ups, 1 pending)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (2–3) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1–2) ATP World Tour 500 Series (1–4) ATP World Tour 250 Series (14–13)

Finals by surface Hard (12–11) Clay (5–7) Grass (1–4) Carpet (0–0)

Finals by setting Outdoor (14–14) Indoor (4–8)

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
Pending	–	Feb 2021	Murray River Open, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Nikola Mektić

Doubles performance timeline

Current through the 2021 Antalya Open.

Tournament	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	2R	1R	1R	1R	W	2R	3R		1 / 7	10–6
French Open	A	A	A	3R	1R	1R	2R	F	3R	F		0 / 7	15–7
Wimbledon	A	A	A	3R	3R	3R	F	1R	2R	NH		0 / 6	12–6
US Open	A	A	A	2R	2R	2R	3R	1R	2R	W		1 / 7	11–6
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	6–4	3–4	3–4	8–4	11–3	5–4	12–2	0–0	2 / 27	48–25
Year-end championship
ATP Finals	Did Not Qualify						RR	RR	DNQ	RR		0 / 3	4–3
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	SF	NH		0 / 2	6–2
Miami Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	QF	NH		0 / 3	4–3
Monte-Carlo Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	F	2R	NH		0 / 2	3–2
Madrid Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	QF	NH		0 / 2	3–2
Italian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	QF	SF	QF		0 / 4	7–4
Canadian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	SF	1R	NH		0 / 3	3–3
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	SF	1R		0 / 4	3–4
Shanghai Masters	A	A	A	A	A	SF	QF	SF	W	NH		1 / 4	11–3
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	SF	1R	F		0 / 4	5–3
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	5–7	13–7	19–8	5–3	0–0	1 / 28	45–26
National representation
Davis Cup	A	A	PO	Z1	A	A	A	W	RR	P		0 / 2	0–4
Career statistics
Titles	0	0	0	0	1	4	3	5	2	2	1	18
Finals	0	1	1	1	4	8	6	10	3	4	1	39
Overall Win–Loss	0–0	5–2	5–4	18–18	19–16	39–22	47–27	56–21	41–26	30–15	4–0	264–151
Year-end ranking	379	130	71	56	54	29	17	3	18	4		63%

References

1. "Máte". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 2018-03-17. Máte
2. "Pȁvao". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 2018-03-17. Pávić
3. "Marach, Pavic claim Australian Open men's doubles crown". Reuters. 27 January 2018.
4. "Pavic and Siegemund win U.S. Open mixed doubles". Eurosport. 9 September 2016.
5. "Dabrowski and Pavic win mixed doubles in Melbourne". WTA. 28 January 2018.
6. "Pavic To Rise To World No. 1 On Monday Despite Loss". ATP World Tour. 18 May 2018.
7. "Tribute: Pavic Completes Rise To No. 1". ATP World Tour. 22 May 2018.
8. "Tribute: Pavic Completes Rise To No. 1". ATP World Tour. 22 May 2018.
9. Marzorati, Gerald. "The Relative Obscurity of Mate Pavic, the Best Young Doubles Player in the World". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

External links

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