Ivo Karlović

Ivo Karlović
Ivo Karlović 2016 at the US Open
Nickname:	Dr. Ivo
Nation:	Croatia
Birthday:	February 28, 1979
Size:	211 cm
Weight:	104 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Mirko Pehar
Prize money:	$ 9,726,606
singles
Career record:	367: 335
Career title:	8th
Highest ranking:	14 (August 18, 2008)
Current placement:	81
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	91: 109
Career title:	2
Highest ranking:	44 (April 10 2006)
Current placement:	269
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: August 5th, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ivo Karlović [ ǐːv̞ɔ kâːrlɔv̞itɕ ] (born February 28, 1979 in Zagreb , SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian tennis player .

Career

Karlović has won eight titles on the ATP Tour so far : 2007 in Houston on clay, 2007 and 2008 in Nottingham on grass, 2007 in Stockholm , 2013 in Bogotá and 2015 in Delray Beach on hard court. In 2016 he also won in Houston and Los Cabos . He also reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2009 . In doubles, he has so far won a tournament in Memphis with partner Chris Haggard in 2006. He achieved another notable success in the round of 16 of the Cincinnati Masters tournament in 2008 when he won the then world number one Roger Federer in a three-set match (7: 6, ⁵ , 4: 6, 7: 6 ⁶ ) could defeat; this is the only victory so far in 14 meetings with the Swiss.

In February 2010 he reached the finals in Delray Beach . He lost this against Ernests Gulbis in two sets with 2: 6 and 3: 6. At the BNP Paribas Open 2011 Karlović reached the quarter-finals, where he lost to Rafael Nadal in three sets.

Ivo Karlović is 2.11 meters tall, next to the equally tall Reilly Opelka and ahead of the 2.08 m tall John Isner, the tallest tennis player to ever make it into the top 100 in the world rankings . His strongest weapon is the serve , with which he also set several records: in 2009 against Lleyton Hewitt in the first round of the French Open , he hit 55 aces, but lost the match. In the semifinals of the Davis Cup 2009 against Radek Štěpánek he served 78 aces (7: 6 ⁵ , 6: 7 ⁵ , 6: 7 ⁶ , 7: 6 ² , 14:16); the match lasted almost six hours. On June 24, 2010, this record was surpassed by John Isner: In the longest tennis match in history against Nicolas Mahut , Isner beat 112 aces, Mahut 103. From March 5, 2011, Karlović held the record for the fastest serve: In the Davis Cup -Double game against Germany (on the side of Ivan Dodig ) he beat a service winner with 251.4 km / h and replaced Andy Roddick (249.4 km / h) as the record holder. In May 2012, Karlović gave the world record for the fastest serve to Samuel Groth , who exceeded Karlović's serve by 11.6 km / h with 263 km / h.

Speed ​​display after the world record service at the Davis Cup game in Zagreb against Germany

In the spring of 2013, Karlović was diagnosed with viral meningitis , which showed severe symptoms and prevented him from playing in tournaments or even training for several weeks. After this illness-related break, Karlović celebrated a successful comeback on the tour: at the tournament in Bogotá he was able to win another title at ATP level after more than five years; in the final he beat Alejandro Falla . Karlović did not have to give up a set in the course of the tournament and did not lose any of his service games.

Ivo Karlović has been playing for the Croatian Davis Cup team since 2000 . With this he won the Davis Cup in 2005 , but was only used in the semifinals against Russia .

Since October 8, 2015, he has been the world record holder for most aces beaten. In the game against Pablo Cuevas , he scored 26 aces, overtaking the previous record holder Goran Ivanišević , who hit 10,243 aces over the course of his career. Currently (as of April 4, 2019) he has hit 13,309 aces in 725 matches.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP Tour 500 International Series Gold ATP Tour 250 International Series (10) ATP Challenger Tour (6)

Title after covering Hard Court (5) Sand (1) Grass (4)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 9, 2007	Houston	sand	Mariano Zabaleta	6: 4, 6: 1
2.	June 18, 2007	Nottingham (1)	race	Arnaud Clément	5: 7, 6: 4, 7: 5
3.	October 14, 2007	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Thomas Johansson	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 1
4th	June 21, 2008	Nottingham (2)	race	Fernando Verdasco	7: 5, 6: 7 4 , 7: 6 8
5.	July 21, 2013	Bogotá	Hard court	Alejandro Falla	6: 3, 7: 6 4
6th	February 22, 2015	Delray Beach	Hard court	Donald Young	6: 3, 6: 3
7th	17th July 2016	Newport	race	Gilles Muller	6: 7 2 , 7: 6 5 , 7: 6 12
8th.	August 14, 2016	Los Cabos	Hard court	Feliciano López	7: 6 5 , 6: 2

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	December 1, 2001	Urbana	Hard court (i)	Robby Ginepri	6: 4, 7: 6 5
2.	August 10, 2003	Binghamton	Hard court	Nicolas Thomann	7: 6 6 , 6: 7 6 , 7: 6 4
3.	August 17, 2003	Bronx	Hard court	Dmitri Tursunov	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	April 11, 2004	Calabasas	Hard court	Alex Bogomolov junior	7: 6 3 , 6: 3
5.	October 9, 2011	Sacramento	Hard court	James Blake	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 4
6th	October 16, 2011	Tiburon	Hard court	Sam Querrey	6: 7 2 , 6: 1, 6: 4
7th	October 21, 2018	Calgary	Hard court (i)	Jordan Thompson	7: 6 3 , 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 23, 2005	Queen's Club	race	Andy Roddick	6: 7 7 , 6: 7 4
2.	February 18, 2007	San Jose	Hard court	Andy Murray	7: 6 3 , 4: 6, 6: 7 2
3.	February 28, 2010	Delray Beach	Hard court	Ernests Gulbis	2: 6, 3: 6
4th	February 16, 2014	Memphis	Hard court (i)	Kei Nishikori	4: 6, 6: 7 0
5.	May 24, 2014	Dusseldorf	sand	Philipp Kohlschreiber	2: 6, 6: 7 4
6th	July 13, 2014	Newport (1)	race	Lleyton Hewitt	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 7 3
7th	20th July 2014	Bogotá	Hard court	Bernard Tomic	6: 7 5 , 6: 3, 6: 7 4
8th.	19th July 2015	Newport (2)	race	Rajeev Ram	6: 7 5 , 7: 5, 6: 7 2
9.	July 25, 2016	Washington, DC	Hard court	Gaël Monfils	7: 5, 6: 7 6 , 4: 6
10.	18th June 2017	's-Hertogenbosch	race	Gilles Muller	6: 7 5 , 6: 7 4
11.	5th January 2019	Pune	Hard court	Kevin Anderson	6: 7 4 , 7: 6 2 , 6: 7 5

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 20, 2006	Memphis	Hard court	Chris Haggard	James Blake Mardy Fish	0: 6, 7: 5, [10: 5]
2.	June 13, 2015	's-Hertogenbosch	race	Łukasz Kubot	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6: 2, 7: 6 9

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 23, 2007	Indianapolis	Hard court	Teimuras Gabashvili	Juan Martín del Potro Travis Parrott	6: 3, 2: 6, [6:10]

Grand Slam and annual results

singles

Tournament 1	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	total
Australian Open	3R	3R	1R	2R	1R	1R	3R	1R	AF	2R	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R	-	-	-	-	-	-	AF
French Open	1R	2R	3R	1R	3R	-	1R	1R	-	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-	3R
Wimbledon	2R	1R	2R	AF	1R	-	2R	2R	-	VF	1R	1R	1R	1R	AF	3R	-	-	-	-	-	VF
US Open	-	1R	AF	2R	2R	2R	1R	3R	-	1R	3R	1R	1R	2R	1R	3R	-	-	-	-	-	3R
Individual titles won	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8th
Overall wins / defeats 2	11:16	16:20	32:24	38:25	36:28	15:13	16:17	16:21	17: 9	23:23	31:26	43:21	17:19	17:23	18:26	9: 7	1: 4	0: 1	2-0	0-0	0-0	362: 327
Year-end position	101	80	20th	23	27	77	97	56	73	37	25th	22nd	99	72	59	74	175	231	299	-	-	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1R, 2R, 3R = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round or Q1, Q2, Q3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd qualifying round

¹ tournament result in brackets means that the player has not yet finished the tournament; it shows its current tournament status. After the player finishes the tournament, the bracket is removed.
² As of the end of the 2018 season

Web links

Commons : Ivo Karlović  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Ivo Karlović (English)
• ITF profile Ivo Karlović (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Ivo Karlović (English)
• Official homepage (English, Croatian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karlovic: 'Unbelievable' to come back from viral meningitis. In: tennis.com. July 11, 2013, accessed August 15, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Karlovic Becomes New Ace King 2015 | ATP World Tour | Tennis. In: atpworldtour.com. October 8, 2015, accessed August 15, 2016 .