Lovro Zovko

Lovro Zovko
Zovko 2008 in the USA
Nation:	Croatia
Birthday:	March 18, 1981
Size:	191 cm
Weight:	80 kg
1st professional season:	1999
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 623,479
singles
Career record:	7:13
Highest ranking:	151 (January 27, 2003)
Double
Career record:	53:89
Highest ranking:	45 (October 6, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Lovro Zovko (born March 18, 1981 in Zagreb , SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian tennis player .

life and career

Lovro Zovko's father Željko is a handball trainer and a former Yugoslav national handball player. His uncle Zdravko became Olympic handball champion in 1984.

Zovko was a promising talent on the Junior Tour. At the junior edition of the French Open 1999 he won the doubles competition with Irakli Labadze . He was also twice in a Grand Slam doubles final and twice in a singles semi-final. That brought him up to 9th place in the junior world rankings. As a professional, Zovko was mainly successful in doubles. With four different partners he reached five ATP finals , but could not win any. At the Challenger level , Zovko posted a total of 30 double titles. At the Grand Slam level, he was only able to win two matches once when he reached the round of 16 at the US Open in 2008 . In the individual, he never made it into the main field. He achieved his best placement in singles in January 2003 with rank 151 and in doubles in October 2008 with rank 45. In 2013 he dropped out of the top 200 for the first time and subsequently played less until he played his last tournament in Banja Luka in 2015 .

Lovro Zovko played in a total of 10 matches for the Croatian Davis Cup team , for which he can show a 6: 9 record.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (30)

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 22, 1999	Zagreb	sand	Ivan Ljubičić	Jerôme Hanquez Régis Lavergne	6: 3, 6: 0
2.	August 12, 2000	Tolyatti	Hard court	Dušan Vemić	Ionuț Moldovan Yuri Shchukin	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	September 8, 2001	Brașov	sand	Amir Hadad	Ben Ellwood Kalle Flygt	6: 1, 4: 6, 6: 4
4th	February 9, 2002	Belgrade	Carpet (i)	Dušan Vemić	Jaroslav Levinský Tomáš Zíb	without a fight
5.	September 21, 2002	Istanbul	Hard court	Aleksandar Kitinov	Noam Behr Tomáš Zíb	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2 5
6th	November 9, 2002	Eckental	Carpet (i)	Yves Allegro	Philipp Petzschner Simon Stadler	4: 6, 7: 6 0 , 6: 4
7th	November 16, 2002	Helsinki	Hard court (i)	Mario Ančić	Aleksandar Kitinov Jim Thomas	7: 6 6 , 4: 6, 6: 3
8th.	February 22, 2003	Andrézieux-Bouthéon	Hard court (i)	David Škoch	Stephen Huss Jeff Tarango	7: 6 4 , 0: 6, 6: 3
9.	June 12, 2004	Pastures	sand	Janko Tipsarevic	Mariano Delfino Patricio Rudi	6: 4, 7: 6 6
10.	October 2, 2004	Grenoble	Hard court (i)	Uros Vico	Michael Berrer Răzvan Sabau	6: 2, 6: 4
11.	May 28, 2005	Ljubljana	sand	Paul Baccanello	Andrew Derer Joseph Sirianni	6: 3, 6: 3
12.	July 30, 2005	Recanati (1)	Hard court	Uros Vico	Farrux Doʻstov Yevgeny Korolyov	7: 6 2 , 4: 3 up.
13.	August 13, 2005	Pamplona	Hard court	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	James Auckland Daniel Kiernan	2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
14th	April 22, 2006	Chiasso	sand	Leonardo Azzaro	Amir Hadad Roko Karanušić	6: 2, 7: 5
15th	August 19, 2006	Cordenons	sand	Francesco Aldi	Marco Crugnola Marco Pedrini	6: 4, 6: 3
16.	October 7, 2006	Mons (1)	Hard court (i)	Jean-Claude Scherrer	Jordan Kerr David Škoch	6: 2, 6: 4
17th	September 8, 2007	Alphen aan den Rijn	sand	Leonardo Azzaro	Jérémy Chardy Predrag Rusevski	6: 3, 6: 3
18th	November 17, 2007	Dnipro	carpet	Christopher Kas	Rohan Bopanna Chris Haggard	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
19th	September 13, 2008	Orleans	Hard court (i)	Serhiy Stachowskyj	Jean-Claude Scherrer Igor Zelenay	7: 6 7 , 6: 4
20th	October 4, 2008	Mons (2)	Hard court (i)	Michal Mertiňák	Yves Allegro Horia Tecau	7: 5, 6: 3
21st	October 17, 2009	Rennes	Carpet (i)	Eric Butorac	Kevin Anderson Dominik Hrbatý	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 6]
22nd	April 17, 2010	Johannesburg	Hard court	Nicolas Mahut	Raven Klaasen Izak van der Merwe	6: 2, 6: 2
23.	May 29, 2010	Alessandria	sand	Ivan Dodig	Marco Crugnola Daniel Muñoz de La Nava	6: 4, 6: 4
24.	July 24, 2010	Recanati (2)	Hard court	Jamie Delgado	Charles-Antoine Brézac Vincent Stouff	7: 6 6 , 6: 1
25th	August 7, 2010	San Marino	sand	Daniele Bracciali	Yves Allegro James Cerretani	2: 6, 6: 2, [10: 5]
26th	September 11, 2010	Rijeka	sand	Adil Shamasdin	Carlos Berlocq Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	1: 6, 7: 6 9 , [10: 5]
27.	August 27, 2011	Manerbio	sand	Dustin Brown	Alessio di Mauro Alessandro Motti	7: 6 4 , 7: 5
28.	November 12, 2011	Ortisei in Val Gardena	carpet	Dustin Brown	Philipp Petzschner Alexander Waske	6: 4, 7: 6 4
29	August 11, 2012	Sibiu	sand	Marin Draganja	Alexandru-Daniel Carpen Cristóbal Saavedra-Corvalán	6: 4, 4: 6, [11: 9]
30th	15th September 2012	Banja Luka	sand	Marin Draganja	Colin Ebelthite Jaroslav Pospíšil	6: 1, 6: 1

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 17, 2000	Umag	sand	Ivan Ljubičić	Albert Portas Álex López Morón	1: 6, 6: 7 2
2.	July 16, 2001	Umag	sand	Ivan Ljubičić	Sergio Roitman Andrés Schneiter	2: 6, 5: 7
3.	October 8, 2007	Moscow	Hard court	Tomáš Cibulec	Marat Safin Dmitri Tursunov	4: 6, 2: 6
4th	October 22, 2007	Lyon	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Sébastien Grosjean Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	4: 6, 3: 6
5.	July 30, 2011	Umag	sand	Marin Čilić	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	3: 6, 7: 5, [7:10]

Web links

Commons : Lovro Zovko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Lovro Zovko (English)
• ITF profile Lovro Zovko (English)
• Davis Cup Stats Lovro Zovko (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Collinet: Bad luck strikes on the birthday. In: Mittelhessen.de. April 15, 2011, accessed December 20, 2017 .