Ivan Dodig

Ivan Dodig (born 2 January 1985) is a Croatian professional tennis player who primarily specialises in doubles.

He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2 in September 2023.

Dodig has represented Croatia in the Davis Cup since 2010, and was part of the team which won the tournament in 2018.

At the 2010 Australian Open, he qualified for the main draw and beat former world No. 1, Juan Carlos Ferrero, in the first round in five sets.

However, he bowed out to Stefan Koubek in the second round.

Dodig then spent most of the rest of the year competing on the Challenger tour.

He failed to qualify for the 2010 French Open, but reached the second round at Wimbledon, beating Óscar Hernández before losing to Sam Querrey in four sets.

He also reached the second round at the 2010 US Open, after beating Fernando González, who retired with a knee injury, but Dodig himself retired with an injury against Thiemo de Bakker.

At the 2011 Australian Open, Dodig played Ivo Karlović in the first round and prevailed in a tough five set match.

He was then drawn to play third seed and eventual champion Novak Djokovic in the second round.

Although he lost in four sets, he was the only player to win a set against Djokovic in the whole tournament.

He followed this up with a surprise first tournament win in front of his home crowd at the 2011 PBZ Zagreb Indoors, beating the previous year's finalist Michael Berrer.

He then made a second-round appearance at the 2011 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships, losing to Juan Martín del Potro, who was making a comeback.

Dodig then reached the quarterfinals at the 2011 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships after beating Kunitsyn and Sela, before losing to Janko Tipsarević.

First-round action in the Davis Cup, a showdown between Croatia and Germany, saw Dodig up against Kohlschreiber, but he succumbed to the German in five sets.

The loss proved costly, as Germany went on to prevail 3–2 in the tie to move on to the quarterfinals.

At the 2011 Sony Ericsson Open he beat Andrey Golubev in the first round.

However, he lost to world No. 4 Robin Söderling despite being up 4–2 in the third set.

At the 2011 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, he bowed out to World No.29 Tommy Robredo in the first round.

Dodig then found some good form heading into the 2011 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell tournament.

In the opening round he beat Vincent Millot before beating No.3 seed and last year's finalist Robin Söderling.

He then went on to claim hard fought scalps over fast-rising Canadian Milos Raonic and home favourite Feliciano López to reach the semifinals of a clay-court tournament for the first time in his career.

However, in the semifinals, he was inevitably stopped by five-time champion and eventual champion for the sixth time, world No. 1 Rafael Nadal who is still yet to lose a match on Barcelona soil.

Despite breaking twice as he broke once in each set to hang on with Nadal, Dodig eventually fell after giving a decent fight, which added to the Spaniard's current winning streak on clay.

In the second round of the Rogers Cup, Dodig stunned world No. 2 Rafael Nadal, 1–6, 7–6, 7–6 after recovering from a 1–6, 1–3 deficit before losing to Janko Tipsarević in the third round.

On 30 August 2011, in the US Open first round Dodig lost to Nikolay Davydenko in a closely fought five sets match.

At the first gram slam of the year, the 2012 Australian Open he retired against Frederico Gil.

At the next two slams he also lost in the first round to Robin Haase and Lukáš Rosol at the 2012 French Open and Wimbledon respectively.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he lost to Juan Martín del Potro in the first round of the men's singles.

He fared better in the men's doubles, where he and partner Marin Čilić reached the quarter-finals.

At the 2012 US Open he beat qualifier Hiroki Moriya in the first round, however lost his second round match against Andy Murray in straight sets.

Dodig had his most successful season to date, reaching the third round or better at three out of four major tournaments, and breaking into the world's top 30 for the first time.

At the Australian Open, Dodig reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time, beating Di Wu and Jarkko Nieminen respectively in the first two rounds, before losing to number 10 seed Richard Gasquet.

He also finished runner-up at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles, and the 2016 French Open and 2017 Australian Open in mixed.

Dodig has won 23 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including six at the Masters 1000 level, and also finished runner-up at the 2014 ATP World Tour Finals.

In singles, Dodig achieved his highest ranking of world No. 29 in October 2013, and won his first ATP title at the 2011 Zagreb Indoors.

His best Grand Slam singles result was at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the fourth round.

He is a seven-time Grand Slam champion, having won men's doubles titles at the 2015 French Open with Marcelo Melo, the 2021 Australian Open with Filip Polášek and the 2023 French Open with Austin Krajicek.

In mixed doubles, Dodig won the 2018 and 2019 French Opens and 2019 Wimbledon Championships, all alongside Latisha Chan, and the 2022 Australian Open partnering Kristina Mladenovic.

He also won a silver medal in men's doubles at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Marin Čilić.