Mate Pavić ( born 4 July 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
1996
He was the youngest doubles No. 1 since Todd Woodbridge in 1996, and the first player from Croatia, male or female, to be world No. 1 in singles or doubles.
2010
In singles, in 2010 he reached the French Open QF and in 2011 again the QF, this time at the Wimbledon Championship.
2011
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.
His biggest success as a junior came at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles where he won the title partnering George Morgan (UK).
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.
2012
After winning the Boys' 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.
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.
2013
In singles, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 295 in May 2013.
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.
2015
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.
2016
Pavić also won mixed doubles titles at the 2016 US Open with Laura Siegemund, the 2018 Australian Open with Gabriela Dabrowski, and the 2023 Wimbledon Championships with Lyudmyla Kichenok.
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.
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.
2017
He finished runner-up at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, the 2018 French Open, the 2020 French Open, and the 2022 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles, and at the 2018 and 2019 French Opens in mixed doubles.
Pavić has won 36 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including five at Masters 1000 level.
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 Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo.
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
2018
He is a six-time Grand Slam champion, having won three titles in men's doubles: the 2018 Australian Open with Oliver Marach, the 2020 US Open with Bruno Soares, and the 2021 Wimbledon Championships with Nikola Mektić.
In May 2018, he became world No. 1 in doubles, making him the 52nd player history to hold the top ranking.
Pavić was part of the winning Croatian team at the 2018 Davis Cup, and also won Olympic gold in men's doubles at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Mektić.
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).
