Nikola Mektić

Nikola Mektić

Country (sports)	Croatia
Residence	Freeport, Bahamas
Born	(1988-12-24) 24 December 1988 (age 36) Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2006
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US $4,970,976
Singles
Career record	3–9
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 213 (6 May 2013)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2011)
French Open	Q1 (2013)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2011)
US Open	Q2 (2010)
Doubles
Career record	312–176
Career titles	31
Highest ranking	No. 1 (18 October 2021)
Current ranking	No. 6 (4 November 2024)[1]
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2021)
French Open	SF (2018, 2020)
Wimbledon	W (2021)
US Open	F (2020)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	W (2020)
Olympic Games	W (2021)
Mixed doubles
Career titles	1
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	W (2020)
French Open	QF (2019)
Wimbledon	3R (2017, 2018, 2019)
US Open	F (2018)
Medal record Representing  Croatia Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Men's Doubles
Last updated on: 4 November 2024.

Nikola Mektić (born 24 December 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.

He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2021 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles partnering compatriot Mate Pavić, and the 2020 Australian Open with Barbora Krejčíková in mixed doubles. Mektić also finished runner-up at the 2020 US Open with Wesley Koolhof and at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships with Pavić in men's doubles, and the 2018 US Open with Alicja Rosolska in mixed doubles.

He became world No. 1 in men's doubles in October 2021, the second Croatian to reach this ranking. Mektić has won 30 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including 10 at Masters 1000 level with five different partners. He also won the 2020 ATP Finals with Koolhof. In singles, he reached his highest ranking of world No. 213 in May 2013. Mektić was part of the Croatian team which won the 2018 Davis Cup, and won men's doubles gold at the 2020 Olympic Games alongside Pavić.

Mektić was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) in 1988 to Mirko and Višnja Mektić. He began playing tennis at age 6 after his elder brother Luka took up the sport.^{[citation needed]}

After spending a better part of a decade on the ATP challenger tour and achieving a career high ranking of No. 213 in singles (on May 6, 2013),^[2] in 2016 Mektić decided to focus on doubles. The same year he reached his first ATP men's doubles final as a wildcard at the 2016 Croatia Open Umag with his compatriot Antonio Šančić. Since then, he has won 28 ATP men's doubles titles, including one doubles Grand Slam title, six Masters 1000 titles, one mixed doubles Grand Slam and the 2020 ATP Finals.

In 2018 Mektic and Alexander Peya qualified for the 2018 ATP Finals in London. The same year Mektić reached his first Grand Slam finals (in mixed doubles) at the 2018 US Open, partnering Alicja Rosolska, and won the Davis Cup playing for Croatia. He also won three Masters 1000 with three different partners in Madrid (2018), Indian Wells (2019) and Monte Carlo (2019).

2020 was the most successful year for Mektić in his career thus far. He won the 2020 ATP Finals in doubles partnering Wesley Koolhof and the 2020 Australian Open mixed doubles event partnering Barbora Krejčíková. He also reached the doubles final at the 2020 US Open partnering again with Wesley Koolhof. As a result he finished the year at No. 8 in the top 10 rankings in doubles and No. 3 in the doubles race with his partner Wesley Koolhof.

Starting 2021, Mektić partnered successfully with his compatriot Mate Pavić. They won four ATP titles including the doubles title at the 2021 Miami Open in the beginning of April^[3] and reached the 2021 Australian Open doubles semifinals and 2021 Dubai Tennis Championships final in the first three months of the year. Following these results, Mektić returned to his No. 4 high-career ranking on April 5.

On April 18, Mektić clinched his fifth ATP Masters 1000 in a row and second Masters title of the year at the 2021 Monte-Carlo Masters where the pair defeated, for the second time in the final of a Masters in 2021, the British pair of Neal Skupski and Dan Evans.^[4]

Seeded No. 2 the pair also reached the final at the 2021 Mutua Madrid Open Masters where they lost to the No. 3 seeded pair Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers^[5] and the final of the Italian Open where they won the title defeating No. 5 seeded pair Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury. After the win, Mektić moved to his career-high ranking of World No. 2 on 17 May 2021.^[6]

In their first Grand Slam doubles final, top seeds Mektić and Pavić had the biggest victory of their 2021 season as a team defeating Granollers and Zeballos to triumph in doubles at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. They became the first Croatian players to win the Wimbledon men's doubles title. They are also the first players from their country to win at the All England Club since Goran Ivanisevic's 2001 victory in singles and Ivan Dodig's 2019 mixed doubles win with Latisha Chan.^[7]

At the Olympics he won the gold medal with Pavić in an all-Croatian final defeating Ivan Dodig and Marin Cilic.^[8] It was the country's first gold medal in the sport and the third time in the Olympics men's doubles' history that the same country won both gold and silver, and the first one since 1908.^[9]

On 18 October 2021, following a quarterfinal showing with Pavic at the 2021 BNP Paribas Open, Mektić became world No. 1 in doubles. He became only the second Croatian tennis player in history to be ranked No.1 in the World in doubles.^[10]

The Croatian pair won their second Italian Open Masters crown and defended their 2021 title.^[11] At the 2022 Geneva Open the pair won their second title for the season.^[12]

At the ATP 500 2022 Queen's Club Championships Mektic won his third title for the season with Pavic and twentieth overall in his career.^[13] The pair also successfully defended their title at the 2022 Eastbourne International.^[14]

At the 2022 Wimbledon Championships the Croatian pair reached the semifinals in straight sets with a win over 11th seeds Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies^[15] and the final defeating six seeded Columbian pair of Robert Farah (tennis) and Juan-Sebastian Cabal in a five sets with a fifth set super tiebreak over 4 hours match.^[16][17]

The pair won another ATP 500 title at the 2022 Astana Open making it fifth for the season.^[18]

He won his 25th career and third straight title at the 2023 Eastbourne International with partner Mate Pavić.^[19]

After reuniting with Wesley Koolhof for the 2024 season, he won his fourth ATP 500 title at the 2024 ABN AMRO Open in Rotterdam, his second at this tournament. Unseeded, he won the 2024 BNP Paribas Open with Wesley Koolhof defeating Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in the final.^[20][21] Also unseeded at the 2024 Rolex Shanghai Masters, they reached the semifinals defeating Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow and kept their position of No. 8 above their opponents in the ATP doubles race.^[22] Following reaching the final with a win over Santiago González and Édouard Roger-Vasselin, the duo Mektić and Koolhof climbed a position up to No. 7 in the ATP Live doubles race. They won their fourth title for the season defeating Argentinian duo of Máximo González and Andrés Molteni. It was Mektić's 29th title.^[23]

Mektić and Koolhof won their fifth title of the season at the Paris Masters, defeating Lloyd Glasspool and Adam Pavlásek in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak. It was Mektić's 30th doubles title and 10th Masters title.^[24]

Partnering with Michael Venus, Mektić won the doubles title at the Auckland Classic, receiving a walkover in the final when scheduled opponents Christian Harrison and Rajeev Ram withdrew due to Ram suffering an arm injury.^[25][26]

Current through the 2024 Monte-Carlo Masters.

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2020	US Open	Hard	Wesley Koolhof	Mate Pavić Bruno Soares	5–7, 3–6
Win	2021	Wimbledon	Grass	Mate Pavić	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6–4, 7–6(7–5), 2–6, 7–5
Loss	2022	Wimbledon	Grass	Mate Pavić	Matthew Ebden Max Purcell	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–3), 6–4, 4–6, 6–7(2–10)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2018	US Open	Hard	Alicja Rosolska	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Jamie Murray	6–2, 3–6, [9–11]
Win	2020	Australian Open	Hard	Barbora Krejčíková	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Jamie Murray	5–7, 6–4, [10–1]

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Gold	2021	Summer Olympics	Hard	Mate Pavić	Marin Čilić Ivan Dodig	6–4, 3–6, [10–6]

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2020	ATP Finals, London	Hard (i)	Wesley Koolhof	Jürgen Melzer Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6–2, 3–6, [10–5]
Loss	2022	ATP Finals, Turin	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–7(4–7), 4–6

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2018	Madrid Open	Clay	Alexander Peya	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5–3 ret.
Win	2019	Indian Wells Masters	Hard	Horacio Zeballos	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	4–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Win	2019	Monte-Carlo Masters	Clay	Franko Škugor	Robin Haase Wesley Koolhof	6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–3), [11–9]
Win	2021	Miami Open	Hard	Mate Pavić	Dan Evans Neal Skupski	6–4, 6–4
Win	2021	Monte-Carlo Masters (2)	Clay	Mate Pavić	Dan Evans Neal Skupski	6–3, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss	2021	Madrid Open	Clay	Mate Pavić	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6–1, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	2021	Italian Open	Clay	Mate Pavić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	2021	Canadian Open	Hard	Mate Pavić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	3–6, 6–4, [3–10]
Win	2022	Italian Open (2)	Clay	Mate Pavić	John Isner Diego Schwartzman	6–2, 6–7(6–8), [12–10]
Win	2024	Indian Wells Masters (2)	Hard	Wesley Koolhof	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–4)
Win	2024	Shanghai Masters	Hard	Wesley Koolhof	Máximo González Andrés Molteni	6–4, 6–4
Win	2024	Paris Masters	Hard (i)	Wesley Koolhof	Lloyd Glasspool Adam Pavlásek	3–6, 6–3, [10–5]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2016	Croatia Open, Croatia	250 Series	Clay	Antonio Šančić	Martin Kližan David Marrero	4–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Feb 2017	Memphis Open, United States	250 Series	Hard (i)	Brian Baker	Ryan Harrison Steve Johnson	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–1	Apr 2017	Hungarian Open, Hungary	250 Series	Clay	Brian Baker	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	7–6(7–2), 6–4
Loss	2–2	Oct 2017	Shenzhen Open, China	250 Series	Hard	Nicholas Monroe	Alexander Peya Rajeev Ram	3–6, 2–6
Loss	2–3	Feb 2018	Sofia Open, Bulgaria	250 Series	Hard (i)	Alexander Peya	Robin Haase Matwé Middelkoop	7–5, 4–6, [4–10]
Loss	2–4	Feb 2018	Rio Open, Brazil	500 Series	Clay	Alexander Peya	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	7–5, 5–7, [8–10]
Win	3–4	Apr 2018	Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco	250 Series	Clay	Alexander Peya	Benoît Paire Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
Loss	3–5	May 2018	Bavarian Championships, Germany	250 Series	Clay	Alexander Peya	Ivan Dodig Rajeev Ram	3–6, 5–7
Win	4–5	May 2018	Madrid Open, Spain	Masters 1000	Clay	Alexander Peya	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5–3, ret.
Win	5–5	Feb 2019	Sofia Open, Bulgaria	250 Series	Hard (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Hsieh Cheng-peng Christopher Rungkat	6–2, 4–6, [10–2]
Win	6–5	Mar 2019	Indian Wells Masters, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	Horacio Zeballos	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	4–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Win	7–5	Apr 2019	Monte-Carlo Masters, Monaco	Masters 1000	Clay	Franko Škugor	Robin Haase Wesley Koolhof	6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–3), [11–9]
Loss	7–6	Oct 2019	Japan Open, Japan	500 Series	Hard	Franko Škugor	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6–7(7–9), 4–6
Loss	7–7	Feb 2020	Open 13, France	250 Series	Hard (i)	Wesley Koolhof	Nicolas Mahut Vasek Pospisil	3–6, 4–6
Loss	7–8	Sep 2020	US Open, United States	Grand Slam	Hard	Wesley Koolhof	Mate Pavić Bruno Soares	5–7, 3–6
Win	8–8	Nov 2020	ATP Finals, United Kingdom	Tour Finals	Hard (i)	Wesley Koolhof	Jürgen Melzer Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6–2, 3–6, [10–5]
Win	9–8	Jan 2021	Antalya Open, Turkey	250 Series	Hard	Mate Pavić	Ivan Dodig Filip Polášek	6–2, 6–4
Win	10–8	Feb 2021	Murray River Open, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Mate Pavić	Jérémy Chardy Fabrice Martin	7–6(7–2), 6–3
Win	11–8	Mar 2021	Rotterdam Open, Netherlands	500 Series	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Kevin Krawietz Horia Tecău	7–6(9–7), 6–2
Loss	11–9	Mar 2021	Dubai Tennis Championships, United Arab Emirates	500 Series	Hard	Mate Pavić	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–7(0–7), 6–7(4–7)
Win	12–9	Apr 2021	Miami Open, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	Mate Pavić	Dan Evans Neal Skupski	6–4, 6–4
Win	13–9	Apr 2021	Monte-Carlo Masters, Monaco (2)	Masters 1000	Clay	Mate Pavić	Dan Evans Neal Skupski	6–3, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss	13–10	May 2021	Madrid Open, Spain	Masters 1000	Clay	Mate Pavić	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6–1, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	14–10	May 2021	Italian Open, Italy	Masters 1000	Clay	Mate Pavić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Win	15–10	Jun 2021	Eastbourne International, United Kingdom	250 Series	Grass	Mate Pavić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–4, 6–3
Win	16–10	Jul 2021	Wimbledon Championships, United Kingdom	Grand Slam	Grass	Mate Pavić	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6–4, 7–6(7–5), 2–6, 7–5
Win	17–10	Jul 2021	Olympic Games, Japan	Olympics	Hard	Mate Pavić	Ivan Dodig Marin Čilić	6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Loss	17–11	Aug 2021	Canadian Open, Canada	Masters 1000	Hard	Mate Pavić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	3–6, 6–4, [3–10]
Loss	17–12	Feb 2022	Dubai Tennis Championships, United Arab Emirates	500 Series	Hard	Mate Pavić	Tim Pütz Michael Venus	3–6, 7–6(7–5), [14–16]
Loss	17–13	Apr 2022	Serbia Open, Serbia	250 Series	Clay	Mate Pavić	Ariel Behar Gonzalo Escobar	2–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Win	18–13	May 2022	Italian Open, Italy (2)	Masters 1000	Clay	Mate Pavić	John Isner Diego Schwartzman	6–2, 6–7(6–8), [12–10]
Win	19–13	May 2022	Geneva Open, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Mate Pavić	Matwé Middelkoop Pablo Andújar	2–6, 6–2, [10–3]
Win	20–13	Jun 2022	Queen's Club Championships, United Kingdom	500 Series	Grass	Mate Pavić	Lloyd Glasspool Harri Heliövaara	3–6, 7–6(7–3), [10–6]
Win	21–13	Jun 2022	Eastbourne International, United Kingdom (2)	250 Series	Grass	Mate Pavić	Matwé Middelkoop Luke Saville	6–4, 6–2
Loss	21–14	Jul 2022	Wimbledon Championships, United Kingdom	Grand Slam	Grass	Mate Pavić	Matthew Ebden Max Purcell	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–3), 6–4, 4–6, 6–7(2–10)
Win	22–14	Oct 2022	Astana Open, Kazakhstan	500 Series	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Adrian Mannarino Fabrice Martin	6–4, 6–2
Loss	22–15	Nov 2022	ATP Finals, Italy	Tour Finals	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Win	23–15	Jan 2023	Auckland Open, New Zealand	250 Series	Hard	Mate Pavić	Nathaniel Lammons Jackson Withrow	6–4, 6–7(5–7), [10–6]
Win	24–15	Jun 2023	Stuttgart Open, Germany	250 Series	Grass	Mate Pavić	Kevin Krawietz Tim Pütz	7–6(7–2), 6–3
Win	25–15	Jun 2023	Eastbourne International, United Kingdom (3)	250 Series	Grass	Mate Pavić	Ivan Dodig Austin Krajicek	6–4, 6–2
Loss	25–16	Nov 2023	Sofia Open, Bulgaria	250 Series	Hard (i)	Julian Cash	Gonzalo Escobar Aleksandr Nedovyesov	3–6, 6–3, [11–13]
Win	26–16	Jan 2024	Auckland Open, New Zealand (2)	250 Series	Hard	Wesley Koolhof	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6–3, 6–7(5–7), [10–7]
Win	27–16	Feb 2024	Rotterdam Open, Netherlands (2)	500 Series	Hard (i)	Wesley Koolhof	Robin Haase Botic van de Zandschulp	6–3, 7–5
Win	28–16	Mar 2024	Indian Wells Masters, United States (2)	Masters 1000	Hard	Wesley Koolhof	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–4)
Loss	28–17	Jun 2024	Rosmalen Championships, Netherlands	250 Series	Grass	Wesley Koolhof	Nathaniel Lammons Jackson Withrow	6–7(5–7), 6–7(3–7)
Win	29–17	Oct 2024	Shanghai Masters, China	Masters 1000	Hard	Wesley Koolhof	Máximo González Andrés Molteni	6–4, 6–4
Loss	29–18	Oct 2024	Swiss Indoors, Switzerland	500 Series	Hard (i)	Wesley Koolhof	Jamie Murray John Peers	3–6, 5–7
Win	30–18	Nov 2024	Paris Masters, France	Masters 1000	Hard (i)	Wesley Koolhof	Lloyd Glasspool Adam Pavlásek	3–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Win	31–18	Jan 2025	Auckland Open, New Zealand (3)	250 Series	Hard	Michael Venus	Christian Harrison Rajeev Ram	Walkover

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	25 May 2008	Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Dennis Blömke	6–2, 6–3
2.	10 May 2009	Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Ivan Bjelica	7–6, 4–6, 6–3
3.	31 May 2009	Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Aleksander Slović	7–6, 7–5
4.	23 August 2009	Vinkovci, Croatia	Clay	Ismar Gorčić	7–6, 7–6
5.	30 August 2009	Čakovec, Croatia	Clay	Attila Balázs	6–3, 7–5
6.	6 September 2009	Osijek, Croatia	Clay	Aldin Šetkić	2–6, 6–4, 6–2
7.	6 June 2010	Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia	Clay	Denys Molchanov	6–3, 4–2 ret.
8.	18 July 2010	Fano, Italy	Clay	Stefano Ianni	6–2, 6–0
9.	27 February 2011	Zagreb, Croatia	Clay	Michael Lammer	7–6, ret.
10.	27 May 2012	Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Marin Bradarić	5–7, 7–5, 6–0
11.	3 June 2012	Bled, Slovenia	Clay	Marcel Zimmermann	1–6, 6–2, 6–4
12.	29 September 2013	Sokobanja, Serbia	Clay	Marc Rath	6–6, 5–2, ret.
13.	13 October 2013	Solin, Croatia	Clay	Mate Delić	7–6, 7–6
14.	2 March 2014	Trento, Italy	Carpet	Roman Jebavý	6–3, 5–7, 6–1
15.	26 October 2014	Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic	Carpet	Jan Hernych	6–4, 6–4

• Nikola Mektić at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Nikola Mektić at the International Tennis Federation
• Nikola Mektić at the Davis Cup