The 21st century
Croatia · born Split, 1993 · former doubles world No. 1 · Wimbledon doubles champion 2021 and mixed champion 2023
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Senior Wimbledon finals, 2017 to 2026, two of them won
3
Eastbourne doubles titles in a row with Nikola Mektić, 2021 to 2023
17-15
Fifth set of his 2017 Wimbledon semi-final, the longest men's doubles semi-final there
2011
Wimbledon boys' doubles champion with George Morgan
7
Major titles: four in men's doubles, three in mixed
Mate Pavić was born in Split on 4 July 1993, the son of a tennis coach, Jakov, and started playing at five; his sister Nadja became his coach. He won the Wimbledon boys' doubles in 2011 with George Morgan, reached No. 295 in singles in 2013 and then turned to doubles, winning his first tour title with Michael Venus in 2015.
He has won majors with four different partners: the 2018 Australian Open with Oliver Marach, the 2020 US Open with Bruno Soares, Wimbledon 2021 with Nikola Mektić and Roland Garros 2024 with Marcelo Arévalo, which completed a career Golden Slam after his Olympic gold with Mektić in Tokyo in 2021. He also won the mixed doubles at the 2016 US Open, the 2018 Australian Open and Wimbledon 2023. In May 2018 he became the first Croatian, man or woman, to be ranked world No. 1 in singles or doubles.
Grass has been his best surface by results and, by his own account, his favourite. Before 2021 he had one grass title, 's-Hertogenbosch in 2016 with Venus. With Mektić he then won Eastbourne three years running and Queen's in 2022, and with Arévalo he won Queen's in 2026 and reached the Wimbledon final the following month.
| Wimbledon men's doubles finals | 2017 with Marach: lost to Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, 13-11 in 4 hours 41 minutes. 2021 with Mektić: beat Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 2-6, 7-5. 2022 with Mektić: lost to Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (3-7), 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10-2). 2026 with Arévalo: lost to Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) |
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| Wimbledon 2017 semi-final | With Marach, beat Mektić and Franko Škugor 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4), 3-6, 17-15 in 4 hours 35 minutes, the longest men's doubles semi-final at Wimbledon and the most games in a set at that stage |
| Wimbledon mixed 2023 | With Lyudmyla Kichenok, saved a match point against Mektić and Bernarda Pera in the second round, winning 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (11-9), then beat Joran Vliegen and Xu Yifan 6-4, 6-7 (7-9), 6-3 in the final |
| Queen's Club 2026 | With Arévalo, beat the top seeds Heliövaara and Patten 6-2, 6-4 in the final |
| Juniors | Wimbledon boys' doubles 2011 with George Morgan: beat Oliver Golding and Jiří Veselý 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the final |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Men's doubles | with Nikola Mektić |
| 2023 | Mixed doubles | with Lyudmyla Kichenok |
| Eastbourne | ||
| 2021 | Men's doubles | with Nikola Mektić |
| 2022 | Men's doubles | with Nikola Mektić |
| 2023 | Men's doubles | with Nikola Mektić |
| Queen's Club | ||
| 2022 | Men's doubles | with Nikola Mektić |
| 2026 | Men's doubles | with Marcelo Arévalo |
| Stuttgart | ||
| 2022 | Men's doubles | with Hubert Hurkacz |
| 2023 | Men's doubles | with Nikola Mektić |
| 's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen) | ||
| 2016 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Michael Venus |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"This is something special, this is by far the best tournament in the world. Especially for me and I think for Nikola also, we all grew up with Goran."
The person behind the player.
Split
He started playing at five after watching his father, Jakov, a tennis coach, work with his sister Nadja. Nadja later became his coach, and the ITF's notes for the 2021 Wimbledon final listed her as such.
Source: ATP Tour and ITFFavourites
His ATP biography names grass as his favourite surface, Wimbledon as his favourite tournament and the backhand volley as his favourite shot. He supports Juventus and says that without tennis he would have been a footballer.
Source: ATP TourWimbledon 2017
With Oliver Marach he won a semi-final of 4 hours 35 minutes against Mektić and Škugor, decided 17-15 in the fifth set, then lost a final of 4 hours 41 minutes to Kubot and Melo, 13-11 in the fifth. The beaten semi-finalist, Mektić, became his partner four years later.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025Wimbledon 2021
The top seeds Mektić and Pavić won the final on Centre Court under the roof, finishing close to 10.20pm, at the second match point. It was their eighth title in their first season together.
Source: AP via Tennis.comWimbledon 2023
His mixed doubles title with Lyudmyla Kichenok made her the first Ukrainian to win a Wimbledon title. Earlier in the event they had saved a match point against his former partner Mektić.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025Free membership: player news, the grass court Atlas, the rankings and the grass season calendar.
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