Karlovich, Ivo

Father Ivo - Vlado - meteorologist; mother - Gordana - works in agriculture. Elder sister Anna also previously played tennis.

On March 29, 2005, Karlovich formalized official relations with his girlfriend Alsi.

Carier start

Karlovich first appeared at the main competitions of the ATP tour in 1995 at the age of 16, when he played together with Ivan Lubichich in the doubles tournament in Umag . In April 1996, also at home, he won the first doubles futures . Ivo obtained his debut title on the “futures” in singles in March 2000 in France. In July of that year, he first played for the Croatian national team in the qualifying round of the Davis Cup . In September 2001, through qualifications, Karlovich entered the first single tournament of the main competitions of the association, which was held in Tashkent . The first match at this level, the Croat held against the Swiss Mark Ross and lost with a score of 6-7 (3), 3-6. In December, Karlovich won his debut title at the Challenger series tournaments, beating all his rivals in Erban .

In July 2003, after three rounds of qualification, Karlovich made his way to his first career tournament in the Grand Slam series - Wimbledon . Being at the time of the start of the tournament the 20th world racket, in the first round he sensationally defeated the current champion and the first seeded Australian Lleyton Hewitt with a score of 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-4. Going further than the Australian Paul Bakkanello , in the third round Ivo lost to the Belarusian Maxim Mirny . In August of that year, he won two “challenge” in a row, which took place in Binghamton and the Bronx . At the end of the month, through qualification Karlovich got to the US Open . In the first round, he beat No. 21 of the sowing of Felix Mantilla , and in the second, Moroccan Hisham Arazi . In the third round he was stopped by No. 12 sowing Sheng Schalken . This performance allowed Karlovich to rise for the first time in the Top 100 singles rating. In September, he was able to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament in Shanghai . At the end of the season, he took 73rd place in the ranking.

At the debut Australian Open in 2004, Karlovich defeated Mardi Fish in the first round and lost to another American tennis player Todd Martin in the next round. In April of that year, he won the Challenger in Calabasas . In May at the Masters series tournament in Rome, a Croat who started his career with qualification was able to beat Tommy Haas and Fernando Verdasco in the initial rounds, and in the third round he lost to No. 9 in the world at that time Carlos Moye . At the debut French Open, Ivo already in the first round lost to Carol Kuchera . In 2004, Karlovich once again successfully performed for himself at the Wimbledon tournament. In the first round, he defeated the 14th in the world Paradorn Srichapan - 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, and in the third round of the Spaniard Feliciano Lopez . Having passed in the fourth round, he lost to the first in the ranking tennis player of the world Roger Federer - 3-6, 6-7 (3), 6-7 (5). In August, he attended the Olympics , which was held in Athens . On it, he was able to get into the third round, where he lost to the Spaniard Carlos Moya. At the US Open, Karlovich in five sets lost to Tim Henman at the start of No. 6 in the world. At the end of October, he reached the quarter finals at a tournament in St. Petersburg .

2005-08

At the Australian and French Open Championships in 2005, Karlovich took off already at the start. In June, at the grass tournament in London in the quarter finals, he again defeats Hewitt (7-6 (4), 6-3), and in the semi-finals of the Top 20 representative Thomas Johansson and for the first time reaches the final of the ATP tournament. In the decisive match, he concedes No. 4 in the world to American Andy Roddick - 6-7 (7), 6-7 (4). At the next tournament in Nottingham, Karlovich gets into the quarter finals. In the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in a match against Daniele Bracciali, Ivo made 51 aces . He lost that match, but was able to repeat Joachim Johansson 's record for the number of aces in one match. In August, at the tournament in Washington, he goes to the quarter finals. where inferior to Andy Roddick. At the US Open in the second round, he loses in three tie-breaks to American Andre Agassi . In October, at Masters in Madrid, Karlovic was able to beat three strong tennis players: Greg Ruedaski (No. 38 in the world), Dominic Khrbaty (No. 22) and Andy Roddick (No. 3) and thus reached the quarterfinals. The ninth racket of the world, David Nalbandyan, blocked his way further.

At the Australian Open 2006, Karlovich lost to Nikolai Davydenko in the first round, and in the doubles, speaking together with Jan Gerny , he reached the quarterfinals. In February, at the tournament in Zagreb, he reached the quarter finals. At the end of the month, he won the doubles Memphis tournament trophy in a duet with Chris Haggard . At a tournament in Las Vegas, a Croat gets to the semifinals. In the spring he goes to the quarter finals at tournaments in Barcelona and Munich . Before Roland Garros, he spoke at the unofficial Team World Cup and was able to become his champion in the Croatian team. At the French Open, he dropped out in the second round, and at Wimbledon and the US Open in the first.

Ivo began 2007 with the quarter finals of the Chennai tournament. In the Australian Championship, he lost in the first round to Jürgen Meltzer . At a tennis tournament in San Jose in February, Karlovich reached the final match for the second time in his career, but lost to Briton Andy Murray with a score of 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-7 (2). He won his first ATP single tournament in April in Houston on unpaved ground, defeating Argentinean tennis player Mariano Sabaleto in the final (6-4, 6-1). In the French Open, in the first round, Karlovich was able to knock out James Blake from the fight for title No. 8 of the world ranking, but in the next he himself lost to Jonas Bjorkman in five sets. In June, at the grass tournament in London, he reached the quarter finals, and at Wimbledon at the start he lost to Fabrice Santoro in five sets.

In August 2007, at the tournament in Washington, he reached the semifinals. Karlovich achieved the same result at a tournament in New Haven . The US Open ends for the Croatian tennis player in the first round, where he lost to Arno Clement . In September, he reaches the quarter finals in Bangkok . In October, he reached the semi-finals in Tokyo , and then won the title at the tournament in Stockholm , winning the final against Thomas Johansson - 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. In the semi-finals of that tournament, he won a jubilee hundredth victory in ATP tournaments. In late October, he reached the semifinals of the tournament in Basel , where he lost to world classification leader Roger Federer. For the 2007 season, Karlovich made 1318 aces, which became the second record in history, after Goran Ivanishevich , who filed 1477 aces in 1996. He finished the year in 22nd place in the ranking.

At the Australian Open 2008, Karlovich first entered the stage of the third round. In February, defeating Tomas Berdych , among others No. 12 in the world, he went to the tournament semifinal in Rotterdam . In March, willow rises in the ranking in the Top 20. He flew to Roland Garros in the first round. In preparation for Wimbledon, Karlovich was able to reach the quarter finals in London, where Rafael Nadal , the second in the world, stopped his promotion, and then was able to win the championship title in Nottingham, beating Fernando Verdasco in a decisive match - 7-5, 6-7 (4), 7 -6 (8). At Wimbledon itself, he unexpectedly lost to the second hundred tennis player Simon Stadler . In the summer, at Masters in Cincinnati, Karlovich brought himself to victory over the first racket of the world, won in the third round over Roger Federer (7-6 (6), 4-6, 7-6 (5)). As a result, he was able to advance through the tournament bracket to the semi-finals, first passing this stage at the Masters series tournaments. This result also allowed the Croat to reach a peak in his career - 14th place in the ranking. At the US Open, he goes into the third round, where he loses to Sam Querrey . In October, at Masters in Madrid, Karlovich won Robin Söderling and No. 3 in the world of Novak Djokovic (7-6 (4) 7-6 (5)). Reaching the quarter-finals, he is inferior to the Frenchman Gilles Simon .

2009-12

At the start of the 2009 season, Karlovich entered the quarterfinals of the tournament in Chennai. At the Australian Open, he lost to his compatriot Mario Anchich in the second round. In May, he was able to qualify for the semi-finals at a dirt tournament in Belgrade . On May 24, 2009 in the first round, Roland Garros Karlovich in the match against Lleyton Hewitt gave 55 aces and set an absolute ATP record for the number of aces in 1 match. It is noteworthy that this match Ivo as a result lost in 5 sets. At a tournament in London, the Croatian tennis player reached the quarterfinals. At the Wimbledonsok tournament, he was able to beat Lukasz Lacko , Steve Darcy , Jo-Wilfried Tsong and Fernando Verdasco and reached the quarterfinals, which became Karlovic’s first solo in Grand Slam. From a further tournament he was knocked out in three sets by Roger Federer - 3-6, 5-7, 6-7 (3). In August, he played in the quarter finals of a tournament in Washington. At the US Open, he dropped out in the first round. On September 18, 2009, Karlovic in the Davis Cup semi-final match Croatia - Czech Republic , playing against Radek Stepanek , set a new world record for aces - 78. Despite this, he again lost in five sets with a score of 7-6 (5), 6- 7 (5), 6-7 (6), 7-6 (2), 14-16. Their Match lasted 5 hours 59 minutes. ^[3] . The record lasted less than a year and was broken at Wimbledon 2010 by John Isner and Nicolas May .

Karlovich began his performances in 2010 with the quarter-finals at the tournament in Doha . At the Australian Open, he was able to win Radek Stepanek, Julien Benneto and Ivan Lubichic. In the fourth round, Ivo loses the second racket of the world to Rafael Nadal with a score of 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 4-6. In the doubles of the Australian Championship, he was able to reach the semifinals, speaking together with Dusan Vemic . In February, at tournaments in Zagreb and Memphis, he goes to the quarter finals. At one more in Delray Beach, Karlovich reached the final, where in the fight for the title he lost to Ernest Gulbis (2-6, 3-6). Performances in 2010 ended for Karlovich in May due to a leg injury.

At the first tournament for himself in 2011 in Doha, Karlovich reached the quarter-finals. At the Australian Open, he flies out in the first round. March 5, 2011 in the doubles match of the 1/8 finals of the Davis Cup against the German national team, in which Karlovic lost to Kristofer Kas and Philip Petschner together with Ivan Dodig with a score of 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 4- 6, Ivo completed the serve at a speed of 251 km / h, thereby setting an absolute world record and breaking the record of Andy Roddick , who filed at a speed of 249.4 km / h in the 2004 Davis Cup semifinal. At the Masters tournament in Indian Wells, the Croat was able to beat four rivals, among whom was No. 6 in the world, David Ferrer (7-6 (3), 6-3). Having reached the quarter finals, Karlovich lost to world classification leader Rafael Nadal (7-5, 1-6, 6-7 (7)). In April, at a dirt tournament in Houston, he was able to reach the semifinals. At the French Open in the first round, Karlovic loses to Juan Martin del Potro , and at the Wimbledon tournament in the second round, to Lukasz Kubot . At the US Open, his result is access to the third round. In October, Ivo played in two Challengers in Sacramento and Tiburon and was able to win both.

At the Australian Open 2012, Karlovich goes to the third round, where he is stopped by Roger Federer. In February, at the tournament in Zagreb, he reached the quarter finals. At the French Open, he drops out in the first round, and at Wimbledon in the second, losing to No. 4 in the world to Andy Murray (5-7, 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-7 (4)). The next time he entered the court almost two months later, playing at the US Open, where he loses at the start. In September, Karlovich made it to the quarter finals in Metz , and in October to the semifinals in Moscow .

2013-16

At the Australian Open 2013, Ivo lost in the first round. The first part of the season, he performs unstable, retiring from tournaments in the early stages. For the first time in the quarter finals of the season, he comes out in July at the Newport grass tournament. A week after that, Karlovich was able to win the first ATP title in five years, having outplayed the local tennis player Alejandro Fallu in the final of the tournament in Bogotá - 6-3, 7-6 (4). At the US Open, he had to break through qualifications, which he did with success, and stopped Karlovich in the second round of No. 10 in the world, Stanislas Wavrinka . In the fall, the best result for a Croatian was reaching the semifinals at a tournament in Moscow.

At the start of the Australian Championship in 2014, Karlovich lost to compatriot Ivan Dodig. In February, at the hall hard tournament in Memphis, he was able to reach the final, where he lost to the Japanese Kei Nishikori - 4-6 6-7 (7). At the tournament in Acapulco, Ivo reached the quarter finals. A week before Roland Garros, the Croat managed to reach the final of the tournament in Dusseldorf , where he is inferior to Philip Kolschrayber with a score of 2-6, 6-7 (4). At the French Open, he reaches the third round, and at Wimbledon he drops out in the first. In July, Karlovich twice played in the final of ATP tournaments. First, in Newport, on the grass, he played in the title match against Lleyton Hewitt and lost with a score of 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (3), and then in Bogota on the hard he lost in the final to another representative of Australia, Bernard Tomic - 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (4). At the US Open, he lost to Marcel Granollers in a second round match in a stubborn five-set fight. At the tournament in Vienna in October, Ivo reached the quarter finals, and at the tournament in Basel to the semi-finals. At the end of the season, he took 27th place in the rating.

In January 2015, in the quarter-finals of the tournament in Doha, Karlovich managed to beat the first racket of the world of Novak Djokovic - 6-7 (2), 7-6 (6), 6-4, but in the semifinals he already turned out to be a loser, losing to David Ferrer. At the Australian Open, he is defeated in the second round by Nick Kiryos . In February, Ivo became the champion of the tournament in Delray Beach, winning the decisive match against American Donald Young - 6-3, 6-3. At tournaments in Acapulco and Bucharest, he reached the quarter finals. On the courts, Roland Garros Karlovic dropped out in the first round. In June, on the grass in Hertogenbosch , where in the single player tournament he reached the quarter finals, Ivo was able to win the doubles competition, playing in a tournament in a duet with Lukasz Kubot. At the next grass tournament in Hull, he was able to beat Tomas Berdykh (7-5, 6-7 (8), 6-3) in the 1/4 final match of the world No. 6, and in the semifinal he could not find the key to victory in the match against Roger Federer and lost with a score of 6-7 (3,) 6-7 (4). Among those whom Karlovich was able to win at the Wimbledon tournament was Jo-Wilfried Tsong, seeded at number 13 (7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (9)). Thanks to this victory, he reached the fourth round, where he could not beat No. 3 in the world of Andy Murray (6-7 (7), 4-6, 7-5, 4-6).

In July 2015, Karlovich reached the final of another grass tournament in Newport. In the fight for the title, he lost to Rajiv Ram - 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-7 (2). At the tournament in Bogota, Ivo goes through to the semi-final stage. In the second round match of Masters in Montreal, he was able to beat the Canadian representative in the Top 10 Milos Raonic (7-6 (1), 7-6 (1)), but in the next round he himself loses to Jeremy Chardy from France. At the US Open in the match of the second round Karlovich beat Czech tennis player Jiri Vesely . The best results shown by Karlovich in the autumn stage were the quarter-finals at tournaments in Kuala Lumpur , Vienna and Basel. He finishes 2015 on the 23rd line of the world ranking.

The beginning of the 2016 season was not successful for Karlovich. From January to April, he played in six tournaments, where he lost the opening match each time, and thus his losing streak in official tournaments, starting last season, reached eight games in a row. Ivo was able to finish this unpleasant series at the tournament in Istanbul , where he reached the semifinals. На Открытом чемпионате Франции он проходит до третьего раунда, где его соперником стал Энди Маррей, который и прошёл дальше. В июне на турнире в Хертогенбосе Карлович смог выступить в полуфинале. На Уимблдонском турнире он проиграл во втором раунде словаку Лукашу Лацко . Вторая половина сезона сложилась для Карловича успешно. В середине июля он выиграл турнир в Ньюпорте, победив в финале Жиля Мюллера — 6-7(2), 7-6(5), 7-6(12). после этого он смог выйти в финал хардового турнира в Вашингтоне, где уже уступил Гаэлю Монфису . В августе он берёт ещё один титул на новом в календаре турнире в Кабо-Сан-Лукасе . В решающем поединке он переиграл Фелисиано Лопеса со счётом 7-6(5), 6-2. Удачная серия позволила Карловичу на время вернуть себе место в Топ-20 мирового рейтинга. На Открытом чемпионате США он впервые в своей карьере вышел в четвёртый раунд, но дальше продвинутся не смог, проиграв № 7 в мире Кэю Нисикори. В осенней стадии Карлович смог выйти в 1/4 финала в Токио и Стокгольме, а также в полуфинал в Вене. В конце ноября в составе Сборной Хорватии Иво принял участие в финале Кубка Дэвиса против сборной Аргентины . Иво не смог помочь своей команде и проиграл два своих поединка, а Хорватия в итоге уступила с общим счётом 2-3. По итогам сезона 2016 года впервые в своей карьере финишировал в Топ-20, заняв там последнее 20-е место.

Сезон 2018 года

В 2018 году наконец-то удалось выиграть титул, спустя 2 года. Сделать это удалось на челленджере в Канаде. В финале турнира Иво Карлович обыграл теннисиста из Австралии Джордана Томпсона со счетом 2-0 (7-6 6-3).На Открытом чемпионате Австралии по теннису в одиночном разряде ветеран тенниса Иво Карлович дошёл до третьего раунда где в упорном поединке в пятом сете со счётом 7-9 проиграл Андреасу Сеппи из Италии.

Сезон 2019 года

На первой январской неделе нового сезона, Иво на турнире в Пуне (Индия) сумел дойти до решающего матча. В финале ему противостоял африканец Кевин Андерсон . Матч завершился победой теннисиста из ЮАР в 3-х сетах, каждый из которых закончился тай-брейком. Карлович в возрасте 39 лет 10 месяцев стал самым возрастным участником одиночного финала турниров ATP с 1977 года.

As of September 18, 2017

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