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Ivo Karlovic vs Novak Djokovic Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Ivo Karlovic seasons:20212020201920182017
Novak Djokovic seasons:20262025202420232022
🇭🇷 Ivo Karlovic
🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic
Age: 47y 19d (1979-02-28)
Hand: R
Backhand: 1H
5,370pts
#3
(1987-05-22) Age: 38y 301d
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
2 - 1
Wins: 66.7% - 33.3%
Hard 2–0Clay 0–1Grass 0–0
Masters 1000 11250 10
LWW
WLL

Match Prediction

UnderdogFavorite
9.2%90.8%
+602-981

H2H Preview

🇭🇷Ivo Karlovic and 🇷🇸Novak Djokovic have met 3 times. Ivo Karlovic currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 21.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇭🇷Ivo Karlovic has compiled an overall career record of 371346 across 717 matches, translating to a win rate of 51.74%. On hard courts his record stands at 234217 (51.88%), while on clay he holds a 5576 (41.98%) mark. On grass the numbers read 7544 (63.03%) , and on carpet 79 (43.75%). Throughout his career he has won 8 titles (4 hard, 1 clay, 3 grass). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 2162 (25.30%).

🇷🇸Novak Djokovic, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 1170234 from 1404 matches (83.33% win rate). His hard-court record is 741137 (84.40%), on clay he stands at 29572 (80.38%), and on grass he has gone 12521 (85.62%) , with a carpet record of 94 (69.23%). He has accumulated 101 titles in total (72 hard, 21 clay, 8 grass). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 265121 (68.65%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 2 times, with Ivo Karlovic leading 20 (100.00%). The clay record between them sits at 10 (100.00% for Novak Djokovic) across 1 matches.

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2015-01-05DohaHardQF27🇭🇷Ivo Karlovic (7)1🇷🇸Novak Djokovic (1)6-7(2) 7-6(6) 6-4313621373.7%84.9%50.0%0/0
2008-10-12Madrid MastersHardR1621🇭🇷Ivo Karlovic (14)3🇷🇸Novak Djokovic (3)7-6(4) 7-6(5)310220065.1%88.9%48.3%3/3
2008-05-11Hamburg MastersClayR163🇷🇸Novak Djokovic (3)24🇭🇷Ivo Karlovic7-6(3) 6-33984269.2%72.2%58.3%3/4

Wins

Ivo Karlovic
Novak Djokovic
21Overall
11Masters 1000
10ATP 250
20Hard
01Clay

Sets Format

66.7%2
33.3%1
Bo3
0.0%0
0.0%0
Bo5
50.0%1
50.0%1
2 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Ivo Karlovic
Novak Djokovic

Deciding

100.0%1
0.0%0
Decider Set
66.7%2
33.3%1
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Ivo Karlovic
Novak Djokovic

Sets

57.1%4
42.9%3
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
50.0%2
50.0%2
Masters 1000
80.0%4
20.0%1
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
0.0%0
100.0%2
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Ivo Karlovic
Novak Djokovic

Games

50.0%42
50.0%42
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
47.9%23
52.1%25
Masters 1000
53.2%33
46.8%29
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
40.9%9
59.1%13
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Ivo Karlovic
Novak Djokovic

Overview

By Surface

Ivo Karlovic
Novak Djokovic

By Tournament Level

Ivo Karlovic
Novak Djokovic

By Round

Ivo Karlovic
Novak Djokovic

By Opponent Ranking

Ivo KarlovicNovak Djokovic
22.2%2-7
vs Top 1
42.1%16-22
18.9%7-30
vs Top 5
60.1%128-85
25.3%21-62
vs Top 10
68.7%265-121
35.7%51-92
vs Top 20
72.8%406-152
49.5%269-274
vs Top 100
82.3%1016-218
58.1%100-72
vs +100
91%151-15
41.6%137-192
vs Higher
54.5%73-61
60.1%232-154
vs Lower
86.4%1094-172

Opponent Breakdown

Ivo KarlovicNovak Djokovic
52%316-292
Vs Younger
86.7%530-81
50.5%55-54
Vs Older
80.7%640-153
52.4%325-295
Vs Right-Handed
84.3%1026-191
47.4%46-51
Vs Left-Handed
77%144-43
49.8%243-245
Vs 2H Backhand
84.2%892-167
53.8%99-85
Vs 1H Backhand
79.9%254-64
51.7%370-346
Vs Shorter
82%593-130
Vs Taller
84.4%410-76

Pressure Situations