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Jürgen Zopp

Zopp at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Estonia
Residence	Tallinn, Estonia
Born	(1988-03-29) 29 March 1988 (age 36) Tallinn, Estonia
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro	2008
Retired	2020 (2023 last match)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,120,622
Singles
Career record	27–39
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 71 (10 September 2012)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2012)
French Open	3R (2018)
Wimbledon	1R (2012, 2013, 2014)
US Open	2R (2012)
Doubles
Career record	7–4
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 218 (11 July 2016)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	Q1 (2012)
US Open	1R (2012)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	45–19
Last updated on: 16 February 2023.

Jürgen Zopp (born 29 March 1988) is an Estonian retired tennis player. He is Estonia's all-time highest ranked male tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of World No. 71 in 2012.

Career

Zopp started playing tennis at the age of 6 and grew up idolizing Pete Sampras, Marat Safin, and Roger Federer. Zopp had a somewhat successful junior career, reaching the second round of the Australian and US Open Boys' tournaments in 2006. In 2008, he would officially turn pro.

Zopp made a breakthrough on the ATP tour in 2012, qualifying for the main draws of the Australian Open, Roland-Garros and Wimbledon boosting his ranking to the point where he didn't have to go through qualifying by the time the US Open came around. and achieving his first main draw ATP tournament win at the 2012 Bucharest Open establishing himself as a top-100 player in the ATP rankings at world No. 71.

2013–2014 would see a huge dip in form and rankings as his ranking plummeted all the way down to the 300s in 2014. Early 2017 would be the lowest of his career as his ranking dropped to 500 on June 12, 2017. Late 2017 would see a steady increase of form and rankings grabbing a handful of challenger and ITF finals. However still struggling to even qualify for an ATP event.

In qualifying for the 2018 French Open he defeated Thanasi Kokkinakis. Although he lost in the final round of qualifying to Denis Kudla it was enough for him to make the main draw as a lucky loser. In the first round he defeated American seed Jack Sock for his sixth tour level win on clay. He then defeated fellow lucky loser Ruben Bemelmans despite losing the first two sets, therefore reaching a career-best third round at Grand Slam events. He was the first Estonian player to reach the third round of a Grand Slam. His run ended in the third round following a defeat to Maximilian Marterer.

At the 2018 Swiss Open Gstaad, he defeated the 1st seed Fabio Fognini and made it all the way to the semifinals before losing to Matteo Berrettini. 2018 is considered by some to be the best year of his career as he returned to the top 100 for the first time since 2012 and started consistently qualifying for ATP events again.

2019 would see a dip in form and rankings again. He failed to make an ATP event or a challenger final the entire year and his ranking dropped back down to the 400s again by the end of the year.

On December 18, 2020, Zopp announced his retirement from professional tennis.

Between 2022 and 2023 Zopp appeared in 3 Davis Cup matches (1 singles and 2 doubles), winning them all.

Grand Slam performance timeline

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 24 (18–6)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2008	Finland F1, Vierumäki	Futures	Clay	Timo Nieminen	6–4, 6–2
Win	2–0	Mar 2009	Switzerland F2, Greifensee	Futures	Carpet	Philipp Oswald	6–3, 6–7, 6–3
Win	3–0	Jul 2009	Estonia F1, Tallinn	Futures	Clay	Jaak Poldma	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Win	4–0	Apr 2010	Turkey F7, Adana	Futures	Clay	Augustin Gensse	6–2, 4–6, 6–4
Win	5–0	Apr 2010	Turkey F8, Tarsus	Futures	Clay	Alexandre Folie	6–3, 6–1
Win	6–0	May 2010	Czech Republic F1, Teplice	Futures	Clay	Alexander Flock	4–6, 6–2, 7–5
Win	7–0	Jul 2010	Estonia F2, Tallinn	Futures	Clay	Timo Nieminen	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Win	8–0	Oct 2010	Great Britain F17, Cardiff	Futures	Hard	Dan Evans	6–4, 7–5
Win	9–0	Jul 2011	Estonia F1, Tallinn	Futures	Clay	Hans Podlipnik Castillo	6–3, 6–3
Loss	9–1	Sep 2011	Ningbo, China	Challenger	Hard	Yen-Hsun Lu	2–6, 6–3, 1–6
Loss	9–2	Sep 2011	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Denis Istomin	4–6, 3–6
Win	10–2	Feb 2012	Kazan, Russia	Challenger	Hard	Marius Copil	7–6, 7–6
Win	11–2	Sep 2014	Sweden F4, Danderyd	Futures	Hard	Peter Kobelt	7–6, 6–4
Loss	11–3	Oct 2014	Sweden F6, Jönköping	Futures	Hard	Edward Corrie	6–3, 3–6, 3–6
Win	12–3	Nov 2014	Estonia F4, Tallinn	Futures	Hard	Evgeny Elistratov	6–1, 6–4
Win	13–3	Nov 2014	Helsinki, Finland	Challenger	Hard	Dudi Sela	6–4, 5–7, 7–6
Loss	13–4	Oct 2015	Ningbo, China	Challenger	Hard	Yen-Hsun Lu	6–7, 1–6
Win	14–4	Jul 2017	Germany F8, Kassel	Futures	Clay	Jan Choinski	6–3, 6–2
Win	15–4	Jul 2017	Estonia F1, Pärnu	Futures	Clay	George Von Massow	6–1, 6–3
Loss	15–5	Aug 2017	Finland F2, Hyvinkaa	Futures	Clay	Julien Cagnina	6–0, 5–7, 0–6
Win	16–5	Aug 2017	Finland F3, Helsinki	Futures	Clay	Filippo Baldi	6–4, 6–0
Win	17–5	Sep 2017	Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands	Challenger	Clay	Tommy Robredo	6–3, 6–2
Loss	17–6	Oct 2017	Sweden F4, Falun	Futures	Hard	Tallon Griekspoor	4–6, 1–6
Win	18–6	Jul 2019	M15 Pärnu, Estonia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Bogdan Bobrov	6–4, 6–3

Doubles: 13 (4–9)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2007	Latvia F1, Jūrmala	Futures	Clay	Mait Künnap	Dušan Karol Mikhail Vasiliev	3–6, 6–7
Loss	0–2	Mar 2008	Italy F6, Monterotondo	Futures	Clay	Mikhail Vasiliev	L Magdinchev P Rusevski	6–3, 4–6,
Win	1–2	Jun 2008	Poland F4, Koszalin	Futures	Clay	Artur Romanowski	Marek Mrozek Mateusz Szmigiel	7–5, 6–3
Loss	1–3	Feb 2009	Israel F2, Eilat	Futures	Hard	Tim Van Terheijden	Harel Levy Noam Okun	3–6, 0–6
Loss	1–4	Apr 2009	Turkey F6, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Mait Künnap	Martin Emmrich Juho Paukku	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–4	Jul 2009	Estonia F1, Tallinn	Futures	Clay	Mait Künnap	Mikk Irdoja Jaak Poldma	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–5	Mar 2010	Switzerland F2, Wetzikon	Futures	Carpet	Walter Trusendi	Kevin Krawietz Marcel Zimmermann	2–6, 6–3,
Loss	2–6	May 2010	Czech Republic F1, Teplice	Futures	Clay	Ricardo Urzua-Rivera	Jan Mertl Grzegorz Panfil	3–6, 4–6
Loss	2–7	Sep 2011	Ningbo, China	Challenger	Hard	Jan Hernych	Karan Rastogi Divij Sharan	6–3, 6–7,
Win	3–7	May 2012	Tunis, Tunisia	Challenger	Clay	Jerzy Janowicz	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	7–6, 6–3
Loss	3–8	Aug 2013	Kazan, Russia	Challenger	Hard	Ivo Klec	Victor Baluda K Kravchuk	3–6, 4–6
Win	4–8	Sep 2015	Nanchang, China	Challenger	Hard	Jonathan Eysseric	Lee Hsin-han Amir Weintraub	6–4, 6–2
Loss	4–9	Jul 2019	M15 Pärnu, Estonia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Kenneth Raisma	Vladimir Ivanov Maxim Ratniuk	6–3, 4–6,

References

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2. Jürine, Jaan (15 December 2008). "Jürgen Zopp: kas peaksin olema suurem maksimalist?". Eesti Päevaleht (in Estonian). Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
3. Fjeldstad, Jesper (23 May 2018). "Underdone Kokkinakis switches focus to Wimbledon". News.com.au. news.com.au.
4. "Kahju! Jürgen Zopp Prantsusmaa lahtistel põhiturniirile murda ei suutnud". Delfi Sport.
5. "Why The Surge In Lucky Losers At The French Open Is A Good Thing – UBITENNIS". ubitennis.net. 27 May 2018.
6. "Twitter". mobile.twitter.com.
7. "Lucky loser Zopp battles into third round in Paris".
8. "Nadal wary of 'dangerous' Marterer – AOL". www.aol.co.uk.
9. "Estonia's all-time best tennis player Jürgen Zopp retires". news.err.ee. 18 December 2020.
10. "Jürgen Zopp – Davis Cup – Players". daviscup.com. Retrieved 16 February 2023.

External links

• Jürgen Zopp at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Jürgen Zopp at the International Tennis Federation
• Jürgen Zopp at the Davis Cup

• 1988 births
• Living people
• Tennis players from Tallinn
• Estonian male tennis players
• 21st-century Estonian sportsmen