Blaž Kavčič


Blaž Kavčič is a Slovenian professional tennis player. He turned professional in 2005.
He considers clay his favourite surface. He was the highest ranked Slovenian male player ever, achieving a career-high of World No. 68 in August 2012, until Aljaž Bedene began to play for Slovenia again in January 2018, overtaking him with a career high ranking of 49. He became first Slovenian ATP singles player to: achieve a Top 100 ranking, win a Grand Slam main draw match and perform at the Summer Olympics. He became the second Slovene ATP player earning over 1 million US dollars in prize money and highest ever paid Slovene player in history.

Tennis career

2005–2009

Kavčič turned professional in 2005 playing exclusively on the ATP Futures and ATP Challenger Series circuit for three seasons. In 2006, Kavčič made his Davis Cup debut for Slovenia.
In 2008 he qualified for ATP events – in Zagreb, where he lost to Roko Karanušić. In Pörtschach he defeated Teymuraz Gabashvili in the first round before losing to Igor Kunitsyn. He finished the year ranked No. 260.
In 2009 he didn't play in any of ATP Tour main draws. He played in qualifications of three Grand Slams, but all lost. He also played in Davis Cup.

2010

In 2010 he reached the second round in Houston on clay, but lost to big serving Sam Querrey.
Kavčič played in the 2010 French Open where he won his first grand slam match by defeating Eduardo Schwank. He became the first Slovenian male player to directly qualify for a Grand Slam tournament without having to go through qualifying rounds.
Together with Slovenia Davis Cup Team he won the 2010 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II, ensuring Slovenia to advance to Europe/Africa Zone Group I.

2011

In 2011 at Chennai Open he reached his first career quarterfinal on the ATP Tour. He lost there against Tomáš Berdych from Czech Republic.
In the 2011 Australian Open he reached the second round for the first time in his career. He was the first Slovenian ATP player in 2R of Australia.
As a first Slovenian player on ATP Masters 1000 series he performed at 2011 Sony Ericsson Open in Miami and lost in three sets in the first round against Olivier Rochus.
At Serbia Open he lost his second quarterfinal match in straight sets against Novak Djoković.
At 2011 Swedish Open he lost his third quarterfinal match against Tomáš Berdych.
In the 2011 US Open he played his first tournament where he lost in 1R. He also played his first Grand Slam Men's Doubles and lost in first round.

2012

In the 2012 Australian Open he lost in the second round against Juan Martín del Potro.
In the 2012 French Open he lost in straight sets in the second round against Novak Djokovic.
At 2012 Summer Olympics he reached second round where he lost against David Ferrer. He is the first Slovenian who competed at Men's Singles Tennis competition at Olympic Games.

2013

At the 2013 Australian Open, Kavcic made it to the third round of a grand slam for the first time in his career, defeating the 29th seed Thomaz Bellucci and local wildcard James Duckworth, before losing to 7th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets.
In the 2013 French Open he lost in five sets in the second round against Andreas Seppi.

Singles titles (19)

Legend
Challengers
Futures

No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
1.21 August 2006ČakovecClay Predrag Rusevski6–3, 6–3
2.4 September 2006ZagrebClay Rok Jark6–4, 7–5
3.25 May 2009AlessandriaClay Jesse Levine7–5, 6–3
4.23 June 2009ConstanțaClay Julian Reister3–6, 6–3, 6–4
5.21 August 2010QarshiHard Michael Venus7–6, 7–6
6.5 September 2010RijekaClay Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo6–4, 3–6, 7–6
7.26 September 2010LjubljanaClay David Goffin6–2, 4–6, 7–5
8.12 September 2011Banja LukaClay Pere Riba6–4, 6–1
9.28 April 2012São PauloClay Júlio Silva6–3, 7–5
10.10 June 2012FürthClay Sergiy Stakhovsky6–3, 2–6, 6–2
11.26 August 2013BangkokHard Suk-Young Jeong6–3, 6–1
12.9 June 2014FerganaHard Alexander Kudryavtsev6–4, 7–6
13.16 June 2014TianjinHard Alexander Kudryavtsev6–2, 3–6, 7–5
14.7 July 2014PortorozHard Gilles Muller7–5, 6–7, 6–1
15.21 March 2015ShenzhenHard André Ghem7–5, 6–4
16.4 September 2016BangkokHard Go Soeda6–0, 1–0 ret.
17.16 July 2017WinnipegHard Peter Polansky7–5, 3–6, 7–5
18.24 July 2017GranbyHard Peter Polansky6–3, 2–6, 7–5
19.16 Sep 2018Shanghai ChallengerHard Hiroki Moriya6–1, 7–6

Davis Cup

Singles performances (16–8)

Doubles performances (4–2)

Singles performance timeline