Franko Škugor (; born 20 September 1987) is a Croatian professional
tennis player who mainly competes on the
ATP Challenger Tour and specialized in doubles. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 17 achieved on 22 April 2019. He is best known for his very powerful serve up to 230 km/h (143 mph) along with very strong groundstrokes. Along with doubles partner and fellow Croatian
Nikola Mektić, he reached the doubles semifinals at the
2017 Wimbledon Championships
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and with Brit
Dominic Inglot the semifinals of the
2018 Wimbledon Championships
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. He also won the
2019 Monte-Carlo Masters
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with Mektic.
Škugor is a member of HTK Zagreb, his staff is Alan Marić (coach), Jurica Stančić (fitness coach) and Velibor Viboh (physioterapist).
In November 2019, following the departure of
Željko Krajan, Škugor captained the
Croatia Davis Cup team at the
2019 Davis Cup
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For this edition, the format of the cup was changed. The main modification is the World Group took place ...
.
Performance timeline
Doubles
''Current after the
2022 Australian Open
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Significant finals
Masters 1000 finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
ATP career finals
Doubles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner-ups)
Team competition finals: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 7 (7–0)
Doubles: 38 (14–24)
Singles
References
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1987 births
Living people
Croatian male tennis players
Sportspeople from Šibenik