Nikola Ćaćić ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Ћаћић, ; born 7 December 1990) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of World No. 35 in doubles achieved on 8 November 2021. He has won three doubles titles in the ATP Tour, four doubles titles in the ATP Challenger Tour, as well as five singles and 32 doubles titles in ITF Futures tournaments.

Tennis career

2010–2014: Top 300 in singles

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), where he lost in the opening rounds. In the summer of 2014, after a series of successful appearances in Challenger tournaments played on a clay surface, and thanks to his first victory in three years in a Futures event, Ćaćić moved into the top 300 and achieved his career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 281.

2015

Ćaćić did not participate in any tournament during the 2015 season due to injury, which caused a drop from both world singles and doubles rankings.

2016

He recorded his first win on ATP World Tour level in the first round of

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, where he defeated Aljaž Bedene in three sets, ranked 69th at the time.

2019: First doubles title and Top 100 debut, Serbian No. 1 in doubles

In the summer of 2019, he won his first ATP Challenger title at the Shkymkent Challenger with Yang Tsung-hua. Later that year he won his first ATP tour level doubles title, alongside his compatriot

at the

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, edging out the No. 4 seeds, Jonathan Erlich and Fabrice Martin, 7–6^(11–9), 3–6, 0–3 As a result, he reached the top 100 on 30 September 2019.

2020: Inaugural ATP Cup champion, Second doubles title

In January, he was part of Serbian team that won inaugural

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by defeating Spain in the final. In February, he won his second ATP Tour title in Lyon, partnering Mate Pavić.

2021: Third doubles title, French Open quarterfinal, Three more finals, top 35 debut in doubles

He partnered with Tomislav Brkić and won the doubles title at the ATP Buenos Aires, which was only their second tournament as a team. After that they reached the finals of Andalucía Open and semifinals at Serbia Open. Following these great result he entered the top 50 in doubles at a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 48, on 26 April 2021. The pair also reached the quarterfinals of the

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for their best showing in their careers defeating fourth seeds M. Granollers/H. Zeballos and M. González/S. Bolelli en route. On 8 November 2021, Cacic reached a career high of World No. 35 in doubles.

Performance timelines

Doubles

Mixed Doubles

ATP career finals

Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Team competition finals: 1 (1–0)

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Doubles: 57 (37 titles, 21 runner-ups)

Notes

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