Viktor Galović (; born 19 September 1990) is a former
Croatia
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n
tennis
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player. Galović has a career high
ATP singles ranking of 173, achieved on 14 May 2018. Galović had previously represented Italy where he was raised but in 2014 switched back to his home country of Croatia.
Career
Galović made his ATP main draw singles debut at the
2014 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel where he qualified for the main draw, defeating
Philipp Davydenko
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Tennis career
Davydenko has a career high ATP singles ranking of 390 achieved on 8 December 2014.
Davydenko made his ATP main draw debut at the ...
,
Lukáš Dlouhý
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Career
Dlouhý has been part of two long-term doubles p ...
and
Antonio Veić
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Tennis career
2009
Veić received a wild card for Zagreb Indoors and caus ...
en route. In the main draw he lost to
Albert Ramos Viñolas
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Career
Juniors
R ...
in three sets in the first round.
Galović had his grass debut in Stuttgart where he lost in the second round of qualifications to
Denis Kudla. But he was lucky and he received an entry as a lucky loser. In the first round of the ATP tournament in Stuttgart he lost to
Maximilian Marterer
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Professional career
2015-2017: ATP and to ...
6:3,4:6,1:6.
Galović retired in July 2021 due to continuous back and hip injuries.
Davis Cup
Galović had three team nominations for Croatia in the
Davis Cup
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, playing two matches.
His debut was on 17 September 2017 in Bogotá, Colombia in the
2017 Davis Cup World Group play-offs
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. He defeated
Alejandro González in a best of three sets, dead rubber (6–4, 2–6, 6–2).
His second match was played in Osijek, Croatia in the First Round of
2018 Davis Cup World Group against
Canada
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. He played against
Denis Shapovalov
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on 2 February 2018 and lost 4–6, 4–6, 2–6.
Galović was on the list of the Croatian players in the quarter-final of 2018 Davis Cup against Kazakhstan but was unused by captain
Željko Krajan
Željko Krajan (;; born 3 February 1979) is a Croatian tennis coach and former professional player.
Playing career
Krajan, a native of Varaždin, began playing tennis at age six.. Retrieved on June 9, 2008 His greatest success as a junior player ...
.
Statistics
Performance timeline
Singles
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 11 (4–7)
Doubles: 8 (4–4)
References
External links
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1990 births
Living people
Croatian male tennis players
Sportspeople from Nova Gradiška
Italian male tennis players
Naturalised citizens of Italy
Naturalised tennis players
Italian people of Croatian descent
21st-century Italian sportsmen