2. • Most successful Croatian tennis
player, currently in retirement
• He was second best player in
the world
• He is left-handed, and his
special style of play is based on
serving

3. • He was born in
Split, September
13th, 1971
• He started
playing tennis at
the instigation of
his father Srđan

4. • In 1988 Goran won
his first tournament
title in doubles with
Rudiger Haas
• His early success
was defeating
famous Boris Becker,
and getting to the
quarter-finals of
Grand Slam
tournament Roland
Garros

5. • At the 1992 Olympic
Games held in Barcelona,
Goran won two bronze
medals, one in singles
and one in doubles with
Goran Prpić
• He was the first player to
carry the flag of
Independent State of
Croatia at the Olympic
Games

6. • His first Wimbledon
finale was in 1992,
and he lost against
Andre Agassi
• After that, he
managed to qualify to
the Wimbledon finals
twice and lost both
times against Pete
Sampras

8. • In 2001, after a long pause in
tennis, Goran who was at the
time 125th player in the world,
got invited to the Wimbledon
tournament, and qualified to
the finals despite the
expectations
• In a very even finale,
Ivanišević defeated Patrick
Rafter with score of 3:2 in sets,
becoming the first invited
player to win this tournament

9. • He had his final attempt
at winning Wimbledon
in 2004, but he dropped
out in the third round
• His last involvement in
playing tennis was with
the Croatian Davis Cup
team where they won
first place

10. • Ivanišević was a Wimbledon winner with the lowest ATP
score ranking (ranking at 125th place)
• He is the world record holder for most service aces in a
single season (1477 aces in one season)
• He was known for his often unconventional behavior,
entertaining press conferences and numerous activities
outside of tennis
• Goran started playing tennis at the age of 17, which is
very late for a successful career which he of course had