Talk:Ivo Karlović

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Djokovic's bogus serving speed records
Djokovic supposedly hit both the fastest ever 1st serve and 2nd serve during his Olympic match with Nadal. And the other day I got tricked by the "official" stats. But then I looked at Djokovic's talkpage and learned that it's never been corroborated by a reputable 3rd party. The radar gun was faulty, simple as that. So removed from the article and setting precedent for keeping it removed in the future. --Armchair info guy (talk) 03:33, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, please, enough with jealousy! The radar gun was faulty?! Yeah, sure...

Height
Karlovic is now 6'11" acording to the ATP.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.86.235.249 (talk) 13:21, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Unbreakable
I'm pretty sure he wasn't broken throughout the Bogotá tourney which he duly won. Please check it out — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.60.44.196 (talk) 02:39, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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The pronunciation
Is it [ǐːʋo kâːrloʋitɕ]? LoveVanPersie (talk) 14:18, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, per Help:IPA/Serbo-Croatian. You can fix it yourself next time. Mr KEBAB (talk) 16:09, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Achievements
I think this should be added to the article


 * Records
 * Most career aces
 * Most career aces per match
 * First (and only) to score 50 aces in a match in all GS tournaments
 * First (and only) to score 50 aces in a match in all GS tournaments and DC match
 * First to score 11,000 career aces
 * First to score 12,000 career aces
 * First to score 13,000 career aces
 * First to score 2000 career aces on grass
 * First to score 7000 career aces on hard
 * First to score 8000 career aces on hard
 * most aces in 3 sets match (45) https://www.atptour.com/en/news/kyrgios-brisbane-2019-tuesday-serving
 * most aces in a 13-game set (27)
 * most aces in a AO (75), USO (61), RG (55), DC (78) match
 * most aces in a match on hard (75) and clay courts (78) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.149.51.170 (talk) 18:05, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * most service games held in a row - 129 (2009. from Queen's Club to Wimbledon)
 * most tiebreaks played 700+
 * highest player in history in TOP 200, TOP 100 and TOP 20
 * most career service games won 92%
 * career first serve points won 82.74%
 * career break points saved 71.07%
 * fastest second serve
 * when he played doubles with J.Isner in AO 2009 they were (and still are) the highest pair that ever played together
 * Tallest singles final: 2019 Maharashtra Open against K. Anderson
 * pending
 * First to score 3000 career aces on grass
 * Only one to score 8000 on hard, 2000 on grass and 2000 on clay
 * lost records
 * most tiebreak wins (350+)
 * most aces in 5 sets (78)
 * most aces in 4 sets match (46)
 * most aces in 2 sets match (32)
 * fastest first serve (251 km/h)
 * most aces per match in a year (22.9 in 2015)
 * most aces in a W match (possibly, not sure) 213.149.51.159 (talk) 13:56, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Images for the article
There are two great pictures of him that would be great in the article:

one where he holds the ace card https://www.atptour.com/en/news/karlovic-becomes-new-ace-king-2015

one where he holds 6 tennis balls after 10000 aces https://www.croatiaweek.com/ivo-karlovic-becomes-2nd-player-in-tennis-history-to-serve-10000-aces/ or https://net.hr/sport/velicanstveni-ivo-ispisao-povijest-samo-dva-hrvata-su-to-uspjela-na-planeti/


 * Those images are probably copyright protected. Only free use images can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, which is needed first before the images can be used in Wikipedia articles. Gap9551 (talk) 10:42, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Should Karlovic's Statistics be split into a career statistics page
The Wikipedia length guide for splitting an article at >60 kb probably should be divided and is getting close to the >100kb almost definitely. I feel like the statistics need to have their own page. Hiyouboots (talk) 15:27, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

WP:SIZERULE Hiyouboots (talk) 04:28, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Retirement
2021 Indian Wells was the last tournament of Karlovic, he is retired in 2022.