Matea Mezak
Appearance
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Country (sports) | ![]() |
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Residence | Zagreb, Croatia |
Born | Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia | 5 March 1985
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Turned pro | 2002 |
Retired | Active |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | US$68,820 |
Singles | |
Career record | 171–108 |
Career titles | 1 ITF |
Highest ranking | 208 (4 July 2005) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 86–61 |
Career titles | 6 ITF |
Highest ranking | 135 (2 October 2006) |
Last updated on: 3 September 2010. |
Matea Mezak (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [mězak];[1] born 5 March 1985) is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has been on the ITF circuit since 2004, with six doubles titles and five singles wins. Mezak, along with Svetlana Kuznetsova, reached 2002 Australian Open junior doubles competition and lost to Indonesian Angelique Widjaja and Argentine Gisela Dulko.
Mezak was on the Croatia Fed Cup team in 2005 and 2006. Her preferred surface is hard, and her coach is Ivan Humić.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles finals 12 (6–6)
$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Outcome | No. | Date | Location | Surface | Opponent in final | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 2 February 2003 | Tipton, United Kingdom | Hard | ![]() |
4–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 2. | 6 April 2003 | Makarska, Croatia | Clay | ![]() |
6–7(5), 5–7 |
Runner-up | 3. | 18 May 2003 | Casale, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
1–6, 6–1, 2–6 |
Winner | 4. | 16 May 2004 | Casale, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
2–0 RET |
Runner-up | 5. | 23 May 2004 | Zadar, Croatia | Clay | ![]() |
5–7, 7–5, 4–6 |
Winner | 6. | 19 October 2008 | Casale, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
7–5, 2–6, 6–1 |
Runner-up | 7. | 26 October 2008 | Dubrovnik, Croatia | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 0–6, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 8. | 30 August 2009 | Braunschweig, Germany | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 3–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 9. | 20 September 2009 | Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 6–2, 6–4 |
Winner | 10. | 25 October 2009 | Dubrovnik, Croatia | Clay | ![]() |
0–6, 7–5, 7–6(4) |
Runner-up | 11. | 8 November 2009 | Sunderland, United Kingdom | Hard | ![]() |
6–7(2), 4–6 |
Winner | 12. | 15 November 2009 | Jersey, United Kingdom | Hard | ![]() |
6–2, 6–3 |
Doubles finals 14 (6–8)
$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Outcome | No. | Date | Location | Surface | Partnering | Opponent in final | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 24 November 2002 | Zagreb, Croatia | Hard | ![]() |
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2–6, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 2. | 27 July 2003 | Ancona, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 3. | 18 July 2004 | Monteroni, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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5–7, 6–4, 6–7(5) |
Winner | 4. | 16 October 2005 | Joué-lès-Tours, France | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–4 |
Winner | 5. | February 2006 | Jersey, United Kingdom | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–1 |
Winner | 6. | 1 April 2006 | Poza Rica, Mexico | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 1–0 RET |
Winner | 7. | 15 April 2006 | San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 8. | 7 May 2006 | Antalya, Turkey | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 4–6, 0–6 |
Runner-up | 9. | 26 May 2006 | La Palma, Spain | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 3–6, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 10. | 28 July 2006 | Monteroni d'Arbia, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 2–4 0–6 |
Winner | 11. | 21 July 2006 | Rome, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–3 |
Winner | 12. | 16 September 2006 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 13. | 18 February 2013 | Kreuzlingen, Switzerland | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
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3–6, 2–6 |
Runner-up | 14. | 12 May 2013 | Athens, Greece | Hard | ![]() |
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7–5, 3–6 8–10 |
References
External links
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- Use dmy dates from August 2013
- Croatian female tennis players
- Sportspeople from Zagreb
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Croatia
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Croatia
- Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- European tennis biography stubs
- Croatian sportspeople stubs