Franko Škugor


Franko Škugor is a Croatian professional tennis player who mainly has played on the ATP Challenger Tour, and also specialized in doubles. He is best known for very powerful serve up to 230 km/h along with very strong groundstrokes. Along with doubles partner Croatian professional tennis player Nikola Mektić he reached the doubles semi-finals at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships.
In November 2019, following the departure of Željko Krajan, he captained the Croatia Davis Cup team at the 2019 Davis Cup.

Significant finals

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ATP career finals

Doubles: 8 (5 titles, 3 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–12014 ATP Vegeta Croatia Open Umag – Doubles|Croatia Open,
Croatia
250 SeriesClay Dušan Lajović František Čermák
Lukáš Rosol
4–6, 6–7
Loss0–22017 Swiss Open Gstaad – Doubles|Swiss Open,
Switzerland
250 SeriesClay Jonathan Eysseric Oliver Marach
Philipp Oswald
3–6, 6–4,
Win1–22018 Gazprom Hungarian Open – Doubles|Hungarian Open,
Hungary
250 SeriesClay Dominic Inglot Matwé Middelkoop
Andrés Molteni
6–7, 6–1,
Win2–22018 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships – Men's Doubles|Rosmalen Championships,
Netherlands
250 SeriesGrass Dominic Inglot Raven Klaasen
Michael Venus
7–6, 7–5
Win3–22018 Swiss Indoors – Doubles|Swiss Indoors,
Switzerland
500 SeriesHard Dominic Inglot Alexander Zverev
Mischa Zverev
6–2, 7–5
Win4–22019 Grand Prix Hassan II – Doubles|Grand Prix Hassan II,
Morocco
250 SeriesClay Jürgen Melzer Matwé Middelkoop
Frederik Nielsen
6–4, 7–6
Win5–22019 Monte-Carlo Masters – Doubles|Monte-Carlo Masters,
Monaco
Masters 1000Clay Nikola Mektić Robin Haase
Wesley Koolhof
6–7, 7–6,
Loss5–32019 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships – Doubles|Japan Open,
Japan
500 SeriesHard Nikola Mektić Nicolas Mahut
Édouard Roger-Vasselin
6–7, 4–6

Team competition finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnersOpponentsScore
Runner-up1.25–27 November 2016Davis Cup,
Zagreb, Croatia
Hard Marin Čilić
Ivo Karlović
Ivan Dodig
Juan Martín del Potro
Federico Delbonis
Leonardo Mayer
Guido Pella
2–3

ATP Challenger Tour titles

Singles: 2

No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
1.8 August 2010Beijing, ChinaHard Laurent Recouderc4–6, 6–4, 6–3
2.3 May 2015Anning, ChinaClay Gavin van Peperzeel7–5, 6–2

Doubles: 10

No.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
1.27 January 2013Bucaramanga, ColombiaClay Marcelo Demoliner Sergio Galdós
Marco Trungelliti
7–6, 6–2
2.9 June 2013Arad, Romania Clay Antonio Veić Facundo Bagnis
Julio César Campozano
7–6, 4–6,
3.18 August 2013Cordenons, ItalyClay Marin Draganja Norbert Gombos
Roman Jebavý
6–4, 6–4
4.8 June 2014Arad, Romania Clay Antonio Veić Radu Albot
Artem Sitak
6–4, 7–6
5.29 June 2014Marburg, GermanyClay Jaroslav Pospíšil Diego Schwartzman
Horacio Zeballos
6–4, 6–4
6.14 August 2016Gatineau, CanadaHard Tristan Lamasine Jarryd Chaplin
John-Patrick Smith
6–3, 6–1
7.2 October 2016Orleans, FranceHard Nikola Mektić Ariel Behar
Andrei Vasilevski
6–2, 7–5
8.9 April 2017Sophia Antipolis, FranceClay Tristan Lamasine Uladzimir Ignatik
Jozef Kovalík
6–2, 6–2
9.23 April 2017Taipei, TaiwanCarpet Marco Chiudinelli Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
4–6, 6–2,
10.7 May 2017Ostrava, Czech RepublicClay Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Rameez Junaid
Lukáš Rosol
6–3, 6–2

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles performance timeline

Current through the 2019 US Open.