Ivan Dodig (born 2 January 1985 in Međugorje, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian tennis player. His career-high rank ATP singles ranking is No. 32 and his best doubles rank is No. 129.

At the 2010 Australian Open he qualified for the main tournament, and beat former World No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero in the first round 2–6, 1–6, 6–4, 6–1, 6–1. However, he bowed out to Stefan Koubek 6–7, 1–6, 2–6 in the second round.

Dodig then had a pretty average year, playing many Challenger tournaments throughout the year. He failed to qualify for 2010 French Open, but he had notably reached the second round at 2010 Wimbledon Championships beating Óscar Hernández 6–1, 6–3, 6–3 before stretching Sam Querrey to four tough sets 2–6, 7–5, 3–6, 6–7. He also reached the second round at the 2010 US Open after beating Fernando Gonzalez 6–7, 6–1, 1–0 who retired with a knee injury, but before Dodig retired himself with an injury, trailing 7–6, 2–6, 3–6, 2–3 against Thiemo de Bakker.

At the 2011 Australian Open, Dodig played Ivo Karlović in the 1st round and prevailed in a tough five set match 6–4, 3–6, 6–7, 6–4, 6–4. He was then drawn to play 3rd seed and eventual champion Novak Đoković in the second round. He played extremely well, and although he lost in four sets 5–7, 7–6, 0–6, 2–6 he was the only player to win a set against Djokovic in the whole tournament.

Novak Djokovic (Serbian: Новак Ђоковић or Novak Đoković; pronounced [nɔ̂ʋaːk dʑɔ̂ːkɔʋitɕ] ( listen); born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) since 4 July 2011. He has won five Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008, 2011 and 2012 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open. By winning three Majors in 2011, Djokovic became the sixth male player in the open era to win three Majors in a calendar year.

He is the first male player representing Serbia to win a Major singles title and the youngest player in the open era to have reached the semifinals of all four Grand Slam events, separately and consecutively. Amongst other titles, he won the Tennis Masters Cup in 2008 and was on the team which won the 2010 Davis Cup. He also won the bronze medal in singles at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He has won 11 Masters 1000 series titles placing him joint fourth on the all time list. Djokovic has quickly moved up in the rankings of history. Tennis Channel ranked him number 40 , and former player Pat Cash said he is one of the greatest ever.