Iva Jovic

Iva Jovic (born December 6, 2007) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 14 achieved on August 24, 2026, and a best doubles ranking of No. 64 reached on August 24, 2026. She has won one WTA Tour title, at the 2025 Guadalajara Open.

Jovic reached a best combined junior ranking of No. 2 on September 9, 2024. She won two junior major titles in girls' doubles, at the 2024 Australian Open and at Wimbledon.

Early life Iva Jovic was born in Torrance, California to Serbian immigrant parents: father Bojan, from Leskovac, and mother Jelena, born in Split. She has an older sister, Mia, who plays tennis at UCLA. She resides in Los Angeles. Jovic began playing tennis at the age of five.

Career

Junior years Jovic won the U14 singles event at the Orange Bowl in December 2021.

She was runner-up at the inaugural International Junior Championships held at the site of the Indian Wells Open in March 2023, being defeated by Clervie Ngounoue in the final.

Alongside Tyra Caterina Grant she won the doubles at the Orange Bowl in Plantation, Florida in 2022 and again in 2023 when they defeated top-seeded Czech paring of Alena Kovačková and Laura Samsonova. Grant, Jovic and Alanis Hamilton played as part of the victorious American team at the 2023 Junior Billie Jean Cup, winning the tournament without dropping a set. In her singles matches, Jovic only lost 26 games in total during her 12 sets played.

With Grant she won the final of the girls' doubles draw at the 2024 Australian Open. The pair did not drop a set in the tournament. The pair also reached the final of the girls' doubles at the 2024 French Open. Jovic and Grant won the girls' doubles title at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. She reached the semi finals of the girls' singles at the 2024 US Open.

2022–2023: Professional debut, first ITF Circuit title In June 2022, Jovic made her professional debut as a wildcard at the 15k SoCal Pro Circuit Jack Kramer Club event in Los Angeles, where she reached the final. In October 2023, she won her first title at the 25k Ascension Project Women's Open in Redding.

2024: Major debut and first win She made her debut at the US Open, after receiving a wildcard for the main-draw in singles and doubles, after a victory in the USTA Girls 18s National Championships, making her the youngest participant at the tournament. Jovic recorded her first major and WTA Tour win over Magda Linette, becoming the youngest American to win a women's main-draw match at the US Open since 2000. She lost in the second round to 29th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in three sets.

2025: WTA Tour title, top 50 Jovic entered the main draw at the Australian Open for the first time after winning the USTA's Wild Card Challenge, and defeated Nuria Párrizas Díaz in the first round. She lost her next match to sixth seed Elena Rybakina.

At Indian Wells, Jovic reached the second round on her WTA 1000 debut as a wildcard entrant, defeating Julia Grabher in three sets, recording her first WTA 1000-level win. In the second round, she lost to sixth seed Jasmine Paolini, in three sets.

Jovic gained a wildcard entry into the French Open by winning the USTA's Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge. She defeated Renata Zarazúa in the first round, before losing to 12th seed Elena Rybakina for the second successive major.

In June, she won her first WTA 125 title at the Ilkley Open, defeating Rebecca Marino in the final. Following this success, Jovic achieved another milestone by making her top 100 debut on June 16, 2025. Later that month she qualified to make her main-draw debut at Wimbledon, where she lost to Suzan Lamens in the first round.

In August, Jovic entered the main draw at the Cincinnati Open and defeated fellow lucky loser Solana Sierra and 20th seed Linda Nosková to reach the third round at a WTA Tour event for the first time in her career. Her run was ended by Barbora Krejčíková. Later that month at the Tennis in the Land, she overcame fourth seed Anastasia Potapova, before losing to Ann Li in the second round. At the US Open, Jovic defeated Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the first round, but lost her next match to Jasmine Paolini.

The following month at the Guadalajara Open, Jovic won her first WTA Tour title, saving a match point in the quarterfinal match against Andorran player Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva, and defeating Colombian player Emiliana Arango in the final. As a result, she entered the top 40 at world No. 36 on September 15, 2025.

2026: Major quarterfinal, top-10 win, top 20

Jovic reached the final in Hobart, where she lost to the Italian qualifier Elisabetta Cocciaretto.

At the age of 18 years and a month old, Jovic reached a major third round for the first time at the 2026 Australian Open defeating Katie Volynets and Priscilla Hon. Next Jovic defeated world No. 8 Jasmine Paolini, to earn her first top-10 win. In the fourth round she defeated Yulia Putintseva in 53 minutes in straight sets, losing only one game, to reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal. She became the youngest American to reach the Australian Open women's singles quarterfinals since Venus Williams in 1998. Despite her loss to world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the quarterfinals, Jovic reached the top 20 on February 2, 2026.

At the 2026 French Open, Jovic was the 17th seed and defeated Alexandra Eala and Emma Navarro in straight sets, before falling to Naomi Osaka in three sets.

Performance timeline

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles Current through the 2026 Wimbledon Championships.

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Legend WTA 500 (1–0)WTA 250 (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (1–1)Finals by settingOutdoor (1–1)

WTA 125 finals

Singles: 1 (title)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner-ups) LegendW100 tournaments (1–1)W75 tournaments (1–1)W25/35 tournaments (2–2)W15 tournaments (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (3–4)Clay (1–1)

Junior finals

Grand Slam tournaments

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Best Grand Slam results details Singles

Wins against top 10 players

Jovic has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.