Jürgen Zopp (born 29 March 1988) is an Estonian retired tennis player. He is Estonia's all-time highest ranked male tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of World No. 71 in 2012.

Career Zopp started playing tennis at the age of 6 and grew up idolizing Pete Sampras, Marat Safin, and Roger Federer. Zopp had a somewhat successful junior career, reaching the second round of the Australian and US Open Boys' tournaments in 2006. In 2008, he would officially turn pro.

Zopp made a breakthrough on the ATP tour in 2012, qualifying for the main draws of the Australian Open, Roland-Garros and Wimbledon boosting his ranking to the point where he didn't have to go through qualifying by the time the US Open came around. and achieving his first main draw ATP tournament win at the 2012 Bucharest Open establishing himself as a top-100 player in the ATP rankings at world No. 71.

2013–2014 would see a huge dip in form and rankings as his ranking plummeted all the way down to the 300s in 2014. Early 2017 would be the lowest of his career as his ranking dropped to 500 on 12 June 2017. Late 2017 would see a steady increase of form and rankings grabbing a handful of challenger and ITF finals. However still struggling to even qualify for an ATP event.

In qualifying for the 2018 French Open he defeated Thanasi Kokkinakis. Although he lost in the final round of qualifying to Denis Kudla it was enough for him to make the main draw as a lucky loser. In the first round he defeated American seed Jack Sock for his sixth tour level win on clay. He then defeated fellow lucky loser Ruben Bemelmans despite losing the first two sets, therefore reaching a career-best third round at Grand Slam events. He was the first Estonian player to reach the third round of a Grand Slam. His run ended in the third round following a defeat to Maximilian Marterer.

At the 2018 Swiss Open Gstaad, he defeated the 1st seed Fabio Fognini and made it all the way to the semifinals before losing to Matteo Berrettini. 2018 is considered by some to be the best year of his career as he returned to the top 100 for the first time since 2012 and started consistently qualifying for ATP events again.

2019 would see a dip in form and rankings again. He failed to make an ATP event or a challenger final the entire year and his ranking dropped back down to the 400s again by the end of the year.

On 18 December 2020, Zopp announced his retirement from professional tennis.

Between 2022 and 2023 Zopp appeared in 3 Davis Cup matches (1 singles and 2 doubles), winning them all.

Grand Slam performance timeline

Tournament201120122013201420152016201720182019SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenQ11RAAQ1Q2AQ1A0 / 10–10%French OpenQ11R1R2RQ2Q1A3RQ10 / 43–443%WimbledonQ31R1R1RQ2Q1AQ2Q10 / 30–30% US OpenQ12R1RAQ2Q1AQ1A0 / 21–233%Win–loss0–01–40–31–20–00–00–02–10–00 / 94–1028.57%ATP World Tour Masters 1000Indian Wells MastersAQ2AAAAAAQ10 / 00–0N/AMiami MastersAQ1AAAAAAA0 / 00–0N/A Monte-Carlo MastersAAAAQ1AAAA0 / 00–0N/A Madrid MastersAAAAAAAQ1A0 / 00–0N/A Canada MastersA1RAAAAAAA0 / 10–10%Win–loss0–00–10–00–00–00–00–00–00–00 / 10–10%

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 24 (18–6) LegendATP Challenger (3–3)ITF Futures (15–3)Finals by surfaceHard (5–5)Clay (12–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Finland F1, VierumäkiFuturesClay Timo Nieminen6–4, 6–2Win2–0Switzerland F2, GreifenseeFuturesCarpet Philipp Oswald6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–3Win3–0Estonia F1, TallinnFuturesClay Jaak Poldma3–6, 6–3, 6–4Win4–0Turkey F7, AdanaFuturesClay Augustin Gensse6–2, 4–6, 6–4Win5–0Turkey F8, TarsusFuturesClay Alexandre Folie6–3, 6–1Win6–0Czech Republic F1, TepliceFuturesClay Alexander Flock4–6, 6–2, 7–5Win7–0Estonia F2, TallinnFuturesClay Timo Nieminen6–3, 3–6, 6–3Win8–0Great Britain F17, CardiffFuturesHard Dan Evans6–4, 7–5Win9–0Estonia F1, TallinnFuturesClay Hans Podlipnik Castillo6–3, 6–3Loss9–1Ningbo, ChinaChallengerHard Yen-Hsun Lu2–6, 6–3, 1–6Loss9–2Tashkent, UzbekistanChallengerHard Denis Istomin4–6, 3–6Win10–2Kazan, RussiaChallengerHard Marius Copil7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–4)Win11–2Sweden F4, DanderydFuturesHard Peter Kobelt7–6(8–6), 6–4Loss11–3Sweden F6, JönköpingFuturesHard Edward Corrie6–3, 3–6, 3–6Win12–3Estonia F4, TallinnFuturesHard Evgeny Elistratov6–1, 6–4Win13–3Helsinki, FinlandChallengerHard Dudi Sela6–4, 5–7, 7–6(8–6)Loss13–4Ningbo, ChinaChallengerHard Yen-Hsun Lu6–7(3–7), 1–6Win14–4Germany F8, KasselFuturesClay Jan Choinski6–3, 6–2Win15–4Estonia F1, PärnuFuturesClay George Von Massow6–1, 6–3Loss15–5Finland F2, HyvinkaaFuturesClay Julien Cagnina6–0, 5–7, 0–6Win16–5Finland F3, HelsinkiFuturesClay Filippo Baldi6–4, 6–0Win17–5Alphen aan den Rijn, NetherlandsChallengerClay Tommy Robredo6–3, 6–2Loss17–6Sweden F4, FalunFuturesHard Tallon Griekspoor4–6, 1–6Win18–6M15 Pärnu, EstoniaWorld Tennis TourClay Bogdan Bobrov6–4, 6–3

Doubles: 13 (4–9) LegendATP Challenger (2–2)ITF Futures (2–7)Finals by surfaceHard (1–4)Clay (3–4)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Latvia F1, JūrmalaFuturesClay Mait Künnap Dušan Karol Mikhail Vasiliev3–6, 6–7(3–7)Loss0–2Italy F6, MonterotondoFuturesClay Mikhail Vasiliev L Magdinchev P Rusevski6–3, 4–6, [5–10]Win1–2Poland F4, KoszalinFuturesClay Artur Romanowski Marek Mrozek Mateusz Szmigiel7–5, 6–3Loss1–3Israel F2, EilatFuturesHard Tim Van Terheijden Harel Levy Noam Okun3–6, 0–6Loss1–4Turkey F6, AntalyaFuturesHard Mait Künnap Martin Emmrich Juho Paukku3–6, 4–6Win2–4Estonia F1, TallinnFuturesClay Mait Künnap Mikk Irdoja Jaak Poldma6–4, 6–4Loss2–5Switzerland F2, WetzikonFuturesCarpet Walter Trusendi Kevin Krawietz Marcel Zimmermann2–6, 6–3, [5–10]Loss2–6Czech Republic F1, TepliceFuturesClay Ricardo Urzua-Rivera Jan Mertl Grzegorz Panfil3–6, 4–6Loss2–7Ningbo, ChinaChallengerHard Jan Hernych Karan Rastogi Divij Sharan6–3, 6–7(3–7), [11–13]Win3–7Tunis, TunisiaChallengerClay Jerzy Janowicz Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler7–6(7–1), 6–3Loss3–8Kazan, RussiaChallengerHard Ivo Klec Victor Baluda K Kravchuk3–6, 4–6Win4–8Nanchang, ChinaChallengerHard Jonathan Eysseric Lee Hsin-han Amir Weintraub6–4, 6–2Loss4–9M15 Pärnu, EstoniaWorld Tennis TourClay Kenneth Raisma Vladimir Ivanov Maxim Ratniuk6–3, 4–6, [5–10]

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