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Marko Topo

Serbian tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ106949539
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Marko Topo (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Топо; born 13 September 2003) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 235 achieved on 2 March 2026 and a best doubles ranking of No. 573, reached on 1 July 2024. Topo formerly represented Serbia.

Career

2021: ATP debut

In May 2021, Topo made his ATP main draw debut at the Belgrade Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw.

In September, he obtained his first Challenger level win, in Banja Luka, thanks to a wildcard, defeating compatriot Danilo Petrović 4–6, 7–6, 6–2. In the next round he then defeated Vitaliy Sachko, winning 7-6 in the third set, thus reaching the quarterfinals and landing in the top 1000 for the first time.

2022: ATP 500 and Top 500 debuts

In April 2022, Topo got a qualification wildcard for the ATP tournament in 2022 BMW Open in Munich, where he defeated fourth seed Henri Laaksonen in straights sets and Norbert Gombos in three sets to qualify for his second ATP main draw, where he lost to the German Oscar Otte in the first round.

At the Hamburg Open, he qualified for his first ATP 500 tournament after also receiving a qualifying wildcard but lost in the first round to Alex Molčan.

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The public source identifies “Marko Topo” as serbian tennis player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marko, Topo and Serbian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2026, 2024, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003-09-13. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Marko, Topo and Serbian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106949539. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2026, 2024 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from Marko Topo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.