Ivanisevic loses ex-wife suit over 2.48 million euros
A Zagreb court has rejected, not yet finally, Ivanisevic's demand that Tatjana Dragovic repay 2,477,962.91 euros, citing no proven loan contract. Appeals are before a Bjelovar court.
The Zagreb Municipal Civil Court on May 28, 2026 rejected, not yet finally, Goran Ivanisevic’s demand that his ex-wife Tatjana Dragovic repay him 2,477,962.91 euros. The Croatian portal Imperijal published details from the court file, and Serbian media are picking them up today.
The couple divorced in 2016 and have two children. The property dispute dates to January 16, 2023, when Ivanisevic filed his suit.
What does Ivanisevic claim in the lawsuit?
The former tennis player says that between September 2015 and April 2021 he lent Tatjana Dragovic a total of 2,932,501.37 euros from his accounts in Monaco and Zagreb. According to him, she committed to repaying the money by the end of 2021, in line with her financial means.
She paid back 454,538.46 euros, and the remaining 2,477,962.91 euros, he claims, was never repaid. He asked the court to order repayment with statutory default interest. As evidence he submitted records of bank transactions, account statements and WhatsApp messages.
What does Tatjana Dragovic say?
She disputes that the money was a loan. She says the Monaco account was joint and that both of them were entitled to use the funds. According to her, the money was spent on shared and family needs, and Ivanisevic counted among her expenses some that related to himself. As examples of transactions unrelated to any loan, she cited the purchase of a property, health insurance and credit cards.
What did the court decide?
The court concluded that Ivanisevic did not prove the existence of a loan contract, meaning an agreement under which his ex-wife would be obliged to repay the money. No financial expert report was carried out because, according to the court’s reasoning, Ivanisevic did not provide all the documentation the expert considered necessary.
He was also ordered to reimburse Tatjana Dragovic’s legal costs of 173,937.50 euros, plus interest.
The ruling is not final. Both sides appealed, and on August 3, 2026 the case was sent to the County Court in Bjelovar.
What else is in the documents?
The court found that the messages Ivanisevic sent in March 2021, when he wrote about financial difficulties and obligations to his children, do not amount to an unambiguous demand for repayment of a loan. For her part, Tatjana Dragovic submitted correspondence in which he asks her to transfer certain sums. A message from September 2020 also mentions how a bank transaction was labeled, which she uses as an argument about the nature of those transfers. The court did not find that the correspondence by itself confirms the claims of either side.
In his testimony, Ivanisevic also said he had agreed on a split of the money from the sale of land that, as he puts it, belonged to his mother: 60 percent to him, 40 percent to her. Later, he claims, he agreed to a 50-50 split, but still did not receive the expected amount. According to his testimony, the money was spent on buying a property in Dubrovnik. These are his claims before the court, not established facts.
There is also a separate proceeding over an interim measure concerning the property and accounts of Tatjana Dragovic. The court issued its decision on July 3, 2026, she appealed six days later, and Ivanisevic responded to the appeal on July 20. That part is not concluded either.
Did Ivanisevic go bankrupt?
Some Serbian headlines claim today that he did. The articles that relay the contents of the court file, however, make no mention of bankruptcy proceedings. Everything published concerns the dispute over the loan and its repayment.
The final decision rests with the County Court in Bjelovar.
