The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Men’s Tennis signs international standouts Forger, Ivanovski
10.10.2025 | Men's Tennis
Abel Forger of Soest, Netherlands, and Kalin Ivanovski of Skopje, North Macedonia, have both signed to join the UT program.
Austin – University of Texas Men's Tennis has signed international standouts Abel Forger and Kalin Ivanovski to Athletic Scholarship Agreements (ASA), head coach Bruce Berque announced Friday. Both will join the team in the spring of 2026.
"We are thrilled that Abel will be joining our team for the upcoming dual match season," Berque said. "He has clearly demonstrated himself to have the level to be a major impact player on our lineup right from the beginning of his college career. He's mature, highly motivated, and drawn to the team aspect of college tennis. We can't wait to get started with him."
"It has been a pleasure to get to know Kalin over the last few months," Berque added. "He was a natural fit with our team when he came for his official visit. As motivated as he is for his long-term goals in professional tennis, it's fun to feel his level of excitement for the opportunity to pursue championships at the collegiate level. We are all fired up that he will be joining us."
A native of Soest, The Netherlands, Forger was one of the top juniors players in the world with a career high ranking of No. 29, while he is currently ranked No. 771 in singles and No. 757 in doubles by the ATP. He has career-high ATP rankings of No. 743 in singles and No. 734 in doubles.
Forger played in all four juniors Grand Slams in 2023 in both singles and doubles, advancing to the round of 32 in singles as the Australian Open, and the round of 16 in doubles at Roland Garros.
He won eight juniors singles titles, including J200s in Tashkent in Uzbekistan and Montreal in 2023, J3s in The Hague and Doorn in the Netherlands in 2002, along with four in 2021 – J4s in Maribor in Slovenia and Emmeloord in the Netherlands, and J5s in The Hague and Tirana in Albania. He won four more titles in doubles, doing so at the J200 Istres in France in 2023, the J2 in Cairo and J3 in The Hague in 2022, and the J5 Tirana in 2021.
He is a two-time winner in doubles at the professional level with both coming this past August in Germany at the M15s in Trier and Frankfurt. He is also currently in the final of the M15 Monastir in Tunisia and reached finals at the M15 Bucharest in May and the M15 Nyiregyhaza in Hungary in June of 2024.
Ivanovski is a native of Skopje, North Macedonia and currently ranked No. 799 by the ATP in singles, but he has a career high of No. 305 in October 2023. He also reached a career doubles high of No. 514 in May that year.
In juniors, he climbed to No. 17 in January 2022 and advanced to the Wimbledon singles quarterfinals, while also playing both singles and doubles in the Australian Open and Roland Garros. The year prior to that, he reached the singles round of 16 at Wimbledon, while playing doubles there and at the US Open.
He combined for eight juniors titles with two in singles at the J2 Oberpullendorf in Austria in 2021 and the J4 Sofia in Bulgaria in 2020. He won two doubles titles each year from 2019 to 2021, including the J2 Siauliai in Lithuania and the J4 Antalya in Turkey in 2021, J4s in Kaarina in Finland and Frederiksberg in Denmark in 2020, and J5s in Timisoara in Romania and Skopje in 2019.
In professional tennis, Ivanovski has claimed five singles titles with two coming in 2023 at M25s in Kramsach in Austria and in Skopje. He won three in 2022 at M15s in Madrid, Heraklion in Greece, and Monastir. In doubles, he took the title at the M25 Kursumlijska Banja in Serbia in 2023. He also reached the singles final of that tournament and advanced to two other singles finals of M15s in Monastir in 2023. Earlier this year, he posted seven-straight wins to emerge from qualifying and reach the final of the M15 Opatija in Croatia.
Ivanovski recently played doubles for North Macedonia at the 2025 Davis Cup and posted two wins, while also registering a win for them in 2023.
