Clement N'Goran

Clément N'Goran ( born August 7, 1969) is a former Ivorian tennis player.

Life

N'Goran won the 1987 African junior title Championnat d' Afrique de tennis juniors. In 1991, he stood at the side of Daniel Marco in the final of the Challenger tournament in Lagos, where they lost Ugo Colombini and Paul Wekesa. Its highest listing in the tennis world ranking he reached in 1995 with position 200 in the individual and in the following year, with position 161 in doubles. For a Grand Slam tournament he could never qualify.

N'Goran played 1986-1997 31 single and double twelve appearances for the Ivorian Davis Cup team. His company balance sheet was about 23-8, of its twelve double games he won eight. His biggest success was the win over Byron Black at the semi-final qualifying Group Africa Group II against Zimbabwe in 1988, which was lost, despite the two individual successes with 2:3.

In the Summer Olympics 1988, he went to the men's singles for the Ivory Coast. In the first round he defeated the British Andrew Castle. At his brother Claude the side he reached with a victory against the Chinese double the second round at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where they lost Paul Haarhuis and Jacco Eltingh from the Netherlands.