Goran Prpić
Goran Prpić ( born May 4, 1964 in Zagreb ) is a former Croatian tennis player.
Life
Prpić in 1980 of Yugoslav youth champion. He was a professional tennis player in 1984 and won two tournaments of the ATP Satellite series and thus gain their first world ranking points in the same year. The following year, he stood in the semi-finals of the Challenger tournament in Marrakech, he also reached the quarter -finals of the ATP tournaments of Bologna, Båstad and Palermo. During a match against Aaron Krickstein at the Miami Masters in February 1986, he suffered a serious knee injury, and he was sidelined for nearly two years. During this time, a continuation of his professional career was highly uncertain, so he enrolled at the University of Zagreb as a student of economics. In 1988 he joined again, where he always carried an extensive knee bandage.
After his comeback, he stood at the side of Rolf Hertzog in the doubles final of the Challenger Tournaments of Munich and Münster. The following year, he reached the final of the ATP tournament in Stuttgart, but lost Martín Jaite. He also won the Challenger tournament in Agadir. In 1990 he celebrated after a victory over Goran Ivanisevic final in Umag his only individual title on the ATP World Tour. In the same year he won in Sanremo on the side of Mihnea Nastase ion his only ATP doubles titles. Its highest listing in the tennis world ranking he reached in 1991 with position 16 and position 75 in the single in a double.
His best individual results in Grand Slam tournaments were quarterfinals at the Australian Open and the French Open. His best result in the doubles competition was a knockout participation at the Australian Open 1992.
Prpić played from 1985 to 1986 and between 1988 and 1991 for the Yugoslav Davis Cup team. In 1993 he went to Croatia. Overall, he came up with 18 single and double ten games. His greatest successes with the team's participation in the semifinals of the World Group in 1988 and 1989. During the 0-5 defeat against Germany, he lost both his singles match against Eric Jelen and Boris Becker. In the 1-4 loss to Sweden in the following year he again lost both singles match against Mats Wilander and Jonas Svensson, but won the doubles with Goran Ivanisevic of. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he took up in singles and doubles for Croatia. In individual he reached after a victory over the Danes Kenneth Carlsen the second round in which he was Andrei Cherkasov inferior. On the side of Goran Ivanisevic, he won the bronze medal in men's doubles, after losing in the semi-final against Wayne Ferreira and Piet Norval in South Africa.