Boro Jovanović
Appearance
Country (sports) | Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Residence | Zagreb, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Zagreb, Yugoslavia | 21 October 1939||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 1972 (amateur tour from 1959) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Plays | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 8 (1963, Lance Tingay)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Australian Open | 2R (1962) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French Open | QF (1968) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 2R (1959, 1960, 1963) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
US Open | 1R (1962, 1965) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Doubles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Australian Open | 2R (1962) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | F (1962) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | QF (1963) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team competitions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Davis Cup | FAm (1962) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Boro Jovanović (born 21 October 1939) is a former Yugoslav tennis player. Jovanović was runner-up in the 1962 Wimbledon doubles tournament with Nikola Pilić, and quarter-finalist in the 1968 Wimbledon doubles tournament. In singles, Jovanović reached the final of the 1963 Italian Open and the quarterfinals of the 1968 French Open. In 1972, Boro Jovanović joined the World Championship Tennis Tour.[2]
He was ranked World No. 8 for 1963 by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph.[1]
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: ( 1 runner-up)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1962 | Wimbledon | Grass | Niki Pilić | Bob Hewitt Fred Stolle |
2–6, 7–5, 2–6, 4–6 |
References
- ^ a b United States Lawn Tennis Association (1972). Official Encyclopedia of Tennis (First Edition), p. 427.
- ^ Boro Jovanović ATP World Tour Tennis Profile Retrieved Aug 26, 2009
External links
- Boro Jovanović at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- {{ITF profile}} template using deprecated numeric ID.
- Boro Jovanović at the Davis Cup
- Zagrebački gospodin Template:Hr icon
Categories:
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Croatian male tennis players
- Yugoslav male tennis players
- Sportspeople from Zagreb
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Yugoslavia
- Competitors at the 1963 Mediterranean Games
- Universiade medalists in tennis
- European tennis biography stubs
- Croatian sportspeople stubs