Chris Pridham is a former touring professional tennis

Tennis

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 player.

Pridham had a career Grand Prix / ATP tour win-loss record of 54 and 78. His career high singles ranking was World No. 75, which he attained in March 1988. The 6'0 right-hander's best tournament results were a semi-finals appearance in the 1987 Wellington Classic

Wellington Classic

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, and 1992 Johannesburg

Johannesburg

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 Grand Prix

Grand Prix tennis tournaments

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 events. His best Grand Slam

Grand Slam (tennis)

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 event showings was reaching the third rounds of the 1988 Wimbledon championships and the 1989 Australian Open

Australian Open

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1985

Pridham played his first professional match in March 1985 at the Montreal

Montreal

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 Challenger, going down in 3 sets to World No. 60 Leif Shiras

Leif Shiras

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 3-6, 6-3, 3-6. He played one other tour event that year, the Player's International, also in Montreal, where he also fell in the first round, this time to World No. 130 Jonathan Canter 0-6, 6-7.

1986

Pridham played in 8 challenger tennis events and one grand prix event for the 1986, going 4 wins, 8 losses at the challenger level and 0 and 1 in grand prixs. He won his first match of the his touring year over World No. 151 Huub Van Boeckel

Huub van Boeckel

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 7-5, 7-6 before losing in the next round, at the Benin City

Benin City

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-1 Challenger in February. The following week at the Enugu

Enugu

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 Challenger he lost in the first round. The following month Pridham fell in the first round at the Rio De Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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-1 Challenger and two weeks later he had the same result at the San Luis Potosi

San Luis Potosí

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 Challenger.

Pridham resumed tour play in September, defeating World No. 127 Jon Levine

Jon Levine

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 in the first round at the West Palm, FL Challenger before falling to World No. 246 Marc Flur in straight sets. The following week in Athens, Greece he lost World No. 241 Brian Levine

Brian Levine

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 in the first round in three sets. Then in November he played in only grand prix event of the year, the Stockholm Open

Stockholm Open

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, losing there in the first round as well, to World No. 167 Shahar Perkiss

Shahar Perkiss

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 three and three. Pridham then went 1 and 1 the following week at the Helsinki

Helsinki

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 Challenger and again the next week at the Benin-2 Challenger. He finished the year World No. 263 in singles and No. 408 in doubles.

Davis Cup

As a Davis Cup

Davis Cup

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 player for Canada

Canada Davis Cup team

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between 1988 and 1990, Pridham had a career singles win-lose record of 3 and 5.

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