Lan Bale
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Lan Bale is a former professional tennis
player from South Africa. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 4 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 4 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 27 in 1995.
Tennis
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player from South Africa. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 4 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 4 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 27 in 1995.
Doubles titles (4)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponent in the final | Score in the final |
Winner | 1. | 1993 | Durban, South Africa | Hard | Byron Black Byron Black Byron Black is a former touring professional tennis and Davis Cup player for Zimbabwe.- Biography :He is the brother of Cara and Wayne Black, both professional tennis players... |
Johan De Beer Marcos Ondruska Marcos Ondruska Marcos Ondruska is a former tennis player from South Africa, who turned professional in 1989. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he defeated Goran Ivanišević in the first round before falling to Norway's Christian Ruud... |
7–6, 6–2 |
Winner | 2. | 1994 | Coral Springs, U.S. | Clay | Brett Steven Brett Steven Brett Andrew Steven is a tennis player from New Zealand.Steven turned professional in 1988 and won his first tour doubles title in 1991 at Newport, Rhode Island.... |
Ken Flach Ken Flach Kenneth Eliot "Ken" Flach is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 4 Grand Slam men's doubles titles , and 2 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles... Stephane Simian Stephane Simian Stephane Simian , is a former professional tennis player from France. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 41 in 1993 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 56 in 1994.... |
6–3, 7–5 |
Runner-up | 1. | 1994 | Basel, Switzerland | Hard (i) | John-Laffnie de Jager John-Laffnie de Jager John-Laffnie de Jager is a South African former tour professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, de Jager reached the semi-finals for three different grand slam tournaments three times in three different years partnering three different fellow South African players... |
Patrick McEnroe Patrick McEnroe Patrick John McEnroe is a former professional tennis player and the former captain of the United States Davis Cup team.Born in Manhasset, New York, he is the younger brother of John McEnroe... Jared Palmer Jared Palmer Jared Eiseley Palmer is a professional tennis player who won 28 professional doubles titles and one singles title in his career on the ATP Tour. He also won four double titles on the challenger's circuit... |
3–6, 6–7 |
Winner | 3. | 1994 | Tel Aviv ATP Tel Aviv The Tel Aviv Open is a defunct, ATP Tour affiliated tennis tournament. It was played from 1979-1996. It was held at the Israel Tennis Center at Ramat HaSharon, near Tel Aviv, Israel and was played on outdoor hard courts. The tournament was played as a ATP Challenger Series event in 1998 and 1999... , Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
Hard | John-Laffnie de Jager John-Laffnie de Jager John-Laffnie de Jager is a South African former tour professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, de Jager reached the semi-finals for three different grand slam tournaments three times in three different years partnering three different fellow South African players... |
Jan Apell Jan Apell Jan Apell is a former tennis player from Sweden, who won the Davis Cup in 1994 in doubles. The left-hander has retired from tennis unbeaten in Davis cup after five matches, and played most of his career with Jonas Björkman.... Jonas Björkman Jonas Björkman Jonas Lars Björkman is a former World Number 4 Swedish professional tennis player. He is also a former World No. 1 in doubles. Björkman retired from professional tennis after competing at the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup Doubles championships.... |
6–7, 6–2, 7–6 |
Winner | 4. | 1996 | Munich BMW Open The BMW Open is a tennis tournament held in Munich, Germany. Held since 1900, the tournament is played on outdoor clay courts and is a part of the ATP Tour schedule.-History:... , Germany |
Clay | Stephen Noteboom Stephen Noteboom Stephen Noteboom , is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.Noteboom enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 2 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 52 in 1997.-Doubles titles :-External links:... |
Olivier Delaître Olivier Delaître Olivier Delaître is a former tennis player from France. He won 15 doubles titles during a fourteen year career becoming the world's 3rd ranked doubles player on July 12, 1999.... Diego Nargiso Diego Nargiso Diego Nargiso is a former tennis player from Italy.Having turned professional in 1987, Nargiso represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was defeated in the second round by America's eventual runner-up Tim Mayotte... |
4–6, 7–6, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 2. | 1998 | Båstad, Sweden | Clay | Piet Norval Piet Norval Pieter Norval is a former tennis player from South Africa, who turned professional in 1988. The right-hander represented his native country in the doubles competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he partnered Wayne Ferreira... |
Magnus Gustafsson Magnus Gustafsson Magnus Nils Gustafsson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.Gustafsson won 14 top-level singles titles during his career, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 10 in 1991. He was also part of the Swedish team which won the Davis Cup in 1998... Magnus Larsson Magnus Larsson Per Henrik Magnus Larsson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.Larsson turned professional in 1989 and won his first top-level singles title at Florence in 1990. His first doubles title was also won in Florence, in 1991.Some of the most significant highlights of Larsson's career came... |
4–6, 2–6 |
Runner-up | 3. | 1999 | Palermo, Italy | Clay | Alberto Martín Alberto Martín ----Alberto Martín Magret is a retired tennis player from Spain. He turned professional in 1995.Martin's best Grand Slam performance was reaching the fourth round of Roland Garros in 2006. En route to this performance, Martín's first round win was his first victory over former World number 1 Andy... |
Mariano Hood Mariano Hood Mariano Hood is a retire left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles.In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and currently resides in his city of birth, Buenos Aires. He won $US806,888 in earnings... Sebastián Prieto Sebastián Prieto Sebastián Prieto is a professional tennis player from Argentina.Primarily a doubles specialist, Prieto has won 9 doubles titles in his career. He began playing for the Argentina Davis Cup team in 1999.... |
3–6, 1–6 |
Runner-up | 4. | 2000 | Santiago Movistar Open The Movistar Open is an ATP International Series men's tennis tournament held in February 2010 in Las Condes commune, and it's played on clay. It was previously played in Viña del Mar.-History:In 1992, Brazil suspended its three ATP tournaments... , Chile Chile Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far... |
Clay | Piet Norval | Gustavo Kuerten Gustavo Kuerten Gustavo Kuerten is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000... Antonio Prieto |
2–6, 4–6 |