Wolfgang Popp
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Wolfgang Popp is a former professional tennis
player from Germany. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won one doubles title and finished runner-up an additional three times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 76 in 1987.
Tennis
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player from Germany. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won one doubles title and finished runner-up an additional three times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 76 in 1987.
Doubles titles (1)
No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partnering | Opponent in the final | Score |
1. | 1987 | Florence ATP Florence This is a defunct tennis tournament that was played on the Grand Prix tennis circuit from 1973 through 1989 and the ATP Tour 1990 through 1994. The tournament was held in Florence, Italy and was competed on outdoor clay courts... , Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... |
Clay | Germany Udo Riglewski Udo Riglewski Udo Riglewski , is a former professional tennis player from Germany. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 10 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 10 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No... |
Italy Paolo Canè Paolo Canè Paolo Canè is a former tennis player from Italy.Canè turned professional in 1983. During his career, he won three top-level singles titles . He also won three tour doubles titles .Canè's career-high rankings were World No... Italy Gianni Ocleppo Gianni Ocleppo Gianni Ocleppo is a retired professional tennis player from Italy.Ocleppo won one ATP Tour singles title and two doubles titles in his career. He played for Italy in the final of the 1980 Davis Cup, losing in a dead rubber to Ivan Lendl.Ocleppo reached a career high singles ranking of World No.... |
6–4, 6–3 |
Runner-ups (3)
No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partnering | Opponent in the final | Score |
1. | 1979 | Bombay Indian Open (tennis) The Indian Open is a defunct, Grand Prix tennis circuit tennis tournament. It was played from 1973-1979. It was held in various cities in, India and was played on outdoor clay courts. Indian tennis player Vijay Amritraj won the event four times, making him the only Indian to win the... , India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... |
Clay | Germany Thomas Furst | United States Chris Delaney Chris Delaney Chris Delaney , is a former professional tennis player from the United States.Delaney enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 3 doubles titles.... United States James Delaney James Delaney (tennis) James Delaney , is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During his career he won 1 doubles titles.... |
6–7, 2–6 |
2. | 1982 | Stuttgart Outdoor, West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.... |
Clay | Germany Andreas Maurer Andreas Maurer Andreas Maurer is a former tennis player from West Germany.Maurer won one singles title and two doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 5 May 1986, when he became the number 24 of the world.-External links:*... |
Australia Mark Edmondson Mark Edmondson Mark Edmondson is a former professional Australian male tennis player.... United States Brian Teacher Brian Teacher Brian David Teacher is a 6' 3" right handed American former professional male tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking World No. 7 in 1981.... |
3–6, 1–6 |
3. | 1987 | 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 | Netherlands Huub Van Boeckel Huub van Boeckel Huub van Boeckel is a retired professional tennis player from the Netherlands, who was one of Holland's leading players in the 1980s.... |
Israel Gilad Bloom Gilad Bloom Gilad Bloom is a former professional tennis player from Israel. Bloom trained at the Israel Tennis Centers. His career-high rankings were World No. 61 in singles and World No. 62 in doubles .-Tennis career:... Israel Shahar Perkiss Shahar Perkiss Shahar Perkiss is an Israeli right-handed 6' 4" former professional tennis player.-Tennis career:A year after first picking up a tennis racket, Perkiss ranked # 1 in Israel in the age 10 and under ranks.... |
2–6, 4–6 |