Zoran Petković
| Country (sports) | .svg.png){kind=small} Yugoslavia | ||||||||
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| Residence | Darmstadt, Germany | ||||||||
| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) | ||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed | ||||||||
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| Career record | 1–1 | ||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||
| Career record | 0–0 | ||||||||
| Team competitions | |||||||||
| Davis Cup | 1–1 | ||||||||
Medal record
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Zoran Petković (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Петковић) is a Bosnia-born tennis coach and former professional ATP player who competed for Yugoslavia.[2] He is an ethnic Serb.[3]
Career
Petković won a doubles silver medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games partnering with Zoltan Ilin. In the early 1980s he took part in two Davis Cup ties for Yugoslavia; he lost a dead rubber to former World No. 1 Romania's Ilie Năstase in straight sets in 1980.[4]
Also in the early 1980s, he played college tennis for the South Carolina Gamecocks men's tennis.[5]
Personal life
His older daughter is German tennis player Andrea Petkovic, whom he has coached in the past.[6]
References
- ↑ "Tennistrainer Zoran Petkovic über den Weg zum Davis Cup". faz.net (in Serbian). 1 October 2019.
- ↑ ITF profile
- ↑ Walker, William (2010). German and Bosnian Voices in a Time of Crisis: Bosnian Refugees in Germany 1992–2002 (1st ed.). Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-608446-605.
- ↑ Davis Cup profile
- ↑ "Petkovic feels at home in Charleston". postandcourier.com. 3 April 2015.
- ↑ "Andrea Petkovic Bio". wtatennis.com.
Categories:
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Tuzla
- Serbian male tennis players
- Yugoslav male tennis players
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
- Competitors at the 1979 Mediterranean Games
- South Carolina Gamecocks men's tennis players
- Expatriate tennis players in the United States
- Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina