Igor Flego

Igor Flego
Full name	Igor Flego
Country (sports)	Yugoslavia
Born	13 December 1961 (age 62); Rijeka, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Plays	Right-handed
Singles
Career record	1–3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 261 (30 July 1984)
Doubles
Career record	5–11
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 176 (3 April 1989)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (1989)

Igor Flego (born 13 December 1961) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia who represented Yugoslavia.

Biography

Flego made his debut for the Yugoslavia Davis Cup team in 1986 as a member of the side which played a World Group Quarter-final tie against Czechoslovakia in Sarajevo. He played the doubles match with Slobodan Zivojinovic, which they lost, then went down to Miloslav Mečíř in a dead singles rubber.^[1]^[2]

In 1987 he appeared again in Davis Cup competition when he played a doubles match in Yugoslavia's World Group tie in Adelaide. He and partner Zivojinovic lost in four sets to the Australian pairing of Pat Cash and Peter Doohan.^[3]

He won all of his three Challenger doubles titles in 1988, with wins in Travemünde, Tampere and Munich.

At the 1989 Australian Open he managed to qualify for the main doubles draw, with Agustín Moreno as his partner. They made his past the first round by beating Germans Heiner Moraing and Torben Theine, then were eliminated in the second round by a seeding pairing, Gary Muller and Christo van Rensburg.^[4]^[5]

Challenger titles

Doubles: (3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	1988	Travemünde, West Germany	Clay	Mark Koevermans	Brett Dickinson Jean-Marc Piacentile	6–4, 6–7, 6–3
2.	1988	Tampere, Finland	Clay	Mark Koevermans	Mika Hedman Veli Paloheimo	6–4, 6–1
3.	1988	Munich, West Germany	Carpet	Goran Ivanišević	Martin Sinner Michael Stich	6–4, 6–4

References

^ "Czechoslovakia advances". Lakeland Ledger. 20 July 1986. p. 5C. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
^ "Zivojinovic loses control". Sydney Morning Herald. 22 July 1986. p. 41. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
^ Silver, Harvey (16 March 1987). "Nervous Masur runs hot". The Age. p. 29. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
^ "Times Sport". The Canberra Times. ACT: National Library of Australia. 20 January 1989. p. 12. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
^ "Sport". The Canberra Times. ACT: National Library of Australia. 22 January 1989. p. 12. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

External links

Igor Flego at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Igor Flego at the Davis Cup
Igor Flego at the International Tennis Federation

[1] "Czechoslovakia advances". Lakeland Ledger. 20 July 1986. p. 5C. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

[2] "Zivojinovic loses control". Sydney Morning Herald. 22 July 1986. p. 41. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

[3] Silver, Harvey (16 March 1987). "Nervous Masur runs hot". The Age. p. 29. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

[4] "Times Sport". The Canberra Times. ACT: National Library of Australia. 20 January 1989. p. 12. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

[5] "Sport". The Canberra Times. ACT: National Library of Australia. 22 January 1989. p. 12. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

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