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Ivan Lendl
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Ivan Lendl is a male tennis player, golfer, and art collector born in Ostrava in 1960. He holds citizenship in Czechoslovakia and the United States, representing both nations in sports. A right-handed athlete, he competed professionally from 1978 until 1994. During his career, he achieved a singles record of 1068–242 and a doubles record of 186–139. He was a member of the Czechoslovakia Davis Cup team and earned prize money totaling 21,262,417.
Lendl has been inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He advertises Gatorade and speaks Czech and English. His fields of work include tennis, sports training, golf, and collecting. He resides in Goshen.
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- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- United States
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ivan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ostrava
- Occupation
- golfer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- collecting
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Czechoslovakia Davis Cup team
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 79
- Image
- Lendl CU.jpg
- Height
- 188
- Residence
- Goshen
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- Ivan Lendl
- date of birth
- 1960-03-07
- handedness
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 1068–242
- doubles record
- 186–139
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- prize money
- 21262417
- end of work period
- 1994-00-00
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- ranking
- 20
- advertises
- Gatorade
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Encyclopedic overview
Ivan Lendl ( Czech: [ˈɪvan ˈlɛndl̩]; born March 7, 1960) is a Czech–American former professional tennis player and coach. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, he was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 270 weeks (fourth-most of all time), and finished as the year-end No. 1 four times. Lendl won 94 career singles titles, including eight majors (three each at the French Open and US Open, and two at the Australian Open) and seven year-end championships. He was runner-up at a further eleven majors, for a total of 19 major finals (among which a record eight consecutive US Open finals).
Lendl is the only man in professional tennis history to have a match winning percentage of over 90% in five different years (1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1989). He leads the head-to-head against his two biggest rivals, with a 22–13 record against Jimmy Connors and a 21–15 record against John McEnroe. Lendl's dominance of his era was most evident at the year-end championships, where he holds a win–loss record of 39–10 and contested the final a record nine consecutive times.
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