Zoran Petković

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Zoran Petković
ResidenceDarmstadt, Germany
Born1960/1961 (age 60–61)[1]
Tuzla,[2] SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
(now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Team competitions
Davis Cup1–1
Medal record
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 1979 Split Doubles

Zoran Petković (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Петковић) is a Bosnia-born tennis coach and former player who competed for Yugoslavia.[3] He is an ethnic Serb.[4]

Career[]

Petković won a doubles bronze 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.[5]

Also in the early 1980s, he played college tennis for the South Carolina Gamecocks men's tennis.[6]

Personal life[]

His older daughter is German tennis player Andrea Petkovic, whom he has coached in the past.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Der Tennisvater der besonderen Art". tennisnet.com (in German). 31 March 2011.
  2. ^ "Tennistrainer Zoran Petkovic über den Weg zum Davis Cup". faz.net (in Serbian). 1 October 2019.
  3. ^ ITF profile
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Davis Cup profile
  6. ^ "Petkovic feels at home in Charleston". postandcourier.com. 3 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Andrea Petkovic Bio". wtatennis.com.
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