Christian Saceanu
Christian Saceanu 
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| Nation: |
 Germany
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| Birthday: | July 8, 1968 |
| Size: | 190 cm |
| Weight: | 80 kg |
| 1st professional season: | 1986 |
| Resignation: | Time unknown |
| Playing hand: | Right |
| Prize money: | $ 738,632 |
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| Career record: | 71: 110 |
| Career title: | 2 |
| Highest ranking: | 60 (March 7 1988) |
| Double | |
| Career record: | 43:81 |
| Highest ranking: | 111 (October 16 1989) |
| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |
Christian Saceanu (* 8. July 1968 in Cluj , Romania ) is a former German tennis player .
Career
Saceanu, son of a neurosurgery professor named Alexander and a German-born nurse named Ana-Cornelia, moved with his family to Germany in 1984. He was naturalized four months after arriving in Germany. Saceanu, who has a brother, turned pro tennis in 1986. In the same year he won the German championship title in individual. It was apparently the youth championship title. Günther Bosch , Boris Becker's coach, was the coach of the tennis professional who lives in Neuss from May 1987. This year Saceanu won the Challenger tournament in Graz and Valkenswaard. In 1988 he advanced to the round of 16 of the Australian Open and also won the Grand Prix tournament in Bristol. The second Grand Prix tournament victory of his career in singles he achieved in 1991 in Rosmalen . His highest career placement in the tennis world rankings in singles reached Saceanu on March 7, 1988 with the 60th place. In the double ranking he was listed on October 16, 1989 at rank 111. In total, he won $ 738,632 in prize money over the course of his career.
In the club Saceanu played among other things at least 1987 for the TC Blau-Weiß Neuss and for the DTG Blau-Weiss Dinslaken , with which he rose in 1996 in the tennis Bundesliga.
Web links
- ATP-profile Christian Saceanu (English)
- ITF-profile Christian Saceanu (English)
- Christian Saceanu in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sporting successes ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Almost at zero in the Spiegel from June 15, 1987, accessed on May 26, 2014
- ↑ Chronicle of the DTG Dinslaken ( Memento from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Saceanu, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cluj-Napoca , Romania |