Eric Jelen
Eric Jelen 
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 Germany
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| Birthday: | March 11, 1965 | ||||||||||||
| Size: | 180 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 77 kg | ||||||||||||
| 1st professional season: | 1982 | ||||||||||||
| Resignation: | 1992 | ||||||||||||
| Playing hand: | Right | ||||||||||||
| Prize money: | $ 1,100,059 | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 135: 136 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 23 (July 7 1986) | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 112: 82 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 18 (June 12 1989) | ||||||||||||
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| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |||||||||||||
Eric Jelen (born March 11, 1965 in Trier ) is a former German tennis player .
Life
Eric Jelen was German indoor champion in 1985, 1986, 1987 and German team champion in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988. The right-handed took in 1988 at the Olympics in Seoul , where he in the first round in the individual against eventual Olympic champion Miloslav Mečíř retired . Even in doubles, he did not get past the first lap with Carl-Uwe Steeb. On the professional tour in 1989 he won his only solo title in the Bristol singles competition , while he achieved five titles in doubles. His best placement in the individual world rankings was 23rd in July 1986; in the double ranking he finished 18th.
Jelen's greatest successes were the two Davis Cup victories in 1988 and 1989 , which he achieved with Boris Becker , Carl-Uwe Steeb and Patrik Kühnen . Jelen's role in the team was that of Boris Becker's double partner. Between 1986 and 1992 he played 16 games for the German Davis Cup team .
After the end of his career in 1992, Jelen was initially sports director at a sports marketing agency in Essen for many years. He then moved to the sports marketing agency Boris Becker & Co as a freelancer , where he was responsible for tennis. In addition to other consulting activities, he has been a coach and consultant for the Niederrhein Tennis Association since 2010. In 2010 he was part of the organization team for the World Team Cup in Düsseldorf.
Web links
- ATP profile of Eric Jelen (English)
- ITF profile for Eric Jelen (English)
- Davis Cup stats by Eric Jelen (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric Jelen helps with the World Team Cup , Fokus.de, April 21, 2010.
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| SURNAME | Jelen, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trier , Germany |