Peter Feigl

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Peter Feigl Tennis player
Nation: AustriaAustria Austria
Birthday: November 30, 1951
Size: 183 cm
Weight: 77 kg
1st professional season: 1975
Resignation: 1985
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 260,885
singles
Career record: 113: 114
Career title: 4th
Highest ranking: 40 (May 21 1979)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (1978)
French Open -
Wimbledon 2R (1980)
US Open 2R (1980, 1982)
Double
Career title: 1
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (1978, 1979)
French Open SF (1981)
Wimbledon -
US Open VF (1980)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Peter Feigl (born November 30, 1951 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian tennis player .

Life

Feigl won 1978 in Cleveland , as a qualifier and the first Austrian ever to win a Grand Prix tournament. From 1975 to 1985 he played a total of 37 Davis Cup games, both singles and doubles, with a record of 19 wins and 18 losses. During this time he shaped Austrian tennis with his service volleyball, together with Hans Kary . Feigl won four ATP tournaments. He was the first Austrian to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tournament, namely at the 1978 Australian Open , where he narrowly failed to Arthur Ashe .

From 2000 Feigl was head of the Vienna ATP tournament for years , which he had previously supervised. Feigl is married and has two sons.

successes

singles

Victories

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1978 United StatesUnited States Cleveland Hard court United StatesUnited States Van Winitsky 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
2. 1979 AustriaAustria Linz Hard court AustriaAustria Hans Kary 6: 3, 6: 4, 7: 6
3. 1979 EgyptEgypt Cairo Hard court BrazilBrazil Carlos Kirmayr 7: 5, 3: 6, 6: 1
4th 1980 NigeriaNigeria Lagos sand CanadaCanada Welry Fritz 6: 2, 6: 3, 6: 2

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1978 PhilippinesPhilippines Manila sand FranceFrance Yannick Noah 6: 7, 0: 6
2. 1979 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland race United StatesUnited States Tim Wilkison 3: 6, 6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2, 2: 6
3. 1979 NigeriaNigeria Lagos sand AustriaAustria Hans Kary 4: 6, 6: 3, 2: 6

Double

Victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1980 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland Hard court AustraliaAustralia Rod Frawley United StatesUnited States John Sadri Tim Wilkison
United StatesUnited States  		6: 2, 7: 5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Feigl was Austria's first GP winner. News.at of November 27, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Feigl, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna