Werner Zirngibl

Werner Zirngibl
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	4th September 1956
1st professional season:	1973
Resignation:	1982
singles
Career record:	42:69
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	97 (November 7 1976)
Double
Career record:	22:55
Highest ranking:	577 (January 3, 1983)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Werner Zirngibl (born September 4, 1956 in Munich ) is a former German tennis player . He played for Germany in the Davis Cup .

life and career

Zirngibl began taking part in professional tournaments in 1973. The only victory in a Grand Prix tournament he celebrated on June 12, 1978 in Brussels , when he won against the Argentine Ricardo Cano in four sets. He reached his highest place in the world rankings with rank 97 in November 1976. He had previously reached the round of 16 at the tournament in Barcelona . Zirngibl had more constant success as a double player: in 1978 he reached the quarter-finals with various partners in five tournaments. At the side of Andreas Maurer , he was only eliminated in the semi-finals in Monte Carlo in April 1979 .

Three weeks before that, on March 17, 1979, Zirngibl played the only Davis Cup game of his career in Augsburg . In the quarter-finals of the European zone, he and his doubles partner Ulrich Pinner defeated the Israeli doubles Shlomo Glickstein and Meir Wertheimer in four sets.

Today Zirngibl works in Munich as an orthopedist and sports medicine specialist .

Publications

• Compression syndromes in the lower extremity, by Werner Zirngibl, Munich, Univ., Diss., 1990, 80 pages

Web links

• ATP profile of Werner Zirngibl (English)
• ITF profile of Werner Zirngibl (English)
• Davis Cup statistics from Werner Zirngibl (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data of Werner Zirngibl in: Who is who - The German Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 1581, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .