- Diego Nargiso
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Diego Nargiso (born 15 March 1970, in Naples) is a former tennis player from Italy.
Having turned professional in 1987, Nargiso represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was defeated in the second round by America's eventual runner-up Tim Mayotte. He also competed in the men's doubles at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics[1]
Nargiso is the only Italian tennis player to have won the Junior Wimbledon championship, which he did in 1987.
The left-handed Nargiso reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 10 October 1988, when he became the number 67 in the world.
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Wimbledon (Open Era) boys' singles champions 1968 John Alexander · 1969 Byron Bertram · 1970 Byron Bertram · 1971 Robert Kreiss · 1972 Björn Borg · 1973 Billy Martin · 1974 Billy Martin · 1975 Chris Lewis · 1976 Heinz Günthardt · 1977 Van Winitsky · 1978 Ivan Lendl · 1979 Ramesh Krishnan · 1980 Thierry Tulasne · 1981 Matt Anger · 1982 Pat Cash · 1983 Stefan Edberg · 1984 Mark Kratzmann · 1985 Leonardo Lavalle · 1986 Eduardo Vélez · 1987 Diego Nargiso · 1988 Nicolás Pereira · 1989 Nicklas Kulti · 1990 Leander Paes · 1991 Thomas Enqvist · 1992 David Škoch · 1993 Răzvan Sabău · 1994 Scott Humphries · 1995 Olivier Mutis · 1996 Vladimir Voltchkov · 1997 Wesley Whitehouse · 1998 Roger Federer · 1999 Jürgen Melzer · 2000 Nicolas Mahut · 2001 Roman Valent · 2002 Todd Reid · 2003 Florin Mergea · 2004 Gaël Monfils · 2005 Jérémy Chardy · 2006 Thiemo de Bakker · 2007 Donald Young · 2008 Grigor Dimitrov · 2009 Andrey Kuznetsov · 2010 Márton Fucsovics · 2011 Luke Saville
US Open boys' doubles champions 1982 Jonathan Canter / Michael Kures • 1983 Mark Kratzmann / Simon Youl • 1984 Leonardo Lavalle / Mihnea Nastase • 1985 Joey Blake / Darren Yates • 1986 Tomas Carbonell / Javier Sánchez • 1987 Goran Ivanišević / Diego Nargiso • 1988 Jonathan Stark / Jonathan Yancey • 1989 Wayne Ferreira / Grant Stafford • 1990 Sébastien Leblanc / Greg Rusedski • 1991 Karim Alami / John-Laffnie de Jager • 1992 Jimmy Jackson / Eric Taino • 1993 Neville Godwin / Gareth Williams • 1994 Ben Ellwood / Nicolás Lapentti • 1995 Jong-Min Lee / Jocelyn Robichaud • 1996 Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan • 1997 Nicolás Massú / Fernando González • 1998 K. J. Hippensteel / David Martin • 1999 Julien Benneteau / Nicolas Mahut • 2000 Lee Childs / James Nelson • 2001 Stéphane Bohli / Tomáš Berdych • 2002 Michel Koning / Bas Van Der Valk • 2004 Brendan Evans / Scott Oudsema • 2005 Alex Clayton / Donald Young • 2006 Nathaniel Schnugg / Jamie Hunt • 2007 Jonathan Eysseric / Jérôme Inzerillo • 2008 Cedrik-Marcel Stebe / Niki Moser • 2009 Márton Fucsovics / Hsieh Cheng-peng 2010 Duilio Beretta / Roberto Quiroz
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- People from Naples
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- Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- United States Open junior tennis champions
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