- Shlomo Glickstein
Shlomo Glickstein (born
January 6 ,1958 inRehovot ,Israel ) is a former professionaltennis player from Israel.He reached his career-high ranking of # 22 in November 1982.
Tennis career
When he was 10 years old, Glickstein began playing tennis, and at the age of 16 he gave up basketball and soccer to focus solely on the sport. By the time he finished the juniors, he was one of the top 10 juniors in the world. His career was hampered by the fact that he had to serve 3 years in the Israeli military at a key point in his athletic development (ages 18-21).
Shortly after turning pro, he won his third straight Israeli National championship.
In 1980, Glickstein gained international fame when he defeated
Raul Ramirez , who was ranked No. 35 in the world, in the first-round at Wimbledon. After losing to eventual championBjorn Borg in the second game, Glickstein won the Wimbledon Plate, the consolation tournament.Glickstein's most memorable career victory was over then-No. 1 ranked
Ivan Lendl in three sets 6-2, 3-6, 7:-5. Glickstein also defeated No. 9 seedHarold Solomon , No. 10Eliot Teltscher , and No. 11Brian Gottfried .In 1981, Glickstein won the
South Orange, New Jersey Grand Prix, becoming the first Israeli to win a tennis grand prix.Glickstein played until 1988, then became the director of the Israel Tennis Academy in
Ramat Hasharon from 1992-96.In the spring of 1998 he was still managing the Israeli Davis and
Federation Cup teams.Davis Cup
Glickstein was 44-22, and 22-4 on hard courts, in
Davis Cup play from 1976-87. [http://www.daviscup.com/teams/player.asp?player=10000523]He is Israel's all-time leader in total wins, singles wins (31), and doubles wins (13). As of 2008, his 44 wins was twice that of the Israeli with the second-most Davis Cup wins,
Amos Mansdorf .Maccabiah Games
Glickstein won the men's singles in tennis at the
1981 Maccabiah Games , the first Israeli to win a Maccabiah tennis championship.Miscellaneous
Glickstein trained at
Israel Tennis Centers . [ [http://www.tennis.org.il/EItcChampions.html ITC Champions] ]External links
* [http://www.daviscup.com/teams/player.asp?player=10000523 Davis Cup record]
* [http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/playerprofiles/default2.asp?playersearch=glickstein Official ATP profile]
* [http://jewishsportshalloffame.com/Hebrew/JSHF/ShlomoGlickstein.htm Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]
* [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:39id1m0eKcIJ:www.jewsinsports.org/tennis.asp%3FID%3D77+shlomo+glickstein&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11&gl=us Jews in Sports bio]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=GWE_lEPfHpIC&pg=RA4-PA98&lpg=RA4-PA98&dq=shlomo+glickstein&source=web&ots=LHKnZbr0ge&sig=sR30OmdUd6uVsQO6BNBIrPSbw8A Great Jews in Sports]References
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