Alexander Irakliyevich Metreveli ( ka, ალექსანდრე მეტრეველი, tr, ; russian: Александр Ираклиевич Метревели ; born 2 November 1944) is a retired

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tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player of

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background. He is an

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. His grandson

Aleksandre Metreveli Aleksandre Metreveli ( ka, ალექსანდრე მეტრეველი, tr, ; born 10 August 1993), nicknamed Sandro, is a Georgian tennis player. Metreveli has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 264 achieved on 6 Jun ...

, also a professional tennis player, has represented

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in the

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Career

In 1962, aged 17, Metreveli lost 8–10, 6–3, 4–6 to

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in the final of the

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boys' championship. He is best known for making the final at Wimbledon in

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, where he lost to

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of Czechoslovakia. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 in 1974 and won 9 ATP singles titles in his career. Metreveli was a member of the

Dynamo sports society Dynamo, also Dinamo, (; , Belarusian: Дынама, ka, დინამო) was a sports and fitness society created in 1923 in the Soviet Union. The society was an association of multi-sport clubs whose members were drawn from the NKVD and, a ...

. He competed in professional tour events during the 1970s.

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Mixed doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

References

External links

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Metreveli Tennis Academy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Metreveli, Alexander 1944 births Living people Dynamo sports society athletes Male tennis players from Georgia (country) Sportspeople from Tbilisi Soviet male tennis players Russian television presenters Soviet television presenters Tennis commentators