Arafat Chekrouni (born 7 October 1966) is a former

tennis player 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 cove ...

from

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

. Chekrouni represented his native country at the

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, where he was defeated in the second round by

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Paolo Canè Paolo Canè (born 9 April 1965; ) is a former tennis player from Italy. Canè turned professional in 1983. During his career, he won three top-level singles titles (Bordeaux in 1986, Båstad in 1989, and Bologna in 1991) and achieved much succe ...

. The Moroccan reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 27 October 1986, when he became World Number 369. Chekrouni participated in eleven Davis Cup ties for Morocco from 1984–1992, posting a 7-8 record in singles and a 2-5 record in doubles.

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* * * 1966 births Moroccan male tennis players Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players for Morocco Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Morocco Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Morocco Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis Competitors at the 1987 Mediterranean Games 20th-century Moroccan people 21st-century Moroccan people {{Morocco-tennis-bio-stub