Arvind Parmar (born 1978 in
Hitchin
Hitchin () is a market town and unparished area in the North Hertfordshire Districts of England, district in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 35,842.
History
Hitchin is first noted as the central place of the Hicce peopl ...
,
Hertfordshire
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) is a former British professional
tennis
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player whose career ran from 1997 to 2006. After retiring, he coached British junior No. 1, Ahmed El Menshawy. and also coached another British junior, James Marsalek.
Tour career
1996
Parmar competed in his first ATP tour event in
Bournemouth
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in September 1996, in doubles. Partnering
Paul Robinson, they lost in the first round in 3 sets. Parmar finished 1996 ranked World No. 720 in singles and No. 1081 in doubles.
1997
Parmar played his first tour singles matches in July, 1997, playing in two
challenger events in Britain,
Bristol
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and
Manchester
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. Both played on grass, he lost rather handily in the first round of each event. Parmar also lost in the first round in both events in doubles. He won his first tour event in September as he and partner
Jamie Delgado
Jamie Delgado (born 21 March 1977) is a British tennis coach and former professional player. Delgado has represented Great Britain in the Davis Cup, most recently in 2006.
Delgado holds the all-time male record for playing in consecutive Wimb ...
reached the second round in doubles at the
Scottish Tennis Championships. He finished 1997 ranked World No. 464 in singles and No. 608 in doubles.
1998
Parmar played 12
Futures events in 1998 in singles, going 14 wins, 12 losses. His best result in these tournaments was a semi-finals result at Great Britain F7, played in
Sunderland
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. He went 1 and 4 in challengers, reaching the second round of the
Ahmedabad
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Challenger in December. In doubles play, Parmar reached 3 Futures semi-finals as well as the second round of
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
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, in his first grand slam appearance, partnering
Luke Milligan. Parmar's peak ranking for 1998 was World No. 394 in singles, received in October, and No. 370 in doubles in August.
1999–2002
Parmar qualified for Wimbledon in
1999 beating the no. 25 ranked player in the world,
Albert Costa
Albert Costa i Casals (; born 25 June 1975) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He is best remembered for winning the Men's Singles title at the French Open in 2002.
Tennis career
Costa began playing tennis at the age of five. He ...
(ESP) W 0–6, 7–6
(5), 6–3, 6–3 before losing to compatriot
Greg Rusedski
Gregory Rusedski (born 6 September 1973) is a British and Canadian former tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6 October 1997 to 12 October 1997 and from 25 ...
. During this three-year period under the guidance of his coach
David Sammel
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David has coached ...
he made the second round of Wimbledon three years in a row and qualified for the
2000 Australian Open
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Both Yevgeny Kafelnikov and ...
. He was selected for the UK
Davis Cup
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team regularly from 2000–2006.
2006
Rotterdam Open, Rotterdam
Parmar lost in the second qualifying round in Rotterdam only to be given a lucky loser spot. He went on to beat top 100 player
Paradorn Srichaphan
Paradorn Srichaphan ( th, ภราดร ศรีชาพันธุ์; ; ; born 14 June 1979) is a retired professional tennis player from Thailand. He was the first men's singles player from Asia to be ranked in the top 10 of the ATP rank ...
in the 1st round, 7–6
(3), 5–7, 7–6
(7). In the second round he beat
Dominik Meffert
Dominik Meffert (born 9 April 1981) is a German professional tennis player. He qualified for the 2007 US Open, his only Grand Slam singles competition, but lost in the first round. He recorded a first round victory over 2003 French Open Champio ...
who was the player who beat Parmar in the Qualifying round, 6–3, 6–3. Parmar's good run ended in his quarter-final match against
Christophe Rochus
Christophe Rochus (born 15 December 1978) is a retired professional male tennis player from Belgium.
Rochus is the older brother of Olivier Rochus. He reached the semi-finals of the Hamburg Masters in 2005 and was runner-up in two ATP tournamen ...
, losing in straight sets, 6–3, 6–3.
Davis Cup Euro-Asia Group One, vs Serbia and Montenegro
As
Andy Murray
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was injured and could not play in the 1st day's play, Parmar took his place in the 1st rubber of the tie against Serbia and Montenegro against
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl, Новак Ђоковић, translit=Novak Đoković, ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 for a record total 373 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. 1 ...
and Parmar lost in straight sets 6–3, 6–2, 7–5.
Parmar also played in the last rubber as Serbia and Montenegro won the tie as
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl, Новак Ђоковић, translit=Novak Đoković, ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 for a record total 373 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. 1 ...
beat
Greg Rusedski
Gregory Rusedski (born 6 September 1973) is a British and Canadian former tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6 October 1997 to 12 October 1997 and from 25 ...
in the previous rubber so making the final rubber a
dead-rubber Dead rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches. The dead rubber match therefore has no effect on the winner and loser of the series, other than the ...
as it gave
Serbia & Montenegro
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an unassailable 3–1 lead. So therefore
Andy Murray
Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray h ...
did not play. Parmar did well, although the Davis Cup tie was already decided, winning in straight sets over
Ilija Bozoljac
Ilija Bozoljac ( sr-Cyrl, Илија Бозољац, ; born 2 August 1985) is a former Serbian professional tennis player and coach.
On 29 January 2007, Bozoljac reached his best singles ranking of world No. 101. On 22 February 2016, he peaked at ...
7–5, 6–4.
Tour finals
Singles (2–5)
Post-playing career
Parmar has been a coach for some top junior British players. In addition, he worked as a television analyst for
Eurosport 2
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for the
2011 U.S. Open (if not other telecasts).
References
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English people of Indian descent
English sports broadcasters
English tennis coaches
English male tennis players
Sportspeople from Hitchin
Tennis commentators
1978 births
Living people
People educated at Hitchin Boys' School
British male tennis players
Tennis people from Hertfordshire