Dan Goldberg (born September 6, 1967) is an American former professional

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. Goldberg, a left-handed player from Avon, Connecticut, played collegiate tennis in the late 1980s for the

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, where he was a three-time All-American and was named four times on the All-Big Ten team. As a sophomore in 1987 he reached the final of the NCAA singles championship, losing to Miami's

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. He was named Big Ten Athlete of the Year in 1988 and Big Ten Sportsman of the Year in 1989. On the professional tour, Goldberg had a career high singles ranking of 276 in the world and was a quarter-finalist at the 1988 OTB Open in Schenectady, with wins over Jon Levine and Charles Beckman. In 1988 he also took a set off third seed and eventual runner-up Aaron Krickstein in a first round loss at the

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Grand Prix tournament. He won two bronze medals, in the men's and mixed doubles, at the

1989 Maccabiah Games The 13th Maccabiah Games brought 4,500 athletes to Israel from 45 nations. Jewish athletes from Hungary participated for the first time since World War II, Jewish athletes from Russia had been permitted, by their country, to play for the first ti ...

in Israel.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldberg, Dan 1967 births Living people American male tennis players Michigan Wolverines men's tennis players Jewish American tennis players Maccabiah Games medalists in tennis Maccabiah Games bronze medalists for the United States Competitors at the 1989 Maccabiah Games Tennis players from Connecticut People from Avon, Connecticut Sportspeople from Hartford County, Connecticut 21st-century American Jews Jews from Connecticut