Erling L'Orsa Tveit (born 28 December 1984) is a former
tennis
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player from Norway.
Tennis career
Tveit played collegiate tennis for the
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university that is located adjacent to Oxford, Mississippi, and has a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and its largest by enrollment.
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before turning professional, earning All-American honours for singles and doubles in both 2006 and 2007.
Tveit made his debut for the
Norway Davis Cup team
The Norway Davis Cup team represents Norway in the Davis Cup competition and is governed by the Norwegian Tennis Association.
Norway currently compete in World Group I. They never qualified for the World Group in the old Davis Cup format, thou ...
in 2003 against
Luxembourg
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. He had a 10-year Davis Cup career and won 9 of the 18 singles matches and 7 of the 14 doubles matches that he played.
His one
ATP tour main draw appearance was at the
2007 Swedish Open
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Second-seeded David F ...
, when he lost in the first round to
Fernando Verdasco.
Tveit mainly participated on the
ATP Challenger Tour
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and the
Futures
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circuit. He had a career best singles ranking of 484 on the professional tour and a best doubles ranking of 713, winning three
ITF Futures doubles tournaments.
ITF Futures titles
Doubles: (3)
See also
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Norwegian Davis Cup players
References
External links
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1984 births
Living people
Norwegian male tennis players
Ole Miss Rebels men's tennis players
Norwegian expatriate tennis players in the United States
Tennis players from Oslo
21st-century Norwegian people