George Kalovelonis (

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: Γεώργιος Καλοβελώνης; born 23 August 1959) 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

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, who represented his native country as a lucky loser at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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. There he was defeated in the first round by fellow lucky loser Bong-Soo Kim from

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. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 23 June 1986, when he became World Number 208. Kalovelonis represented Greece in

Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ...

matches from 1978 through 1992. Kalovelonis is the coach of

Anna Gerasimou Anna Gerasimou ( el, Άννα Γερασίμου; born 15 October 1987) is a retired Greek tennis player. When she was young, she moved from her birthplace Kavala to Athens in order to pursue a career in tennis. Gerasimou competed in the women ...

and

Vasilis Mazarakis Vasilis Mazarakis ( el, Βασίλης Μαζαράκης, link=no; born 9 February 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Greece. Career Mazarakis teamed up with Eleni Daniilidou to represent Greece in the 2002 Hopman Cup, but they l ...

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* * 1959 births Living people Greek male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Greece Sportspeople from Athens Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics 20th-century Greek people {{Greece-tennis-bio-stub