Igor Flego (born 13 December 1961) is a former professional
tennis
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player from Croatia who represented Yugoslavia.
Biography
Flego made his debut for the
Yugoslavia Davis Cup team in 1986 as a member of the side which played a
World Group Quarter-final tie against
Czechoslovakia
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in Sarajevo. He played the doubles match with
Slobodan Zivojinovic, which they lost, then went down to
Miloslav Mečíř
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in a dead singles rubber.
In 1987 he appeared again in
Davis Cup
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competition when he played a doubles match in Yugoslavia's
World Group tie in Adelaide. He and partner Zivojinovic lost in four sets to the Australian pairing of
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and
Peter Doohan
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.
He won all of his three
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doubles titles in
1988
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, with wins in
Travemünde
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,
Tampere
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and
Munich
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.
At the
1989 Australian Open
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he managed to qualify for the main doubles draw, with
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as his partner. They made his past the first round by beating Germans
Heiner Moraing and
Torben Theine, then were eliminated in the second round by a seeding pairing,
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and
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.
Challenger titles
Doubles: (3)
See also
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List of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team representatives
References
External links
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1961 births
Living people
Croatian male tennis players
Yugoslav male tennis players