Laurence Tieleman (born 14 November 1972) is a former

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player from Italy.

Personal life

Tieleman has a

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father and an Italian mother, both working for the

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. He began playing tennis at age seven and attended the

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Tennis Academy in

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, FL, United States from ages 13 to 17. Tieleman resided in both Assisi and

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during his playing career.

Tennis career

Turning professional in 1993, he won one tour-level doubles title ( Tashkent in 1998) and 3 Challenger events in singles during his career. Tieleman's best singles performance was finishing runner-up at Queen's in

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. The right-hander reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 76 in April 1999.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 5 (3–2)

Doubles: 17 (7–10)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

* * * 1972 births Living people Italian male tennis players Italian people of Dutch descent People from Assisi Sportspeople from Brussels Sportspeople from the Province of Perugia Belgian people of Italian descent {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub