Thomas Buchmayer (born 14 February 1971) is a former professional
tennis
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player from Austria.
Biography
Buchmayer, a left-handed player from Sankt Pölten, was coached by
Jan Kukal
Jan Kukal (born 13 September 1942) is a former professional tennis player who competed for Czechoslovakia.
Career
Kukal won the Czechoslovakian National Championships in 1968, the same year that he played his first Davis Cup tie for his country. ...
.
Turning professional in 1989, he made the round of 16 as a wildcard at Kitzbühel that year, withs wins over
Tomás Carbonell
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Carbonell won 2 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ATP Tour in his career. He won French Open in 2001 in mixed doubles with Virginia Ruano Pasc ...
and world number 12 Alberto Mancini.
In 1991 he made his debut for the
Austria Davis Cup team
The Austria Davis Cup team represents Austria in the Davis Cup and is governed by Tennis Austria. In 2010 Austria was re-promoted to the World Group after being relegated to the Europa/Africa Zone Group I only one year earlier. In 2012, Austria ...
and featured in two World Group ties. He played a reverse singles match in the first, against
Karel Nováček
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, but the Austrians had already lost the tie. His other tie was a qualifier in Manchester against
Great Britain
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. He lost the opening singles match to Jeremy Bates in four sets, then later played in the last of the reserve singles, by which time the British team had taken Austria's place in the World Group. His reserve singles fixture, against Mark Petchey, was unfinished, abandoned at 6–6 in the first set.
His next Davis Cup match came in 1993, when Austria were up against
New Zealand
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in Christchurch. Back in the World Group, Austria were playing a tie to avoid relegation and won 3–2. Buchmayer featured in the doubles match with Alex Antonitsch, which they lost to
Kelly Evernden
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Evernden turned professional in 1985 and won his first tour doubles title in 1986 at Cologne. His first top-level singles title came in 198 ...
and Brett Steven.
Buchmayer's only final on the ATP Tour came in the doubles at the 1997 Austrian Open in Kitzbühel. He and partner Thomas Strengberger accounted for top seeds
Luis Lobo
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He reached his career high doubles ranking, World No. 12, on ...
and
Andrei Olhovskiy
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Career
Olhovskiy represented the Sovie ...
in the semi-finals, but were unable to get past the Australian pairing of Wayne Arthurs and
Richard Fromberg
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Tennis career
Fromberg began playing tennis at the age of 10. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.Israeli players
Noam Behr
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His career-high singles ranking was No. 127 (October 2001), and his career-high doubles ranking was No. 109 (October 1999).
T ...
and Eyal Erlich in Ramat Hasaron. Partnered with Wolfgang Schranz, the Austrian's lost the match and also the tie.
ATP Tour career finals
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Challenger titles
Singles: (2)
Doubles: (2)
See also
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List of Austria Davis Cup team representatives
This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Austria Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. Austria have taken part in the competition since 1905.
Players
''Last updated after the 2020 Davis Cup qualifying round.''
Re ...