Tomasz Iwański (born 5 December 1968) is a Polish former professional
tennis
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 ...
player. A winner of nine national championships, he is head coach of the Polish Tennis Association and formerly coached top-10 player
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna "Nadia" Petrova (russian: Надежда Викторовна Петрова ; born 8 June 1982) is a Russian former professional tennis player. A former top-five player in both singles and doubles, she reached a career-high ...
.
A native of
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...
, Iwański was runner-up to
Wojciech Kowalski
Wojciech "Wojtek" Kowalski (born 10 October 1967 in Inowrocław) is a former tennis player from Poland.
Career
Kowalski represented his native country as a qualifier at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he was defeated in the first round ...
at the Polish national championships in 1989, but won four men's doubles championships during his career as well as one mixed doubles title. He was national indoor singles champion in 1991 and a three-time men's doubles indoor champion.
Iwański competed for the
Poland Davis Cup team between 1989 and 1994. He helped Poland gain promotion to Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 1990, winning two singles rubbers in the final against
Norway
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. Appearing in a total of 10 ties, he won eight singles and four doubles rubbers for his country.
Challenger titles
Doubles: (1)
See also
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List of Poland Davis Cup team representatives
This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Poland Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. Poland have taken part in the competition since 1925.
Players
References
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Lists of Davis Cup tenni ...
References
External links
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1968 births
Living people
Polish male tennis players
Sportspeople from Łódź