Wojciech "Wojtek" Kowalski (born 10 October 1967 in

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Career

Kowalski represented his native country as a qualifier at the

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. There he was defeated in the first round by fellow qualifier

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. He played mostly on the

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tour level and reached four singles finals and winning one title. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 25 July 1988, when he became the number 109 of the world. He is married to Klaudia Kowalski and has two sons, Jonas and Moritz. Right now he is working as a tennis coach for TB Erlangen in his own tennis school ''Tennisschule Kowalski''.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 2 (1–1)

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Performance timeline

Singles

References

External links

* * 1967 births Living people Polish male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Poland Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics People from Inowrocław Sportspeople from Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship {{Poland-tennis-bio-stub