Arnar Sigurðsson (born 24 November 1981) is a retired

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player from

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. He was a decorated NCAA men’s college tennis performer at the University of the Pacific in

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. He earned four letters at Pacific (2002–05) and graduated in 2006. He holds school records for most career wins (175), most career singles wins (98), most singles wins in a season (34), highest career winning percentage (.784) and highest singles winning percentage in a season (.895). He earned Big West Player of the Year honors in 2005 and won a Big West-best seven Athlete of the Week awards in his career. Sigurðsson had a career high ATP singles ranking of 703 achieved on 7 May 2007. He also had a career high ATP doubles ranking of 518 achieved on 8 October 2007. Sigurðsson holds the record for the number of Icelandic national titles, winning 15 singles, 15 doubles and 8 mixed doubles titles in his career. Sigurðsson represented

at the

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, where he had a W/L record of 64–31. He holds the most Davis Cup victories for Iceland and was awarded with the Davis Cup Commitment Award.

Future and Challenger finals

Doubles 5 (3–2)

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* * * 1981 births Living people

Arnar Sigurdsson Arnar is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Arnar Freyr Arnarsson (born 1996), Icelandic handball player *Arnar Freyr Frostason (born 1988), an Icelandic rapper (also known as Arnar Úlfur) *Arnar Grétarsson (born 1972), Icelandi ...

Icelandic male tennis players 21st-century Icelandic sportsmen {{Iceland-bio-stub