Croatia
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n businessman and former professional
tennis
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player who competed for
Yugoslavia
, common_name = Yugoslavia
, life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation
, p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia
, flag_p ...
.
Tennis career
Orešar had a highly successful junior tennis career. He is a three-time winner of
Orange Bowl
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, his third win coming after beating the then-16-year-old
Boris Becker
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in the final. At one time he was the number one ranked junior in the world.
Orešar's senior career was less successful. Apart from winning two gold medals in the
1987 Summer Universiade
The 1987 Summer Universiade, also known as the XIV Summer Universiade, took place in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. It involved participants from 111 countries and over 6,000 individual sportspersons and members from delegations.
Infrastruc ...
(in singles and in mixed doubles with
Sabrina Goleš
Sabrina Goleš (born 3 June 1965) is a former Yugoslav tennis player.
Biography
Sabrina Goleš was ranked no. 3 among juniors in the world in 1983 (in the juniors, she won the Italian Open and Rolex Port Washington, reached the semifinals at Ro ...
), his biggest singles tournament successes were reaching the finals of
Athens
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and
Båstad
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in 1988 and 1989 respectively. A persistent back injury forced him into early retirement from professional tennis in 1991. His highest ATP ranking was #46 in May 1989.
In the early 1990s Orešar took part in founding the Croatian Tennis Association and coached the Croatian national tennis team. In 1995 he bought Jadrankamen, a
Brač
Brač is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, with an area of ,
making it the largest island in Dalmatia, and the third largest in the Adriatic. It is separated from the mainland by the Brač Channel, which is wide. In 2005 he made the list of 1000 most powerful people in Croatia, compiled by ''
Nacional
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