Frank Punčec (born 9 July 1951) is a South African former professional

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player.

Biography

Punčec is the son of Croatian tennis player

Franjo Punčec Franjo Punčec (; 25 November 1913 – 5 January 1985) was a Yugoslav tennis player. He played for the Yugoslavian team at the International Lawn Tennis Challenge from 1933 to 1946. Early life and family Punčec started playing tennis at the ...

, who played for the Yugoslav Davis Cup team. His parents emigrated to South Africa in 1948 and Frank was born soon after in 1951, one of three children to Franjo and Zora. As a professional player in the 1980s he reached a best singles ranking of 179 in the world. Most notably he featured in the main draw of the

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, where he was beaten in the first round by countryman

Danie Visser Danie Visser (born 26 July 1961) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles (two Australian Open and one US Open). Visser reached the world No. 1 doubles rankin ...

. A car collector in his spare time, Punčec owns a range of

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CS coupés.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Puncec, Frank 1951 births Living people South African male tennis players South African people of Croatian descent Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century South African sportsmen