Patrik Kühnen (; born 11 February 1966) is a German former professional
tennis player
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, who turned professional in 1985.
Kühnen had his biggest career singles win in the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1988 when he beat
Jimmy Connors
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en route to the quarterfinals in which he lost to eventual champion
Stefan Edberg
Jan Stefan Edberg (; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in both men's singles and men's doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), one of two players in the ...
. The right-hander reached his highest singles
ATP-ranking on May 15, 1989, when he became the number 43 of the world. He won three doubles titles during his career. He was part of the German
Davis Cup
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teams that won the competition in 1988 and 1993. Since 2003 he is the captain for Germany's Davis Cup team and also coaches the German team in the
World Team Cup
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which won the competition in 2005 and 2011.
ATP career finals
Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Doubles (1–2)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
External links
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1966 births
Living people
German male tennis players
Hopman Cup competitors
People from Püttlingen
West German male tennis players
German tennis coaches
20th-century German sportsmen