| Residence | Darmstadt, Germany | ||||||||
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| Born | 1960 or 1961 (age 63–64) Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||
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| Davis Cup | 1–1 | ||||||||
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Zoran Petković (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Петковић) is a Bosnia-born tennis coach and former player who competed for Yugoslavia. He is an ethnic Serb.
Career
Petković won a doubles silver medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games partnering with Zoltan Ilin. In the early 1980s he took part in two Davis Cup ties for Yugoslavia; he lost a dead rubber to former World No. 1 Romania's Ilie Năstase in straight sets in 1980.
Also in the early 1980s, he played college tennis for the South Carolina Gamecocks men's tennis.
Personal life
His older daughter is German tennis player Andrea Petkovic, whom he has coached in the past.
References
- "Der Tennisvater der besonderen Art". tennisnet.com (in German). 31 March 2011.
- "Tennistrainer Zoran Petkovic über den Weg zum Davis Cup". faz.net (in Serbian). 1 October 2019.
- ITF profile
- Walker, William (2010). German and Bosnian Voices in a Time of Crisis: Bosnian Refugees in Germany 1992–2002 (1st ed.). Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-608446-605.
- Davis Cup profile
- "Petkovic feels at home in Charleston". postandcourier.com. 3 April 2015.
- "Andrea Petkovic Bio". wtatennis.com.
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Tuzla
- Serbian male tennis players
- Yugoslav male tennis players
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
- Competitors at the 1979 Mediterranean Games
- South Carolina Gamecocks men's tennis players
- Expatriate tennis players in the United States
- Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina