Jeff Klaparda
Full name | Jeff Klaparda |
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Country (sports) | ![]() |
Born | Los Angeles, California |
November 7, 1963
Turned pro | 1986 |
Plays | Right-handed |
Singles | |
Career record | 5–9 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 153 (July 13, 1987) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
US Open | 2R (1984) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 15–23 |
Career titles | 1 |
Highest ranking | No. 59 (August 31, 1987) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (1989) |
Wimbledon | 3R (1987) |
US Open | 2R (1987) |
Jeff Klaparda (born November 7, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.
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Biography
Klaparda, who is Jewish, won a gold medal at the 1981 Maccabiah Games, in the mixed doubles with Andrea Leand.[1]
He went to UCLA in the early 1980s and was an All-American player on the tennis team. In the 1984 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships he was captain of the UCLA side that won the Championship and he also made the semi-finals of the singles.[2][3] He won the 1984 USTA National Amateur Clay Courts title.
At a Grand Prix tournament in Cleveland in 1984, Klaparda had an upset win over top 20 player Bill Scanlon, before exiting in the semi-finals.[4] Soon after he qualified for the main draw in the 1984 US Open and beat countryman John Hayes in the first round, then lost a four-set second round match to eight seed Aaron Krickstein.[5] It was his only Grand Slam appearances in singles but he competed in several doubles draws with a best performance coming at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, when he and partner Lloyd Bourne had a win over the sixth seeds Peter Fleming and Gary Donnelly, en route to the third round. It was with Bourne that he won his only Grand Prix title, the doubles at the 1987 Rye Brook Open.[6]
Grand Prix career finals
Doubles: 1 (1–0)
Outcome | No. | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 1987 | Rye Brook, U. S. | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–3 |
Challenger titles
Doubles: (3)
No. | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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1. | 1987 | Lagos, Nigeria | Hard | ![]() |
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6–7, 6–2, 7–6 |
2. | 1988 | Aptos, U. S. | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–4 |
3. | 1988 | New Haven, U. S. | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 7–5 |
References
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External links
- Jeff Klaparda at the Association of Tennis Professionals
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- Living people
- American male tennis players
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- Jewish American sportspeople
- Maccabiah Games tennis players
- Maccabiah Games competitors for the United States
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists
- UCLA Bruins tennis players
- Sportspeople from Los Angeles, California
- Tennis people from California