Career
He represented his native country as at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he was defeated in the third round by Switzerland"s Roger Federer. He also reached the final of 2000 Majorca Open winning en route to the final some specialist at clay like Francisco Clavet or Mariano Puerta, and only an almighty Marat Safin could stop him. He reached his highest singles Association of Tennis Professionals-ranking on 14 October 1996, when he became world northern
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He was the first player to be beaten by Gustavo Kuerten in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at the Australian Open in 1997. He is running the Good to Great Tennis Academy together with Magnus Norman and Nicklas Kulti and coaching Grigor Dimitrov.