1. Fernando Meligeni won three singles titles and reached the semifinals of both the 1999 French Open and the 1996 Summer Olympics.
13 Facts About Fernando Meligeni
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Fernando Meligeni was known for taking matches to the limit.
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Fernando Meligeni has a younger sister, Paula, the mother of two tennis players, Felipe and Carolina Meligeni Alves.
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Fernando Meligeni applied to get Brazilian citizenship as a teenager, and took him five years to complete the process.
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Fernando Meligeni is married to actress Carol Hubner, with whom he has two children.
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Fernando Meligeni turned professional in 1990, opting for Brazilian nationality, although his parents and sister disagreed with this.
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Fernando Meligeni won his first ATP Tour singles title in 1995, at the Swedish Open in Bastad, Sweden.
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In 1996, Fernando Meligeni won his second ATP Tour singles title in Pinehurst, North Carolina, defeating veteran Mats Wilander in the final.
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In 1996, ranked 93rd of the ATP rankings, Fernando Meligeni was one of the 64 competitors that would directly enter the upcoming tennis tournament of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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In 1998, Fernando Meligeni won his third and last ATP Tour singles title in Prague, Czech Republic, beating then world No 6, Yevgeny Kafelnikov from Russia, on the way.
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Fernando Meligeni reached his peak in the following year, with a strong performance at the 1999 French Open in Paris, France.
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Fernando Meligeni defeated Justin Gimelstob, Younes El Aynaoui as well as seeds No 3, Patrick Rafter from Australia, No 14, Felix Mantilla from Spain, and No 6, Alex Corretja from Spain, only to fall in the semifinals to Ukrainian Andrei Medvedev.
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Fernando Meligeni retired from professional tennis in 2003, playing his last match against Marcelo Rios from Chile in the final of the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic which he won in three sets.