Jeff Borowiak is a former tennis player from the United States, who won five singles and three doubles titles during his professional career. He played number one singles on one of the greatest collegiate tennis team of all time for the UCLA Bruins. Haroon Rahim

Haroon Rahim

Haroon Rahim, is a Pakistani former tennis player. The former Pakistan and Asian number one, Rahim was the youngest tennis player ever to play for Pakistan in the Davis Cup at 15 years of age. He was also the highest ranking Pakistani tennis player ever...

 played number two singles, Jimmy Connors

Jimmy Connors

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 played at number three. Borowiak and Connors were NCAA champions, while Rahim remains the youngest player ever to represent his country in the Davis Cup

Davis Cup

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 competition. Others on the team included Modesto Vazquez, Jeff Austin, Elio Alvarez, and the Kreiss Brothers.

The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP

Association of Tennis Professionals

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-ranking on December 31, 1977, when he became the World No. 25.

Borowiak was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Hall of Fame.

Personal

Borowiak is also an accomplished musician, mastering the flute and the piano. He was also indirectly involved in the formation of the group Metallica

Metallica

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 when he invested in his friend and Danish fellow player Torben Ulrich

Torben Ulrich

Torben Ulrich is a Danish writer, musician, filmmaker, and former tennis pro.-Biography:He was born on October 4, 1928. Ulrich played on the tennis tour from the late 1940s into the 1970s, and on the Tennis Grand Masters tour in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976 he was the top-ranked senior player in...

's son band Lars Rocket, which later became Metallica.

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