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Shlomo Glickstein (born 6 January 1958 in Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
) is a former professional tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
 player from Israel. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in November 1982.

Tennis career
When he was 10 years old, Glickstein began playing tennis, and at the age of 16 he gave up basketball and soccer to focus solely on the sport. By the time he finished the juniors, he was one of the top 10 juniors in the world.






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Shlomo Glickstein (born 6 January 1958 in Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
) is a former professional tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
 player from Israel. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in November 1982.

Tennis career


When he was 10 years old, Glickstein began playing tennis, and at the age of 16 he gave up basketball and soccer to focus solely on the sport. By the time he finished the juniors, he was one of the top 10 juniors in the world. His career was hampered by the fact that he had to serve three years in the Israeli military at a key point in his athletic development (ages 18-21).

Shortly after turning pro, he won his third straight Israeli National championship.

In 1980, Glickstein gained international fame when he defeated Raúl Ramírez
Raúl Ramírez

Ra?l Ram?rez is a Mexican former professional tennis player of the 1970s and 1980s. He attended and played tennis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California....
, who was ranked World No. 35, in the first-round at Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely considered the most prestigious....
. After losing to eventual champion Björn Borg
Björn Borg

is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from Sweden who is widely regarded by observers and tennis players as one of the greatest players in the sport's history....
 in the second round, Glickstein won the Wimbledon Plate, the consolation tournament.

Glickstein's most memorable career victory was over World No. 1 Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl

Ivan Lendl is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player of Czechs origin. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s....
 6-2, 3-6, 7-5. Glickstein also defeated ninth-seeded Harold Solomon
Harold Solomon

Harold Solomon was an American professional tennis player during the 1970s and 1980s. He achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world in 1980....
, No. 10 Eliot Teltscher
Eliot Teltscher

Eliot Teltscher is a retired professional American tennis player....
, and No. 11 Brian Gottfried
Brian Gottfried

Brian Edward Gottfried is a retired tennis player from the United States who won 25 singles titles and 54 doubles titles during his professional career....
.

In 1981, Glickstein won the South Orange, New Jersey
South Orange, New Jersey

South Orange Village is a prosperous suburban district of the New York Metropolitan Area located in South Orange township in Essex County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States....
 Grand Prix, becoming the first Israeli to win a tennis grand prix
Grand Prix tennis tournaments

The Grand Prix tennis circuit was a professional tennis circuit that existed from 1970 to 1989. During some of this time it co-existed with a rival tour, World Championship Tennis ....
.

Glickstein played until 1988, then became the director of the Israel Tennis Academy in Ramat Hasharon
Ramat Hasharon

File:Location_ramathasharon.pngRamat HaSharon is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon, Israel region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south and Herzliya and Glil Yam to the north....
 from 1992-96.

In the spring of 1998 he was still managing the Israeli Davis and Fed Cup
Fed Cup

Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 Federation Cup to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation ....
 teams.

Davis Cup

Glickstein was 44-22, and 22-4 on hard courts, in Davis Cup
Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. The largest annual international team competition in sports, the Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format....
 play from 1976-87.

He is Israel's all-time leader in total wins, singles wins (31), and doubles wins (13). As of 2008, his 44 wins was twice that of the Israeli with the second-most Davis Cup wins, Amos Mansdorf
Amos Mansdorf

Amos Mansdorf is a former professional tennis player from Israel. He reached his career-high ranking of World No. 18, the highest ever of any Israeli male tennis player, in November 1987....
.

Maccabiah Games

Glickstein won the men's singles in tennis at the 1981 Maccabiah Games
1981 Maccabiah Games

The 1981 11th Maccabiah Games brought 3,450 athletes to Israel from 30 nations.The 30-sports menu included sailing and softball for the first time....
, the first Israeli to win a Maccabiah tennis championship.

Miscellaneous

Glickstein trained at Israel Tennis Centers
Israel Tennis Centers

Israel Tennis Centers is the largest tennis program for children in the world, reaching more than 350,000 families -- 5% of the Israeli population....
.

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