Grzegorz Panfil (; born 1 January 1988)
is a
Polish
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* Polish language
* Poles
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professional
tennis
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player.
Career highlights
Panfils' highlights include his win at the F1 Ukrainian Futures Tournament, and his achievements at the
Hopman Cup
The Hopman Cup is an international eight-team indoor hardcourt tennis tournament that played mixed-gender teams on a country-by-country basis.It was held in Perth, Western Australia each year from 1989 to 2019, before being replaced on the calen ...
.
Hopman Cup
At the 2014 Hopman Cup he represented Poland with
Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player. She won 20 career singles WTA Tour titles, two doubles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 on 9 July 2012. Her achiev ...
. The pairing made it to the final, and on the way Panfil defeated 11th-ranked
Milos Raonic
Milos Raonic (; sr, Милош Раонић, Miloš Raonić, ; born December 27, 1990) is a Canadian inactive professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professio ...
7–6
(7–1), 6–3 (at the time Panfil was ranked World No. 288). The talent he displayed through his play at the tournament led for repeated calls by the broadcast commentators (including
Darren Cahill
Darren Cahill (born 2 October 1965) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Australia. In addition, Cahill is a tennis analyst for the Grand Slam events on the US sports network ESPN and a coach with the Adidas Player Devel ...
) for Panfil to be offered
wildcard
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* Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games
* Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal pla ...
entry into the
Australian Open. The Hopman Cup provided the largest prize-money win of his career, and in the final he played in front of the largest stadium crowd (''circa'' 10000), to date.
Australian Open
Panfil would eventually enter the qualifying round at the
Australian Open as an Alternate. He lost in the first round to
Lorenzo Giustino
Lorenzo Giustino (; born 10 September 1991, in Naples) is an Italian tennis player.
Giustino has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 127 achieved on 12 August 2019 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of 311 achieved on 15 April 2019.
Giusti ...
, 3–6, 6–4, 3–6.
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 23 (11–12)
Doubles: 57 (32–25)
References:
* ITFTennis.com
* TennisLive.net
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Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (1–0)
References
External links
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Polish male tennis players
Hopman Cup competitors
1988 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Zabrze
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles