Chris Pridham (born April 11, 1965) is a former touring professional

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player. Pridham had a career Grand Prix / ATP tour win–loss record of 54 and 78. His career high singles ranking was World No. 75, which he attained in March 1988. The 6'0 right-hander's best tournament results were a semi-finals appearance in the 1987

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, and 1992

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events. His best Grand Slam event showings was reaching the third rounds of the 1988

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and the 1989

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1985

Pridham played his first professional match in March 1985 at the

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Challenger, going down in 3 sets to World No. 60 Leif Shiras 3–6, 6–3, 3–6. He played one other tour event that year, the Player's International, also in Montreal, where he also fell in the first round, this time to World No. 130

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0–6, 6–7.

1986

Pridham played in 8 challenger tennis events and one grand prix event for the 1986, going 4 wins, 8 losses at the challenger level and 0 and 1 in grand prix events. He won his first match of his touring year over World No. 151

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7–5, 7–6 before losing in the next round, at the

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-1 Challenger in February. The following week at the

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Challenger he lost in the first round. The following month Pridham fell in the first round at the

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-1 Challenger and two weeks later he had the same result at the San Luis Potosi Challenger. Pridham resumed tour play in September, defeating World No. 127 Jon Levine in the first round at the West Palm, FL Challenger before falling to World No. 246

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in straight sets. The following week in

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he lost World No. 241

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in the first round in three sets. Then in November he played in only grand prix event of the year, the Stockholm Open, losing there in the first round as well, to World No. 167

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three and three. Pridham then went 1 and 1 the following week at the

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Challenger and again the next week at the Benin-2 Challenger. He finished the year World No. 263 in singles and No. 408 in doubles. Most notable win defeating Bjorn Borg in 1992. (to come)

Davis Cup

As a

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player for

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between 1988 and 1990, Pridham had a career singles win-lose record of 4 and 5.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 5 (2–3)

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Performance timeline

Singles

External links

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