Daniel Lencina-Ribes (born 5 February 1977) is a retired professional

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player who is born in

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. He got by presidential decree, from president Paksas, the Lithuanian nationality and represented Lithuania at international tennis tournaments. He was number one from Lithuania in the ATP ranking for 322 weeks and a member of Lithuania Davis Cup team for five years. At the moment he is married and lives in Germany where after being the director of the Lencina tennis school, he is working as a clinical psychologist in a psychiatric hospital.

ITF Men's Circuit career finals

Doubles

Davis Cup

He was a member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team, he has an 11–4 record in singles and an 8–5 record in doubles in 20 ties played. Also, he was partnering

Rolandas Muraška Rolandas Muraška (born March 13, 1973) is a retired Lithuanian professional tennis player and a former member of Lithuania Davis Cup team. He was the first Lithuanian who got ranked by ATP (July 26, 1993) and he was also the highest ranked Lit ...

and Gvidas Sabeckis, making with the last one of the best doubles team that ever represented Lithuania, together they have a 6–4 record.Lithuania team
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* * * Lithuanian male tennis players 1977 births Living people {{Lithuania-tennis-bio-stub