Efe Üstündağ (born 15 January 1977) is a Turkish former professional
tennis
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player. He was a member of the
Turkey Davis Cup team
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from 1998 to 2001 and won two
ITF Futures
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doubles titles.
Üstündağ, a native of
Istanbul
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, has been
Rice University
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Rice University comp ...
men's head coach since 2012. He was both the 2016 and 2017 C-USA tennis Coach of the Year. A former Rice University player, Üstündağ twice earned All-American honors. In 1999 he and Shane Stone were NCAA doubles quarter-finalists.
ITF Futures finals
Doubles: 6 (2–4)
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1977 births
Living people
Turkish male tennis players
Rice Owls men's tennis players
Expatriate tennis players in the United States
Rice Owls men's tennis coaches
Tennis players from Istanbul
20th-century Turkish sportsmen