Reinhart Probst (born 17 April 1957) is a former professional
tennis player from Germany.
Biography
Probst was a right-handed player, born in
Coburg. In 1977 he partnered
Ulrich Marten
Ulrich Marten (born 7 January 1956) is a former professional tennis player from West Germany.
Career
Marten was a doubles quarterfinalist at the 1976 Australian Open, with partner Rolf Gehring.
In 1977 he had wins over both Robin Drysdale and Am ...
in the men's doubles at the
Wimbledon Championships and ended the year by winning a tour event in Zurich, with
Nikola Pilić
Nikola "Niki" Pilić (born 27 August 1939) is a Croatian former professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia.
He was one of the Handsome Eight. Pilić was ranked world No. 6 in January 1968 and world No. 7 for 1967 by Lance Tinga ...
.
He featured in two
Davis Cup
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ties for
West Germany in 1978, the first an away fixture against
Switzerland
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, in which he and
Ulrich Pinner had the distinction of securing the tie by winning the doubles rubber. It was again Pinner that he partnered with when he played West Germany's doubles rubber in Budapest, a four set loss to
Hungarian players
and
Balázs Taróczy.
In 1979 he had the best singles performance of his career when he made the semi-finals in
Bogota, with wins over
Andrés Gómez,
Iván Molina and
Roger Guedes.
He returned to the West German Davis Cup team in 1980, for a Europe Zone semi-final against
Sweden
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in Bastad. The Swedes had a 2–0 lead going into the doubles and Probst and his partner
Rolf Gehring needed a win to keep the tie alive, which they did with a straight sets victory, over the Swedish pairing of
Per Hjertquist
Per Hjertquist (born 6 April 1960) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. During his career he won one singles title and one doubles title. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 68 in 1980 and a career-high doubles r ...
and
Stefan Simonsson, before
Björn Borg
Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles with six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimb ...
ended West Germany's campaign in the reverse singles.
On the
Grand Prix circuit in 1980 he was runner-up in the doubles at the
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and had another win over Andrés Gómez, en route to the quarter-finals of the singles event at the 1980 Stuttgart Indoor.
Grand Prix career finals
Doubles: 1 (1–1)
See also
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List of Germany Davis Cup team representatives
This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Germany Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. Germany have taken part in the competition since 1913. The team was known as West Germany from 1961 to 1990.
Germany/West Germany play ...
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1957 births
Living people
West German male tennis players
German male tennis players
Sportspeople from Coburg
Tennis players from Bavaria