Rolandas Muraška | |
Residence: | Vilnius, Lithuania |
Birth Date: | 13 March 1973 |
Birth Place: | Klaipėda, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
Retired: | 2005 |
Plays: | Right-handed |
Careerprizemoney: | $8,254 |
Singlestitles: | 0 Futures: 5 [1] |
Highestsinglesranking: | No. 575 (August 13, 2001) |
Doublestitles: | 0 Futures: 1 |
Highestdoublesranking: | No. 1100 (July 10, 2006) |
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 Lithuanian for 259 weeks in total.
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width=80 | Outcome | width=125 | Date | width=175 | Tournament | width=75 | Surface | width=175 | Opponent | width=120 | Score |
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Winner | August 20, 2000 | Vilnius, Lithuania | Grass | Marko Tkalec | 6–1, 6–4 | ||||||
Winner | August 5, 2001 | Pärnu, Estonia | Clay | Filip Aniola | 6–1, 6–5 ret. | ||||||
Runner-up | August 15, 2004 | Vilnius, Lithuania | Clay | Javier García-Sintes | 3–6, 6–3, 1–6 |
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Runner-up | August 4, 2002 | Pärnu, Estonia | Clay | Daniel Lencina-Ribes | Mait Künnap Tapio Nurminen | 1–6, 4–6 | |||||||
Winner | August 21, 2005 | Vilnius, Lithuania | Clay | Dekel Valtzer | Johan Brunström Lauri Kiiski | 6–3, 2–6, 6–3 |
Muraška holds the record of being a member of Lithuania Davis Cup team for the longest time period – 12 years – from the debut of Lithuania in Davis Cup competition in 1994 until his retirement in 2005. Also, he played most ties representing Lithuania (49) and he won the most singles (37) and the most doubles (19) matches in the history of Lithuanian team.[2]