Rolandas Muraška Explained

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.

Career finals

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Futures 5–1 1–1
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Clay 1–1 1–1
Grass 4–0 0–0

Singles

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WinnerAugust 20, 2000 Vilnius, LithuaniaGrass Marko Tkalec6–1, 6–4
WinnerAugust 5, 2001 Pärnu, EstoniaClay Filip Aniola6–1, 6–5 ret.
Runner-upAugust 15, 2004 Vilnius, LithuaniaClay Javier García-Sintes3–6, 6–3, 1–6

Doubles

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Runner-upAugust 4, 2002 Pärnu, EstoniaClay Daniel Lencina-Ribes Mait Künnap
Tapio Nurminen
1–6, 4–6
WinnerAugust 21, 2005 Vilnius, LithuaniaClay Dekel Valtzer Johan Brunström
Lauri Kiiski
6–3, 2–6, 6–3

Davis Cup

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Apie turnyrą | Prezidento Taurė.
  2. http://www.daviscup.com/en/teams/team/profile.aspx?id=LTU Lithuanian team