Ivan can refer to:

People[link]

• Ivan (name), a Slavic masculine given name

Meteorology[link]

• Tropical Storm Ivan - a number of tropical storms (three hurricanes, a typhoon and two cyclones)

Places[link]

• Ivan Mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Iván, a village in Hungary
• Ivaň (Brno-Country District), a village in the Czech Republic
• Ivaň (Prostějov District), a village in the Czech Republic
• Ivan, Russia, a village in Oryol Oblast, Russia

Other[link]

• Ivan (film), the third in Olexandr Dovzhenko's Ukraine Trilogy
• The codename of Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear explosive ever detonated
• Ivan (short story), a Soviet short story.
• Slang for Russians, see Ivan (name)#Slang
• IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem), a roguelike game for Microsoft Windows

See also[link]

• Ivana (disambiguation)

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Georgina "George" Kingsley (born 15 March 1993), most commonly known by her stage name Georgi Kay, is an Australian Indie Pop musician, based in Perth, Western Australia. In 2010 she was the winner of The WAM Song of the Year Award for her original love song 'Breakfast in Bedlam'. Beginning her music career as the lead guitarist for high-school rock band, The Vains, in 2007, Kingsley took over the roles of lead vocalist and songwriter in the band's second year of performing. In 2009 she left The Vains to embark on a solo career under the name Georgi Kay, releasing the EP 'Strange Things' in March 2010 and the single 'Lionheart' in November of the same year. Her debut 11 Track compilation CD is currently available through independent Distribution.^[1][2]

In her short career, Kingsley has already received an impressive array of awards and nominations. In 2009, her second year of competing, Kingsley was awarded the Most Outstanding Performer Award in the My Big Gig competition. Kingsley then won the 2010 MySpace/Sony/fbiradio National Songwriting competition with the song 'You & Me', she is the youngest ever winner of the WAM Song of the Year Award, winning in 2010 with 'Breakfast in Bedlam'. After winning her category in 2010 and being nominated as a category finalist in 2009, she was one of five nominees worldwide in her category in 2011. She has recently been nominated for an Independent Music Award for the song 'Back to Back'.^[3][4]

Her debut single 'Lionheart', recorded at Linear Recording Studios in Sydney and mastered at Abbey Road Studios, was recorded and released in September 2010. Kingsley has since collaborated with Perth hip-hop band The Stoops on the track "Free", featured on a television advertisement for the Australian Foxtel Station 111 Hits.^[5]

Kingsley is a Youth Ambassador for eHeadspace, supporter of LifelineWA, she recently performed at the UnionsWA International Women’s Day celebration. Kingsley announced in December 2010 she is working on three new singles, and her debut album due for release in late 2011.^[6]

In January 2011, Georgi Kay was nominated for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards under the Indie/Alt./Hard Rock category for "Back to Back".^[7]

In January 2012, Georgi was featured on a track named "In My Mind" by Australian house music producers Feenixpawl and Ivan Gough, who is one half of the duo TV Rock. "In My Mind' was released on Axtone Records.

References[link]

For the Kyrgyz politician, see Ivan Rebrov.

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Ivan Rebroff
Background information
Birth name	Hans-Rolf Rippert
Born	(1931-07-31)July 31, 1931 Berlin, Germany
Died	February 27, 2008(2008-02-27) (aged 76) Frankfurt, Germany
Genres	International music
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocals

Ivan Rebroff

Ivan Rebroff

Ivan Rebroff (31 July 1931 – 27 February 2008) was a German singer, allegedly of Russian ancestry, with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to bass registers.^[1]

Rebroff was born in Berlin as Hans-Rolf Rippert. He was famous for singing Russian folk songs, but also performed opera, light classics and folk songs from many other countries. He was known on stage for his gusto. He performed over 6,000 concerts in his career, including a two-year seven-day-a-week stint at the French opera, singing, among other greats, Fiddler on the Roof. Rebroff still performed 12 shows in 14 days when he was well into his seventies, such as on an Australian tour.

Ivan Rebroff described himself as international, the "connection between East and West". He became a citizen of Greece and lived on the Greek island of Skopelos in the Sporades.

He died in Frankfurt after a long illness. Four days after his death, his brother Horst Rippert, who is nine years his senior (and by his own accounts shot down Antoine de Saint Exupéry), claimed part of Ivan's vast fortune.^[2]

LP Discography[link]

Unknown Year[link]

• Favourites from Mother Russia
• Ivan Rebroff (Includes Lara's Theme and other Popular Melodies)

1968[link]

• Folk Songs from Old Russia (Volksweisen aus dem alten Russland)
• Folk Songs from Old Russia Volume II (Volksweisen aus dem alten Russland 2)
• Original russische Liebeslieder
• Na Sdarowje (Ivan sings about Vodka and Wine)
• Slawische Seele (Compilation album shared with Tatjana Ivanow & Dunja Rajter)

1969[link]

• Beim Klang der Balalaika, Au son des Balalaikas (French version of Beim Klang der Balalaika)
• Abendglocken (Compilation)
• Russische Weihnacht mit Ivan Rebroff
• A Russian Christmas (English version of Russische Weihnacht?)
• Un Violon sur le toit (Soundtrack of French production of Fiddler on the Roof)
• Russische Party ("Live" album)
• Festliche Weihnacht (with Regensburger Domspatzen - Boys' Choir)
• A Festive Christmas (Festliche Weihnacht re-issue)

1970[link]

• Somewhere My Love (English language versions)
• Kosaken müssen reiten (German language versions)
• Ivan Rebroff (Compilation?)

1971[link]

• The Best of Ivan Rebroff (Compilation)
• Ivan Rebroff Sing vir Ons (South African Album-Gold Disk Award)
• Vir Jou Suid-Afrika (South African album)
• Ivan Rebroff (Opera)
• Kalinka (Soundtrack from L'Homme qui vient de la Nuit)
• Mein Russland, Du bist schön (German language versions)
• Starportrait (Compilation)
• Zwischen Donau und Don (with Dunja Rajter)

1972[link]

• Erinnerungen an Russland (Russian language versions)
• The Best of Ivan Rebroff Volume II (Compilation)

1973[link]

• Lieder der Welt (Folk songs from around the world)
• Mein Altes Russland (lushly arranged Russian folk songs)
• 25 Greatest Russian Melodies (Compilation with Tatiana Ivanov (2 duets))
• 20 Greatest Hits (Compilation)

1974[link]

• Russische Party 2 ("Live" album)
• Memories of Russia

1975[link]

• Ivan Rebroff at Carnegie Hall (Live at Carnegie Hall)
• Reich Mir Die Hand
• Russische Lieder Von Liebe und Tod

1977[link]

• Midnight in Moscow (Russian language versions)
• Komm mit nach Hellas (German language versions of Greek songs)

1978[link]

• Mitternacht in Moskau (German version of Midnight in Moscow)

1979[link]

• Ave Maria
• Die Ivan Rebroff Versameling (Compilation of South African tracks)

1980[link]

• Zauber einer großen Stimme — 20 unvergängliche Welterfolge
• Zauber einer großen Stimme — Seine größten Welterfolge
• Die schönsten Lieder dieser Welt (Ivan Rebroff singt 20 unvergängliche Melodien)
• Katharina und Potemkin (TV Musical/Operetta)

CD Discography[link]

2002[link]

• Meine Reise um die Welt
• The Great Ivan Rebroff

2003[link]

• Seine Größten Welterfolge
• Best of Ivan Rebroff
• Golden Stars

Compilation albums[link]

• Festliche Weihnachten
• The Art of Ivan Rebroff
• The Best of Russian Folk Songs Vol. 1
• The Best of Russian Folk Songs Vol. 2
• Erinnerungen an das letzte Jahrhundert (Memories of the Last Century)
• Der Zarewitsch
• Die Fledermaus (As Prince Orlofsky, with Carlos Kleiber & Bavarian State Orchestra)
• Weihnachten mit Ivan Rebroff
• Die schönste Stimme Rußlands
• Kosakenträume

Notes[link]

1. ^ The Guinness book of records, 1993
2. ^ "Heimlicher Bruder will Millionen-Vermögen" (29/2/09) in Aktuelle Nachrichten - Bild.de

External links[link]

• Official web site
• Ivan Rebroff Fan Page

Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen
File:IISchmalhausen.jpg Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen
Born	April 23, 1884 Kiev, Russian Empire
Died	October 7, 1963 Leningrad, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian Soviet
Fields	Zoologist, evolutionist
Institutions	University of Tartu Kiev University, others
Alma mater	Kiev University
Doctoral advisor	Alexey Severtzov
Known for	"The Organism as a Whole in its Individual and Historical Development" (1938) Factors of evolution: the theory of stabilizing selection (1949)

Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Шмальга́узен; April 23, 1884 – October 7, 1963) was a Russian and Soviet zoologist and evolutionist. He was one of the central figures in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis.^[1]

Biography[link]

Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) on April 23, 1884 to Luise Schmalhausen (Luisa Ludwigovna Schmalhausen) and Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen (1849–1894). His father was one of the founding fathers of Russian paleobotany.^[1]

In 1901 Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen graduated gymnasium and enrolled at Kiev University, but was expelled a year later after taking a part in the student disturbances. In 1902 he resumed his university studies at Kiev. Around 1902 he became acquainted with the founder of the Russian school of evolutionary morphology, Alexey Severtzov (1866–1936). He went on to become Professor of Darwinism at Moscow University and Director of the Institute for Evolutionary Morphology.

In 1904 Schmalhausen, under the guidance of Severtzov, completed his first scientific work on the embryonic development of lungs in a Grass Snake. He graduated from the university on 1909.

In 1910 Schmalhausen married Lydia Kozlova, a teacher of French from a small provincial Russian town.

He educated many eminent botanists, including Józef Paczoski, the founder of phytosociology.

In 23 August 1948 he became victim of order 1208, one of a series signed by Minister of Higher Education in the USSR, S. Kaftanov, which led to the mass dismissals of many university professors. This destroyed his career, as it removed his professorship and also decreed that his books and research projects be destroyed. This was because he was accused of being a Weissmannist and pro-Morganist, who promoted the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection, at a time when T. D. Lysenko and his followers were emphasising a process of heredity that focused on interaction with the environment and the inheritance of acquired characteristics along Lamarckian lines. This theory was being put into practice in agriculture under Michurin, who claimed to have improved wheat using Lamarckian techniques, and was central to the Stalin's politics which stressed that hard work led to improvement in future generations.

He had just written his book Factors of Evolution, which was translated into English and published in the west in 1949 and returned to work in morphology.

In 1955, Schmalhausen was one of the signers of the "Letter of 300" — a collective letter by three hundred scientists denouncing Lysenkoism.

He died on October 7, 1963 in Leningrad.^[1]

Schmalhausen's Law[link]

Schmalhausen's Law is a general principle that a population living at the boundary of its tolerance, in extreme or unusual conditions with regard to any aspect of its existence will be more vulnerable to small differences in any other aspect. Therefore the variance of data is not simply noise interfering with the detection of so-called "main effects", but also an indicator of stressful conditions leading to greater vulnerability.^[2]

References[link]

Ivan Lendl

Lendl in Miami, 2012.
Country	Czechoslovakia (1978–1992)  United States (1992-present)
Residence	Goshen, Connecticut, US (1992- ), Vero Beach, Florida, US (2004- )[1]
Born	(1960-03-07) March 7, 1960 (age 52) Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	79 kg (170 lb; 12.4 st)
Turned pro	1978
Retired	December 20, 1994
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$21,262,417 8th All-time leader in earnings
Int. Tennis HOF	2001 (member page)
Singles
Career record	1071–239 (81.8%)
Career titles	144 including 94 listed by the ATP
Highest ranking	No. 1 (February 28, 1983)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	W (1989, 1990)
French Open	W (1984, 1986, 1987)
Wimbledon	F (1986, 1987)
US Open	W (1985, 1986, 1987)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals	Masters W (1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987) WCT W (1982, 1985)
Doubles
Career record	187–140 (57.2%)
Career titles	6
Highest ranking	No. 20 (May 12, 1986)
Last updated on: July 13, 2007.

Ivan Lendl (born March 7, 1960) is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, he became a United States citizen in 1992. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.^[2] Lendl captured eight Grand Slam singles titles. He competed in 19 Grand Slam singles finals, record surpassed by Roger Federer in 2009. He reached at least one Grand Slam final for 11 consecutive years, a record shared with Pete Sampras, with the male primacy of 8 consecutive finals in a slam tournament (a record shared with Bill Tilden at US Open). Before the formation of the ATP Lendl reached a record 12 year-end championships (equaled by John McEnroe). He won two WCT Finals titles and five Masters Grand Prix titles, with the record of 9 consecutive finals. He also won a record 22 Championship Series titles (1980–89) the precursors to the current ATP Masters 1000. Lendl first attained the world no. 1 ranking on February 28, 1983 and bolstered his claim to the top spot when he defeated John McEnroe in the 1984 French Open final. For much of the next five years, Lendl was the top ranked player until August 1990 (with a break from September 1988 to January 1989 when Mats Wilander was at the top). He finished four years ranked as the world's top player (1985–1987 and 1989) and was ranked no. 1 for a total of 270 weeks and set a new record previously held by Jimmy Connors, since broken by Pete Sampras and Roger Federer. In 2011 he became Andy Murray's coach.

Lendl's game relied particularly on strength and heavy topspin from the baseline and helped usher in the modern era of "power tennis". He himself described his game as "hitting hot", a relentless all-court game that was coming to dominate in tennis.

Personal life[link]

Lendl was born into a tennis family in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). His parents were top players in Czechoslovakia. (His mother Olga was at one point ranked the no. 2 female player in the country). Lendl turned professional in tennis in 1978. He started to live in the United States in 1981, first at the home of mentor and friend Wojtek Fibak; later, in 1984, Lendl bought his own residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. Ivan applied for and received a U.S. Permanent Resident Card (also known as a Green Card) in 1987 and wanted to get U.S. citizenship as soon as possible to represent the USA in the 1988 Olympic Games and in Davis Cup. A bill in Congress to bypass the traditional five-year waiting procedure was rejected in 1988 because Czechoslovak authorities refused to provide the necessary waivers.^[3] He became a U.S. citizen on July 7, 1992.^[4]

On September 16, 1989 six days after losing the final of the US Open to Boris Becker, Lendl married Samantha Frankel.^[5] They have five daughters: Marika (born May 4, 1990), twins Isabelle and Caroline (born July 29, 1991), Daniela (born June 24, 1993) Nikola (born January 20, 1998). He transferred his competitive interests to professional golf where he achieved a win on the Celebrity Tour. Still competitive at the mini-tour levels, Lendl now devotes much of his time managing the development of his daughters' golfing abilities. Two of his daughters (Marika and Isabelle) are members of the University of Florida Women's Golf Team.^[6] Daniela is a member of the University of Alabama Women's Golf Team.^[7] His daughter Caroline walked onto the University of Alabama Women's Rowing Team for the 2011–2012 academic year, and his daughter Nikola enjoys eventing horses.

South African exhibition and aftermath[link]

In July 1983, Lendl played three exhibition matches (against Johan Kriek, Kevin Curren, Jimmy Connors) in Sun City, in the apartheid-era bantustan of Bophuthatswana.^[8] The Czechoslovak Sport Federation (ČSTV), controlled by the Communist Party, expelled him from the Czechoslovak Davis Cup team and fined him $150,000.^[9] Lendl disagreed with the punishment and fine.

In addition, the publication of his name and results in the Czechoslovak media was prohibited. The ban was extended not only to Lendl, but to anything about world tennis, all tennis tournaments and both men's and women's circuits (with the exception of blank Grand Slam results).^{[citation needed]}

The appearance in this exhibition in Sun City and Lendl's Americanized living style ignited a long-lasting dispute between Lendl and the Czechoslovak communist authorities, which was never settled and resulted in his decision to apply for a green card in 1987 and later on for U.S. citizenship.

Playing style[link]

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Lendl was known, along with Björn Borg, for using his heavy topspin forehand to dictate play. His trademark shot was his running forehand, which he could direct either down the line or cross-court.

Early in his career Lendl played a sliced backhand, but in the early 1980s he learned to hit his backhand with significant topspin. This shift allowed him to defeat John McEnroe in 1984 in the French Open – Lendl's first Grand Slam victory. In the first two sets McEnroe used his habitual proximity to the net to intercept Lendl's cross-court passing shots. In the third set Lendl started using lobs, forcing McEnroe to distance himself from the net to prepare for the lobs. McEnroe's further distance from the net opened the angles for Lendl's cross-court passing shots, which ultimately gained Lendl points and turned the match around.

Lendl's serve was powerful but inconsistent. His very high toss may have been to blame. Lendl's consistency from the baseline was machine-like. Though tall and apparently gangly, Lendl was very fast on the court. Lendl did not win Wimbledon because he could not sufficiently improve his consistency at the net. Grass courts yield notoriously bad bounces, and that destabilized his baseline game more than other baseliners. His groundstroke setup was very complete, almost robotic and repeated bad bounces made him uncomfortable. Wimbledon in those days required reducing baseline play by coming to the net. He devoted considerable effort to improving his net play, but fell short of a Wimbledon title. Toward the end of his days on the ATP tour Lendl ended his long term clothing, shoe and racket deal with Adidas. He signed with Mizuno, and finally began to play with a mid-sized racket very similar to the Adidas racket he had used throughout most of his career, itself based on the Kneissl White Star model.

Equipment[link]

While professional, Lendl used Adidas clothing and Kneissl racquet, changed later for Adidas racquet. Since 2010, he began using Bosworth racquet.

Tennis career[link]

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Lendl first came to the tennis world's attention as an outstanding junior player. In 1978, he won the boys' singles titles at both the French Open and Wimbledon and was ranked the World No. 1 junior player.

Lendl made an almost immediate impact on the game after turning professional. After reaching his first top-level singles final in 1979, he won seven singles titles in 1980, including three tournament wins in three consecutive weeks on three different surfaces. The success continued in 1981 as he won 10 titles including his first season ending Masters Grand Prix tour title defeating Vitas Gerulaitis in five sets.

In 1982, he won in total 15 of the 23 singles tournaments he entered and had a 44-match winning streak.

He competed on the separate World Championship Tennis (WCT) tour where he won all 10 WCT tournaments he entered, including winning his first WCT Finals where he defeated John McEnroe in straight sets. He met McEnroe again in the Masters Grand Prix final and won in straight sets to claim his second season ending championship of that particular tour.

In an era when tournament prize money was rising sharply due to the competition between 2 circuits (Grand Prix and WCT), Lendl's haul of titles quickly made him the highest-earning tennis player of all time.

He won another seven tournaments in 1983.

But Grand Slam titles eluded Lendl in the early years of his career. He reached his first Grand Slam final at the French Open in 1981, where he lost in five sets to Björn Borg. His second came at the US Open in 1982, where he was defeated by Jimmy Connors. In 1983, he was the runner-up at both the Australian Open and the US Open.

Lendl's first Grand Slam title came at the 1984 French Open, where he defeated John McEnroe in a long final to claim what was arguably his best victory. Down two sets to love and later trailing 4–2 in the fourth set, Lendl battled back to claim the title 3–6, 2–6, 6–4, 7–5, 7–5. McEnroe gained a measure of revenge by beating Lendl in straight sets in both finals of the US Open 1984 and Volvo Masters 1984 (played in January 1985).

Lendl lost in the final of the 1985 French Open to Mats Wilander. He then faced McEnroe again in the final of the US Open, and this time it was Lendl who emerged victorious in a straight sets win. It was the first of three consecutive US Open titles for Lendl and part of a run of eight consecutive US Open finals. He reached the WCT Finals for the second and last time defeating Tim Mayotte in three sets. Success continued when he also took the Masters Grand Prix title for the third time defeating Boris Becker in straight sets.

In 1986 and 1987 he added wins in the French Open to his U.S Open victories including the season ending 1986 and 1987 Masters Grand Prix championship titles, Where he defeated Boris Becker (86) in straight sets and Mats Wilander (87) in three sets. This took him to his fifth and last Grand Prix year end tour title.

During each of the years from 1985 through 1987, Lendl's match winning percentage was greater than 90%. This record was equalled by Roger Federer in 2006. Lendl, however, remains the only male tennis player with at least 90% match wins in five different years (1982 was the first, 1989 the last). From the 1985 US Open through the 1988 Australian Open, Lendl reached ten consecutive Grand Slam singles semifinals—a record that was broken by Federer at the 2006 US Open.

1989 was another very strong year for Lendl. He started the year by capturing his first Australian Open title with a straight sets final victory over Miloslav Mečíř and went on to claim 10 titles out of 17 tournaments he entered. Lendl successfully defended his Australian Open title in 1990.

The only Grand Slam singles title Lendl never managed to win was Wimbledon. After reaching the semifinals in 1983 and 1984, he reached the final there twice, losing in straight sets to Boris Becker in 1986 and Pat Cash in 1987. In the years that followed, Lendl put in intensive efforts to train and hone his game on grass courts. But despite reaching the Wimbledon semifinals again in 1988, 1989 and 1990, he never again reached the final.

Lendl was part of the team that won Czechoslovakia's only Davis Cup title in 1980. He was the driving force behind the country's team in the first half of the 1980s but stopped playing in the event after he moved to the United States in 1986 because, in the eyes of communist Czechoslovakia's Tennis Association, he was an "illegal defector" from their country.

Lendl was also part of the Czechoslovakian team that won the World Team Cup in 1981 and was runner-up in 1984 and 1985.

Lendl's success in the game was due in large part to his highly meticulous and intensive training and physical conditioning regime, his scientific approach to preparing for and playing the game, and a strong desire to put in whatever it took to be successful. It is believed that a contributing factor to his run of eight successive US Open finals and long record of success at that tournament was that he hired the same workers who laid the hardcourt surfaces at Flushing Meadows each year to install an exact copy in the grounds of his home in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Lendl announced his retirement from professional tennis on December 21, 1994, due to chronic back pain.^[10] Although he didn't play any official match following his defeat in the 2nd round of the US Open in 1994, Lendl's final decision to retire came only three and a half months later.

Lendl won a total of 94 career singles titles listed by the ATP (plus 49 other non-ATP tournaments, thus making a total of 144 singles titles) and 6 doubles titles, and his career prize money of U.S. $21,262,417 was a record at the time. In 2001, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

After finishing his tennis career, Lendl took up golf, earning a handicap of 0 and organizing a charity competition in 2004 called the "Ivan Lendl Celebrity Golf Tournament".

Lendl's professional attitude, modern playing style, scientific training methods, and unprecedented long-term success have had a considerable impact on today's tennis world. A typical Lendl quote is: "If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can."^{[citation needed]}'

On April 10, 2010 Ivan Lendl returned to play his first tournament since his 1994 retirement from tennis. He played in the Caesars Tennis Classic exhibition match in Atlantic City, New Jersey, against his rival from the late 1980s, Mats Wilander. He lost the one set match 6-3.

On February 28, 2011, Lendl returned to the court again in an exhibition match with John McEnroe at Madison Square Garden. It was planned to be a one-set, first-to-eight event. However, McEnroe, leading 6–3, injured his ankle and had to retire from the match.

In May 2012, Lendl played in Prague for the first time since the 1970s, as part of the 2012 Sparta Prague Open tournament. He defeated fellow Czech Jiří Novák in the exhibition match.^[11]

Tennis coaching career[link]

On 31 December 2011 Lendl was appointed coach to Andy Murray.^[12] and coached him at the 2012 Australian Open.

Career statistics[link]

Singles performance timeline[link]

Records[link]

• These records include only results in the Open Era of tennis.
• Combined year end championships are: WCT Finals, ATP World Tour Finals
• Records in bold indicate peer-less achievements.
• ^ Denotes consecutive streak.

Professional Awards[link]

• ITF World Champion: 1985, 1986,1987, 1990.
• ATP Player of The Year: 1985, 1986, 1987.
• ATP Most Improved Player: 1981.

Recognition[link]

• Tennis magazine named him as one of the ten greatest tennis players since 1966, calling him "the game's greatest overachiever" and emphasizing his importance in the game's history.^[14] In his book Modern Encyclopedia of Tennis, Bud Collins included Lendl in his list of the 21 greatest men's tennis players for the period from 1946 through 1992.
• In July 1986 DPR Korea issued a postage stamp depicting Ivan Lendl in play.^[15]

See also[link]

Tennis portal

• An account of Lendl's dramatic exit from the 1989 French Open
• Tennis male players statistics
• World number one male tennis player rankings
• List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players
• Lendl-McEnroe rivalry
• Lendl-Wilander rivalry

References[link]

• Jiri Janousek, Pavel Vitous (1990). Ivan Lendl. Lidove nakladatelstvi, Praha, Czechoslovakia. ISBN 80-7022-088-0.
• Ivan Lendl, George Mendoza (1986). Hitting Hot: Ivan Lendl's 14-days Tennis Clinic. Random House, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-394-55407-8.

External links[link]

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