Canadian tennis player
Chris Pridham (born April 11, 1965) is a former touring professionaltennis player.
Pridham had a careerGrand Prix / ATP tour win–loss record of 54 and 78. His career high singles ranking was World No. 75, which he attained in March 1988. The 6'0 right-hander's best tournament results were a semi-finals appearance in the 1987Wellington Classic, and 1992JohannesburgGrand Prix events. His bestGrand Slam event showings was reaching the third rounds of the 1988Wimbledon Championships and the 1989Australian Open.
Pridham played his first professional match in March 1985 at theMontreal Challenger, going down in 3 sets to World No. 60Leif Shiras 3–6, 6–3, 3–6. He played one other tour event that year, thePlayer's International, also in Montreal, where he also fell in the first round, this time to World No. 130Jonathan Canter 0–6, 6–7.
Pridham played in 8challenger tennis events and one grand prix event for the 1986, going 4 wins, 8 losses at the challenger level and 0 and 1 in grand prix events. He won his first match of his touring year over World No. 151Huub Van Boeckel 7–5, 7–6 before losing in the next round, at theBenin City-1 Challenger in February. The following week at theEnugu Challenger he lost in the first round. The following month Pridham fell in the first round at theRio de Janeiro-1 Challenger and two weeks later he had the same result at theSan Luis Potosi Challenger.
Pridham resumed tour play in September, defeating World No. 127Jon Levine in the first round at theWest Palm, FL Challenger before falling to World No. 246Marc Flur in straight sets. The following week inAthens, Greece he lost World No. 241Brian Levine in the first round in three sets. Then in November he played in only grand prix event of the year, theStockholm Open, losing there in the first round as well, to World No. 167Shahar Perkiss three and three. Pridham then went 1 and 1 the following week at theHelsinki Challenger and again the next week at the Benin-2 Challenger. He finished the year World No. 263 in singles and No. 408 in doubles.
Most notable win defeating Bjorn Borg in 1992.(to come)
As aDavis Cup player forCanada between 1988 and 1990, Pridham had a career singles win-lose record of 4 and 5.
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
[edit]| Legend |
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| ATP Challenger (2–3) | | ITF Futures (0–0) |
| | Finals by surface |
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| Hard (2–3) | | Clay (0–0) | | Grass (0–0) | | Carpet (0–0) |
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Apr 1989 | Setúbal, Portugal | Challenger | Hard |  Rikard Bergh | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Oct 1989 | Coquitlam, Canada | Challenger | Hard | Ville Jansson | 4–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Sep 1990 | Azores, Portugal | Challenger | Hard |  Francisco Roig | 3–6, 6–2, 4–6 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Oct 1990 | Ponte Vedra, United States | Challenger | Hard |  Tommy Ho | 6–7, 4–6 |
| Win | 2–3 | Sep 1991 | Bloomfield Hills, United States | Challenger | Hard | Tommy Ho | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Legend |
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| ATP Challenger (1–0) | | ITF Futures (0–0) |
| | Finals by surface |
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| Hard (0–0) | | Clay (0–0) | | Grass (0–0) | | Carpet (1–0) |
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Performance timeline
[edit](W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Canada
Tom Kempers
Rudiger Haas