03 Dec Richard Fromberg
Richard Fromberg is a former professional tennis player from Australia Richard began playing tennis at the age of 10 He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder In 1987 he reached the Australian Open Junior finals in both singles and doubles He turned professional in 1988 In 1990 he won his first top level singles title in at Bologna and his first tour doubles title in Schenectady New York Fromberg played for Australia in two Davis Cup finals during his career In 1990 he was part of the team which lost 32 in the final to the United States winning one singles rubber against Michael Chang and losing another in five sets to Andre Agassi In 1993 he was on the team which lost 41 in the final to Germany winning one singles match up against Marc Kevin Goellner and losing the other to Michael Stich He had an 114 career Davis Cup record 104 in singles and 10 in doubles Frombergs best performances at Grand Slam events came in reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open in 1993 and 1998 During his career Fromberg won four singles titles and two doubles titles His career high singles ranking was World No 24 in 1990 His career prize money totaled US$2605740