Arne Thoms

Arne Thoms

Country (sports)	Germany
Residence	Hanover
Born	(1971-01-01) 1 January 1971 Osnabrück, West Germany
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	1989
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$392,142
Singles
Career record	23-35
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 98 (18 May 1992)
Grand Slam Singles results
French Open	1R (1992)
Wimbledon	2R (1992, 1994, 1995)
Doubles
Career record	8-17
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 169 (5 Jul 1993)

Arne Thoms (born 1 January 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Germany.

Career

As a junior, Thoms had a good year in 1989, making the semi-finals of the boy's singles at Wimbledon and the quarter-finals at Roland Garros.

Thoms made his first big impression on the ATP Tour with his performance at the Manchester Open in 1991. He was a quarter-finalist, beating two top 30 players en route, Horst Skoff and Omar Camporese. The following year he had an upset win over world number six Ivan Lendl in the opening round of the 1992 Milan Indoor tournament, which he entered as a qualifier. He did well again at Manchester in 1992, reaching another quarter-final. The German was also a quarter-finalist at both Newport and Zaragoza in 1993 and at the 1994 CA-TennisTrophy in Vienna. His best showing as a doubles player came in the 1995 Tel Aviv Open, when he and partner Brent Larkham were semi-finalists.^[1]

He made the second round of three Wimbledon Championships during his career, with wins over Todd Witsken in 1992, Bernd Karbacher in 1994 and Eyal Erlich in 1995.^[2]

Challenger titles

Singles: (4)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	1991	Munich, Germany	Carpet	Markus Naewie	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
2.	1994	Jerusalem, Israel	Hard	Filip Dewulf	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
3.	1996	Neumünster, Germany	Carpet	Jeff Salzenstein	6–4, 6–4
4.	1997	Lippstadt, Germany	Carpet	Dirk Dier	7–6, 6–3

Doubles: (6)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
1.	1991	Brest, France	Hard	Lars Koslowski	Patrik Kühnen Alexander Mronz	6–2, 1–6, 6–3
2.	1992	Dublin, Ireland	Hard	Sander Groen	Douglas Geiwald Robbie Koenig	5–7, 6–4, 6–3
3.	1992	Munich, Germany	Carpet	Sander Groen	Marcos Ondruska Grant Stafford	6–4, 7–6
4.	1993	Munich, Germany	Carpet	Sander Groen	Jon Ireland John Yancey	6–3, 6–3
5.	1994	Lippstadt, Germany	Carpet	Alexander Mronz	Brent Haygarth Marius Barnard	6–2, 6–4
6.	1996	Wolfsburg, Germany	Carpet	Dirk Dier	Jim Pugh Joost Winnink	6–4, 6–4

References