Goran Prpić Games in Barcelona for the newly independent nation of Croatia. Prpić retired from the professional tour in 1996. In 2000 he became the coach the Croatian women's national tennis team, and in 2006 he also took over coaching of the men's national tennis team. He resigned from both positions in November 2011. Goran Prpić Goran Prpić (born 4 May 1964) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia who also played for SFR Yugoslavia prior to 1991. He is currently a tennis coach. Prpić was born in Zagreb, at the time in SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. He turned professional in
Julián Alonso team with Joan Ballcells during Manolo Santana captaincy, and several single matches. Julián Alonso Julián Alonso Pintor (born 2 August 1977) is a retired tennis player from Catalonia, Spain, who turned professional in 1995 and retired in 2003. He was known in tennis because of his incredible serve, many times compared with the Goran Ivanisevic´s service. In 1997, playing against Ivanisevic (2nd seeded), in Long Island, beat him for first Top 10 victory en route to SF and in that match fired a 143 mph serve to become just third player (Philippoussis, Rusedski) to register a serve of at least