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Marc-Kevin Peter Goellner (born 22 September 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. He won two singles titles, achieved a bronze medal in doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics and attained a career-high singles ranking of World No. 26 in April 1994. Goellner reached the quarterfinals of the 1997 Rome Masters, defeating top tenners Richard Krajicek and Albert Costa en route.

Personal life

The son of a German diplomat, Goellner lived in Rio de Janeiro, Tel Aviv and Sydney as a youngster before moving to Germany in 1986. The surname of his family is Göllner, but since most languages don't use umlaut, the Brazil authorities wrote Goellner in his birth certificate.

Tennis career

In 1990, he suffered two torn ligaments in his left foot, which almost ended his tennis career before it had begun. He turned professional in 1991.

1993 provided some of the most significant highlights of Goellner's career. He captured his first top-level singles title at Nice, defeating Ivan Lendl in the final. He also won his first tour doubles title in Rotterdam, partnering David Prinosil. Goellner and Prinosil were also the men's doubles runners-up at the French Open that year. And Goellner was a member of the German team which won the 1993 Davis Cup, winning important singles rubbers in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.

In 1996, Goellner won a second top-level singles title at Marbella. He represented Germany at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he was defeated in the first round of the singles competition by Sweden's Thomas Enqvist, and won a bronze medal in the doubles competition at Stone Mountain Park, partnering Prinosil.

During his career, Goellner won a total of two top-level singles titles and four tour doubles titles. His career-high rankings were World No. 26 in singles (in 1994), and World No. 25 in doubles (in 1998). His best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at the French Open in 1993, where he reached the fourth round before losing to Andrei Medvedev. His career prize money earnings totalled US$2,700,215. He was one of the first players to wear baseball caps reversed. Goellner retired from the professional tour in 2004.

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–0)
ATP World Series (2–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (2–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (2–1)
Indoors (0–0)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 1993	Nice, France	World Series	Clay	Ivan Lendl	1–6, 6–4, 6–2
Loss	1–1	Sep 1996	Bournemouth, United Kingdom	World Series	Clay	Albert Costa	7–6(7–4), 2–6, 2–6
Win	2–1	Oct 1996	Marbella, Spain	World Series	Clay	Àlex Corretja	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–2)

Doubles: 15 (4 titles, 11 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–1)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–1)
ATP World Series (4–9)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–0)
Clay (1–7)
Grass (0–2)
Carpet (1–2)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (2–9)
Indoors (2–2)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 1992	Rotterdam, Netherlands	World Series	Carpet	David Prinosil	Paul Haarhuis Mark Koevermans	6–2, 6–7, 7–6
Loss	1–1	May 1993	Roland Garos, France	Grand Slam	Clay	David Prinosil	Luke Jensen Murphy Jensen	4–6, 7–6, 4–6
Loss	1–2	Jun 1993	Halle, Germany	World Series	Grass	Mike Bauer	Petr Korda Cyril Suk	6–7, 7–5, 3–6
Win	2–2	Aug 1993	Long Island, United States	World Series	Hard	David Prinosil	Arnaud Boetsch Olivier Delaître	6–7, 7–5, 6–2
Loss	2–3	Mar 1995	Mexico City, Mexico	World Series	Clay	Diego Nargiso	Javier Frana Leonardo Lavalle	5–7, 3–6
Loss	2–4	Apr 1995	Estoril, Portugal	World Series	Clay	Diego Nargiso	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Andrei Olhovskiy	7–5, 5–7, 2–6
Win	3–4	Sep 1996	Bournemouth, United Kingdom	World Series	Clay	Greg Rusedski	Rodolphe Gilbert Nuno Marques	6–3, 7–6
Loss	3–5	Oct 1997	Vienna, Austria	Championship Series	Carpet	David Prinosil	Ellis Ferreira Patrick Galbraith	3–6, 4–6
Win	4–5	Nov 1997	Stockholm, Sweden	World Series	Hard	Richey Reneberg	Ellis Ferreira Patrick Galbraith	6–3, 3–6, 7–6
Loss	4–6	Jun 1998	Halle, Germany	World Series	Grass	John-Laffnie de Jager	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	6–4, 4–6, 6–7
Loss	4–7	Feb 1999	Copenhagen, Denmark	World Series	Carpet	David Prinosil	Max Mirnyi Andrei Olhovskiy	7–6(7–5), 6–7(4–7), 1–6
Loss	4–8	Jun 1999	Merano, Italy	World Series	Clay	Eric Taino	Lucas Arnold Ker Jaime Oncins	4–6, 6–7(1–7)
Loss	4–9	Nov 1999	Bucharest, Romania	World Series	Clay	Francisco Montana	Lucas Arnold Ker Martín García	3–6, 6–2, 3–6
Loss	4–10	Oct 2000	Palermo, Italy	World Series	Clay	Pablo Albano	Tomás Carbonell Martín García	walkover
Loss	4–11	Sep 2001	Bucharest, Romania	World Series	Clay	Pablo Albano	Aleksandar Kitinov Johan Landsberg	4–6, 7–6(7–5), [6–10]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

Singles: 5 (3–2)

Legend
ATP Challenger (3–1)
ITF Futures (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (2–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Antwerp, Belgium	Challenger	Clay	Massimo Ardinghi	4–6, 6–3, 7–5
Win	2–0	Halle, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Thomas Enqvist	6–3, 2–6, 7–6
Loss	2–1	Ulm, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Marcos Ondruska	6–7, 1–6
Loss	2–2	Germany F1, Riemerling	Futures	Clay	Robert Lindstedt	6–7(4–7), 6–7(4–7)
Win	3–2	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Marcos Baghdatis	7–5, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–4)

Doubles: 6 (3–3)

Legend
ATP Challenger (3–3)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (3–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–2)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Casablanca, Morocco	Challenger	Clay	Bertrand Madsen	Tarik Benhabiles Gustavo Garetto	6–0, 6–2
Win	2–0	Cologne, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Bernd Karbacher	Brian Devening Murphy Jensen	6–4, 6–7, 6–1
Loss	2–1	Guadalajara, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Christian Saceanu	Royce Deppe David Rikl	6–7, 4–6
Loss	2–2	Rennes, France	Challenger	Carpet	João Cunha-Silva	Jan Apell Jonas Björkman	6–7, 3–6
Loss	2–3	Aachen, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Marcos Ondruska	Julian Knowle Michael Kohlmann	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	3–3	Montauban, France	Challenger	Clay	Álex López Morón	Brian Dabul Ignacio Gonzalez-King	6–3, 5–7, 7–6(7–5)