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Marin Čilić
1988Sep, 28

Marin Čilić

Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
Marin Čilić (Croatian pronunciation: [mâriːn tʃǐːlitɕ]; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. Čilić has won 20 ATP Tour singles titles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2014 US Open. He was also runner-up at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships and the 2018 Australian Open. Čilić has reached at least the quarterfinal stage in all four Grand Slams and all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 3, achieved on 28 January 2018. He won silver medal at 2020 Tokyo Olympics in doubles tournament with his best-man Ivan Dodig. Cilic is widely considered to be, alongside compatriot Goran Ivanišević, the best Croatian tennis player of all time. He is also the sixth active player who has at least 20 ATP titles.

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Events on 1988

  • 14Apr

    Soviet Union

    In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
  • 29May

    Ronald Reagan

    The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • 15Nov

    State of Palestine

    Israeli-Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
  • 16Nov

    Benazir Bhutto

    In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • 19Nov

    Slobodan Milošević

    Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.