Winning style from former Israeli tennis star

9 March 2010, 5:32 am

Assaf Drori in action during the final. Photo: Peter Haskin

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FORMER Israeli ATP player Assaf Drori has won the Victorian Jewish Tennis Championships, which were held over the Labour Day weekend in Melbourne.

Drori defeated top grade-1 pennant player Asaf Nagar 7-6, 6-3 in the final on Monday at the Leon Haskin Tennis Centre in Bentleigh East.

Drori trained at the prestigious John Newcombe Tennis Academy in Texas in the early 1990s before going on to play Division 1 College Tennis on scholarship for the University of New Mexico and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

After graduating college, Drori joined the ATP and ITF (Israel’s roof tennis body), where he competed professionally for five years.