Lan Bale

Lan Bale (born 7 September 1969, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 4 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 4 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 27 in 1995.

Doubles titles (4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	1993	Durban, South Africa	Hard	Byron Black	Johan de Beer Marcos Ondruska	7–6, 6–2
Winner	2.	1994	Coral Springs, U.S.	Clay	Brett Steven	Ken Flach Stephane Simian	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	1994	Basel, Switzerland	Hard (i)	John-Laffnie de Jager	Patrick McEnroe Jared Palmer	3–6, 6–7
Winner	3.	1994	Tel Aviv, Israel	Hard	John-Laffnie de Jager	Jan Apell Jonas Björkman	6–7, 6–2, 7–6
Winner	4.	1996	Munich, Germany	Clay	Stephen Noteboom	Olivier Delaître Diego Nargiso	4–6, 7–6, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	1998	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Piet Norval	Magnus Gustafsson Magnus Larsson	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	3.	1999	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Alberto Martín	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	4.	2000	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Piet Norval	Gustavo Kuerten Antonio Prieto	2–6, 4–6

External links

• Lan Bale at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Lan Bale at the International Tennis Federation