Gilad Bloom
Gilad Bloom is a former professional tennis player from Israel. Bloom trained at the Israel Tennis Centers. His career-high rankings were World No. 61 in singles and World No. 62 in doubles.
Personal life
Bloom grew up in Ramat HaSharon, is Jewish, and is married to Michal Bareket-Bloom. He has 4 sons, Guy Tyler Bloom, from a previous marriage, Jonathan Yehuda Bloom, Shy Dylan Bloom and Doron Hendrix Bloom. He is known as a fan of the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team. Bloom has a rock band, the band plays shows in Manhattan Bars regularly since 2009, Bloom's band performs original songs written and composed by himself, Bloom sings and plays guitar on the band.Tennis career
Bloom was Israel's junior champion, three-time men's singles champion, and two-time men's doubles champion. Bloom came in second in the boy's under-12 final at the annual Ericsson Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships in 1979.Bloom turned professional in 1983 and played on the ATP tour for 13 years. During his career he won four tour doubles titles. He also finished runner-up in three top-level singles events.
Bloom played Davis Cup for Israel from 1984 to 1995. He helped Israel qualify to the 1994 Davis Cup World Group, winning the qualification playoff's fifth and deciding rubber against Switzerland's Jakob Hlasek in one of the more memorable matches in Israeli tennis history.
His best singles performance at a Grand Slam was at the 1990 US Open, where he reached the fourth round, losing to Ivan Lendl.
Bloom represented Israel at the 1988 and 1992 Olympic tennis tournaments.
He retired from the professional tour in 1995.
Career finals
| Legend |
| Grand Slam |
| Tennis Masters Cup |
| ATP Masters Series |
| ATP Tour |
Singles (3 runners-up)
| Result | W-L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score | |||||||||||||
| Loss | 0–1 | Oct 1989 | Tel Aviv Open, Israel | Hard |  Doubles (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
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