Pub Quiz thread

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Which professional tennis player who played for his country in the Davis Cup was seriously injured when he fell out of a third floor apartment in Paris? He had a father of the same name who was a world record holder in a different sport.
 
Which professional tennis player who played for his country in the Davis Cup was seriously injured when he fell out of a third floor apartment in Paris? He had a father of the same name who was a world record holder in a different sport.
Is that Sergei Bubka? Dad was a pole vaulter.
(adopting Groucho Marx stance and cigar)
“Although I didn’t think there were so many Poles in the Ukraine you had vault them.”
 
According to the Wall Street Journal, Bubka Jnr’s serve has reached 157mph, which would have been a record, but that serve was unfortunately ‘out’, so it doesn’t count.