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1979 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event. Several players withdrew from the main draw after qualifying had commenced, leading to the highest ranked players who lost in the final qualifying round to be entered into the main draw as lucky loser A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw, usually when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury ...s. Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier Ninth qualifier Tenth qualifier Eleventh qualifier Twelfth qualifier Thirteenth qualifier Fourteenth qualifier Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event. Several players withdrew from the main draw after qualifying had commenced, leading to the highest ranked players who lost in the final qualifying round to be entered into the main draw as lucky loser A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw, usually when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury ...s. Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier Ninth qualifier Tenth qualifier Eleventh qualifier Twelfth qualifier Thirteenth qualifier Fourteenth qualifier Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Fancutt
Charlie Fancutt (born 17 June 1959) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Career Fancutt won the boys' doubles title at the 1976 Australian Open (partnering Peter McCarthy). He upset Ivan Lendl in the opening round of the 1981 Wimbledon Championships, winning in five sets. At the 1982 Australian Open, Fancutt made the fourth round, where he lost to Johan Kriek. Fancutt made the mixed doubles semi-finals at the 1984 French Open, with Marie-Christine Calleja. He was a singles quarter-finalist at three Grand Prix tournaments during his career, the 1979 Heineken Open and at both Brisbane and Manila in 1981. Family Fancutt is the son of two former tennis players. His mother, Daphne, made the 1956 Wimbledon women's doubles final and his father, Trevor, was a South African Davis Cup player who won the mixed doubles title at the 1960 Australian Championships. He also had two tennis playing brothers, Chris Fancutt, who appeared on the Challenger circuit and Michael F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeyuki Nishio
Shigeyuki Nishio (born 23 May 1954) is a Japanese former professional tennis player. Biography Born in Kobe, Nishio was an aggressive serve and volley player whose Davis Cup career for Japan spanned nine years and a total of 13 ties. At the 1978 Asian Games he finished with a silver medal in the men's singles, behind Indonesia's Atet Wijono. He also won bronze medals in the mixed doubles and team events. All of his main draw appearances on the Grand Prix circuit came in his home country, which included making the round of 16 at the 1979 Japan Open Tennis Championships. He played in two grand slam main draws, in the men's doubles at the 1979 Wimbledon Championships and 1980 French Open, both times partnering Shinichi Sakamoto. See also *List of Japan Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Japan Davis Cup team The Japan men's national tennis team represents Japan in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Eke
Victor Eke (born 11 November 1954) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography Eke, who was born in the Sydney suburb of Caringbah, played on the professional tour in the 1970s. As a singles player he was a finalist at the Queensland Open in 1978 and had a win over Ray Ruffels at a Grand Prix tournament in Hobart in 1979. More successful in doubles, he made a Grand Prix semi-final partnering Wayne Hampson in Bournemouth and made several main draw appearances at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon. At the 1979 Australian Open he and Ernie Ewert eliminated third seeds Mark Edmondson Mark Edmondson (born 28 June 1954 in Gosford, New South Wales) is a retired Australian professional tennis player. Edmondson won the 1976 Australian Open while ranked 212th in the world, and remains the lowest-ranked winner of a Grand Slam t ... and John Marks in the first round. He played his final year on tour in 1980. Since retiring he has coached tennis in Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuyoshi Fukui
is a retired tour and Japan Davis Cup team tennis player. Fukui holds the record for the most singles win for the Japanese in Davis Cup, with 26. On tour, he won two Challenger tennis events in singles and earned a career-high singles ranking of World No. 177, in January 1983. Circuit career Fukui won the 1983 Tokyo Challenger and 1985 Nagoya Challenger. His best results in a Grand Prix tennis event was reaching the third round of the 1980 Tokyo Outdoor (now the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships). The only Grand Prix events he ever played in the main draw of were the Tokyo Outdoor, Tokyo Indoor, and once in each the Taipei Grand Prix and Hong Kong Grand Prix. The Japan No. 1 for much of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Fukui only defeated a non-Japanese opponent four times (Haroon Ismail, Bruce Kleege, Kim Warwick, Mike Estep, Mark Wooldridge, and Jon Levine) in compiling a career singles win-lose record of 10 wins, 26 losses for Grand Prix events. Fukui lost to To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Van Min
Paul van Min (born 17 September 1951) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Biography A right-handed player, van Min featured in the main draw of the 1971 French Open as a lucky loser from qualifying. He lost his first round match in four sets to Peter Pokorny. From 1972 to 1975 he played college tennis for the University of Tennessee, but returned to compete on the professional tour. Van Min made his only Davis Cup appearance in 1980, when he partnered with Theo Gorter in the doubles rubber for a tie against Denmark in Hilversum. Until 2019 he and his wife owned and operated Silky Oaks Lodge in Far North Queensland, having acquired the resort in 2009. See also *List of Netherlands Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Netherlands Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. The Netherlands have taken part in the competition since 1920. Players References {{DEFAULTSORT:Netherlands Davis Cup L ... R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Molin
Jon Molin (born October 20, 1956) is an American former professional tennis player. Molin, raised in New York City, was a collegiate tennis player for Columbia University and had a stint as the team's captain. He featured in the singles and doubles main draws at the 1979 US Open. A qualifier in the singles, he lost his first round match to Gene Malin Gene Malin (June 30, 1908 – August 10, 1933), also known by stage names Jean Malin and Imogene Wilson, was an American actor, emcee, and drag performer during the Jazz Age. He was one of the first openly gay performers in Prohibition-er ... in four sets. He had a best singles world ranking of 248. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Molin, Jon 1956 births Living people American male tennis players Columbia Lions men's tennis players Tennis players from New York (state) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Graham (tennis)
Tony Graham (October 29, 1956 – May 2, 2023) was a former top 100 tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ... player from the United States. During his career, he won two doubles titles. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 100 in 1980 and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 88 in 1981. Career finals Singles (1 runner-up) Doubles (2 titles, 1 runner-up) External links * * American male tennis players People from North Hills, Los Angeles Tennis players from Los Angeles 1956 births Living people {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Paish
John Paish (born 25 March 1948) is a former professional tennis player from England who competed for Great Britain. He is the son of tennis player and administrator Geoffrey Paish. Paish played a Davis Cup tie for the Great British team in 1972, against France. He lost both his singles rubbers, to Pierre Barthès and Patrick Proisy, but won the doubles rubber, beside David Lloyd. It was also with Lloyd that he made the semi-finals of the 1973 Wimbledon Championships. He was runner-up to Jimmy Connors at the 1972 Queen's Club Championships The 1972 Queen's Club Championships, also known by its sponsored name Rothmans London Grass Court Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom that wa .... Grand Prix career finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles: 1 (0–1) References External links * * * 1948 births Living people English male tennis players Sportspeople from Croydon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Pearson (tennis)
Peter Ferdinand Pearson (born August 12, 1955) is an American former professional tennis player. Tennis career A left-handed player from California, Pearson was active on tour in the 1970s and 1980s. He made two quarter-finals on the Grand Prix circuit and took Vitas Gerulaitis to a final set tiebreak in a loss at the 1976 Fischer-Grand Prix. In 1978 he featured in the singles main draw of the French Open, where he fell in the first round to Tonino Zugarelli. Prison Pearson is serving a life sentence at a state prison in Tuolumne County, California, after committing a series of bank robberies. Previously imprisoned on drug and theft charges, he was sentenced under California's three-strikes law. See also *List of professional sportspeople convicted of crimes This list includes sports-people who have been convicted of serious crimes (such as felonies in the United States). It comprises both professionals and those amateurs who have competed at the highest levels. American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Legendre
Richard Legendre (born January 19, 1953 in Montmagny, Quebec) is a former professional tennis player and politician in Quebec, Canada. Tennis Legendre was born in Montmagny, Quebec. He once represented Canada at the Davis Cup and had a career-high tennis ranking of World No. 232 in singles (December 1978). He played NCAA collegiate tennis at Florida State University in 1972 and 1973. Politics He was the Quebec minister of sports in Bernard Landry's cabinet, after being elected as a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Blainville in 2001. In 2005 he was a candidate in the Parti Québécois's leadership election, a bid notably supported by former Quebec minister François Legault and sprinter and olympic medalist Bruny Surin. Legendre placed third with 7.5% of the vote. In the 2007 elections, Legendre was surprisingly defeated by the Action democratique du Quebec's Pierre Gingras who was a former mayor for the City of Blainville. The party near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Rowe (tennis)
Bradley Rowe (born November 20, 1955) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Rowe played on the Grand Prix tennis circuit between 1977 and 1979, predominantly featuring in doubles tournaments. He was runner-up in three Grand Prix events with San Jose State University teammate Hank Pfister, in San Jose and Hong Kong Open (tennis), Hong Kong in 1978, then San Jose once more in 1979. He qualified for the main singles draw of a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament for the only time at the 1979 French Open. In the first round he defeated Paul Kronk, before being eliminated in the second round by eventual semi-finalist Vitas Gerulaitis. Presently, Rowe is working as a tennis coach in California's Conejo Valley. Grand Prix career finals Doubles: 3 (0–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rowe, Brad 1955 births Living people American male tennis players Tennis people from California San Jose State Spartans men's tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |