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1983 Donnay Indoor Championships – Singles
Vitas Gerulaitis was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals this year. Peter McNamara won the title, defeating Ivan Lendl 6–4, 4–6, 7–6 in the final. Seeds # Ivan Lendl ''(final)'' # Jimmy Connors ''(second round)'' # Vitas Gerulaitis ''(semifinals)'' # Mats Wilander ''(semifinals)'' # Peter McNamara (champion) # Yannick Noah ''(quarterfinals)'' # Steve Denton Steve Denton (born September 5, 1956) is a former professional tennis player for the ATP Tour. He is currently the head men's tennis coach at Texas A&M University. After becoming an all-American at the University of Texas in 1978, Denton spent ... ''(quarterfinals)'' # Johan Kriek ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References Main Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:1983 Donnay Indoor Championships - Singles 1983 Grand Prix (tennis) Donnay Indoor Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter McNamara
Peter McNamara (5 July 1955 – 20 July 2019) was an Australian tennis player and coach. McNamara won five singles titles and nineteen doubles titles in his career. A right-hander, McNamara reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 14 March 1983 when he became world No. 7. McNamara and fellow Australian Paul McNamee won the 1980 and 1982 men's doubles championship at Wimbledon and the Australian Open doubles in 1979. McNamara's highest rank in doubles was No. 3. After retiring as a player, McNamara coached professionals including Mark Philippoussis, Grigor Dimitrov, Matthew Ebden and Wang Qiang. McNamara died on 20 July 2019, at the age of 64, from prostate cancer Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancerous tumor worldwide and is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality among men. The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system that sur .... Career finals Singles (5 titles, 7 runner-ups) Doubles (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Popp
Wolfgang Popp (born 19 May 1959) is a former professional 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 Germany. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won one doubles title and finished runner-up an additional three times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 76 in 1987. Career finals Doubles (1 win, 3 losses) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Popp, Wolfgang 1959 births Living people People from Neu-Isenburg Sportspeople from Darmstadt (region) West German male tennis players Tennis people from Hesse 20th-century German people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Eberhard (tennis)
Klaus Eberhard (born 15 September 1957) is a former professional tennis player from West Germany. Career Early in his career, Eberhard had his best performances in his home country. He was quarterfinalist at the Stuttgart Outdoor tournament in 1978 and reached the quarter-finals at Berlin the following year. The West German defeated Peter Elter to make second round of the 1978 French Open. In 1980, he reached the semifinals of the BMW Open in Munich and again made the second round of the French Open, beating Spaniard José López-Maeso. He took part in a Davis Cup tie for the West German team that year, playing two singles rubbers against Swedish players Björn Borg and Kjell Johansson, which he both lost. Eberhard was an Austrian Open and Tel Aviv Open semifinalist in 1981. Also that year, he reached the quarterfinals in Mexico City. He defeated Mario Martinez in the first round of the 1982 French Open, then lost a five-set second-round match to John Lloyd. It would be h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sadri
John Sadri (born September 19, 1956) is a former tennis player from the United States. Sadri, an All-American at North Carolina State, reached the finals of the 1978 men's NCAA singles championship, losing to John McEnroe in four sets.https://www.backingthepack.com/nc-state-non-revenue-sports-news/2014/4/25/5652190/john-sadri-vs-john-mcenroe He reached the final of the 1979 Australian Open The 1979 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia and was held from 24 December 1979 through 2 January 1980. It was the 68th edition of the Austra ..., won two singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 13 in September 1980. Sadri formerly ran a junior tennis academy at Russell Tennis Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Grand Slam finals Singles (1 runner-up) Grand Slam tournament performance timeline Singles Career finals Singles (2 wins, 3 losses) Doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Curren
Kevin Melvyn Curren (born 2 March 1958) is a South African former professional tennis player. He played in two Grand Slam singles finals and won four Grand Slam doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 5 in July 1985. During his career he won 5 singles and 16 doubles titles. Personal life Curren was born in South Africa, and he became a naturalized American citizen in April 1985. Tennis career Curren played both tennis and cricket at Glenwood High School in Durban. He also quickly rose among the ranks as a junior at Montclair Lawn Tennis Club in Montclair, Durban. At college he played tennis for the University of Texas at Austin in the United States and won the NCAA singles title in 1979. He turned professional later that year, and won his first top-level singles title in 1981 in Johannesburg. In 1983, Curren reached his first Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon, beating defending champion, Jimmy Connors in the fourth round, snapping Connors' stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Buehning
Fritz Buehning (born March 5, 1960) is an American former tennis player. Born in Summit, New Jersey, Buehning grew up in Millburn, New Jersey and attended Millburn High School, where he won the New Jersey state individual tennis championship in 1977 as a junior, his final year in high school. He attended University of California, Los Angeles, where he was recognized as Pac-10 Player of the Year and an All-American and was part of a tennis team that won the NCAA championship.Best Boys Tennis Team of the Century ''''. Accessed December 10, 2007. Buehning achieved top rankings of No. 21 in singles and No. 4 in doubles, ending his caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Boileau
Bernard Boileau (born 25 May 1959) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium. Career Boileau was the Belgian national champion every year from 1978 to 1983. During that time he was a regular fixture in the Belgian Davis Cup team. The Belgian appeared in a total of 14 Davis Cup ties for his country, the first in 1977 and last in 1985. He appeared in 38 rubbers, of which he won 22, 16 of them in singles and six in doubles. He started touring in 1978 and the following year managed to reach the semi-finals at the Brussels Outdoor tournament. In 1981, Boileau was a quarter-finalist in Linz. His best year for Grand Slam tennis was in 1982, when he made the second round of the French Open and Wimbledon Championships, beating Ricardo Ycaza and Vincent van Patten, respectively. He also reached the quarter-finals in Sao Paulo. Boileau partnered with Libor Pimek in the doubles at the Nice International Open in 1983 and the pair finished runners-up, to Bernard Fritz and Jean-Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike De Palmer
Mike De Palmer (October 17, 1961 – August 7, 2021) was a professional tennis player from the United States. De Palmer enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won six tour doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional six times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 20 in 1986. DePalmer had a career high singles ranking of 35, with wins over Jimmy Connors, Vitas Gerulaitis, Mel Purcell, Peter Fleming, Peter Lundgren, Paul McNamee, Jakob Hlasek, and Tim Gullikson. He reached the singles final in Ancona, Italy, in 1982, losing to Anders Järryd 6-3, 6-2. De Palmer coached Boris Becker from August 1995 to June 1999, as well as coaching other professional tennis players. De Palmer died in Knoxville, Tennessee on August 7, 2021 at the age of 59 because of complications from pancreatic cancer. His father coached the tennis team at the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jairo Velasco, Sr
Jairo Velasco Sr. (born 9 May 1947) is a former professional tennis player from Colombia.ATP sources erroneously have him representing Spain during his career Velasco has additionally several Senior World Championship titles in different age classes in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. World Singles Champion: * 1994 Buenos Aires, 45+ * 1996 Velden, 45+ * 1997 Johannesburg, 50+ * 2019 Umag, 70+ * 2023 Mallorca, 75+ World Doubles Champion: * 1994 Buenos Aires, 45+ * 1996 Velden, 45+ * 1997 Johannesburg, 50+ * 2012 Umag, 65+ * 2021 Mallorca, 70+ * 2022 Florida, 75+ * World Mixed Champion: * 2019 Umag, 70+ * 2021 Mallorca, 70+ * 2022 Florida, 75+ * 2023 Mallorca, 75+ Career Velasco teamed with Iván Molina to reach the fourth round of the 1971 French Open, where they were defeated by eventual champions Arthur Ashe and Marty Riessen. In mixed doubles at the 1973 French Open, he and countrywoman Isabel Fernández de Soto lost in the semifinals in three sets to Patrice Domingu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Bedel
Dominique Bedel (born 20 February 1957) is a former professional 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 France. During his career, Bedel won one singles title. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 41 in November 1982 and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 144 in 1983. Career finals Singles (1 title) Doubles (1 runner-up) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bedel, Dominique French male tennis players Sportspeople from Casablanca 1957 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Pfister
Hank Pfister (born October 9, 1953) is a former tennis player from the United States, who won two singles titles (1981, Maui and 1982, Newport) during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organ ... on May 2, 1983, when he became world No. 19. Being tall of stature, sturdy of build and possessing a very fast serve, his style was highlighted by use of the serve and volley game. Career finals Doubles (11 wins, 16 losses) Singles (2 wins) External links * * 1953 births Living people American people of German descent American male tennis players French Open champions Sportspeople from Bakersfield, California San Jose State Spartans men's tennis players Tennis people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |