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1989 South Australian Open – Doubles
Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzmann were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Cahill with Mark Woodforde and Kratzmann with Glenn Layendecker. Cahill and Woodforde lost in the semifinals to Neil Broad and Stefan Kruger. Kratzmann and Layendecker lost in the final 6–2, 7–6 against Broad and Kruger. Seeds # Darren Cahill / Mark Woodforde ''(semifinals)'' # Brad Drewett / Wally Masur ''(first round)'' # Broderick Dyke / Tom Nijssen ''(semifinals)'' # Patrik Kühnen / Udo Riglewski Udo Riglewski (born 28 July 1966) 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 tenni ... ''(first round)'' Draw External links 1989 South Australian Open Doubles Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:1989 South Australian Open - Doubles Dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Broad
Neil Broad (born 20 November 1966) is a former professional tennis player who represented Great Britain for most of his playing career. He is a former UK number 1 who won seven ATP tour doubles titles in his career, and won the silver medal in doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Playing career overview The right-hander played primarily doubles in his career. He achieved his highest doubles ranking of No. 9 on 9 April 1990. Broad achieved his best Grand Slam doubles result at the 1990 Australian Open, reaching the semifinals while partnering Gary Muller of South Africa. Broad played on the Great Britain Davis Cup team from 1992 to 2000, achieving a doubles record of 4–7. He won a silver medal for Great Britain at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, partnering Tim Henman. He retired from the tour in 2000. Broad teamed up with Roger Federer in the men's doubles at the Australian Open in 2000. However they were knocked out by David Macpherson and Peter Nyborg. Major finals Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Koevermans
Mark Koevermans (born 3 February 1968) is a former tennis player from the Netherlands, who turned professional in 1987. He represented his native country as a lucky loser at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the third round by Brazil's Jaime Oncins. Going by the nickname ''Koef'', a right-hander, won one career title in singles (Athens, 1990). He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 27 May 1991, when he was ranked number 37. In April 2009, Koevermans was appointed as commercial director at Dutch football club Feyenoord Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club (association football), football club in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names bef .... Career finals Doubles: 16 (4 wins, 12 losses) Singles (1 win) External links * * * 1968 births Living people Dutch male tennis players Olympic tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Olhovskiy
Andrei Stanislavovich Olhovskiy (russian: Андре́й Станисла́вович Ольхо́вский; ; born 15 April 1966) is a former tennis player from Russia, who turned professional in 1989. Career Olhovskiy represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and Russia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he reached the quarterfinals as a wild card before falling to Brazil's Fernando Meligeni. The right-hander won two career titles in singles (Copenhagen, 1993 and Shanghai, 1996) and 20 titles in doubles, French Open (1993) and Australian Open (1994) champion in mixed doubles. Olhovskiy reached his highest ATP singles ranking on 14 June 1993, when he became world No. 49, and his highest doubles ranking of No. 6 (31 July 1995). He played for the Russia Davis Cup team from 1983 to 2001. He defeated No. 1 seed Jim Courier in the third round of Wimbledon in 1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Morgan (tennis Player)
Jamie Morgan (born 8 June 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Morgan never won an ATP level singles title, but finished runner-up three times. He reached the fourth round of the 1993 U.S. Open, his best performance at a Grand Slam event. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 52 in 1993. He played two singles matches for the Australian Davis Cup team in their 1994 World Group first round tie against Russia. Jamie attended Sydney Boys High School,http://www.shsobu.org.au/wp-content/uploads/sport.pdf graduating in 1986 before winning a tennis scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ... in 1986. Career finals Singles titles (1) Singles runners-up (8) References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Anderson (athlete)
Johan Anderson (born 29 September 1971 in Västerås, Sweden) is an Australian former tennis player. Tennis career In 1988, Anderson won the boys' singles title at the Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Th .... He also partnered Todd Woodbridge to win the Australian Open and Roland Garros junior boys doubles in 1989. However, after playing on the men's professional tennis circuit for a short period, he decided not to pursue a professional tennis career. Anderson is currently coaching tennis at Sydney tennis academy. Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 1 (1–0) Doubles: 2 (2–0) Performance timeline Singles References Sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Ivanišević
Goran Ivanišević (; born 13 September 1971) is a Croatian former professional tennis player and current coach. He is the only player to win a The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon singles title as a Wild card (sports)#Professional tennis, wildcard. He achieved this in 2001 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2001 while ranked world No. 125, after being runner-up at Wimbledon in 1992 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 1992, 1994 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 1994 and 1998 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 1998. Ivanišević's career-high singles ranking was world No. 2, achieved in July 1994. He coached Marin Čilić from September 2013 to July 2016, leading Čilić to his only Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major title to date at the 2014 US Open – Men's singles, 2014 US Open. He has been coaching Novak Djokovic since 2019. Ivanišević was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2020. Career Goran is the son of Srđa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Flego
Igor Flego (born 13 December 1961) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia who represented Yugoslavia. Biography Flego made his debut for the Yugoslavia Davis Cup team in 1986 as a member of the side which played a World Group Quarter-final tie against Czechoslovakia in Sarajevo. He played the doubles match with Slobodan Zivojinovic, which they lost, then went down to Miloslav Mečíř in a dead singles rubber. In 1987 he appeared again in Davis Cup competition when he played a doubles match in Yugoslavia's World Group tie in Adelaide. He and partner Zivojinovic lost in four sets to the Australian pairing of Pat Cash and Peter Doohan. He won all of his three Challenger doubles titles in 1988, with wins in Travemünde, Tampere and Munich. At the 1989 Australian Open he managed to qualify for the main doubles draw, with Agustín Moreno as his partner. They made his past the first round by beating Germans Heiner Moraing and Torben Theine, then were eliminated in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Rasheed
Roger Rasheed (born 10 March 1969) is a former Australian rules football player, tennis player, tennis coach and tennis commentator with the Seven Network for 12 years. Rasheed is best known as Grand Slam coach of Australian former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, former World No. 6 Gaël Monfils, former World No. 5 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, former World No. 3 Grigor Dimitrov and through his own website ProTennisCoach.com. In addition, Rasheed is a media personality on Channel Seven and is the founder of the Roger Rasheed Sports Foundation. Career Player Prior to his work as a coach, Rasheed was the youngest ever player to qualify for an Australian Open in 1985 at 16 years of age, a feat eclipsed by Lleyton Hewitt, whom Rasheed later coached. Rasheed also competed in the ATP Challenger Series and won four titles in 1992. He reached number 192 in ATP rankings and number 132 in the doubles rankings in 1992. Coaching In Australia, Rasheed is notable as Lleyton Hewitt's coach from 2003 unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Barr
Shane Barr (born 21 October 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Career Barr was the boys' singles champion at the 1985 Australian Open, beating Steve Furlong in the final. Also that year, Barr was a member of the Australian team which won the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup, World Youth Cup, a junior version of the Davis Cup. He was twice a runner-up in the boys' doubles at Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slams, in the 1986 Wimbledon Championships with Hubert Karrasch and partnering Bryan Roe in the 1987 Australian Open. Barr and Roe were defeated in the final by the Jason Stoltenberg/Todd Woodbridge combination and it was also Woodbridge that beat him in the singles semi-finals. In the 1987 Australian Open, Barr also participated in the men's draw and beat countryman Darren Cahill in the first round (his only Grand Slam singles win), before being knocked out of the tournament by Tim Wilkison.The junior's event didn't begin until the second week, so Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Suk
Cyril Suk III (born 29 January 1967) is a former professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, Suk won five Grand Slam titles, one men's doubles and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and 32 ATP Tour doubles titles during his career. Early life Suk was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, a member of a prominent Czech tennis family. His mother, Věra Suková, was a women's singles finalist at Wimbledon in 1962. His father, Cyril Suk II, was President of the Czechoslovak Tennis Federation. His sister, Helena Suková, was an even more successful professional player on the women's tour who teamed-up with Suk to win three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in the 1990s. Juniors In 1985, Suk partnered fellow-Czech Petr Korda to win the boys' doubles title at the French Open. Suk and Korda were ranked the joint-World No. 1 junior doubles players that year. Career Suk claimed his first Grand Slam mixed doubles title in 1991 at the French Open, partnering sister Helena. In 1992, he te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Mronz
Alexander Mronz (born 7 April 1965) is a former tennis player from Germany, who turned professional in 1987. Mronz played right-handed, and won one doubles title (1988, Schenectady) in his career. Mronz reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on April 8, 1991, when he became the world No. 73. Mronz is famous for being the opponent of Jeff Tarango in a third round match at 1995 Wimbledon, having already knocked out Sjeng Schalken and Kenneth Carlsen to get to that stage. Mronz was leading by a set and a break, when Tarango was defaulted after losing his temper with the umpire, Bruno Rebeuh, following a couple of code violations. Tarango walked off the court in anger. Tarango's wife, Benedict, later slapped Rebeuh across the face. Mronz then lost to the world No. 1, Andre Agassi, in the fourth round. Mronz also reached the third round of the 1994 Australian Open, losing from 2 sets up against former world No. 1 and three-time Australian Open champion Mats Wilander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Tideman
Magnus Tideman (born 9 April 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He won 1 doubles title and achieved a career-high of World No. 43 in 1988. In singles, he reached the quarterfinals of Toulouse in 1982 (defeating Thierry Tulasne en route) and achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 100 in 1983. Tideman also defeated Manuel Orantes at the 1983 French Open The 1983 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 23 May until 5 June. It was the 87th staging of the French Open, and the first Grand Slam .... After retiring from tennis, he became a tennis coach. Career finals Doubles (1 win) External links * * Swedish male tennis players Sportspeople from Uppsala 1963 births Living people {{Sweden-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
