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1996 Oporto Open – Singles
Alberto Berasategui was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Mikael Tillström. Félix Mantilla won in the final 6–7(5–7), 6–4, 6–3 against Hernán Gumy. Seeds A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. # Carlos Moyá ''(quarterfinals)'' # Carlos Costa ''(first round)'' # Alberto Berasategui ''(first round)'' # Francisco Clavet ''(second round)'' # Tomás Carbonell ''(quarterfinals)'' # Hernán Gumy ''(final)'' # Filip Dewulf ''(first round)'' # Karim Alami ''(first round)'' Draw References 1996 Oporto Open Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Oporto Open - Singles, 1996 1996 Singles File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on ... 1996 ATP Tour 1996 in Portugu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Berasategui
Alberto Berasategui Salazar (born 28 June 1973) is a former top-10 professional tennis player from Spain. He was a Grand Slam finalist at the 1994 French Open, and won a total of 14 ATP singles titles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of world no. 7 in November 1994. Tennis career Berasategui won a total of 14 top-level singles titles and one tour doubles title. All of them, as well as all losses in finals, were on clay. He won at least one singles title for six consecutive years (1993–1998). He began playing tennis at age seven and was the European junior champion in 1991. He turned professional later that year, and won his first top-level singles title in 1993, two years later. In 1994, Berasategui reached nine finals, winning seven of them. He also reached his first Grand Slam final at the French Open, where he defeated Wayne Ferreira, Cédric Pioline, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Javier Frana, Goran Ivanišević and Magnus Larsson to face fellow Spaniard and defending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Goossens
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Roberto Carretero
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Sándor Noszály (tennis)
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Francisco Roig
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Nicolás Lapentti
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Richard Fromberg
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Younes El Aynaoui
Younes El Aynaoui ( ar, يونس العيناوي) (born 12 September 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Morocco. He is a five-time singles winner on the ATP Tour and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 14 in March 2003, at the age of 31. His long career has been plagued by injuries and he did not play competitive tennis between September 2008 and January 2010. However, in December 2009 he scheduled to play at the ATP Champions Tour tournament in London, where he made his debut at the senior tour. He received a gold medal – the nation's highest sporting honor – from King Mohammed VI. In a 2003 poll by leading Moroccan newspaper ''L'Economiste'', readers named El Aynaoui their favorite role model for society, ahead of the prime minister and athletics star Hicham El Guerrouj. Tennis career At the Bollettieri Academy In 1990, at the age of 18, El Aynaoui traveled to Bradenton, Florida, to spend a week at the Nick Bollettieri Tenni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Pescosolido
Stefano Pescosolido (; born 13 June 1971) is a former tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 1989. Pescosolido was born in Sora. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round by Brazil's Fernando Meligeni Fernando Ariel Meligeni (born April 12, 1971), nicknamed ''Fininho'' (diminutive form in Portuguese for ''thin''), is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. He won 3 singles titles and reached the semi-finals of both the 1999 French Ope .... The right-hander won two career titles in singles, and reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 42 in March 1992. ATP career finals Singles: 2 (2 titles) Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 20 (10–10) Doubles: 19 (10–9) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) Performance timelines Singles Doubles References External links * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Couto
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Jordi Arrese
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Andrei Chesnokov
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