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1996 XL Bermuda Open – Singles
Mauricio Hadad was the defending champion but did not compete that year. MaliVai Washington won in the final 6–7(6–8), 6–4, 7–5 against Marcelo Filippini. Seeds A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. # MaliVai Washington (champion) # Javier Frana ''(semifinals)'' # Jason Stoltenberg ''(first round)'' # Michael Joyce ''(first round)'' # Chris Woodruff ''(first round)'' # Vince Spadea ''(quarterfinals)'' # Fernando Meligeni ''(first round)'' # Scott Draper Scott Dennis Draper (born 5 June 1974) is an Australian former tennis player and golfer. He won the Australian Open Mixed Doubles with Samantha Stosur in 2005. Draper also reached the fourth round of the 1995 and 1996 French Opens, and the four ... ''(first round)'' Draw References External links 1996 XL Bermuda Open draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Singles XL Bermuda Open 1996 ATP Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauricio Hadad
Mauricio Hadad (born 7 December 1971) is a former tennis player from Colombia and former captain of the Colombia Davis Cup Team. Hadad is of Lebanese background. The right-hander turned pro in 1988 and reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on September 11, 1995, when he became World No. 78. He won the ATP Bermuda Open in 1995. He is the only Colombian tennis player in history to have won an ATP Tour title in singles. His best performance at a Grand Slam came at the 1996 Australian Open and the 1995 U.S. Open where he made it to the third round. Hadad participated in 20 Davis Cup ties for Colombia from 1989–2001 and holds the record for most wins with 35 victories, posting a 23-5 record in singles and a 12-6 record in doubles. Hadad had also been the last Colombian player in history to break into the top 100 in 1995 until Alejandro Falla did so in 2007. He became the captain of the Colombia Davis Cup Team from 2013 until 2016. He has been credited with op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Dier
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Franco Davín
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Mats Wilander
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Andrew Ilie
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Kris Goossens
Kris Goossens (born 20 February 1974) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium. Career Goossens entered into the ATP's top 100 for the first time in 1995, after making the semi-final of the Swedish Open and winning a Challenger event in Ecuador. His run to the semi-finals in Sweden including a win over world number 24 Jonas Björkman. Also that year, he played two Davis Cup singles rubbers for Belgium, against the Russian team. He lost both of his matches, to Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Andrei Chesnokov. He entered the main draw of seven Grand Slams but only once reached the second round. That occurred at the 1996 French Open, where he defeated Tim Henman. In the following round he lost to Guy Forget Guy Forget (; born 4 January 1965) is a French tennis administrator and retired professional player. During his career, he helped France win the Davis Cup in both 1991 and 1996. Since retiring as a player, he has served as France's Davis Cup te ..., in a five set match. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinu Pescariu
Dinu Mihail Pescariu (born 12 April 1974) is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1991. The right-hander represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: in Barcelona (1992) and in Atlanta (1996). He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 6 August 1998, when he became the number 75 of the world. ATP career finals Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up) Performance timeline Singles ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 14 (9–5) Doubles: 11 (5–6) Controversy On 10 October 2017, the Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate The National Anticorruption Directorate ( ro, Direcția Națională Anticorupție (DNA)), formerly National Anticorruption Prosecution Office ( ro, Parchetul Național Anticorupție), is the Romanian agency tasked with preventing, investigating ... announced that Dinu Pescariu will be prosecuted in the file of taking over ‘Cutezatorii’ sports base in Bucharest. He is being investigated, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fromberg
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Luis Morejón
Luis Adrián Morejón (born 28 March 1973) is a former tennis player 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 cove ... from Ecuador who turned professional in 1991. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round by Uruguay's Marcelo Filippini. The right-hander reached his highest singles Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP ranking on 24 June 1996, when he became the number 122 in the world. External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morejon, Luis 1973 births Living people Ecuadorian male tennis players Olympic tennis players of Ecuador Sportspeople from Guayaquil Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics People from Aventura, Florida South American Games medalists in tennis South American Games silv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Mariano Zabaleta (born 28 February 1978) is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. He had an unusual but effective service motion. His best shot was his forehand and his favourite surface was clay. Zabaleta's career highlights include reaching the quarter-finals of the 2001 US Open and the final of the 1999 Hamburg Masters. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 21. Tennis career Juniors Zabaleta was an outstanding junior in 1995 and finished the year as No. 1 with a junior career singles record of 84–7 (also reaching as high as No. 10 in doubles), with his only loss in 1995 being to Peter Wessels in the quarter-finals of the US Open. Zabaleta won three of the major junior events in 1995. The Italian Open juniors without losing a set against Martin Lee in the final 6–4, 6–2 and followed that up with French Open juniors which was also achieved without dropping a set and he defeated compatriot Mariano Puerta 6–2, 6–3 as he had done ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
