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1996 Copenhagen Open – Singles
Martin Sinner was the defending singles champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Tim Henman. Cédric Pioline won in the final 6–2, 7–6(9–7) against Kenneth Carlsen. Seeds A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. # Jan Siemerink ''(second round)'' # Bohdan Ulihrach ''(first round)'' # Cédric Pioline (champion) # Filip Dewulf ''(quarterfinals)'' # Mikael Tillström ''(quarterfinals)'' # Guillaume Raoux ''(second round)'' # Kenneth Carlsen ''(final)'' # Marc-Kevin Goellner Marc-Kevin Peter Goellner (born 22 September 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. He won two singles titles, achieved a Bronze medal in doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics and attained a career-high singles ranking of Worl ... ''(second round)'' Draw References External links 1996 Copenhagen Open draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Copenhagen Open - 1 1996 Copenhagen Open – 1 1996 ATP Tour [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cédric Pioline
Cédric Pioline (born 15 June 1969) is a French former professional tennis player who played on the professional tour from 1989 to 2002. He reached the men's singles final at the 1993 US Open and at Wimbledon in 1997. On both occasions, he was beaten by Pete Sampras in straight sets. Pioline's career-high singles ranking was world No. 5, achieved in 2000. Pioline won five singles titles in his career, the biggest at the ATP Masters Series event in Monte Carlo in 2000 – his last final on the professional tour. In addition to his finals appearances at the US Open and Wimbledon, he reached 10 other singles finals, including at Monte Carlo in 1993 and 1998. Pioline also competed for France in the Davis Cup, winning the cup in 1996 and 2001. After retiring from tennis, he became a tennis administrator. , he is the tournament director of the ATP Masters Series event in Paris and plays on the senior ATP tour. Personal life Pioline grew up in a sporting family. His Romanian mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl-Uwe Steeb
Carl-Uwe Steeb (born 1 September 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. Steeb turned professional in 1986. He won his first top-level singles title in 1989 in Gstaad. His best singles performances at Grand Slam events came in reaching the fourth round at the Australian Open in 1988, the US Open in 1991, and the French Open in 1992. Steeb was a member of three German Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ... champion teams – in 1988, 1989 and 1993 (he played in the final in '88 and '89, and in the earlier rounds in '93). Over the course of his career, Steeb won three top-level singles titles and three tour doubles titles. His career-high rankings were World No. 14 in singles (in 1990), and World No. 41 in doubles (in 1989). His career priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Johansson
Karl Thomas Conny Johansson (; born 24 March 1975) is a Swedish retired professional tennis player and coach. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 7 singles ranking on 10 May 2002. His career highlights in singles include a Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in 2002, and an ATP Masters Series title at the 1999 Canada Masters. He also won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in men's doubles, partnering Simon Aspelin. As of June 2022, Johansson remains the last Swedish man to win a major in singles. He was the coach of David Goffin until late 2020. Tennis career Juniors Johansson began to play tennis at age five with his father, Krister. In 1989, became European 14s singles champion and won doubles title (with Magnus Norman). Even when he injured his right elbow while playing the Orange Bowl tennis championships 16s in 1991, he still reached the final, losing to Spain's Gonzalo Corrales. He finished No. 10 in the 1993 world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Camporese
Omar Camporese (; born 8 May 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. Career Born in Bologna, Camporese turned professional in 1987. He reached his first top-level singles final in 1990 at San Marino, where he lost to Guillermo Pérez Roldán 6–3, 6–3. In 1991, Camporese won his first tour singles title in Rotterdam, defeating Ivan Lendl in the final 3–6, 7–6, 7–6. At the Australian Open the same year he lost against Boris Becker in a 311 minutes long match. Becker won 7–6, 7–6, 0–6, 4–6, 14–12 which is the fourth longest match in the tournament's history. 1992 saw Camporese win his second tour singles title at Milan, where he beat Goran Ivanišević in the final 3–6, 6–3, 6–4. Camporese's best performance at a Grand Slam Grand Slam most often refers to: * Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to: Games and sports * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morten Christensen (tennis)
Morten Christensen (born 15 June 1965) is a former tennis player from Denmark. Christensen represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he was defeated in the first round by the number fifteen seed from Yugoslavia, Slobodan Živojinović. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 18 April 1988, when he rose to the rank of World No. 250. See also *List of Denmark Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Denmark Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. Denmark have taken part in the competition since 1921. Players References {{DEFAULTSORT:Denmark Davis Cup Lists of Davis Cup ... References External links * * * 1965 births Living people Danish male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Denmark Tennis players from Copenhagen Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics 20th-century Danish people {{Denmark-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuno Marques
Nuno Miguel Bacelar de Vasconcelos Marques (born 9 April 1970) is a Portuguese former tennis player. He was the first Portuguese to reach the top 100 ATP rankings and held the record of highest ranked Portuguese player in history until Frederico Gil surpassed him in 2009. Also, he was the highest ranked Portuguese doubles player in history reaching a career high of no. 58 until 2019, when he was surpassed by João Sousa João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa (born 30 March 1989), known as João Sousa (), is a Portuguese professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 28 on 16 May 2016 and a doubles ranking of No. 26 on 13 May 2 .... Career finals Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up) Singles performance timeline Awards *2013 – ITF Commitment Award References External links * * * 1970 births Living people Olympic tennis players of Portugal Portuguese male tennis players Portuguese tennis coaches Sportspeople from Porto T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Fetterlein
Frederik Fetterlein (born 11 July 1970) is a retired tennis player from Denmark, who turned professional in 1989. Tennis career The right-hander Fetterlein represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the second round by Switzerland's Marc Rosset. Fetterlein reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 75 in October 1995. During his career, he defeated Thomas Muster and Stefan Edberg, amongst other top players. ATP Challengers and ITF Futures titles Singles: 4 See also *List of Denmark Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Denmark Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. Denmark have taken part in the competition since 1921. Players References {{DEFAULTSORT:Denmark Davis Cup Lists of Davis Cup ... References External links * * * * 1970 births Living people Danish male tennis players Olympic tennis players of Denmark Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sándor Noszály (tennis)
Sándor Noszály ( hu, Noszály Sándor, ; born 16 March 1972 in Budapest) is a retired tennis player from Hungary, who is a five times Hungarian National Tennis Championships, Hungarian Champion in singles and 16 times adding the doubles. Career Noszály qualified Hungary for the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Four years earlier, in the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 Barcelona Olympics he was partnering László Markovits in the doubles draw, where they fell in the first round. He was the member of the Hungary Davis Cup team who advanced to the World Group in 1993 and 1995 where he won two singles against Argentines Guillermo Pérez Roldán and Alberto Mancini and one victory over Australia (Todd Woodbridge) respectively. In July 1995 he advanced to the quarterfinal of Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel Open by defeating Carlos Moyá in the previous round losing to clay-specialist Thomas Muster. Three months later he reached the Semifinal of the 1995 BRD Năstase Ţi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Golmard
Jérôme Golmard (9 September 1973 – 31 July 2017) was a French tennis player. The left-hander reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in April 1999, winning 2 singles titles and reaching the semifinals of Monte Carlo in 1999. Golmard finished his career with over $2.2 million in prize money. Among the many notable players he beat on the ATP Tour are former World No. 1s Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Gustavo Kuerten, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marcelo Ríos and Carlos Moyá, as well as Grand Slam champions Richard Krajicek, Goran Ivanišević, Albert Costa, Gastón Gaudio, Thomas Johansson and Michael Chang. He announced in 2014 that he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease, which causes muscle paralysis, and died of the disease on 31 July 2017. After tennis Golmard was diagnosed with motor neurone disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Van Herck
Johan Van Herck (born 24 May 1974) is a Belgian tennis coach and former professional player. Van Herck first broke into the top 100 of the ATP rankings in 1996, when he made semi-finals at the Copenhagen Open and Italy's Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia. In the later he upset top seed Félix Mantilla Botella in the second round. In both 1997 and 1998, Van Herck was a semi-finalist at the Coral Springs International Tennis Championships. He had his best Grand Slam performance at the 1998 French Open, where in the opening round he defeated world number four Greg Rusedski in straight sets. He then beat Spanish qualifier Jordi Mas to reach the third round, but was then eliminated by another qualifier, Jens Knippschild, despite winning the opening two sets, from which he dropped just two games. Van Herck defeated another top player in the 1999 Grand Prix Hassan II, held in Casablanca, overcoming number one seed Thomas Muster. He represented the Belgium Davis Cup team in nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Ogorodov
Oleg Ogorodov (Олег Огородов; born 16 July 1972) is a former tennis player, who turned professional in 1995. He represented Uzbekistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. His career high singles rank came on May 13, 1996, when he was ranked 101st in men's singles tennis rankings. Alternatively in doubles his career high came a year later on July 7, 1997, when he ranked 102nd. Career Ogorodov officially turned pro in 1995 and made his first singles appearance on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) challenger series tour in July. During his first appearance in Weiden, Germany he made it to the quarterfinal but lost to Swedish tennis player Thomas Johansson in three sets, 7–6, 1–6, 5–7. He would make it to his first challenger semifinal the following week in Eisenach, Germany when lost to Polish tennis player Wojtek Kowalski in straight sets, 6–7, 3–6. In July 1995 Ogorodov made his first ATP tour appearance in Prague, Czech Republic ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrik Langvardt
Patrik Langvardt (born 6 December 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Denmark. Career Langvardt represented Denmark in the Davis Cup competition from 2000 until 2002. He made his debut in 2000 during the Europe/Africa Zone Group II, second round against the Ivory Coast. Langvardt played in four Davis Cup ties, winning 2 of the 4 singles matches and the one doubles match, that he played. After retiring from professional tennis, Langvardt began coaching tennis. He started a tennis academy at the Trelleborg Tennis Club in Sweden and since 2012 he has been the coach of the Danish player, Frederik Nielsen Frederik Løchte Nielsen (born 27 August 1983) is a former professional tennis player. He was the top ranked player from Denmark in the ATP doubles world rankings. A former Wimbledon men's doubles champion, he peaked at no. 17 in the rankin .... See also * List of Denmark Davis Cup team representatives References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Langvardt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
