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1998 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles
Luis Horna and Nicolás Massú were the defending champions, but both players turned 18 years old during the season and, therefore, were not eligible to compete in Juniors. Roger Federer and Olivier Rochus defeated Michaël Llodra and Andy Ram in the final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the boys' doubles tennis title at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. It was the 2nd doubles title for Federer and the 3rd doubles title for Rochus in their respective Juniors careers. It was also the 2nd title for the pair in the circuit, after their win in the LTA International Junior Championships at the same year. Seeds # n/a # Jérôme Haehnel / Julien Jeanpierre ''(first round)'' # Simon Dickson / David Sherwood ''(first round)'' # Michaël Llodra / Andy Ram Andreas "Andy" Ram ( he, אנדי רם; born April 10, 1980) is a retired Israeli professional tennis player. He was primarily a doubles player, and competed in three Olympics. He is the first Israeli tennis player to win a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Federer
Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. He won 103 ATP singles titles, the second most of all time, including 20 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam singles titles, a record eight men's singles Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon titles, an Open Era record-tying five men's singles US Open (tennis), US Open titles, and a record-tying six ATP Finals, year-end championships. Federer played during an era where he dominated men's tennis along with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic as the Big Three (tennis), Big Three, collectively considered by some to be the three most successful male tennis players of all time. Federer's 20 Grand Slam singles titles also put him at third most of all time, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Hilton (tennis)
Mark Hilton (born 20 April 1981) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Chester, England. Career As a junior, Hilton won the national championships at U16 and U18 level. Hilton's highest world ranking was 62 ITF. Hilton made the semi-finals of the boys' doubles event at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. He and partner James Nelson lost narrowly 15–17 to Guillermo Coria and David Nalbandian in the final set of their semi-final. Hilton upset Albert Costa at the 2004 Wimbledon Championships, to make the second round, where he lost to Dominik Hrbatý. In the men's doubles, with Jonathan Marray in 2005 they defeated the French pairing of Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut. They then lost in the second round to Ivo Karlović and Rogier Wassen. Hilton made 2 ATP Singles Challenger finals. He won three ATP Challenger doubles titles in 2005, with Marray. His final professional tennis match was in November 2005. In 2005, at the age of 24, Hilton decided to reti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. As of 2016, there are 211 national and six regional associations that make up ITF's membership. The ITF's governance responsibilities include maintaining and enforcing the rules of tennis, regulating international team competitions, promoting the game, and preserving the sport's integrity via anti-doping and anti-corruption programs. The ITF partners with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) to govern professional tennis. The ITF organizes the Grand Slam events, annual team competitions for men ( Davis Cup), women (Billie Jean King Cup), and mixed teams (Hopman Cup), as well as tennis and wheelchair tennis events at the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games on behalf of the International Olympic Committee. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirill Ivanov-Smolensky
Kirill Ivanov-Smolensky (born 19 February 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. Career Ivanov-Smolensky was a boys' singles semi-finalist in the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. He also made the semi-finals in the boys' doubles, with Slovakian Frantisek Babej, which matched his efforts from Wimbledon the previous year, when he partnered Adrian Barnes to the semi-finals. During his junior career he played a doubles tournament with Roger Federer, held at the Bollettieri Sports Academy in 1997. In 1998, Ivanov-Smolensky represented Russia in their Davis Cup World Group win over Japan in Osaka. He played one match, a dead rubber against Takao Suzuki, which he lost in straight sets. On the ATP Tour, he appeared in the main singles draw of four tournaments, the 1998 St. Petersburg Open, 1999 Heineken Trophy, 2002 President's Cup and 2002 Ordina Open. At each of those events he was beaten in the opening round, by four different Germans. He did, however, make two d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi ( Punjabi, ; born 17 Mar 1980) is a Pakistani professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He is the only Pakistani player ever to reach a Grand Slam final, having done so in both men's and mixed doubles at the 2010 US Open, alongside Rohan Bopanna and Květa Peschke respectively. Qureshi has also reached seven further major semifinals across the two disciplines. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 8 in June 2011, and has won 18 titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2011 Paris Masters and 2013 Miami Open, with Bopanna and Jean-Julien Rojer respectively. Qureshi has also qualified for the ATP Finals in doubles on three occasions. In singles, he reached his highest ranking of world No. 125 in December 2007, and achieved his best Grand Slam result at the Wimbledon Championships that year, reaching the second round. Qureshi is also the most successful Davis Cup player in Pakistan's history, with the team most notably reaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Park (tennis)
Andrew Park (born January 2, 1980) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Career As a junior, Park and partner Travis Parrott made the doubles semi-finals at the 1997 Orange Bowl and the boys' doubles quarter-finals at the 1998 Australian Open The 1998 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Albert Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 86th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 19 January through 1 February 1998. Seniors M .... He won the USTA National Closed Championships in 1998. Park, who played collegiate tennis at the University of Southern California, was given a wildcard into the 1998 US Open main draw. He lost in the opening round to Mikael Tillström, in straight sets. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Park, Andrew 1980 births Living people American male tennis players Tennis people from California USC Trojans men's tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovro Zovko
Lovro Zovko (born 18 March 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. Tennis career Juniors As a junior Zovko reached as high as No. 9 in the world rankings in 1998 (and No. 10 in doubles). Pro tour Early in 2000 and 2001, Zovko reached the doubles final in Umag with Ivan Ljubičić. In 2007, Zovko made the doubles finals of the Kremlin Cup (Moscow) event with Tomáš Cibulec before losing to Marat Safin and Dmitry Tursunov in the final, 6–4, 6–2. Zovko reached the 2007 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon doubles final with Łukasz Kubot, losing to Sébastien Grosjean and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (; born 17 April 1985) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in February 2012. Tsonga won 18 singles titles on th ... in the final, 6–4, 6–3. ATP career finals Doubles: 5 (0–5) References External links * * * {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Vik
Robin Vik (born 5 February 1980 in Hradec Králové) is a Czech professional tennis player. Vik turned professional in 1995 and he reached a career high ranking of World No. 57 in January 2006. Career highlight runs are reaching the semifinals of St. Petersburg in 2005 and the quarterfinals of Dubai and Munich in 2006. Notable victories include World No. 10 Gastón Gaudio at the 2006 World Team Cup in Düsseldorf, World No. 25 Tomáš Berdych at Dubai in 2006, World No. 27 and recent US Open semifinalist Mikhail Youzhny at St. Petersburg in 2005 and a declining World No. 27 and defending champion Guillermo Coria at Umag in 2006. Vik was beaten in the first round of the 2006 Australian Open The 2006 Australian Open was played between 16 and 29 January 2006. Marat Safin could not defend his 2005 title, due to an injury he suffered in late 2005. Roger Federer won his second Australian Open title, defeating Marcos Baghdatis in the fin ... by Lleyton Hewitt in a tigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Kračman
Andrej Kračman (born 22 August 1982) is a tennis player from Slovenia. Tennis career Juniors As a junior Kračman reached as high as No. 79 in the junior world singles rankings in 1998 (and No. 23 in doubles). Pro tour He has played multiple seasons of 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 ... including the 2009 Slovenia Davis Cup team. References External links * * Living people 1982 births Slovenian male tennis players Sportspeople from Ljubljana {{Slovenia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Healey
Nathan Healey (born 27 February 1980 in Gosford, New South Wales) is an Australian tennis player. Turning professional in 1998, Healey has won 3 doubles titles. In 2006, he earned a wildcard to the Australian Open, making the 3rd round, where he was defeated by Russian Nikolay Davydenko in four sets. Later that year, he made it to the 3rd qualifying round at Wimbledon, where he was soundly defeated by Robert Kendrick. As of 26 June 2006, Healey was 199th in the ATP rankings. In January 2007 Healey substituted for Mark Philippoussis after the latter sustained a knee injury during the Hopman Cup in Perth. He lost a close match against American Mardy Fish, but then teamed with Alicia Molik to win the mixed doubles against Fish and Ashley Harkleroad. Healey is married to Marnie Heller of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. In August 2009, he became the coach of fellow tennis player and former world number 1., Lleyton Hewitt; replacing Tony Roche. Healey resigned as Hewitt's coach for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgardo Massa
Edgardo Massa (born 22 March 1981 in Formosa, Argentina) is a former tennis player from Argentina, who turned professional in 1998. Massa plays right-handed, and uses a single-handed backhand. Career Massa who is known by the nickname "Yayo", started playing tennis at the age of 5. He was part of the same generation that produced David Nalbandian and Guillermo Coria. Together with Nalbandian and Coria, Massa represented Argentina in the Junior Davis Cup in 1996 and 1997. As a junior, Massa won the Asunción Bowl junior, which was G1 level event, the level under the junior Grand Slams, Banana and Orange Bowls without losing where he defeated Fernando González in the quarter finals and Ricardo Mello in the final. 1998–2000 Massa turned professional in 1998, where he started off playing Futures tournaments. His best results of the year were losing in the Peru F3 semi finals to Luis Horna and the quarter finals of the Resistencia to Guillermo Coria. In 1999 Massa wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio González King
Ignacio González King (born 28 March 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. Career González King played only doubles on the ATP Tour. He and partner Enzo Artoni were runners-up in the 2005 Brasil Open and also made the semi-finals at Viña del Mar Viña del Mar (; meaning "Vineyard of the Sea") is a city and commune on central Chile's Pacific coast. Often referred to as ("The Garden City"), Viña del Mar is located within the Valparaíso Region, and it is Chile's fourth largest city w ... that year. The Argentine player won eight doubles titles on the ATP Challenger circuit, all in the space of 15 months. ATP career finals Doubles: 1 (0–1) Challenger titles Singles: (1) Doubles: (8) Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gonzalez King, Ignacio 1980 births Living people Argentine people of English descent Argentine male tennis players Tennis players from Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
