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2001 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Nicolas Mahut was the defending champion, but did not complete in the Juniors this year. Roman Valent defeated Gilles Müller in the final, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3 to win the boys' singles tennis title at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds Janko Tipsarević ''(third round)'' Gilles Müller ''(final)'' Bruno Echagaray ''(first round)'' Brian Dabul ''(first round)'' Alejandro Falla ''(third round)'' Jimmy Wang (tennis), Wang Yeu-tzuoo ''(semifinals)'' Ytai Abougzir ''(first round)'' Florian Mayer ''(second round)'' Robin Söderling ''(second round)'' Roman Valent (champion) Lamine Ouahab ''(first round)'' Luciano Vitullo ''(third round)'' Stéphane Bohli ''(third round)'' Lionel Noviski ''(third round)'' Paul Capdeville ''(second round)'' Todd Reid ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:2001 Wimbledon Championships - Boys' Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Valent
Roman Valent (born 8 July 1983) is a professional tennis player from Switzerland. He was an outstanding junior, winning the 2001 Wimbledon Boys' Singles tournament. He has played in many Challenger and Futures tournaments, winning two of the latter. However, Valent has played just one match on the ATP Tour, in which he lost to Frenchman Marc Gicquel Marc Gicquel (born 30 March 1977) is a former professional male tennis player from France. Tennis career Gicquel turned pro in 1999. He made his ATP Tour singles debut at the 2002 Open 13 tournament on hard courts in Marseilles, France. He ... at the 2009 Open de Moselle. Juniors As a junior, Valent posted a singles record of 81–24 and reached as high as No. 3 in the world in 2001 (and No. 25 in doubles). ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 7 (2–5) Doubles: 5 (2–3) Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) References External links * * 1983 births Living people People from Adlisw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Dancevic
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Benjamin Balleret
Benjamin Balleret (born 15 January 1983) is a professional tennis player from Monaco. His father, Bernard Balleret, is former tennis player, while his cousin Arthur Rinderknech also plays the sport professionally. Balleret is a member of the Monaco Davis Cup team. Tennis career Juniors As a junior Balleret reached as high as No. 19 in the junior world singles rankings (and No. 29 in doubles) in 2001. Pro tour Balleret is best known for his April 2006 fairy tale run to the third round of the Monte Carlo Open, an ATP ATP World Tour Masters 1000, Masters Series. Entering the tournament, he was ranked 351st in the world and had competed only in challenger tournaments and several Davis Cup matches (he played for the Monegasque team in 2004 and 2005 and compiled a modest record of 4 wins and 5 losses). However, on 16 April 2006, he received a Wild card (sports)#Professional tennis, wild card into the qualifying draw of the Monte Carlo Open and won upsets over seeded, far more accompl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Cruciat
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Ross Hutchins
Ross Dan Hutchins (born 22 February 1985) is a retired British professional tennis player, known best as a doubles player, who achieved a highest doubles ranking of 26. He competed for England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi where he won silver partnering Ken Skupski in the Men's Doubles event. Having turned professional in 2002, he enjoyed success on the Challenger circuit and broke through to the ATP Tour in late 2007. He reached thirteen ATP Tour doubles finals in his career winning five of them, Beijing, Montpellier, St Petersburg, Delray Beach, and Eastbourne. In 2011 he had his best doubles Grand slam season reaching the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and then two months later equalling it at the US Open. Hutchins was one of Britain's highest ranked doubles players, alongside Jamie Murray, Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski. Hutchins was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in late 2012, which was treated and went into remission by July 2013. At the point of his diagnosi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Brizzi
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Raphael Durek
Raphael Durek (born 2 February 1984) is a former Brazilian-born Australian tennis player. Durek has a career high ATP singles ranking of 400 achieved on 20 September 2004. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 150 achieved on 1 December 2003. Durek won one ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2007 Abierto de Puebla The Abierto de Puebla (previously known as the Challenger Varonil Britania Zavaleta) is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's C .... References External links * * 1984 births Living people Australian male tennis players Tennis players from Sydney Sportspeople from Belo Horizonte Brazilian emigrants to Australia {{Australia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Banks (tennis)
Andrew "Andy" Banks (born 6 January 1983) is a British former professional tennis player. A left-handed player from Wakefield, Banks was a British 18-and-under champion and reached the junior doubles final of the 2000 Wimbledon Championships. Banks featured in the men's singles qualifying draw at Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * ... on four occasions and twice received a wildcard into the doubles main draw, in 2004 and 2005. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 2 (2–0) Doubles: 1 (1–0) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Banks, Andrew 1983 births Living people British male tennis players English male tennis players Tennis people from West Yorkshire Sportspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Stadler
Simon Stadler (; born 20 July 1983 in Heidelberg, West Germany) is a German retired professional left-handed tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 140 in February 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 52 in February 2014. Juniors career Stadler reached a career-high of No. 8 in singles in February 2001 and No. 14 in doubles in January 2001. Professional career 2008 After a slow start to the year, Stadler reached Challenger semifinals two weeks in a row in Cremona and Athens to reach his career-high ranking of No. 164 in April. He reached another semifinal in Telde in May. In June, Stadler qualified in singles for the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, beating British junior No. 949 Daniel Cox (a week after Cox knocked off No. 67 Thomaz Bellucci), No. 248 Rainer Eitzinger and No. 270 Nicolás Todero. He took this form into the main singles draw, where he faced the 18th seed Ivo Karlović from Croatia and beat him in four sets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saša Tuksar
Saša Tuksar (born 12 May 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. Tuksar made the second round of the Croatia Open in 2003, beating Albert Montañés, who retired hurt after losing the first set. It would be the only match he won on the ATP Tour. The Croatian played in two French Opens during his career. He lost to 12th seed Nikolay Davydenko in the first round of the 2005 French Open. The following year he returned to Roland Garros and was drawn up against another Russian, Mikhail Youzhny, who beat him in four sets. He appeared in two Davis Cup ties for the Croatian team. In 2004 he played in Croatia's World Group play-off with Belgium. He took part in a singles rubber, which he lost to Olivier Rochus, although Croatia would go on to win the tie. Two years later, with Argentina and Croatia locked at 2-2 in their World Group quarter-final, Tuksar played the deciding rubber against Juan Ignacio Chela, filling in for Mario Ančić who had a back injury. He lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Baker (tennis)
Brian Richard Baker (born April 30, 1985) is an American retired professional tennis player from Nashville, Tennessee. Junior career As a junior player, Baker won the 2002 Orange Bowl. In 2003, he reached the boys' singles final of the French Open after beating Marcos Baghdatis in the quarterfinals and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semifinals. In the final, he lost to Stan Wawrinka. Baker reached No. 2 in singles and No. 5 in doubles in the junior world rankings. Pro career Early career Baker's biggest win of his fledgling career occurred in August 2005, when he scored an upset victory over ninth-seeded Gastón Gaudio in the 2005 US Open. The victory was Baker's first Grand Slam win. Baker originally played on the tour for only a short time, from 2002 through 2005, as well as participating in three autumn Challenger events in 2007. He won one Challenger event in singles (and three in doubles) during this time and reached a career-best singles ranking of world No. 172 on Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prakash Amritraj
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