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2002 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Seeds # Dejan Petrovic / David Škoch ''(qualifying competition, lucky losers)'' # Karol Beck / Jaroslav Levinský (qualified) # Sebastián Prieto / Yuri Schukin ''(first round)'' # Alexander Waske / Lovro Zovko (qualified) # Brandon Coupe / Kevin Kim ''(first round)'' # Justin Bower / Shaun Rudman ''(first round)'' # Amir Hadad / Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (qualified) # Tuomas Ketola / Eric Taino ''(first round)'' Qualifiers # Robert Kendrick / Rogier Wassen # Karol Beck / Jaroslav Levinský # Amir Hadad / Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi # Alexander Waske / Lovro Zovko Lucky losers # Dejan Petrovic / David Škoch David Škoch (born 6 November 1976) is a professional doubles tennis player from the Czech Republic. He was the Wimbledon boys' singles champion in 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877 and is played on outdoor grass courts, with retractable roofs over the two main courts since 2019. Wimbledon is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the others being the Australian Open, the French Open, and the US Open. Wimbledon is the only major still played on grass, the traditional tennis playing surface. Also, it is the only Grand Slam that retains a night-time curfew, though matches can now continue until 11.00 pm under the lights. The tournament traditionally takes place over two weeks in late June and early July, starting on the last Monday in June and culminating with the Ladies' and Gentlemen's Singles Finals, scheduled for the Saturday and Sunday at the end of the second week. Five major events are held each year, with addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kendrick
Robert Bradley Kendrick (born November 15, 1979) is an American retired professional tennis player. He turned professional in 2000. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 69, achieved in July 2009. Early life Robert Kendrick was born to Tom and Doris Kendrick and began playing tennis at the age of 5. Tom is a real estate appraiser and Doris is a housewife. Kendrick has three older siblings: Kerry, Tommy, and Scott. He graduated from Bullard High School in 1997. In 1996, he led his team to an undefeated section championship. College and junior tennis career Kendrick has been called a serve-and-volley player. Kendrick's main strengths are his serve and his forehand. Throughout high school, he competed in junior tennis and enjoyed some intermittent success. In 1996, he was the runner-up in singles at the 1996 USTA Boys’ 18s National Indoor Championships. Then in 1997, he reached the final in doubles of the Easter Bowl and reached the singles final and took the doubles tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Haygarth
Brent Haygarth (born 27 December 1967) is a former professional tennis 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 ... player from South Africa. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won six doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional six times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 40 in 1999. He is the son of tennis player Renée Schuurman. Career finals Doubles (6 wins, 6 losses) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haygarth, Brent South African male tennis players Living people 1967 births White South African people Sportspeople from Durban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Waite
Jack Waite (born May 1, 1969) is an American former tennis player. Waite won 3 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest doubles ATP ATP may refer to: Companies and organizations * Association of Tennis Professionals, men's professional tennis governing body * American Technical Publishers, employee-owned publishing company * ', a Danish pension * Armenia Tree Project, non ... ranking in September 1997, when he became no. 44 in the world. Career finals Doubles (3 wins, 8 losses) References External links * * Living people 1969 births American male tennis players Sportspeople from Madison, Wisconsin Tennis people from Wisconsin Tennis players at the 1995 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in tennis Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Nyborg
Peter Nyborg (born 12 December 1969), is a former professional tennis 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 ... player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 5 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 38 in 1996. He currently works for racket sport platform MATCHi. Career finals Doubles (5 titles, 6 runner-ups) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nyborg, Peter Swedish male tennis players Sportspeople from Gothenburg Living people 1969 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Luczak
Peter Luczak ( pl, Łuczak, ; born 31 August 1979) is a retired professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP singles ranking was World No. 64, achieved in October 2009. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Luczak won the Gold in the doubles. Luczak came to Australia at 9 months of age, when his parents, Eva and Kris, left Warsaw in 1980, where they settled in Melbourne. Luczak started playing tennis at the age of 5, he was introduced to the game by his Polish born father Kris. He did not have major success at junior level and was not able to receive funding from Tennis Australia nor have a major sponsor. Heatherdale Club stalwart Ricky Moore claims to have beaten Luczak in around 1992 and very little thereafter. Luczak was able to gain a tennis scholarship at Fresno State University, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaymon Crabb
Jaymon Crabb (born 6 March 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. He is the brother of Jaxon Crabb, who played for the West Coast Eagles and Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League.''The Age''"For Ilie, that's all folks!" 15 January 2003 Career Crabb was a semi-finalist in the boys' singles event at the 1996 Wimbledon Championships and was junior winner of the Queen's Club Championships that year. He made his first senior Grand Slam appearance in the 1997 Australian Open, where he was defeated in the opening round by Leander Paes. In 2002, he returned to the Australian Open and although he again exited in the first round, he did manage to take a set off a previous finalist, Marcelo Rios. The following year, he beat countryman Andrew Ilie in four sets to register his first win in the Australian Open. He was eliminated from the tournament in the second round by David Nalbandian. In each of his three appearances at the event, he also competed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djalmar Sistermans
Djalmar Sistermans (born 24 December 1976) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Sistermans reached a career high ranking of 140 in doubles and won two ATP Challenger doubles titles. At Wimbledon in 2002 he and Ignacio Hirigoyen came close to qualifying for the main draw when they played a marathon final round qualifier against Amir Hadad Amir Hadad (Hebrew: אמיר חדד, born 17 February 1978) is a retired Israeli professional tennis player. His highest singles ATP ranking was World No. 180, achieved in April 2003, and his highest doubles ranking was No. 87, achieved in Ma ... and Aisam Qureshi, which they lost 13–15 in the fifth set. Challenger titles Doubles: (2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sistermans, Djalmar 1976 births Living people Dutch male tennis players 21st-century Dutch people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio Hirigoyen
Ignacio Hirigoyen (born 23 January 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. Career Hirigoyen was an NCAA All-American for the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 1999. His 34 singles wins that year was a SMU record. He defeated Peru's Luis Horna at the 2001 Cerveza Club Colombia Open The 2001 Cerveza Club Colombia Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Club Campestre El Rancho in Bogotá in Colombia and was part of the International Series of the 2001 ATP Tour. It was the seventh edition of ..., then lost in the second round to Fernando Vicente. This was his only win on the ATP Tour. Personal life Hirigoyen has two daughters and a wife and currently resides in Dallas, Texas. He is also a lawyer. Challenger titles Doubles: (1) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hirigoyen, Ignacio 1976 births Living people Argentine male tennis players SMU Mustangs men's tennis players Sportspeople from Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Niemeyer
Frédéric Niemeyer (born April 24, 1976) is a Canadian retired, professional tennis player and current tennis coach at Tennis Canada. Career Niemeyer reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 134 achieved on 22 March 2004. He also reached a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 142, achieved on 5 August 2002. In his only Grand Slam singles main draw appearance, Niemeyer reached the second round of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships by beating World No. 8 Felix Mantilla. He also reached the Wimbledon doubles second round on two occasions, in 2005 partnering Glenn Weiner, and again the following year with Tuomas Ketola. Niemeyer took over as Canada's top-ranked singles player in the ATP rankings on 7 January 2002, when he surpassed both Sébastien Lareau and Daniel Nestor and remained Canada no. 1 until 6 January 2003. He had multiple stints as Canada's number one over the next three years alternating with Simon Larose and Frank Dancevic until 30 January 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles Elseneer
Gilles Valere Jacque Elseneer (born 6 March 1978 in Brussels) is a retired professional tennis player from Belgium. He is mostly known for his grass court game, and has achieved his best results on this surface, including a quarterfinal appearance at 's-Hertogenbosch in 2001. Tennis career Pro tour He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 97 in July 2004. This was arguably the strongest year of his career, in which he reached the second rounds of the French Open (l. to Gustavo Kuerten) and Wimbledon (l. to Ivo Karlović), and won the challengers of Heilbronn and Sarajevo. Elseneer made a claim in September 2007 that he was offered money to throw a match against Potito Starace Potito Starace (; born 14 July 1981) is an Italian retired professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world no. 27 on October 15, 2007. He was a clay court specialist, and was coached by Umberto Ri ... at Wimbledon 2005. Coaching He is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Peya
Alexander Peya (born 27 June 1980) is an Austrian male tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world no. 92 in April 2007. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 3, first achieved in August 2013. In September 2008 Peya helped Austria to a Davis Cup play-off win against Great Britain. Peya beat Alex Bogdanovic in four sets in the deciding rubber of the tie. Significant finals Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) Mixed Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Masters 1000 finals Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runners-up) ATP career finals Doubles: 46 (17 titles, 29 runner-ups) Performance timelines Singles Doubles ''Current through the 2019 Miami Open The 2019 Miami Open (sponsored by Itaú) was a professional men and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts that started on March 18, 2019, and ended on March 31, 2019. It was the 35th edition of the Miami Open, and part of the ...''. External links * * * * {{DE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
