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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] |
2002 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles 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 The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Seeds # Jeff Morrison ''(qualifying competition, lucky loser)'' # Jürgen Melzer (qualified) # Takao Suzuki ''(first round)'' # Lee Hyung-taik (qualified) # Robby Ginepri ''(second round)'' # Ota Fukárek ''(first round)'' # Axel Pretzsch ''(second round)'' # Yuri Schukin ''(first round)'' # Jack Brasington (qualified) # Ricardo Mello ''(second round)'' # Brian Vahaly ''(qualifying competition, lucky loser)'' # George Bastl ''(qualifying competition, lucky loser)'' # Dick Norman ''(first round)'' # Mardy Fish ''(first round)'' # Radek Štěpánek (qualified) # Denis Golovanov ''(qualifying competition, lucky loser)'' # Justin Gimelstob ''(qualifying competition)'' # Mario Ančić (qualified) # Sébastien de Chaunac ''(first round)'' # Alexander Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeroen Masson
Jeroen Masson (born 2 January 1981) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Although born in Belgium, Masson was raised in South Africa and comes from a family of bakers. In order to embark on a career in professional tennis he returned to his birth country at the age of 18 and became a Belgian national. He reached a best singles world ranking of 215, had a win over Novak Djokovic (in 2004), won 13 ITF Futures The ITF World Tennis Tour (formerly known as the ''ITF Men's World Tennis Tour'', and previously ''ITF Men's Circuit'') is a series of professional tennis tournaments held around the world that are organized by the International Tennis Federation. ... titles and was runner-up at the 2005 Belgrade Challenger. In 2009 he announced his retirement from the tour. ATP Challenger/ITF Futures finals Singles: 25 (13–12) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Masson, Jeroen 1981 births Living people Belgian male tennis players Sportspeople from Ghent Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Male Tennis Players
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British Male Tennis Players
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Living People
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1983 Births
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequent lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Montilla
Gabriel Montilla (born 11 August 1979) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. Before competing on the professional tour, Montilla played collegiate tennis for the Indiana Hoosiers. Montilla is Puerto Rico's most successful Davis Cup player in history, with 38 overall wins, 21 in singles and 17 in doubles. His Davis Cup career, which included 33 ties, was played from 1999 to 2006, before a final comeback appearance in 2015. At the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games, Montilla was a mixed doubles gold medalist partnering Kristina Brandi. They won the final against the Mexican pairing of Santiago González and Melissa Torres Sandoval. Montilla represented Puerto Rico at the 2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when Dominican Republic had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America. Al ... in Santo Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Marray
Jonathan Marray (born 10 March 1981) is a former British tennis player and a Wimbledon Men's Doubles champion. Marray is a former top 20 doubles player, reaching a career high of world no. 15 in January 2013, mainly due to more regular appearances on the ATP World Tour, following his victory at Wimbledon 2012. He has also competed on the singles tour, reaching world no. 215 in April 2005, but was unable to continue his singles career, in part due to injuries. Marray first came to prominence at the 2004 Queen's Club Championship where he reached the third round. Marray has since played predominantly on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he has reached one singles final and won multiple doubles competitions. In 2012 at Wimbledon, he and his doubles partner, Frederik Nielsen, on a wildcard entry into the tournament, won the final in five sets, beating the much favoured fifth seeds, Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecău. Marray was the first British men's doubles champion since Raymond T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island. In the Americas, Kingston is the largest predominantly English-speaking city in the Caribbean. The local government bodies of the parishes of Kingston and Saint Andrew were amalgamated by the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation Act of 1923, to form the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC). Greater Kingston, or the "Corporate Area" refers to those areas under the KSAC; however, it does not solely refer to Kingston Parish, which only consists of the old downtown and Port Royal. Kingston Parish had a population of 89,057, and St. Andrew Parish had a population of 573,369 in 2011 Kingston is only bordered by Saint Andrew to the east, west and north. The geographical border for the parish of K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Rettenmaier
Travis Rettenmaier (born August 6, 1983) is a former American professional tennis player. Rettenmaier's highest singles ranking was World No. 273 achieved on February 27, 2006. In doubles, his ranking was World No. 57, which he achieved on July 12, 2010. He was mainly active as a doubles player. Rettenmaier in 2022 became the first owner/player of a Major League Pickleball team. As a co-owner of the Florida Smash (www.floridasmash.com) Rettenmaier made the finals of the first event at Dreamland in Dripping Springs, Texas. Rettenmaier played alongside JW Johnson, Lee Whitwell and Maggy Remynse. Rettenmaier is the highest ranked ATP player to play pickleball with a previous ranking of #57 reached in 2010. Rettenmaier now is a full time professional pickleball player with an intense interest in the growth and business of pickleball. Career Rettenmaier, coached by former touring pro Scott McCain, turned professional in 2002 and retired in 2012. At 6-foot 2-inches, Rettenmaier wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by population) in England, after London and Birmingham. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production centre, including of carbonated water where it was invented in the 1760s, and trading centre (mainly with wool) for the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook the nearby York population. It is locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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