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Coleman Wong
Coleman Wong Chak-lam (; born 6 June 2004) is a tennis player from Hong Kong. He is educated in Diocesan Boys' School. After winning the 2021 US Open Boys' Doubles event, he became Hong Kong's second ever Grand Slam winner in any discipline, following Patricia Hy's 1983 Wimbledon title in Girls' Doubles. He won his second Grand Slam title at the 2022 Australian Open Boys' Doubles event, becoming the first back-to-back Grand Slam champion in boy's double since Hsu Yu-hsiou in 2017 at Wimbledon and the US Open. Wong reached the semifinals in Boys' Singles of 2022 US Open, which is the best ever result of Hong Kong male tennis players in any Grand Slam tournament. He also played his first every ATP event in New Jersey where he lost to the World number 258 Cyrus Wong in three sets. 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-4 Wong has a career high ATP singles ranking of 733 and doubles ranking of 587, both achieved on 6 February 2023. Wong represents Hong Kong at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocesan Boys' School
The Diocesan Boys' School (DBS) is a day and boarding Anglican boys' school in Hong Kong, located at 131 Argyle Street, Hong Kong, Argyle Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon near Mong Kok East station. The school's mission is "to provide a liberal education based on Christianity, Christian principles". Having run as a Grant School (Hong Kong), grant-aided school since it was founded, the school commenced operation in the Direct Subsidy Scheme in September 2003. It uses EMI schools, English as the medium of instruction. History The first foundation In 1860, Mrs Lydia Smith (wife of the Bishop of Victoria) and the Society for the Promotion of Female Education in the Far East (Also known as Female Education Society, or "FES") set up the Diocesan Native Female Training School, a day-school turned boarding school for native girls, affiliated with the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, Diocese of Victoria. As stated in its first annual report, the purpose of the school was "to introduce among a some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huang (surname)
Huang (; ) is a Chinese surname that originally means and refers to jade people were wearing and decorating in ancient times. While ''Huáng'' is the pinyin romanization of the word, it may also be romanized as Hwang (Korean surname), Hwang, Wong (surname), Wong, Waan, Wan, Waon, Hwong, Vong, Hung, Hong, Bong, Eng, Ng (name), Ng, Uy (surname), Uy, Wee, Oi, Oei, Oey, Ooi, Ong, or Ung due to pronunciations of the word in different dialects and languages. It is the 96th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem.K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. . This surname is known as Hwang (Korean name), Hwang in Korean language, Korean. In Vietnamese language, Vietnamese, the name is known as Hoàng or Huỳnh. Huang is the 7th most common surname in China. Huynh is the 5th most common surname in Vietnam. The population of Huangs in China and Taiwan was estimated at more than 35 million in 2020; it was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsu Yu-hsiou
Hsu Yu-hsiou ( zh, 許育修; born 2 April 1999) is a Taiwanese tennis player. Hsu has a career high ATP singles ranking of 331 achieved on 7 March 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 163 achieved on 13 June 2022. Junior career As a junior, Hsu achieved a career-high total combined ranking of no.5, reached on 12 June 2017. In 2017, he won the 2017 Australian Open boys' doubles championships title alongside Zhao Lingxi. He then won the 2017 Wimbledon boys' doubles championships title with Axel Geller and impressively also the 2017 US Open boys' doubles championships title with Wu Yibing, holding three out of the four junior grand slam doubles championships simultaneously. Professional career 2018 In March 2018, he won his first singles and doubles titles on the ITF Men's Circuit. In the same year, he made his debut for the Chinese Taipei Davis Cup team, where he won his single's tie against Shahin Khaledanof of Iran by a score of 4–6, 6–1, 0–8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Othman Ktiri
Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system of the State of Maryland, serving Maryland, Washington, D.C., and eastern West Virginia * MARC (archive), a computer-related mailing list archive * M/A/R/C Research, a marketing research and consulting firm * Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition, a non-profit, volunteer organization * Matador Automatic Radar Control, a guidance system for the Martin MGM-1 Matador cruise missile * Mid-America Regional Council, the Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the bistate Kansas City region * Midwest Association for Race Cars, a former American stock car racing organization * Revolutionary Agrarian Movement of the Bolivian Peasantry (''Movimiento Agrario Revolucionario del Campesinado Boliviano''), a defunct right-wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Daniel Vallejo
Adolfo Daniel Vallejo (born 28 April 2004) is a Paraguayan tennis player and the ITF junior world number 1. Vallejo has a career high ATP singles ranking of 1988 as of March 2022. On the junior tour, Vallejo has achieved a career high junior ranking of 2, achieved in March 2022. This result came after a series of favorable results during the 2021 and 2022 season. 2021 - 2022 season Beginning with his historical performance at the Junior Orange Bowl 2021 in Plantation, Florida, where he beat former junior world number 2, Bruno Kuzuhara to take the crown at this prestigious event. He is the first Paraguayan to achieve this and only the second to reach the final (the first being Victor Pecci). Davis Cup Vallejo represents Paraguay at the 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 des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Michelsen
Alex Michelsen (born August 25, 2004) is an American tennis player. Michelsen has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 356 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 693 achieved on 6 February 2023. He won the singles and doubles title at the 2022 Easter Bowl, becoming the first American champion in both disciplines since Donald Young in 2006. He also won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title. He is committed to play college tennis at the University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ .... ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 5 (2–3) Doubles: 2 (1–1) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runners-up) References External links * * 2004 births Living peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Kuzuhara
Bruno Kuzuhara (born 1 April 2004) is a Brazilian-born American tennis player. He won the 2022 Australian Open Juniors singles and doubles events. Personal life Born in Brazil, both his parents have Japanese heritage. They moved to the U.S. when he was a baby. He now lives in Coconut Creek, Florida. He has trained under Brian Baker at the national campus in Florida. Career He was given his ATP tour debut as a wildcard at the 2021 US Open in the mixed doubles alongside Elvina Kalieva. As the top seed, he won the 2022 Australian Open in Boys singles defeating Czech Jakub Menšík. He also won the doubles event partnering Hong Kong player Coleman Wong. At 17 years old he became the fourth player from the US in the Open Era to claim the junior singles title, following in the footsteps of Andy Roddick, Donald Young and Sebastian Korda. He was also the first player since Czech Jiří Veselý Jiří Veselý (; born 10 July 1993) is a Czech professional tennis player. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petr Nesterov
Petr Nesterov ( bg, Пьотр Нестеров, born 7 March 2003) is a Bulgarian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 459 achieved on 17 June 2024, whilst his best doubles ranking is No. 383 achieved on 17 July 2023. Nesterov reached the final of the 2021 US Open Junior doubles with Ukrainian Viacheslav Bielinskyi. Junior career As a junior, Nesterov won three singles and four doubles titles and achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 15. His biggest junior success came in 2021 at the US Open, where he reached the quarterfinals in singles and his first Grand Slam final in doubles with Viacheslav Bielinskyi, but lost 3–6, 7–5, –10to Max Westphal and Coleman Wong in the championship match. Earlier in the year the Bulgarian-Ukrainian duo came close to another doubles final at the French Open, but lost out in the semifinals to eventual champions Arthur Fils and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard. Professional career 2019–2023: Early years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Westphal
Max Westphal (born 4 June 2003) is a French tennis player. Westphal has a career high ATP singles ranking of 2009 achieved on 14 June 2021. Westphal won the 2021 US Open – Boys' doubles title with Coleman Wong. He currently attends Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt .... Junior Grand Slam titles Doubles: 1 (1 title) References External links * * 2003 births Living people French male tennis players US Open (tennis) junior champions Columbia Lions men's tennis players Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Bowl (tennis)
The Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships, known as the Dunlop Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships from 2008 to 2013 with Dunlop as the title sponsor, and renamed the Metropolia Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships from 2013 onwards, is a prestigious junior tennis tournament, one of five that are rated by the ITF as 'Grade A'. Established in 1947 in Miami Beach, the tournament has for years featured both boys and girls singles and doubles draws at both '18 and under' (under-19) and '16 and under' (under-17) age categories. From 1999 to 2010, the tournament had been held each December at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida. Since 2011, it has been held at the Frank Veltri Tennis Center in Plantation, Florida. History The Orange Bowl Tennis Championship began at Flamingo Tennis Center, Miami Beach. This facility, still in use today, hosted the tournament until 1998, when it was moved to its current site at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 organisers as the "World Cup of Tennis", and the winners are referred to as the World Champion team. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain and the United States. By 2016, 135 nations entered teams into the competition. The most successful countries over the history of the tournament are the United States (winning 32 titles and finishing as runners-up 29 times) and Australia (winning 28 titles, including six with New Zealand as Australasia, and finishing as runners-up 19 times). The current champions are Canada, who beat Australia to win their first title in 2022. The women's equivalent of the Davis Cup is the Billie Jean King Cup, formerly known as the Fed Cup. Australia, Russia, the Czech Republic, and the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Davis Cup Team
The Hong Kong men's national tennis team represents Hong Kong in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Hong Kong Tennis Association. Hong Kong contested Asia/Oceania Group I on four occasions in 1989, 1993-95 but failed to negotiate the opening round. History Hong Kong competed in its first Davis Cup in 1970. Current team (2022) * Coleman Wong * Wong Hong-kit * Wong Chun-hun * Chan Kwok Shun Dasson Chan may refer to: Places *Chan (commune), Cambodia *Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada People *Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田) * Chan Caldwe ... (''Junior player'') See also * Davis Cup * Hong Kong Fed Cup team References External links Davis Cup teams Davis Cup Davis Cup {{DavisCup-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
