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Gilad Bloom
Gilad Bloom ( he, גלעד בלום, born 1 March 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Israel. Bloom trained at the Israel Tennis Centers. His career-high rankings were World No. 61 in singles (in 1990) and World No. 62 in doubles (in 1992). Personal life Bloom grew up in Ramat HaSharon, is Jewish, and is married to Michal Bareket-Bloom. He has 4 sons, Guy Tyler Bloom, from a previous marriage, Jonathan Yehuda Bloom, Shy Dylan Bloom and Doron Hendrix Bloom (from his second marriage). He is known as a fan of the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team. Bloom has a rock band (The Gilad Bloom Band), the band plays shows in Manhattan Bars regularly since 2009, Bloom's band performs original songs written and composed by himself, Bloom sings and plays guitar on the band. Tennis career Bloom was Israel's junior champion, three-time men's singles champion, and two-time men's doubles champion. Bloom came in second in the boy's under-12 final at the annual Ericsson Orange Bowl Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramat HaSharon
Ramat HaSharon ( he, רָמַת הַשָּׁרוֹן, ''lit.'' '' Sharon Heights'', ar, رمات هشارون) is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south, Hod HaSharon to the east, and Herzliya and Kibbutz Glil Yam to the north. It is part of the Tel Aviv District, within the Gush Dan metropolitan area. In it had a population of . History Ramat HaSharon, originally Ir Shalom ( he, עִיר שָׁלוֹם, ''lit.'' City of Peace), was a moshava established in 1923 by olim from Poland. It was built on 2,000 dunams () of land purchased for 5 Egyptian pounds per dunam. In the 1931 census, the village had a population of 312. In 1932, the community was renamed Kfar Ramat HaSharon (Heights of Sharon Village). By 1950, the population was up to 900. Rapid population growth in the 1960s and 70s led to construction of many new roadways, schools and parks. Several distinct neighborhood evolved in the 1970s, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis At The 1992 Summer Olympics ...
These are the final results for the tennis competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. American teenager Jennifer Capriati stunned German (and defending champion) Steffi Graf in the women's singles final to win the gold medal. Marc Rosset became the first Swiss Olympic tennis gold medallist. The matches were played on outdoor clay courts at the Tennis de la Vall d'Hebron. Medal summary Medal table Events ReferencesOfficial Olympic Report {{DEFAULTSORT:Tennis At The 1992 Summer Olympics 1992 1992 Summer Olympics events Olympics Olympics 1992 Summer Olympics Oly Oly Oly may refer to: * Oly, informal name for Olympia, Washington, United States * OLY (: ), postnominals granted to participants in the Olympics People with the name * Oly (born 1992), American singer-songwriter and musician * Oly Hicks (born 1968 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Auckland
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-profit organization * Association for Transpersonal Psychology * ATP architects engineers, architecture- and engineering office for integrated design * ATP Oil and Gas, defunct US energy company Entertainment, arts and media *Adenosine Tri-Phosphate (band), Japanese alternative rock/pop band *All Tomorrow's Parties (festival), UK organisation **ATP Recordings, record label * Alberta Theatre Projects, professional, not-for-profit, Canadian theatre company *Associated Talking Pictures, former name of Ealing Studios, a television and film production company Science, technology and biology *Adenosine triphosphate, an organic chemical used for driving biological processes *Advanced Technology Program, US government program *Anti-tachycard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Casal
Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (given name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * ''Sergio'' (album), a 1994 album by Sergio Blass * ''Sergio'' (2009 film), a documentary film * ''Sergio'' (2020 film), a biographical drama film * Sergio, the mascot for the Old Orchard Beach Surge Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England * Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Ma ... baseball team See also *Hurricane Sergio (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Carbonell
Tomás Carbonell Lladó (born 7 August 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Carbonell won 2 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ATP Tour in his career. He won French Open in 2001 in mixed doubles with Virginia Ruano Pascual and twice reached the semifinals of the French Open in men's doubles, in 1999 with Pablo Albano, and in 2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ... with Martín García. Carbonell reached his highest singles rating of World No. 40 on 15 April 1996, and his highest doubles ranking of World No. 22 on 9 October 1995. He retired from the tour in 2001. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 2 (2 titles) ATP career finals Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 32 (22 titles, 10 runner-ups) ATP Challenger and ITF Futu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Sánchez (tennis)
Javier Sánchez Vicario (; born 1 February 1968) is a former top-ten doubles professional tennis player from Spain. Sánchez won the US Open junior singles and doubles title in 1986, and reached the quarterfinal stage in the US Open men's singles event twice - in 1991 and 1996. Career Sánchez won the US Open junior singles and doubles title in 1986, partnering with Tomás Carbonell, and became world no. 1 junior that same year. In Javier's first career singles final in 1987 in Madrid, he faced his brother Emilio Sanchez. Emilio won the match in three sets. Emilio and Javier would play each other a total of 12 times during their careers, Emilio winning ten of their encounters and Javier winning two. They also partnered together to win three doubles titles. Sanchez won his first professional doubles titles in 1987 and his first singles title in 1988 in Buenos Aires. His best grand slam performances included reaching the quarterfinals of the US Open in 1991 (defeating wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Popp
Wolfgang Popp (born 19 May 1959) 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 Germany. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won one doubles title and finished runner-up an additional three times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 76 in 1987. Career finals Doubles (1 win, 3 losses) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Popp, Wolfgang 1959 births Living people People from Neu-Isenburg Sportspeople from Darmstadt (region) West German male tennis players Tennis people from Hesse 20th-century German people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huub Van Boeckel
Huub van Boeckel (born 25 January 1960) is a retired professional tennis player from the Netherlands, who was one of the Netherlands' leading players in the 1980s. A right-hander, van Boeckel reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organ ... on 21 October 1985, when he became world No. 93. Career finals Singles (1 runner-up) Doubles (1 runner-up) External links * * * 1960 births Living people Dutch male tennis players Sportspeople from The Hague 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahar Perkiss
Shahar Perkiss (born 14 October 1962) is an Israeli right-handed former professional tennis player. He reached his best singles ranking of world # 53 in March 1985. He peaked at world # 54 in the doubles rankings in November 1985. Perkiss won the silver medal in singles in tennis at the 1989 Maccabiah Games, but won the gold medal in doubles playing alongside Boaz Merenstein. Early life Perkiss was born in Haifa, Israel, and is Jewish. Tennis career A year after first picking up a tennis racket, Perkiss ranked No. 1 in Israel in the age 10 and under ranks. Perkiss trained at Israel Tennis Centers. He reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 4 March 1985, when he became the # 53 player in the world. In 1982 in Houston he reeled off three upsets in a row, beating world No. 27 Ramesh Krishnan, No. 37 Terry Moor, and No. 36 Mark Dickson. In August 1984 he defeated world No. 9 Aaron Krickstein in straight sets in Cincinnati. In 1986 he beat world # 10 Thierry Tulasne of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Siemerink
Johannes Martinus ("Jan") Siemerink (born 14 April 1970) is a retired tennis player from the Netherlands. The former Dutch Davis Cup captain reached a career-high ATP ranking of 14. Career Tennis As a junior player, Siemerink was the Dutch 18-under champion in 1988. He also won the doubles title at the 1988 Orange Bowl junior championship in Florida. Siemerink turned professional in 1989. Over the course of his career, he won four top-level singles titles (at Singapore in 1991, Nottingham in 1996, and at Rotterdam and Toulouse in 1998). He also won ten tour doubles titles, the most significant of which were the Miami Masters in 1993 and the Monte Carlo Masters in 1996. Siemerink's best performance at a Grand Slam event came at Wimbledon in 1998, where he reached the quarterfinals by defeating Ctislav Doseděl, David Prinosil, Jonas Björkman and Magnus Larsson before being knocked-out by Goran Ivanišević. Siemerink is also known for winning a fourth set tiebreak against comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Open (men's Tennis)
The Singapore Open is a defunct Grand Prix and ATP Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1989 to 1992 and from 1996 to 1999. It was known as the ''Epson Singapore Super Tennis'' until 1992 and the ''Heineken Open'' from 1996 to 1999. It was initially played on outdoor hard courts at Kallang Tennis Centre. For the latter four editions it was an indoor event at Singapore Indoor Stadium. Results Men's singles Men's doubles See also * WTA Singapore Open The WTA Singapore Open is a defunct Women's Tennis Association, WTA Tour affiliated women's tennis tournament played from 1986 to 1994. It was held at the Kallang Tennis Centre in Singapore. The tournament was held on Tennis court#Indoor courts, i ... – women's tournament References ATP Results Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Singapore Open (Men's Tennis) ATP Tour Grand Prix tennis circuit Hard court tennis tournaments Tennis tournaments in Singapore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Sampras
Petros "Pete" Sampras ( el, Πέτρος Σάμπρας; born August 12, 1971) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. His professional career began in 1988 and ended at the 2002 US Open, which he won, defeating longtime rival Andre Agassi in the final. Sampras won 14 major singles titles during his career, which was an all-time record at the time of his retirement: a then-record seven Wimbledon titles, two Australian Opens and a joint Open Era record five US Open titles. He won 64 singles titles in total. He first reached the world No. 1 ranking in 1993, and held that position for a total of 286 weeks (third all time), including an Open Era record of six consecutive Year-End No. 1 rankings from 1993 to 1998. A right-handed player with a single-handed backhand, his precise and powerful serve earned him the nickname "Pistol Pete". In 2007, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Early life Petros Sampras ( el, Πέτρος "Πητ" Σάμπρα ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
