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Ilie Năstase Career Statistics
These are the main career statistics of Romanian former professional tennis player Ilie Năstase, whose playing career lasted from 1969 through 1985. Grand Slam finals Singles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups) Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups) Mixed doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) Grand Prix year-end championships finals Singles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up) ATP Career finals Singles: 105 (64 titles, 41 runner-ups) ; Sources * Michel Sutter, ''Vainqueurs Winners 1946–2003'', Paris, 2003. Sutter has attempted to list all tournaments meeting his criteria for selection beginning with 1946 and ending in the fall of 1991. For each tournament, he has indicated the city, the date of the final, the winner, the runner-up, and the score of the final. A tournament is included in his list if: (1) the draw for the tournament included at least eight players (with a few exceptions, such as the Pepsi Grand Slam tournaments in the second half of the 1970s); and (2) the level of the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilie Năstase (Davis Cup)
Ilie Theodoriu Năstase (; born 19 July 1946) is a Romanian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the inaugural world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 40 weeks. Năstase is one of ten players to have won over 100 total ATP-level titles, with 64 in singles and 45 in doubles, among which seven majors: two in singles, three in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year-end championships. He was the first professional sports figure to sign an endorsement contract with Nike, doing so in 1972. Năstase also wrote several novels in French in the 1980s, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991. Career At the beginning of his career in 1966, Năstase traveled around the world competing with Ion Țiriac. They represented Romania in the Davis Cup competition, being runners up in 1969, 1971, and 1972. In singles, Năstase won his first tournament at Cannes on 16 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Okker
Thomas Samuel Okker (born 22 February 1944), nicknamed "the Flying Dutchman", is a Dutch former tennis player who was active from the mid-1960s until 1980. He won the 1973 French Open Doubles, the 1976 US Open Doubles, and two gold medals at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel. He was ranked among the world's top-ten singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968–74, reaching a career high of world No. 3 in 1974. He also was ranked world No. 1 in doubles in 1979. Early life Okker was born in Amsterdam, is Jewish on his father's side, and identifies as Jewish. Okker's father was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, but managed to go into hiding by assuming the papers and identity of another man. Tennis career He played his first tournament at Wolfsburg, West Germany, on clay in 1963. Okker was the Dutch champion from 1964 through 1968. In 1968, his first year as a registered professional, he won in singles and in doubles (with Marty Riessen) at the Rome Masters, Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Commercial Union Assurance Masters
The 1974 Masters (also known as the 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts in Kooyong, Melbourne in Australia. It was the fifth edition of the Masters Grand Prix and was held from 10 December through 15 December 1974. Guillermo Vilas won the title. Finals Singles Guillermo Vilas defeated Ilie Năstase, 7–6(8–6), 6–2, 3–6, 3–6, 6–4. * It was Vilas' 7th singles title of the year and the 8th of his career. See also * 1974 World Championship Tennis Finals * 1974 WCT World Doubles References External links ATP tournament profile Commercial Union Assurance Masters, 1974 Com Com or COM may refer to: Computing * COM (hardware interface), a serial port interface on IBM PC-compatible computers * COM file, or .com file, short for "command", a file extension for an executable file in MS-DOS * .com, an Internet top-level ... Grand Prix tennis circuit year-end championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 Commercial Union Assurance Masters
The 1973 Masters (also known as the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at Hynes Auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Mateflex is a soft plastic, interlocking tile court, with the slower ball speed of clay but the low maintenance of a hard surface. It was the fourth edition of the Masters Grand Prix and was held from December 4 through December 8, 1973. Ilie Năstase won his third consecutive Masters title and earned $15,000 prize money. Finals Singles Ilie Năstase defeated Tom Okker Thomas Samuel Okker (born 22 February 1944), nicknamed "the Flying Dutchman", is a Dutch former tennis player who was active from the mid-1960s until 1980. He won the 1973 French Open Doubles, the 1976 US Open Doubles, and two gold medals at the ... 6–3, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3 * It was Năstase's 24th title of the year and the 58th of his career. See also * 1973 World Championship Tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Commercial Union Assurance Masters
The 1972 Masters was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona, Spain. It was the third edition of the Masters Grand Prix and was held from 28 November through 2 December 1972. Ilie Năstase won the title. Final Singles Ilie Năstase defeated Stan Smith 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 2–6, 6–3 * It was Năstase's 12th singles title of the year and the 24th of his career. See also 1972 World Championship Tennis Finals References External links ATP tournament profile {{1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix Comm The command in the Unix family of computer operating systems is a utility that is used to compare two files for common and distinct lines. is specified in the POSIX standard. It has been widely available on Unix-like operating systems since ... Grand Prix tennis circuit year-end championships Commercial Union Assurance Masters Commercial Union Assurance Masters Commercial Union Assurance Masters Commerci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Pepsi-Cola Masters
The 1971 Masters was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Coubertin Stadium in Paris, France. It was the 2nd edition of the Masters Grand Prix and was the season-ending event of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit. The tournament consisted of a round robin competition for the seven highest points scorers of the Grand Prix circuit. John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall, players signed to the rival World Championship Circuit but who also took part in several Grand Prix tournaments, had qualified for the event but declined to participate. The tournament was held from 4 December until 12 December 1971 and was won by Ilie Năstase who earned the $15,000 first prize. Final Singles Ilie Năstase won a round robin competition also featuring Pierre Barthès, Željko Franulović, Clark Graebner, Jan Kodeš, Cliff Richey and Stan Smith. * It was Năstase's 8th singles title of the year and the 10th of his career. See also * 1971 World Championship Tennis Finals T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Court
Margaret Court (''née'' Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian former world number 1 tennis player and a Christian minister. Her 24 women's singles major titles and total of 64 major titles (including 19 major women's doubles and 21 major mixed doubles titles) are the most in tennis history. Court was born in Albury, New South Wales. In 1960, aged 17, she won the first of seven consecutive Australian Open singles titles. She completed the career Grand Slam in singles aged 21 with her victory at Wimbledon in 1963. Taking a brief hiatus in 1966 and 1967, Court played as an amateur until the advent of the Open Era in 1968. She completed the Grand Slam by winning all four major singles titles in 1970, part of a record six consecutive major singles victories. Court gave birth to her first child in 1972, but returned to tennis later in the year and won three major singles titles in 1973. She took similar breaks after her second and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Warwick
Kim Warwick (born 8 April 1952) is an Australian former professional male tennis player who competed on the ATP Tour from 1970 to 1987, reaching the singles final of the Australian Open in 1980. He defeated over 35 players ranked in the top ten including Guillermo Vilas, Raúl Ramírez, Vitas Gerulaitis, Jan Kodeš, Bob Lutz and Arthur Ashe. Warwick's career-high singles ranking was world No. 15, achieved in 1981. He won three singles titles and 26 doubles, including Australian Open 1978 (with Wojtek Fibak) and Australian Open 1980 and 1981, and Roland Garros 1985, and was also a runner-up in Australian Open 1986, all of them partnering fellow countryman Mark Edmondson. Partnering with Evonne Goolagong, he won the French Open 1972, defeating Françoise Dürr and Jean-Claude Barclay in the final 6–2, 6–4. Evonne and Kim were finalists in 1972 at Wimbledon against Rosie Casals and Ilie Năstase who won 6–4, 6–4. Kim also was a member of the winning team of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evonne Goolagong
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley (née Goolagong; born 31 July 1951) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. Goolagong won 86 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including seven singles majors, and 46 doubles titles, including seven doubles majors. At the age of 19, Goolagong won the French Open singles and the Australian Open doubles championships (the latter with Margaret Court). She won the women's singles tournament at Wimbledon in 1971. In 1980 she won Wimbledon again, this time as a mother and becoming the first mother to win the title in 66 years. She represented Australia in three Fed Cup competitions, winning the title in 1971, 1973 and 1974, and was Fed Cup captain for three consecutive years. After retiring from professional tennis in 1983, Goolagong played in senior invitational competitions, endors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Metreveli
Alexander Irakliyevich Metreveli ( ka, ალექსანდრე მეტრეველი, tr, ; ; born 2 November 1944) is a retired Soviet tennis player of Georgian background. Personal info Metreveli is an honorary citizen of Australia. He was active from 1962 to 1980 and won 62 singles titles. His grandson Aleksandre Metreveli, also a professional tennis player, has represented Georgia in the Davis Cup. Career In 1962, aged 17, Metreveli lost 8–10, 6–3, 4–6 to Stanley Matthews in the final of the Wimbledon boys' championship. He is best known for making the final at Wimbledon in 1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ..., where he lost to Jan Kodeš of Czechoslovakia. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 in 1974 and won 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Morozova
Olga Vasilyevna Morozova ( rus, Ольга Васильевна Морозова, , ˈolʲɡə mɐˈrozəvə, a=Ru-Olga_Morozova.ogg, links=no; born 22 February 1949) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Competing for the Soviet Union, she was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1974 French Open and 1974 Wimbledon Championships, and the first Soviet player to win a major, in women's doubles at the 1974 French Open. Her ground-breaking playing career, combined with her distinguished coaching career, has led to Morozova being labelled the "Godmother of Russian tennis". Career Morozova started playing tennis at the age of 10, with Nina Teplyakova as her first and career-long coach. By 16, Morozova had improved so quickly that she was invited to represent the USSR at Wimbledon in the girls singles. Travelling internationally for the first time and playing on grass for the first time, Morozova won the 1965 Wimbledon Junior Girls' singles title. Morozova would go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Casals
Rosemary Casals (born September 16, 1948) is an American former professional tennis player. During a tennis career that spanned more than two decades, she won more than 90 titles and was crucial to many of the changes in women's tennis during the 1960s and 1970s. Casals was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1996. Early life Casals was born in 1948 in San Francisco to parents who had immigrated to the United States from El Salvador. One of her paternal great-uncles was the world renowned Spanish cellist Pablo Casals, whom she would never meet. Less than a year after Casals was born, her parents decided they could not care for her and her older sister Victoria. Casals's great-uncle and great-aunt, Manuel and Maria Casals, raised them as their own. When the children grew older, Manuel Casals took them to the public tennis courts of San Francisco and taught them how to play the game. He became the only coach Casals had. However, Nick Carter, gave some lessons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
