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Jean-Loup Rouyer
Jean-Loup Rouyer (4 August 1945 - 28 December 2007) was a professional tennis player from France. Biography Born in Remiremont, Rouyer began playing tennis at the age of 12. He was a graduate of the École Polytechnique in 1965. Tennis career Rouyer represented the France Davis Cup team in three doubles rubbers, which all came in the 1970 Davis Cup competition with Jean-Baptiste Chanfreau, against Switzerland, Austria and Spain. They won two of those matches, over the Swiss pairing of Dimitri Sturdza/Matthias Werren and Austrians Hans Kary/ Peter Pokorny. In 1971 he made the quarter-finals of Grand Prix tournaments in Catania and Eastbourne, then in 1972 reached further quarter-finals at the Italian Open in Rome and the Suisse Open Gstaad. One of his wins in Rome was over leading American player Stan Smith. During his career, Rouyer competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments. He made the third round of the French Open three times, the last in 1974, which was his eighth succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remiremont
Remiremont (; german: Romberg or ) is a town and commune in the Vosges department, northeastern France, situated in southern Grand Est. The town has been an abbatial centre since the 7th century, is an economic crossroads of the Moselle and Moselotte valleys, and is also a stepping stone for tourists wishing to explore the Vosges and neighbouring Alsace. Remiremont has got a police station, which covers the city and his suburban area. The fire station realizes more than 2000 interventions per year. Remiremont is also known as the La Belle des Vosges. Its inhabitants are known as ''Romarimontains''. Geography Remiremont is located on the river Moselle, close to its confluence with the Moselotte and in the foothills of the Vosges mountains. The town is southeast of the departmental capital of Épinal, south of Nancy, and west of the ski resorts of Gérardmer and La Bresse. Remiremont is surrounded by low, undulating, forest-clad mountains. The town is connected with bigger citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Davis Cup Team
The France men's national tennis team (french: Équipe de France de Coupe Davis) represents France in Davis Cup tennis competition, and is governed by the Fédération Française de Tennis. France competed in their first Davis Cup in 1904. France is the third most successful nation, with ten wins. Their most recent title came in 2017 (World Champion team). In 2018 France will compete in the World Group for the 36th time out of 38 years, which ranks them fifth in this category. Media coverage France's Davis Cup matches are currently televised by France Télévisions. Current team (2018) * Adrian Mannarino (First Round, Singles) * Richard Gasquet (First Round Singles) * Nicolas Mahut (First Round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals Doubles) * Pierre-Hugues Herbert (First Round, Quarterfinals Doubles) * Lucas Pouille (Quarterfinals, Semifinals Singles) * Jeremy Chardy (Quarterfinals, Singles) * Benoît Paire (Semifinals, Singles) * Julien Benneteau (Semifinals, Doubles) Captains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Nation
''New Nation'' was a weekly newspaper published in the UK for the Black British community. Launched in 1996, the newspaper was Britain's Number 1-selling black newspaper. The paper was published every Monday. ''New Nation'' was initially launched in November 1996, by Elkin Pianim and his wife Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. They later sold the title to Ethnic Media Group, a leading publisher of weekly newspapers, magazines, websites and digital newspapers for Britain's African, Caribbean, Black British and Asian communities, until the company went into administration in 2009. It pioneered the development of Black and Asian digital newspapers, reaching a global audience. It published its final online issue on 17 February 2016. The newspaper's first two editions were priced at twenty-five pence, after which the price was raised to fifty-five pence. It featured a mix of news, sport, social and political issues. It also had a recruitment and pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Smith
Stanley Roger Smith (born December 14, 1946) is an American former professional tennis player. Smith is best known to non-tennis players as the namesake of a popular brand of tennis shoes. A world No. 1 player and two-time major singles champion (at the 1971 US Open and 1972 Wimbledon Championships), Smith also paired with Bob Lutz to create one of the most successful doubles teams of all-time. In 1970, Smith won the inaugural year-end championships title. In 1972, he was the year-end world No. 1 singles player. In 1973, he won his second and last year end championship title at the Dallas WCT Finals. In addition, he won four Grand Prix Championship Series titles. In his early years he improved his tennis game through lessons from Pancho Segura, the Pasadena Tennis Patrons, and the sponsorship of the Southern California Tennis Association headed by Perry T. Jones. Since 2011, Smith has served as President of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Career Smith grew up in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Open (tennis)
The Swiss Open Gstaad (currently sponsored by EFG International and called the EFG Swiss Open Gstaad) is a tennis tournament held in Gstaad, Switzerland. The tournament is played on outdoor clay courts. Between 1971 and 1989 it was an event of the Grand Prix tennis circuit and is now a part of the ATP Tour schedule as an ATP Tour 250 series event. History The Swiss International Championships was founded in 1897 and staged at the Grasshopper Club, Zurich under the auspices of the Swiss Lawn Tennis Association. In 1898 the Swiss Lawn Tennis Association staged the event at Château-d'Œx. In 1899 an open women's singles event was added to the schedule, when the venue was still in Saint Moritz. It was then hosted at multiple locations throughout its run including Gstaad. The first edition of the Gstaad International tournament was played in 1915 at the '' Gstaad Palace Hotel'', which was known at the time as the ''Royal Hotel, Winter & Gstaad Palace'', and was organized in collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Open (tennis)
The Italian Open ( it, Internazionali d'Italia; literally: ''Italy's Internationals''), originally called the Italian International Championships, is a tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. It is one of the most important clay tennis tournaments in the world with the men's competition being an ATP Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour, and the women's competition being a WTA 1000 event on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour. The two events were combined in 2011. The tournament is played on clay courts, currently during the second week of May. The event is also known as the "Rome Masters" for male edition, as well as sponsored name "Internazionali BNL d'Italia". Rafael Nadal has won the men's singles title a record ten times. History The Italian tennis championship was first held in 1930 in Milan at the Tennis Club and was initiated by Count Alberto Bonacossa. The singles events at the tournament were won by Bill Tilden and Lilí Á ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Prix Tennis Circuit
The Grand Prix tennis circuit was a professional tennis tour for male players that existed from 1970 to 1989. The Grand Prix and World Championship Tennis (WCT) were the two predecessors to the current tour for male players, the ATP Tour, with the Grand Prix being more prominent. Background Before the Open Era, popular professional tennis players, such as Suzanne Lenglen and Vincent Richards, were contracted to professional promoters. Amateur players were under the jurisdiction of their national (and international) federations. Later professional promoters, such as Bill Tilden and Jack Kramer, often convinced leading amateurs like Pancho Gonzales and Rod Laver to join their tours with promises of good prize money. But these successes led to financial difficulties when players were paid too much and falling attendances resulted in reduced takings. In the early 1960s, the professional tour began to fall apart. It survived only because the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Pokorny (tennis)
Peter Pokorny (born 25 July 1940) is a former professional Austrian tennis player who was active in the 1960s and 1970s. His best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the second round at the 1971 French Open after a first round win against Bob Giltinan. In the second round he lost to Nicola Pietrangeli in four sets. At Wimbledon he qualified for the main singles draw in 1966, 1969 and 1973 but did not manage to make it past the first round. In 1973 he won the singles title at the international German indoor championships in Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ... after a five-sets victory in the final against Tadeusz Nowicki. Pokorny played in 14 ties for the Austrian Davis Cup team between 1963 and 1974 and had a 8–25 win–loss record. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Kary
Hans Kary (born 23 February 1949) 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 Austria. During his career Kary won one singles title and three doubles titles. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world no. 54 in 1976 and a career-high doubles ranking of world no. 124 in 1983. Career finals Singles (1 title, 1 runner-ups) Doubles (3 titles, 1 runner-up) External links * * * Austrian male tennis players People from Spittal an der Drau District 1949 births Living people Sportspeople from Carinthia (state) {{Austria-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitri Sturdza
Dimitri Sturdza (born 10 November 1938), also known as Tim Sturdza, is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Biography Born in Iași, Sturdza is a descendant of a Romanian aristocratic family and later settled in Lausanne. He is of Norwegian descent on his mother's side and travelled on a French passport. Outside of tennis he holds a master's degree in atomic physics and was involved with the European space program. Sturdza made the third round of the French Open once and was a Davis Cup player for Switzerland from 1964 to 1978, winning 17 rubbers. His best Davis Cup singles wins were over West Germany's Wilhelm Bungert in 1966 and France's Georges Goven in 1970. He was non playing captain of the Swiss team for the 1992 Davis Cup World Group final against the United States. See also *List of Switzerland Davis Cup team representatives A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain Davis Cup Team
The Spain men's national tennis team has represented Spain internationally since 1920. Organised by the Real Federación Española de Tenis (RFET), it is one of the 50 members of International Tennis Federation's European association (Tennis Europe). Spain has won the Davis Cup six times (2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2019), and finished as runner-up four times (1965, 1967, 2003, 2012), which makes it historically one of the most powerful countries in the tennis world. Spain has competed in the World Group created in 1981, for 32 years. From 1997 to 2014, competed for 18 consecutive years, returning in 2017, after winning the World Group playoffs the previous year. History Spain competed in its first Davis Cup in 1921 but didn't reach the final round until 1965, when the team led by Jaime Bartrolí lost to Australia. They reached the final again two years later but though they had great players such as Manuel Santana and Manuel Orantes, Spain lost against Roy Emerson and compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria Davis Cup Team
The Austria Davis Cup team represents Austria in the Davis Cup and is governed by Tennis Austria. In 2010 Austria was re-promoted to the World Group after being relegated to the Europa/Africa Zone Group I only one year earlier. In 2012, Austria advanced to the World Group quarterfinals for the first time since 1995, eventually losing against Spain. History Austria competed in its first Davis Cup in 1905. The Austrian team achieved their best Davis Cup result in 1990, when they were on the brink of reaching the final, playing their semi final against the USA on clay in Vienna, with a team consisting of Thomas Muster, Horst Skoff and Alex Antonitsch. After Muster had won his singles rubbers against Michael Chang and Andre Agassi, the standing in the tie was 2:2. Skoff and Chang met each other in the decisive fifth rubber, with Skoff taking a 2 set lead, and trying to close out the third set as the daylight faded. Skoff failed to do this and Chang took the third set, with the mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
