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Jurgens Strydom
Jurgens Strydom (13 March 1987) is a former Namibian tennis player. Career As a junior, Strydom and his British partner Christopher Llewellyn, reached the semifinals at the 2005 Wimbledon Boys' Doubles Championships. Strydom represented Namibia in the Davis Cup competition from 2003 until 2009. He played forty-seven rubbers in twenty-nine Davis Cup ties, winning ten of his twenty-seven singles and eight of his twenty doubles rubbers. He reached one final on the Futures circuit, losing to Claudio Grassi at the 2007 Namibia F1 tournament, held in Windhoek. Strydom also played in one doubles final on the 2007 Futures circuit, when he and Romanian partner, Bogdan-Victor Leonte reached the final in Benin City Benin City is the capital and largest city of Edo State, Edo State, Nigeria. It is the fourth-largest city in Nigeria according to the 2006 census, after Lagos, Kano (city), Kano, and Ibadan, with a population estimate of about 3,500,000 as of ..., Nigeria. See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windhoek
Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 2020 was 431,000 which is growing continually due to an influx from all over Namibia. Windhoek is the social, economic, political, and cultural centre of the country. Nearly every Namibian national enterprise, governmental body, educational and cultural institution is headquartered there. The city developed at the site of a permanent hot spring known to the indigenous pastoral communities. It developed rapidly after Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Orlam, settled there in 1840 and built a stone church for his community. In the decades following, multiple wars and armed hostilities resulted in the neglect and destruction of the new settlement. Windhoek was founded a second time in 1890 by Imperial German Army Major Curt von François, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles
Brendan Evans and Scott Oudsema were the defending champions, but both were ineligible to compete in the juniors this year. Jesse Levine and Michael Shabaz defeated Samuel Groth and Andrew Kennaugh in the final, 6–4, 6–1 to win the boys' doubles tennis title at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds # Luis Henrique Grangeiro / André Miele ''(first round)'' # Timothy Neilly / Sam Querrey ''(first round)'' # Kim Sun-yong / Aljoscha Thron ''(first round)'' # Andrea Arnaboldi / Niels Desein ''(first round)'' # Andreas Haider-Maurer / Dušan Lojda ''(first round)'' # Thiemo de Bakker / Antal van der Duim ''(semifinals)'' # Emiliano Massa / Leonardo Mayer ''(first round)'' # Piero Luisi Piero Antonio Luisi (born 13 March 1987) is a Venezuelan former professional tennis player. Biography The son of an Italian-born father, Luisi was raised in Valencia, Carabobo. A notable performer in junior tennis, he was the 2004 Orange Bowl dou ... / Ryan Sweetin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namibia Davis Cup Team
The Namibia Davis Cup team represents Namibia in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Namibia Tennis Association. They did not compete between 2010 Davis Cup, 2010–2011 Davis Cup, 2011 and in 2017 Davis Cup, 2017. They best performance was in 2018 Davis Cup, 2018, when they went undefeated to the 2019 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II. History Namibia competed in its first Davis Cup in 2000 Davis Cup, 2000. Current team (2022 Davis Cup, 2022) * Codie Schalk Van Schalkwyk * Connor Henry Van Schalkwyk (''Junior player'') * Steyn Dippenaar * Risto Shilongo * Nguvitjita Hinda All players All the players that represented Namibia since 2000. Statistics ''Last updated: Namibia – Benin; 14 September 2019 ;Record *Total: 33–41 (44.6%) ;Head-to-head record (2000–) ;Record against continents ;Record by decade: *2000–2009: 16–28 (36.4%) *2010–2019: 17–13 (56.7%) Note: *1 In 2001 Davis Cup#Venue II, 2001 on the Relegation play-off group T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITF Men's Circuit
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. The tour represents the lowest rung of the men's professional tennis ladder. ITF tournaments are incorporated into the ATP rankings, enabling young professionals to progress on to the ATP Challenger Tour and ultimately the full ATP Tour. Nearly every professional player has spent some time on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. Format Originally, the ITF Men's Circuit consisted of satellite tournaments, each of which took place over four weeks. However, in the late 1990s, the ITF introduced Futures tournaments, allowing for greater flexibility in the organization of the tournaments for national associations, and participation in tournaments for players. Over time, the ratio of Futures tournaments to satellites increased until 2007, when s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Grassi (tennis)
Claudio Grassi (born 25 July 1985) is an Italian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 22 August 2011, he reached his highest ATP 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 ... singles ranking of World No. 300 and his highest doubles ranking of No. 137 achieved on 4 November 2013. Tour titles Doubles External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grassi, Claudio 1985 births People from Carrara Living people Italian male tennis players Sportspeople from the Province of Massa-Carrara 21st-century Italian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benin City
Benin City is the capital and largest city of Edo State, Edo State, Nigeria. It is the fourth-largest city in Nigeria according to the 2006 census, after Lagos, Kano (city), Kano, and Ibadan, with a population estimate of about 3,500,000 as of 2022. It is situated approximately north of the Benin River and by road east of Lagos. Benin City is the centre of Nigeria's rubber industry, and Palm oil, oil production is also a significant industry. The city was the most important settlement of the Edo people, Edo Kingdom of Benin, which flourished during the 13th to the 19th century. It held important trade relations with Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal during the last centuries before being captured, sacked and burnt in 1897 by a British Benin Expedition of 1897, punitive expedition. Many Art of the Kingdom of Benin, bronze sculptures in Royal Palace of the Oba of Benin, Benin City palace, collectively termed the Benin Bronzes, were taken by the British who followed up their victory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Births
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is struck by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous speech, demanding that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 rect 400 0 600 200 King's Cross fire rect 0 200 300 400 Tear down this wall! rect 300 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Namibian Male Tennis Players
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since then, the Bantu groups, the largest being the Ovambo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
