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Ronnie Båthman
Ronnie Båthman (born 24 April 1959) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won three doubles titles and finished as a runner-up four times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 38 in 1992. Career finals Doubles (3 wins, 4 losses) External links * * Swedish male tennis players Living people 1959 births 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nduka Odizor
Nduka Emmanuel Odizor (born 28 August 1958) is a former tennis player from Nigeria, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 .... He won one career title in singles (Taipei, 1983) and seven doubles titles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 52 in June 1984 and reached No. 20 in doubles in August 1984. Between 1986 and 1993 he played in 11 ties for the Nigerian Davis Cup team and compiled a 20–13 win-loss record. Career finals Singles (1 win) Doubles (7 wins, 4 losses) References External links * * * 1958 births Living people Sportspeople from Lagos Nigerian male tennis players Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players for Nigeria Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Luza
Gustavo Luza (born 11 October 1962) is a former tennis player from Argentina. Luza turned professional in 1985. He was most known for playing doubles, and during his career he won 5 doubles titles, including the Barcelona Open with Christian Miniussi. He reached his highest doubles ATP-ranking on July 9, 1990, when he became the number 37 of the world. In 2002, after retiring from professional tennis, Luza became the captain of the Argentina Davis Cup team The Argentina men's national tennis team represents Argentina in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the ''Asociación Argentina de Tenis''. As of 2016, the team has competed in the World Group since 2002 and reached the finals five t ... from 2002 to 2004. Career finals Doubles (5 titles, 4 runner-ups) External links * * * 1962 births Living people Argentine male tennis players Tennis players from Buenos Aires {{Argentina-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horacio De La Peña
Horacio Armando de la Peña (born 1 August 1966), nicknamed "el Pulga" ("the Flea"), is a tennis coach and a former tennis player from Argentina, who reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 31. De la Peña was born in Buenos Aires. He began playing on the ATP circuit professionally in 1984, when he was 17. He won four ATP World Tour titles in his career, all of which were on clay. He also won six doubles titles – five on clay. De la Peña is most well known as the former coach of Chilean Fernando González. He was also considered the unofficial captain of the Chilean Davis Cup team. As well as González, de la Peña has coached other tennis players, like Franco Squillari, Martín Rodríguez, Guillermo Coria, and a number of other Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libor Pimek
Libor Pimek (born 3 August 1963) is a former professional male tennis player. Pimek's best Grand Slam singles result came at the 1987 US Open when he reached the 3rd round, losing to Swede Mats Wilander in straight sets. He won one singles tournament during his career at the Bavarian Open, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 21 in April 1985 (and No. 15 in doubles in July 1996). Pimek competed as a Czechoslovak early in his career, competing for the country a few times in the Davis Cup in the mid-1980s, before representing Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ... internationally. As a Davis Cup player for Belgium, he won 4 ties (Israel 1994, Denmark and France 1997, The Netherlands 1998) Career finals Singles (1 win, 1 loss) Doubles (17 wins, 12 lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cologne Open
The Cologne Open is a defunct men's tennis tournament that was part of the ATP World Series of the ATP Tour for one year in 1992. The event was held in Cologne, Germany, from 14 September until 20 September 1992 and was played on outdoor clay courts. The prize money for the tournament was $300,000. Bernd Karbacher won the singles event while Horacio de la Peña and Gustavo Luza teamed-up to win the doubles event. Finals Men's singles Men's doubles See also * Cologne Grand Prix * 2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors * 2020 Bett1Hulks Championship The 2020 Bett1Hulks Championship is a ATP tournament organised for male professional tennis players, held in Cologne, Germany, in mid-October 2020 on indoor hard courts. It was primarily organised due to the cancellation of many tournaments durin ... References External links ITF tournament resultsOfficial website {{ATP World Series tournaments Tennis tournaments in Germany Cologne Open Sport in Cologne Clay court tennis tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wekesa
Paul Wekesa (born 2 July 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Kenya. He won 3 doubles titles, achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 100 and reached two tour-level quarterfinals at Auckland in 1989 and Seoul in 1995. Tennis career Prior to turning professional, he won the doubles tournament at the 1987 Division II NCAA Men's Tennis Championships while attending Chapman University. During his career, Wekesa won 3 ATP Tour doubles titles. He reached the quarterfinals in doubles at the 1992 Australian Open. Wekesa won a bronze medal at the 1987 All-Africa Games held in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the only Kenyan tennis player to reach Top 100 of ATP rankings.Kenyapage.netKenya's greatest Sporting Figures He also features for the Kenya Davis Cup team and was still active in 1998. He was the first player to be beaten by Tim Henman in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at Wimbledon in 1995. After retirement from playing, he has served as a Kenyan national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacco Eltingh
Jacco Folkert Eltingh (born 29 August 1970) is a former professional male tennis player and former world No. 1 doubles player from the Netherlands. He is best known for his success in doubles with fellow countryman Paul Haarhuis. Together they won all four Grand Slam doubles titles at least once. Eltingh is the youngest player in the Open Era to achieve the career Grand Slam in men's doubles. Eltingh reached his career-high singles ranking in February 1995, when he climbed to world No. 19, notably reaching the quarterfinals of both the Australian Open and Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * ... in 1995. In his professional career he has won four singles and 44 doubles titles. In November 2005, Eltingh was elected to the ATP Board as the player representat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham Open
The Birmingham Open is a defunct tennis tournament that was played on ATP Tour for one year in 1991. The event was held in Birmingham, England and was played on indoor carpet courts. The tournament was held in November 1991, unlike the other British events which took place in May, June and July. Michael Chang won the singles title, beating Guillaume Raoux in the final. Finals Singles Doubles See also * Birmingham Classic – women's tournament References Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) official website Birmingham Open The Birmingham Open is a defunct tennis tournament that was played on ATP Tour for one year in 1991. The event was held in Birmingham, England, Birmingham, England and was played on indoor carpet courts. The tournament was held in November 1991 ... Tennis tournaments in England Defunct tennis tournaments in the United Kingdom {{tennis-competition-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Järryd
Anders Per Järryd (; born 13 July 1961) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. During his career he won eight Grand Slam doubles titles (three French Open, two Wimbledon, two US Open, one Australian Open), reached the world No. 1 doubles ranking, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 5. Järryd was born in Lidköping, Västra Götaland. While growing up he also played bandy in Lidköpings AIK. Career Järryd turned professional in 1980. He won his first tour doubles title in 1981 in Linz, Austria. One year later he captured his first top-level singles title, also at Linz. In 1983, Järryd won his first Grand Slam doubles title at the French Open, partnering his fellow Swede Hans Simonsson. Järryd had a strong year in 1984, winning two singles and four doubles titles. He also finished runner-up in the men's doubles at the US Open that year, partnering Stefan Edberg. 1985 saw Järryd's career-best Grand Slam singles performance, when he be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Gustafsson
Magnus Nils Gustafsson (born 3 January 1967) is a tennis coach and former top ten professional tennis player from Sweden. Gustafsson won 14 tour singles titles during his career and finished 15 consecutive seasons within the world's top 100, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 10 in 1991. He was instrumental in Sweden capturing the Davis Cup in 1998, winning both his singles rubbers in the final in straight sets. His best performance at a Grand Slam event came at the Australian Open in 1994, where he reached the quarterfinals. During his career, he beat several top five players including Ivan Lendl, Michael Stich, Goran Ivanisevic, Andre Agassi and Michael Chang Michael Te-pei Chang (born February 22, 1972) is an American former professional tennis player and coach. He is the youngest man in history to win a singles major, winning the 1989 French Open at 17 years and 109 days old. Chang won a total o .... Career finals Singles: 26 (14–12) Doubles: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Stoltenberg
Jason Stoltenberg (born 4 April 1970) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Tennis career Stoltenberg began playing tennis at age ten on an antbed (crushed termite mound) court where his father owned a cotton farm in the Far West (the bush) of New South Wales. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. He is married to former Czechoslovakian player Andrea Strnadová. Juniors In 1987, he won the Boys' Singles title at the Australian Open and was ranked the No. 1 junior player in the world. He turned professional later that year.Pro tour Stoltenberg reached his first tour singles final in 1989 at |