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Wong Hong Kit
Wong Hong-kit ( zh, 王康傑; born 30 August 1998; ''also known as Jack Wong'') is a tennis player from Hong Kong. His younger sister Cody Wong is also a professional tennis player. Wong has a career high ATP singles ranking of 653 achieved on 31 December 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 648 achieved on 30 September 2019. Wong represents Hong Kong at the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ..., where he has a W/L record of 14–7. ITF Finals Singles: 1 (0 titles, 1 runner–ups) Doubles: 8 (1 titles, 7 runner–ups) References * * * 1998 births Living people Hong Kong male tennis players Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Hong Kong {{Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1998 Births
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Son Ji Hoon
A son is a male offspring; a boy or a man in relation to his parents. The female counterpart is a daughter. From a biological perspective, a son constitutes a first degree relative. Social issues In pre-industrial societies and some current countries with agriculture-based economies, a higher value was, and still is, assigned to sons rather than daughters, giving males higher social status, because males were physically stronger, and could perform farming tasks more effectively. In China, a one-child policy was in effect until 2015 in order to address rapid population growth. Official birth records showed a rise in the level of male births since the policy was brought into law. This was attributed to a number of factors, including the illegal practice of sex-selective abortion and widespread under-reporting of female births. In patrilineal societies, sons will customarily inherit an estate before daughters. In some cultures, the eldest son has special privileges. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsuda Ryuki
Matsuda (written: lit. "pine ricefield") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese badminton athlete * Eiji Matsuda (1894–1978), Mexican botanist * Fujio Matsuda (1924–2020), president of the University of Hawaii *, Japanese actor *, Japanese badminton player * Japanese racing driver and television personality *, Japanese baseball player *Iwao Matsuda (born 1937), member of the Diet of Japan *Iwao Matsuda (general) (1895–1979), general in the Imperial Japanese Army *Jeff Matsuda, animator for ''Jackie Chan Adventures'' and ''The Batman'' * Jujiro Matsuda (1875–1952), founder of Mazda Motor Corporation *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese educator *Mari Matsuda (born 1956), American law school professor *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese actress * Naoki Matsuda (1977–2011), association footballer *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese professional baseball player * Rika Matsuda, survivor of Korean Air Flight 801 *, Japanese footballer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleman Wong
Coleman Wong Chak-lam (; born 6 June 2004) is a tennis player from Hong Kong. He is educated in Diocesan Boys' School. After winning the 2021 US Open Boys' Doubles event, he became Hong Kong's second ever Grand Slam winner in any discipline, following Patricia Hy's 1983 Wimbledon title in Girls' Doubles. He won his second Grand Slam title at the 2022 Australian Open Boys' Doubles event, becoming the first back-to-back Grand Slam champion in boy's double since Hsu Yu-hsiou in 2017 at Wimbledon and the US Open. Wong reached the semifinals in Boys' Singles of 2022 US Open, which is the best ever result of Hong Kong male tennis players in any Grand Slam tournament. He also played his first every ATP event in New Jersey where he lost to the World number 258 Cyrus Wong in three sets. 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-4 Wong has a career high ATP singles ranking of 733 and doubles ranking of 587, both achieved on 6 February 2023. Wong represents Hong Kong at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinji Hazawa
is a Japanese tennis player. Hazawa has a career high ATP singles ranking of 501 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 249 achieved on 17 April 2023. Hazawa has won 1 ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2022 Kobe Challenger with Yuta Shimizu Yuta Shimizu (born 9 June 1999) is a Japanese tennis player. Shimizu has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 241 achieved on 19 June 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 143 achieved on 12 June 2023. Shimizu rep .... Tour finals Singles 2 (1–1) Doubles 15 (7–8) References External links * * 1999 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Sportspeople from Hyōgo Prefecture 21st-century Japanese people Universiade medalists in tennis Universiade bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2021 Summer Universiade Tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games {{Japan-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Anthony Ivanov
Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus authority ''Simon'' * Tribe of Simeon, one of the twelve tribes of Israel Places * Şimon ( hu, links=no, Simon), a village in Bran Commune, Braşov County, Romania * Șimon, a right tributary of the river Turcu in Romania Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Simon'' (1980 film), starring Alan Arkin * ''Simon'' (2004 film), Dutch drama directed by Eddy Terstall Games * ''Simon'' (game), a popular computer game * Simon Says, children's game Literature * ''Simon'' (Sutcliff novel), a children's historical novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff * Simon (Sand novel), an 1835 novel by George Sand * ''Simon Necronomicon'' (1977), a purported grimoire written by an unknown author, with an introduction by a man identified only as "Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristian Rodríguez (tennis)
Cristian Rodríguez (born 24 June 1990) is a Colombian tennis player who plays primarily on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures Tour. On 9 April 2018, he reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 362. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 71 on 15 August 2022. He has played for the Colombia Davis Cup team since 2018 with an overall record of 1–0, with the sole match coming in singles play. Rodriguez has won 3 singles titles, all coming at the ITF Futures tour level, and he has won 16 doubles titles, with one achieved at the ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T ... level and 15 ITF. Doubles performance timeline ''Current till 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Mantilla
Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective ''Philippos'' "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal. Noteworthy people with this name include: Politics * Felipe Calderón, former President of Mexico * Felipe I of Spain * Felipe II of Spain * Felipe III of Spain * Felipe IV of Spain * Felipe V of Spain * Felipe VI of Spain, King of Spain * Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón, nephew of the Spanish king * Felipe Herrera, Chilean economist * FELIPE may refer to the Popular Liberation Front in Spain Sports * Felipe Paulino (born 1983), Dominican-Venezuelan baseball pitcher * Felipe Alou (born 1935), Dominican baseball player and manager * Felipe Contepomi (born 1977), Argentine rugby union player * Felipe Drugovich (born 2000), Brazilian racing driver * Felipe Franco, Brazilian water polo player * Felipe Kitadai (born 1989), Brazilian Olympic medalist judo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
