Kareem Al Allaf
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Kareem Al Allaf (born 22 March 1998) is an American
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 of Syrian descent. Allaf has a career high ATP singles ranking of 755 achieved on 27 December 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1333 achieved on 2 December 2019. Allaf also holds the all-time wins record for singles and doubles combined in college tennis at the University of Iowa. Allaf represented
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
at the
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, where he had a W/L record of 18–9. He switched nationalities to represent his birth country, the United States, after being banned by the Syrian Tennis Federation for competing in a match against an Israeli opponent in a tournament in November 2022.


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* * * 1998 births Living people Syrian male tennis players American male tennis players Sportspeople from Des Moines, Iowa Sportspeople from Dubai Iowa Hawkeyes men's tennis players Tennis players from Iowa {{tennis-bio-stub