Karim Alami ( ar, كريم علمي) (born 24 May 1973) is a retired

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player from

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, who turned professional in 1990. The right-hander won two career titles in singles, both in 1996 (

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and Palermo), and reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 25, in February 2000. Alami reached the semifinals of the 2000 Monte Carlo Masters, defeating

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and

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en route.

Tennis career

Alami represented his native country as a qualifier at the

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in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the first round by Switzerland's eventual winner

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. He also reached the quarterfinals of the

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in Sydney. He defeated Pete Sampras in the first round of the 1994 Doha tournament, a year in which Sampras dominated the tour. He is now the Tournament Director of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha. He also works as a tennis commentator for the most popular Arabic sports channel

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. As well as his semifinal run at the 2000 Monte-Carlo Masters, Alami reached the quarterfinals of the 1997 Rome Masters.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

ATP career finals

Singles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 12 (3–9)

Doubles: 2 (1–1)

Performance timeline

Singles

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alami, Karim 1973 births Living people Moroccan male tennis players Olympic tennis players of Morocco Sportspeople from Casablanca Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics US Open (tennis) junior champions Wimbledon junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles