Mark Edward Kratzmann (born 17 May 1966) is a former Australian professional
tennis player.
Tennis career
Kratzmann was an
Australian Institute of Sport
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...
scholarship holder in 1983.
Juniors
As the world's No. 1 ranked junior player in 1984, Kratzmann won the boys' singles tournaments at the
Australian Open
The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Th ...
,
Wimbledon and the
US Open that year.
Pro tour
As a professional player, Kratzmann won 18 doubles titles, including the
Cincinnati Masters
The Cincinnati Masters or Cincinnati Open (branded as the Western & Southern Open for sponsorship reasons) is an annual outdoor hardcourt tennis event held in Mason, Ohio near Cincinnati. The event started on September 18, 1899, and is the olde ...
in 1990 (also reaching the
Australian Open men's doubles final in 1989).
His best Grand Slam performance in singles was reaching the fourth round of the
1987 Australian Open
The 1987 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 75th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 12 through 25 January 1987; the first tournament ...
. Kratzmann achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 50 in March 1990.
He sometimes partnered his brother
Andrew in doubles matches.
After retirement
Kratzmann began to play
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
after moving to Hong Kong in 2003, where he originally worked as a tennis coach. He won the Hong Kong Cricket Association's Player of the Year award for 2005–06. In May 2007, he was selected in the
national squad to participate in the
ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament. He was also in the 20-man list for the Asia Cup but was not included in the final 14. He has made three international appearances for Hong Kong.
ATP career finals
Doubles: 30 (18 titles, 12 runner-ups)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 1 (0–1)
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Mixed doubles
References
External links
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Australian emigrants to Hong Kong
Australian male tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
French Open junior champions
Hong Kong cricketers
Hong Kong people of Australian descent
People from Wide Bay–Burnett
Tennis people from Queensland
US Open (tennis) junior champions
Wimbledon junior champions
1966 births
Living people
Australian people of German descent
Australian Institute of Sport tennis players
Cricketers from Queensland
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
20th-century Australian people