Mark Edward Kratzmann (born 17 May 1966) is a former Australian professional
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.
Tennis career
Kratzmann was an
Australian Institute of Sport 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,
Wimbledon and the
US Open that year.
Pro tour
As a professional player, Kratzmann won 18 doubles titles, including the
Cincinnati Masters 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
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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 str ...
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
ICC World Cricket League Division Three forms part of the World Cricket League (WCL) system. Like all other divisions, WCL Division Three is contested as a standalone tournament rather than as an actual league.
The inaugural Division Three tournam ...
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