Martin Christopher Sayer (, June 20, 1987-July 25, 2023) is a

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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. He is 1.85m and weighs 89 kg. Sayer is and has been a member of the Hong Kong Davis Cup team, compiling a 15-3 record in Davis Cup action since 2005. Sayer studied and received his BSc and MBA from

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and competed in NCAA competitions during the 2005-09 period. In the 2008-09 Season, Sayer reached 100 wins in singles on February 8, 2009 and he won the NCAA Men's Division I Big South Conference Player of the Year Award for three consecutive years, from 2006 to 2008. From the

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official website, Sayer and

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are the most successful doubles team in the Davis Cup of Hong Kong. They competed in a 4-1 win-loss result. On March 8, 2009, Sayer played against

Cecil Mamiit Cecil Valdeavilla Mamiit (born June 27, 1976) is a former tennis player from the United States who went on to represent the Philippines. He began his professional career in 1996 and reached his highest individual ranking in the ATP Tour on Octo ...

of the

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in the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group II first round. Mamiit won the match 6-4 4-6 3-6 7-6 9-7, the 58 games making it the longest match in the history of the Hong Kong Davis Cup team. Martin Sayer was member of the "dream team" at Radford University

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