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1994 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Seeds # Bryan Shelton (qualified) # Dimitri Poliakov ''(first round)'' # Alexander Mronz (qualified) # Doug Flach ''(qualifying competition, lucky loser)'' # Sébastien Lareau (qualified) # Brent Larkham ''(first round)'' # Sandon Stolle ''(first round)'' # Daniel Nestor ''(first round)'' # Michael Tebbutt (qualified) # Simon Youl (qualified) # Neil Borwick ''(qualifying competition)'' # Kevin Ullyett ''(second round)'' # Michael Joyce (tennis), Michael Joyce ''(first round)'' # Jonathan Canter (qualified) # Martin Blackman ''(first round)'' # Mark Kaplan (tennis), Mark Kaplan ''(second round)'' # Arne Thoms ''(qualified)'' # Todd Woodbridge ''(first round)'' # Vince Spadea ''(second round)'' # David Nainkin ''(qualifying competition)'' # Mark Kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Championships, Wimbledon
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Arne Thoms
Arne Thoms (born 1 January 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. Career As a junior, Thoms had a good year in 1989, making the semi-finals of the boys' singles at Wimbledon and the quarter-finals at Roland Garros. Thoms made his first big impression on the ATP Tour with his performance at the Manchester Open in 1991. He was a quarter-finalist, beating two top 30 players en route, Horst Skoff and Omar Camporese. The following year he had an upset win over world number six Ivan Lendl in the opening round of the 1992 Milan Indoor tournament, which he entered as a qualifier. He did well again at Manchester in 1992, reaching another quarter-final. The German was also a quarter-finalist at both Newport and Zaragoza in 1993 and at the 1994 CA-TennisTrophy in Vienna. His best showing as a doubles player came in the 1995 Tel Aviv Open, when he and partner Brent Larkham were semi-finalists. He made the second round of three Wimbledon Championships during his car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Barthez
Lionel Barthez (born 18 May 1967) is a former professional tennis player from France. Barthez competed in four Grand Slams during his career. In the 1994 French Open he took the first two sets off world number 31 Ronald Agenor but lost in five. He and partner Stéphane Sansoni were unable to progress past the first round in the doubles. His next appearance was at the 1995 French Open, where he lost in the opening round to Norwegian player Christian Ruud and also failed to win a match in the men's doubles, partnering Thierry Guardiola. He also took part in the mixed doubles with Isabelle Demongeot and made the second round. In 1996 he played in his third successive French Open and once more lost his only singles match, to Gianluca Pozzi in four sets. He participated in the men's doubles with Gilles Bastié and the pair were unable to win their opening round fixture, although he did make the second round of the mixed doubles with Sandrine Testud. The Frenchman was a quarter-fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Witt
David Witt (born June 2, 1973) is an American tennis coach and former professional player. He is currently coaching Frances Tiafoe and is best known as the former long-time coach of Venus Williams and Jessica Pegula. He enjoyed a successful junior career, during which time he won the USTA Boys' 16s Clay, Hard and National Championships and was the top-ranked under-16 in the USTA in 1989. He was also a semifinalist at the US Open Junior Boys Singles event in 1991. Career His closest career win on the main tour was in the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, where he and Brian MacPhie were runners-up in the doubles in 1994. He did win two challenger-level events in his career: Guadalajara, Mexico in 1992 and the Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger at Binghamton, New York in 1997. He retired from professional tennis in 2005. Coaching In 2002, while working as the resident pro at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida, Witt was approa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kilderry
Paul Kilderry (born 11 April 1973) is a former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player from Australia. Kilderry enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 3 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 67 in 1996. Paul Kilderry was appointed as the Hopman Cup tournament director in 2013. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ATP career finals Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals Singles: 2 (1–1) Doubles: 15 (9–6) Performance timelines Singles Doubles Mixed doubles References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kilderry, Paul Australian male tennis players 1973 births Living people Tennis pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Benfele Álvarez
Emilio Benfele Álvarez (born 15 November 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Spain who retired in 2005. His favourite surface was clay, and he achieved his only ATP final in 2000 in Kitzbühel. At the same tournament he reached the semifinals in 1996, he got into Kitzbühel Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a town rights, medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol (state), Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbüh ... draw after losing in the last round of qualifying and beat specialists at clay: Santoro, Clavet, Medvedev and top seed Muster before losing in three sets to Berasategui in the semifinals. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 81 in 1997 (and No. 91 in doubles in 2004). ATP career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) Top 10 wins External links * * 1972 births Living people Sportspeople fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Chang
Albert Chang (born 27 February 1971) is a Canadian former professional tour tennis player. Chang reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 140 in September 1995 and won two Challenger tournaments. He also played Davis Cup for Canada. Chang was Canada's national junior champion in 1988 and played collegiately at Harvard University, graduating with a degree in biology in 1992. He joined the pro tour in November of the same year, and won his first round match in each of his first three Challengers in singles while in doubles he reached the second round (i.e. the quarter-finals) in his first two events – Halifax and Launceston – while in the third he reached the semi-finals. In just his fifth Challenger, Chang reached the final, of the Vancouver Challenger, and lost it to Kenny Thorne. Chang, a native in Calgary, took the singles title at the Celle Challenger, in February 1994. Two months later he won a couple of doubles titles, while partnering a couple of doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Tramacchi
Peter Tramacchi (born 8 November 1970 in Gympie, Queensland, Australia), is a former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player from Australia. Tramacchi enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 1 doubles title. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 45 in 1999. Peter Tramacchi interviews other champion tennis players and teaches tennis online. Performance timelines Singles Doubles Mixed doubles ATP career finals Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals Singles: 5 (3–2) Doubles: 14 (7–7) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tramacchi, Peter Australian male tennis players Australian people of Italian descent S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wekesa
Paul Wekesa (born 2 July 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Kenya. He won 3 doubles titles, achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 100 and reached two tour-level quarterfinals at Auckland in 1989 and Seoul in 1995. Tennis career Prior to turning professional, he won the doubles tournament at the 1987 Division II NCAA Men's Tennis Championships while attending Chapman University. During his career, Wekesa won 3 ATP Tour doubles titles. He reached the quarterfinals in doubles at the 1992 Australian Open. Wekesa won a bronze medal at the 1987 All-Africa Games held in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the only Kenyan tennis player to reach Top 100 of ATP rankings. He also features for the Kenya Davis Cup team and was still active in 1998. He was the first player to be beaten by Tim Henman Timothy Henry Henman (born 6 September 1974) is a British former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes ( ; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian former professional tennis player and the first Asian man to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all-time and holds the record for the most doubles wins in the Davis Cup. Paes won eight men's doubles and ten mixed doubles Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles. He holds a career Grand Slam in men's doubles and mixed doubles making him one of only three men in the Open era to achieve this distinction and won the rare men's/mixed double at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. Paes, together with Mahesh Bhupathi, were the first pair in Open era history to reach the men's doubles finals of all 4 Grand Slams in the same calendar year (1999). His mixed doubles Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon title in 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles, 2015 made him the second man (after Rod Laver) to win Wimbledon titles in three different decades. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernon Wibier
Fernon Wibier (born 25 February 1971) is a former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player from the Netherlands. Wibier enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 1 doubles title. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 42 in 1997. Career finals Doubles (1 title, 3 runner-ups) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wibier, Fernon 1971 births Living people Dutch male tennis players People from Avereest Sportspeople from Overijssel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Knowles
Mark Knowles (born 4 September 1971) is a Bahamians, Bahamian former professional tennis player and coach. He is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles tennis, doubles. He won three of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments in men's doubles, partnering with Daniel Nestor, as well as The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in mixed doubles. At various times between 2002 and 2005 he was ranked List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles players, World No. 1 in doubles. He is a five-time Olympian. Career Junior and college career After being awarded a scholarship to the Nick Bollettieri's famed academy at 10 years old, Knowles played junior tennis in his early years. His best singles performance came at the 1989 US Open (tennis), 1989 Junior US Open with a quarterfinal appearance and his best doubles performance came at the 1989 French Open#Boys' Doubles, 1989 Junior French Open with a final appearance partnering Luis Herrera (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
