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1999 Australian Open – Boys' Singles
Julien Jeanpierre was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.Danish first seed Kristian Pless won the title, defeating Russian ninth seed Mikhail Youzhny in the final, 6–4, 6–3. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Notes External links {{DEFAULTSORT:1999 Australian Open - Boys' Singles 1999 Australian Open, Boys' Singles Australian Open (tennis) by year – Boys' singles, 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristian Pless
Kristian Peter Pless (born 9 February 1981) is a former professional male tennis player from Denmark. Tennis career Juniors Pless had an excellent junior career, winning the 1999 Australian Open Boys' Singles (defeated Mikhail Youzhny), and reaching the Boys' final at both Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon (lost to Jürgen Melzer), and the US Open (tennis), US Open (lost to Jarkko Nieminen) the same year. He finished 1999 as the No. 1 ranked junior player in the world. Pro tour He turned professional in 1999, and on 28 January 2002, Kristian Pless reached his career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of World No. 65. He has won tournaments at the Futures (tennis), Futures and ATP Challenger Tour, Challenger levels, and has reached three semifinals on the ATP Tour. He suffered a serious shoulder injury in 2003, which after multiple surgery kept him out of competition for almost a year. After returning from injury in 2004, he had dropped in the ranking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levar Harper-Griffith
Levar Harper-Griffith (born September 4, 1981) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Career Juniors Harper-Griffith was a boys' singles quarter-finalist at the 1999 Australian Open and a boys' doubles semi-finalist (with Andy Roddick) at the 1999 US Open. Pro tour On top of their semifinal run in the juniors, Harper-Griffith also competed with Roddick in the men's doubles draw at the 1999 US Open, making the second round. At the 2001 US Open, Harper-Griffith lost to Spaniard Albert Costa in the opening round of the men's singles. It would be his only appearance in the men's singles draw of a Grand Slam but he did make another US Open doubles appearance, in 2002, with Eric Taino. The pair defeated Dominik Hrbatý and André Sá in the first round, before being eliminated in the second round by Jiří Novák and Radek Štěpánek Radek Štěpánek (; born 27 November 1978) is a Czech former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Gubenco
Philip Gubenco (born 14 March 1982) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. A left-handed player from Quebec, Gubenco was an ITF world number four ranked junior in doubles, forming a successful partnership with Andy Roddick which included World Super Juniors and Eddie Herr International titles. Gubenco had a best singles ranking of 519 on the professional tour and peaked at 279 in doubles. In 1999 he made an ATP Tour The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is the sole worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) founded in 1990 that replaced the earlier dual Grand Prix ... singles main draw appearance as a wildcard at the Canadian Open and was beaten in the first round by Ramón Delgado. He featured in further Canadian Open main draws as a doubles player. Most of his career was played at ITF Futures level and he was a doubles champion in nine tournaments. ITF Futures fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stian Boretti
Stian Boretti (born 20 December 1981) is a Norwegian 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. Born in Nesodden, Boretti had a career best singles ranking of 375 on the professional tour, winning six ITF Futures singles titles. He had a best doubles ranking of 511 and won five ITF Futures doubles tournaments. Boretti, a five-time King's Cup winner, is the Norwegian record holder for Davis Cup appearances. His Davis Cup career spanned 15-years, between 2000 and 2014, with 26 singles and 12 doubles wins, from 39 ties. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boretti, Stian 1981 births Living people Norwegian male tennis players People from Nesodden Sportspeople from Akershus 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Bachert
Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name * *List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) Arts and media * Boris (band), a Japanese experimental rock trio * ''Boris'' (EP), by Yezda Urfa, 1975 * "Boris" (song), by the Melvins, 1991 * ''Boris'' (TV series), a 2007–2010, 2022–present Italian comedy series * '' Boris: The Film'', a 2011 Italian film based on the TV series * '' Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson'', a 2006 biography by Andrew Gimson Other uses * Boris (crater), a lunar crater * Hurricane Boris (other), several cyclones in the Eastern Pacific * Boris, a tribe of the Adi people The Adi people are one of the most populous groups of indigenous peoples in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. A few thousand are also found in the Tibet Autonomous Region, where they are called the Lhoba together with some of the Nyishi peopl ... See also * Borris (other) * Boris stones, seven medieval artifacts in Belarus {{di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadik Kadir
Sadik Kadir (born 27 July 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography Originally from the Indonesian city of Surabaya, Kadir later grew up in Sydney. Kadir made two main draw appearances at the Australian Open. At the 2005 Australian Open he and Shannon Nettle received a wild card for the men's doubles event. They were beaten in the first round by ninth seeds Cyril Suk and Pavel Vízner. He also featured in the main draw of the 2006 Australian Open, in the men's doubles with Todd Reid. Again facing an all Czech pairing in the opening round, Kadir and his partner narrowly lost to Ivo Minář and Jiří Vaněk. In 2009 he won two ATP Challenger The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as ... titles, the Burnie International in Tasmania and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Childs
Lee Childs (born 6 November 1982, in Yeovil) is a retired British tennis player from England. Following match victories in 2000, Childs was hailed as "the future of British tennis" and a successor to Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski. At the 2003 Wimbledon Championships, he famously defeated Nikolay Davydenko in the first round in 5 sets. The score was 2–6, 7–6(2), 1–6, 7–6(5), 6–2. He then lost in the next round to a 17-year-old Rafael Nadal Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for ... in straight sets, 6–2, 6–4, 6–3. Growing up, Lee went to Pawlett Primary School. He got his passion for tennis from his head teacher Chris Vincent. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 6 (2–4) Doubles: 12 (5– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Jakupovic
Alexandros Jakupović (, , , ; born December 14, 1981) is a Greek former tennis player who was banned for life in November 2015 by the Tennis Integrity Unit. He is the son of a Bosniak father and a Greek mother. Career His career high ATP singles rank is 464, which he achieved on March 9, 2009. As of November 4, 2013, on the futures level in singles, he has 37 quarter-final losses, 21 semi-final losses, 8 runners-up and 3 titles. As for doubles on the futures level, he has been far more successful. He has 31 semifinal exits, 31 runners-up and 23 titles. On the challenger level in doubles, he has 2 semi-finals, in July 2008 in Rimini, Italy, with Spaniard, Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras and in April 2009 in Athens, Greece with fellow Greek Konstantinos Economidis. He has 2 challenger doubles finals in April 2008 in Athens, Greece with his compatriot, Konstantinos Economidis and in May 2012 in Athens, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Anderson (tennis)
Andrew Anderson (born 8 April 1983) is a South African tennis player who regularly played on the ITF Futures Tour and occasionally ATP Challenger Tour. Anderson reached a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 376 achieved on 11 October 2010. He also reached a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 315 achieved on 27 February 2006. Anderson made his ATP Tour debut in singles at the 2009 SA Tennis Open where he advanced through the three qualifying rounds to earn his first and only main draw birth. In qualifying, he received a bye in the first round, and then defeated Benjamin Janse Van Rensburg ''3–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–1)'' and then Fritz Wolmarans ''6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–4)'' to set up a first round match against eighth seed Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, which he would go on to lose ''4–6, 2–6''. Anderson has reached 7 singles finals in his career, with a record of 6 wins and 1 loss all coming at the ITF Futures level. Additionally, he has reached 25 do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximilian Abel
Maximilian Abel (born 28 February 1982) is a professional tennis player from Germany. In 2008, Abel received a two-year suspension by the International Tennis Federation, for testing positive for cocaine. Junior career Abel was runner-up to Andy Roddick at the 1999 Orange Bowl, in the 18 and under category. En route to the final he had wins over Feliciano López and Mardy Fish. Professional career Abel reached the final of the Campos do Jordão Challenger tournament in 2002, which he lost to Ricardo Mello. He lost to Bohdan Ulihrach in four sets at the 2003 US Open, which would be his only Grand Slam main draw appearance. In 2003 he advanced to the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships, where he lost to Roger Federer, and the MercedesCup, where he defeated Antony Dupuis before being eliminated by Rainer Schüttler. Controversy In April 2008, Abel received a two-year suspension by the International Tennis Federation, for testing positive for a metabolite of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milos Nikolic (tennis)
Milos or Melos (; , ; ) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. It is the southwestern-most island of the Cyclades group. The ''Venus de Milo'' (now in the Louvre), the '' Poseidon of Melos'' (now in the NAMA) and the '' Asclepius of Milos'' (now in the British Museum) were all found on the island, as was an archaic Apollo now in Athens. Milos is a popular tourist destination during the summer. The municipality of Milos also includes the uninhabited offshore islands of Antimilos and Akradies. The combined land area is and at the 2021 census the population was 5,193 inhabitants. History Obsidian (a glass-like volcanic rock) from Milos was a commodity as early as 15,000 years ago. Natural glass from Milos was transported over long distances and used for razor-sharp "stone tools" well before farming began and later: "There is no early farming village in the Near East that doesn't get obsidian". The mining of obsidian did not lead to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timo Nieminen
Timo Nieminen (born 6 October 1981 in Helsinki) is a retired professional Finnish tennis player. He reached his highest ATP Tour singles ranking of World No. 254 in July 2003. Nieminen primarily played on the Futures circuit and the Challenger circuit. He has been a member of the Finland Davis Cup team since 2002, posting a 2–12 record in singles and 0–1 record in doubles in 12 ties. He has no relation to Jarkko Nieminen Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen (born 23 July 1981) is a Finnish former professional tennis player. His highest ranking of world No. 13, achieved in July 2006, is a Finnish record. He has won two ATP singles titles and five doubles titles in his caree .... Tour singles titles - all levels (16) See also * List of Finland Davis Cup team representatives References External links * * * 1981 births Living people Finnish male tennis players Tennis players from Helsinki 21st-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
