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2000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Singles
Andre Agassi was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Àlex Corretja, 2–6, 3–6. Seeds The top eight seeds In botany, a seed is a plant structure containing an embryo and stored nutrients in a protective coat called a ''testa''. More generally, the term "seed" means anything that can be sown, which may include seed and husk or tuber. Seeds are the ... receive a bye into the second round. Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Notes External linksMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic - Singles Legg Mason Tennis Classic Singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Àlex Corretja
Alejandro Corretja Verdegay (; born 11 April 1974) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in 1999. Corretja won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including the 1998 ATP World Tour Championships, and Masters titles at the 1997 Italian Open and 2000 Indian Wells Masters. He was twice a major runner-up at the French Open, in 1998 and 2001. Corretja played a key role in helping Spain win its first Davis Cup title in 2000. Post-retirement, Corretja became a temporary coach of Andy Murray in April 2008 for the duration of the clay-court season, resuming the role on a permanent basis between 2009 and 2011. In 2012 and 2013, he coached the Spanish Davis Cup team. Career Corretja was born in Barcelona, and first came to the tennis world's attention as a promising junior player who won the Orange Bowl under-16 title in 1990. He turned professional in 1991 and won his first top-level singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Goldstein (tennis)
Paul Herbert Goldstein (born August 4, 1976) is a retired tennis player from the United States, who turned professional in 1998. He announced his retirement from professional tennis in February 2008, as he was starting working with a clean energy company. As a junior, he won the USTA Boys' 16s National Championship in 1992, and the USTA Boys' 18s National Championships in both 1993 and 1994. He then played college tennis at Stanford University, from which he graduated after a career in which he was named an All-American each of the four years he played, and the team won the national championship each year. He won the gold medal in singles at the 1999 Pan American Games. The right-hander reached career-high ATP Tour rankings of World No. 58 in singles in April 2006, and World No. 40 in doubles in February 2007. He is now head coach of the Stanford Men's tennis team. Early life Goldstein was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Rockville, Maryland, and is Jewish. He is the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvind Parmar
Arvind Parmar (born 1978 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is a former British professional tennis player whose career ran from 1997 to 2006. After retiring, he coached British junior No. 1, Ahmed El Menshawy. He also coached another British junior, James Marsalek. Tour career 1996 Parmar competed in his first ATP tour event in Bournemouth in September 1996, in doubles. Partnering Paul Robinson, they lost in the first round in 3 sets. Parmar finished 1996 ranked World No. 720 in singles and No. 1081 in doubles. 1997 Parmar played his first tour singles matches in July, 1997, playing in two challenger events in Britain, Bristol and Manchester. Both played on grass, he lost rather handily in the first round of each event. Parmar also lost in the first round in both events in doubles. He won his first tour event in September as he and partner Jamie Delgado reached the second round in doubles at the Scottish Tennis Championships. He finished 1997 ranked World No. 464 in singles a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Sá
André Rezende Sá (; born 6 May 1977) is a former Brazilian tennis player. In singles, he was a The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon quarterfinalist in 2002 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2002. Sá reached the semifinals of ATP tournaments in 2000 Kroger St. Jude International, Memphis and Hong Kong Open (tennis), Hong Kong in 2000 and 2001 respectively. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 17, winning 11 doubles titles. Personal Sá started playing tennis at the age of eight, encouraged by his older brother. At the age of 12 and ranked number one in Brazil, he moved to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida, where he stayed for five years. In 1996, he graduated from Brandenton Academy, where he played basketball for three years. In 2019 Andre Sá and his family moved to Australia after being appointed to head of player liaison for Tennis Australia. Professional career Sá played his first professional match in 1993, in a ITF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Voinea
Adrian Voinea (born 6 August 1974) is a former Romanian tennis player. He has been ranked as high as No. 36 in singles by the ATP. Voinea has won one ATP Tour singles title on the ATP Tour. Between 1995 and 2003, Voinea played in 12 Davis Cup ties for the Romania Davis Cup team and compiled a record of ten wins and eight losses. Early life Voinea was born in Focșani, Romania. He started playing tennis with George Bucuroiu as his first coach. As a teenager, Voinea was among the top 3 on the national level. He moved to Italy when he was 15 years old with his older brother, Marian. Marian encouraged Adrian to play tennis, playing a crucial role in developing his tennis career. After their arrival, the brothers were often short of money but were helped out by several people, including a nun from a church in Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristian Capalik
Kristian Capalik (born ''Kristijan ÄŒapalik'', October 3, 1978) is a Bosnian American actor and former professional tennis player. Early life Capalik was born in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina and then part of Yugoslavia. His Bosnian Croat father and Bosnian Serb mother owned and operated casinos, which would be destroyed in the war. The family left the city on April 4, 1992 and sought refuge in the Netherlands, where Kristian's grandmother lived. Later in the year, Kristian and his brother Alen, who was also a tennis player, immigrated to the United States. Alen went to Philadelphia and Kristian was accepted into the Palmer Tennis Academy in Tampa. Tennis career Juniors Capalik was a doubles finalist at the 1996 Orange Bowl junior tournament, partnering Slovenian Miha Gregorc. They were beaten in the final by the Czech pairing of Petr Kralert and Robin Vik. Also that year he won the Port Washington Tennis Academy's ''International Junior Championships'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Russell (tennis)
Michael Craig Russell (born May 1, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player, and tennis coach. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 60 in August 2007. His 23 United States Tennis Association (USTA) Pro Circuit singles titles were the all-time record, as of November 2013. That month he became the American No. 3. In 1994 Russell was ranked No. 1 in both singles and doubles in the USTA Boys' 16 rankings, and in 1996 he was ranked No. 1 in singles in the U.S. Boys' 18-Under. Playing for the University of Miami in 1996–97, he was named National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Rookie of the Year, before he turned pro in 1997. A high school valedictorian, Russell was one of few Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) players in his time who had a college degree, having earned a B.S. from the University of Phoenix with a 3.94 grade point average. Russell struggled with knee injuries for much of his professional career. He is perhaps best know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Harsanyi
Paul Laszlo Harsanyi (born December 30, 1974) is an American former professional tennis player. Harsanyi, who is of Hungarian descent, grew up in Potomac, Maryland and attended Churchill High School. From 1993 to 1997, Harsanyi played varsity tennis for the University of North Carolina, where as a freshman he was named ACC Rookie of the Year in 1994. While competing on the professional tour after college he made three ATP Tour main draw appearances at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic Legg may refer to: People *Adrian Legg, English guitar player *Andy Legg (born 1966), Welsh footballer *Barry Legg (born 1949), British former Member of Parliament *John Legg (politician) (born 1975), American educator and politician *John Legg (fo ... in Washington D.C. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harsanyi, Paul 1974 births Living people American male tennis players North Carolina Tar Heels men's tennis players Tennis players from Maryland American people of Hungarian des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Boutter
Julien Boutter (; born 5 April 1974) is a former professional male tennis player from France. Career At the 2002 Australian Open, Boutter defeated No. 2 seed and former World No. 1 Gustavo Kuerten, despite being down two sets, 3–6, 4–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–3. In his career, he won one singles title (2003 Casablanca) and reached the final in Milan (2001) but lost to Swiss Roger Federer. He reached two Master Series quarterfinals at Hamburg in 2002 and Monte Carlo in 2003. Boutter also reached the semi-finals of the 2002 Australian Open partnering fellow Frenchman Arnaud Clément, only to lose to Michaël Llodra and Fabrice Santoro Fabrice Vetea Santoro (; born 9 December 1972) is a French former professional tennis player. Successful in both singles and doubles, he had an unusually long professional career, with many of his accomplishments coming towards the end of his ca ... 3–6, 6–3, 10–12. During the match, Boutter led an impromptu funeral ceremony for a bird in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Burgsmüller
Lars Burgsmüller (born 6 December 1975) is a German former professional tennis player. Burgsmüller reached a career-high ATP Tour, ATP singles ranking of world No. 65, achieved on 18 February 2002. He also reached a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 61, achieved on 28 August 2006. Burgsmüller reached two singles finals on the ATP Tour, winning the 2002 Copenhagen Open in Denmark where he defeated Olivier Rochus of Belgium in the final in straight sets, and losing the final of the 2004 ATP Shanghai to Argentine Guillermo Cañas, also in straight sets. He also reached three doubles finals on the ATP Tour with three different partners. Partnered with Andrew Painter (tennis), Andrew Painter, he lost in the final of the 2000 Grand Prix Hassan II tournament in Casablanca falling in two sets to Frenchmen Sébastien Grosjean and Arnaud Clément. Alongside Jan Vacek he lost his next doubles final at the 2004 Ordina Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands in three sets to Czech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiřà Vaněk (tennis)
Jiřà VanÄ›k (born 24 April 1978) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He was a coach of former world #1 player KarolÃna PlÃÅ¡ková and is the current coach of two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitová, with whom he has a romantic relationship since August 2021. On 22 July 2023, they got married. Tennis career Juniors He was an impressive junior, reaching as high as No. 14 in the junior singles world rankings (and No. 21 in doubles) in 1995, making the semifinals of the French Open The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ... and the quarterfinals of the Australian Open boys' singles in 1996. Pro tour Vanek turned professional in 1996, winning 11 Challenger events and reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 74 in October 2000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Meligeni
Fernando Ariel Meligeni (born 12 April 1971), nicknamed ''Fininho'' (diminutive form in Portuguese for ''thin''), is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. He won three singles (and 7 doubles) titles and reached the semifinals of both the 1999 French Open and the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was known for taking matches to the limit (tiebreaks and five sets). His favorite surface was clay. Personal life Meligeni was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina but moved with his family to São Paulo, Brazil, when he was four years old. He is of Italian descent. He has a younger sister, Paula, the mother of two tennis players, Felipe and Carolina Meligeni Alves. He applied to get Brazilian citizenship as a teenager, and took him five years to complete the process. He is married to actress Carol Hubner, with whom he has two children. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, he won the traditional Orange Bowl in 1989, finishing No. 3 in the world junior rankings in the same year. Pro to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |