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2004 Grand Prix Hassan II – Singles
Julien Boutter was the defending champion, but lost in the second round this year. Santiago Ventura won the title, defeating Dominik Hrbatý 6–3, 1–6, 6–4 in the final. Notably, this was Ventura's first ATP Tour-level appearance. Seeds # Dominik Hrbatý ''(final)'' # Younes El Aynaoui ''(withdrew)'' # Antony Dupuis ''(quarterfinals)'' # Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo ''(first round)'' # Cyril Saulnier ''(second round)'' # Dennis van Scheppingen ''(first round)'' # Thierry Ascione ''(quarterfinals)'' # Óscar Hernández ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Bottom half External links Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) – 2004 Grand Prix Hassan II Men's Singles draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2004 Grand Prix Hassan II - Singles Singles Singles are people not in a committed relationship. Singles may also refer to: Film and television * ''Singles'' (miniseries), a 1984 Australian television series * ''Singles'' (1992 film), written and directed by Cameron Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Ventura Bertomeu
Santiago Ventura Bertomeu (; born 5 January 1980) is a retired tennis player from Spain. He was born in Castellón, Spain and lives in Burriana, Spain. He is a clay court specialist and is known for the considerable use of drop shots during his matches. Ventura reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 65 on 3 March 2008. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 37 on 7 July 2008. He was the first player to be beaten by Andy Murray on the ATP Tour, in the first round of the Aegon Championships tournament in 2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa .... Career finals Singles (1 title) Doubles (5 titles, 3 runner-ups) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 22 (13–9) Doubles: 55 (38–17) Notes References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mounir El Aarej
Mounir El Aarej (born 16 June 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Morocco. Biography A regular Davis Cup player for Morocco during his career, El Aarej made his debut in 1996, for a World Group qualifier against Switzerland in Olten. He won a bronze medal in the doubles at the 2001 Mediterranean Games (with Mehdi Tahiri) and was a quarter-finalist in the singles draw. In 2002 he beat a young Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals of a Futures tournament in Gandia. He also had a win that year in the Davis Cup over Switzerland's Michel Kratochvil, who was at the time ranked in the world's top 40. El Aarej was a member of the team that beat Great Britain in a World Group play off in 2003. He also played in a playoff tie against Australia in Perth in the 2004 Davis Cup. His best performance on the ATP Tour came when he made the doubles semi-finals at the 2004 Grand Prix Hassan II in Casablanca, with Mehdi Tahiri. He competed at the tournament, which was held in Casablanca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Răzvan Sabău
Răzvan Sabău (born 18 June 1977) is a Romanian retired professional tennis player. He reached the semifinals of Bucharest in 2003 and Gstaad in 2005, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 74 in September 2005. He is the coach of Patricia Maria Țig. Tennis career Juniors Born in Bucharest, Romania, Sabău trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in his junior years. As a junior, Sabău was a prodigious player who won several youth tournaments. In 1990, he reached the final of the U14 European Junior Championships at the age of 13, which he narrowly lost to Maxime Boyé. In the following year, Sabău dominated the U14 circuit in the newly created Tennis Europe Junior Tour, collecting the two most prestigious trophies of the year at Petits As and the U14 European Junior Championships, beating Juan Antonio Saiz in both finals. Two years later, in 1993, he won the Wimbledon junior singles title, beating Jimy Szymanski in the final (6–1, 6–3), finishi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-René Lisnard
Jean-René Lisnard (; born 25 September 1979) is a French-Monegasque retired professional tennis player who formerly represented France. He was a member of the Monaco Davis Cup team from 2007. He is to date, the only Monegasque tennis player to have won a match in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. Tennis career Lisnard plays right-handed, and turned professional in 1997. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 84 in January 2003. His current doubles ranking is 400 with his highest rank being 171 on 10 September 2007. In May at the 2009 French Open, he lost his first-round match to Israeli player Dudi Sela 6–4, 6–3, 4–6, 6–3. Lisnard qualified for the main draw of the 2011 US Open and defeated Olivier Rochus of Belgium in straight sets to advance to the second round. He lost to Germany's Florian Mayer Florian Mayer (; born 5 October 1983) is a German former professional tennis player. Mayer reached his career-high singles ranking of wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Vagnozzi
Simone Vagnozzi (; born 30 May 1983) is an Italian former professional tennis player. Vagnozzi had a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 161 achieved on 7 November 2011. He also had a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 74 achieved on 4 April 2011. Vagnozzi made his ATP Tour singles debut at the 2004 Grand Prix Hassan II on clay courts in Casablanca, Morocco when he successfully advanced through three qualifying rounds to reach his first career main draw. In qualifying he defeated Talal Ouahabi, followed by leading Thomas Shimada ''6–0, 2–0'' when he had to retire from the match, and finally Björn Rehnquist to gain a main draw birth. In the first round he would go on extend his winning streak to four matches by defeating Jean-René Lisnard in straight sets but would ultimately fall in the second round to Swiss player Ivo Heuberger. He made his ATP Tour doubles debut at the 2005 Croatia Open where he received a direct entry alongside Slovenian player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivo Heuberger
Ivo Heuberger (born 19 February 1976) is a retired tennis player who represented Switzerland at the Davis Cup. Early life Ivo Heuberger was born in the small town of Altstätten, Switzerland on 19 February 1976. He began his tennis career after moving to the French part of Switzerland to attend the National Training Center. He showed promise during his junior days and was eager to begin his professional debut. Tennis career Ivo turned pro in 1997. He won his first title in India at a small $25,000 Challenger, beating Danai Udomchoke 6–2, 6–3. Ivo was chosen to represent Switzerland along with the rest of the Swiss Davis Cup team 7 times during his career. His career was one that had few highlights. He was best known in the tennis world, possibly, for his relationship with former world #1 Martina Hingis. His best ranking was 102, and he remained in the 100s for much of his career. He is what most in the tennis world call a "journeyman"—one who spends much of his career on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaud Di Pasquale
Arnaud Di Pasquale (; born 11 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France. Tennis career Juniors Di Pasquale excelled as a junior, posting a 103–25 record in singles and reaching the No. 1 ranking in December 1997 (and No. 17 in doubles). He won the boys' singles competition at the 1997 US Open (and made the semifinals of the Australian and French Open). Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) Pro tour Di Pasquale is best known winning the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event. He beat Nicolas Kiefer, Vladimir Voltchkov, Juan Carlos Ferrero and rising Roger Federer in the bronze medal match, but more surprising was his straight-sets victory over the well established Magnus Norman of Sweden, in the tournament's third round. He also reached the fourth round of the French Open in both 1999 and 2002 and won one singles title (in Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Mutis
Olivier Mutis (; born 2 February 1978) is a former French professional tennis player who retired in 2006. He did not win any ATP Tour titles but he won a total of 7 ATP Challenger Series. His best performance in a Grand Slam was at Roland Garros in 2004, when he reached the fourth round after having defeated World No. 2 Andy Roddick in a second round match. He played his first match in over a year in the Metz International qualifying 2008. He lost to Thierry Ascione 5–7, 6–2, 5–7 in a close match. He was the only player in history to have won every set he has played against Rafael Nadal on clay until Hubert Hurkacz Hubert Hurkacz (; born 11 February 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Polish man in singl ... replicated the feat in 2024. Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) Doubles: 1 (1 title) ATP C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Portas
Albert Portas Soy (, ; born 15 November 1973) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 19 in October 2001. Career Portas turned professional in 1994. His first and only top-level singles title came at the 2001 Hamburg Masters tournament, where as a qualifier he defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final. His mastery of the drop shot (key to his victory in the final) earned him the nickname "Drop Shot Dragon". According to the BBC, Lleyton Hewitt said of Portas that "He sure hits a lot of drop shots, but he hits them so well, as well as anyone I have faced." His final at Barcelona Open in 1997 was also very remarkable. En route to the final he defeated Gustavo Kuerten (eventual champion this same year of French Open), Marcelo Ríos, and Carlos Moyá, but lost in the final to Albert Costa. In 1999, Portas lost the final of San Marino defeated by his countryman Galo Blanco. Immediately after his retirement from play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Vicente
Fernando Vicente Fibla (; born 8 March 1977) is a professional tennis coach and a former player from Spain, who turned professional in 1996. He reached his career-high ATP ranking of world No. 29 in June 2000, winning three singles titles and reaching the quarterfinals of the 1998 Rome Masters and the 2000 Cincinnati Masters. He is the coach of Andrey Rublev since 2017, having previously coached Marcel Granollers and Marc López Marc López Tarrés (, ; born 31 July 1982) is a Spanish tennis coach and a former professional player. His career-high ATP singles ranking was world No. 3 in doubles, achieved in January 2013 and No. 106, achieved in May 2004. Partnering wi ... from 2010 to 2014. Career finals Singles: 6 (3–3) Doubles: 6 (2–4) Notes References External links * * Vicente World Ranking History 1977 births Living people People from Baix Maestrat Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Andorra Spanish male tennis players Sportspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Pescosolido
Stefano Pescosolido (; born 13 June 1971) is a former tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 1989. Pescosolido was born in Sora. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he was defeated in the first round by Brazil's 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 t .... The right-hander won two career titles in singles, and reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 42 in March 1992. ATP career finals Singles: 2 (2 titles) Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 20 (10–10) Doubles: 19 (10–9) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) Performance timelines Singles Doubles References External links * * * {{DEFAUL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Tahiri
Mehdi Tahiri (born 28 July 1977) is a retired Moroccan tennis player.David Cup players Tahiri represented in the Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ... in several years from 1993 to 2006.
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