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Bob Brett
Bob Brett (13 November 1953 – 5 January 2021) was an Australian tennis coach. Brett worked as a ball boy for American player Arthur Ashe and veteran Australian coach Harry Hopman in the 1960s. In addition to one-on-one coaching, Brett's other roles included the founding of a tennis academy in San Remo, Italy, and a coaching job with the Japanese tennis federation. Early life Born in Melbourne on 13 November 1953, Brett developed an interest in tennis during his childhood. In 1965, he attended the Victorian Championships and the Australian Championships at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, and was introduced by a fellow spectator to George MacCall, the United States United States Davis Cup team captain. MacCall gave Brett a role as a ball boy for the team's training sessions, in which he worked with several top players such as Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner. He also met Australian coach Harry Hopman at around this time, and the following year Hopman made him a ball boy for the Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber tennis ball, ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's tennis court, court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. If a player is unable to return the ball successfully, the opponent scores a Point (tennis), point. Playable at all levels of society and at all ages, tennis can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including Wheelchair tennis, wheelchair users. The original forms of tennis developed in France during the late Middle Ages. The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections to various field (lawn) games such as croqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Günther Bosch
Günther Bosch (born March 1, 1937, in Brașov, in German ''Kronstadt'', Kingdom of Romania) is a Romanian-German former tennis player and current tennis coach. He was the national coach of the DTB for the youngsters and became known as the personal trainer of Boris Becker at his first Wimbledon victory in 1985. Biography The Transylvanian Saxon Bosch played tennis in the Romanian Davis Cup team, but was only the Romanian "number three" in the shadow of Ilie Năstase and Ion Țiriac. His studies at the Sports University of Bucharest after his active career ended with his thesis "The Psychology of the Impact". In 1974, Bosch, at the time the youth coach of the Romanian federation, withdrew after a youth tournament in Saarbrücken; his wife Rodica and daughter were only allowed to leave the country two years later. As a national coach, he discovered the tennis talent Boris Becker during a sighting in Biberach in 1976. At the request of Becker's parents, he took over the care of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker (; born 22 November 1967) is a German former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Becker won 49 career singles and 15 doubles titles, including six singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors: three Wimbledon Championships, two Australian Opens and one US Open (tennis), US Open. He also won 13 Tennis Masters Series records and statistics, Masters titles, three Open Era tennis records – men's singles#Year-end championships, year-end championships, an Tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles, Olympic gold medal in men's doubles in 1992, and led Germany Davis Cup team, Germany to two Davis Cup titles in 1988 Davis Cup World Group, 1988 and 1989 Davis Cup World Group, 1989. Becker is the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles Wimbledon title, a feat he accomplished aged 17 in 1985 Wimbledon Championships – Men's sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Henrik Sundström
Henrik Sundström (born 29 February 1964) is a former professional male tennis player from Sweden. He is nicknamed Henke. Sundström was at his best on clay and achieved his strongest results on this surface, with his solid and heavy topspin groundstrokes from the baseline. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 6. Tennis career Sundström turned professional in 1981 and in 1982 he went on to make his first final at the Swedish Open in Båstad losing to countryman and reigning French Open champion Mats Wilander. In 1983 Sundström won his first ATP title in Nice over Manuel Orantes and made the final of Madrid, losing to Yannick Noah who later went on to win the French Open that year. Sundström also made his Davis Cup debut against New Zealand in the quarter-finals played at Eastbourne on grass. He lost both of his matches, but Sweden still won the tie and make the final that year against Australia. 1984 was the best year of Sundström's career as he compile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Guy Forget
Guy Forget (; born 4 January 1965) is a French tennis administrator and retired professional player. During his career, he helped France win the Davis Cup in both 1991 and 1996. Since retiring as a player, he has served as France's Davis Cup team captain. Early life and amateur career Forget first came to the tennis world's attention as an outstanding junior player who won the French Open junior title in 1982. He turned professional later that year. Professional career Forget's breakthrough year on the professional tour was 1986 when he made it to the fourth round of Roland Garros, his best grand slam at that point, and won his first top-level singles title in Toulouse, where both his father and grandfather had won, respectively in 1966 and 1946, and where he won again in 1991 and 1992. He was also part of the French team which won the World Team Cup. Forget also won six doubles titles in 1986, reaching his career-high doubles ranking of World Number 3 in August that year, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mats Wilander
Mats Arne Olof Wilander (; born 22 August 1964) is a Swedish 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 20 weeks, including as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 in 1988 Grand Prix (tennis), 1988. Wilander won 33 career singles titles, including seven Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors (three each at the French Open and Australian Open, and one at the US Open (tennis), US Open), and seven career doubles titles, including a major in men's doubles at The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon. Wilander's breakthrough came suddenly and unexpectedly when he won the 1982 French Open – Men's singles, 1982 French Open at the age of 17. Wilander won his fourth major singles title at the age of 20, the youngest man in history to have achieved the feat. In 1988, he won three of the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
