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Gábor Köves
Gábor Köves (born 7 January 1970) is a retired Hungarian Olympian tennis player. Seoul gold medalists Ken Flach and Robert Seguso stopped him and partner László Markovits in the second round in the 1988 Summer Olympics. Gabor Köves is currently the captain of the Hungary Davis Cup team since December 2016 when Zoltán Kuhárszky stepped down due to conflict of interest, because he became Máté Valkusz Máté Valkusz (born 13 August 1998) is a Hungarian inactive professional tennis player. Valkusz has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 204, achieved on 12 June 2023. Juniors On the junior tour, Valkusz has a career high combined junior ...'s personal coach who is a member of the Hungarian Davis Cup team. Titles Doubles (4) References External links * * * * * * 1970 births Living people Hungarian male tennis players Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Strenberger
Thomas Strengberger (born 5 October 1975) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. Career A doubles specialist, Strengberger had the best performance of his career at the 1997 Austrian Open, where he and partner Thomas Buchmayer were surprise finalists, having entered the tournament as wildcards. They upset the top seeded pairing of Luis Lobo and Andrei Olhovskiy in the semi-final, but were unable to defeat Wayne Arthurs and Richard Fromberg in the decider. The Austrian did well at his home event again in 2001, making the quarter-finals, this time with Wolfgang Schranz as his partner. Strengberger appeared in two Davis Cup ties for Austria during his career. In 1998, he and Schranz won a doubles rubber over Kenneth Carlsen and Frederik Fetterlein. Two years later, with Austria now in the World Group, Strengberger teamed up with Julian Knowle for their doubles rubber against France. The French duo, Olivier Delaître and Nicolas Escudé Nicolas Jean-Christophe E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Male Tennis Players
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Living People
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1970 Births
Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 are killed and 30,000 injured. * January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon, ending the Nigerian Civil War. February * February 1 – The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina (a rear-end collision) kills 236. * February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France, kills 41 tourists. * February 11 – ''Ohsumi (satellite), Ohsumi'', Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket. * February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. * February – Multi-business Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Virgin Group is founded as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Mohr
Patrick Mohr (born 6 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland. Biography Mohr, the son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, turned professional in 1992 and was based in Wetzikon. At the 1994 French Open he made it to the final round of qualifying, by beating Brian MacPhie and Christian Bergström, before he was eliminated in three sets by Lars-Anders Wahlgren. Mohr played his first match for the Switzerland Davis Cup team in 1994, a World Group qualifier against Indonesia in Jakarta. The Swiss secured the tie by winning the doubles, so Mohr was given a run in the reverse singles, which he lost to Benny Wijaya. His only other Davis Cup appearance came in the first round of the 1995 World Group, when Switzerland faced the Netherlands at home in Geneva. The Swiss lost Marc Rosset to a broken foot in the opening match and had to call on reserve Lorenzo Manta to replace him in the reverse singles. By beating Manta the Dutch won the tie and Mohr featured in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Manai
Stéphane is a French given name an equivalent of Stephen/Steven. The word derives from the Greek word "''στεφάνι''" (stefáni) n (plural στεφάνια), meaning wreath, garland (of flowers), and the verb "στέφω" (stéfo), meaning "to crown", following the protoindoeuropean root "*''stÁbʰ''-". Notable people with this given name include: *Stéphane Adam (born 1969), French footballer * Stéphane Agbre Dasse (born 1989), Burkinabé football player * Stéphane Allagnon, French film director and screenwriter * Stéphane Antiga (born 1976), French volleyball player *Stéphane Artano, French politician *Stéphane Audran, French film actress *Stéphane Augé (born 1974), French road racing cyclist * Stéphane Auger (born 1970), Canadian hockey referee *Stéphane Auvray, Guadeloupian footballer * Stéphane Azambre, French cross-country skier and biathlete *Stéphane Bancel (born 1972/1973), French billionaire businessman *Stéphane Beauregard (born 1968), Canadian ice ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clinton Ferreira
Clinton Ferreira (born 5 July 1966) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Biography Ferreira, who comes from Pretoria, was a two-time All-American doubles player at the University of Alabama. In 1986 he partnered with Gregg Hahn to reach the NCAA semi-finals, which set a college record. He later partnered with younger brother Ellis Ferreira to win the 1989 Southeastern Conference doubles title. The pair were one of the highest ranked doubles combinations in the ITCA collegiate rankings. In 1989 he also competed in the NCAA singles championships and with his brother in the doubles made the round of 16. During the 1990s he competed professionally on the ATP Tour as a doubles specialist and won a total of three Challenger titles. He featured in the main draws of both the Australian Open and US Open in men's doubles competition. In 1998 he retired from professional tennis. Clinton Ferreira now runs a wine merchant company base in Libourne, France, called Connai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva, and a centre for international diplomacy. Geneva hosts the highest number of International organization, international organizations in the world, and has been referred to as the world's most compact metropolis and the "Peace Capital". Geneva is a global city, an international financial centre, and a worldwide centre for diplomacy hosting the highest number of international organizations in the world, including the headquarters of many agencies of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Red Cross. In the aftermath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariano Puerta
Mariano Rubén Puerta (; born 19 September 1978) is an Argentine tennis coach and former professional player. He reached a career-high ATP world No. 9 singles ranking in August 2005. His career highlight is reaching the final of the French Open in 2005. Shortly afterwards he tested positive for the banned substance etilefrine in a drugs test, for which he received an eight-year doping ban, subsequently reduced to two years on appeal. Tennis career Puerta made his debut on the ATP Tour in 1997, and turned professional in 1998. He won his first ATP title in 1998 in Palermo, Italy. In 2000, Puerta achieved his highest year-end ranking of World No. 21, reaching five finals, and winning one of them (Bogotá). That same year, however, he underwent wrist surgery, which kept him off the tour for several months. Besides from not recovering his previous playing level, he was suspended from tennis for 9 months from October 2003 onwards for a doping offense (see section on doping c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Del Río
Diego del Río (born 4 September 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. Career del Rio was a doubles specialist and appeared in the main draw of seven Grand Slam tournaments. He only once progressed past the first round, which was in the 1999 French Open with Martín Rodríguez, where they made the round of 16. The Argentine also competed in the mixed doubles in that event (partnering Laura Montalvo), as well as at that year's Wimbledon (with María Fernanda Landa), but fell at the first round in each. He was involved in a long deciding set in the 1999 Australian Open, which he and partner Mariano Puerta lost 13–15, to Brent Haygarth and T. J. Middleton. In 1998 he and Puerta won the Colombia Open. It would be the only final that del Rio reached during his career on the ATP Tour. He had also been a semi-finalist in Colombia two years earlier and made the semi-finals at the 1999 Merano Open The Merano Open is a defunct ATP Tour affiliated men's ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomas Nydahl
Tomas Nydahl (born 21 March 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 72 in 1998. He managed to beat players such as Thomas Muster, Marcelo Ríos, Tim Henman, Tommy Haas, Petr Korda Petr Korda (born 23 January 1968) is a Czech former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in February 1998. Korda won ten singles titles, including the 1998 Austr .... He won 12 Challenger Tournaments and finished runner-up at 3 doubles Tour events. Nydahl achieved a career-high world best doubles ranking of world No. 103 in May 1989. ATP career finals Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 11 (7–4) Doubles: 15 (6–9) Performance timelines Singles Doubles External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nydahl, Tomas Swedish male tennis players Sportspeople from Linköping 1968 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
