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Jiří Novák (sculptor)
Jiří Novák (; born 22 March 1975) is a Czech former professional tennis player. He was born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia but resides nowadays in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Career Novák turned professional in 1993 and won seven singles and 18 doubles titles during his career, winning $7,614,063 in prize money. For six years, he was the highest-ranked male Czech tennis player in the ATP rankings. On October 21, 2002, Novák reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 5. He retired in 2007. Novák was the first player to face Roger Federer at Wimbledon. In this first-round match at the 1999 tournament, Novák defeated Federer in five sets. Novák created a tennis school in the Czech Republic and one of his students was the fourteen year old Preet Chandi before she went on to be an adventurer. Significant finals Grand Slam tournaments Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) Masters Series Singles: 1 (1 runner-ups) Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-ups) Performance timelines Singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo ( ; ; or colloquially ; , ; ) is an official administrative area of Monaco, specifically the Ward (country subdivision), ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located. Informally, the name also refers to a larger district, the Monte Carlo Quarter (corresponding to the former municipality of Monte Carlo), which besides Monte Carlo/Spélugues also includes the wards of Saint Roman, Monaco, La Rousse/Saint Roman, Larvotto, Larvotto/Bas Moulins and Saint Michel, Monaco, Saint Michel. The permanent population of the ward of Monte Carlo is about 3,500, while that of the quarter is about 15,000. Monaco has four traditional quarters, from west to east they are: Fontvieille, Monaco, Fontvieille (the newest), Monaco City, Monaco-Ville (the oldest), La Condamine, and Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo is situated on a prominent escarpment at the base of the Maritime Alps along the French Riviera. Near the quarter's western end is the "world-famous Place du Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde were the defending champions, but Woodforde had retired from the tour. Woodbridge partnered with Jonas Björkman but lost in the third round to Bob and Mike Bryan. Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer defeated Jiří Novák and David Rikl in the final, 6–4, 4–6, 6–3, 7–6(8–6), to win the gentlemen's doubles title at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships Seeds Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge ''(third round)'' Daniel Nestor / Sandon Stolle ''(second round)'' Jiří Novák / David Rikl ''(final)'' Donald Johnson / Jared Palmer (champions) Ellis Ferreira / Rick Leach ''(quarterfinals)'' Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes ''(first round)'' Petr Pála / Pavel Vízner ''(quarterfinals)'' Joshua Eagle / Andrew Florent ''(second round)'' Michael Hill / Jeff Tarango ''(third round)'' David Prinosil / Cyril Suk ''(second round)'' Mark Knowles / Brian MacPhie ''(third round)'' Wayne Black / Kevin Ullyett ''(fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Johnson
Donald James Johnson (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional tennis player who reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 2002. Although born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, he was raised and learned the sport of tennis in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Johnson attended Fairview High School in Erie, Pennsylvania, and won the PIAA State Singles Championship in 1984. During his career, he won the Wimbledon men's doubles title in 2001 (partnering Jared Palmer), and the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 2000 (partnering Kimberly Po). He also won the doubles title at the Tennis Masters Cup in 2000 (partnering Piet Norval). He won a total of 23 top-level doubles titles. Prior to turning professional, Johnson played collegiate tennis for the University of North Carolina from 1987 to 1991. As a youngster, he earned the Sportsmanship Award at the USTA The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national Sport governing body, governing b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rikl
David Rikl (born 27 February 1971) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. His success came mostly in doubles, winning 30 titles and finishing runner-up at the 2004 US Open and 2001 Wimbledon Championships Doubles events. He also achieved a singles ranking of world No. 41 in May 1994. Tennis career Juniors As a junior Rikl excelled at doubles, reaching the semi-finals of the French Open and Australian Open and the final of Wimbledon. Junior Grand Slam results – Singles: Australian Open: 3R (1989) French Open: 2R (1989) Wimbledon: 2R (1989) US Open: 1R (1988) Junior Grand Slam results – Doubles: Australian Open: SF (1989) French Open: SF (1984) Wimbledon: F (1983) US Open: 1R (1988) Pro tour Rikl turned professional in 1989. In singles, he won five Challenger tournaments and achieved his greatest slam performance in 1997, reaching the third round of Wimbledon. Rikl retired from the professional tour in 2005 and currently resides in London. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preet Chandi
Harpreet Kaur "Preet" Chandi (born 1988/1989) is a British physiotherapist and British Army officer who completed a solo expedition across Antarctica to the South Pole, finishing on 3 January 2022. In January 2023, she recorded the longest ever solo and unsupported polar expedition. She was appointed Order of the British Empire#Current classes, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours. Life Chandi was born in Derby in 1988/1989. She is a Sikhs, Sikh of Indian Punjabis, Punjabi descent. When she was aged 14 she was keen on tennis and left for a tennis school in Surrey; at the age of 16, she was in the Czech Republic, where Jiří Novák ran a tennis school. After losing interest in tennis, Chandi returned to the UK where she completed her education. She took up marathon running when she was eighteen, and also ultra-marathons, initially in the Peak District. Push back Referring to her independent decisions as a youth, follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wimbledon Championships
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tennis events each year, held after the Australian Open and the French Open and before the US Open (tennis), US Open. It is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. Wimbledon has been held since 1877 and is played on outdoor grass courts; it is the only tennis major still played on grass, the traditional surface. It is also the only major that retains a night-time curfew, though matches can now continue until 23:00 under the lights. The tournament traditionally takes place over two weeks in late June and early July, starting either on the last Monday in June or the first Monday in July and culminating with the Ladies' and Gentlemen's Sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Federer
Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss 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 310 weeks (List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, second-most of all time), including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 five times. Federer won 103 singles titles on the ATP Tour, the second most since the start of the Open Era in 1968, including 20 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major men's singles titles (among which a record eight men's singles Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon titles, and an Open Era joint-record five men's singles US Open (tennis), US Open titles) and six ATP Finals, year-end championships. For nearly two decades, Federer was a leading figure in men's tennis alongside Rafael Nadal a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is the governing body of the men's professional tennis circuits – the ATP Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour. It was formed in September 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of professional tennis players, and Drysdale became the first president. Since 1990 the association has organized the ATP Tour, the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the organization's name. It is the governing body of men's professional tennis. In 1990 the organization was called the ATP Tour, which was renamed in 2001 as just ATP and the tour being called ATP Tour. In 2009 the name of the tour was changed again and was known as the ATP World Tour, but changed again to the ATP Tour by 2019. It is an evolution of the tour competitions previously known as Grand Prix tennis tournaments and World Championship Tennis (WCT). The ATP's global headquarters are in London. ATP Americas is base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
2000 US Open – Mixed Doubles
The 2000 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City in New York in the United States. It was the 120th edition of the US Open and was held from 28 August through 10 September 2000. Ai Sugiyama and Mahesh Bhupathi were the defending champions, but lost in first round to Karina Habšudová and David Rikl. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Jared Palmer won the title, defeating Anna Kournikova and Max Mirnyi in the final 6–4, 6–3. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half External links Official Results Archive (WTA) at the |
2001 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Donald Johnson and Kimberly Po-Messerli were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Leoš Friedl and Daniela Hantuchová. Friedl and Hantuchová defeated Mike Bryan and Liezel Huber in the final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2 to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds Todd Woodbridge / Rennae Stubbs ''(second round)'' Ellis Ferreira / Ai Sugiyama ''(quarterfinals)'' Sandon Stolle / Cara Black ''(second round)'' Mahesh Bhupathi / Elena Likhovtseva ''(semifinals)'' Donald Johnson / Kimberly Po-Messerli ''(quarterfinals)'' Leander Paes / Lisa Raymond ''(third round)'' Jared Palmer / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario ''(first round)'' Joshua Eagle / Barbara Schett ''(first round)'' Mark Knowles / Nicole Arendt ''(third round)'' Lucas Arnold Ker / Paola Suárez ''(second round)'' Petr Pála / Janette Husárová ''(first round)'' Rick Leach / Amanda Coetzer ''(third round)'' Jiří Novák / Miriam Ore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles
The mixed doubles of the 2002 Australian Open was held for the 58th time since the first tournament back in 1922. Heading into the tournament, Corina Morariu and Ellis Ferreira were the defending champions, but could not defend their title. While Morariu did not compete this year, Ferreira partnered with Cara Black and lost in the first Round to Rita Grande and Jeff Tarango in three sets. Daniela Hantuchová and Kevin Ullyett won the title, defeating Paola Suárez and Gastón Etlis 6–3, 6–2 in the final. It was the second Grand Slam mixed doubles title for Hantuchová and the only title in mixed doubles for Ullyett, in their respective careers. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half External links Draws2002 Australian Open – Doubles draws and results at the International Tennis Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:2002 Australian Open - Mixed Doubles 2002 Australian Open, Mixed Doubles Australian Open (tennis) by year – Mixed doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
