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Tennis At The 2006 Asian Games – Men's Singles
Men's singles at the 2006 Asian Games was won by Danai Udomchoke of Thailand. Schedule All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00) Results Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 ReferencesMen's singles draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games - Men's singles Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalifa International Tennis And Squash Complex
The Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex is a tennis and squash (sport), squash complex in Doha, Qatar. The center is owned and operated by the Qatar Tennis Federation. It is the home venue of the ATP World Tour's Qatar ExxonMobil Open and Women's Tennis Association, WTA event Qatar Total Open. It formerly hosted the year-ending WTA Tour Championships in 2008–2010. It has also hosted the tennis and squash competitions at the Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games, 2006 Asian Games, as well as Padel World Championship in 2021 and 2024. History Professional tennis in Qatar started with exhibition tournaments featuring distinguished players. Due to the success of these games, it was decided that an official organization should be created for the same. On 9 April 1984, the Qatar Tennis Federation was established. In 1987 tennis was introduced to major sports clubs in Qatar. Games were held at four major sports clubs – Al Arabi, Al Saad, Al Ahli, and Al Rayyan. In 1991 facil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdulla Al-Haji
Abdulla Al-Haji (born December 5, 1990) is a tennis player from Qatar. He played an Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament at the 2008 Qatar Open, where he fell to Michael Berrer. He again participated in the 2010 Qatar Open, where he lost to Olivier Rochus Olivier Rochus (; born 18 January 1981) is a former Belgian tennis player. Rochus won two singles titles in his career and in 2004 won the French Open doubles title, partnering fellow Belgian Xavier Malisse. His career-high singles ranking is wo .... External linksProfile on Yahoo! Sports* Living people Qatari male tennis players Tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games 1990 births Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games competitors for Qatar 21st-century Qatari sportsmen {{Qatar-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohan Bopanna
Rohan Machanda Bopanna ( ; born 4 March 1980) is an Indian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He attained the List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 ranking after winning his first Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major men's doubles title at the 2024 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2024 Australian Open with Matthew Ebden, becoming the oldest first-time No. 1 at the age of 43. Bopanna had a partnership with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan for several years, with the pair known as the ''IndoPak Express.'' They were runners-up at the 2010 US Open – Men's doubles, 2010 US Open. Bopanna was a finalist at the ATP Finals, ATP World Tour Finals in 2012 ATP World Tour Finals – Doubles, 2012 and 2015 ATP World Tour Finals – Doubles, 2015 with different partners. He has won two major titles in doubles: at the 2017 French Open – Mixed doubles, 2017 French Open mixed doubles alongside Gabriela Dabrowski (becoming the fourth Indian ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Wong
Wong Wing-Luen, Wayne (, born March 21, 1981, in Hong Kong) is a former tennis player from Hong Kong. He also goes by the nickname "Wayne". As of February 14, 2005, Wong was #1158 in world in the ATP rankings, which is the highest in his career. The right-hander stands 5 feet 7 inches and weighs 140 pounds. Wong quickly emerged as one of Hong Kong's most highly touted junior players. Between 1995 and 1999, Wong was ranked No. 1 in the Hong Kong Boys' 18U age group each year since the age of 14. Highlights of his junior career include ascending to a number 137 junior world ranking. Wong is a member of the Hong Kong, China Davis Cup team, he debuted for Hong Kong at age 15 years 332 days in a reverse singles dead rubber against Thailand in an Asia/Oceania Zone Group II First Round tie at Victoria Park in February 1997. He has compiled an 18–12 record in Davis Cup action since 1997. At the 2006 Asian Games, Wayne won the first round singles match against Mongolia's Bad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Peng
Sun Peng (; born October 19, 1983) is a Chinese tennis player. He was the national singles champion in 2005. Peng and Zeng Shaoxuan were the only male singles competitors for China at the 2008 Summer Olympics. See also *Tennis in China External links * References * China at the 2008 Summer Olympics China was the host nation of the 2008 Summer Olympics. It was represented by the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC), and the team of selected athletes were officially known as ''Team China''. As the host country, China had a total of 639 athletes qua ... 10th National Games, beating Zeng Shao-Xuan 6–2, 6–3 Friday in Nanjing. Living people Chinese male tennis players Hopman Cup competitors Olympic tennis players for China Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics 1983 births Tennis players from Liaoning Tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games Sportspeople from Anshan Asian Games tennis players for China 21st-century Chinese sportsmen {{PRChina-tennis-bio-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaled Al-Thawadi
Khaled is a male Arabic name after Khaled who was the general of the first Caliph Abu Bakr; it may refer to: People * Khaled Azhari (born 1966), Egyptian politician * Khaled Chehab (1886–1978), Lebanese politician * Khaled Jarrar (born 1976), Palestinian visual artist * Khaled Sheikh, Yemeni diplomat * Khaled (musician) (born 1960), an Algerian Raï musician * DJ Khaled (born 1975), a Palestinian-American DJ * Khaled (surname), surname Other * ''Khaled'' (album), the self-titled album by the Algerian musician (above) * ''Khaled'' (film), a 2001 Canadian drama film, directed by Asghar Massombagi * Khaled (horse), thoroughbred racehorse * '' Khaled: A Tale of Arabia'', an 1891 novel by F. Marion Crawford See also * Khalid (other) Khalid is a common Arabic masculine given name in many Arab and Asian countries, which means "eternal, everlasting, immortal". Khalid may also refer to: * Khalid (American singer) (born 1998), American R&B singer and songwriter * Khali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajeev Rajapakse
Rājīv (Devanagari: राजीव, Bengali script: রাজীব) is a popular Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Nepalese male name, also spelt Rajeev, Rajive, Rajib, Rajeeb, Rajiva and Rajiba. It is said that the lotus flower (''Nelumbo nucifera''), though it grows in muddy water, doesn't accumulate the mud particles onto it; such is the quality described as ''rājīv''. Today, in several Indian languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Madheshi, Nepali, Assamese, Marathi and Kannada, ''rājīv'' is the word for "lotus flower or ''nelumbo nucifera'' In the '' Rāmāyaṇa'', Rāma's epithets include ''Rājīv-Lochan'', meaning "one whose eyes are like lotus flowers". Notable people named Rajiv, Rajive or Rajeev *Akshay Kumar, Indian-Canadian actor and martial artist (birth name Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia) * Rajeev, Indian Tamil language actor * Rajiv Anchal, film director * Rajive Bagrodia, American computer scientist * Rajiv Bapna, founder and director of Amkette * Rajeev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdullah Maqdes
Abdullah Maqdes (born 31 March 1987) is a Kuwaiti tennis player. Maqdes has a career high ATP singles ranking of 496 achieved on 11 February 2013. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 581 achieved on 4 February 2013. Maqdes has a career high combined juniors ranking of 18. Maqdes made his ATP main draw debut at the 2010 Dubai Tennis Championships in the doubles draw. Maqdes represents Kuwait 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 ... where he has a W/L record of 43–21. Maqdes represented the University of Southern California (USC) where his team won the NCAA title in 2010. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 4 (1–3) Doubles: 10 (4–6) External links * * * 1987 births Living people Kuwaiti male tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshihide Matsui
is a professional Japanese tennis player. On 12 June 2006, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of No. 261. He achieved his highest doubles ranking of No. 123 in February 2024. He is currently the oldest active singles player in the ATP world doubles rankings. Career He was the runner-up in men's singles at the Japanese National Championships in 2006 when he lost the final against Satoshi Iwabuchi. He won 6 Japanese national championship titles in men's doubles category: 4 titles with Satoshi Iwabuchi (2005,2007–09) and 2 titles with Kaito Uesugi (2021–22). When he played at the 2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open against 18-year-old Chun-hsin Tseng as a lucky loser, it was the largest age difference ever in a Challenger match, with Matsui being the oldest player at 41 years old, with an ATP ranking. He represented Japan in three Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karan Rastogi
Karan Rastogi (born 8 October 1986) is an Indian tennis player, who also represented Hong Kong in international competitions. He started playing tennis at the age of 3. He was ranked No.1 in all age groups in India from the under 12s to the under 18s. In 2000, he became the first Indian to win three events at the junior nationals winning the boys under 14 singles and doubles and the boys under 16 singles in one week at the same event. In the same year he also led the Indian under 14 team to finish as runners up in the Asia/Oceania boys under 14 World Junior Tennis event, thus qualifying for the World finals to be held in Czech Republic. In the world finals as India's no.1 player Karan lost the first match to the then 14-year-old Rafael Nadal as India lost to Spain 0–3. He was named Asia's no.1 Under 14 boys player in 2000. In 2002, he received the award for the most promising junior in India at the ATP Chennai Open. In 2003, he turned professional. He reached the semi-finals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
