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2000 Colonial Classic – Draw
Thomas Enqvist was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Andre Agassi. Andre Agassi won the final after receiving a walkover from Mark Philippoussis due to neck strain. Players Draw Main draw Play-offs External linksOfficial Colonial Classic website {{DEFAULTSORT:2000 Colonial Classic - Draw Kooyong Classic Col
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Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi ( ; born April 29, 1970) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 101 weeks, including as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 in 1999 ATP Tour, 1999. Agassi won 60 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including eight Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors, completing the List of Grand Slam men's singles champions#Career Grand Slam, Career Grand Slam. He also won an Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Olympic gold medal, the 1990 ATP Tour World Championships – Singles, 1990 ATP Tour World Championships, 17 ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters titles and was part of the winning United States Davis Cup teams in 1990, 1992 and 1995. Agassi is one of eight men in history to win the Career Grand Slam in singles. and one of three men to complete the List of Grand Slam men' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Philippoussis
Mark Anthony Philippoussis (born 7 November 1976) is an Australian tennis coach, commentator and former professional tennis player of Greek and Italian descent. Philippoussis' greatest achievements are winning two Davis Cup titles with Australia Davis Cup team, Australia in 1999 Davis Cup, 1999 and 2003 Davis Cup, 2003, winning the deciding rubber in the final of each. He also reached the final of the 1998 US Open – Men's singles, 1998 US Open and the 2003 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2003 Wimbledon singles tournaments. Philippoussis reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8. Philippoussis has had a minor career in modelling and starred in the American reality television dating show ''Age of Love (TV series), Age of Love''. He is nicknamed 'the Scud', after the Scud, Scud missile. He is also known in Australia as “The Pou”. Background Mark Philippoussis (, ) was born in Melbourne to a Greek father, Nikolaos ("Nick"), and an Italian mother, Ross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Enqvist
Thomas Karl Johan Enqvist (born 13 March 1974) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He reached the final of the 1999 Australian Open and won a total of 19 singles titles, including three Masters titles. He has a career high ATP world singles ranking of No. 4, achieved on 15 November 1999. Tennis career Throughout his career, Enqvist finished four seasons ranked inside the top 10 and won at least one ATP title for six consecutive years. In 1998 he underwent surgery in Stockholm to remove a small piece of bone from his right foot and had surgery on his right shoulder to repair a repetitive strain injury. Despite his surgeries, Enqvist posted some major victories, including wins over world no. 1 Pete Sampras, Juan Carlos Ferrero, and Andy Roddick. Enqvist won a total of 19 singles titles, the most significant being ATP Masters Series titles at Paris (1996), Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov ( rus, Евгений Александрович Кафельников, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈkafʲɪlʲnʲɪkəf, a=Ru-Yevgeny-Kafelnikov.ogg; born 18 February 1974) is a Russian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Kafelnikov won 26 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including two Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors at the 1996 French Open – Men's singles, 1996 French Open and the 1999 Australian Open – Men's singles, 1999 Australian Open, as well as an Olympic gold medal at the Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2000 Sydney Olympics. He also won four major doubles titles (three at the French Open and one at the US Open (tennis), US Open), and is the most recent man to have won both the men's singles and doubles titles at the same major, which he achieved at the 1996 French Open. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player. One of the most successful tennis players of all time, he was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 286 weeks (List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players#Weeks at No. 1, third-most of all time), and finished as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 six consecutive times. Sampras won 64 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including 14 men's singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors, which was an all-time record at the time of his retirement: seven Wimbledon Championships, two Australian Opens and an Open Era joint-record five US Open (tennis), US Opens. He also won five ATP Finals, Tour Finals, two Grand Slam Cups, eleven ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters events, and was part of the winning United States Davis Cup teams in 1992 Davis Cup, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Kiefer
Nicolas Kiefer (; born 5 July 1977) is a German former professional tennis player. He reached the semifinals of the 2006 Australian Open and won a silver medal in men's doubles with partner Rainer Schüttler at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Kiefer's career-high singles ranking was world No. 4, achieved in January 2000. Tennis career 1995–2005 Kiefer was taken notice of as an outstanding junior. He won the Junior Australian Open, the US Open, and was a finalist and semifinalist at Wimbledon and the French Open finishing as the No. 2 junior behind Mariano Zabaleta when he was 18 in 1995. On 10 January 2000, he reached his second quarterfinal at the Australian Open and afterwards was ranked world No. 4, his highest position. Kiefer was known to have some tennis superstitions. He was sometimes seen tapping his racquet on the corners of the court after a point,"Strange Habits of Highly Successful Tennis Players" by Christopher Clarey, 21 June 2008 in ''The New York Times''. and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Krajicek
Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek (; born 6 December 1971) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and tournament director. Krajicek won 17 singles titles during his career, including the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first (and only) Dutchman to win a major singles title. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in March 1999. Retiring from the sport in 2003, Krajicek has been the tournament director of the Rotterdam Open since 2004. He is also the author of various sports books. Personal life Richard Krajicek is the son of Czech immigrants and grew up in The Hague. In primary school, he was in the same class as later professional road bicyle racer Michael Boogerd. In the nineties Krajicek had a relationship with Italian actress and model Lory Del Santo, with whom he had a son who was born prematurely and died of an infection after two weeks of life. In 1999, he married model, writer and hostess of Holland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Ferreira
Wayne Richard Ferreira (born 15 September 1971) is a South African tennis coach and a former professional player. Ferreira won 15 ATP singles titles and 11 doubles titles. His career-high rankings were world No. 6 in singles (in May 1995) and world No. 9 in doubles (in March 2001). Junior career As a junior player, Ferreira was ranked world No. 1 junior doubles player and No. 6 junior singles player. He won the junior doubles title at the US Open in 1989. Professional career Ferreira turned professional in 1989. He won his first ATP doubles title in Adelaide in 1991. 1992 was Ferreira's breakthrough year on the ATP Tour. He started out by reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open. In June he won his first ATP singles title at Queen's Club, London. His second singles title came just a few weeks later at Schenectady, New York. He also teamed-up with compatriot Piet Norval to win the men's doubles silver medal for South Africa at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kooyong Classic
The Kooyong Classic is a professional tennis exhibition singles-only tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It is held annually in January, right before the Australian Open, at the Kooyong Stadium in Kooyong, Melbourne, Australia. Eight invited players participate in the tournament in a promotion/relegation format, playing three matches each over four days to determine the standings from the first place (won all three matches) to the eighth (lost all three matches). Aside from the competition, exhibition matches also take place during the tournament. Competition format The Kooyong Classic draw includes eight invited Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) players, seeded according to the ATP rankings of the week preceding the tournament. Four first round matches are played, after which the four winners advance to the semifinals, while the four losers are relegated to a play-off draw. The two semifinals of the main draw and of the play-off draw are then played, setting fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
