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1996 Abierto Mexicano De Tenis – Singles
Thomas Muster was the defending champion and won in the final 7–6(7–3), 6–2 against Jiří Novák. Seeds # Thomas Muster (champion) # Andrea Gaudenzi ''(quarterfinals)'' # Jiří Novák ''(final)'' # Javier Frana ''(quarterfinals)'' # Francisco Clavet ''(semifinals)'' # Javier Sánchez ''(quarterfinals)'' # Fernando Meligeni Fernando Ariel Meligeni (born 12 April 1971), nicknamed ''Fininho'' (diminutive form in Portuguese for ''thin''), is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. He won three singles (and 7 doubles) titles and reached the semifinals of both t ... ''(semifinals)'' # Félix Mantilla ''(second round)'' Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References External links 1996 Abierto Mexicano de Tenis draw {{DEFAULTSORT:1996 Abierto Mexicano de Tenis 1996 ATP Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Muster
Thomas Muster (born 2 October 1967) is an Austrian 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). Muster won 44 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 1995 French Open – Men's singles, 1995 French Open and eight ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters titles. One of the world's leading clay court players in the 1990s, at his peak he was called "The King of Clay". He is the first Austrian to win a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles title, followed by Dominic Thiem at the 2020 US Open – Men's singles, 2020 US Open. Tennis career Juniors Muster first came to prominence when he reached the final of the French Open junior tournament and the Orange Bowl (tennis), Orange Bowl juniors tournament in 1985. Pro tour Muster played his first matches at the top-level in 1984, as a junior player, at the age of 16. In 1984, he played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuno Marques
Nuno Miguel Bacelar de Vasconcelos Marques (born 9 April 1970) is a Portuguese people, Portuguese former tennis player. He was the first Portuguese to reach the top 100 ATP rankings and held the record of highest ranked Portuguese player in history until Frederico Gil surpassed him in 2009. Also, he was the highest ranked Portuguese doubles player in history reaching a career high of no. 58 until 2019, when he was surpassed by João Sousa. Career finals Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up) Singles performance timeline Awards *2013 – List of Portugal Davis Cup team representatives#ITF Commitment Award, ITF Commitment Award References External links * * * 1970 births Living people Olympic tennis players for Portugal Portuguese male tennis players Portuguese tennis coaches Sportspeople from Porto Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics 20th-century Portuguese sportsmen 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen {{Portugal-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Campbell (tennis)
Steve Campbell (born October 22, 1970) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Career Campbell grew up in Michigan where he attended Detroit Catholic Central High School, winning individual state championships all four years along with back-to-back team state championships. He was an All-American while at Rice University. At the 1989 Boys' Junior National Tennis Championship, he lost in the 1st round of the Boys' 18 singles, but he and Rick Witsken reached the finals of the Boys' 18 doubles, falling to Cary Lothringer and Brian MacPhie. He made his Grand Slam debut at the 1995 Australian Open and defeated countryman Chuck Adams in the opening encounter, before losing his second round match to Patrick Rafter. The American pushed veteran Mats Wilander to five sets in the US Open but he would have to wait until the 1998 Australian Open for his second win. In that tournament he beat both Justin Gimelstob and Alex O'Brien to make it into the third round, his b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Petchey
Mark Rodney James Petchey (born 1 August 1970) is a former tennis player from England, who turned professional in 1988. He now works as a tennis commentator and analyst for Amazon Prime, ITV Network, ITV, the BBC, the Tennis Channel, Tennis Australia and others. Personal life Petchey was educated at Forest School, Walthamstow, Forest School, a private school in north-east London. His first coach was his father, Rod. Mark married Michelle on 5 July 1996 in Warwickshire: they have two daughters, Nicole and Myah. Tennis career Juniors Junior Slam results: Australian Open: - French Open: 1R (1988 French Open#Boys' singles, 1988) Wimbledon: 2R (1988 Wimbledon Championships#Boys' Singles, 1988) US Open: 3R (1987 US Open (tennis)#Boys' Singles, 1987) Pro tour The right-hander won one doubles title (1996 Nottingham Open – Doubles, Nottingham in 1996) in his career. He reached his career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of World No. 80 in August 1994, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Shelton
Bryan Shelton (born December 22, 1965) is an American former college tennis coach and former professional tennis player. During his playing career, he won two singles and two doubles ATP tour titles, and reached the mixed doubles final at the 1992 French Open, partnering Lori McNeil. Shelton played collegiately for Georgia Tech from 1985 to 1988, and then played professionally from 1989 to 1997. He subsequently returned to his alma mater to coach the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's tennis team, which won the NCAA Women's Tennis Championship in 2007. He then served as the head coach of the Florida Gators men's tennis team of the University of Florida, where he coached the Gators to winning the 2021 NCAA Championship. He is the only head coach to have won a national championship in both men and women's NCAA Division I Tennis. In 2023, Shelton retired from collegiate coaching to coach his son, Ben Shelton, for the latter's professional career. The younger Shelton has also be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Rincón
Mario Rincón (born 13 December 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Colombia. Career Rincon completed his education in the United States and was an NCAA All-American at the University of Kentucky. After making his way through qualifying, Rincon played David Engel in the opening round of the 1990 US Open. He was beaten in straight sets. His best performances on the ATP Tour all came at his home event, the Colombia Open. He made the second round in 1994 and 1997, managing a win over world number 47 Marcelo Filippini in the later. In the doubles he was a semi-finalist in 1995, with Fernando Meligeni as his partner. Rincon appeared in nine Davis Cup ties for Colombia during his career, playing 18 matches, of which he won five. He is a former head coach of the Miami Hurricanes The Miami Hurricanes, known informally as The U, UM, or The 'Canes, are the intercollegiate sports teams that represent the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The Hurricanes co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Montana
Francisco Montana (born November 5, 1969) is a former professional 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 st ... player from the United States. He turned into a professional in 1990. He reached his career high doubles ranking, world No. 13, on July 8, 1998. Montana reached his career high singles ranking, world No.100, on May 4, 1992. Performance timelines Singles Doubles ATP Career Finals Doubles: 17 (10 titles, 7 runner-ups) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 3 (0–3) Doubles: 19 (12–7) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Montana, Francisco 1969 births Living people American male tennis players Georgia Bulldogs men's tennis players Tennis players from Miami 20th-century American sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Fontang
Frédéric Fontang (; born 18 March 1970) is a coach and a former professional tennis player from France. Career A successful junior, Fontang won the Petits As in 1984 and was the French 16s champion in 1986. Fontang had his best year on tour in 1991 when he reached two ATP Tour finals. He was runner-up in the San Marino Open and won a tournament in Palermo. The following year he reached the quarterfinals at Palermo and was also a quarterfinalist in the Estoril Open. At these tournaments he had wins over three top 40 players, Franco Davín, Javier Sánchez and Fabrice Santoro. Fontang took part in seven French Opens but didn't register a win until his final attempt, in 1997, when he defeated Patrik Fredriksson in the opening round. Coaching He later became the coach of Jérémy Chardy and remained with him for 12 years. During this time Chardy won the 2005 Wimbledon Championships Boys' Singles title, won ATP 250 title in Stuttgart and reached the fourth round of the Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás Lapentti
Nicolás Alexander Lapentti Gómez (; born 13 August 1976) is an Ecuadorian former professional tennis player. Lapentti was ranked world No. 6 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in April 2000. His brothers, Giovanni and Leonardo, uncle Andrés, and cousins Roberto and Emilio have also been professional tennis players. His father, also named Nicolás Lapentti, was a star basketball player at the College (now University) of St. Thomas in Minnesota from 1963 to 1967, and played on the Ecuador Olympic team. Beginnings Lapentti began playing tennis at the age of six. He first came to the tennis world's attention an outstanding junior player who won the Orange Bowl in Florida in 1994, when he also captured the junior doubles titles at the French Open (partnering with Gustavo Kuerten) and the US Open. Professional Lapentti turned professional in 1995 and won his first top-level singles title later that year at Bogotá. In 1999, Lapentti was a sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Vitoux (tennis)
Frédéric Vitoux (born 30 October 1970) is a former professional tennis player from France. He is a member of the Union nationale des joueurs professionnels de tennis (UNJPT), and part of the "after-tennis" committee of the DTN (Direction technique nationale) of the Fédération Française De Tennis (FFT). Vitoux made his Grand Slam debut in the 1990 French Open and was beaten in the opening round by Soviet player Andrei Cherkasov. He made two further French Open appearances and was eliminated in the first round again in each, to Michael Chang and Andrei Medvedev. The Frenchman qualified for the US Open in 1996 and registered his first ever Grand Slam win when he accounted for fellow qualifier Ramón Delgado in the opening round. He was then eliminated in the second round by David Wheaton in four sets. It wasn't until 1994 that he appeared in an ATP Tour event that wasn't a Grand Slam. He made the second round of the 1996 Abierto Mexicano de Tenis tournament in Mexico City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Morejón
Luis Adrián Morejón (born 28 March 1973) is a former tennis player from Ecuador who turned professional in 1991. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round by Uruguay's Marcelo Filippini Marcelo Filippini (born 4 August 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Uruguay. In 1996, Filippini played what was longest known game in ATP Tour history at Casablanca, going to deuce 20 times with Alberto Berasategui in one game o .... The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 24 June 1996, when he became the number 122 in the world. External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morejon, Luis 1973 births Living people Ecuadorian male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Ecuador Tennis players from Guayaquil Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics People from Aventura, Florida Sportspeople from Miami-Dade County, Florida South American Games medalists in tennis South A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Luis Rascon
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philippines, and also in the Isle of Man (pronounced differently). The name is becoming popular around the world and can be pronounced differently according that region. In Spanish, the diminutive form (equivalent to ''Johnny'') is , with feminine form (comparable to ''Jane'', ''Joan'', or ''Joanna'') , and feminine diminutive (equivalent to ''Janet'', ''Janey'', ''Joanie'', etc.). Chinese terms * ( or 娟, 隽) 'beautiful, graceful' is a common given name for Chinese women. * () The Chinese character 卷, which in Mandarin is almost homophonic with the characters for the female name, is a division of a traditional Chinese manuscript or book and can be translated as 'fascicle', 'scroll', 'chapter', or 'volume'. Notable people * Juan (foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
