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1997 Shanghai Open – Doubles
Mark Knowles and Roger Smith (tennis), Roger Smith were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Ctislav Doseděl and Ján Krošlák. Max Mirnyi and Kevin Ullyett won in the final 7–6, 6–7, 7–5 against Tomas Nydahl and Stefano Pescosolido. Seeds Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. # Mark Knowles / Roger Smith (tennis), Roger Smith ''(quarterfinals)'' # David Ekerot / Jeff Tarango ''(quarterfinals)'' # Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes ''(quarterfinals)'' # Bill Behrens / Brian MacPhie ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw External links ATP draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Doubles Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open 1997 ATP Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Knowles
Mark Knowles (born 4 September 1971) is a Bahamians, Bahamian former professional tennis player and coach. He is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles tennis, doubles. He won three of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments in men's doubles, partnering with Daniel Nestor, as well as The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in mixed doubles. At various times between 2002 and 2005 he was ranked List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles players, World No. 1 in doubles. He is a five-time Olympian. Career Junior and college career After being awarded a scholarship to the Nick Bollettieri's famed academy at 10 years old, Knowles played junior tennis in his early years. His best singles performance came at the 1989 US Open (tennis), 1989 Junior US Open with a quarterfinal appearance and his best doubles performance came at the 1989 French Open#Boys' Doubles, 1989 Junior French Open with a final appearance partnering Luis Herrera (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyal Ran
Eyal Ran (; born 21 November 1972) is an Israeli former professional tennis player and former captain of the Israel Davis Cup team. His career high ATP ranking in singles was 138 (21 April 1997), and in doubles it was 71 (11 October 1999). Early life Ran was born in Qiryat Ono, Israel, and is Jewish. His father emigrated to Israel from Romania. Tennis career Ran trained at Israel Tennis Centers. He turned pro in 1992. In August 1993 he upset Jonas Svensson of Sweden, ranked # 37 in the world, in Long Island, New York, 6–1, 6–3. After playing at the Australian Open in 1996 and 1997 in the singles competition (he lost in the 2nd round both years), Ran played in his first doubles Grand Slam in 1999, reaching the 2nd round at the French Open (he lost in the first round at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open). The following year, he played doubles in all four Grand Slam events, reaching the 2nd round at Wimbledon, but losing in the first round of the other three tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Joyce (tennis)
Michael T. Joyce (born February 1, 1973) is an American coach and former tennis player. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 64 in April 1996. Tennis career Juniors Joyce and then-friend Erik Menendez entered the 1989 Boys' Junior National Tennis Championship, shortly before Erik and his brother Lyle murdered their parents. Joyce beat Ian Williams in the 1st round of the Boys' 18 singles but lost to Jonathan Stark in the quarterfinals. He reached the finals of the Wimbledon Boys' event in 1991, losing to Thomas Enqvist. Professional tennis player On the professional tour, he won 3 Challenger events and reached the 4th round of the 1995 Wimbledon Championships defeating Marc Rosset, Jordi Burillo and Chris Wilkinson, before being defeated by Shuzo Matsuoka. He won the men's singles in the Ojai Tennis Tournament in 2004. Pat Rafter, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Jim Courier, and Michael Chang were among those Joyce beat. He was 46–67 overall, goi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Gimelstob
Justin Jeremy Gimelstob (born January 26, 1977) is a retired American tennis player. Gimelstob has been a resident of Morristown, New Jersey, and as of 2009 lived in Santa Monica, California. He was the top-ranked boy in his age group at the ages of 12, 14, 16, and 18. As a pro, he made the final of the Newport Tournament in singles and has 15 doubles championships to his name, including the 1998 Australian Open and 1998 French Open mixed doubles titles with Venus Williams. He was twice a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team. In singles matches, he defeated Andre Agassi, Petr Korda, Àlex Corretja, Pat Rafter, and Gustavo Kuerten. His career singles record was 107–172. His highest career singles ranking was No. 63 in 1999, and his highest career doubles ranking was No. 18 in 2000. Gimelstob most recently coached American John Isner. Tennis career Juniors Gimelstob had one of the most successful junior tennis careers in American junior tennis history. He started playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sargis Sargsian
Sargis Sargsian (, born 3 June 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Armenia. Sargsian turned pro in 1995, and finished 8 seasons in the top 100 ATP year-end rankings. During his career he won one singles and two doubles titles on the ATP Tour. He played for Armenia at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics, in Atlanta he reached second round, but in Sydney he lost in first round. Sargsian also played at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He reached career-high rankings of World No. 38 in singles and World No. 33 in doubles during 2004. Sargsian retired in 2006. After his career he settled in Florida but moved to Prague, Czech Republic Prague ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 m ... several years ago where he started a tennis program for high-performance players. ATP career fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Kinnear
Kent Kinnear (born November 30, 1966) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Kinnear enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won four doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 15 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 24 in 1992. Career finals Doubles (4 wins, 15 losses) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinnear, Kent 1966 births Living people American male tennis players Clemson Tigers men's tennis players Sportspeople from Naperville, Illinois Tennis players from Illinois 20th-century American sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás Pereira
Nicolás Pereira (born September 29, 1970) is a commentator for the Tennis Channel and former professional tennis player, who became the ITF Junior World Champion in 1988 after winning the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Professional career In the fall of 1988, Pereira registered wins on the pro tour against Brad Gilbert and Amos Mansdorf. He finished 1988 ranked No. 151 in the world rankings. In April 1989, Pereira reached the quarterfinals of the Japan Open, defeating No. 21 ranked Andrés Gómez before losing to No. 1 ranked Ivan Lendl. In June, he defeated world No. 3 Stefan Edberg in straight sets in the first round of the Queens Club grass-court tournament. A few weeks later, in the first round of Wimbledon, he took eventual semifinalist Lendl to five sets before losing. Later that summer, he reached the quarterfinals of the Grand Prix event in Montreal, the Canadian Open. There he beat No. 10 ranked Tim Mayotte, then lost to No. 14 ranked Jay Berger. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Black
Wayne Hamilton Black (born 17 November 1973) is a tennis coach and a former professional player from Zimbabwe. Black turned professional in 1994 and reached his highest singles ranking of No. 69 on 30 March 1998. He is the son of former player Don Black, the younger brother of fellow ATP Tour player Byron Black, with the pair forming the mainstay of the Zimbabwe Davis Cup team for over a decade. He is coaching Estonian player Mark Lajal since 2024. Black struggled for consistency in his singles game and by the new millennium had converted to a doubles specialist, in which he experienced greater success. He won two men's doubles Grand Slam titles at the 2001 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open with compatriot Kevin Ullyett, as well as two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles at the 2002 French Open and 2004 Wimbledon with sister Cara Black. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of 4 on 31 January 2005, following his second Grand Slam title win, and retired from professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Steven
Brett Andrew Steven (born 27 April 1969) is a former New Zealand tennis player. Biography Steven began his tennis career at the age of 10 as a ball boy and by the age of 16 he participated at his first tournament. He attended Mount Roskill Grammar School. Steven turned professional in 1988 and won his first tour doubles title in 1991 at Newport, Rhode Island. Steven's best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1993 Australian Open, where he reached the quarterfinals, defeating Dave Randall, Thomas Muster, Andrei Olhovskiy and Richard Fromberg before being knocked out by Pete Sampras. At Masters level, he reached the quarterfinals of the 1993 Canada Masters and the 1998 Rome Masters. Steven represented New Zealand at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he lost in the first round to Arnaud Boetsch of France. Steven won nine top-level doubles titles during his career, the most significant of which was the Indian Wells Masters, which he won in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Olhovskiy
Andrei Stanislavovich Olhovskiy (; ; born 15 April 1966) is a former tennis player from Russia, who turned professional in 1989. Career Olhovskiy represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and Russia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he reached the quarterfinals as a wild card before falling to Brazil's Fernando Meligeni. The right-hander won two career titles in singles (Copenhagen, 1993 and Shanghai, 1996) and 20 titles in doubles, French Open (1993) and Australian Open (1994) champion in mixed doubles. Olhovskiy reached his highest ATP singles ranking on 14 June 1993, when he became world No. 49, and his highest doubles ranking of No. 6 (31 July 1995). He played for the Russia Davis Cup team from 1983 to 2001. He defeated No. 1 seed Jim Courier in the third round of Wimbledon in 1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Jav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Flach
Doug Flach (born August 10, 1970) is a former tennis player from the United States. Flach won two doubles titles during his career. The right-hander reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on March 21, 1994, when he reached World No. 108. He defeated Andre Agassi (seeded third) in the first round at Wimbledon in 1996 but lost in the third round. He also defeated Agassi in 1997 at Washington, D.C. Additionally, Flach had career wins over Ivan Lendl, Pat Rafter, Gustavo Kuerten, and Thomas Johansson. Flach won two doubles titles: one with Paul Annacone and the other with Sandon Stolle. He retired in 1999. Flach was an All-American at the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (or The University of Tennessee; UT; UT Knoxville; or colloquially UTK or Tennessee) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United St ... in 1990. His older brother Ken was a prominent tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuzo Matsuoka
is a retired Japanese professional tennis player, sports commentator, entertainer, and motivational speaker. A former Wimbledon quarter-finalist, Matsuoka won one singles title during his career, in Seoul in 1992. In the same year, he reached a career-high ranking of world No. 46. After his tennis career, he became known online for a series of short motivational videos, some edited by fans. Professional career Matsuoka turned professional in 1986. In 1989, he finished runner-up in the top-level tournament at Wellington, and captured the doubles title in Auckland. 1991 saw Matsuoka achieve his career-best Masters result, when he reached the quarter-finals of the 1991 Canada Masters in Montreal, beating Michael Chang in a dramatic 3-set battle en route. In 1992, Matsuoka became the first Japanese player to win a singles event on the ATP Tour when he captured the title in Seoul. He was also runner-up at the prestigious grass court tournament at Queen's Club that year, beating G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
