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1999 US Open – Boys' Singles
David Nalbandian was the defending champion, but did not compete this year. Finnish player Jarkko Nieminen defeated Danish first seed Kristian Pless in the all-Nordic final, 6–7, 6–3, 6–4. Seeds # Kristian Pless ''(final)'' # Irakli Labadze ''(quarterfinals)'' # José Acasuso ''(second round)'' # Danai Udomchoke ''(third round)'' # Guillermo Coria ''(second round)'' # Éric Prodon ''(first round)'' # Jarkko Nieminen (champion) # Phillip King ''(quarterfinals)'' # Todor Enev ''(third round)'' # Mardy Fish ''(quarterfinals)'' # Joachim Johansson ''(first round)'' # Nicolas Mahut ''(semifinals)'' # Andy Roddick ''(first round)'' # Maximillian Abel ''(third round)'' # Levar Harper-Griffith ''(third round)'' # Mario Ančić ''(second round)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 ReferencesMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:1999 US Open - Boys' Singles Boys' Singles 1999 1999 was designated as the Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen (born 23 July 1981) is a Finnish former professional tennis player. His highest ranking of world No. 13, achieved in July 2006, is a Finnish record. He has won two ATP singles titles and five doubles titles in his career. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the quarterfinals of the 2005 US Open, the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2008 Australian Open. Statistically Finland's best player to date, Nieminen is also the first and so far only Finnish player to have won an ATP singles title and to have reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam singles event. He is also notable for winning the shortest recorded Masters Tour tennis match in Open Era history, defeating Bernard Tomic in just 28 minutes and 20 seconds in the first round of the 2014 Sony Open Tennis. He was ranked inside the Top 75 11 times in 14 years (2001 to 2014). On 23 June 2015, he announced his retirement from professional tennis at the end of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Benneteau
Julien Henry Guy Benneteau-Desgrois (; born 20 December 1981) is a French retired professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 25 and doubles ranking of No. 5 in November 2014. Benneteau did not win a singles title, although he finished as runner-up in a record 10 ATP tournaments, including holding a match point in the 2013 Kuala Lumpur final. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2006 French Open and the semifinals of the 2014 Cincinnati Masters and 2017 Paris Masters (the latter as a wildcard). Benneteau also had success in doubles, winning the bronze medal in men's doubles at the 2012 London Olympics (partnering Richard Gasquet) and the 2014 French Open men's doubles title with fellow Frenchman Édouard Roger-Vasselin, thus becoming the first team from France to win the men's doubles discipline in 30 years (after Yannick Noah and Henri Leconte won the title in 1984). Benneteau intended to retire from professional tennis after the 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Langre
Daniel Langre (born 7 March 1981) is a Mexican former professional tennis player. Born and raised in Mexico City, Langre was national junior champion in multiple age groups and as a doubles player was a world number six ITF Junior. He played collegiate tennis for the USC Trojans and was a member of the 2002 NCAA Division I championship team. On the professional tour, he won one singles and three doubles titles at ITF Futures level. In 2004, he represented Mexico in a 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 ... tie against Jamaica, winning both his singles and doubles rubber. He made the doubles semi-finals of a 2005 Challenger in Mexico City with his 37-year-old coach Leonardo Lavalle. ITF Futures titles Singles: (1) Doubles: (3) See also * List of Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Berke
Steve Ryan Berke (born 5 May 1981) is a co-founder of the International Church of Cannabis, two-time candidate for mayor of Miami Beach, cannabis activist, rapper, YouTuber, entrepreneur, and former All-American tennis player. As a college tennis player, Berke gained All-America honors and the Ivy League Player of the Year award at Yale University. After sustaining a career-ending injury on the professional tennis tour, Berke turned to medical marijuana as a pain reliever and became a cannabis activist. Moving from stand-up comedy to YouTube, he made several viral videos, most prominently "Pot Shop", a rap parody of "Thrift Shop," which garnered over 15 million views. He was a candidate for mayor of Miami Beach on two occasions, in 2011 and 2013, attracting international media attention with his unorthodox campaigns. He founded Bang Holdings, a digital media company that specializes in cannabis advertising. In 2017, Berke was one of the founders of the International Church of Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timo Nieminen
Timo Nieminen (born 6 October 1981 in Helsinki) is a retired professional Finnish tennis player. He reached his highest ATP Tour singles ranking of World No. 254 in July 2003. Nieminen primarily played on the Futures circuit and the Challenger circuit. He has been a member of the Finland Davis Cup team since 2002, posting a 2–12 record in singles and 0–1 record in doubles in 12 ties. He has no relation to Jarkko Nieminen Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen (born 23 July 1981) is a Finnish former professional tennis player. His highest ranking of world No. 13, achieved in July 2006, is a Finnish record. He has won two ATP singles titles and five doubles titles in his caree .... Tour singles titles - all levels (16) See also * List of Finland Davis Cup team representatives References External links * * * 1981 births Living people Finnish male tennis players Tennis players from Helsinki 21st-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Hammer
Philipp is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: "Philipp" has also been a shortened version of Philippson, a German surname especially prevalent amongst German Jews and Dutch Jews. Surname * Adolf Philipp (1864–1936), German/American actor, composer and playwright * David Philipp (biologist), biologist * David Philipp (footballer) (born 2000), German footballer * Elke Philipp (born 1964), German Paralympic equestrian * Elliot Philipp (1915–2010), British gynaecologist and obstetrician * Franz Philipp (1890–1972), German church musician and composer * Hans Philipp (1917–1943), German fighter ace during WW II * Julius Philipp (1878–1944), German metal trader * Lutz Philipp (1940–2012), German long-distance runner * Maximilian Philipp (born 1994), German footballer * Oscar Philipp (1882–1965), German and British metal trader * Paul Philipp (born 1950), Luxembourgian football player and manager * Peter Philipp (1971–2014), German wri ... [...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] |
Jhonnatan Medina-Álvarez
Jhonnatan Medina-Álvarez (born 12 January 1982) is a Venezuelan former professional tennis player. A left-handed player from Caracas, Medina competed mostly in ITF Futures events, with the occasional appearance on the ATP Challenger Tour. He featured in the qualifying draw for an ATP Tour tournament in Delray Beach Open, Delray Beach in 2005. His career high singles ranking of 370 in the world was attained in 2007. Between 2001 and 2009, Medina appeared in 13 Davis Cup ties, from which he won eight singles rubbers. Medina, the winner of two bronze medals at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games, also represented Venezuela at both the 2003 Pan American Games and 2007 Pan American Games. Based in the United States since 2007, Medina became an American citizen in 2016 and is currently the Director of Tennis at Longwood University. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Medina-Álvarez, Jhonnatan 1982 births Living people Venezuelan male tennis players Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Yeu-tzuoo
Wang Yeu-tzuoo (), who also goes by Jimmy Wang, (born February 8, 1985) is a Taiwanese former professional tennis player. Until the emergence of Lu Yen-hsun, Wang was the highest ranked player from Taiwan. The right-hander stands 5 feet 10 inches and weighs 141 pounds. Wang's trademark look is his wearing a white baseball cap backwards. Tennis career Juniors Wang started playing tennis at age seven and quickly emerged as one of Asia's most highly touted junior players. He made the final of the 2001 Australian Open Boys' Singles (losing to Janko Tipsarević) and the final of the US Open Boys' Singles (losing to Gilles Müller). As a junior, he compiled a 136–52 win–loss record in singles (and 78–57 in doubles), reaching as high as No. 3 in the world junior singles rankings in April 2001 (and No. 8 in doubles). Junior Slam results – Singles: Australian Open: F (2001) French Open: 1R (2000, 2001) Wimbledon: SF (2001) US Open: F (2001) Pro tour Wang turned pro in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorke Allen
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Vitali Chvets
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Tomer Suissa
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