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2007 Monte Carlo Masters – Doubles
Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi were the defending champions, but lost in quarterfinals to Julien Benneteau and Richard Gasquet. Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final 6–2, 6–1, against Julien Benneteau and Richard Gasquet. Seeds All seeds In botany, a seed is a plant structure containing an embryo and stored nutrients in a protective coat called a ''testa''. More generally, the term "seed" means anything that can be sown, which may include seed and husk or tuber. Seeds are the ... receive a bye into the second round. Draw Finals Top half Bottom half External linksDraw {{DEFAULTSORT:2007 Monte Carlo Masters - Doubles Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Bryan
Robert "Bob" Charles Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all time, Bryan was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's doubles for 438 weeks (List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, second-most of all time), and finished as the List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, year-end No. 1 eight times. Bryan won 126 ATP Tour-level doubles titles, including 23 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors: 16 in men's doubles and seven in mixed doubles. Alongside his twin brother Mike Bryan, Mike, the Bryan brothers were one of the most successful doubles partnerships in tennis history. The pair were named the ATP Team of the Decade for the 2000s. They became the second men's doubles team to complete the Grand Slam (tennis)#Golden Slam, career Golden Slam at the Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Knowle
Julian Knowle (born 29 April 1974) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. Being a born left-hander, Knowle was one of the few on the ATP Tour who played his forehand, backhand, and even volleys double-handed. He was Austria's most successful doubles player in history by reaching world No. 6 in the ATP doubles rankings in January 2008, before being matched by Jürgen Melzer, who reached No. 6 in September 2010, and overtaken only by Alexander Peya, who reached No. 3 in August 2013. Tennis career Knowle was a successful player on the ATP Challenger Series, winning the Challenger tournaments in Kyoto (1999), Caracas (2001), Graz (2001), and Andrezieux (2002), and reaching the finals in Yokohama (2000), Bristol (2000), Besançon (2000), and Graz (2003). He also won several Futures tournaments. Knowle's best ATP singles ranking was world no. 86 in July 2002. His final appearance in the main draw of a singles tournament was in the Graz Challenger in 2005 where he reached ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomáš Berdych
Tomáš Berdych (; born 17 September 1985) is a Czech former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in May 2015. Berdych won 13 ATP Tour singles titles, including the 2005 Paris Masters. His most notable achievement was reaching the final of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, achieved by consecutively upsetting top seed and six-time champion Roger Federer in the quarterfinals, and No. 3 Novak Djokovic in the semifinals. Berdych reached the semifinals of all four majors. Berdych was one of the few players who could consistently challenge the Big Four, and is one of three players (alongside Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Stan Wawrinka) to defeat all the Big Four in major events. He is the second player (after David Nalbandian) to defeat Roger Federer multiple times at majors before the semifinal stage. As well as his Paris Masters win, Berdych reached the finals of the Miami Masters in 2010, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Ljubičić
Ivan Ljubičić (; born 19 March 1979) is a Croatian former professional tennis player, coach and Tennis TV commentator. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 3 singles ranking on 1 May 2006. His career highlights include reaching a major semifinal at the 2006 French Open, and a Masters title at the Indian Wells Masters in 2010. He also contested three other Masters finals, two in 2005 at Madrid and Paris, and the other at the 2006 Miami Open. Since retiring, Ljubičić has coached ATP top-3-ranked players Milos Raonic and Roger Federer. He was credited with Federer's improved backhand later in his career, especially evident on high shots, as well as introducing tactical changes of taking shots much earlier: taking more time, pace, and rhythm off opponents and simultaneously making Federer's game more offensive. Tennis career Ljubičić turned pro in 1998. During his career, he achieved his best results in indoor tournaments played on ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando González
Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi (; born 29 July 1980) is a Chilean former professional tennis player. During his career, he reached at least the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major tournaments. He contested his only major final at the 2007 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2007 Australian Open, losing to top-seeded Roger Federer. González is the fourth man in history to have won an Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Olympic tennis medal in every color, with gold in doubles and bronze in singles at Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens 2004, and silver in singles at Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing 2008. The gold medal that González won partnering Nicolás Massú at the Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles, 2004 Olympics in men's doubles was Chile at the Olympics, Chile's first-ever Olympic gold medal. During his career, González defeated many top players, including Lleyton Hewitt, Andre Agassi, Federer (all while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (tennis)
James Joseph Thomas (born September 24, 1974) is an American politician and former professional tennis player serving as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 49th district since 2023. As a tennis player, Thomas' highest ATP world singles ranking was 288, which he reached on November 2, 1998. His career high in doubles was at 29, set on August 21, 2006. He retired following the 2008 season. Thomas was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party in the 2022 Ohio House of Representatives election. Biography Thomas was born on September 24, 1974 in Canton, Ohio, the youngest of six children. He began playing tennis at age 3 and his favorite players growing up included John McEnroe and Boris Becker. Thomas earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Stanford University in 1996. At Stanford, Thomas was a member of the tennis team where he earned All-American honors during his senior year and was a member of NCAA team c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Fisher
Ashley Fisher (born 25 September 1975) is a professional tennis player who comes from New South Wales in Australia. Fisher turned professional in 1998. Fisher has never played a major singles match on the ATP Tour, but has won four notable doubles titles on tour. The doubles specialist reached his highest doubles ranking of World Number 19 on 22 June 2009. He has reached the 2006 U.S. Open men's doubles semi-finals. Fisher is currently the head coach of the University of South Florida men's tennis team. Career Before turning professional, Fisher played college tennis at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was a two time All-American for the Horned Frogs. Fisher also reached the 2006 U.S. Open men's doubles semifinals alongside Tripp Phillips, where they lost to Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi, 6–1, 6–4. Fisher and Nikolay Davydenko were Wimbledon men's doubles quarterfinalists in 2004, where they lost to Jonas Björkman and Todd Woodbridge. He ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomé Salvá Vidal
Bartolomé "Tomeu" Salvá Vidal (born 20 November 1986 in Cala Millor, Mallorca, Balearic Islands) is a Spanish tennis coach and former player. At the 2007 Torneo Godó, held in Barcelona, Spain, Salvá and Rafael Nadal made it to the final, defeating Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram (both ranked 13) and Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor (both ranked fifth) in straight sets on both occasions. In the last round Alexander Waske and Andrei Pavel Andrei Pavel (born 27 January 1974) is a Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 and won three titles, including the 2001 Canada Masters. He also reached a care ... defeated them 6–3, 7–6(1). ATP Tour finals Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) ATP Challenger Tour finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) References External links * * 1986 births Living people Tennis players from the Balearic Islands Spanish male tennis players Sportspeople from Mallorca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish 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) for 209 weeks, and finished as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 five times. Nadal won 92 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including 22 List of Grand Slam men's singles champions#Champions list, major titles (among which a Rafael Nadal at the French Open, record 14 French Open titles), as well as 36 ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters titles and an Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Olympic gold medal. Nadal is one of three men to complete the List of Grand Slam men's singles champions#Career Golden Slam, career Golden Slam in singles. His Rafael Nadal career statistics#81 match win streak on clay courts, 81 consecutive wins on clay constitute the longest single-surface win streak in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Ignacio Chela
Juan Ignacio Chela (; born 30 August 1979), nicknamed as "El Flaco" or "Liliano," is a tennis coach and former professional player from Argentina. Chela was given a three-month ban from the professional tour in 2001 for failing a drugs test. Post-doping ban, Chela went on to reach the quarterfinals of the 2004 and 2011 French Open, and the 2007 US Open, attaining a career-high singles ranking of world No. 15 in August 2004. Career 2000–2001: Failed drugs test and doping suspension In April 2001, Chela was found to have failed a routine drugs test (in August 2000) – testing positive for the banned steroid methyltestosterone – and was given a three-month ban, as well as being made to forfeit all prize money and ranking points accumulated over the previous eight months since testing positive. 2004 In February, he reached the quarterfinals in Salvador, defeating Flávio Saretta and David Ferrer, before falling to Agustín Calleri, 3–6, 6–3, 3–6. He won in doubles at V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Acasuso
José Javier "Chucho" Acasuso (; born 20 October 1982) is a tennis coach and a former professional player from Argentina. Like many of his fellow countrymen, he favoured clay. He was known for his strong serve and his hard groundstrokes off both sides. He won three ATP Tour singles titles. In doubles, Acasuso together with Sebastián Prieto, won four titles: in 2005 in Stuttgart and also in Bucharest, and in 2006 and 2008 in Viña Del Mar. He also won a doubles title partnering Flávio Saretta at the Croatia Open Umag in 2004. Early years Acasuso began playing tennis at the age of two, when his father took his brother and sister to his grandfather's tennis club. Reportedly, he got the nickname of "Chucho" from the fact that, when he was a child, he used to say his name was "José Acachucho." Acasuso played both basketball and tennis up until the age of 12, and then gave up basketball for tennis. Career Acasuso turned professional in 2000, playing futures and challeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona (; born 15 November 1983) is a Spaniards, Spanish tennis coach and a former professional player. He was ranked world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, achieved in April 2009, and world No. 8 in men's doubles, achieved in November 2013. Verdasco won seven singles titles on the ATP Tour, and reached a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles semifinal at the 2009 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2009 Australian Open. He also won eight Doubles tennis, doubles titles, including the 2013 ATP World Tour Finals – Doubles, 2013 ATP World Tour Finals partnering David Marrero. In singles, Verdasco was a finalist at the 2010 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters – Singles, 2010 Monte-Carlo Masters, reached the quarterfinals twice at the US Open (tennis), US Open in 2009 and 2010, and reached the quarterfinals at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships, where he led eventual champion And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
