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Albert Chang
Albert Chang (born 27 February 1971) is a Canadian former professional tour tennis player. Chang reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 140 in September 1995 and won two Challenger tournaments. He also played Davis Cup for Canada. Chang was Canada's national junior champion in 1988 and played collegiately at Harvard University, graduating with a degree in biology in 1992. He joined the pro tour in November of the same year, and won his first round match in each of his first three Challengers in singles while in doubles he reached the second round (i.e. the quarter-finals) in his first two events – Halifax and Launceston – while in the third he reached the semi-finals. In just his fifth Challenger, Chang reached the final, of the Vancouver Challenger, and lost it to Kenny Thorne. Chang, a native in Calgary, took the singles title at the Celle Challenger, in February 1994. Two months later he won a couple of doubles titles, while partnering a couple of doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Metro Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over , and the fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year. In doubles, a Grand Slam may be achieved as a team or as an individual with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a "non-calendar-year Grand Slam", while winning the four majors at any point during the course of a career is known as a "Career Grand Slam". The term Grand Slam is also attributed to the Grand Slam tournaments, referred to as Majors, and they are the world's four most important annual professional tennis tournaments. They offer the most ranking points, prize money, public and media attention, the greatest strength and size of the field and, in recent years, the longest matches for men (best of five sets, best of three for the women). The tournaments are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), rather than the separate men's and women's tour orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuela Davis Cup Team
The Venezuela national tennis team represents Venezuela in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Federación Venezolana de Tenis. Venezuela currently compete in the Americas Zone Group I. They have never competed in the World Group, but reached the Play-offs in 1995 and 2002. History Venezuela competed in its first Davis Cup in 1957. Current team (2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...) * Ricardo Rodríguez-Pace * Juan José Bianchi * Rafael Abdul Salam * Ignacio Martinez See also * Davis Cup * Venezuela Fed Cup team External links * Davis Cup teams Davis Cup Tennis in Venezuela, Davis Cup {{Venezuela-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimy Szymanski
Jimy Szymanski Ottaviano (born September 15, 1975, in Caracas) is a former tennis player from Venezuela. He reached his highest junior world ranking of no. 1 in the world in summer 1993. He reached finals in Wimbledon Juniors 1993 and won the Italian Junior world championship in Bonfiglio Milano in 1993. He won the Junior Orange Bowl in doubles in 1993 and finished no. 3 in the juniors world ranking in 1993. He turned professional in 1994 and reached his highest singles ATP ranking on November 15, 1999, at no. 160. He played in the ATP tour for more than 10 years and had wins over Fernando González, Nicolás Lapentti, James Blake, Félix Mantilla, Olivier Rochus, Goran Ivanišević, Nicolás Pereira, Horst Skoff, Nuno Marques, Franco Squillari, Jaime Oncins, and Sébastien Lareau. Szymanski represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and in 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney. As a coach, he worked with Milagros Sequera, Maria Kirilenko, Nadia Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelowna
Kelowna ( ) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan, Okanagan Valley in the British Columbia Interior, southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from the Okanagan language, Okanagan word ', referring to a grizzly bear. Kelowna is the province's third-largest Greater Kelowna, metropolitan area (after Greater Vancouver, Vancouver and Greater Victoria, Victoria). It is the List of municipalities in British Columbia, seventh-largest municipality in BC and the largest in the Interior. It is the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, 20th-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city proper encompasses , and the Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan area, census metropolitan area . Kelowna's population in 2025 is 165,907 in the city proper. Nearby communities include the City of West Kelowna (also referred to as Westbank and Westside) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Drada
Carlos Drada (born Feb 9 1975) is a Colombian former professional tennis player. Drada, a left-handed player from Cali, represented the Colombia Davis Cup team in two ties, against Canada in 1995 and the Bahamas in 2000. His only ATP Tour main draw appearance came at the 1996 Colombia Open, where he lost in the first round to Gastón Etlis in three sets. He had a best singles ranking of 607 in the world. Now living in the United States, Drada was a collegiate tennis player for the University of Kentucky. During his junior year he had a win over James Blake, then the top-ranked college player. He finished runner-up to Alex Kim in the 2000 NCAA singles championship, despite going into the tournament unseeded. In the semi-finals he again defeated the top ranked player in Jeff Morrison Jeffrey Alan Morrison (born February 4, 1979) is a retired American professional tennis player. Morrison was the last American male left in the singles draw at Wimbledon in 2002, going on to def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombia Davis Cup Team
The Colombia men's national tennis team represents Colombia in the Davis Cup and is governed by the Federación Colombiana de Tenis. Colombia currently competes in the David Cup Finals, formerly known as the World Group. In 2018, they have reached the Play-offs to the World Group for the sixth time. For the first time in its history, Colombia advanced to the World Group, winning 4–0 to Sweden in the Play-off in 2019 Davis Cup. History Colombia competed in its first Davis Cup in 1959 Davis Cup. Current team (2024) * Daniel Elahi Galán (singles) * Nicolás Mejía (singles) * Adrià Soriano Barrera (singles) * Nicolás Barrientos (doubles) * Cristian Rodríguez (doubles) Results See also *Davis Cup * Colombia Fed Cup team References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Colombia Davis Cup Team Davis Cup teams Davis Cup Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Canadian Open (tennis)
The 1994 Canadian Open and the 1994 Matinée Ltd. - Canadian Open were tennis tournaments played on Tennis court#Hard courts, outdoor hard courts. It was the 105th edition of the Canada Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series, ATP Super 9 of the 1994 ATP Tour, and of the WTA Tier I Events, Tier I Series of the 1994 WTA Tour. The men's event took place at the National Tennis Centre (Canada), National Tennis Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from July 25 through July 31, 1994, and the women's event at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from August 15 through August 21, 1994. Finals Men's singles Andre Agassi defeated Jason Stoltenberg 6–4, 6–4 * It was Agassi's 2nd title of the year, and his 21st overall. It was his 1st Masters title of the year and his 3rd overall. It was also his 2nd win in Canada after winning in 1992 Canadian Open, 1992. Women's singles Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated Steffi Graf 7–5, 1–6, 7–6(7–4) * It was Sánchez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Gyetko
Brian Gyetko, a native of Welland, Ontario, (born January 26, 1968) is a Canadian professional tennis player. As a junior player in 1985, Gyetko was ranked 18th in final International Tennis Federation world rankings and second in doubles with Andrew Sznajder. Gyetko played collegiately at Arizona State University from 1987 - 1991, where he achieved NCAA All American status. Gyetko was the male athlete of the year in 1991 at ASU, winning the Harry Rosenzweig Senior Award, which recognizes the top senior male student-athlete of the year based on academic and athletic excellence. Professional tennis career Brian Gyetko was a full-time ATP tour player for four years reaching a world ranking of 273 in singles and 152 in doubles. Gyetko was a quarter-finalist in the ATP 1000 series event in Toronto in doubles, with wins over Bryan Shelton and Patrick Rafter (the '97 and '98 US Open Singles champion). Gyetko represented Canada in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 (finishing 9th to 16th). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Volvo International
The 1995 Volvo International was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut in the United States and was part of the Championship Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It was the 23rd edition of the tournament and ran from August 14 through August 21, 1995. First-seeded Andre Agassi won the singles title. Finals Singles Andre Agassi defeated Richard Krajicek 3–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–3 * It was Agassi's 7th title of the year and the 32nd of his career. Doubles Rick Leach / Scott Melville defeated Leander Paes Leander Adrian Paes ( ; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian former professional tennis player and the first Asian man to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all-tim ... / Nicolás Pereira 7–6, 6–4 * It was Leach's only title of the year and the 29th of his career. It was Melville's only title of the year and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Beijing Grand Prix
The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Charter, Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitting December 31. This was due to an adjustment of the International Date Line by the Kiribati government to bring all of its territories into the same calendar day. Events January * January 1 ** The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established. ** Beginning of the Zapatista uprising in Mexico. * January 8 – ''Soyuz TM-18'': Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the Earth, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit. * January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. * January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Tour
The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is the sole worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) founded in 1990 that replaced the earlier dual Grand Prix tennis circuit, Grand Prix Circuit and WCT Circuit. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organisation is the WTA Tour. ATP Tour tournaments The ATP Tour comprises ATP Masters 1000, ATP 500, and ATP 250 and the United Cup. The ATP also oversees the ATP Challenger Tour, a level below the ATP Tour, and the ATP Champions Tour for seniors. The Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments, the Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Olympic tennis tournament, the Davis Cup, and the entry-level 2022 ITF Men's World Tennis Tour, ITF World Tennis Tour do not fall under the purview of the ATP, but are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) instead and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
