Apostolos Tsitsipas
Apostolos Tsitsipas (born 24 November 1967) is a Greek tennis coach. He is the father and was the longtime coach of Stefanos Tsitsipas, who achieved a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking of on 9 August 2021. He is the husband of tennis player Julia Apostoli. Career Tsitsipas grew up in the village of Proastio, Karditsa, Proastio in Thessaly. In his youth, he primarily played football and basketball, but he and his brother sometimes "goofed around" playing tennis with wooden rackets on a makeshift grass court. Though briefly a member of the Greece national football team, Greece national team, he decided to pursue tennis seriously at age 20 while studying sports science, sport science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Athens. He played in his first tournament at age 23, but never at a high enough level to earn an ATP ranking point. Tsitsipas married the tennis player Julia Salnikova in 1991 after meeting her while worki ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Proastio, Karditsa
Proastio (, before 1962: Παραπράσταινα - ''Paraprastaina'') is a Greece, Greek village in the northern part of the Karditsa (regional unit), Karditsa regional unit, Greece. Proastio was the seat of the former municipality Sellana. It is located in a flat rural area, near the right bank of the river Pineios (Thessaly), Pineios. It is 14 km north of Karditsa and 14 km southeast of Trikala. Population Famous people *Apostolos Tsitsipas *Petros Tsitsipas *Stefanos Tsitsipas See also *List of settlements in the Karditsa regional unit References {{Sellana Populated places in Karditsa (regional unit) Palamas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber tennis ball, ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's tennis court, court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. If a player is unable to return the ball successfully, the opponent scores a Point (tennis), point. Playable at all levels of society and at all ages, tennis can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including Wheelchair tennis, wheelchair users. The original forms of tennis developed in France during the late Middle Ages. The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections to various field (lawn) games such as croqu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Greek Male Tennis Players
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People From Karditsa (regional Unit)
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1967 Births
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Living People
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Petros Tsitsipas
Petros Tsitsipas (, ; born 27 July 2000) is a Greek professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 72, achieved on 10 June 2024 and a singles ranking of No. 727, achieved on 30 August 2021. He is the younger brother of Stefanos Tsitsipas with whom he has won one doubles title. Tsitsipas represents Greece at the Davis Cup, where he has a W–L record of 10–9. Career 2021–2024: ATP singles and doubles debut, 16 wildcards with Stefanos, 100th career wildcard The brothers first partnered at the 2021 Australian Open, where they received their first team wildcard to the main draw but lost in the first round. The next two tournaments were the 2021 Rotterdam Open and 2021 Open 13 Provence in Marseille, France where they entered as main draw wildcards and lost in the second and first rounds respectively. Petros made his ATP singles debut as a wildcard as well to the main draw of the event at the 2021 Open 13, but lost ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jim Courier
James Spencer Courier (born August 17, 1970) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 58 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 1992 ATP Tour, 1992. Courier won 23 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including four Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors – two at the French Open and two at the Australian Open – and was the youngest man in the Open Era to reach the final of all four singles majors, aged 22 years and 11 months. He also won five ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters titles and was part of the victorious United States Davis Cup teams in 1992 Davis Cup, 1992 and 1995 Davis Cup, 1995. Since 2005, Courier has worked as a tennis commentator, notably for Nine's Wide World of Sports, Nine (and previously Seven Sport, Seven), the host broadcaster of the Australian Open. He is also an analyst for Tennis Channel and Spor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fox Sports (Australia)
Fox Sports Australia Pty Limited (formerly Premier Media Group Pty Limited) is the division of Foxtel that owns and operates the Fox Sports television networks and digital properties in Australia. The group operates nine Fox Sports Channels as well as Fox Sports News, Fox Cricket, Fox League, Fox Footy, Watch AFL and Watch NRL. Fox Sports channels such as Fox Netball are available via Foxtel or Kayo. The group's main competitors are beIN Sports, ESPN, Optus Sport and Stan Sport. Unlike the American Fox Sports, the group is not owned directly by the Fox Corporation. However News Corp formerly held a 65% stake in Foxtel is Fox Corporation's sister company until April 2025. Fox Sports Australia is now a DAZN Company History Early years Launch Fox Sports started life as the Premier Sports Network (later just Premier Sports) as the only fully operational local channel at the launch of Australia's first pay-television service, Galaxy. Premier Sports' backers included Amer ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eva Asderaki
Eva Asderaki (, born 27 January 1982), also known by her married name Eva Asderaki-Moore, is a Greek tennis umpire, who has umpired international tennis matches since 2001. She has umpired at all four Grand Slam tournaments, and in 2015, she became the first woman to umpire a men's US Open tennis final. Personal life Asderaki was born on 27 January 1982 in Chalcis, Greece. As a youngster, she started playing tennis. She was once ranked the seventh best under-16 tennis player in Greece. Asderaki has lived in England and now lives in Australia with her husband Paul Moore. The couple married in 2012 in London, and they had their first child in July 2018. Career Asderaki has a gold umpiring accreditation from the International Tennis Federation. She started as a line judge at her local tennis club in 1997, and she earned her first ITF umpiring badge in Thessaloniki in 2000. From 2000 to 2008, she studied umpiring in Luxembourg. She is the only current international Greek tennis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Medvedev–Tsitsipas Rivalry
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) players Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas have faced each other 14 times since 2018, with Medvedev leading the rivalry, 10–4. They are considered to be two of the best tennis players of their generation. According to the BBC, "The pair have long had a spiky relationship and, while there is respect and cordiality, an element of drama always appears when they meet". Notable matches 2018 Miami Open first round Medvedev and Tsitsipas first played each other in the first round of the 2018 Miami Open, when both were ranked outside of the top 50 and were 22 and 19 years old respectively. Medvedev made a comeback after dropping the first set to win in the third. However, the match is better remembered for a verbal altercation after the players shook hands. Russian Medvedev, upset about some of his opponent's etiquette during the match and especially that Greek Tsitsipas had muttered "bullshit Russian" at the net, yelled at Tsitsipas fro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev ( rus, Даниил Сергеевич Медведев, p=dənʲɪˈil sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 11 February 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been 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). Medvedev has won 20 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 2021 US Open – Men's singles, 2021 US Open and 2020 ATP Finals – Singles, 2020 ATP Finals. Medvedev made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2015 Kremlin Cup – Men's doubles, 2015 Kremlin Cup, and in 2017, he participated in a singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major for the first time at 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, Wimbledon. In 2018, Medvedev won his first ATP Tour singles titles, and achieved a breakthrough in 2019, making his top 10 debut and reaching six consecutive tournament finals, including at the 2019 US Open – ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |