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Carlos Kirmayr
Carlos Kirmayr (born 23 September 1950) is a retired Brazilian professional tennis player. Kirmayr won a total of 10 Grand Prix ( , meaning ''Grand Prize''; plural ''Grands Prix'') most commonly refers to: * Grand Prix motor racing, a form of motorsport competition ** List of Formula One Grands Prix, an auto-racing championship *** Monaco Grand Prix, the most prestigious ... doubles titles. In singles, he achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 36. Career finals Singles 6 (1–5) Doubles 24 (10–14) External links * * * 1950 births Living people Brazilian people of German descent Brazilian male tennis players Tennis players from São Paulo 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-tennis-bio-stub ...
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São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the Americas, Americas, and both the Western Hemisphere, Western and Southern Hemispheres. Listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as an global city, alpha global city, it exerts substantial international influence in commerce, finance, arts, and entertainment. It is the List of largest cities#List, largest urban area by population outside Asia and the most populous Geographical distribution of Portuguese speakers, Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The city's name honors Paul the Apostle and people from the city are known as ''paulistanos''. The city's Latin motto is ''Non ducor, duco'', which translates as "I am not led, I lead." Founded in 1554 by Jesuit priests, the city was the center of the ''bandeirant ...
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Péter Szőke
Péter Szőke (8 August 1947 – 28 July 2022)Meghalt a magyar teniszlegenda
was a Hungarian player. He did not win any top-level titles during his professional career, finishing runner-up once in singles and four times in doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 47 in August 1973. Szőke participated in 27 ties for

Brussels Outdoor
The Belgian Open or Belgian International was a tennis tournament founded in 1899 as a combined men's and women's clay court tennis tournament. The tournament was staged as a joint event until 1971 when the women's event was discontinued, the men's event continued under the brand name Belgian Open Championships, then later was known as the Belgian International Championships until 1981 when it was discontinued. In 1987 the tournament was revived as a women's only event also known as the Benelux Open (for sponsorship reasons) that ran annually to 2001 when it was abolished. History Originally called the Belgian International Championships it first established in 1899. The championships were not staged during World War I or World War II. In the pre-open era the event was often reported in Belgian press as the Brussels International, or International of the tennis club in Brussels it was held at. It was an ILTF-sanctioned event from 1897 until 1969. In 1968 the event was re brande ...
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Tomáš Šmíd
Tomáš Šmíd (born 20 May 1956) is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who won nine singles titles during his career. In doubles, he won 54 titles and was world No. 1 in doubles from December 17, 1984, to August 11, 1985. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 11 in July 1984. Šmíd participated in 31 Davis Cup ties for Czechoslovakia from 1977 to 1989, posting a 20–10 record in doubles and a 22–15 record in singles. Šmíd was a part of the winning 1980 Davis Cup team, a team which included Ivan Lendl. In the final against Italy, Šmíd won a singles rubber against Adriano Panatta after being two sets down, and won the doubles rubber when partnered with Lendl as they beat Panatta and Paolo Bertolucci to clinch the 1980 Davis Cup for Czechoslovakia. Šmíd coached Boris Becker for 14 months, from April 1991 until June 1992, during which time Becker reached the 1991 Wimbledon final and regained the world number 1 ranking for nine we ...
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Jan Kodeš
Jan Kodeš (born 1 March 1946) is a Czech former professional tennis player. A three-time major singles champion, Kodeš was one of the premier players in the early 1970s. Kodeš's greatest success was achieved on the clay courts of the French Open, where he won the singles title in 1970 and 1971. However, he also won Wimbledon on grass courts in 1973, although the tournament was largely boycotted by top players that year in a show of solidarity over the ban of Nikola Pilić by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF). Kodeš never played at the Australian Open, but was twice the runner-up at the US Open, in 1971 and 1973. Kodeš reached his highest ATP ranking of world No. 5 in September 1973. During the Open Era, he won nine top-level singles titles and 17 doubles titles. Kodeš was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2013, he received the Czech Fair Play Award from the Czech Olympic Committee. He is an economics graduate of the Prague ...
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Mercedes Cup
The Stuttgart Open (sponsored since 2022 by Hugo Boss and called the BOSS Open) is an ATP Tour 250 series professional tennis tournament on the ATP Tour. From 1970 to 1989, the Stuttgart Open was a Grand Prix tennis circuit event. From 1990 to 1999, the Stuttgart Open was an ATP Championship Series tournament. The Championship Series name was changed to ATP International Series Gold in 2000, and the Stuttgart Open was a part of this series from 2000–2001 and 2003–2008. In 2002, the Stuttgart Open was briefly demoted for one year to ATP International Series status, which was renamed to the ATP Tour 250 in 2009, and it has retained the classification ever since. Held since 1916 in Stuttgart, Germany, prior to the beginning of World War II the tournament was known as the ''Championships of Stuttgart''. Following the Second World War its was branded as the ''Stuttgart International Championships'' or the ''Stuttgart Weissenhof International''. The Stuttgart Open was played on ...
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Russell Simpson (tennis)
Russell Simpson (born 22 February 1954) is a former tennis player from New Zealand, who won five doubles titles during his professional career. He reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 18 April 1983, when he became No. 47 in the world. He is currently the head tennis professional at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club in Beverly Hills, California. Simpson is the younger brother of Jeff Simpson Jeff Simpson (born 29 October 1950) is a former professional tennis player from New Zealand. Playing career Over the course of his career, Simpson competed in five Davis Cup ties for the New Zealand team. He won a total of four rubbers, two in ..., who was also a professional tennis player. Career finals Doubles (5 titles, 4 runner-ups) References External links * * * 1954 births Living people New Zealand male tennis players Tennis players from Auckland 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen {{NewZealand-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Ricardo Ycaza
Ricardo Ycaza (born 16 February 1958) is an Ecuadorian tennis player who was a world top 10 junior, a Davis Cup stalwart, and a world top 100 touring professional. Tennis career His most noteworthy achievement was winning the 1976 US Open Junior tournament. In the semi-finals of that tournament, he staged a third-set comeback to defeat John McEnroe after saving two match points at 2–5 in the third set and after coming back from 2–4 in the third-set tiebreaker. (Ycaza was to face McEnroe three more times in junior tournaments, winning each time.) In the final, Ycaza defeated José Luis Clerc of Argentina. In May 1977, Ycaza again defeated John McEnroe in three sets to win the World Championship of Tennis Men's 21-and-under tournament in Houston, Texas. Coached by Miguel Olvera at the Guayaquil Tennis Club, Ycaza had a successful junior career, winning numerous South American junior titles. At the college level, he achieved All-American status for the 1976–1977 NCAA seas ...
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ATP Tulsa
The Tulsa Grand Prix Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the United States. The event was played as part of the Grand Prix circuit from 1978 through 1980. The event was sponsored as Bank of Oklahoma Tennis Classic $50,000 and played at Shadow Mountain Racket Club on outdoor hard courts. Finals Singles Doubles See also * Tulsa Invitation (a combined international clay court tournament played from 1958 to 1975). References External links ATP Tour archive {{Tulsa tournaments Tulsa Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States Grand Prix tennis circuit Tulsa Tulsa Tulsa ( ) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tul ... Sports in Tulsa, Oklahoma ...
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Hans Gildemeister
Hans Gildemeister Bohner (born Juan Pedro Gildemeister Bohner on 9 February 1956), is a Chilean former tennis player of German ancestry, who won four singles and 23 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 22 February 1980, when he became world No. 12. He is a former captain of the Chilean Davis Cup team. Personal life Gildemeister was born in Lima, Peru, to German parents and moved to Chile at the age of two. His father, Benito, owned a printing house and his mother, Elena, was a German teacher. He has four siblings. He naturalized Chilean by residence in 1978. He is the brother of and Fritz Gildemeister, also pro tennis players, and was brother in law of Laura Gildemeister, who was also a tennis player. He has lived in Tampa, Florida Tampa ( ) is a city on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. Tampa's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east ...
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Jorge Andrew
Jorge Andrew (born 2 November 1951) is a former professional tennis player from Venezuela. Most of his tennis success was in doubles. During his career, he finished runner-up at three doubles events. Andrew was a member of the Venezuelan Davis Cup team from 1967 to 1984, posting a 6–25 record in singles and a 7–10 record in doubles. Career finals Doubles (3 losses) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrew, Jorge 1951 births Living people Tennis players from Caracas Venezuelan male tennis players 20th-century Venezuelan sportsmen 21st-century Venezuelan people ...
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Belus Prajoux
Belus Prajoux Nadjar (born 27 February 1955) is a retired professional tennis player from Chile. Prajoux won six doubles titles on the 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 ... during his career. He reached a highest doubles ranking of No. 17 in July 1982. He was a member of the Chile Davis Cup team, and played on the team that reached the final of the 1976 Davis Cup. Prajoux retired from the tour in 1986. Grand Slam finals Doubles (1 loss) ATP career finals Doubles (6 wins, 12 losses) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Prajoux, Belus 1955 births Living people Chilean male tennis players Chilean people of French descent Tennis players from Santiago, Chile 20th-century Chilean people 20th-century Chilean sportsmen ...
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