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Clinton Ferreira
Clinton Ferreira (born 5 July 1966) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Biography Ferreira, who comes from Pretoria, was a two-time All-American doubles player at the University of Alabama. In 1986 he partnered with Gregg Hahn to reach the NCAA semi-finals, which set a college record. He later partnered with younger brother Ellis Ferreira to win the 1989 Southeastern Conference doubles title. The pair were one of the highest ranked doubles combinations in the ITCA collegiate rankings. In 1989 he also competed in the NCAA singles championships and with his brother in the doubles made the round of 16. During the 1990s he competed professionally on the ATP Tour as a doubles specialist and won a total of three Challenger titles. He featured in the main draws of both the Australian Open and US Open in men's doubles competition. In 1998 he retired from professional tennis. Clinton Ferreira now runs a wine merchant company base in Libourne, France, called Connai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretoria
Pretoria ( ; ) is the Capital of South Africa, administrative capital of South Africa, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to the country. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends eastward into the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountains. It has a reputation as an academic city and centre of research, being home to the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), the University of Pretoria (UP), the University of South Africa (UNISA), the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and the Human Sciences Research Council. It also hosts the National Research Foundation (South Africa), National Research Foundation and the South African Bureau of Standards. Pretoria was one of the host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Pretoria is the central part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality which was formed by the amalgamation of several former local authorities, including B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Open (tennis)
The US Open Tennis Championships, commonly called the US Open, is a hardcourt tennis tournament organized by the United States Tennis Association annually in Queens, New York City. Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tennis events, held after the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon. The US Open starts on the last Monday of August and continues for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the United States Labor Day holiday. All players participating must be at least fourteen years old. Since the start of the Open Era of tennis in 1968, the event has been Open (sport), open to both amateur and professional players. The tournament is one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, originally known as the U.S. National Championships, for which men's singles and men's doubles were 1881 U.S. National Championships (tennis), first played in August 1881. It is the only Grand Slam that was not affected by cancellation due to World War I and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Births
Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being 1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Australian Senate, Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Golmard
Jérôme Golmard (; 9 September 1973 – 31 July 2017) was a French tennis player. The left-hander reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in April 1999, winning 2 singles titles and reaching the semifinals of Monte Carlo in 1999. Golmard finished his career with over $2.2 million in prize money. Among the many notable players he beat on the ATP Tour are former World No. 1s Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Gustavo Kuerten, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marcelo Ríos and Carlos Moyá, as well as Grand Slam champions Richard Krajicek, Goran Ivanišević, Albert Costa, Gastón Gaudio, Thomas Johansson and Michael Chang. He announced in 2014 that he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease, which causes muscle paralysis, and died of the disease on 31 July 2017. After tennis Golmard was diagnosed with motor neurone disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or—in the United States—Lou Gehrig's disease (LGD), is a rare, termina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álex Calatrava (tennis)
Alex Patricio Calatrava (born 14 June 1973) is a former tour tennis player from Spain, who turned professional in 1993. The right-hander won one singles title (2000, San Marino). He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 44 in February 2001. Tennis career Calatrava defeated 14-time Grand Slam champion Pete Sampras in three sets at 2001 Hamburg Masters. In July 2005 Calatrava was beaten by 18-year old Novak Djokovic. The Serb dispatched Calatrava in straight sets at the Umag tournament in Croatia. Personal Calatrava was born in Germany while his parents lived there, returning to Spain live in 1980. His Spanish father, José, met his French mother, Gabrielle, while working Germany. Calatrava's uncle is the renowned architect Santiago Calatrava Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spaniards, Spanish-Swiss people, Swiss architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Siemerink
Johannes Martinus ("Jan") Siemerink (; born 14 April 1970) is a retired tennis player from the Netherlands. The former Dutch Davis Cup captain reached a career-high ATP ranking of 14. Career Tennis As a junior player, Siemerink was the Dutch 18-under champion in 1988. He also won the doubles title at the 1988 Orange Bowl junior championship in Florida. Siemerink turned professional in 1989. Over the course of his career, he won four top-level singles titles (at Singapore in 1991, Nottingham in 1996, and at Rotterdam and Toulouse in 1998). He also won ten tour doubles titles, the most significant of which were the Miami Masters in 1993 and the Monte-Carlo Masters in 1996. Siemerink's best performance at a Grand Slam event came at Wimbledon in 1998, where he reached the quarterfinals by defeating Ctislav Doseděl, David Prinosil, Jonas Björkman and Magnus Larsson, before being knocked-out by Goran Ivanišević in three tie-breaks. Siemerink is also known for winning a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Réunion
Réunion (; ; ; known as before 1848) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located approximately east of the island of Madagascar and southwest of the island of Mauritius. , it had a population of 896,175. Its capital and largest city is Saint-Denis, La Réunion, Saint-Denis. Réunion was uninhabited until French immigrants and colonial subjects settled the island in the 17th century. Its tropical climate led to the development of a plantation economy focused primarily on sugar; slaves from East Africa were imported as fieldworkers, followed by Malays, Annamite, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Indians as indentured laborers. Today, the greatest proportion of the population is of mixed descent, while the predominant language is Réunion Creole, though French remains the sole official language. Since 1946, Réunion has been governed as a regions of France, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Mohr
Patrick Mohr (born 6 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland. Biography Mohr, the son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, turned professional in 1992 and was based in Wetzikon. At the 1994 French Open he made it to the final round of qualifying, by beating Brian MacPhie and Christian Bergström, before he was eliminated in three sets by Lars-Anders Wahlgren. Mohr played his first match for the Switzerland Davis Cup team in 1994, a World Group qualifier against Indonesia in Jakarta. The Swiss secured the tie by winning the doubles, so Mohr was given a run in the reverse singles, which he lost to Benny Wijaya. His only other Davis Cup appearance came in the first round of the 1995 World Group, when Switzerland faced the Netherlands at home in Geneva. The Swiss lost Marc Rosset to a broken foot in the opening match and had to call on reserve Lorenzo Manta to replace him in the reverse singles. By beating Manta the Dutch won the tie and Mohr featured in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Köves
Gábor Köves (born 7 January 1970) is a retired Hungarian Olympian tennis player. Seoul gold medalists Ken Flach and Robert Seguso stopped him and partner László Markovits in the second round in the 1988 Summer Olympics. Gabor Köves is currently the captain of the Hungary Davis Cup team since December 2016 when Zoltán Kuhárszky stepped down due to conflict of interest, because he became Máté Valkusz Máté Valkusz (born 13 August 1998) is a Hungarian inactive professional tennis player. Valkusz has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 204, achieved on 12 June 2023. Juniors On the junior tour, Valkusz has a career high combined junior ...'s personal coach who is a member of the Hungarian Davis Cup team. Titles Doubles (4) References External links * * * * * * 1970 births Living people Hungarian male tennis players Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva Open Challenger
The Geneva Open Challenger, also known as IPP Trophy was a tennis tournament held in Geneva, Switzerland from 1988 to 2014. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour. Previously played on outdoor clay courts, it has been played indoors on hard GreenSet courts since 2011, at Sport Center of the Queue d'Arve. Originally, it was held at the Drizia-Miremont Tennis Club. Two-time Swiss champion Stanislas Wawrinka would later enter the world top 10 in the ATP rankings in 2008. The Association of Tennis Professionals The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is the governing body of the men's professional tennis circuits – the ATP Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour. It was formed in September 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to p ... (ATP) awarded the Jim McManus Challenger Award to the tournament in 2013. This award honors the best challenger tournament in the world.Arnaud Cerutti, « Le Geneva Open honoré », ''La Tribune de Genève'', 20 March 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomáš Anzari
Tomáš Anzari (born Třinec, 24 June 1970) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic and writer on psychology and stress in sports. He was also known as Tomáš Zdražila. Career Anzari, with countryman David Rikl, won the boys' doubles at the ITF World Championships in 1988, the same year that they were number-one-ranked juniors. The pair were runners-up in the 1988 Wimbledon Championships, losing the boys' doubles final to Jason Stoltenberg and Todd Woodbridge. He remained with Rikl after turning professional and at the 1990 French Open, their first Grand Slam tournament in the men's, they reached the third round. It would remain Anzari's best performance in a Grand Slam. He reached eight doubles semi-finals on the ATP Tour, but only once made it into the final, in 1992, when he and Carl Limberger Carl Limberger (born 24 January 1964) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Limberger won one doubles title and reached eight doubles fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Couto
Emanuel Couto (born 6 August 1973), is a Portuguese former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 91 in 1997. The highest moment of his career was his only ATP level victory in his home country at the Oporto Open in 1996 with fellow Portuguese player and regular doubles partner Bernardo Mota. Couto participated in 20 Davis Cup ties for Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ... from 1994 to 2003, posting a 13–5 record in doubles and an 11–10 record in singles. Couto also represented Portugal in the Olympics in Barcelona 92 and Atlanta 96 in the doubles category. Career finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Awards *2013 – ITF Commitment Award References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Couto, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
