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Cristiano Testa
Cristiano Testa (born 23 September 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. He is also known as Testinha. Biography Testa, a left-handed player, represented Brazil's Junior Davis Cup team in 1989. Turning professional in 1993, Testa competed mostly on tour as a doubles specialist. His best performance came at the 1996 Colombia Open where he made the semi-finals with Diego del Río. He made a total of 11 Challenger doubles finals, for three titles, in Medellín, Eisenach and Santiago. In 2000 he reached his highest doubles ranking of 109 in the world and earned a spot in the main draw of the 2000 Australian Open. He and partner Fernando Meligeni were beaten in the first round by eventual finalists Wayne Black and Andrew Kratzmann. He now works as a junior tennis coach in Porto Alegre Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the List o ...
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Mauricio Hadad
Mauricio Hadad (born 7 December 1971) is a former tennis player from Colombia and former captain of the Colombia Davis Cup Team. Hadad is of Lebanese background. The right-hander turned pro in 1988 and reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on September 11, 1995, when he became World No. 78. He won the ATP Bermuda Open in 1995. He is the only Colombian tennis player in history to have won an ATP Tour title in singles. His best performance at a Grand Slam came at the 1996 Australian Open and the 1995 U.S. Open where he made it to the third round. Hadad participated in 20 Davis Cup ties for Colombia from 1989–2001 and holds the record for most wins with 35 victories, posting a 23-5 record in singles and a 12-6 record in doubles. Hadad had also been the last Colombian player in history to break into the top 100 in 1995 until Alejandro Falla did so in 2007. He became the captain of the Colombia Davis Cup Team from 2013 until 2016. He has been credited with open ...
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Brazilian Male Tennis Players
Brazilian commonly refers to: * Something of, from or relating to Brazil * Brazilian Portuguese, the dialect of the Portuguese language used mostly in Brazil * Brazilians Brazilians ( pt, Brasileiros, ) are the citizens of Brazil. A Brazilian can also be a person born abroad to a Brazilian parent or legal guardian as well as a person who acquired Brazilian citizenship. Brazil is a multiethnic society, which me ..., the people (citizens) of Brazil, or of Brazilian descent Brazilian may also refer to: Sports * Brazilian football, see football in Brazil * Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a martial art and combat sport system *''The Brazilians'', a nickname for South African football association club Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. due to their soccer kits which resembles that of the Brazilian national team Other uses * Brazilian waxing, a style of Bikini waxing * Brazilian culture, describing the Culture of Brazil * "The Brazilian", a 1986 instrumental by Genesis * Brazilian barbecue, known as chu ...
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1973 Births
Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. * January 17 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is Second inauguration of Richard Nixon, sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Nixon is the only person to have been sworn in twice as President (First inauguration of Richard Nixon, 1969, Second inauguration of Richard Nixon, 1973) and Vice President of the United States (First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, Second inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957). * January 22 ** George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship. ** A ...
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Álex López Morón
Álex López Morón (born 28 November 1970) is a retired professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP ATP may refer to: Companies and organizations * Association of Tennis Professionals, men's professional tennis governing body * American Technical Publishers, employee-owned publishing company * ', a Danish pension * Armenia Tree Project, non ... Entry ranking is No. 100 (achieved on 9 October 1995). Career He turned pro in 1990. ATP career finals Doubles: 2 (2 titles) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 4 (2–2) Doubles: 33 (16–17) Performance timelines Singles Doubles Wins over top 10 players Personal life His brother Víctor also played tennis professionally. External links * * 1970 births Living people Tennis players from Catalonia Spanish male tennis players Tennis players from Barcelona {{Spain-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Germán Puentes
Germán Puentes Alcañiz (born 18 December 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Career Puentes was the runner-up in the 1989 Spanish Junior Championships. The Spaniard appeared in the main singles draw of five Grand Slams during his career but only once made the second round, at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships, with a win over Mariano Puerta. He also won just one Grand Slam doubles match, which was against South Africans Jeff Coetzee and Marcos Ondruska in the 2001 Australian Open, partnering Juan Balcells. His best singles showing on the ATP Tour came at Prague in 1999 when he reached the semi-finals and he was also a quarter-finalist in the Swedish Open that year and again in the 2001 Grand Prix Hassan II. As a doubles player he teamed up with countryman Eduardo Nicolás to make the semi-final stage of the 1999 Swedish Open. That effort was matched in the 2001 Mexican Open with Albert Portas. The pair also had a win that year over the fifth s ...
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Antonio Prieto (tennis)
Antonio Prieto (born 7 September 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. Biography Born in Curitiba, Prieto went to college in the United States, at Florida State University from 1994 to 1997. While studying for a business degree he played varsity tennis as the No. 1 singles player. Prieto, who specialised in doubles, turned professional in 1997. He won an ATP Tour doubles title with countryman Gustavo Kuerten at the 2000 Chevrolet Cup, in Santiago, Chile. From the 2000 French Open to the 2001 Australian Open, Prieto appeared in the men's doubles main draw of all four Grand Slam tournaments in succession. He made the second round once, at the 2000 Wimbledon Championships with Israel's Eyal Ran Eyal Ran (born 21 November 1972) is an Israeli former professional tennis player and former captain of the Israel Davis Cup team. His career high ATP ranking in singles was 138 (21 April 1997), and in doubles it was 71 (11 October 1999). Earl .... He now runs Prie ...
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Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 8 million which is nearly 40% of the country's population, of which more than 6 million live in the city's continuous urban area. The city is entirely in the country's central valley. Most of the city lies between above mean sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balmaceda Park. The Andes Mountains can be seen from most ...
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Patrick Sommer
Patrick Sommer (born 10 September 1976) is a German former professional tennis player. Born in Neu-Ulm, Sommer reached a career high singles world ranking of 560. He had a best ranking of 219 in doubles and as a doubles player won an ATP Challenger tournament in Lübeck in 1999, partnering Franz Stauder Franz Stauder (born 28 May 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Germany and current head coach at TC Rot-Weiß Worms. Biography His first appearance in the main draw of an ATP Tour level tournament came at the 1996 Gerry Weber Open .... Challenger/Futures titles Doubles References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sommer, Patrick 1976 births Living people German male tennis players People from Neu-Ulm Sportspeople from Swabia (Bavaria) Tennis players from Bavaria ...
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Rene Nicklisch
Rene Nicklisch (born 31 March 1976) is a German former professional tennis player. Biography Nicklisch was born in Salzkotten and performed well as a junior, most notably winning the 16 and Under title at the Orange Bowl in 1992, which he secured with a win in the final over Rogier Wassen. He also represented Germany in the Junior Davis Cup in 1992 when they finished runners-up to France. On the professional tour he made it to 246 in the world. He played in the main draw of the 1993 Gerry Weber Open as a wildcard and lost in the first round to seventh seed Marcos Ondruska. In 1999 he won two Challenger titles, the singles at Aschaffenburg and doubles at Sylt. His victory in the Aschaffenburg Challenger included wins from the quarter-final stage over Radek Štěpánek, Alexander Popp and then Luis Horna in the final. At the 2000 BMW Open he made a return to an ATP Tour main draw by featuring the men's doubles competition with Tomas Nydahl. They were beaten in the firs ...
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Jaime Oncins
Jaime Oncins (born 16 June 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. Oncins represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he reached the quarterfinals before falling to Russia's Andrei Cherkasov. The right-hander won two individual career titles (Bologna and Búzios, both in 1992). He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on May 3, 1993, when he became world no. 34. Oncins' best performance at a major was at the 1992 French Open, where he reached the Round of 16, losing to eventual finalist, Petr Korda. In the second round of the tournament, Oncins had a famous victory from two sets down against former world no. 1 and three-time French Open champion, Ivan Lendl. Oncins was also the last player that Jimmy Connors James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to ...
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