Mark Edward Kratzmann (born 17 May 1966) is a former Australian professional
tennis
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player.
Tennis career
Kratzmann was an
Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1983.
Juniors
As the world's No. 1 ranked junior player in 1984, Kratzmann won the boys' singles tournaments at the
Australian Open,
Wimbledon and the
US Open that year.
Pro tour
As a professional player, Kratzmann won 18 doubles titles, including the
Cincinnati Masters in 1990 (also reaching the
Australian Open men's doubles final in 1989).
His best Grand Slam performance in singles was reaching the fourth round of the
1987 Australian Open. Kratzmann achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 50 in March 1990.
He sometimes partnered his brother
Andrew
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in doubles matches.
Cricket
Kratzmann began to play
cricket
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after moving to Hong Kong in 2003, where he originally worked as a tennis coach. He won the Hong Kong Cricket Association's Player of the Year award for 2005–06. In May 2007, he was selected in the
national squad to participate in the
ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament. He was also in the 20-man list for the Asia Cup but was not included in the final 14. He has made three international appearances for Hong Kong.
ATP career finals
Doubles: 30 (18 titles, 12 runner-ups)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 1 (0–1)
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Mixed doubles
References
External links
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Kratzmann Sports Asia*
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Australian emigrants to Hong Kong
Australian male tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
French Open junior champions
Hong Kong cricketers
Hong Kong people of Australian descent
Tennis players from Queensland
US Open (tennis) junior champions
Wimbledon junior champions
1966 births
Living people
Australian people of German descent
Australian Institute of Sport tennis players
Cricketers from Queensland
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
20th-century Australian sportsmen
Sportsmen from Queensland
People from Murgon