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Mark Edward Kratzmann (born 17 May 1966) is a former Australian professional
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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
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in doubles matches.


Cricket

Kratzmann began to play
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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


* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kratzmann, Mark 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