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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov
(born February 18, 1974) is a
retired
Russian
professional
tennis
player. He won the
French Open
in 1996 and the
Australian Open
in 1999.
[1]
Kafelnikov was world ranked number one from May 3 to June 13 1999.
[2]
He also won four Grand Slam doubles titles. Kafelnikov won the Men's Singles Gold medal at the
Sydney Olympic Games
in 2000.
[1]
He also helped Russia win the
Davis Cup
in 2002. He is the last man to have won both the Men's Singles and Doubles titles at the same Grand Slam tournament, which he did at the 1996 French Open.
- ↑
1.0
1.1
John Grasso,
Historical Dictionary of Tennis
(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011), p. 155
- ↑
John Parsons,
The Official Wimbledon Annual 1999
(London: Hazleton Publishing Ltd; Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1999), p. 11
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- ATP singles rankings incepted on August 23, 1973
- (year first held/year last held ? number of weeks (w))
- current No. 1 in bold, as of week of April 1, 2024
[update]
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