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list out famous australian tennis player named bhat rattar

2006-10-08 19:07:14 · 8 answers · asked by Nagarajan B 1 in Sports Tennis

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a very handsome Aussie player.named Patrick Rafter...I am still his fan..though he didn't play anymore.
He was ..world no.1 in ..July 1999, won US open in 1997 & 98, runner-up of Wimbledon in 2000 & 01, and finally ..elected ..International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.
go to joy B's...mentioned website

2006-10-08 23:26:47 · answer #1 · answered by khutswe 4 · 0 0

Yes, that is Patrick Rafter who win 2 US Grand Slam

2006-10-08 20:58:55 · answer #2 · answered by dani ng 4 · 0 0

Never heard of a famous Australian tennis-player with that name.

(the name that sounds a bit similar would be Pat Rafter....is that the one you mean??)

2006-10-10 02:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by Joshua 5 · 0 0

Patrick Rafter. Is this who you are talking about. He was great.
Lewton Hewitt can still play and the great old timers were great. Some people say Laver was the best.

2006-10-09 09:22:21 · answer #4 · answered by messtograves 5 · 0 0

John McEnroe

2016-03-18 06:42:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I think you mean Pat Rafter. Info can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Rafter

2006-10-08 19:15:13 · answer #6 · answered by Born a Fox 4 · 0 0

WHAT IS BHAT RATTAR? NEVER HEARD OF THESE WORDS TILL NOW. WHAT LANGUAGE?

2006-10-10 03:37:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If you mean Patrick Rafter, then here you go, his info:

Patrick Michael Rafter (born 28 December 1972, in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia. He was a two-time men's singles champion at the US Open, and a two-time runner-up at Wimbledon. Rafter was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.

Rafter turned professional in 1991, and won his first career singles title in 1994 in Manchester, displaying a serve and volley style of tennis. Prior to 1997, this was the only ATP singles title he had won.

Rafter's breakthorugh on the tennis scene came in 1997, beginning at the French Open, where he reached the semifinals, falling in four sets to Sergi Bruguera. Later in the year at the US Open, he reached the final against Greg Rusedski (beating Andre Agassi and Michael Chang, among others, along the way) and won in four sets to claim his first Grand Slam title.

In 1998, he won back-to-back singles titles at the ATP Masters Series events in Canada and Cincinnati, a rare feat. (Only Andre Agassi, in 1995, and Andy Roddick, in 2003, have done the same.)

He defeated Richard Krajicek in the Canadian final to take his first AMS title, and then in Cincinnati he beat Guillaume Raoux, Todd Martin, Petr Korda, Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Pete Sampras to win there. All five of the players he beat in Cincinnati were in the Top 50, and three were in the Top 10: Korda (No. 4), Kafelnikov (No. 10) and Sampras (No. 2). The average ranking of all five players Rafter defeated in Cincinnati was just 18.8.

After Cincinnati, he reached the US Open final again and defeated fellow Aussie player Mark Philippoussis in four sets.

In July 1999, Rafter reached the world No. 1 men's singles ranking. He held it for just one week, however, making him the shortest-reigning world No. 1 in tour history. However, his ranking soon thereafter plummeted, as he lost in the 1st round of the US Open as the two-time defending champion (and having a ton of ranking points), and then fell victim to a shoulder injury. By the time he reached the Wimbledon final in July, 2000, his ranking had fallen to No. 52.

Rafter won the Australian Open men's doubles title in 1999 (partnering Jonas Björkman). He and Bjorkman also won doubles titles at the ATP Masters Series events in Canada (1999) and Indian Wells (1998).

In 2000, Rafter reached the men's singles final at Wimbledon. In the semifinals of the tournament, he faced Andre Agassi and won in what has been called one of the most thrilling matches ever seen at Wimbledon, particularly due to the clash of different playing styles between the two men. Rafter won in five sets, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. [1] Rafter faced Pete Sampras in the final, who was gunning for a record-breaking seventh Wimbledon title overall (and seven in the past eight years), and while Rafter made a strong start to the match and took the first set, after the match he would claim that he had "choked" part way through the second set, and was then not able to get back into his game. Sampras won in four sets.

In 2001, Rafter reached the semifinals of the Australian Open, but despite holding a two sets to one lead and having the support of the home crowd, Rafter lost the match to Andre Agassi in five sets, after succumbing to cramps so bad that he could barely run for the final two sets. [2] Later in the year, Rafter also made the Wimbledon final again. Again, much like the previous year's tournament, he faced Andre Agassi in the semifinals, and won in yet another five-setter that arguably topped the drama provided by their previous year's encounter, 2-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 8-6. [3] In the final, he squared off against Goran Ivanisevic, who had reached the Wimbledon final three times before but had slid down the world rankings to No. 125 following injury problems. After a titanic five-set struggle, lasting just over three hours, Ivanisevic prevailed 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 9-7.

Rafter was on the Australian Davis Cup Team which lost in the final in 2000 (to Spain) and 2001 (to France). Ironically, he was unable to play in the 1999 Davis Cup final – where Australia beat France to win the cup – because of injury (though he won important matches in the earlier rounds to help the team qualify).

Rafter was on the Australian teams which won the World Team Cup in 1999 and 2001.

He retired from the professional tour at the end of 2002 after winning a total of 11 singles titles and 10 doubles titles. He returns to the courts annually to play World Team Tennis for the Philadelphia Freedoms.

Rafter was born in Mount Isa, Queensland, and is third-youngest in a family of nine children. He began playing tennis at the age of five with his father and three older brothers.

In April 2004, Rafter married his girlfriend Lara Feltham (with whom he had a son, Joshua) at a resort in Fiji. Their daughter, India, was born in May 2005.

His nickname amongst mates is "Skunky".

In 2002 he won the Australian of the Year award. This award was considered controversial by many in Australia as he was residing in Bermuda for tax purposes.

Rafter donated the prizemoney from his 1998 US Open win to the Starlight Children's Foundation. The money was used to construct Queensland's first Starlight Express Room at the Mater Hospital.[citation needed] Rafter has created his own charity organisation that raises funds for children's causes each year.


Singles titles

1994 – Manchester
1997 – US Open
1998 – US Open, Canada, Cincinnati, Chennai, 's-Hertogenbosch, Long Island
1999 – 's-Hertogenbosch
2000 – 's-Hertogenbosch
2001 – Indianapolis


Singles Runner-ups

1994 – Hong Kong
1997 – Grand Slam Cup, Hong Kong, Long Island, New Haven, Philadelphia, St. Poelten
1999 – Cincinnati, Rome
2000 – Wimbledon, Lyon
2001 – Wimbledon, Cincinnati, Canada


Doubles Titles

1994 – Bologna
1995 – Adelaide
1996 – Pinehurst
1997 – Queen's Club, Adelaide
1998 – Indian Wells, Los Angeles
1999 – Australian Open, Canada, Halle


Doubles Runner-ups

1994 – Hong Kong, Lyon
1995 – Ostrava;
1996 – Bermuda;
1997 – Cincinnati, Indian Wells, Tokyo
2001 – Halle

2006-10-11 01:15:31 · answer #8 · answered by miraob86 4 · 0 0

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