Tuesday, 15 April 2014

FABIO FOGNINI

FABIO FOGNINI

Age: 26 (24.05.1987)
Birthplace: Sanremo, Italy
Residence: Arma di Taggia, Italy
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Weight: 163 lbs (74 kg)
Plays: Right-handed
Turned Pro: 2004
Coach: Jose Perlas
Began playing tennis at age four...Nickname is "Fogna'...Father, Fulvio, owns his own company; mother Silvana is a housewife...Has one younger sister, Fulvia, who is a student...Speaks four languages: Italian, English, Spanish and French...Hobbies include football, fan of Inter Milan and Genoa, and idols are football player Ivan Zamorano, motorbike star Valentino Rossi and football world champion Marco Materazzi...Enjoys playing on all surfaces and considers best shots his forehand and backhand...Fitness trainer is Javier Capitaine and physio is Marc Boada.

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JO-WILFRIED TSONGA

JO-WILFRIED TSONGA

Pronounced: Jo-Wil freed TSON-ga
Age: 28 (17.04.1985)
Birthplace: Le Mans, France
Residence: Gingins, Switzerland
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
Weight: 200 lbs (91 kg)
Turned Pro: 2004
Coach: Nicolas Escude & Thierry Ascione
Nicknamed "Ali"...Father, Didier, is a former handball player (European handball) and chemistry teacher; mother, Evelyne, is a teacher; younger brother, Enzo, is a business student...Says he got strength from his father and kindness from his mother...His parents still live in Le Mans where his father went to study and where he met his mother who lived there (Le Mans is located in west of France and famous (at least in France) for two things: 1) 24 hours of Le Mans, an endurance car race; 2) les Rillettes (pronouce: "Reeyett" a "pork meat paté").

Finished 2003 as No. 2 junior in world (behind Baghdatis)…Reached SF at Australian Open juniors in 2002-03 along with Roland Garros and Wimbledon in '03...Won US Open junior title (d. Baghdatis)…Won first career junior title at 2002 Canadian Open (d. Bayer) and runner-up at Victorian Junior Championships that year (l. to Gasquet)…Also won title at 2003 Luxembourg Indoor Junior Championships...Named 2007 ATP Newcomer of Year and 2008 ATP Most Improved Player of Year...The BNP Paribas Masters final in Paris against Nalbandian was second highest audience on French TV Canal+ in 2008 for a Sunday sports program, peaking at 1.3 million viewers on match point...In 2011 was presented with the ATP Aces for Charity grant for his foundation “Attrap’ La Balle”, which provides underprivileged children in Congo with access to sports activities.

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JOHN ISNER

JOHN ISNER

Age: 28 (26.04.1985)
Birthplace: Greensboro,North Carolina USA
Residence: Tampa, Florida, USA
Height: 6'10" (208 cm)
Weight: 238 lbs (108 kg)
Plays: Right-handed
Turned Pro: 2007
Coach: Mike Sell
Full name John Robert Isner...Began playing tennis at age nine...Father, Robert, is a builder; mother Karen, is a real estate agent...Has two older brothers, Jordan, who is a teaching tennis pro and Nathan, who is a builder and works with his father (all three attended North Carolina State Univ.)...Played four years and earned All-American honors each season at Univ. of Georgia from 2004-07 and school's all-time leader in singles and doubles wins...In May 2007, reached NCAA singles final, losing to Virginia's Somdev Devvarman in a third set tie-break but led his squad to NCAA team title...Also won NCAA doubles title.

Hobbies include playing poker, golf, basketball and watching ESPN...Played basketball until ninth grade and was 6'3" (1.90m) before growing five inches at around age 16... His favorite TV show is "Curb Your Enthusiasm"...Says if he wasn't a tennis player he would probably be a basketball player...Idol was former NBA star Karl Malone...Wears a size 15 shoe...Considers hard courts as favorite surface and his forehand and serve as strengths...Fitness trainer is Kyle Morgan...Chiropractor is Clint Cordial.

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MILOS RAONIC

MILOS RAONIC

Pronounced: MIL-osh Rau-nitch
Age: 23 (27.12.1990)
Birthplace: Podgorica, Montenegro
Residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco
Height: 6'5" (196 cm)
Weight: 195 lbs (88 kg)
Plays: Right-handed
Turned Pro: 2008
Coach: Ivan Ljubicic & Ricardo Piatti
Plays with two-handed backhand…Speaks Serbian and English...Moved from Podgorica, Montenegro to Canada aged three…Parents are Dusan and Vesna (both engineers); sister, Jelena and brother, Momir…Started playing tennis aged eight…His dad "used a ball machine at 6:30 a.m. or 9:00 p.m. because court fees were a lot cheaper at this time"…Was among the first group of players to join Tennis Canada's National Training Centre in Montreal when it was opened in 2007...Favourite surface is hard courts...Favourite shots are serve and overhead...Hobbies include watching movies and talking to family on Skype...Supports FC Barcelona (football) and Toronto Raptors (basketball)...Idol growing up was Pete Sampras, "I video-taped all his televised matches"…Career goal is to be a "consistent Top 50 player with Top 10 aspirations"...Made Davis Cup debut for Canada versus Colombia in March 2010…Named as Newcomer of the Year in the 2011 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon after jumping from No. 156 in the Emirates ATP Rankings at the start of the season to No. 31 on 14 November 2011...Named QMI Agency Canadian Male Athlete of the Year on 20 December 2012...Fitness trainer is Dalibor Sirola.

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RICHARD GASQUET

RICHARD GASQUET

Pronounced: gas-KAY
Age: 27 (18.06.1986)
Birthplace: Beziers, France
Residence: Neuchatel, Switzerland
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
Weight: 165 lbs (75 kg)
Plays: Right-handed
Turned Pro: 2002
Coach: Sergi Bruguera and Sebastien 
Began playing tennis at age four with father, Francis, who ran tennis club in Serignan; mother, Maryse, also teaches tennis…At nine, was on cover of French Tennis Magazine (February 1996)…Discovered by former ATP pro Pierre Barthes who ran the nearby Cap d'Agde tennis camp…Rugby fan and supports hometown Beziers team…No. 1 junior and World Junior Champion in 2002, winning Roland Garros (d. Recouderc) and US Open (d. Baghdatis)...Moved to Switzerland in Sept. 2005…In February 2008, launched 'The Richard Gasquet Foundation', which aims to help adolescents who struggle to find their place in society and who suffer from a lack of confidence…It will use sport as a way to bring underprivileged youths back to health and enable them to rediscover the joys of life; and as a way to build a future.

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