Karim Alami

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Karim Alami Tennis player
Karim Alami
Karim Alami 2006
Nation: MoroccoMorocco Morocco
Birthday: May 24, 1973
Size: 185 cm
1st professional season: 1990
Resignation: 2002
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 2,087,596
singles
Career record: 156: 186
Career title: 2
Highest ranking: 25 (February 21, 2000)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (1998, 2000)
French Open 3R (2001)
Wimbledon 2R (1994, 1999)
US Open 2R (1994, 2000)
Double
Career record: 49:54
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 130 (August 17, 1998)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (1998)
French Open -
Wimbledon -
US Open 1R (1994)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Karim Alami ( Arabic كريم العلمي, DMG Karīm al-ʿAlamī ; * May 24, 1973 in Casablanca ) is a retired Moroccan tennis player .

Career

Alami won the junior competitions of Wimbledon and the US Open in 1991 alongside Greg Rusedski and John-Laffnie de Jager , and he was also in the junior singles in the semi-finals of the French Open and in the final of the US Open. He had already become a professional tennis player the year before.

He reached his first final on the ATP World Tour in 1994 in his hometown Casablanca , but lost to Renzo Furlan there . The following year he won his first tournament victory on the ATP Challenger Tour with a final victory over Jordi Arrese in Tashkent . In 1996 he became the first Moroccan tennis player to win an ATP tournament when he got the upper hand against Nicklas Kulti in Atlanta . A few months later he celebrated his second and last tournament victory in Palermo . The following year he won his only double title on the ATP World Tour alongside Julián Alonso . He achieved his highest scores in the world rankings in 2000 with position 25 in singles and in 1998 with position 130 in doubles.

His best individual result in a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round at the Australian Open and the French Open; the best result in the doubles competition was the entry into the second round in 1998 at the Australian Open.

Alami played 29 singles and 21 doubles games between 1990 and 2002 for the Moroccan Davis Cup team , his individual record was 20 wins and nine losses. At the Olympic Games in 1992 and 2000 he competed for Morocco. In 1992 he had to give up injured in his first round encounter against the later gold medalist Marc Rosset when the score was 1: 1 after sets. In 2000 he reached the quarter-finals, which he lost to Roger Federer .

After retiring from professional sport, he became tournament director of the Qatar Exxon Mobile Open in Doha .

Tournament victories

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (3)

singles

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. April 29, 1996 United StatesUnited States Atlanta sand SwedenSweden Nickla's cult 6: 3, 6: 4
2. September 23, 1996 ItalyItaly Palermo sand RomaniaRomania Adrian Voinea 7: 5, 2: 1 problem

Double

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. September 8, 1997 SpainSpain Marbella sand SpainSpain Julián Alonso SpainSpain Alberto Berasategui Jordi Burillo
SpainSpain 		4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 0

Private

Alami's 16-year-old son died in a traffic accident in Indonesia in August 2019.

Web links

Commons : Karim Alami  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zoon Moroccanse tennis legend Karim Alami komt op tragische wijze om. In: bladna.nl. Retrieved September 9, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Alami, Karim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Casablanca , Morocco