Younes El Aynaoui

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Younes El Aynaoui Tennis player
Younes El Aynaoui
El Aynaoui 2008
Nation: MoroccoMorocco Morocco
Birthday: September 12, 1971
Size: 193 cm
1st professional season: 1990
Resignation: 2010
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 4,044,125
singles
Career record: 265: 227
Career title: 5
Highest ranking: 14 (November 3, 2003)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (2000, 2003)
French Open AF (1995, 2000)
Wimbledon 3R (2000, 2001, 2003)
US Open VF (2002, 2003)
Double
Career record: 24:56
Highest ranking: 85 (July 14, 2003)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2003)
French Open AF (2003)
Wimbledon 2R (2003)
US Open 1R (2003, 2005)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Younes El Aynaoui ( Arabic يونس العيناوي, DMG Yūnis al-ʿAināwī ; * September 12, 1971 in Rabat ) is a former Moroccan tennis player .

Career

He won five ATP tournaments in his career: 1999 in Amsterdam , 2001 in Bucharest and 2002 in Casablanca , Doha and Munich . In 11 other tournaments he reached the final. His greatest successes in Grand Slam tournaments were at the Australian Open and the US Open , where he made it into the quarter-finals twice.

In 2003 El Aynaoui lost in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in a close five set match to Andy Roddick with 19:21 in the last set. It was the longest decisive set in the history of the Grand Slam tournaments until the first-round encounter between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010.

On December 3, 2005, El Aynaoui tested positive for cannabis at a tournament in Italy . From 2006 he played in the German Bundesliga for the Erfurt TC Rot-Weiß .

El Aynaoui, one of the most popular people in the country, was honored with the highest honors by the King of Morocco .

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP Masters Series
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP International Series Gold
ATP World Tour 500
ATP International Series
ATP World Tour 250 (5)
ATP Challenger Series
ATP Challenger Tour (15)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. August 2, 1999 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam sand ArgentinaArgentina Mariano Zabaleta 6: 0, 6: 3
2. September 10, 2001 RomaniaRomania Bucharest sand SpainSpain Albert Montañés 7: 6, 7: 6
3. December 31, 2001 QatarQatar Doha Hard court SpainSpain Félix Mantilla 4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
4th April 8, 2002 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca sand ArgentinaArgentina Guillermo Cañas 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
5. April 29, 2002 GermanyGermany Munich sand GermanyGermany Rainer Schüttler 6: 4, 6: 4
ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. 4th July 1993 PortugalPortugal postage sand SpainSpain Jordi Arrese 7: 5, 0: 6, 6: 4
2. March 27, 1994 MoroccoMorocco Agadir sand ArgentinaArgentina Franco Davín 6: 3, 1: 6, 6: 3
3. August 20, 1995 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva sand MoroccoMorocco Karim Alami 6: 1, 6: 4
4th October 8, 1995 ItalyItaly Syracuse sand SwedenSweden Magnus Norman 6: 2, 6: 2
5. November 23, 1997 MexicoMexico Guadalajara sand NetherlandsNetherlands Rogier Wassen 6: 4, 6: 7, 6: 4
6th July 5, 1998 GermanyGermany Ulm (1) sand RomaniaRomania Dinu Pescariu 6: 4, 6: 3
7th July 19, 1998 FranceFrance Contrexéville sand FranceFrance Arnaud Di Pasquale 6: 4, 6: 7, 6: 0
8th. August 2, 1998 NetherlandsNetherlands Scheveningen sand ArgentinaArgentina Martín Rodríguez 6: 3, 6: 1
9. September 27, 1998 PolandPoland Szczecin sand GermanyGermany Jens Knippschild 6: 3, 6: 4
10. October 4, 1998 PortugalPortugal Maia sand AustriaAustria Stefan Koubek 4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
11. November 22, 1998 ArgentinaArgentina Buenos Aires IV sand SpainSpain Alberto Martín 7: 6, 6: 1
12. 4th July 1999 GermanyGermanyUlm (2) sand AustraliaAustralia Andrew Ilie 7: 6 4 , 6: 3
13. 5th December 1999 Venezuela 1954Venezuela Caracas Hard court ArgentinaArgentina Gastón Etlis 6: 3, 7: 6 12
14th April 22, 2007 MoroccoMorocco Marrakech sand AustraliaAustralia Peter Luczak 6: 2, 6: 4
15th April 20, 2008 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Chiasso sand SpainSpain Alberto Martín 7: 6 2 , 6: 3

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. March 21, 1993 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca sand ArgentinaArgentina Guillermo Pérez Roldán 4: 6, 3: 6
2. January 7, 1996 QatarQatar Doha Hard court Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petr Korda 6: 7 5 , 6: 2, 6: 7 5
3. January 14, 1996 Indonesia Jakarta sand NetherlandsNetherlands Sjeng Schalken 5: 7, 1: 6, 1: 6
4th 4th August 1996 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam sand SpainSpain Francisco Clavet 5: 7, 1: 6, 1: 6
5. November 15, 1998 ChileChile Viña del Mar sand SpainSpain Francisco Clavet 6: 4, 6: 4
6th March 12, 2000 ColombiaColombia Bogotá sand ArgentinaArgentina Mariano Puerta 4: 6, 6: 7 5
7th July 22, 2001 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam sand SpainSpain Alex Corretja 3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 7, 6: 3, 4: 6
8th. October 14, 2001 FranceFrance Lyon carpet CroatiaCroatia Ivan Ljubičić 3: 6, 2: 6
9. March 3, 2002 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai Hard court FranceFrance Fabrice Santoro 4: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6
10. July 14, 2002 SwedenSweden Båstad sand SpainSpain Carlos Moyá 3: 6, 6: 2, 5: 7
11. April 13, 2003 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca sand FranceFrance Julien Boutter 2: 6, 6: 2, 1: 6

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Australian Open 2 1 - - - 2 VF 1 3 VF 1 -
French Open 1 AF 1 - - 2 AF 2 2 3 - -
Wimbledon 1 - 1 - - 2 3 3 1 3 - -
US Open 1 - 1 - - 2 1 1 VF VF 1 1

VF = quarter-finals HF = semi-finals F = final S = victory number = preliminary round

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME El Aynaoui, Younes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Rabat , Morocco