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The Iraq Davis Cup team represents Iraq in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Iraqi Tennis Federation. Iraq currently compete in the Asia/Oceania Zone of Group IV. They competed in Group II from 1988-1990, but failed to advance beyond the first round. [citation needed]
This article lists the professional tennis players who reached the highest ranking among their compatriots during the Open Era.The rankings used are ATP rankings for men (since 23 August 1973 for singles, and 1 March 1976 for doubles) and WTA rankings for women (since 3 November 1975 for singles, and 4 September 1984 for doubles).
In April 2003, the United States drew up a list of most-wanted Iraqis, consisting of the 55 members of the deposed Ba'athist Iraqi regime whom they most wanted to capture. The list was turned into a set of playing cards for distribution to United States-led Coalition troops .
Halep was in the top-10 for 373 consecutive weeks from 2014-2021, emerging as one of women’s tennis’ most consistent players, omnipresent in the latter stages of the world’s biggest tournaments.
To play for a small country is something special for me.” He won three matches in qualifying rounds for lower-ranked players last week just to get into the field of 128 players at Melbourne Park.
Edison David, born in Iraq, Iraqi Assyrian football player who played for Iraq and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the 1950s and 1960s; Kadhem Sharif, Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter; Hana Shezifi (born 1943), Israeli Olympic runner; Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha, Iraqi chess player and former president of Iraqi Chess Federation. Thamer Yousif ...
This is a list of top international male singles tennis players, both past and present. It includes players who have met one or more of the following criteria in singles: Officially ranked among the top 25 players by the Association of Tennis Professionals (since 1973) Ranked among the top 10 by an expert (e.g. A. Wallis Myers) before 1973
His name was included in the list of Iraqis wanted by the United States at number 18, and he was the "10 of Clubs" in the U.S. deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. [3] [4] [5] Latif was arrested on 9 June 2003 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 in the case of the murder of Mohammad al-Sadr. [6]