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Yevgeny Kafelnikov
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Russian tennis player
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Yevgeny Kafelnikov is a male tennis player, golfer, and poker player from Russia and the Soviet Union. Born in Sochi in 1974, he resides in the same city and speaks Russian. He is a right-handed athlete who began his professional work period in 1992 and ended it in 2003.
Kafelnikov represented Russia in sports, including participation in the men's singles tennis event at the 2000 Summer Olympics. His career statistics include a singles record of 609–306 and a doubles record of 358–213. He accumulated prize money of 23,883,797 and supported Spartak Moscow.
His accolades include the Order of Honour and induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Russia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Sochi
- Occupation
- poker player
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's singles
- Sport
- poker
- Country for sport
- Russia
- Mass
- 84
- Official website
- yevgenykafelnikov.com
- Image
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov in 2023 - 01 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 190
- Residence
- Sochi
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- Commons category
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov
- date of birth
- 1974-02-18
- handedness
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 609–306
- doubles record
- 358–213
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- end of work period
- 2003-00-00
- prize money
- 23883797
- supported sports team
- Spartak Moscow
- ranking
- 1
- social media followers
- 57503
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Encyclopedic overview
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov (Russian: Евгений Александрович Кафельников, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈkafʲɪlʲnʲɪkəf] ; born 18 February 1974) is a Russian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Kafelnikov won 26 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including two majors at the 1996 French Open and the 1999 Australian Open, as well as an Olympic gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He also won four major doubles titles (three at the French Open and one at the US Open), and is the most recent man to have won both the men's singles and doubles titles at the same major, which he achieved at the 1996 French Open. In 2019, Kafelnikov was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Career
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