Younes El Aynaoui

DUN I LOVE · 28-03-2009 20:03:55

Myślę, że tak barwnej postaci należy się temat na naszym forum. Okoliczność jest wyjątkowa, by taki wątek popełnić.

Otóż 37-letni Markańczyk ogłosił, że po najbliższym turnieju ATP w Casablance (6-12.-4.2009r.) żegna się z profesjonalną karierą tenisową.
Dzięki Younes, choćby za wspaniałe mecze z Roddickiem na AO 03 czy Agassim na Wimblu w tym samym roku

Informacja:
http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthr … ost8344969

Yannick · 28-03-2009 21:25:59

Wielka Szkoda , bo to ostatni marokański Mohikanin,
który odchodzi na zasłużoną emeryturę.Zawsze podobali mi się gracze z
tego kraju Alami,Arazi i on.Widziałem go na żywo w Szczecinie w challengerze PKO i grał
naprawdę bardzo dobrze. Takiego meczu jak zagrał z Andym nie zapomne nigdy...oglądałem live i to był jeden z najlepszych meczy jakie w życiu widziałem.Rodd wygrał ale w 1/2 był tylko cieniem...zaplacił słono za ten 1/4.
Jednak wiek 37 lat robi wrażenie, Younes jak zechce może już grywać w ATP Senior Tour tylko nie wiadomo czy już nie ma dosyć tenisa na dłuższy czas..może ma inne plany na przyszłość.

DUN I LOVE · 28-03-2009 23:33:24

Profil zawodnika na stronie ATP:
http://www.atpworldtour.com/tennis/3/en … el+aynaoui

Racja. To ostatni z 3 wspaniałych graczy z Maroka. Bardzo długo ten kraj nie doczeka się takiej ilości tak pięknie i finezyjnie grających zawodników. A jeszcze całkiem niedawno cała trójka czarowała na światowych kortach.

jaccol55 · 30-12-2009 12:01:32

El Aynaoui graces tennis world with comeback and encouraging result

No, it's not a senior tour. At nearly 37, Younes El Aynaoui is out to prove he can still light up a court with his tenacious game and engaging personality.

El Aynaoui vaulted back into tennis consciousness last week by qualifying into the main draw of the BMW Open in Munich, then reaching the semifinals with wins over two top-100 players -- Belgium's Steve Darcis, 23, and Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro, 19 -- along the way before he fell to eventual winner Fernando Gonzalez of Chile in three sets. Gonzalez' first title of 2008 moved him up four places to No. 11.

The Moroccan veteran has been sidelined for portions of the last two years with recurring severe tendonitis in both wrists, chiefly the left, which he had to immobilize in a cast for nine weeks at one point. He thinks he's licked the problem by using a lighter racket and dialing down to a lower string tension.

"Honestly, I thought I could still come back,'' said El Aynaoui, who lives in Barcelona with his wife and three children, ages 11, 7 and 5. "I love being with my kids and living like a father, but in the back of my mind … I always had a physical coach. I knew as soon as the pain disappeared, I could work all the other muscles in my body.''

El Aynaoui won two clay-court events on the Futures and Challenger circuits earlier this season and played a Davis Cup tie for Morocco, but Munich marked his first appearance in an ATP main draw in a year. He was the oldest player to reach an ATP semifinal since a 40-year-old Jimmy Connors advanced that far in San Francisco in 1993.

"Coming back [to Munich] where I won in 2002, and seeing people, it's been great,'' El Aynaoui said from Munich.

The run leapfrogged El Aynaoui nearly 100 places in the rankings to No. 199. He's going to keep playing lower-level events -- like the Challenger in Ostrava, Czech Republic, where he's entered this week -- in an effort to try to get into qualifying rounds or even direct entry into the U.S. Open.

"That's one of my goals,'' said El Aynaoui, a popular figure in New York, where he was a two-time quarterfinalist and played some memorable matches. "But let's not rush. We'll see how it goes. I'm asking a lot of my body.''

El Aynaoui said he works regularly with Jordi Arrese, the 1992 Olympic silver medalist and former Spanish Davis Cup captain who is now sports director of the Catalan Tennis Federation-owned international tennis center in Barcelona.

http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=122909

DUN I LOVE · 04-01-2010 10:11:40

Występ w Doha to będzie ostatni turniej w karierze Younesa. Nie dał rady pożegnać się w Casablance, więc chce to uczynić teraz.

El Aynaoui’s final fling

Younes El Aynaoui: to announce retirement in Doha

Moroccan tennis legend Younes El Aynaoui will announce his retirement in Doha after taking one last shot at the ExxonMobilQatarOpen, which he had won in 2002.
El Aynaoui, the most successful player of Arab descent in history, has been given a wildcard by the Qatar Tennis Federation so that he can bow out of the game at one of his favourite venues.
“Younes asked for a wildcard because he wants to retire in Doha. The Khalifa Tennis Complex is one of his favourite venues, and he thought it would be apt for him to call it quits at a place which is very close to his heart,” tournament director Karim Alami told the Gulf Times yesterday.
El Aynaoui, who has won singles titles on the ATP Tour, has had a chequered career. He had to endure long spells of inaction because of several injuries and has not played top-level tennis since September 2008.
“He has been unlucky to suffer many injuries, but he is very fit now and you never know what he is capable of,” Alami, a fellow Moroccan, added.
In March 2008, after a seven-month lay-off due to injuries, he won a Futures event in Castelldefels, Spain on clay, and in April he won a challenger event in Chiasso, Switzerland. In May that year, he reached the semi-finals of the BMW Open in Munich to become the oldest player to reach the semi-finals of an ATP Tour level event since Jimmy Connors in 1993.
He also reached the quarter-finals of the Casablanca Open in Morocco, but retired due to an injury in his left calf. Those were the last two ATP tournaments he ever played.
El Aynaoui is an extremely popular figure in Morocco where he received the country’s highest sporting honour from King Mohammed VI. In a 2003 poll by leading Moroccan newspaper L’Economiste, readers named El Aynaoui their favorite role model for society, ahead of the prime minister and athletics star Hicham El Guerrouj. The centre court of the Royal Tennis Club in Marrakech is named after El Aynaoui.
El Ayanoui’s matches in Doha always drew packed houses, which even players such as Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal cannot boast of.
Meanwhile, the draw for the QatarExxonMobilOpen beginning tomorrow was held yesterday with World No.1 Roger Federer and World No.2 playing Belgian Christophe Rochus and Italian Simone Bolelli respectively in the first round.
World No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko and El Aynaoui will take on qualifiers.
Nadal and Federer are scheduled to arrive in Doha today after playing an exhibition event in Abu Dhabi.

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/a … rent_id=29

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