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Film & TV
Known for
- The Masked Singer Australia — Echidna2019
- Age of Love — Himself2007
- Wimbledon - Official film 2003 — Self2003
via TMDB
Key facts
- Country sports
- Australia
- Residence
- Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
- Born
- ( 1976-11-07 ) 7 November 1976 (age 49) , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
- Height
- 196 cm (6 ft 5 in)
- Retired
- 2008, (last match 2015)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- US$ 6,987,402
- Career record
- 313–204 (60.5%)
- Highest ranking
- No. 8 (19 April 1999)
- Australian open
- 4R ( 1996 , 1999 , 2000 , 2004 )
- French open
- 4R ( 1997 , 2000 )
- Wimbledon
- F ( 2003 )
- Us open
- F ( 1998 )
- Tour finals
- Alt ( 2003 )
- Grand slam cup
- SF ( 1998 )
- Olympic games
- 3R ( 1996 , 2000 )
- Davis cup
- W ( 1999 , 2003 )
- Hopman cup
- W ( 1999 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Australia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mark
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Melbourne
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1996 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- tennis
- Mass
- 103
- Image
- Mark Philippoussis 2006 Australian Open.JPG
- Height
- 196
- Residence
- Melbourne
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- Commons category
- Mark Philippoussis
- date of birth
- 1976-11-07
- singles record
- 313–204
- doubles record
- 99–73
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- prize money
- 6987402
- end of work period
- 2015-00-00
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
- ranking
- 18
- head coach
- Maria Sakkari
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mark Anthony Philippoussis (born 7 November 1976) is an Australian tennis coach, commentator and former professional tennis player of Greek and Italian descent. Philippoussis' greatest achievements are winning two Davis Cup titles with Australia in 1999 and 2003, winning the deciding rubber in the final of each. He also reached the final of the 1998 US Open and the 2003 Wimbledon singles tournaments. Philippoussis reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8.
Philippoussis has had a minor career in modelling and starred in the American reality television dating show Age of Love. He is nicknamed 'the Scud', after the Scud missile. He is also known in Australia as “The Pou”.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mark Philippoussis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.