Kim Sun-yong
| Country (sports) |  South Korea | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 26 May 1987 Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| Career record | 3-1 | ||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 660 (8 May 2006) | ||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | No. 327 (10 July 2006) | ||||||||||||||
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Kim Sun-yong Jr. (born 26 May 1987) is a South Korean former professional tennis player.
Kim, who was born in Seoul, won the junior doubles title at the 2005 Australian Open, partnering Taiwan's Yi Chu-huan. He was runner-up in the boys' singles event to Donald Young and was also a singles semi-finalist at the 2005 US Open juniors.[1]
A right-handed player, Kim featured in three Davis Cup ties for South Korea. In 2005 he won both of his singles matches against Pacific Oceania, then played a dead rubber in the Group II final against New Zealand, which he lost to Jose Statham.[2] His only other appearance came in 2007, when he won in the singles against Dmitriy Makeyev of Kazakhstan.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Young makes junior Slam history". BBC News. 30 January 2005.
- ^ Boock, Richard (25 September 2005). "Tennis: Davis Cup wilderness beckons yet again".
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- South Korean male tennis players
- Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
- Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for South Korea
- Summer World University Games medalists in tennis
- Tennis players from Seoul
- Asian Games medalists in tennis
- Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
- Tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
- 21st-century South Korean sportsmen