Mohammad Ghareeb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Mohammad Ghareeb

Kuwaiti tennis player

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1980

Place of Birth: Kuwait City, Capital Governorate, Kuwait

Profession: tennis player

Nationality: Kuwait

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Mohammad Ghareeb

  • Mohammed Ghareeb (born July 22, 1980) is a tennis player from Kuwait.
  • He plays right-handed with a single-handed backhand. Unranked in singles as of February 2018, with a career-high ranking of No.
  • 336 in 2006.
  • In August 2016, Al Ghareeb was Kuwait's second ranked tennis player.He played a competitive match against world No.
  • 1 Roger Federer in the second round of the 2006 Dubai Tennis Championships, though he lost in straight sets.
  • Ranked No.
  • 488 at the time of the match, Ghareeb was expected to offer little resistance to Federer, but in a surprisingly competitive match, Al Ghareeb led 4–2 in the first set, and 3-2 in the second, before succumbing 7–6, 6–4.
  • According to Federer, Al Ghareeb was "definitely the better player and I think only my experience helped me get through."Al Ghareeb did not make a significant breakthrough at a top-level event, though in the 2007 Dubai Tennis Championships he won a set from Top 10 player TomΓ‘Ε‘ Berdych before losing 3–6, 6–3, 6–2.
  • Al Ghareeb again received a wild-card to Dubai in 2008, losing 6–4 6–0 in the first round to the fifth seed Nikolay Davydenko.
  • Once again, he received a wild card in 2009, losing 7–5 4–6 4–6 in the first round to third seed Gilles Simon.
  • Simon praised his opponent's play and expressed surprise at his low ranking, saying that Al Ghareeb "has a strange ranking, 400 or so, with his game, it's just unbelievable."In 2007, he led the Kuwaiti team in its most successful Davis Cup season, reaching the Asia/Oceania Group II final with victories over Iran and Indonesia, before losing the division championship match to the Philippines in a 0–5 sweep.
  • As of February 2018, Ghareeb had a 67–31 record in Davis Cup play for Kuwait (50-13 in singles), and was its longest-standing member.

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