Kim Sun-yong explained

Kim Sun-yong
Birth Date:26 May 1987
Birth Place:Seoul, South Korea
Plays:Right-handed
Singlesrecord:3-1
Highestsinglesranking:No. 660 (8 May 2006)
Highestdoublesranking: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.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Young makes junior Slam history . . 30 January 2005.
  2. News: Boock . Richard . Tennis: Davis Cup wilderness beckons yet again . 25 September 2005 . en-NZ.