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Rafael Nadal was born on June 3, 1986 in Manacor, Mallorca. He is a professional tennis player, situated on the second position of the Top 100 and Roger Federer's NO.1 enemy.

Biography and Career :

Her parents' names are Sebastian and Ana Maria. He was trained by his uncle, Toni Nadal. Besides him, his parents also have one daughter. Even if he plays with his left hand he is not a left-handed. His uncle was the one who taught him to play this way and considered it was for his best. When he was a child, he played football and at 12 years old decided to be a great tennis player. His first victory came in 2002 at Majorca where he defeated Ramon Delgado. Next year he won other two titles and managed to play i nto the third round at Wimbledon.

During the years he broke a lot of records because he was one of the youngest players. His most famous result is at the French Open. He participated there for the first time in 2005 and surprised everyone after winning the Grand Slam title. It was also his first Grand Slam title in his entire career. The next two years he participated again and managed to win the finals so until now he has three consecutive victories at Roland Garros. In 2006 he played the final at Wimbledon against Roger Federer, but unfortunately lost the game. In the same year he participated at US Open and played into the quarter-finals.

In 2007, he played the quarter-finals at the Australian Open, but Fernando Gonzalez was the one who beat him. He is a sensational and talented tennis player. He will break records again and will show the entire world what he is capable of. Let's hope that injuries will stay away from him and he will have a great career.

Trivia :

- Height: 185 cm
- Weight: 85 kg
- He plays: left-handed
- He turned pro in 2001.

Career Review :

- Singles Record: 228 - 58
- Singles Titles: 22
- Doubles Record: 57 - 36
- Doubles Titles: 3
- Prize Money: $11,634,484
- Career High ATP Ranking - Singles: 2 (25-Jul-2005).
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Tiger Woods Golf player latest images and biography

Tiger Woods Biography
born: 30-12-1975
birth place: Cypress, California, USA


The only child of Earl Woods, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel who fought in Vietnam, and his wife Kutilda, a native of Thailand. The couple had met in Bangkok during the Vietnam War and named their son Eldrick. He was nicknamed Tiger after his father’s friend, Vuong Dang Phong, a Vietnamese soldier whom Earl had also called Tiger.


Close to his parents, Woods had a happy childhood growing up in Cypress, near Los Angeles, California. He remembers loving his bicycle and skateboard but his intense interest in golf began very young. He was a mere six months old when he would watch and mimic his father hitting golf balls into a net. At age two he was putting with Bob Hope on the Mike Douglas Show and at age three he played a round of 48 for nine holes. Golf Digest featured the five-year-old Woods and he appeared on ABC’s ‘That’s Incredible’. He was eight when he won the 1884 Junior World Golf Championships, having to enter the 9-10 boys’ event as it was the youngest group available. He went on to win the Optimist International Junior tournament six times, at ages 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 15. To this day, he is the event’s youngest ever player and the only multiple winner.

Suffering with a bad stutter as a boy, his intense desire to win helped him overcome it, largely by talking to the eternally patient family dog but also trying extra hard at school. He attended Western High School in Anaheim, California. At age 16, Woods entered his first professional tournament, the 1992 Nissan Los Angeles Open and in 1993, he played in three PGA Tour events. In 1994 he tied for 34th place in the Johnnie Walker Asian Classic in Thailand and participated in three more PGA Tour events before starting at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Also in 1994, he won the Western Amateur and represented the US in the World Amateur Golf Team Championships in France, becoming the youngest person ever to win the event. He won the 1995 Walker Cup Match in Wales.

As an amateur golfer, Woods achieved an impressive amount, winning six USGA national championships as well as the NCAA title. He was the 1991 and 1992 Golf Digest Player of the Year, 1994 Golfweek National Amateur of the Year and chosen for the Fred Haskins and Jack Nicklaus College Player of the Year awards in 1996. The final flourish in his amateur career was to win his third consecutive US Amateur title, ending with a record 18 consecutive match-play victories. No one before Woods had won the US Junior Amateur more than once and he was the youngest ever to win it, at age 15 in 1991. He was also the youngest player ever to win the US Amateur title, at age 18 in 1994. With all his golfing talent, Woods decided to leave college after being there two years, in order to enter the sport professionally.
On 27 August 1996, he became a professional golfer at the age of 20, under the guidance of coach Butch Harmon, and was soon to prove to the world that he was somewhat of a golfing prodigy. In order for Woods to earn a player’s card for the PGA Tour, there were only seven events left in 1996 in which he could prove himself. His first tournament as a professional golfer was the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open in which he tied for 60th place, winning $2,544, his first cheque as a professional player. Woods remains justifiably proud of winning two of the remaining 1996 tournaments, as well as being placed in the top 30 money winners qualifying for the Tour Championship and finishing overall in 25th place. He had more than earned his professional player’s card.

Woods was selected as Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year in 1996, an honour that he would again enjoy in 2000, making him the first person to win it more than once. He was also named 1996 PGA Rookie of the Year. On 15 June 1997, at age 21 years, 24 weeks, he won the season-opening Mercedes Championships with a birdie in a playoff with Tom Lehman, making him the youngest ever number one golfer, taking the title from Bernhard Langer who was youngest in 1986 at age 29 years, 31 weeks. Winning The Masters by a record margin of twelve strokes, he then became the youngest Masters winner at age 21 years, three months and 14 days. To this day, it is the winning of The Masters that is his proudest moment. He also became the first major championship winner of African or Asian heritage. Woods went on to win four PGA Tour events in 1997, as well as one overseas. He gained the 1997 Arnold Palmer Award when he became the leading money winner, with a then-record £2,066,833 and a worldwide earning of £2,440,831 over 25 events. In 1997, Woods achieved the most rapid progression ever to number one position on the Official World Golf Rankings and he later remained in Rankings top position for a record 264 consecutive weeks, from 15 August 1999 to 29 August 2004.

The Associated Press named Woods Male Athlete of the Year in 1997 and again in 1999 and 2000, making him the only athlete besides Michael Jordan to win the award three times. He was 1997 ESPY Male Athlete of the Year, in a tie with Ken Griffey Jr., and again in 1999 and 2000. He was selected Player of the Year in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 by the PGA Tour, winning the Jack Nicklaus Award, the PGA of America and the Golf Writers Association of America.

Woods beat South African Ernie Els in the 1998 Johnnie Walker Classic in Thailand in a dramatic playoff. He had been eleven strokes behind Els after two rounds and clinched his victory with a birdie on the second playoff hole. 1999 was his third full season as a professional, and Woods was showing everyone just how talented he was. He had eight wins on the PGA Tour, including the PGA Championship and earned £6,616,585 which was a full £2,974,679 more than second place David Duval. In fact, he won 52 percent of the possible prize money, which was nearly 82 percent more than the runner-up. Woods achieved another record by being the first player since Johnny Miller in 1974 to have eight PGA Tour victories in one year. Ending 1999 with a flourish, he won four consecutive PGA Tour events and then had two more, making a total of six successive wins.

In 1999 and 2000, he was named World Sportsman of the Year, as voted by the founding members of the World Sports Academy for the Laureus Sports Awards. In 2000, he was chosen as the World Champion of Champions by L’Equipe in France and Reuters selected him as Sportsman of the Year. Whilst the accolades were rolling in, Woods continued to concentrate on improving his game and it showed. His adjusted scoring average for 2000 was 67.79 strokes, which was the lowest ever achieved and which broke his own record of 68.43 in 1999. For this performance, Woods won the Bryon Nelson Award on the PGA Tour as well as the Vardon Trophy from the PGA of America. His actual scoring average in 2000 was 68.17 strokes, which broke Nelson’s 1945 record of 68.33 strokes.
Winning his first British Open Championships in 2000, he became the youngest to complete the career Grand Slam of professional major championships and the fifth ever to do so. The previous four golfers were Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus. With his second Masters victory in 2001, Woods became the first ever to hold all four professional major championships at the same time, a feat dubbed the “Tiger Slam”. He went on to win The Masters Tournaments in 2001, 2002 and 2005. He won the 1999, 2000 and 2006 PGA Championships and the 2000 and 2002 US Open Championships. He became the first since Denny Shute in 1936-7 to win the PGA championship in consecutive years. Woods also won the 2005 and 2006 British Open Championships.
In 2000, he won no less than eleven tournaments (nine on PGA Tour, one on PGA European Tour and the PGA Grand Slam) as well as winning the World Cup team title for the United States, with David Duval. His nine PGA Tour victories were the fifth highest total ever and were the most since Sam Snead’s eleven wins in 1950. In 2001, he had five wins on the PGA Tour and eight wins worldwide. In 2002, five wins on the PGA Tour and seven wins worldwide, making him the PGA Tour’s leading money winner for the fourth consecutive year with £6,912,625 and £8,417,188 worldwide. He holds the record for the lowest score in relation to par, in each of the four major championships. His records are 270 (18 under par) in the Masters, 272 (12 under par) in the US Open, 269 (19 under par) in the British Open, and 270 (18 under par) in the 2000 PGA Championship, a record he shares with Bob May.

With everything going brilliantly in his career, the 28-year-old golf superstar’s personal life was also taking an upturn. In November 2003, Woods and his Swedish model girlfriend, Elin Nordegren, were engaged. They were married on 5 October 2004 and took a honeymoon cruise on their boat to Puerto Rico. The couple live in Orlando, Florida but also have homes in Wyoming, Jackson, California and Sweden. In March 2004, Woods began being coached by Hank Haney and that year, was named the highest earning US sportsman, with a total of $89.4 million in winnings and endorsements.

Since his 21st birthday, Woods has signed several endorsement deals, including American Express, General Motors, General Mills, Accenture and Nike. His five-year, £100 million contract with Nike was, at the time, the largest endorsement deal ever signed by an athlete. He also endorses the ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour’ video game series and collaborated with Tag Heuer in developing the world’s first professional golf watch, released in April 2005.

In early January 2006, in celebration of his 30th birthday (30 December 2005), Woods bought a luxury estate on Jupiter Island, Florida. Once again breaking records, the $40 million he paid was the highest sale price for property in what has been dubbed the ‘Most Expensive ZIP Code’. He and Elin plan to make it their primary residence once renovations to the house are complete.
Woods had lost one of his most important mentors and a father he had always dearly loved. He took nine weeks out from golfing in order to be with his family. When he returned for the 2006 US Open, it was evident that his heart wasn’t entirely in his game and for the first time in his professional career, he failed to qualify for the weekend at a major. With his steely core of determination and perhaps remembering his fathers words to him as a young man, “I promise you one thing: you’ll never meet another person as tough as you”, Woods bounced back with an improved game. He won the British Open with 18 under par and was quite emotional when he dedicated his victory to the memory of his father. A few weeks later, he won the PGA Championship with another 18 below par and with only three bogeys, he tied for fewest bogeys in a major.

Feeling strongly about the parental support he had enjoyed, Woods wanted to share that with the community. In February 2006, he opened the first ‘Tiger Woods Learning Center’ in Anaheim, California, not far from where he grew up. He put in over $5 million for the foundation that aims to provide children aged 10 to 18 with mentoring and guidance. After consultation with the children of the community to find out what they wanted to see on the curriculum, the foundation offers courses such as computers, creative writing and rocketry. Also planned are summer programmes, weekend and community outreach programmes. The extensive multi-media facilities will allow the opportunity for online learning and the centre has an outdoor area for teaching golf. Claiming this project was closer to his heart than golf, Woods plans to open more centres of this kind around the world.

Woods arranges an annual fund raising concert called ‘Tiger Jam’ and donates his winnings from the annual off-season charity golf tournament, the Target World Challenge, to his foundation. His Tiger Woods Foundation National Junior Golf Team has eighteen members and competes in the annual Junior World Golf Championships.


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Michael Jordan Basketball player images and biography

The son of James and Deloris Jordan, Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York.
His father was a mechanic at the General Electric plant and his mother worked with a bank. Michael was very young when his family shifted to Wilmington, North Carolina. His parents were blessed with four other children named, Larry Jordan and James R. Jordan, Jr., Deloris and Roslyn.

Even as a youngster, Michael showed streaks of a sportsman. Initially, his inclination was towards baseball. But soon, he developed a keen interest in basketball, following his older brother Larry’s footsteps. As a sophomore, at Laney High School, his attempt to get into the varsity team failed because he was raw and undersized. The following summer, he grew four inches and practiced tirelessly. The hard work paid off in shape of Jordan being selected to the McDonald's All-American Team as a senior.

After high school, he accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina. At this level, he received training by the legendary coach Dean Smith. He made himself visible in the very first year by making it to the title of the ACC Freshman of the Year. It was his fifteen foot winning jump short that made his teammates nickname him as ‘Superman’. Jordan left North Carolina after his junior year and was selected by the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) as the third pick of the 1984 draft. The Chicago Bulls were then a losing team but Jordan’s caliber quickly turned scores around. He had a unique style of play and fierce spirit of competition. Jordan's incredible leaping ability and hang time thrilled fans in arenas around the league. In his first season itself, he was honored as the league's Rookie of the Year.

Thanks to a broken foot, Jordan was sidelined for 64 games during the 1985–86 season. But not the won to lose heart, he made the 1986–87 season one of individual successes. He became the first player since Wilt Chamberlain to score 3,000 points in a single season. Jordan enjoyed personal success, but Chicago did not advance beyond the first round of the playoffs until 1988. Jordan concentrated on improving his other basketball skills and in the future years won five regular season MVP awards, six NBA championships, six NBA finals MVP awards, three All-Star game MVP awards and a defensive player of the year award. In 1993 summer Jordan's father, James, was murdered by two men during a robbery attempt. A grief stricken, Jordan announced his retirement from professional basketball. For one year, Jordan relit his childhood love for baseball with Chicago White Sox. However, this seventeen-month experiment showed that he was not a major league baseball player. In 1995 the media reported his comeback. He rejoined the Bulls and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997 AND 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995-96 season. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999 but he returned for two more NBA seasons in 2001 as a member of the Washington Wizards. Eventually, he retired for good following the 2002-03 season.

During his basketball days, Jordan was also in the limelight for a paternity suit filed against him by Karla Knafel and a turbulent marriage with Juanita Vanoy, the mother of his three children. The marriage finally ended in a divorce in 2006.


Jordan is also noted for his product endorsements, Nike’s Air Jordan being a success story in itself. In 1996, he also starred in the film ‘Space Jam’. He is currently a part-owner and Managing Member of Basketball Operations of the Charlotte Bobcats in North Carolina.


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