| Country (sports) |  South Korea | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1987-05-26) 26 May 1987 (age 37) 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.
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. His only other appearance came in 2007, when he won in the singles against Dmitriy Makeyev of Kazakhstan.
See also
References
- "Young makes junior Slam history". BBC News. 30 January 2005.
- Boock, Richard (25 September 2005). "Tennis: Davis Cup wilderness beckons yet again".
External links
- Kim Sun-yong at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Kim Sun-yong at the Davis Cup
- Kim Sun-yong at the International Tennis Federation
- 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