2000 St. Petersburg Open
Encyclopedia
The 2000 St. Petersburg Open was a tennis
tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in Saint Petersburg
in Russia
and was part of the ATP International Series
of the 2000 ATP Tour
. The tournament ran from Novemver 6 through Novemver 12, 2000.
Marat Safin
defeated
Dominik Hrbatý
2–6, 6–4, 6–4
Daniel Nestor
/
Kevin Ullyett
defeated
Thomas Shimada
/
Myles Wakefield
7–65, 7–5
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and was part of the ATP International Series
ATP International Series
The International Series was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally as part of the ATP Tour until 2008....
of the 2000 ATP Tour
2000 ATP Tour
The Association of Tennis Professionals Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the ATP tour. The 2000 ATP Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments , the tennis event at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the Tennis Masters Series, the ATP International Series Gold, the ATP...
. The tournament ran from Novemver 6 through Novemver 12, 2000.
Men's Singles
Marat SafinMarat Safin
Marat Mikhailovich Safin is a retired Russian tennis player of Tatar descent. Safin won two grand slams and reached the world number 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin also holds the record for most broken...
defeated
Dominik HrbatýDominik Hrbatý
Dominik Hrbatý is a retired professional tennis player from Slovakia.-Personal life:Hrbatý was born on 4 January 1978 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. His father was an architecture engineer and his younger brother is an umpire...
2–6, 6–4, 6–4
- It was Safin's 6th title of the year and the 7th of his career.
Men's Doubles
Daniel NestorDaniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
/
Kevin UllyettKevin Ullyett
Kevin Ullyett is a former professional tennis player from Zimbabwe. His primary success on the tour has been in men's doubles. He has won 24 doubles titles, including the 2001 US Open and the 2005 Australian Open, both with Wayne Black...
defeated
Thomas ShimadaThomas Shimada
Thomas Shimada was a professional tennis player who represented Japan. He turned professional in 1993....
/
Myles WakefieldMyles Wakefield
Myles Wakefield , is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles, achieving a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 46 in 2001....
7–65, 7–5
- It was Nestor's 3rd title of the year and the 15th of his career. It was Ullyett's 3rd title of the year and the 10th of his career.