Marcos Baghdatis

Marcos Baghdatis is a Cypriot professional tennis player. He was the runnerup at the 2006 Australian Open and a semifinalist at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships and reached a careerhigh ATP singles ranking of World No.in August 2006.

Baghdatis was born in Paramytha, Cyprus to a Lebanese father, Christos and a Greek Cypriot mother, Andoula. He has two brothers, Petros and Marinos and a sister, Zena, who was adopted by his family at justmonths old. His father, a native Lebanese who follows Greek Orthodox Christianity emigrated to Cyprus from Lebanon and owns a clothes shop. He began playing tennis at the age of five with his father and brothers. He enjoys playing and watching football and is a supporter of Apollon Limassol in Cyprus. He trained at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in Paris on an Olympic Solidarity Youth Development Programme Scholarship since the age ofand learned to speak French.

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