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Paul Wekesa
Paul Wekesa (born 2 July 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Kenya. He won 3 doubles titles, achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 100 and reached two tour-level quarterfinals at Auckland in 1989 and Seoul in 1995.
==Tennis career==
Prior to turning professional, he won the doubles tournament at the 1987 Division II NCAA Men's Tennis Championships while attending Chapman University.〔(History - Past Champions - NCAA.com )〕 During his career, Wekesa won 3 ATP Tour doubles titles. He reached the quarterfinals in doubles at the 1992 Australian Open.
Wekesa won a bronze medal at the 1987 All-Africa Games held in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the only Kenyan tennis player to reach Top 100 of ATP rankings.〔Kenyapage.net: (Kenya's greatest Sporting Figures )〕 He also features for the Kenya Davis Cup team and was still active in 1998.〔Stevegtennis.com: (Davis Cup Results 1998 )〕 He was the first player to be beaten by Tim Henman in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at Wimbledon in 1995.
After retirement from playing, he has served as a Kenyan national teams coach.〔
He won the "Hall of Fame" category at the 2007 Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year awards.〔(SOYA Awards - 2007 winners )〕
His father Noah Wekesa is a Kenyan politician and minister.〔(Office of Public Communications )〕
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