Rabie Abou Hassoun :: Biography

Started tennis at the age of 4 with his father at the Alumni Club.

At the age of 8, Rabie won his first tennis tournament for the age of 14 & under at the Escape Club.

At 12, Rabie traveled to the USA to study and train at the Herry Hopman Tennis Academy, Florida (#1 Tennis Academy in the world) where Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, Jennifer Capriati and David Weaton trained back in 1992

At 13, Rabie won his first tennis tournament in Florida, beating Steven Capriati (the brother of Jennifer Capriati)in the final game at Hunters green tournament and Anna Kurnikova won the girls 14 & Under.

At 14, Rabie was ranked 1st in Florida for the 14 & Under. During this period Rabie started to participate in the 16 & Under and was ranked 3rd.

At the age of 14 & 9 months, Rabie participated in his first Davis Cup Event (the world championship for countries) and was selected in the same year to be one of the youngest 15 players in the history of tennis to play Davis Cup at this age and was ranked 12 while Bjorn Borg was ranked 17.

At the age of 14 & 11 months, Rabie was ranked 1st in Lebanon for the men categories.

At the age of 16, Rabie went to another private Academy in Nice, France, at Sophia Country Club, to train with Daniel Conte’, the former Wimbledon player. During his stay, Rabie was practicing most of the time with Jean Renee’ Lisnard who reached the round of 16 in Roland Gaross in 2005.

At the age of 17, Rabie won his first international tennis tournament and was ranked internationally for the first time.

One of his biggest achievements was in Africa where he participated in 4 international tournaments, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and won 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals, 1 bronze medal and reached a high ranking of 98 worldwide.

During this period, Rabie was living in Frankfurt, Germany and was practicing where the former Wimbledon Champions, Steffi Graf and Michael Stitch trained.

Rabie also was the #1 player in the men categories in Lebanon from 1994 until 2000.

Rabie played 9 Davis Cup Events and won 29 matches out of 36.

At the age of 17, Rabie was also ranked 3rd in all Arab countries in the men categories.

Rabie was also the sparing partner of Ronald Ajinor, one of the top players in the world who won over Andre Agassi twice.

In 2001, Rabie was living in Paris, France and played for a division 1 club in Villepreux near Saint Germain.

Rabie won more than 100 international and local tennis tournament in his courier