Mansur (Arabic: منصور‎, Manṣūr; also spelled Mansoor, Mansour, Monsour or Mensur) is a male Arabic name that means "victorious, by the will of God", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory."

The first known bearer of the name was Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad.

Other people called Mansur during the golden Age of Islam include:

• Mansur I of Samanid and Mansur II of Samanid, amirs of the Samanids
• Ismail al-Mansur, third Caliph of the Fatimids
• Mansur ad-Din of Adal, a sultan of Adal
• Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism
• Mansur ibn Ilyas, a Timurid physician
• Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan), a khan of Moghulistan
• Mansur Shah of Malacca, a sultan of Malacca

Imams of Yemen[link]

• Al-Mansur Yahya (d. 976)
• Al-Mansur Abdallah (1166-1217)
• Al-Mansur al-Hasan (1199–1271)
• Al-Mansur an-Nasir (d. 1462)
• Al-Mansur Muhammad (1441-1505)
• Al-Mansur al-Husayn  (1669 - 1720)
• Al-Mansur Ali I (1738-1809)
• Al-Mansur Ahmad (d. 1853)
• Al-Mansur Ali II (1812 - 1871)
• Al-Mansur al-Husayn III (d.1888)

Modern given name[link]

The spelling Mansur is most commonly seen as the Turkic form. While the transliteration Mansoor is typically used by South Asians. Mansur or Mansour is used in Turkic languages, Iranian languages or Arabic, and Mensur is used in the Bosnian language.

• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer
• Mansour al-Balawi, former Al-Ittihad president
• Mansour Al-Thagafi, Saudi Arabian footballer.
• Mansoor Ahmed, Pakistani hockey player
• Mensur Akgün, Turkish scholar
• Mansoor Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
• Mansoor Amjad, Pakistani cricketer
• Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian political theorist and activist
• Mansoor Ijaz, American commentator and businessman
• Mansoor Muhammed Ali Qattaa, Saudi Arabian held in detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps
• Mansour (singer), Iranian singer
• Mansour F. Armaly, Palestinian-American physician and researcher
• Mansour Bahrami, Iranian tennis player
• Mensur Bajramović, Bosnian basketball coach
• Mensur Peljto, former Bosnian cruiserweight boxer
• Mansoor Khan, Pakistani film maker
• Mullah Bakht Mohammed, military commander for Afghanistan's Taliban known as Mansoor Dadullah
• Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates
• Mansour Leghaei, Iranian Shia Imam and Founder of the Imam Husain Islamic Centre
• Mansour Matloubi, Iranian professional poker player
• Mansoor Malangi, Pakistani singer
• Mansoor Muftah, Qatari football player
• Mansour Osanlou, Iranian trade union activist
• Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, and producer
• Mansour Seck, Senegalese singer and musician
• Mansour Zalzal, Abbasid musician and composer
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, nawab of Bengal
• Sheikh Mansur, Chechen leader against Catherine the Great's Russia
• Mansur Mozaffarov, Russian Tatar composer and pedagogue
• Mansurul Haq, Pakistani admiral and Chief of Naval Staff of the Pakistan Navy
• Mensur Kurtisi, Macedonian association football player
• Mansoor Zaman, Pakistani professional squash player

Surname[link]

• Ghulam Mansoor, Subedar major, Bhopal state
• Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, leader and spokesman for Somalia's al-Shabaab known as Abu Mansur
• Ali Mansur, prime minister of Iran
• Ahmed Subhy Mansour, Egyptian cleric
• Belal Mansoor Ali, Bahraini runner from Kenya
• Charles H. Mansur, American politician from Missouri
• Eli Mansour, Syrian-Orthodox Rabbi in Brooklyn
• Gueye Mansour, Senegalese footballer
• Hassan-Ali Mansur, Iranian politician and prime minister
• Jossy Mansur, Aruban newspaper editor of Lebanese descent
• M. A. Mansoor, Egyptian antiquarian
• Maghfoor Mansoor, Pakistani native who was a fugitive in the United States
• Mallikarjun Mansur, Indian classical singer
• Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician and prime minister
• Mustafa Mansour, Egyptian footballer
• Reda Mansour, Israeli poet, historian and diplomat
• Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour, Egyptian street gang leader and serial killer
• Shadia Mansour, British born Palestinian singer
• Shoaib Mansoor, Pakistani film producer, director, writer, lyricist, and composer
• Sliman Mansour, Palestinian painter
• Ustad Mansur, Mughal painter from India

Other uses[link]

• Mansur, Iran, a village in Qazvin Province
• Mansour district, an administrative district of Baghdad, named for Al-Mansur
• Mansour neighbourhood, a neighborhood within Mansour district, Baghdad
• 20416 Mansour, a main-belt asteroid
• Sidi Mansour, a popular Arabic language song from Tunisia.
• Mansur Terrace, a trendy residential street in York University Village, located in the northern district of Concord in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada.
• Mansoor a sub tribe of the pushtoon tribe jadoon
• mansur kilaniya Gss membr of alsisar jhunjhunu rajasthan

See also[link]

• Manzur, a similar name common in South and Southeast Asia
• Mansura (disambiguation), a place name occurring in several countries

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Mansour Bahrami

Country	Iran, France
Residence	Paris, France
Born	(1956-04-26) April 26, 1956 (age 56) Arak, Iran
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	180 lbs (82 kg)
Turned pro	1974
Retired	N/A
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$368,780
Singles
Career record	33–56 (at ATP Tour, Grand Prix tour, WCT tour, and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 192 (May 9, 1988)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	N/A
French Open	2R (1981)
Wimbledon	N/A
US Open	N/A
Doubles
Career record	108–139 (at ATP Tour, Grand Prix tour, WCT tour, and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 31 (July 6, 1987)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	F (1989)
Last updated on: 22 March 2008.

Mansour Bahrami (Persian: منصور بهرامی‎) (born April 26, 1956) is a professional tennis player. He has held dual French and Iranian nationality since 1989.

Early life[link]

From an early age he worked as a ball boy within a sports complex in Tehran, Iran. He observed many of the best Iranian tennis players in action but he was never allowed to play. Eventually he snuck onto one of the courts but his first racquet was destroyed by an outraged armed guard who kicked him out. He resorted to learning the game through the use of his hands or frying pans or broom handles. Bahrami has often commented that his outrageous shotmaking ability resulted from mastering tennis using such unusual implements.

Tennis career[link]

The time came when the Iranian team was short of players and Bahrami was finally permitted to play the game on a tennis court. His talent was obvious and he reached the Davis Cup team (and helped the team to victory at the age of just sixteen) but in the late 1970s the Islamic Revolution within Iran led to tennis being viewed as a capitalist and elitist sport. He spent the next three years playing backgammon as all tennis courts were closed down. In desperation he fled to France with his life savings, which he gambled in a casino and lost.^[1] A number of friends supported him financially as he began to play a few tournaments within France.

While his best days were behind him and he never maximized his potential in singles, he became a successful doubles player who even reached the French Open doubles final in 1989 in partnership with Eric Winogradsky. His weakness and indeed his strength was an inescapable thirst for providing a crowd with a show. He often lost in the early rounds of singles tournaments due to his tendency to play trick shots from the off or when he was bored with winning too easily. He was able to play more seriously in doubles where he felt that he could not be seen to be letting his partner down.

Senior tournaments[link]

Bahrami did not become a household name during his days on the main ATP Tour but enough of his fellow players had seen his talent at first hand to be impressed. He was perhaps the only player in history to be paid a guarantee just to enter the qualifying tournament for ATP tournaments. However, when the Champions Tour was set up for players aged over 35 in 1993, he had found his niche. Over time, the matches that he played with the likes of Jimmy Connors, Björn Borg and John McEnroe ensured that he achieved star status in his own right. Bahrami also formed a memorable doubles partnership with former French Open finalist and Davis Cup winner Henri Leconte as well as former French Open champion Yannick Noah. His best achievement in the senior tour so far was winning the ATP Champions Tour event in Doha, Qatar.

Bahrami had always been an entertainer but his attitude fit perfectly with the aims of the Outback Champions Tour where giving the public a show was essential. He continues to travel for 40 weeks of the year playing exhibition tournaments in which his range of unusual and breathtaking shots are played. His specialty shots include the power shot through the legs, the lob through the legs and the drop shot which bounces back over the net due to excessive backspin. His sense of humour shines through all of his matches and the crowd is never sure of his next move, be it serving while holding six balls (although he is known to hold 21), an under arm serve, catching the ball in his pocket, deliberately missing a smash or playing an imaginary, slow-motion point.

Fame came to Bahrami over time to the extent that he has now played within all of the major tennis venues throughout the world, something he could not do early in his career while on the regular tour, including the show courts at Wimbledon and the French Open. He is married to Frederique and they have two children. His autobiography, Le court des miracles was published in 2006, accompanying a DVD entitled The Man Behind the Moustache chronicling his life and the highlights of his career. His autobiography has been translated into English as The Court Jester and was released in late 2009.

Titles (2)[link]

Doubles (2)[link]

No.	Date	Pakhana	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	1988	Geneva, Switzerland	Clay	Tomáš Šmíd	Gustavo Luza Guillermo Pérez-Roldán	6-4 6-3
2.	1989	Toulouse, France	Carpet	Eric Winogradsky	Todd Nelson Roger Smith	6-2 7-6

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Mansour Bahrami at the Association of Tennis Professionals

References[link]

Henri Leconte

Henri Leconte at the 2010 AFAS Tennis Classics
Country	France
Residence	Geneva, Switzerland
Born	(1963-07-04) July 4, 1963 (age 48) Lillers, France
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	79 kg (170 lb; 12.4 st)
Turned pro	1980
Retired	1996
Plays	Left-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$3,440,660
Singles
Career record	377–269
Career titles	9
Highest ranking	No. 5 (September 22, 1986)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (1985)
French Open	F (1988)
Wimbledon	SF (1986)
US Open	QF (1986)
Doubles
Career record	200–141
Career titles	10
Highest ranking	No. 6 (1986)
Last updated on: April 14, 2012.

Henri Leconte (born July 4, 1963) is a former French professional tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at the French Open in 1988, won the French Open men's doubles title in 1984, and helped France win the Davis Cup in 1991. Leconte's career-high singles ranking was World No. 5.

Biography and career[link]

Leconte first came to the tennis world's attention as an outstanding junior player who won the French Open junior title in 1981. He turned professional that year and won his first career doubles title at Bologna, and his first top-level singles title the following year, 1982, in Stockholm. Leconte played in the Davis Cup final for the first time in 1982, when France was defeated 4–1 by the United States.

Leconte teamed up with Yannick Noah to win the men's doubles title at the French Open in 1984. In 1985, Leconte and Noah reached a second Grand Slam doubles final at the US Open, where they finished runners-up. Leconte reached his career-high doubles ranking of World No. 6 in 1985. In singles in 1985, Leconte reached the quarter-finals of the French Open and Wimbledon, the latter run of which included a dazzling win over world no. 2, Ivan Lendl, in the fourth round of Wimbledon.

1986 saw Leconte reach two Grand Slam singles semi-finals at the French Open and Wimbledon, and attain his career-high singles ranking of world no. 5. Leconte also played on the French team that won the World Team Cup that year.

In 1988, Leconte reached the men's singles final at the French Open. In the final, despite strong support from the French crowd, Leconte could not overcome two-time former champion Mats Wilander, who defeated him in straight sets, 5-7, 2-6, 1-6.

In 1991, Leconte was involved in the Davis Cup final for a second time. France again faced the US, and this time Leconte defeated Pete Sampras in straight sets in a critical singles rubber, and also teamed with Guy Forget to win the doubles rubber, as France upset the heavily-favoured US team 3–1.

In total, Leconte played for France's Davis Cup team for a total of 13 consecutive years, compiling a 41–25 record. He compiled a doubles record of 17–5 and was undefeated with Guy Forget (11 wins), winning his last 14 doubles matches (from March 1985 to July 1993).

Leconte won his final top-level singles title in 1993 in Halle. He also won his final doubles title that year at Indian Wells.

Leconte (better known in some circles as Ryo), who currently sports a full beard, retired from the professional tour in 1996, having won a total of 9 career singles titles and 10 doubles titles. Playing on the ATP Champions Tour for over-35's, he formed a doubles partnership with the Iranian player Mansour Bahrami.

He is now the manager of an event company (HL Event) based in Belgium and opened a tennis academy in Fès, Morocco, in 2006.

In 2010, Leconte appeared on Australian television as a commentator for the 2010 Australian Open. There, he obtained a cult following as a result of a zany exhibition doubles performance, and his passionate and often parochial commentary, especially for compatriot Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, whose winning shots he routinely described as "unbelievable!"^[1]

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline[link]

A = Absent from tournament

NH = Tournament not held

LQ = Lost in Qualifying Round

SR = the ratio of the number of tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

Trivia[link]

He participated in 2005 in the second season of La Ferme Célébrités, a TV reality game show. In 2007, his son Maxime also participated in the TV reality game show Secret Story, the French version of Big Brother.

Major finals[link]

Grand Slam finals[link]

Singles: 1 (0–1)[link]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1988	French Open	Clay	Mats Wilander	5–7, 2–6, 1–6

Doubles: 2 (1–1)[link]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1984	French Open	Clay	Yannick Noah	Pavel Složil Tomáš Šmíd	6–4, 2–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	1985	US Open	Hard	Yannick Noah	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	7–6(5), 6–7(1), 6–7(6), 0–6

Masters Series finals[link]

Doubles: 2 (1–1)[link]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1991	Indian Wells	Hard	Guy Forget	Jim Courier Javier Sánchez	6–7(1), 6–3, 3–6
Winner	1993	Indian Wells	Hard	Guy Forget	Luke Jensen Scott Melville	6–4, 7–5

Singles finals (16)[link]

Wins (9)[link]

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	1982	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Mats Wilander	7–6(4), 6–3
Runner-up	1.	1983	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Guillermo Vilas	6–7, 6–4, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	1983	Sydney Indoor, Australia	Hard (i)	John McEnroe	1–6, 4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	1984	Memphis, U.S.	Carpet	Jimmy Connors	3–6, 6–4, 5–7
Winner	2.	1984	Stuttgart Outdoor, Germany	Clay	Gene Mayer	7–6(9), 6–0, 1–6, 6–1
Winner	3.	1985	Nice, France	Clay	Víctor Pecci	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	1985	Sydney Indoor, Australia	Hard (i)	Ivan Lendl	4–6, 4–6, 6–7(6)
Winner	4.	1985	Sydney Outdoor, Australia	Grass	Kelly Evernden	6–7(6), 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	5.	1986	Bristol, United Kingdom	Grass	Vijay Amritraj	6–7(6), 6–1, 6–8
Winner	5.	1986	Geneva, Switzerland	Clay	Thierry Tulasne	7–5, 6–3
Winner	6.	1986	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Miloslav Mečíř	6–2, 5–7, 6–4, 6–2
Winner	7.	1988	Nice, France	Clay	Jérôme Potier	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	6.	1988	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Kent Carlsson	2–6, 1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	7.	1988	French Open, Paris	Clay	Mats Wilander	5–7, 2–6, 1–6
Winner	8.	1988	Brussels, Belgium	Carpet	Jakob Hlasek	7–6(3), 7–6(6), 6–4
Winner	9.	1993	Halle, Germany	Grass	Andriy Medvedev	6–2, 6–3

Doubles finals (19)[link]

Wins (10)[link]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	1981	Bologna, Italy	Carpet	Sammy Giammalva Jr.	Tomáš Šmíd Balázs Taróczy	7–6, 6–4
Winner	2.	1982	Nice, France	Clay	Yannick Noah	Paul McNamee Balázs Taróczy	5–7, 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	1982	Bournemouth, England	Clay	Ilie Năstase	Paul McNamee Buster Mottram	6–3, 6–7, 3–6
Winner	3.	1982	Basel, Switzerland	Hard (i)	Yannick Noah	Fritz Buehning Pavel Složil	6–2, 6–2
Winner	4.	1982	Vienna, Austria	Carpet	Pavel Složil	Mark Dickson Terry Moor	6–1, 7–6
Runner-up	2.	1983	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Yannick Noah	Heinz Günthardt Balázs Taróczy	2–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	1983	Aix-en-Provence, France	Clay	Gilles Moretton	Ivan Camus Sergio Casal	2–6, 6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	1984	Philadelphia, U.S.	Carpet	Yannick Noah	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	2–6, 3–6
Winner	6.	1984	French Open, Paris	Clay	Yannick Noah	Pavel Složil Tomáš Šmíd	6–4, 2–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Winner	7.	1984	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Pascal Portes	Colin Dowdeswell Wojtek Fibak	2–6, 7–6, 7–6
Winner	8.	1984	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Tomáš Šmíd	Vijay Amritraj Ilie Năstase	3–6, 7–6, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	1985	U.S. Open, New York	Hard	Yannick Noah	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	7–6, 6–7, 6–7, 0–6
Winner	9.	1988	Nice, France	Clay	Guy Forget	Heinz Günthardt Diego Nargiso	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	1988	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Ivan Lendl	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	0–6, 3–6
Runner-up	6.	1990	London/Queen's Club, England	Grass	Ivan Lendl	Jeremy Bates Kevin Curren	2–6, 6–7
Runner-up	7.	1991	Indian Wells, U.S.	Hard	Guy Forget	Jim Courier Javier Sánchez	6–7, 6–3, 3–6
Runner-up	8.	1992	Toulouse, France	Hard (i)	Guy Forget	Brad Pearce Byron Talbot	1–6, 6–3, 3–6
Winner	10.	1993	Indian Wells, U.S.	Hard	Guy Forget	Luke Jensen Scott Melville	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	9.	1994	Halle, Germany	Grass	Gary Muller	Olivier Delaître Guy Forget	4–6, 7–6, 4–6

References[link]

External links[link]

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