Adil Shamasdin
Adil Shamasdin
Adil Shamasdin
Adil Shamasdin
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  • Personal
    • Father, Kamru; mother, Rozi; brothers, Jamil and Irfan.
    • Parents both represented Kenya in athletics. Father played on national cricket team and mother was member of national track-and-field team.
    • Brothers both played college athletics. Jamil ran track-and-field at Harvard and Irfan played tennis at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
    • Introduced to many sports at an early age and began playing tennis as an 8-year-old.
    • Credits childhood coach Dave Ochotta, college coach Jon Choboy and his family with helping him succeed.
    • Played college tennis at Brown University from 2002-05 and graduated with degree in psychology.
    • Along with doubles partnerPhilip Charm in 2005, became firstAll-Americans in Brown program history.
    • Favourite shot is jumping overhead smash, surface is grass, tournament is Wimbledon and city on tour is Tokyo.
    • Tennis idols are Andre Agassi and Roger Federer.
    • Favourite other sport is cricket and athlete is basketball legend Michael Jordan.
    • Favourite actor is Denzel Washington, movie is The Shawshank Redemption and TV shows are Breaking Bad and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
    • Enjoys reading and listening to podcasts. Favourite podcast host is Joe Rogan.
    • Favouritemusician is Bob Marley,food is chicken and school subject was science.
    • Supports Tenacity, a Boston-based charity that uses tennis and fitness to attract youth forafter-school, in-school and summer programs.
    • Says that his guilty pleasure is to "lay in bed and do nothing."
    • Lists personality as his best quality and singing as his worst quality.

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