In 1999, El Aynaoui won his first top-level singles title in Amsterdam and the following year he reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open where he lost to Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
El Aynaoui won his first top-level singles title in Amsterdam. This was in 1999. El Aynaoui won his first top-level singles title in the following year. This was in 1999. He reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open. He lost to Yevgeny Kafelnikov the following year.