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2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy
The 2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the fifteenth (ATP) and sixteenth (ITF) editions of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Surbiton, United Kingdom, on 4–10 June 2018. Men's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 28 May 2018. Other entrants The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * Jay Clarke * Lloyd Glasspool * Alexander Ward * James Ward The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Jürgen Melzer The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Daniel Brands * Matthew Ebden * Dan Evans * Taylor Fritz Women's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 28 May 2018. Other entrants The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * Jodie Anna Burrage * Tara Moore * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as the second tier of tennis. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP Tour and ahead of the ITF Men%27s World Tennis Tour, ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to enter the main or qualifying draws at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are typically young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP Tour players looking to return to the top tour. History of challenger events The first challenger events were held in 1978, with eighteen events taking place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny (born 25 June 1982), nicknamed "Misha" and "Colonel" by his fans, is a Russian former professional tennis player who was ranked inside the top 10 and was the Russian No. 1. He achieved a top-10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the first time on 13 August 2007, and reached a career peak of world No. 8 in January 2008, and again in October 2010.Youzhny reached the quarterfinals of all Grand Slam (tennis), majors, reaching the semifinals at the US Open in 2006 US Open – Men's singles, 2006 and 2010 US Open – Men's singles, 2010. The closest he came to a major final was at the 2006 US Open semifinals when he took the first set from world No. 9 Andy Roddick, after upsetting world No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals. At the other semifinal he lost in straight sets to the eventual champion, Nadal. Youzhny reached the finals of 21 ATP Tour-level titles, winning ten of them. He reached ATP Tour finals on all surfaces, but ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Fritz
Taylor Harry Fritz (born October 28, 1997) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on November 18, 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 104, achieved on July 26, 2021. Fritz has won eight ATP Tour singles titles, including a ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 title at the 2022 BNP Paribas Open – Men's singles, 2022 Indian Wells Open, and contested the finals of the 2024 US Open – Men's singles, 2024 US Open and the 2024 ATP Finals – Singles, 2024 ATP Finals. He is the No. 1 American singles player. Fritz reached his first ATP final in only his third career event, the 2016 Memphis Open – Singles, 2016 Memphis Open; only one other American, John Isner, has reached an ATP final in fewer career events. He won a junior major singles title at the 2015 US Open – Boys' singles, 2015 US Open, and was the runner-up in junior singles at the 2015 French Open – Boys' s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Evans (tennis)
Daniel Evans (born 23 May 1990) is a British professional tennis player from England. He has been ranked as high as world No. 21 in singles by the ATP, which he achieved on 7 August 2023. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 52 in doubles on 26 April 2021. In 2015, he formed part of the winning British Davis Cup team. Evans's four ATP Tour finals to date have been the 2017 Apia International Sydney (losing to Gilles Müller), Delray Beach Open (losing to Radu Albot), the 2021 Murray River Open, where he beat Félix Auger-Aliassime to win his first title, and the 2023 Washington Open, winning his first ATP 500 title against Tallon Griekspoor. Evans made his Davis Cup debut for Great Britain against Poland in September 2009. Evans twice won deciding fifth rubbers, against Slovakia and Russia respectively, helping Great Britain progress to the Davis Cup World Group. Evans also played in the semifinal against Australia, losing both of his rubbers, and was a substitute for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Ebden
Matthew Ebden (born 26 November 1987) is an Australian professional tennis player who reached a career high of List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. Ebden is a three-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships and 2024 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2024 Australian Open in doubles with Max Purcell and Rohan Bopanna respectively, and the 2013 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2013 Australian Open in mixed doubles alongside Jarmila Gajdošová. Ebden won an Olympic gold medal at the Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Paris Olympics with John Peers. Ebden also finished runner-up at the 2022 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2022 Australian Open and 2023 US Open – Men's doubles, 2023 US Open in men's doubles with Purcell and Bopanna respectively, and the 2021 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2021 Australian Open and 2022 Wimbledon Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Brands
Daniel Brands (born 17 July 1987) is a German retired professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 51, achieved in August 2013. Professional career 2008 Brands began 2008 ranked No. 220. After a few unimpressive tournaments to start the year, he beat no. 132 Aisam Qureshi and no. 193 Simon Stadler en route to a semifinal Challenger finish in Germany in February. In March, he made the quarters of a Challenger in Japan before losing to no. 124 Yen-Hsun Lu, then reached the quarters of a Challenger in Sarajevo, beating no. 169 Matthias Bachinger. In May, Brands reached the quarterfinals at two more Challengers, beating no. 66 Michael Berrer and no. 114 Brian Dabul, while also winning the doubles title in one and reaching the doubles final in the other. Then, with his ranking at a career-high of no. 210, he beat no. 123 Nicolás Massú, no. 151 Pablo Andújar (who beat him a week earlier), and no. 198 Alex Bogomolov to qualify into the main draw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981) is an Austrian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. Melzer reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in April 2011, and a doubles ranking of world No. 6 in September 2010. He has a younger brother, Gerald Melzer, with whom he played doubles in several tournaments. In 1999 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' singles, 1999, Melzer won the boys' singles title at Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon. For many years, he was known as one of the best players on the tour not to have progressed past the third round of a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major. He ended this by reaching the semifinals of the 2010 French Open – Men's singles, 2010 French Open, losing to Rafael Nadal after coming from two sets down to defeat Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals. As of January 2025, he remains the only person to defeat Djokovic from two sets down. Melzer had greater success in doubles, winning the men's doubles title at the 2010 Wimbled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ward (tennis)
James Ward (born 9 February 1987) is a British former professional tennis player. He is a Davis Cup champion and former British No. 2. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2010 Aegon International and the semifinals of the 2011 Aegon Championships as a wildcard entry. His best Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam performance to date was reaching the third round of The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in 2015 Wimbledon Championships, 2015. In February 2009, Ward played what was then, the longest tennis match in history, lasting 6 hrs 40 mins, eventually losing to Chris Eaton (tennis), Chris Eaton. This was a play-off match to decide the Davis Cup team, but it was not sanctioned by the ATP so was not an official record, and it was broken later. Ward was part of the Great Britain Davis Cup team, Great Britain team that won the Davis Cup in 2015 Davis Cup, 2015, the nation's first success in the tournament for 79 years. He played in wins against the United States Davis Cup team, Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ward
Alexander Ward (born 30 April 1990) is a retired British tennis player. Early life Ward was born on 30 April 1990 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. He was educated at Northampton School for Boys. Tennis career Ward has a career high ATP singles ranking of 242 achieved on 6 June 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 379 achieved on 9 September 2013. Ward made his ATP main draw debut at the 2013 MercedesCup after defeating Sandro Ehrat, Dustin Brown and Ivo Minář in the qualifying rounds. In the main draw he drew fifth seed Fabio Fognini, but lost 3–6, 6–7(5–7) Having come through qualifying as the world No. 855, Ward competed at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, where he lost to compatriot Kyle Edmund Kyle Steven Edmund (born 8 January 1995) is a British professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP rankings, ranking of world No. 14 and was the top-ranked male British tennis player from March 2018 to October 2019. Edmun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Glasspool
Lloyd Glasspool (born 19 November 1993) is a British professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 7 reached in June 2023 and a singles ranking of No. 282 reached in July 2016. Glasspool has won seven ATP and five ATP Challenger doubles titles and 16 Futures titles (11 in singles and 5 in doubles). Career Glasspool studied at the University of Texas at Austin, where partnering Søren Hess-Olesen he captured the 2015 NCAA doubles championship. 2016: ATP debut Glasspool made his ATP Tour debut (in doubles) at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships having been given a wildcard to partner compatriot Dan Evans in the main draw. 2021: Partnership with Heliövaara, maiden title, Wimbledon third round Partnering Harri Heliövaara, Glasspool won his first ATP Tour title at the 2021 Open 13 against Sander Arends and David Pel of the Netherlands in March. 2022: Two Major quarterfinals & ATP Finals semifinal, ATP 500 title, top 15 In M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Clarke (tennis)
Jay Alexander Clarke (born 27 July 1998) is a British tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 153 achieved on 22 July 2019. Clarke has won twelve Futures titles and four Challenger titles. In 2017, on a Wimbledon wildcard, Clarke and Marcus Willis beat the defending doubles champions and second seeds, Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert, in the second round, in five sets. Early and personal life Clarke is from Pear Tree, Derby. He is of Jamaican-British descent. Clarke grew up in a tennis-oriented family with his two sisters and brother also playing tennis. He attributes his love of tennis to his father Earol who also coached him and his siblings. Clarke’s older sister Yasmin (former 532 WTA) is a big part of his team. Junior career 2012 Playing in the Great Britain Under 14 boys team, with Samuel Ferguson, they won the European Winter Cup defeating Sweden in the final. Clarke won two Tennis Europe 14U Grade 1 events to become the 14U No.1 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjorn Fratangelo
Bjorn Fratangelo ( ; born July 19, 1993) is an American tennis coach and former professional player. In 2011, he won the boys' singles title at the French Open defeating Dominic Thiem. Fratangelo was only the second American to win the event, following John McEnroe in 1977. Early life Fratangelo began playing tennis at age three. and is named after tennis champion Björn Borg. His father, Mario, is his coach. Fratangelo attended St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Plum, Pennsylvania, until the 8th grade. He then moved to Naples, Florida, for training reasons and was an online student of Barron Collier High School. Personal life In November 2024, he married fellow American tennis player Madison Keys, whom he had been dating since 2017. He is Catholic. Juniors Fratangelo won the boys' singles title at the 2011 French Open, beating Dominic Thiem in the final. The win propelled him to a career high of No. 2 in the junior rankings. He also played in the junior championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
