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2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open
The 2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second (men) and third (women) editions of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Shenzhen, China between 29 October and 11 November 2018. Men's singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 22 October 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Mu Tao * Te Rigele * Wu Yibing * Xia Zihao The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Sasikumar Mukund * Saketh Myneni * Sumit Nagal * Gonçalo Oliveira Women's singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 29 October 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Ma Shuyue * Wang Meiling * Wang Xinyu * Yang Zhaoxuan The following player received entry by a special exempt: * Han Na-lae The following players r ... [...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] |
Ramkumar Ramanathan
Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 111 in singles by the ATP, which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No. 58, achieved in August 2022. Ramkumar is currently the No. 3 ranked Indian player. He has represented India in the Davis Cup. Personal and early life Ramkumar was born to Ramanathan Chettiar and Alagammai Aachi in a Nattukottai Nagarathar family in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. Both his parents are in the textile business. He has a sister named Uma. He started playing tennis at the age of five, introduced to the sport by his father. He trains at the Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona, Spain. He graduated with a B.A. in economics from Loyola College, Chennai. He speaks Tamil, English and Spanish. Career 2008–2010: Junior career and turning pro Ramanathan began playing tennis at the age of five, turning professional in 2009. 2014–2016: Early career In 2014, Ramanatha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luksika Kumkhum
Luksika "Luk" Kumkhum (; ; born 21 July 1993) is a Thai tennis player. She turned professional in 2011, and reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 66 on 19 November 2018. On 16 July 2018, she peaked at No. 86 in the WTA doubles rankings. Career In 2010, Kumkhum had won one ITF Circuit event in singles but three events in doubles. The following year, she won five singles ITF events, all $10ks, and two in doubles. In 2012, she won two singles and two doubles events on the ITF Circuit. 2013 In 2013, she cracked the top 200 and started to play on the WTA Tour as well as the ITF Circuit. Kumkhum qualified for the Australian Open where she defeated Sofia Arvidsson in the first round, she was then beaten by Jamie Hampton. She played the Malaysian Open where she qualified for the tournament and reached the quarterfinals defeating Olivia Rogowska and Eleni Daniilidou en route before falling to Ayumi Morita in the quarterfinals, she also reached the semifinals of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Yafan
Wang Yafan (; ; born 30 April 1994) is a Chinese professional tennis player. On 7 October 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 47. She peaked at No. 49 in the doubles rankings on 15 February 2016. In her career, she has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, along with one singles title and four doubles titles on the Challenger Tour. In addition, she won 16 singles and seven doubles tournaments on the ITF Circuit. Playing for the China Fed Cup team, Wang has a win–loss record of 9–3, as of September 2024. Personal life She was born in Nanjing in 1994. Wang Yafan started playing tennis when she was nine years old. Career 2014: WTA Tour debut Wang made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Shenzhen Open, partnering Zheng Jie in doubles. The pair won their first-round match against wildcards Sun Ziyue and Xu Shilin, and defeated third seeds Irina Buryachok and Oksana Kalashnikova, then lost to eventual champions Monica Nicules ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zheng Saisai
Zheng Saisai or Zheng Sai-Sai (; born 5 February 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 34, achieved on 2 March 2020, and a doubles ranking of No. 15, achieved on 11 July 2016. In her career, she won one singles title in 2019 (at the Premier event in Silicon Valley), and six doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also reached the final of the 2019 French Open in doubles with compatriot Duan Yingying. In addition, she won three singles and three doubles titles at WTA 125 tournaments, as well as twelve singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Playing for China Fed Cup team, Zheng has a win–loss record of 11–7 as of September 2024. Early life and background Zheng started playing tennis at age eight at tennis academy where mother worked. She stated that her tennis idol growing up was Justine Henin. Her favorite tournaments are Australian Open and Wimbledon. Zheng is coached by Alan Ma (). Her favorite shot is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonçalo Oliveira
Gonzalo Oliveira (born 17 February 1995 as Gonçalo Oliveira) is a Portuguese-born tennis player who currently represents Venezuela and plays on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 194 achieved on 25 December 2017. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 77 achieved on 24 August 2020. He is currently the No. 1 Venezuelan player. Career On 18 March 2019, Olivera reached the top 100 in the doubles rankings at world No. 99, the seventh Portuguese player to accomplish the feat. In November 2024, he captured his maiden ATP Challenger Tour singles title at the inaugural edition of the 2024 Brazzaville Challenger, becoming the first player representing Venezuela to win a Challenger title in 24 years, since Jimy Szymanski in Tulsa in 2000. A month later, he reached his second Challenger singles final at the 2024 Manzanillo Open, where he lost to Mats Rosenkranz. Oliveira was provisionally suspended from professional tennis by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumit Nagal
Sumit Nagal (born 16 August 1997) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 68 achieved on 15 July 2024. Nagal is currently the No. 1 ranked Indian player. Since 2018, he has been a member of India's national Davis Cup squad. He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with Vietnamese Lý Hoàng Nam, becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title. Personal information Sumit Nagal was born on 16 August 1997 to school teacher Suresh Nagal and his wife Krishna Devi, a homemaker in Jhajjar, Haryana. Nagal started playing tennis at the age of eight at a local sports club. When he was ten years old, he was selected to join Mahesh Bhupathi's training academy, as part of the first batch of Mahesh Bhupathi's Apollo Tyres Mission 2008 programme. As part of the programme, between 2008 and 2010, Nagal was based in Bengaluru. Upon the programme closing down, Nagal moved to Toronto for training with Coach Bobby Maha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saketh Myneni
Saketh Myneni (born 19 October 1987) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 74 achieved on 16 January 2023. He was conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award in 2017 and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold medal in Mixed doubles and a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 2014 Asian Games, Incheon Asian Games 2014. He has won 10 International Tennis Federation, ITF and 2 ATP Challenger singles titles. Also, 18 ITF and 14 ATP Challenger doubles titles. Personal life Myneni was born in a small town named Vuyyuru in Andhra Pradesh to Prasad Myneni and Saroja Myneni. He grew up entirely in Visakhapatnam (Vizag). He completed his schooling from Timpany Secondary School, Visakhapatnam, before moving to Hyderabad for tennis. He started playing tennis at the age of 11. His nickname is Saké or Saki. He was selected on a sports scholarship in 2006 and graduated with a double major with degrees in Finance and Economics f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasikumar Mukund
Mukund Sasikumar (born 14 January 1997) is an Indian tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 229 achieved on 17 October 2019. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 431 achieved on 3 February 2020. Sasikumar made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 Maharashtra Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. ATP Challenger and ITF Tour Finals Singles: 12 (6–6) References External links * * 1997 births Living people Indian male tennis players 21st-century Indian sportsmen Sportspeople from Chennai Sportspeople from Hyderabad, India {{India-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Yibing
Wu Yibing (; ; born 14 October 1999) is a Chinese professional tennis player. Wu is the first Chinese player in the Open Era to reach and to win an ATP Tour-level singles final, doing so at the 2023 Dallas Open. He has been ranked as high as No. 54 by the ATP, which he first achieved on 29 May 2023, making him the third highest-ranked male Chinese player in history, behind Zhang Zhizhen and Shang Juncheng. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 295, achieved on 23 April 2018. He is currently the No. 6 Chinese player. Wu became the world No. 1 in the ITF Junior Circuit ranking after winning the boys' singles title at the 2017 US Open. Wu represented China at the 2017 Davis Cup, where he has a win/loss record of 1–0. He defeated Jason Jung in his first Davis Cup match. Juniors In December 2016, Wu reached the final of the 2016 Orange Bowl, a Grade-A junior event, losing to Miomir Kecmanović in the final. In 2017, Wu reached the semifinals in both bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Rigele
Te Rigele (born 9 October 1997) is a Chinese tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player. On the junior tour, Te had a career-high ranking of No. 48, achieved in January 2015. Te has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 395, achieved on 22 October 2018. On 14 October 2024, he achieved No. 291 in ATP doubles ranking which is his career high. Career Te made his ATP main draw debut at the 2014 ATP Shenzhen Open, in the doubles draw partnering Qiu Zhuoyang. He received a wildcard for the singles main draw of the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters. ATP Challenger Tour finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 14 (8 titles, 6 runner-ups) Doubles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner-ups) External links * * 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Peliwo
Filip Peliwo ( , ; born January 30, 1994) is a Canadian-born Polish professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 161 on 21 May 2018. In 2022, he began competing for Poland. Peliwo became the first Canadian male and second Canadian ever to win a Grand Slam in singles at any level with his 2012 Wimbledon boys' title win. This was Canada's second Grand Slam title in two days, one day after Eugenie Bouchard's. With the victory, Peliwo reached the No. 1 combined junior world ranking in July 2012, the first time a Canadian has been top ranked.CBC News, "The National", airdate 2012 July 7 He won his second straight junior Grand Slam title at the 2012 US Open. Peliwo was also runner-up in the boys singles events at the 2012 Australian Open and French Open. Early life Peliwo was born in Vancouver to Polish parents Mark and Monika. He played his early tennis through his teens at the North Shore Winter Club in North Vancouver BC and was part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
