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2019 Bratislava Open
The 2019 Bratislava Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bratislava, Slovakia between 17 and 23 June 2019. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 10 June 2019. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Jonáš Forejtek * David Juras * Lukáš Klein * Jiří Lehečka * Péter Makk The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking: * Peter Heller * Vít Kopřiva * Skander Mansouri * Pietro Rondoni * Jeroen Vanneste The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Lucas Gerch * Michael Vrbenský The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Danylo Kalenichenko Champions Singles * Norbert Gombos def. Attila Balázs 6–3, 3–6, 6–2. Doubles * Sander Gillé / Joran Vliegen def. Lukáš ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other construction aggregate, aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles on top. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. The only Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts is the French Open. Clay courts come in the more common #Red clay, red clay (known in France as ''terre battue''), which is actually crushed brick, and the slightly harder #Green clay, green clay, which is actually crushed metabasalt. Although slightly less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, clay requires much maintenance: the surface must be watered and rolled regularly to preserve texture and flatness, and brushed carefully before and during each match. Early history Clay courts, although now commonly associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Vatutin
Alexey Vatutin (; born 27 October 1992) is a Russian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 136 achieved on 2 July 2018 and a doubles ranking of No. 510 achieved on 10 June 2019. Vatutin competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour where he has won one singles title. He has also won twelve ITF singles titles. Career In 2018 he achieved one of his best results in the ATP World Tour thus far, reaching the quarterfinal in Marrakech with an upset over top seed Albert Ramos Viñolas. In 2023, after five years, he again qualified for the main draw in Marrakech this time as a lucky loser replacing Juan Pablo Varillas who withdrew in the last minute. He lost to Benjamin Bonzi. Ranked No. 336, he qualified for the main draw of the 2024 European Open but lost to Hugo Gaston Hugo Gaston (; born 26 September 2000) is a French professional tennis player. His career high ATP ranking in singles is world No. 58, which he achieved on 11 July 2022, and in double ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Vrbenský
Michael Vrbenský (born 26 December 1999) is a Czech tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 277 achieved on 15 July 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 177 achieved on 9 September 2024. Vrbenský has won four ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2019 Liberec Open and at the 2021 ATP Prague Open with Jonáš Forejtek, at the 2023 Sibiu Open with Andrew Paulson and in 2024 again in Liberec with Forejtek. Career Vrbenský made his ATP main draw debut as qualifier at the 2021 Antalya Open with two straight sets victories. He then lost in the first round to former Top 10 member Fabio Fognini Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. Fognini's most successful surface is Clay court#Red clay, ... in two tight sets. ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals Singles: 18 (11–7) Doubles: 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skander Mansouri
Skander Mansouri (born 23 July 1995) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking by the ATP in doubles of world No. 54, achieved on 6 January 2025, and in singles of No. 238, achieved on 12 December 2022. At the 2019 African Games, he won the gold medal at the men's doubles event with countryman Aziz Dougaz. Mansouri represents Tunisia in the Davis Cup where he has a win/loss record of 10–2. Career Mansouri made his ATP Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Winston-Salem Open, in the doubles draw partnering Christian Seraphim. He reached the top 100 in the rankings at world No. 99 on 29 January 2024 when he won a Challenger title at the 2024 BW Open with Luke Johnson. Partnering Nicolás Barrientos, he was runner-up at the 2024 Almaty Open, losing to Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli and Arjun Kadhe in the final. Playing with Ivan Dodig, Mansouri reached the final at the 2024 Belgrade Open, losing to Jamie Murray and John Peers. ATP career fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vít Kopřiva
Vít Kopřiva (born 15 June 1997) is a Czech professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 82 achieved on 16 June 2025. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 261 achieved on 17 October 2022. He is currently the No. 4 Czech player. Kopřiva has won six ATP Challenger singles and two doubles titles. Professional career 2021: ATP and Top 200 debut, first top 10 win He won his maiden Challenger doubles title at the 2021 Aspria Tennis Cup in Milan with Jiří Lehečka. On his ATP debut, ranked at a then career-high of World No. 249 in singles, at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad, Kopřiva defeated Denis Shapovalov for his career-best and first top 10 win. He was the lowest-ranked player to beat a Top 10 opponent since then World No. 698 Thanasi Kokkinakis defeated then World No. 6 Milos Raonic at The Queen's Club in 2017. Kopřiva advanced to the semifinals a with a win over Mikael Ymer in straight sets. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Lehečka
Jiří Lehečka (; born 8 November 2001) is a Czech professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22, achieved on 24 February 2025, and a doubles ranking of No. 144, achieved on 15 January 2024. He has won two singles titles on the ATP Tour and is currently the No. 3 Czech singles player. Lehečka had a career-high junior combined ranking of No. 10, achieved on 11 March 2019. Early life Jiří Lehečka was born in a hospital in Mladá Boleslav, but he is a native of Kněžmost. Lehečka is the son of two athletes. His father was a swimmer, and his mother was a track and field star. He has long enjoyed skiing, cycling and swimming and remembers first touching a tennis racquet at three. His grandmother, who competed on a national level, taught his older sister the game, so naturally he wanted to play. When Lehečka was young, he admired Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štěpánek. Career 2021: Two Challenger titles, top 150 debut Lehečka won two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukáš Klein
Lukáš Klein (born 22 March 1998) is a Slovak professional tennis player. Klein has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 109, achieved on 5 August 2024. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 240, achieved on 5 April 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Slovak tennis player in singles. Klein has reached 15 career singles finals, with a record of 9 wins and 6 losses, including 3 ATP Challenger titles. Additionally, he has reached 11 career doubles finals, with a record of 5 wins and 6 losses, including a 1–3 result in Challenger finals. Career 2021: ATP & top 250 & Olympics debut Klein won the doubles title at the 2021 Challenger La Manche with compatriot Alex Molčan 1–6, 7–5, 0–6 Klein made his ATP main draw singles debut in March at the 2021 Argentina Open, where he defeated Andrea Collarini, Thiago Seyboth Wild and Ernesto Escobedo to qualify for the main draw. Klein then went on to upset compatriot Andrej Martin in straight sets. He would go on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonáš Forejtek
Jonáš Forejtek (born 10 March 2001) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Forejtek has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of World No. 217, achieved on 1 August 2022. He also has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP doubles ranking of World No. 302, achieved on 28 February 2022. Forejtek has reached five career singles finals, with a record of 2 wins and 3 losses all on the ITF Futures Tour. Additionally, he has reached five career doubles finals, with a record of 4 wins and 1 loss which includes a 2–0 record in ATP Challenger Tour finals. Junior career In 2019, Forejtek reached three junior grand slam finals, one in singles and two in doubles, winning them all. At the 2019 Australian Open – Boys' doubles, 2019 Australian Forejtek and compatriot partner Dalibor Svrčina won the boys' doubles title beating Americans Emilio Nava and Cannon Kingsley ''7–6(7–5), 6–4'' in the finals. At the 2019 Wimbl ... [...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] |
Uladzimir Ignatik
Uładzimir Iharavich Ihnatsik (); or Vladimir Igorevich Ignatik (); born 14 July 1990 in Belarus, is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Professional career Junior career Igantik was ranked the No. 1 junior in the world in June 2007 after winning the boys' singles title at 2007 Roland Garros, and later finished runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. Then as the top seed, Ignatik lost in the quarterfinals of the 2007 US Open. Early career Ignatik gained ATP points mainly by playing in Futures tournaments. He finished 2007 ranked 864 in the world, and 2008 ranked 431 in the world. Ignatik played his first two rubbers for Belarus in Davis Cup in 2008, at the age of 17, against Switzerland, losing in four sets to the top 20 player Stanislas Wawrinka, as well as losing a dead rubber to Yves Allegro in two sets. Ignatik got his first two wins in his next fixture against Georgia, defeating Lado Chikhladze in three sets, and Nodar Itonishvili in a dead rubber. 2009 ... [...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] |
Mohamed Safwat
Mohamed Safwat (; born 19 September 1990) is an Egyptian tennis player. Safwat has been a regular player on the Egypt Davis Cup team since 2009. Safwat has won one singles and three titles in doubles on the ATP Challenger Tour. He is currently the Egyptian No. 1. Professional career In 2016, Safwat became the first Egyptian player since 1997 to reach the final of a Challenger tournament when he reached the final in Kenitra, where he lost to Maximilian Marterer in straight sets. He also reached the semifinals at the Challenger tournament in Launceston in 2017, eventually losing to Mitchell Krueger. In 2018, Safwat beat No. 3 seed and top 100 player Jordan Thompson en route to his second Challenger singles final in Anning, where he lost to Prajnesh Gunneswaran. Safwat qualified for his first Grand Slam at the 2018 French Open as a lucky loser, where he lost to Grigor Dimitrov Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov (, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
