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2022 Heilbronner Neckarcup
The 2022 Heilbronner Neckarcup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Heilbronn, Germany between 9 and 14 May 2022. Champions Singles * Daniel Altmaier def. Andrej Martin 3–6, 6–1, 6–4. Doubles * Nicolás Barrientos / Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela def. Jelle Sels / Bart Stevens 7–5, 6–3. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 2 May 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Marius Copil * Max Hans Rehberg * Bernabé Zapata Miralles The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Nicola Kuhn * Alexander Ritschard * Jelle Sels The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jonáš Forejtek * Benjamin Hassan * Oleksii Krutykh * Rudolf Molleker * Sumit Nagal * Henri Squire The following player received entry as ... [...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] |
Radu Albot
Radu Albot (born 11 November 1989) is a Moldovan professional tennis player. He achieved a career high ranking of No. 39 on 5 August 2019, making him the highest ranked player from Moldova. He is the first player from Moldova to win ATP Tour titles in singles ( 2019 Delray Beach Open) and in doubles ( 2015 Istanbul Open). He is also the first Moldovan to break into the top 100 on 27 July 2015 and four years later in the top 50. He is currently the No. 1 Moldovan player. He finished in the top 100 in the year-end rankings for five years (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). His year-end career high was world No. 46 achieved in 2019. Albot has won one ATP singles and one doubles title, 7 singles and 10 doubles Challenger titles in his career, as well as 14 singles and 7 doubles Futures titles. He has been a regular member of the Moldovan Davis Cup team since 2007 and holds his country's records for the most singles wins (30) and total wins (43). Personal life Albot became a father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miljan Zekić
Miljan Zekić ( sr-Cyrl, Миљан Зекић, ; born 12 July 1988) is a Serbian 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 11 July 2016, Zekic reached his best singles ranking of world No. 188, while on 8 July 2013, he peaked at No. 269 in the doubles rankings. Career Zekić made his ATP main draw debut in doubles with compatriot David Savić as a wildcard pair at the 2011 Serbia Open, losing in the first round to top-seeded pair Zimonjić/ Granollers. In July 2016 he won his first trophy on the ATP Challenger Tour winning Internazionali di Tennis dell'Umbria in Todi. Zekić made his ATP main draw debut in singles as a qualifier at 2017 Croatia Open Umag, losing to Radu Albot in the first round. In two weeks' time, he played in another ATP tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Squire
Henri Squire (born 27 September 2000) is a German tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 169, achieved on 15 July 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 345, attained on 28 August 2023. He played two seasons of college tennis for Wake Forest and became 2021 ACC Freshman of the Year and 2021 First-Team all ACC Singles. Professional career 2022: ATP debut Squire made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the Halle Open as a wildcard, where he lost by retirement to Laslo Djere in the first round. In November 2022, he won his first ATP Challenger Tour doubles title at the Trofeo Faip–Perrel in Bergamo, partnering Jan-Lennard Struff. 2024: Major debut and first win, maiden Challenger title, top 200 In March 2024, he won his maiden ATP Challenger Tour singles title in Hamburg, defeating Clément Chidekh in the final. Ranked No. 235, he reached a second Challenger final in Ostrava, losing to Damir Džumhur. Ranked No. 211, he made his Grand Slam debut at the F ... [...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] |
Rudolf Molleker
Rudolf Molleker (born 26 October 2000) is a German tennis player. Molleker achieved a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 146 on 29 July 2019 and a doubles ranking of world No. 376 on 21 March 2022. Personal information He was born in Sieverodonetsk in Ukraine to Roman and Tanja Molleker and moved to Oranienburg in Germany when he was three years old. He is of Russian–German descent. He trained at Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in Sophia Antipolis (France) starting in 2018. Career 2017: ATP debut Molleker made his ATP main draw debut at the German Open in Hamburg after defeating Casper Ruud and Leonardo Mayer, who later won the tournament as a lucky loser, in the qualifying rounds. 2018: First Challenger title & ATP and top-10 wins Molleker won his first ATP Challenger Tour title as a wildcard at the Heilbronner Neckarcup, defeating Jiří Veselý in the final. He won his first match at ATP-level at the Stuttgart Open, defeating compatriot Jan-Lennard Struff in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksii Krutykh
Oleksii Krutykh (born 10 March 2000) is a Ukrainian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 160 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 275 achieved on 5 December 2022. He has won two ATP Challenger singles titles and two doubles titles. Career 2022: Two Challenger titles, top 200 debut In August, Krutych won his first Challenger title at the 2022 IBG Prague Open defeating German Lucas Gerch and becoming the youngest Ukrainian champion on the Challenger Tour since Alexandr Dolgpolov won the Meknes Challenger in 2010 and the first Ukrainian to win a Challenger title in the season. He rose to a career-high No. 226 on 29 August 2022. He reached the top 200 in singles at world No. 190 climbing more than 60 positions up on 28 November 2022 after winning his second Challenger for the season and in his career in Valencia. At the same tournament he also won the doubles event climbing to a new career-high ranking of No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Hassan
Benjamin Hassan (; born 4 February 1995) is a German-born tennis player, currently representing Lebanon. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 143, achieved on 17 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 168, achieved on 7 April 2025. Hassan became the first Lebanese player to qualify for Roland Garros in the Open Era and to break into the top 200 in ATP Rankings history (since 1973). He is currently the No. 2 player from Lebanon. Since 2018, Hassan represents Lebanon at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 17–13. Career 2023: ATP and top 150 debuts He reached the final of the 2023 Lisboa Belém Open where he lost to Flavio Cobolli. He qualified for the 2023 Stockholm Open for his ATP debut. He also qualified for his first ATP 500, the 2023 Swiss Indoors in Basel defeating Hamad Medjedovic and Dominik Koepfer, but lost to local wildcard Dominic Stricker in the main draw first round. 2024-2025: Historic Olympics first win and Major, Masters debuts H ... [...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] |
Alexander Ritschard
Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss- American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 99, achieved on 30 September 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 388, achieved on 4 April 2022. He is currently the No. 4 Swiss player. Career 2013: ATP Tour debut in doubles Ritschard made his ATP Tour main-draw debut at the Suisse Open Gstaad in the doubles draw, partnering Alexander Sadecky. 2022: ATP & Major debuts & first singles win At the age of 28, he made his Grand Slam and ATP Tour debut in singles, after qualifying for the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. He drew fourth seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas who, despite his ranking, performed very poorly on grass, having lost in the first round of his two previous Wimbledon appearances. Ritschard stormed out to a 4–1 lead in the first set, on serve, looking like another possible upset but Tsitsipas rallied to win the set in a tiebreaker and the match in four sets. At the Swiss Open, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Kuhn
Nicola Kuhn (; ; born 20 March 2000) is an Austrian-born German tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 174, achieved on 7 October 2019 and a doubles ranking of No. 287 achieved on 28 January 2019. Personal life Kuhn has a German father and a Russian mother. From April 2016 to October 2021, he represented Spain. Professional career 2017: Juniors Grand Slam champion, ATP debut Kuhn won the 2017 French Open – Boys' doubles title and reached the singles final of the same tournament. Kuhn won his first ATP Challenger Tour title as a qualifier at the Sparkassen Open in Braunschweig. He made his ATP main draw debut at the Shenzhen Open as a wildcard. 2018: Maiden ATP win Kuhn got to the finals of the Budapest Indoor Challenger Open in February 2018, but lost to ATP Tour veteran Vasek Pospisil in three sets. But he teamed up with Félix Auger-Aliassime to win the same tournament's doubles title. Next month Kuhn was awarded a wildcard for the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Hans Rehberg
Max Hans Rehberg (born 13 September 2003) is a German tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 230, achieved on 31 March 2025, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 294, attained on 26 May 2025. Career Rehberg made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 BMW Open after receiving a wildcard into the singles and doubles main draws. He received a wildcard for the singles main draw of the 2022 Hamburg European Open. He also received a singles wildcard for the 2023 BMW Open. At the 2024 BMW Open also as a wildcard he lost to Alex Michelsen. Rehberg also received qualifying wildcards for the 2024 BOSS Open, and for the 2024 Halle Open where he lost again to the third qualifying seed Alex Michelsen. Singles performance timeline ''Current through the 2024 ATP Tour The 2024 ATP Tour was the global elite men's professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2024 tennis season. The 2024 ATP Tour calendar co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
