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2022 Ostra Group Open
The 2022 Ostra Group Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ostrava, Czech Republic between 25 April and 1 May. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 18 April 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Jonáš Forejtek * Miloš Karol * Jakub Menšík The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Attila Balázs * Vitaliy Sachko * Dalibor Svrčina The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Evan Furness * Daniel Michalski * Emilio Nava * Pavel Nejedlý * Mats Rosenkranz * Lukáš Rosol The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Lukáš Klein * Lucas Miedler Champions Singles * Evan Furness def. Ryan Peniston 4–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–1. Doubles * Alexander Erler / Lucas Miedler def. Hunter Ree ... [...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] |
Dmitry Popko
Dmitry Yevgenyevich Popko (; born 24 October 1996) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 155 achieved on 21 April 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 304 achieved on 1 May 2017. He is the current No. 3 Kazakh player. Popko represents Kazakhstan at the Davis Cup where he has a win-loss record of 4-6. Career Popko defeated Chinese tennis player Zhang Ze in his first Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ... tie in April 2017. Popko has participated in qualifying for all four of the Grand Slams. ATP Challenger Tour finals Singles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups) Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 33 (25 titles, 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunter Reese
Hunter Reese (born January 11, 1993) is an American tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 73 achieved on 27 June 2022. Reese currently competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour where he has won 10 titles. Professional career He competed in the 2014 US Open alongside partner Peter Kobelt after receiving a wildcard into the men's doubles draw. The tandem lost 6–4, 6–1 to Michaël Llodra and Nicolas Mahut. In November 2014, he captured the Knoxville Challenger doubles title with partner Miķelis Lībietis. On November 8, 2014, Reese hit a sliding backhand around the net post during the Knoxville Challenger that was featured on ESPN's Top Ten Plays and received over 100,000 hits on YouTube. In July 2021 he reached his first ATP final at the 2021 Los Cabos Open partnering Sem Verbeek. At the 2021 US Open he reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career as a wildcard pair partnering fellow American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Peniston
Ryan Harold Peniston (born 10 November 1995) is a British tennis player from Essex. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 123, achieved in July 2022, and a doubles ranking of world No. 384 achieved in June 2022. Personal life Ryan Harold Peniston was born in November 1995 to English-Irish father Paul and Malaysian mother Penny (née Gok) and grew up in Great Wakering near Rochford. He has two older brothers, Sam and Harry. As a child, Peniston survived rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer, and had surgery to remove a tumour and chemotherapy. Cancer slowed his growth, and he was much smaller than his classmates until he was 16 years old. Peniston was a member of the local Great Wakering Colts. At 13, he moved to Nice, France to train at ISP Academy before going to college at 18. A graduate of the University of Memphis tennis program, he was part of the GB University Team that won the nation's first ever team gold medal at Master'U Championships. Professional career ... [...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] |
Lukáš Rosol
Lukáš Rosol (; born 24 July 1985) is a Czech former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 26, achieved on 22 September 2014. His first notable victory was against world No. 8, Jürgen Melzer, at the 2011 French Open, whom he defeated in five sets in the second round a year after Melzer had reached the semifinal. A year later, Rosol defeated world No. 2, Rafael Nadal, in the second round of Wimbledon to achieve one of the biggest wins in his career. Rosol has had sustained success since then having played an integral part in the Czech Republic's Davis Cup winning team in 2012, and winning his first tour-level title in April 2013. Rosol also played in the longest ever ATP doubles match, alongside Tomáš Berdych, defeating Marco Chiudinelli and Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round of the 2013 Davis Cup. The match was played on 2 February 2013, lasting 7 hours, 1 minute. It was the second longest ATP match of any kind, after the Isner– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mats Rosenkranz
Mats Rosenkranz (born 23 August 1998) is a German tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 336, achieved on 3 March 2025, and a career high doubles ranking of No. 463, achieved on 19 August 2019. Career 2022-2024: First Challenger title and top-25 win In January 2022, Rosenkranz won his first ATP Challenger doubles title, defeating Matías Franco Descotte and Facundo Díaz Acosta at the 2022 Challenger de Tigre, partnering with Conner Huertas del Pino. In the first-round qualifying match for the 2022 Mallorca Open, Rosenkranz scored his biggest win against world No. 25 Nikoloz Basilashvili in straight sets. He lost in the second qualifying round to Antoine Bellier Antoine Bellier (born 18 October 1996) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 168, achieved on 10 April 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 331 achieved on 22 April 2024. Bellier has wo .... He won his first ATP Challenger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Nava
Emilio Nava (born December 2, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 119 achieved on 9 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 187 achieved on 28 October 2024. Early life and background Nava is the son of Olympic sprinter Eduardo Nava and professional tennis player Xóchitl Escobedo, both of whom are originally from Mexico. He is also the cousin of former professional tennis player Ernesto Escobedo. His brother, Eduardo Nava is also a professional tennis player who played college tennis at TCU and Wake Forest University. Professional career 2019–2021: ATP, Masters and Grand Slam debuts Nava reached two Grand Slam Boys' finals at the 2019 Australian Open and at the 2019 US Open. Nava made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Abierto Mexicano Telcel after receiving a wildcard into the singles main draw. He lost to Mackenzie McDonald in the first round. At the 2021 Miami Open, Nava qualified for the main draw to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Michalski
Daniel Michalski (; born 11 January 2000) is a Polish tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 243 achieved on 25 July 2022. Michalski represents Poland at the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ..., where he has a W/L record of 1–0. ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals Singles: 22 (14–8) Doubles: 11 (5–6) External links * * * 2000 births Living people Polish male tennis players Tennis players from Warsaw Tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics 21st-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalibor Svrčina
Dalibor Svrčina (born 2 October 2002) is a Czech tennis player. He has achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 124, achieved on 16 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 276, achieved on 2 October 2023. He is currently the No. 5 Czech player. Junior career He achieved a career-high ITF juniors ranking of world No. 8. Svrčina and his partner Jonáš Forejtek won the 2019 Australian Open boys' doubles title, beating Emilio Nava and Cannon Kingsley in the finals. Professional career 2021: First Challenger title & top 300 In August, Svrčina won his first Challenger title as a wildcard at the Prague Open where he defeated Dmitry Popko. As a result, he reached a career-high of No. 334 on 16 August 2021. He reached the top 300 on 15 November 2021 at No. 298. 2022: Top 200 debut In April, Svrčina reached his second Challenger final at the Prague Open where he lost to Sebastian Ofner. As a result he reached the top 200 at a career high of world No. 199 on 2 May 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaliy Sachko
Vitaliy Sachko (; born 14 July 1997) is a Ukrainian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 156, achieved on 31 July 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 130, achieved on 9 June 2025. He is currently the No. 1 player from Ukraine. Professional career 2020: ATP debut He made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 Erste Bank Open in the singles draw as lucky loser, where he was defeated by Dominic Thiem, 4–6, 5–7. 2021: Challenger Tour success, Top 250 debut In March, ranked No. 389 in the world, he made it to the final of the Challenger Tour event in Lugano, Switzerland, where he lost to Dominic Stephan Stricker. In July, he made another Challenger final in Perugia, Italy losing to Tomas Martin Etcheverry in singles. At the same tournament, he took his revenge, winning his third Challenger doubles title for 2021 by defeating the Argentinian pair Tomas Etcheverry/Renzo Olivo, partnering Dominic Stricker. As a result, he reached a career-high ranking of No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attila Balázs
Attila Balázs (; born September 27, 1988) is a Hungarian former professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP ranking of No. 76 achieved on 2 March 2020. He is a seven time Hungarian National Tennis Champion; after Béla von Kehrling, József Asbóth and István Gulyás. He is the fourth Hungarian player who was able to win at least 6 consecutive National Championships. Career As a qualifier, he reached the semifinals of the 2012 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy in Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ... and was defeated by Fabio Fognini. His next best result was the quarterfinals seven years later as a wildcard at the 2019 Hungarian Open with victories over Hubert Hurkacz and sixth seed John Millman. Next he reached his first ATP final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
