2022 Serbia Open
The 2022 Serbia Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 6th edition of the tournament and was classified as an ATP Tour 250 event on the 2022 ATP Tour. The event took place in Belgrade, Serbia, from 18 to 24 April 2022. Champions Singles * Andrey Rublev def. Novak Djokovic, 6–2, 6–7(4–7), 6–0 Men's doubles * Ariel Behar / Gonzalo Escobar def. Nikola Mektić / Mate Pavić, 6–2, 3–6, 0–7 Points and prize money Point distribution Prize money *per team Singles main draw entrants Seeds *1 Rankings are as of 11 April 2022 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Mikhail Kukushkin * Hamad Međedović * Alejandro Tabilo The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw: * Aljaž Bedene The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Taro Daniel * Jiří Lehečka * Thiago Monteiro * Roman Safiullin Withdrawa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ATP Tour 250
The ATP 250 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 250'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series'', and ''ATP World Series'') are the lowest tier of annual men's tennis tournaments on the main ATP Tour, after the four Grand Slam tournaments, ATP Finals, ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, and ATP 500 tournaments. As of 2020, the series includes 39 tournaments, with 250 ranking points awarded to each singles champion—which accounts for the name of the series. Draws consist of 28, 32, or 48 for singles and 16 for doubles. Thomas Muster holds the record for most singles titles at 26, while Mike Bryan holds the record for most doubles titles won with 46. Historic names 1990–1999 ''ATP World Series'' 2000–2008 ''ATP International Series'' 2009–2018 ''ATP World Tour 250'' 2019–present ''ATP Tour 250'' ATP Points * Players with byes receive first round points. Tournaments became an ATP 500 event.ATPTour.com"ATP Tour calendar"/ref> Singles champions ATP In ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cristian Garín
Cristian Ignacio Garín Medone (; born 30 May 1996) is a Chilean professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 17 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in singles, which he first achieved on 13 September 2021, and is the current Chilean No. 2. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 206, achieved on 10 May 2021. Garín became the youngest Chilean player to win an ATP Tour match, by defeating Dušan Lajović at 16 years and 8 months old in the first round of the 2013 VTR Open. He was the winner of the 2013 Junior French Open, beating Alexander Zverev in the final. Garín has won five ATP tour titles, all on clay courts. In early 2019, he achieved his first consistent results in the ATP Tour, reaching three finals in five tournaments: he finished runner-up in the 2019 Brasil Open, won his first ATP title at the 2019 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, and won his second title at the 2019 BMW Open. Garín obtained his third t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Benjamin Bonzi
Benjamin Bonzi (; born 9 June 1996) is a French professional tennis player. Bonzi has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 44 achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 124 achieved on 15 August 2022. Junior career Bonzi won the 2014 French Open boys' doubles title with partner Quentin Halys after defeating Lucas Miedler and Akira Santillan in the final in straight sets. Professional career 2017: Grand Slam debut & first win at the French Open A wildcard entry for the 2017 French Open, he won the match over Daniil Medvedev after his retirement in the first round, before losing to 19th seed Albert Ramos Vinolas in the second round. 2018: Wimbledon debut Bonzi qualified for the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, defeating Britain's James Ward in the final qualifying round, but lost to Lukáš Lacko in the first round of the main draw. 2019: Mixed Doubles Major quarterfinal, first ATP doubles final He reached the quarterfinals of t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roman Safiullin
Roman Rishatovich Safiullin; tt-Cyrl, Роман Рәшит улы Сафиуллин, translit=Roman Räşit ulı Safiullin. (born 7 August 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. Safiullin is a junior major champion, having won the 2015 Australian Open over Hong Seong-chan. Safiullin has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 82 achieved on 6 February 2023, and doubles of world No. 239 achieved on 7 February 2022. Career Safiullin was born in Podolsk, Russia, to a Tatar father and Russian mother. On the junior tour, Safiullin has a career high combined ranking of No. 2 achieved on 26 May 2014. His biggest junior title, after his Australian Open title, is the Grade A Trofeo Bonfiglio where he beat Andrey Rublev in the final. 2020: Maiden Challenger titles in singles and doubles Safiullin claimed his maiden challenger tour titles in singles and doubles with Pavel Kotov in Cherbourg, France in February 2020. 2021: Grand Slam debut He made his Grand Slam debut ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thiago Monteiro (tennis)
Thiago Moura Monteiro (; born 31 May 1994) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Monteiro has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 61 achieved on 17 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 144 achieved on 31 January 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Brazilian tennis player. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Monteiro peaked in the rankings at No. 2 on 2 February 2012, with his biggest junior singles title being the Grade A, Copa Gerdau in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2011. In his first ATP match, as a wildcard ranked world No. 338 in the ATP 500 Rio de Janeiro in February 2016, Monteiro upset No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first round. In the second round, Monteiro lost to eventual champion Pablo Cuevas. In his next tournament, the ATP 250 São Paulo, Monteiro won two matches (against former World No. 9 Nicolás Almagro, and Daniel Muñoz de la Nava), losing again to eventual champion Cuevas in the quarterfinals. On May 8, 2016, Monteiro won ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jiří Lehečka
Jiří Lehečka (born 8 November 2001) is a Czech tennis player. Lehečka has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 59 achieved on 8 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 214 achieved on 7 March 2022. Lehečka has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 10 achieved on 11 March 2019. He is currently the No. 1 Czech tennis player in singles. Early life Jiří 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. Professional career 2021: Challenger 2 singles & 3 doubles titles, Singles top 150, Doubles top 250 Lehečka won two ATP Challenger singles titles, one ATP Challenger doubles t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Taro Daniel
is a Japanese-American professional tennis player. He has won one ATP Tour singles title at the 2018 Istanbul Open, seven ATP Challenger Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 64 on 27 August 2018. Personal life Taro's mother, Yasue, is Japanese and his father, Paul Daniel, is American. He grew up in various places throughout the world. He spent most of his elementary school days in Saitama, Japan. He went to Nagoya International School. Taro and his family moved to Spain when he was 14 years old. He speaks English, Spanish and Japanese. He has one younger sister, Kana. Tennis career Early Age Taro started playing tennis when he was 7 years old. He practiced at the Shinrin Longwood Tennis Club in Nagoya City during his years in Japan. He got third place for under 12 in the All Japan Junior Tennis Tournament. 2011–13 Daniel had won a couple of ITF Futures events in Spain and Portugal. On the ATP Challenger Tour, he made the semifina ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aljaž Bedene
Aljaž Bedene (born 18 July 1989) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player. He was a naturalised Briton and played with this nationality from 2015 to 2017, returning to represent Slovenia in 2018. Bedene has won six Futures and 16 Challenger singles titles. In doubles he has won one Challenger title and two Futures titles. His highest ranking is No. 43 in singles (achieved on 19 February 2018) and No. 127 in doubles (achieved on 7 October 2013). Bedene represented Slovenia when he turned pro in 2008. On 31 March 2015, he was granted UK citizenship and represented Great Britain, but the International Tennis Federation has rejected his application to represent Great Britain in the Davis Cup as he had previously played three dead rubbers for Slovenia. After his appeals failed, Bedene switched his representation back to his birth country of Slovenia for the 2018 season. Early and personal life Bedene's father, Branko, is a dental industry worker and his mother, Darlen, wor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alejandro Tabilo
Alejandro Tabilo (born 2 June 1997) is a Chilean tennis player. Tabilo has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 64 achieved on 25 July 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 249 achieved on 22 February 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Chilean player. He participated at the 2020 ATP Cup and the 2022 ATP Cup with the Chilean team as the No. 2 player. Tabilo represents Chile at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1–3. He participated in his first tie against Germany in a doubles rubber against Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies. Professional career 2020: Grand Slam debut, top 200 debut At his first tournament of the year, Tabilo qualified for his first Grand Slam at the 2020 Australian Open. He defeated fellow qualifier Daniel Elahi Galán in the first round, losing to John Isner in straight sets in the second round. This run resulted in his first top 200 ranking, reaching no. 172, a career-high at that moment. Tabilo played home country t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hamad Međedović
Hamad Međedović (; born 18 July 2003) is a Serbian tennis player. On 20 March 2023, Međedović reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 192. On 24 May 2021, he peaked at No. 1267 in the doubles rankings. Međedović has a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 4 January 2021. Career 2021: ATP debut Međedović made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Belgrade Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles and doubles main draws. 2022: Maiden Challenger title Međedović reached the final at the 2022 Platzmann-Sauerland Open as a qualifier, eliminating both fourth-seeded Marco Cecchinato and top seed Nicolás Jarry en route. He then defeated Zhang Zhizhen in less than an hour in the final winning his maiden Challenger title. 2023: First ATP win, Davis Cup and top 200 debut In 2023, Medjedovic recorded his first ATP Tour win, when he made his debut in the Davis Cup by beating Viktor Durasovic in the tie against Norway which Serbia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikhail Kukushkin
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kukushkin (russian: link=no, Михаил Александрович Кукушкин; born 26 December 1987) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. Before 2008, he played for his country of birth, Russia. Career Born in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, he turned pro in 2006. In 2009, he came through qualifying to reach the main draw of a Masters Series 1000 tournament for the first time at the Miami Masters. He beat Tommy Haas in the first round, but lost to Dmitry Tursunov in the second round. In September 2010, during the Davis Cup play-offs, he notably beat Swiss player Stanislas Wawrinka. His good form continued, later winning his only ATP World Tour title, as he beat world number 10 player Mikhail Youzhny in the final of the St. Petersburg Open 6–3, 7–6. In January 2012, Kukushkin became the first player with a Kazakh passport to reach the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open, after defeating Guillermo Garc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winning a qualifying stage. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. In Olympics, countries that fail to produce ath ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |