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2024 Cassis Open Provence
The 2024 Cassis Open Provence was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2024 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cassis, France between 2 and 8 September 2024. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 26 August 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Marin Čilić * Richard Gasquet * Maé Malige The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: * Alastair Gray The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Dan Added * Kyle Edmund * Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg * Laurent Lokoli * Damien Salvestre * Adrià Soriano Barrera The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Jules Marie * Lucas Poullain Champions Singles * Richard Gasquet def. Jurij Rodionov 3–6, 6–1, 6–2. Doubles * Jaime Faria / Henrique Rocha def. Manuel Guinard / Matteo Martineau Matt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcourt
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a type of surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in the synthetic/acrylic layer placed on top of the asphalt foundation. More sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugo Blanchet
Ugo Blanchet (born 5 January 1999) is a French tennis player who plays mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 139 achieved on 30 September 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 387 achieved on 15 July 2024. Professional career 2022: ATP doubles debut In February, Blanchet made his ATP Tour debut at the 2022 Open 13 in Marseille after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Timo Legout. The pair went on to reach the quarterfinals, earning Blanchet his first ATP Tour doubles win. 2023: Maiden Challenger title, Top 200 debut In October, Blanchet won his maiden Challenger title at the 2023 Málaga Open as a qualifier, defeating Mattia Bellucci in the final. In November, Blanchet recorded his second ATP career win in doubles at the 2023 Moselle Open, playing along with Matteo Martineau, after the pair received a wildcard to the main draw. 2024: ATP singles debut and first win, Top 150 In Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Martineau
Matteo Martineau (born 16 January 1999) is a French tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 170 achieved on 1 July 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 220 achieved on 20 May 2024. Professional career 2018: First ITF title In October, Martineau won his first ITF title in Saint-Dizier, France, defeating fellow countryman Corentin Denolly in the final. 2019: Grand Slam qualifying debut In June, Martineau played his first Grand Slam qualifying match at the French Open, reaching the second round. 2023: ATP Tour debut, top 300 In November, Martineau made his ATP Tour debut at the 2023 Moselle Open after entering the singles main draw as a lucky loser. He lost to Dominic Thiem in the first round. At the same tournament, Martineau recorded his first ATP win in doubles by reaching the quarterfinal, playing along with Ugo Blanchet, after the pair received a wildcard to the main draw. 2024: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Guinard
Manuel Guinard (born 15 November 1995) is a French professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 36 on 14 April 2025 and a career-high singles ranking of world No. 134 on 31 October 2022. Guinard won his first ATP Tour title at the 2025 Monte-Carlo Masters in doubles, partnering with Romain Arneodo. He also competes on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he has won 15 doubles titles and 2 singles titles. Early life Born in Saint-Malo, Guinard began playing tennis at the age of 5-6 at the TCJA Saint-Malo under the guidance of his first coach, Olivier Courteau. At 12, he joined a tennis-studies program in Quimperlé, where he trained from 5th to 3rd grade. He later spent four seasons at the French Tennis Academy near Gorron, Mayenne. Driven by his passion for tennis, he aimed to build a career as a professional player, setting long-term goals such as breaking into the Top 100 worldwide. Early international experiences included Futures and Chal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurij Rodionov
Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 87 achieved on 19 February 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 254 achieved on 9 September 2024. He is currently the No. 4 Austrian player. Personal life Rodionov is of Belarusian descent; his parents moved from Belarus to Nuremberg in 1996, where Rodionov was born, before later relocating to Austria. Professional career 2018–20: Major debut, Three Challenger titles, top 150, top-15 win Rodionov won three ATP Challenger singles titles. The first came at the 2018 Almaty Challenger. His second title came when he won the 2020 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas. His third title came at the 2020 Morelos Open. In 2019, he won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the Shymkent Challenger. Rodionov made his main draw Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open as qualifier and reached the second round with a win over Jér� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Lokoli
Laurent Lokoli (born 18 October 1994) is a French professional tennis player. Lokoli plays primarily ATP Challenger and ITF events. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 167 achieved on 27 February 2023. Career Lokoli received a wildcard for the 2014 French Open men's singles qualifying draw. He won three qualifying matches and hence advanced to the main draw 1st round, where he lost to Steve Johnson. He was given a wildcard for the 2017 French Open where he lost in the first round to Martin Kližan. He made minor news by twice refusing to shake hands with Klizan after the match. He reached the top 200 at No. 199 on 3 October 2022. He made his first Challenger final at the 2023 Open Nouvelle-Calédonie in Nouméa, New Caledonia losing to Raúl Brancaccio. As a result, he reached a new career-high ranking of No. 176 inside the top 200 on 9 January 2023. Next he qualified into the 2023 Australian Open main draw after 8 years of absence. In July 2023, Lokoli made h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg
Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg (born 1 August 2003) is a French tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 249 achieved on 24 February 2025. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 349 achieved on 9 December 2024. Professional career 2022: ATP and Major doubles debuts Gueymard Wayenburg made his ATP Tour debut and registered his maiden ATP win by reaching the quarterfinal at the 2022 Open Sud de France after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Luca Van Assche. He also made his Grand Slam debut in doubles at the 2022 French Open as a wildcard pair also partnering with Luca Van Assche. 2024: Maiden Challenger doubles title Gueymard Wayenburg won his maiden Challenger doubles title at the 2024 Open d'Orléans, partnering with Benjamin Bonzi. The pair defeated Manuel Guinard and Grégoire Jacq in the final. 2025: Maiden Challenger singles title, top 250 Gueymard Wayenburg won his first career Challenger singles title as a qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Edmund
Kyle Steven Edmund (born 8 January 1995) is a British professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP rankings, ranking of world No. 14 and was the top-ranked male British tennis player from March 2018 to October 2019. Edmund is an 2018 Australian Open – Men's singles#Finals, Australian Open semifinalist, and only the sixth British man to play in a major singles semifinal in the Open Era. He won his maiden ATP Tour title at European Open (tennis), Antwerp in October 2018. Edmund made his Davis Cup debut in the 2015 final, against 2015 Davis Cup World Group#Belgium vs. Great Britain, Belgium, with Great Britain winning the tournament for the first time in 1936 International Lawn Tennis Challenge#Challenge Round, 79 years. The Davis Cup team won the 2015 BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year Award. He has won two junior Grand Slam doubles titles, at the 2012 US Open – Boys' doubles, 2012 US Open and the 2013 French Open – Boys' doubles, 2013 French Open, both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Added
Dan Added (born 13 April 1999) is a French professional tennis player. Added has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 240 achieved on 12 June 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 77 achieved on 25 September 2023. Added has won 13 ATP Challenger Tour doubles titles. Career 2019–2021: ATP and Grand slam doubles debut Added made his ATP main draw doubles debut at the 2019 Moselle Open after receiving a wildcard partnering Albano Olivetti. Added made his Grand Slam main draw doubles debut at the 2021 French Open also as a wildcard partnering with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga where he recorded his first Major win. 2023-2024: Maiden Challenger singles final, top 80 in doubles, Major debut in mixed doubles In March 2023, Added played his first singles final on the ATP Challenger Tour in Saint-Brieuc, France, losing in three sets to Ričardas Berankis. At the same tournament, Added won the doubles title partnering with Albano Olivetti. Added was added to the q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Gray
Alastair Gray (born 22 June 1998) is a British tennis player. Gray has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 237 achieved on 19 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 304 achieved on 20 June 2022. Gray played college tennis at Texas Christian University. Career Gray made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Hall of Fame Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles tournament. He received a wildcard for the main draw of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships men’s doubles alongside Aidan McHugh, where he recorded his first Major win against Jiří Veselý and Roman Jebavý. Gray made his Grand Slam tournament debut at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships as a wildcard where he won his first singles match against Tseng Chun-hsin, before losing to 11th seed Taylor Fritz in the second round. Personal Gray attended Parkside School, Cobham, his time there overlapping with fellow British tennis player Jack Draper. Playing style Gray pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić (; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 28 January 2018. Čilić has won 21 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major at the 2014 US Open – Men's singles, 2014 US Open. Alongside Goran Ivanišević and Iva Majoli, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest Croatian tennis players in history. Čilić is one of only four ATP Tour records#Other active players, active players with 20 or more titles. He was also runner-up at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2017 Wimbledon Championships and the 2018 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2018 Australian Open, and won a silver Olympic medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles, men's doubles tournament partnering Ivan Dodig. Čilić has reached the semifinal stage or better ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titouan Droguet
Titouan Droguet (; born 15 June 2001) is a French tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 130 achieved on 6 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 211 achieved on 24 April 2023. Droguet has won two singles and three doubles ATP Challengers. Career 2022: First ITF titles In April 2022, Droguet won his first ITF singles title in Angers, France. In May, Droguet won his first Challenger doubles title in Aix-en-Provence, France playing alongside Kyrian Jacquet. 2023: Major debut and first win, top 200 In February, Droguet reached his first Challenger singles final in Cherbourg, France, where he lost to third seed Giulio Zeppieri. In June, Droguet made his Grand Slam qualifying debut as a wildcard, at the French Open, losing in the first round to Andrea Vavassori. Following two more Challenger finals, both lost, in Modena, Italy and Amersfoort, Netherlands, Droguet made his debut in the ATP top 200 at No. 185 on 23 July 2023. Ranked No. 172, Drogue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
