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2024 Swedish Open
The 2024 Swedish Open (also known as the Nordea Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts as part of the ATP Tour 250 Series of the 2024 ATP Tour and as part of the 2024 WTA 125 tournaments. It took place in Båstad, Sweden, from 8 through 14 July 2024 for the women's tournament, and from 15 through 21 July 2024 for the men's tournament. It was the 76th edition of the event for the men and the 14th edition for the women. Champions Men's singles * Nuno Borges def. Rafael Nadal, 6–3, 6–2 Women's singles * Martina Trevisan def. Ann Li, 6–2, 6–2 Men's doubles * Orlando Luz / Rafael Matos def. Manuel Guinard / Grégoire Jacq, 7–5, 6–4 Women's doubles * Peangtarn Plipuech / Tsao Chia-yi def. María Lourdes Carlé / Julia Riera, 7–5, 6–3 ATP singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 1 July 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Le ... [...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] |
María Lourdes Carlé
María Lourdes Carlé (; born 10 February 2000) is an Argentine professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 71, achieved on 6 May 2024, and a doubles ranking of world No. 124, achieved on 11 November 2024. She has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour. On the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit, she has won 13 singles titles and five doubles titles thus far. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Carlé had a career-high ranking of No. 9, achieved in November 2017. She played one season of college tennis for the Georgia Bulldogs women's tennis, Georgia Bulldogs in the United States in 2018–19, helping the team win the Southeastern Conference (SEC) regular season title, and was named to the All-SEC second team and SEC All-Freshman team. Playing for Argentina Fed Cup team, Argentina in Billie Jean King Cup, Carlé has a win–loss record of 8–4 (as of May 2025). Career Juniors Grand Slam per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duje Ajduković
Duje Ajduković (born 5 February 2001) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 105, achieved on 9 September 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 491, achieved on 8 November 2021. He is currently the No. 3 player from Croatia. Professional career 2021: ATP debut and first win Ajduković made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Croatia Open Umag after receiving a wildcard in singles and in the doubles main draws and recorded his first ATP singles win over qualifier Andrea Collarini. 2023: First Challenger title In August 2023, Ajdukovic won his first ATP Challenger title in Lüdenscheid, Germany after going through the qualifying, defeating Hugo Dellien in the final in straight sets. 2024: First ATP semifinal, ATP 500 and top 105 debuts He reached a new career high of No. 115 on 1 April 2024. He qualified for his first ATP 500 tournament at the 2024 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. He reached his first semifinal as a qualifier at the 2024 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrique Rocha
Henrique Rocha (born 6 April 2004) is a Portuguese professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 149, achieved on 9 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 166, achieved on 9 September 2024. He is currently the No. 3 player from Portugal. Early career Rocha is from Maia. In 2018, he was training at the Centro de Alto Rendimento do Jamor, in Cruz Quebrada. When he was 15 years-old he began training in Lisbon, at the Portuguese Tennis Federation. He won Portuguese under-14, and under-16 age-group titles. In July 2020, he became the first tennis player born in 2004 to beat a player ranked in the world top 600 when he defeated Tiago Cação, number 547 in the world, in Figueira da Foz. Career In 2023, Rocha made his ATP main draw debut after qualifying at the 2023 Estoril Open. He defeated higher ranked players Ryan Peniston, and Máté Valkusz to reach the main draw. It was his first ATP tour qualifying event, having never previously even qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Ymer
Elias Ymer (born 10 April 1996) is a Swedish tennis player. Ymer has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of World No. 105, achieved on 11 June 2018. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 188, achieved on 16 October 2017. He is the current No. 1 Swedish singles player. Personal info Ymer was born in Skara, Sweden to Ethiopian immigrant parents. He is the elder brother of tennis player Mikael Ymer. From 2017 to 2018, Ymer was coached by Robin Söderling. In the autumn of 2022 Ymer, together with ten other athletes, was accepted as a student at Harvard Business School's “Crossover into Business” program. Career 2014: ATP debut Ymer made his ATP main draw singles debut at the 2013 Swedish Open where he lost in the first round to Grigor Dimitrov. Ymer received a wildcard at the 2014 Swedish Open defeating Mikhail Kukushkin in the first round before falling to João Sousa in the second round. 2015: Qualification at all Grand Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Borg
Leo Karl Borg (; born 15 May 2003) is a Swedish tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 334, achieved on 11 September 2023. He is the current No. 2 Swedish singles player. Personal info He is the son of 11-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1, Björn Borg. Junior career Borg excelled on the ITF Junior Circuit, defeating world No. 1 junior Bruno Kuzuhara in the final of the Porto Alegre in Brazil, one of the top junior tournaments, in March 2021. Borg also qualified for and played in the 2021 junior majors, including Wimbledon. His junior ranking peaked at No. 12 in the world. Professional career 2021: ATP Tour debut Borg received a number of wildcards in ATP Challenger events and ATP Tour qualifying and main events and competed regularly on the ITF World Tour. He made his ATP Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Stockholm Open as a wildcard, where he lost in the first round to eventual champion Tommy Paul. 2022: Maiden ITF Tour title On Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. 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. For Summer Olympic Games, some National Olympic Committees, whose nations are underrepresented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Kotov (tennis)
Pavel Vyacheslavovich Kotov ( rus, Павел Вячеславович Котов, , ˈpavʲɪl ˈkotəf; born 18 November 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. Kotov has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 50 achieved on 17 June 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 226 achieved on 8 November 2021. Career 2020–2021: ATP debut, Maiden Challengers in singles & doubles He made his ATP debut at the 2020 St. Petersburg Open as a qualifier where he was defeated by Ugo Humbert. Kotov won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2020 Challenger La Manche and maiden single title at the 2021 Città di Forlì III. 2022: First ATP win, Grand Slam and top 100 debuts He won his first ATP match at the 2022 Grand Prix Hassan II as a qualifier defeating ninth seed Tallon Griekspoor. He won his second singles Challenger title at 2022 Città di Forlì III. He reached the top 150 on 16 May 2022 at World No. 143. At the 2022 French Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Safiullin
Roman Rishatovich Safiullin (born 7 August 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. Safiullin has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 36 achieved on 8 January 2024, and in doubles of world No. 151 achieved on 19 August 2024. Personal life Safiullin was born in Podolsk, Russia, to a Tatar father Rishat Safiullin and Russian mother. Juniors On the junior tour, Safiullin has a career high combined ranking of No. 2 achieved on 26 May 2014. He is a junior Major champion, having won the 2015 Australian Open over Hong Seong-chan. His biggest junior title, after his Australian Open title, is the Grade A Trofeo Bonfiglio where he beat Andrey Rublev in the final. Career 2020: First Challenger titles in singles and doubles , top 200 debut Safiullin claimed his first 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 at the 2021 Australian Open after qualifying and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Norrie
Cameron Norrie (; born 23 August 1995) is a British professional tennis player. He has reached career-high ATP Rankings, rankings of world No. 8 in singles (on 12 September 2022) and No. 117 in doubles (on 13 June 2022). Norrie has won five ATP Tour singles titles, including a ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 title at the 2021 BNP Paribas Open – Men's singles, 2021 Indian Wells Masters, and one doubles title. He has reached a major semifinal, in Wimbledon in 2022. He was the British No. 1 in men's singles from October 2021 to June 2024. Born in South Africa, he represented New Zealand, where he grew up, before switching nationality in May 2013. From 2014 to 2017 he studied at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth playing for its Horned Frogs team on the U.S. college tennis circuit. Early and personal life Norrie was born in 1995 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to British microbiologist parents: his father David is from Glasgow and his mother Helen is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariano Navone
Mariano Navone (born 27 February 2001) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 29, achieved on 10 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 141, achieved on 9 June 2025. Early life and background Navone was born in Nueve de Julio, Buenos Aires, to Luis Navone and Analía Vizzón. He is of Italian descent. He has two sisters, Lucía and Pilar. He began playing tennis at the age of three, and attended the ''Escuela de Tenis del Club Atletico Nueve de Julio''. Professional career 2023: Five Challenger titles, top 125 Navone won five ATP Challenger singles titles, all during the 2023 season. 2024: ATP, Major, Masters debuts & first wins, top 30 He made his ATP Tour debut at the 2024 Córdoba Open as a wildcard. He also qualified for the next Latin American Golden swing tournament on home soil at the 2024 Argentina Open. Ranked No. 113, he qualified for his first ATP 500 tournament at the 2024 Rio Open and defeated compatrio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallon Griekspoor
Tallon Griekspoor (; born 2 July 1996) is a Dutch professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 21, achieved on 6 November 2023. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 61 achieved on 10 June 2024. Griekspoor is the current Dutch No. 1 singles player. He has won a record eight ATP Challenger Tour, Challenger titles in one season (2021 ATP Challenger Tour, 2021), and became also the first player in history to win five consecutive such titles. Early life and background Griekspoor was born in Haarlem to father Ron and mother Monique, and grew up in Nieuw-Vennep. He has two older brothers, Scott Griekspoor, Scott and Kevin, who are twins. His grandfather Joop founded the construction company Griekspoor BV, where much of his family works. Griekspoor and his brothers began playing tennis when he was six, training at the Nieuw-Vennep Tennis Club. At the age of 12, he began playing at the Zandvoort Ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
