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2022 Maia Challenger
The 2022 Maia Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Maia, Portugal from 28 November to 4 December 2022. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 21 November 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Fábio Coelho * João Domingues * Gonçalo Oliveira The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Pedro Sousa The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Vitaliy Sachko * Louis Wessels The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Raphaël Collignon * Denis Istomin * Evgeny Karlovskiy * Alexandar Lazarov * Maximilian Neuchrist * Gauthier Onclin Champions Singles * Luca Van Assche def. Maximilian Neuchrist 3–6, 6–4, 6–0. Doubles * Julian Cash / Hen ...
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Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. The French Open uses clay courts, the only Grand Slam tournament to do so. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness. Play Clay courts are considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Points are usually longer as there are fewer winn ...
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Riccardo Bonadio
Riccardo Bonadio (born 13 July 1993) is an Italian tennis player. Bonadio has a career high ATP singles ranking of 177 achieved on 15 August 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 278 achieved on 21 March 2022. Bonadio has won 1 ATP Challenger The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T ... doubles title at the 2021 Antalya Challenger III with Giovanni Fonio. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 20 (10–10) Doubles References External links * * 1993 births Living people Italian male tennis players {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Gauthier Onclin
Gauthier Onclin (born 26 February 2001) is a Belgian tennis player. He has a career high ranking of 184 achieved on September 18, 2023. Career 2023 In January 2023 Onclin reached the semifinals of the 2023 BW Open in Mons where he lost to eventual champion and compatriot David Goffin. In May 2023 he beat the higher-ranked Elias Ymer at a challenger event in Bordeaux. At the 2023 French Open he defeated Nicholas David Ionel in straight sets in the first round of qualifying before losing to Argentine Thiago Agustin Tirante in three sets. Onclin got his revenge over the Argentine in the qualifying at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, winning in straight sets during his first ever grass-court summer, as his junior years coincided with the grass-court cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2023, he received a wildcard in doubles for the European Open in Antwerp, alongside compatriot Michael Geerts. At the same tournament, in the qualifying singles competition, ...
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Maximilian Neuchrist
Maximilian Neuchrist (born 22 July 1991) is an Austrian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour who competes on the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures tour level. Neuchrist has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 244 achieved on 30 July 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 135 achieved on 3 March 2014. Neuchrist has reached 27 career singles finals with a record of 13 wins and 14 losses, one at the ATP Challenger and the rest at the ITF Futures level. Additionally, he has reached 60 career doubles finals posting a record of 37 wins and 23 losses, which includes a 2–3 record in ATP Challenger finals. Neuchrist made his ATP Tour debut at the 2012 Vienna Open where he was granted a wild card entry into the main doubles draw alongside compatriot Andreas Haider-Maurer. They were defeated in the first round in three sets by Aljaž Bedene and Grega Žemlja ''7–6(7–5), 3–6, –10'. He reached his maiden final at the 2022 Maia Cha ...
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Alexandar Lazarov
Alexandar Lazarov ( bg, Александър Лазаров, born 6 November 1997) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. His highest singles ranking is No. 272 achieved on 14 November 2022, whilst his best doubles ranking is No. 359 achieved on 3 February 2020. Professional career 2016: Professional debut, first ITF title In 2016 Lazarov made his debut at ATP level at the ATP Sofia Open. He received a wild card for the qualification of the event in his homeland, losing in two sets to the world No. 214 Marius Copil. A month later Alexandar made his debut for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team against Turkey, losing the first match to Marsel İlhan, but claiming his maiden win over Altuğ Çelikbilek in the second. In September he won his first ITF singles title at the Serbia F8 event in Sokobanja, defeating Filip Veger in the final. 2017–2020: Maiden ATP main draw appearance & ATP Cup match win Lazarov lost in the first qualifying round at the ATP Sofia Open in 2017 and 2018, b ...
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Evgeny Karlovskiy
Evgeny Konstantinovich Karlovskiy ( rus, Евге́ний Константи́нович Карло́вский, links=no; ; born 7 August 1994) is a Russian tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ... player. Karlovskiy has a career high ATP singles ranking of 211 achieved on 17 June 2019. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 222 achieved on 29 July 2019. Karlovskiy has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title at the 2018 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 19 (9–10) Doubles: 22 (12–10) References External links * * * 1994 births Living people Russian male tennis players Tennis players from Moscow {{Russia-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Denis Istomin
Denis Olegovich Istomin (born 7 September 1986) is an Uzbek professional tennis player. He has won two singles titles (at the 2015 Aegon Open Nottingham and 2017 Chengdu Open) and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in August 2012. In January 2017, he defeated defending champion Novak Djokovic in the second round of the Australian Open. Personal life Denis Istomin was born in Orenburg to Russian parents Oleg and Klaudiya Istomin. His father moved the family to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, when Denis was 3 months old. Denis is coached by his mother, who introduced him to the sport at an early age. Injuries resulting from a car crash in 2001 en route to an event kept Istomin away from tennis for 2 years, with doctors initially stating that he would never hold a racquet again. Despite this, Istomin resumed training in April 2003. He is good friends with Varvara Lepchenko, who previously played for Uzbekistan. On court Istomin is one of the few top ATP Professio ...
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Raphaël Collignon
Raphaël Collignon (born 13 January 2002) is a Belgian professional tennis player. He achieved a career high ranking of 210 on 22 May, 2023. Career From Liege, he is coached by former pro Steve Darcis. In 2022 he won four ITF event finals. This included the Marburg Open which he won in 2022 without dropping a set. In April 2023 he reached the final of the Challenger di Roseto degli Abruzzi, where he lost 4–6, 7–5, 7–6(8–6) to Filip Misolic. It was his first ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T ... event final and pushed his ranking towards 200, and a place in the qualification event for a grand slam for the first time. Grand Slam performance timeline Singles References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Collignon, Raphaël 2002 b ...
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Louis Wessels
Louis Wessels (german: Weßels; born 27 August 1998) is a German tennis player. Tennis career On the junior tour, Wessels has a career high ITF junior ranking of 17 achieved in May 2016. Wessels has reached the doubles semifinals at three of the four junior grand slams, including the 2015 Australian Open, 2015 US Open and the 2016 Wimbledon Championships. Wessels made his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 German Open, where he upset Steven Diez in the first round. This victory made him the youngest player to win a main draw match at the 2016 ATP World Tour by that time. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 18 (8–10) Doubles: 9 (5–4) {, , -valign=top , {, class=wikitable style=font-size:97% !Legend (doubles) , -bgcolor=moccasin , ATP Challenger (0–0) , -bgcolor=cffcff , ITF Futures (5–4) {, class="sortable wikitable" !Result !class="unsortable", W–L !Date !Tournament !Tier !Surface !Partner !Opponents !class="unsortable", Score , ...
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Vitaliy Sachko
Vitaliy Sachko ( uk, Віталій Дмитрович Сачко; 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 also reached as high as No. 149 in doubles on 2 May 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Ukrainian tennis player. 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 Strick ...
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Pedro Sousa
Pedro Barreiros Cardoso de Sousa (; born 27 May 1988) is a Portuguese professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Tour. In February 2019, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 99. ATP career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 35 (17 titles, 18 runner-ups) Doubles: 12 (5 titles, 7 runner-ups) ITF Junior Circuit Singles: 3 (3 titles) Performance timelines Singles ''Current through the 2021 US Open.'' Doubles Record against top 10 players Sousa's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Only ATP Tour main draw and Davis Cup matches are considered. * Gilles Simon 1–0 * Juan Martín del Potro 0–1 * David Goffin 0–1 * Ernests Gulbis 0–1 * Fernando Verdasco 0–1 * Stan Wawrinka 0–1 :''* .'' Career earnings :* As of 10 April 2017. National participation Davis Cup (9 wins, 3 losses) Sousa debuted for the Portugal Davis Cup team in 2006 File:2006 Events C ...
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Gonçalo Oliveira
Gonçalo Oliveira (born 17 February 1995) is a Portuguese tennis player. Oliveira has a career high ATP singles ranking of 194 achieved on 25 December 2017. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 78 achieved on 9 March 2020. Oliveira has won 7 ATP Challenger The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T ... doubles titles. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 14 (7–7) Doubles: 73 (35–38) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oliveira, Goncalo 1995 births Living people Portuguese male tennis players Sportspeople from Porto 21st-century Portuguese people ...
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