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Bengaluru Open
The Bengaluru Open is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ..., India since 2015. Past finals Singles Doubles References {{ATP Challenger Tour ATP Challenger Tour Hard court tennis tournaments Tennis tournaments in India Recurring sporting events established in 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Tour. The ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments are on the entry-level of international professional tennis competition. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to become eligible for main draw or qualifying draw entry at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are usually young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP players looking to get back into the big tour. History of challenger events The first challenger events were held in 1978, with eighteen events taking place. Two were held on the week beginning January 8, one in Auckland and another in Hobar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Bengaluru Open
The 2018 Bengaluru Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bangalore, India from 12 to 17 November 2018. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 5 November 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Adil Kalyanpur * Saketh Myneni * Sumit Nagal * Suraj Prabodh The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Sebastian Fanselow * Youssef Hossam * Sasikumar Mukund * Zsombor Piros The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Zizou Bergs Champions Singles * Prajnesh Gunneswaran def. Saketh Myneni 6–2, 6–2. Doubles * Max Purcell / Luke Saville def. Purav Raja / Antonio Šančić 7–6(7–3), 6–3. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bengaluru Open, 2018 2018 ATP Challenger Tour 2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Ebden
Matthew Ebden (born 26 November 1987) is an Australian professional tennis player. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles alongside Max Purcell, and the 2013 Australian Open in mixed doubles with Jarmila Gajdošová. Ebden also finished runner-up at the 2022 Australian Open in men's doubles with Purcell, and the 2021 Australian Open and 2022 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles partnering Samantha Stosur. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 24 in January 2022, and has won six doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2014 Mexican Open. In singles, Ebden reached his highest ranking of world No. 39 in October 2018, and finished runner-up at the 2017 Hall of Fame Championships. He achieved his best major result at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, reaching the third round. Ebden has represented Australia in the Davis Cup since 2012, and won the bronze medal in singles at the 2010 Commonwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purav Raja
Purav Raja ( ; born 7 December 1985) is an Indian tennis player. He specializes in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has 2 ATP world tour level titles in men's doubles. He represents India in the Davis Cup. Personal and early life Purav Raja grew up in Mumbai and began playing tennis when he was 7 years old. He cites indoor carpet as his preferred surface, with his favourite shot being the drop shot. Raja was educated at Millfield in Somerset. Raja is very active in the Ananda Ashran orphanage and The Fellowship of the Physically Handicapped in Mumbai. He splits his training between Mumbai and Bromley. Professional career Early years Raja turned pro in year 2005. He started with ITF tour finding negligible success in singles but continued to excel in doubles. In year 2007 he started emerging as a doubles specialist as he went on to win 4 ITF titles. He followed his success in year 2008 with four more ITF doubles titles. The same year he reached his first ATP Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Müller
Alexandre Müller (; born 1 February 1997) is a French professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 76 in singles, which he achieved on 16 July 2023. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 273, attained on 9 May 2022. Since turning professional in 2014, Müller has spent most seasons on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour and ATP Challenger Tour, where he has won 17 total singles and doubles titles across both circuits. He sealed his top 150 debut in July 2022, a month after winning his first Challenger title in Blois. The following season, Müller made his breakthrough on the ATP Tour after reaching his first tour final in Marrakesh, which earned him his top 100 debut. Professional career 2017-19: Grand Slam debut Müller made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 French Open after receiving a wildcard to the singles main draw. He was defeated by Thiago Monteiro in the first round. He quali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Grenier
Hugo Grenier (born 23 March 1996) is a French tennis player. Grenier has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 95 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 362 achieved on 21 February 2022. Grenier has won 3 Challenger and 6 more ITF singles titles and 3 ITF doubles title on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. Career 2021: ATP Tour singles main draw and top 150 debut, maiden ATP Challenger singles title Grenier made his ATP Tour singles main draw debut at the 2021 Antalya Open, where he defeated Alex Molčan in the first round. He also won his first Challenger tournament in Roanne, France. 2022: Grand Slam and top 100 debut He made his Grand Slam singles main draw debut as a lucky loser at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships where he won his first match in a Grand Slam singles main draw and just his second career ATP tour main draw singles match by defeating fellow first-time qualifier Marc-Andrea Hüsler in five sets in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramkumar Ramanathan
Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as No. 111 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No. 58 achieved in August 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Indian player. He has represented India in the Davis Cup. In 2018, he became the first Indian player to reach an ATP Tour singles final since Somdev Devvarman in 2011. Personal and early life Ramanathan started playing tennis at the age of five. He was introduced to the sport by his father Ramanathan. His mother's name is Alagammai and sister's name is Uma. Both his parents are into the textile business. He speaks English, Spanish and Tamil. He trains at Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona, Spain. He is currently pursuing B.A. in Economics at Loyola College. Career 2014–2016: Early career In 2014, Ramanathan qualified for the main draw of the Chennai Open and beat the then-Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián Menéndez Maceiras
Adrián Menéndez Maceiras (; born 28 October 1985) is a Spanish tennis player. He has a career high-ranking singles of World No. 111, achieved in June 2015. Menéndez Maceiras has reached the finals of fourteen Futures tournaments, winning nine of them. He has won four Challenger tournaments, lifting his maiden title at the 2007 Open Diputación Challenger in Pozoblanco, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , ... defeating Dudi Sela in the final. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 32 (13–19) Doubles: 35 (16–19) Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Menendez Maceiras, Adrian 1985 births Living people People from Marbella Sportspeople from the Province of Málaga Spanish male tennis players Tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ward (tennis)
James Ward (born 9 February 1987) is a British former professional tennis player. He is a Davis Cup champion and former British No. 2. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2010 Aegon International and the semifinals of the 2011 Aegon Championships as a wildcard entry. His best Grand Slam performance to date was reaching the third round of Wimbledon in 2015. In February 2009, Ward played what was then, the longest tennis match in history, lasting 6 hrs 40 mins, eventually losing to Chris Eaton. This was a play-off match to decide the Davis Cup team, but it was not sanctioned by the ATP so was not an official record, and it was broken later. Ward was part of the Great Britain team that won the Davis Cup in 2015, the nation's first success in the tournament for 79 years. He played in wins against the United States and France in the first round and quarterfinals, which included a crucial singles victory over US' John Isner to give Britain a 2–0 lead. Ward was also named i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Bangalore Challenger
The 2015 Bangalore Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bangalore, India between 19 and 25 October 2015. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of October 12, 2015. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash * Sumit Nagal * Suraj Prabodh * Vishnu Vardhan The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Petros Chrysochos * Prajnesh Gunneswaran * Temur Ismailov * Sidharth Rawat The following player entered as a lucky loser: * Lakshit Sood Champions Singles * James Ward def. Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras, 6–2, 7–5 Doubles * Saketh Myneni / Sanam Singh def. John Paul Fruttero / Vijay Sundar Prashanth, 5–7, 6–4, 0–2 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Clarke (tennis)
Jay Alexander Clarke (born 27 July 1998) is a British tennis player. In 2017, on a Wimbledon wildcard, Clarke and Marcus Willis beat the defending doubles champions and second seeds, Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert, in five sets, to progress to the third round. Clarke has won four Futures titles and two Challenger titles. Early and personal life Clarke has an older brother Curtis (by four years) and an older sister Yasmin (by nine years), who are both former professional tennis players, and all were coached by their father Earol. Clarke is from Pear Tree, Derby. Junior career 2012 Playing in the Great Britain Under 14 boys team, with Samuel Ferguson, they won the European Winter Cup defeating Sweden in the final. Clarke won two Tennis Europe 14U Grade 1 events to become the 14U No.1 in Europe. Consequently, Clarke gained the May AEGON Junior Player of the Month Award. 2015 Clarke was the no 1 ranked British junior, living and training in Stockholm. Senior career 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumit Nagal
Sumit Nagal (born 16 August 1997) is an Indian professional tennis player. He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with his Vietnamese partner Lý Hoàng Nam, thus becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title. He is currently the highest- ranked Indian singles tennis player and since 2018, he has been a regular member of India's national Davis Cup squad. Early life Sumit Nagal was born on 16 August 1997 to school teacher Suresh Nagal and his wife Krishna Devi, a homemaker in Jhajjar, Haryana. Nagal started playing tennis at the age of eight at a local sports club. When he was ten years old, he was selected to join Mahesh Bhupathi's training academy, as part of the first batch of Mahesh Bhupathi's Apollo Tyres Mission 2018 programme. As part of the programme, between 2008 and 2010, Nagal was based in Bangalore. Upon the programme closing down, Nagal shifted to Toronto for training with Coach Bobby Mahal. Career 2015: Junior Wimbledon Title Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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