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Good To Great Tennis Academy
Good to Great Tennis Academy is a tennis academy and training center in Danderyd, Sweden. It was founded in 2011 as the country's first tennis academy. History The Academy was founded in 2011 by Nicklas Kulti, Magnus Norman, and Mikael Tillström. In an interview with Tennis.com, Norman stated, "We want dto build our own center, where the only focus is on developing future Top 100 players, no recreational players, only high performance." Originally, the Academy rented space at in Bromma. However, in 2017, the Academy opened its own facility, named Catella Arena, in Danderyd. Catella Arena includes seven indoor and seven outdoor tennis courts, as well as a gym, restaurant, and student accommodations. In November 2023, the Academy hosted the Good to Great Challenger on the ATP Challenger Tour. Notable people Players * Grigor Dimitrov * Karl Friberg * Johanna Larsson * Niels McDonald * Gaël Monfils * Jonathan Mridha * Rebecca Peterson * Laura Robson * Fred Simonsson * Carl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicklas Kulti
Nicklas Kulti (born 22 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He was born in Stockholm. Tennis career Juniors Kulti was ranked No. 1 in the junior world singles rankings in 1989 after winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon junior titles, and finishing runner-up at the US Open. Pro tour In 1991, Kulti won his first top-level singles title at Adelaide. He won a total of three tour singles titles during his professional career. He also won 13 top-level doubles titles, including the Monte Carlo Masters in 1994 (partnering Magnus Larsson) and the Paris Masters in 2000 (partnering Max Mirnyi). Kulti was a men's doubles runner-up at the French Open in 1995 (with Larsson) and the US Open in 1997 (with Jonas Björkman). Kulti's best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1992 French Open, where he reached the quarter-finals by defeating John McEnroe, Markus Zillner, Michael Chang and Diego Pérez before being knocked-out by Henri Leconte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels McDonald
Niels McDonald (born 26 January 2008) is a German tennis player. He has a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 4, achieved on 9 June 2025. He won the boys' singles title at the 2025 French Open. Early life McDonald was born in Cardiff to a German mother and a Scottish father; he himself has dual German and British citizenship. He lived near London until the age of four, when his family moved to Schwerin, Germany. He trains at Good to Great Tennis Academy and plays for Oldenburger TeV in the . Junior career In May 2024, McDonald won both the singles and doubles titles at the J200 tournament in Hanover. The following month, he and compatriot Diego Dedura-Palomero won the doubles title at the J300 tournament in Bamberg. He also won the singles title and reached the semifinals in doubles at the J200 Babolat Cup in Plzeň. That September, he attempted to make his Junior Grand Slam debut at the US Open, but retired during his first-round singles qualifying match against R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botic Van De Zandschulp
Botic van de Zandschulp (; born 4 October 1995) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Van de Zandschulp has a career high ATP rankings, ranking of world No. 22 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, achieved on 29 August 2022. He is the current Dutch No. 3 singles player. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 60, achieved on 22 May 2023. Van de Zandschulp has won one ATP Challenger Tour, ATP Challenger singles title in 2019 Tennis Challenger Hamburg, Hamburg and one ATP Challenger doubles title in 2017 TEAN International, Alphen. Van de Zandschulp's breakthrough occurred at the 2021 US Open – Men's singles, 2021 US Open when he became the third qualifier in US Open (tennis), US Open history to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament (after Nicolas Escudé in 1999 and Gilles Müller in 2008), with wins over seeded players Casper Ruud and Diego Schwartzman. He was also the third man to progress to the main draw of all four majors through q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian National Radio
Bulgarian National Radio (, ''Bǎlgarsko nacionalno radio''; abbreviated to БНР, BNR) is Bulgaria's national radio broadcasting organisation. It operates two national channels and nine regional channels, as well as an international service ( Radio Bulgaria) which broadcasts in 11 languages. History Until World War II Listening to radio broadcasts from other countries having become popular in Bulgaria by the late 1920s, a group of engineers and intellectuals founded ''Rodno Radio'' ("Native, or Homeland, Radio") on 30 March 1930 with the aim of providing Sofia with its own radio station. Broadcasting began in June of the same year. ''Rodno Radio'' was renamed ''Radio Sofija'' in 1934. On 25 January 1935, Boris III of Bulgaria signed a Decree nationalising ''Rodno Radio'' and making all broadcasting in Bulgaria a state-organised activity. In early 1936, a new and more powerful medium-wave transmitter sited near Sofia was joined by additional transmitting stations at Stara Zagor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktoriya Tomova
Viktoriya Konstantinova Tomova (, born 25 February 1995) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 46 on 29 July 2024. Her best doubles ranking is No. 254, achieved on 11 August 2014. Tomova is the current No. 1 Bulgarian female singles player. Competing for Bulgaria, she has a win–loss record of 13–13 (as of May 2025) in Billie Jean King Cup competitions. Career 2016: Top 150 In July 2016, Tomova reached the biggest final of her career so far at the Hungarian Ladies Open, losing to fellow Bulgarian Elitsa Kostova. The following week, she failed to qualify for the Bucharest Open, losing in the final qualifying round to Argentine Nadia Podoroska. Tomova made her debut at the US Open in the qualifying competition. She finished the year as No. 152 in the world. 2017: WTA Tour debut, top 150 at year end Tomova started the season with a loss to Elitsa Kostova at the qualifying draw of the Brisbane International, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nellie Taraba Wallberg
Nellie Taraba Wallberg (born 30 March 2007) is a Swedish tennis player. Early life From Särö, she started playing tennis at the age of three years-old. She had childhood rheumatism, which caused problems with joints and knees and doctors advised that tennis may help. Career She was given a wildcard as a 16 year-old into the 2023 Swedish Open. She defeated compatriot Caijsa Hennemann in the first round before facing eventual champion Olga Danilovic. She was called-up to play for Sweden in the Billie Jean King Cup in April 2024. She made her debut that month playing doubles against Norway. She was given as wildcard into the main draw of the 2024 Swedish Open. Personal life She is the daughter of Toni Taraba and the boxer, and former WBC female super-featherweight Super featherweight, also known as junior lightweight, is a boxing weight classes, weight division in professional boxing, contested between and . The super featherweight division was established by the New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Cavaliers
The Virginia Cavaliers, also known as Wahoos or Hoos, are the athletic teams representing the University of Virginia, located in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers compete at the NCAA Division I level ( FBS for football), in the Atlantic Coast Conference since 1953. Known simply as Virginia or UVA in sports media, the athletics program has twice won the Capital One Cup for men's sports (in 2015 and 2019) after leading the nation in overall athletic excellence in those years. The Cavaliers have regularly placed among the nation's Top 5 athletics programs. Virginia leads the ACC with 23 NCAA Championships in men's sports. The program has added 12 NCAA titles in women's sports for a grand total of 35 NCAA titles, second overall in this major conference of fifteen programs. In "revenue sports", Virginia men's basketball won the NCAA tournament championship in 2019, won ACC tournaments in 1976, in 2014 and in 2018, and have finished first in the ACC standings 11 times. College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Söderlund
Carl Söderlund (born 3 June 1997) is a Swedish tennis player. Söderlund reached a career high ATP singles ranking of 387 achieved on 8 May 2017. In the ATP doubles ranking he reached a career high of 1303 achieved on 10 October 2016. Söderlund won 3 ITF Futures titles on the ITF Men's Circuit. Söderlund made his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 Swedish Open The 2016 Swedish Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts as part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2016 ATP World Tour and as part of the International Series on the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place in Båstad, Sweden, from ..., where he received a wildcard into the singles main draw. He faced fellow wildcard and compatriot Fred Simonsson in the first round. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 4 (3–1) External links * * 1997 births Living people Swedish male tennis players Tennis players from Stockholm Virginia Cavaliers men's tennis players Swedish expatriate tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Simonsson
Fred Simonsson (born 27 November 1994) is a Swedish tennis player. Simonsson has a career high ATP singles ranking of 633, achieved on 1 August 2016. His career high ATP doubles ranking of 195 was achieved on 20 February 2017. Tennis career Simonsson made his ATP main draw doubles debut at the 2012 Swedish Open. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2015 Swedish Open partnering Jonathan Mridha and repeated the achievement at the 2016 Swedish Open The 2016 Swedish Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts as part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2016 ATP World Tour and as part of the International Series on the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place in Båstad, Sweden, from ... partnering Isak Arvidsson. In March 2016 Simonsson won the ATP Challenger Tour doubles tournament RC Hotel Open partnering Isak Arvidsson. With the same partner he won the 2016 Båstad Challenger in July. Simonsson retired in 2019 and shortly thereafter started to work as an assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Robson
Laura Robson (born 21 January 1994) is a British former professional tennis player. She debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2007, and a year later won the Junior Wimbledon championships at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached the final of the girls' singles tournament at the Australian Open, in 2009 and 2010. She won her first tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit in November 2008. In singles tennis, Robson was the first British woman since Samantha Smith at Wimbledon in 1998 to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament, doing so at the 2012 US Open and the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. At the 2012 Guangzhou International Open, Robson became the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1990 to reach a WTA Tour final, where she lost to Hsieh Su-wei. She was named WTA Newcomer of the Year for 2012 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 27 the following year. In mixed doubles, she won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics playing with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Peterson
Rebecca Peterson (born 6 August 1995) is a Swedish professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as world No. 43 in singles and No. 87 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Peterson has reached three singles finals on the WTA Tour, winning two of them. She has also reached one WTA Tour doubles final in 2015, in which she also succeeded to win the title. She also owns a doubles title on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour. On the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Women's Circuit, she won twelve singles and six doubles titles. She had her breakthrough into the top 100 in May 2018, so she could play in main draw at most of the WTA Tour tournaments. She got most recognition in 2019, when she won two singles titles and also recorded her first top-ten win, against Sloane Stephens at the Washington Open. Also, in 2019, she entered top 50 for the first time. She made her Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam debut at the 2017 US Open (tennis), 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
