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2009 JSM Challenger Of Champaign–Urbana
The 2009 JSM Challenger of Champaign–Urbana was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Champaign, United States between 16 and 22 November 2009. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of November 9, 2009. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Ruben Gonzales (tennis), Ruben Gonzales * Nicholas Monroe * Dennis Nevolo * Blake Strode The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Ričardas Berankis * Arnau Brugués Davi * Kaden Hensel * Björn Rehnquist * Cecil Mamiit (Lucky loser, LL) Champions Singles Michael Russell (tennis), Michael Russell def. Taylor Dent, 7–5, 6–4 Doubles Brian Battistone / Dann Battistone def. Treat Conrad Huey / Harsh Mankad, 7–5, 7–6(5) External linksOfficial website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Champaign
Champaign ( ) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in the state outside the Chicago metropolitan area. It is a principal city of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, which had 236,000 residents in 2020. Champaign shares the main campus of the University of Illinois with its twin city of Urbana, and is also home to Parkland College, which gives the city a large student population during the academic year. Due to the university and a number of technology startup companies, it is often referred to as a hub of the Illinois Silicon Prairie. Champaign houses offices for the Fortune 500 companies Abbott, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Caterpillar, John Deere, Dow Chemical Company, IBM, and State Farm. Champaign also serves as the headquarters for several companies, including Jimmy John's. History Champaign was founded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruben Gonzales (tennis)
Ruben Gonzales (born September 11, 1985) is an American-born Filipino peoples, Filipino professional tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On May 6, 2013, he reached his highest Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of 766 and his highest doubles ranking of 122 achieved on August 29, 2022. Personal life Gonzales was born in Chicago and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana. His parents are from the Philippines and he has two siblings who he watched play tennis. At eight years old, he wanted to become a professional tennis player. For a time, he lived in Manila, where he spent some of his high school years. In 2019, he proposed to his girlfriend, race car driver Michele Bumgarner. Career College In his rookie season, he won the 2005 Big Ten singles consolation championship. He was also named as an ITA Scholar-Athlete. In his sophomore was selected to the Academic All-Big Ten team while having the highest GPA on the team. A lung injury, spontaneous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In American Tennis
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harsh Mankad
Harsh Mankad (born 10 November 1979) is a former world ranked ATP Professional tennis player from India. He played Davis Cup for India between 2001–2010 and was the No. 1 singles player on the team for several of those years. Personal life He is the grandson of world-renowned cricketer Vinoo Mankad, and the son of Indian Test cricketer and Mumbai captain Ashok Mankad and pioneer women's tennis player Nirupama Vasant. Harsh resides in Minneapolis. Early career Mankad was the #1 ranked junior tennis player in India, winning National Titles in every age group. Mankad earned a scholarship to the University of Minnesota where he played #1 singles and #1 doubles from 1999 to 2002. He played collegiate tennis at the University of Minnesota. Mankad won the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's National Indoor Tennis Championships in Dallas, Texas in November 2001. He was the first Indian to win this event and consequently secured the No. 1 ranking in the NCAA Division I US tennis ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treat Conrad Huey
Treat Conrad Huey (; born August 28, 1985) is a Filipino-American former tennis player who represented the Philippines in international competitions. Huey specialized in doubles and reached eighteen finals, winning 8 titles on the ATP World Tour. He won titles at the 2012 Citi Open, 2013 Swiss Indoors, and 2014 Aegon International alongside Dominic Inglot, 2015 Estoril Open with Scott Lipsky, 2015 St. Petersburg Open and 2015 Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur with Henri Kontinen, 2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel with Max Mirnyi and the 2017 Los Cabos Open with Juan Sebastián Cabal. He turned professional in 2008 and he started representing the Philippines in the Davis Cup and the Southeast Asian Games in 2009. Huey reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 18 in July 2016. Among his partners were Somdev Devvarman, Brian Battistone, Jeff Coetzee, Harsh Mankad, Jerzy Janowicz, Dominic Inglot, Jack Sock, Jonathan Erlich, Scott Lipsky, Max Mirnyi and Henri Kontinen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Loser
A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw. This can occur when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury, or other reasons, in which case the lucky loser re-enters the competition in place of the withdrawn competitor, or due to the structure of the tournament. In the event of a lucky loser's re-entry to a competition, it usually occurs before all competitors in the main draw have started their first match in the tournament. Tennis Lucky losers as winners and finalists It is rare for a lucky loser to win an ATP or WTA Tour tournament; Heinz Gunthardt did it in 1978 (at Springfield), Bill Scanlon in 1978 (at Maui), Francisco Clavet in 1990 in Hilversum, Christian Miniussi in 1991 in São Paulo, Sergiy Stakhovsky in 2008 in Zagreb, Rajeev Ram in 2009 in Newport, Andrey Rublev in 2017 in Umag, Leonardo Mayer in the followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Mamiit
Cecil Valdeavilla Mamiit (born June 27, 1976) is a former tennis player from the United States who went on to represent the Philippines. He began his professional career in 1996 and reached his highest individual ranking in the ATP Tour on October 11, 1999 as World No. 72. Career In 1996, he won the NCAA singles championship as an USC freshman, a feat that had not been achieved since John McEnroe attended Stanford University in 1978. Mamiit won the silver medal in the men's tournament at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, after losing the final to fellow American Paul Goldstein. At the 2006 Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar, he won bronze in the singles event after losing in the semifinals to Lee Hyung Taik of South Korea. In the doubles event, he also won bronze, along with fellow Filipino-American tennis player Eric Taino, losing to the first-seeded and former World no. 1 doubles players Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes of India. He won the men's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Rehnquist
Björn Rehnquist (born January 5, 1978, in Borås, Sweden) is a professional Swedish tennis player. Tennis career Juniors Rehnquist had an outstanding junior career, winning the Australian Open Boys' Singles in 1996 and reaching as high as No. 3 in the world in singles the same year (and No. 7 in doubles). Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Australian Open: W (1996) French Open: F (1996) Wimbledon: 3R (1995) US Open: QF (1994) Pro tour The Swede competed in the 2006 Australian Open, losing to 20th seed Radek Štěpánek 6–1, 6–2, 6–2, and at the 2009 Australian Open, but lost in the first round 6–0, 6–2, 6–2 to eventual semi-finalist Andy Roddick Andrew Stephen Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 13 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in .... Rehnquist won 5 Challenger titles in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaden Hensel
Kaden Hensel (born 5 June 1986) is a former Australian tennis player. Hensel has a career high ATP singles ranking of 390 achieved on 12 July 2010. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 121 achieved on 9 August 2010. Hensel has won 2 ATP Challenger Tour doubles titles as well as 10 ITF Futures doubles titles. Hensel made his ATP main draw debut at the 2010 Brisbane International, partnering Bernard Tomic. Later that month, Hensel made his grand slam debut at the 2010 Australian Open, partnering Greg Jones. The pair reached the second round where they lost to Ivo Karlović and Dušan Vemić Dušan Vemić ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Вемић; born 17 June 1976) is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. Professional career Vemić turned professional in 1995. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 ... in three sets. External links * * * * 1986 births Living people Australian male tennis players Tennis players from M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnau Brugués Davi
Arnau Brugués Davi (born 5 March 1985, in Spain) is a retired professional tennis player from Spain.Real Federación Española de TenisArnau Brugués se reencuentra con la victoria en el circuito Futures de Turquía 17 05 12 He graduated from the University of Tulsa in 2009. A four-time All-American and four-time Conference USA player of the year. Won the 2006 Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championship, marking the first national championship won by a Tulsa tennis player or a Conference USA tennis athlete, he defeated John Isner in the finals 7/6 6/4. He was ranked as high as No. 1 in singles and No. 3 in doubles. Inducted into the Conference USA hall of fame in July 2019, and the University of Tulsa hall of fame in April 2023. He won seventeen ITF Futures tournaments on hard courts in his career, however his best achievements are singles and doubles titles in 2011 Penza Cup (ATP Challenger Tour). Then he defeated Mikhail Kukushkin and Sergey Bubka / Adrián Menénde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ričardas Berankis
Ričardas Berankis (; born June 21, 1990) is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the first and only Lithuanian to enter the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP top 50 rankings, making him the highest ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time. Berankis has reached two finals on the ATP World Tour, at the Los Angeles Open (tennis), Los Angeles Open in 2012 and at the Kremlin Cup in 2017. He is also a prominent member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team. Early years Berankis started playing tennis at the age of two, when his six years older sister Lina took him to her tennis practices. Berankis' first coach was Valdas Adomaitis from Jurbarkas. When Berankis was nine years old he accepted an invitation from Remigijus Balžekas to practise with him at the Šiauliai tennis school (over 200 km from Vilnius). It turned out to be a long-term partnership and friendship. Career Juniors In 2004, Berankis dominated the U14 circuit of the Tennis Europe Junior Tour, winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Strode
Blake Strode (born July 9, 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American civil rights lawyer serving as the executive director of ArchCity Defenders (ACD), and is a former professional tennis player. Early life and education Strode grew up in Charlack, Berkeley, and Bridgeton, in North St. Louis County, Missouri, and graduated first in his class at Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights in 2005. He earned degrees in Spanish and economics at the University of Arkansas, where he was an All American tennis player for the Razorbacks. Strode was admitted into Harvard Law School in 2009, which he deferred for three years to pursue his career in tennis. At Harvard, he participated in the student practice organization "Project No One Leaves," reaching out to recently-foreclosed homeowners and informing them of their legal rights. He interned at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's voting section. He graduated in 2015, after several high-profile police brutal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
