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2009 UniCredit Czech Open
The 2009 UniCredit Czech Open was a tennis clay-court tournament included in the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. Agustín Calleri was the defending singles champion, but could not get past the first round. Jan Hájek, world no. 288, came from the qualifying round and took the title in front of his home crowd by beating the top-100 player Steve Darcis in the final. Johan Brunström and Jean-Julien Rojer won the doubles event. Singles entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of May 25, 2009. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Michail Elgin * Andrey Kuznetsov * Stanislav Vovk The following players received entry a special Exempt into the singles main draw: * Mikhail Kukushkin * Illya Marchenko The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. * Petru-Alexandru Luncanu * Yuri Schukin * Sergiy Stakhovsky Champions Singles Jan Hájek def. Steve Darcis, 6–2, 1–6, 6–4 Doubles Johan B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TK Agrofert Prostějov
TK Agrofert Prostějov is a tennis club and training center located in Prostějov, Czech Republic. It is one of the most prestigious tennis clubs in the country. History The club was founded in 1900. In 1990, became the president of the club. Since 1994, the club has hosted the Czech Open on the ATP Challenger Tour. Notable players * Michaela Bayerlová * Sára Bejlek * Tomáš Berdych * Norbert Gombos * Petra Holubová * Viktória Hrunčáková * Zdeněk Kolář * Vít Kopřiva * Barbora Krejčíková * Petra Kvitová * Jiří Lehečka * Tomáš Macháč * Florian Mayer * Jakub Menšík * Maxim Mrva * Linda Nosková * Jiří Novák * Adam Pavlásek * Karolína Plíšková * Lukáš Rosol * Lucie Šafářová * Václav Šafránek * Kateřina Siniaková * Tereza Smitková * Radek Štěpánek * Julie Štruplová * Barbora Strýcová * Dalibor Svrčina * Jiří Veselý Jiří Veselý (; born 10 July 1993) is a Czech professional tennis player. He reach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Cuevas
Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz (; born January 1, 1986) is an inactive Uruguayan professional tennis player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open men's doubles title with Luis Horna. He has won six singles titles and has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 19. Cuevas' career-high doubles ranking is World no. 14, which he achieved in April 2009. In September 2019, Cuevas led the Uruguayan Davis Cup team to a victory over the Dominican Republic, winning entry into the highest Davis Cup tier, the World Group. Professional career Early career At the 2007 French Open, Cuevas and Argentine partner Carlos Berlocq made the third round of the men's doubles tournament. Cuevas won the Tunica, Scheveningen, and Lima singles Challenger titles, and the São Paulo-1 and Florianópolis-2 doubles Challenger titles. 2008 Cuevas opened the year at the Movistar Open in Viña del Mar, Chile. He earned his first tour-level victory in his first-round match against Guillermo Coria. He then bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Open (tennis)
The UniCredit Czech Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Prostějov Tennis Complex in Prostějov, Czech Republic, since 1994. Jan Hájek, Radek Štěpánek, Jiří Veselý are the singles record holders with three titles won. Jaroslav Levinský, winning three times the doubles titles, is the record holder for that tournament category. Past finals Singles Doubles External linksOfficial website {{ATP Challenger Tour ATP Challenger Tour [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court Tennis Tournaments
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay particles, but become hard, brittle and non–plastic upon drying or firing. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide. Clay is the oldest known ceramic material. Prehistoric humans discovered the useful properties of clay and used it for making pottery. Some of the earliest pottery shards have been dated to around 14,000 BC, and clay tablets were the first known writing medium. Clay is used in many modern industrial processes, such as paper making, cement production, and chemical filtering. Between one-half and two-thirds of the world's population live or work in buildings made with clay, often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominik Hrbatý
Dominik Hrbatý (; born 4 January 1978) is a Slovakian former professional tennis player. Hrbatý reached the semifinals of the 1999 French Open, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 in October 2005. Hrbatý is one of only three players, alongside Nick Kyrgios and Lleyton Hewitt, to have beaten each member of the Big Three (Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal) the first time he played each of them. Hrbatý is one of a select few players to have competed on the ATP Tour with a positive winning record against Federer (2–1), Nadal (3–1), Murray (1–0), and Berdych (1–0 in ATP-level matches, or 2–0 overall). Hrbatý's record against Djokovic stands at 1–1 (or 0–1 at tour-level events). Hrbaty, Alex Corretja and Novak Djokovic are the only players to have a winning record over Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Personal life Hrbatý was born on 4 January 1978 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. His father was an architecture engineer and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky ( uk, Сергій Едуардович Стаховський, ; born January 6, 1986) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and played mostly at the Challenger level from 2005 to 2008. His career-high rankings were World No. 31 in singles (September 2010) and No. 33 in doubles (June 2011). Stakhovsky won his first career title in March 2008, as a lucky loser ranked no. 209, defeating top seed Ivan Ljubičić in the final, thus becoming the first lucky loser to win a title since Christian Miniussi in 1991. He is the elder brother of tennis player Leonard Stakhovsky. He was coached by Burghard Riehemann. He is well known for beating eight-time winner and defending champion Roger Federer in the second round of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, ending the latter's record run of 36 consecutive major quarterfinals. Stakhovsky retired from tennis in January 2022, and following the Russian invasion of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Schukin
Yuri Schukin (russian: Ю́рий Ива́нович Щу́кин, Shchukin; born 26 June 1979) is a retired Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. Schukin has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 119, achieved on 19 November 2007. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 117, achieved on 16 October 2000. Career Schukin made his ATP Tour singles debut at the 2001 Australian Open where he battled through the qualifying rounds to earn a spot in the main draw. In qualifying, he defeated Neville Godwin ''4–6, 6–1, 6–4'', Eric Taino ''7–5, 6–1'' and lastly Robin Vik ''0–6, 7–6(7–4), 8–6'' to solidify the first main draw appearance of his career. In the first round he was defeated by Australian Wayne Arthurs in four sets ''3–6, 5–7, 6–4, 2–6''. He made his ATP double main draw debut at the 2000 Dutch Open in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Alongside Orlin Stanoytchev, they were granted direct entry into the main doubles draw wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petru-Alexandru Luncanu
Petru-Alexandru Luncanu (born 7 May 1989) is a Romanian professional tennis player playing on the ITF Men's Circuit and the ATP Challenger Tour and is a current member of the Romania Davis Cup Team. On 2 November 2009 he reached his highest ATP ATP may refer to: Companies and organizations * Association of Tennis Professionals, men's professional tennis governing body * American Technical Publishers, employee-owned publishing company * ', a Danish pension * Armenia Tree Project, non ... singles ranking of 304 whilst his highest doubles ranking was 286 achieved on 2 November 2015. Davis Cup Singles performances (0–2) References External links * * * 1989 births Living people Tennis players from Bucharest Romanian male tennis players 21st-century Romanian people {{Romania-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr
Alexandr Oleksandrovych Dolgopolov (born 7 November 1988), formerly known as Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr., is a Ukrainian retired professional tennis player. He changed his forename spelling to the current form in May 2010. Dolgopolov reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 Australian Open and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 13 in January 2012. Early life Alexandr's father, Oleksandr Sr., was a professional tennis player for the Soviet team, and his mother was a gymnast. He started playing tennis at age 3, coached by his father. The senior Dolgopolov was also the coach of Andrei Medvedev, Ukraine's most successful tennis player to date. At a young age, Dolgopolov lived on the tour with his parents, traveling frequently and playing players such as Medvedev, Andre Agassi, and Boris Becker. Players such as Jim Courier remembered hitting balls with Dolgopolov when he was a toddler. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Dolgopolov reached as high as No. 21 in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illya Marchenko
Illya Vasylovych Marchenko ( uk, Ілля Васильович Марченко) (born 8 September 1987) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Marchenko turned professional in 2005 and had been playing at the Futures and Challengers level from 2005 to 2008. His career high in singles is World No. 49 achieved on 26 September 2016 and No. 268 in doubles achieved on 25 August 2014. On the ATP Tour, Marchenko reached the semifinals of Moscow in 2009, the 2010 St. Petersburg Open and Doha in 2016. He is noted for his backhand, which he cites as his best shot. His favorite surface is hard courts. Personal life Illya began playing tennis at age seven. His father Vassili and mother Anna are both engineers. Has one older brother, Igor Marchenko, a manager and former ice skater who took part in the 1998 Winter Olympics. Growing up, he admired Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer. He has played doubles on the Futures level with fellow Ukrainian Artem Smirnov. He was coached by Ores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Kukushkin
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kukushkin (russian: link=no, Михаил Александрович Кукушкин; born 26 December 1987) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. Before 2008, he played for his country of birth, Russia. Career Born in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, he turned pro in 2006. In 2009, he came through qualifying to reach the main draw of a Masters Series 1000 tournament for the first time at the Miami Masters. He beat Tommy Haas in the first round, but lost to Dmitry Tursunov in the second round. In September 2010, during the Davis Cup play-offs, he notably beat Swiss player Stanislas Wawrinka. His good form continued, later winning his only ATP World Tour title, as he beat world number 10 player Mikhail Youzhny in the final of the St. Petersburg Open 6–3, 7–6. In January 2012, Kukushkin became the first player with a Kazakh passport to reach the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open, after defeating Guillermo Garc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislav Vovk
Stanislav Olegovich Vovk (russian: Станислав Олегович Вовк; born 19 February 1991 in Moscow) is a former Russian tennis player. Tennis career Vovk has a career high ATP singles ranking of 357 achieved on 7 July 2014. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 387 achieved on 22 August 2011. Rudnev has won a total of 2 ITF singles titles on the futures circuit as well as 7 ITF doubles title. Vovk made his ATP main draw debut at the 2009 St. Petersburg Open where he received entry to the main draw as a wildcard entrant into the singles event. He lost in the first round to Björn Phau, 3–6, 2–6. Vovk is coached by this father, Oleg. Vovk has retired from professional career in 2015. Personal life Vovk's father, Oleg was a runner and his mother was a swimmer. Vovk can speak Russian, English and German. His family moved to the United States in 1997. He cites Frank Lampard Frank James Lampard (born 20 June 1978) is an English professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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