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2010 Status Athens Open
The 2010 Status Athens Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Athens, Greece between 19 and 25 April 2010. ATP entrants Seeds *Rankings are as of April 12, 2010. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Theodoros Angelinos * Benjamin Becker * Konstantinos Economidis * Alex Jakupovic The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Ričardas Berankis * Andis Juška * Miloslav Mečíř Jr. * Noam Okun The following players received the lucky loser spot: * Rik de Voest * Simon Stadler Champions Singles Lu Yen-hsun def. Rainer Schüttler, 3–6, 7–6(4), 6–4 Doubles Rik de Voest / Lu Yen-hsun def. Robin Haase / Igor Sijsling Igor Sijsling (; born 18 August 1987) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Sijsling reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 52 on 17 February 2014. His bigges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainer Schüttler
Rainer Schüttler (; born 25 April 1976) is a German former professional tennis player. Schüttler was the runner-up at the 2003 Australian Open and a semifinalist at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. He won an Olympic silver medal in doubles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 5 in April 2004. Early life He began playing tennis at the age of nine. He resides in Switzerland. Career 2003–2009 In 2003, Schüttler became the first German since Boris Becker in 1989 to advance to the fourth round at all Grand Slam tournaments. He became the first German to reach a Grand Slam final, at the Australian Open, since Michael Stich was the runner-up at Roland Garros in 1996. En route to the final, which he lost in straight sets to Andre Agassi, he defeated Andy Roddick who would end the season as world No 1. In 2004, Schüttler reached his first career ATP Masters Series final in Monte Carlo by beating Gustavo Kuerten in the first round, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Sijsling
Igor Sijsling (; born 18 August 1987) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Sijsling reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 52 on 17 February 2014. His biggest accomplishment is reaching the final of 2013 Australian Open – Men's doubles, Australian Open Doubles with countryman Robin Haase in 2013, where they lost to the Bryan brothers. In singles, he reached the third round of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships and has victories over top players including Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Milos Raonic and Mikhail Youzhny. He has also coached Tim van Rijthoven. Personal life Sijsling grew up in Amsterdam, where his Serbs, Serbian mother tried to instill her love of sports in her son. He played all kinds of sports as a young child, street football, basketball, and tennis. He even studied ballet. He started playing tennis at the age of five with his parents, studying at the Amstelpark tennis school. By the time he was 12, tennis was clearly his sport. He was chosen for the Dut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Haase
Robin Haase (; born 6 April 1987) is a Dutch professional tennis player. He reached his career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 33 in July 2012 and his highest doubles ranking of world No. 29 in May 2023. In singles, he has won two titles, at the Austrian Open in 2011 Austrian Open Kitzbühel, 2011 and 2012 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel – Singles, 2012. He also reached the semifinals of the 2017 Rogers Cup, 2017 Canadian Open, and his best Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam singles result was reaching the third round at the 2011 Australian Open – Men's singles, Australian Open and 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, Wimbledon Championships in 2011. In doubles, he has won nine titles on the ATP Tour, most notably the 2022 ABN AMRO Rotterdam – Doubles, 2022 Rotterdam Open with Matwé Middelkoop. Haase reached the final of the 2013 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2013 Australian Open in doubles alongside compatriot Igor Sijs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Stadler
Simon Stadler (; born 20 July 1983 in Heidelberg, West Germany) is a German retired professional left-handed tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 140 in February 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 52 in February 2014. Juniors career Stadler reached a career-high of No. 8 in singles in February 2001 and No. 14 in doubles in January 2001. Professional career 2008 After a slow start to the year, Stadler reached Challenger semifinals two weeks in a row in Cremona and Athens to reach his career-high ranking of No. 164 in April. He reached another semifinal in Telde in May. In June, Stadler qualified in singles for the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, beating British junior No. 949 Daniel Cox (a week after Cox knocked off No. 67 Thomaz Bellucci), No. 248 Rainer Eitzinger and No. 270 Nicolás Todero. He took this form into the main singles draw, where he faced the 18th seed Ivo Karlović from Croatia and beat him in four set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noam Okun
Noam Okun (; born 16 April 1978) is an Israeli retired professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 95 in April 2002. Okun won several challenger tournaments in his career, and was a consistent competitor on the ATP tour, often qualifying for Grand Slam events. He, Harel Levy, and Dudi Sela were Israel's top singles players for a number of years. Okun trained at the Israel Tennis Centers. Early life Okun was born in Haifa, Israel. His parents are Igor (who works for Israeli Electric Company) and Galit (an assistant to an orthopedic doctor), and he is Jewish. Tennis career Okun began playing tennis at age nine, and was selected to be part of the Israeli Tennis Federation program after a short course at school. He turned pro in 1999, at the age of 21. In 2000, Okun qualified for the Australian Open, where he lost to hometown favorite Mark Philippoussis in a five-set thriller, 4–6, 2–6, 6–2, 6–3, 2–6. This was Okun's grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miloslav Mečíř Jr
Miloslav is a Slavic masculine given name, derived from the Slavic root ''mil-'', "merciful" or "dear", and ''-slav'' ''glory''. Name variants * feminine form: Miloslava * diminutive form: Miloš * Polish: Miłosław/Miłosława * Czech feminine: Miloslava Name Days *Czech: ''18 December'' *Slovak: ''3 July'' Men * Miloslav Fleischmann (1886–1955), Czechoslovak hockey player * Miloslav Gureň (born 1976), Czech hockey player * Miloslav Hamr (1913–2002), Czech tennis player * Michal Miloslav Hodža (1811–1870), Slovak national revivalist * Miloslav Hořava (born 1961), Czech hockey player * Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817–1888), Slovak politician and writer * Miloslav Ištvan (1928–1990), Czech composer * Miloslav Kabeláč (1908–1979), Czech composer and conductor * Miloslav Konopka (born 1979), Slovak hammer thrower * Miloslav Kousal (born 1978), Czech footballer * Miloslav Kufa (born 1971), Czech footballer * Miloslav Mečíř (born 1964), Slovak t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andis Juška
Andis Juška (born 22 May 1985) is a Latvian tennis coach and former player. Juška's career-high singles ranking was world No. 226, achieved in October 2009. For several years, he was the second-highest ATP-ranked Latvian tennis player. He is currently the coach of American player Amanda Anisimova, and former coach of Ukrainian player Elina Svitolina. In addition, Andis has worked with Latvian tennis player Jeļena Ostapenko. In addition to coaching individual players, in 2008, Juska was the captain of Latvian team for Billie Jean King Cup. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Juška reached as high as no. 43 in the junior world singles rankings in 2002 (and no. 15 in doubles). He competed in the main draw of the Australian Open The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand ... [...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] |
Alex Jakupovic
Alexandros Jakupović (, , , ; born December 14, 1981) is a Greek former tennis player who was banned for life in November 2015 by the Tennis Integrity Unit. He is the son of a Bosniak father and a Greek mother. Career His career high ATP singles rank is 464, which he achieved on March 9, 2009. As of November 4, 2013, on the futures level in singles, he has 37 quarter-final losses, 21 semi-final losses, 8 runners-up and 3 titles. As for doubles on the futures level, he has been far more successful. He has 31 semifinal exits, 31 runners-up and 23 titles. On the challenger level in doubles, he has 2 semi-finals, in July 2008 in Rimini, Italy, with Spaniard, Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras and in April 2009 in Athens, Greece with fellow Greek Konstantinos Economidis. He has 2 challenger doubles finals in April 2008 in Athens, Greece with his compatriot, Konstantinos Economidis and in May 2012 in Athens, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantinos Economidis
Konstantinos Economidis (, born 2 November 1977) is a retired professional Greek tennis player and a former Greek No. 1. In 2007, he qualified for the French Open and defeated Australian Chris Guccione in the first round before losing to Tommy Robredo in the second round. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 112 in February 2007 and has won 5 Challenger titles. Despite playing relatively few ATP Tour The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is the sole worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) founded in 1990 that replaced the earlier dual Grand Prix ...-level matches, Economidis has impressively managed to post a positive record in both singles and doubles. Singles Titles Grand Slam performance timeline References External links * * * Economidis World ranking historyGreek Men Recent Match Results 1977 births Living people Greek male tennis p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodoros Angelinos
Theodoros Angelinos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελίνος; born 29 May 1984 in Athens, Greece), is a professional tennis player who participates in the ATP International Tennis Tour. Personal data Angelinos is the son of Stratos and Eleni Angelinos. He is 6 foot 3 inches tall and weighs 182 pounds. He attended CMA University high school and the University of Virginia. Tennis career 2010 was the first year that Angelinos played professionally. He has to date, been nominated a total of five times. His final ranking for 2013 was 256. He garnered a top 1000 ATP ranking in singles and doubles and was a top junior player in Greece even when injured. Angelinos also trained at a high-level tennis academy in Valencia, Spain. He plays right-handed In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to and causing it to be stronger, faster or more Fine motor skill, dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
