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2011 Rogers Cup
The 2011 Canada Masters (also known as the 2011 Rogers Cup presented by National Bank and the 2011 Rogers Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Canada. It was the 122nd edition of the Canada Masters (110th for the women) and was part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the 2011 ATP World Tour and the Premier Series of the 2011 WTA Tour. The women's and legends event was held at the Rexall Centre in Toronto, Canada, and the men's event took place at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Canada, from August 8 to August 14. Finals Men's singles Novak Djokovic defeated Mardy Fish, 6–2, 3–6, 6–4 * It was Djokovic's 9th title of the year and 27th of his career. It was his 5th Masters 1000 of the year and 10th of his career. It was his second win at the Rogers Cup, winning in 2007. The No. 1 in the world was 53 of 54 wins in the season. Women's singles Serena Williams defeated Samantha Stosur, 6–4, 6–2 *It was Williams' 2nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, separator=" / ", ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for a record 428 weeks across a record 13 different years, and finished as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 a record eight times. Djokovic has won a record 24 List of Grand Slam men's singles champions, major men's singles titles, including a record ten Australian Open titles. Overall, he has won 100 singles titles, including a record 72 List of ATP Tour top-level tournament singles champions#Statistics, Big Titles: 24 majors, a record 40 Tennis Masters Series records and statistics#Title leaders, Masters, a record seven ATP Finals, year-end championships, and an Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Stosur
Samantha Jane Stosur (born 30 March 1984) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she first achieved on 6 February 2006 and held for 61 consecutive weeks. Also a former WTA rankings#Players with highest career rank 2–5, top ten singles player, Stosur reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on 21 February 2011 and spent a total of 165 weeks ranked inside the top ten, between March 2010 and June 2013. Stosur was also the top-ranked Australian singles player for 452 consecutive weeks, from October 2008 to June 2017, and was ranked inside the top 25 for a period of nine straight years. She won a combined total of 40 career titles (9 in singles, 28 in doubles, and 3 in mixed doubles), including 8 major titles, and amassed more than $20 million in prize money. Stosur won a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam singles title at the 2011 US Open – Women's si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Falla
Alejandro Falla Ramírez (; born 14 November 1983) is a Colombian former professional tennis player. The left-hander turned professional in 2000 and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 48 in July 2012. At the 2006 Wimbledon tournament, Falla upset ninth seed Nikolay Davydenko and at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open he beat ninth seed Tommy Haas in straight sets. He reached the semifinals of the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon in 2007, beating players such as the fifth seed Ivan Ljubičić. Career The Colombian became the first player from his country to break into the top 100 of the ATP rankings since Mauricio Hadad in 1996. In 2006, Alejandro qualified a career-high five times into the main draw of ATP tournaments. In his second tournament of the year, he reached the final of the Mexico City Challenger. He then went on to earn points for his country in a Davis Cup tie against Paraguay, Paraguay Davis Team. Then later in April, he won the Bogotá Challenger. At French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavio Cipolla
Flavio Cipolla (born 20 October 1983) is an Italian tennis coach and former professional player. His career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking was No. 70, achieved on 23 April 2012. His best major result was reaching the third round of the 2008 US Open. Career 2008 Cipolla began 2008 with a bang the first week in January, winning the singles and doubles titles of the Challenger in New Caledonia, to get his singles ranking to a career high of #116. He won 2 more Challenger doubles titles in February in Belgrade and in March in Italy to establish himself as a top-100 doubles player. Cipolla got a chance to compete in a grand-slam tournament at the 2008 U.S. Open in the men's singles competition at Flushing Meadows. Despite losing in qualifying he, along with Rui Machado, were reinstated following the withdrawals of Mikhail Youzhny. Cipolla made the most of his opportunity and reached the third round. In the first round he beat Jan Hernych before defeating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Bogomolov Jr
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolov Jr. (; born April 23, 1983), nicknamed Bogie, is a Russian-American retired professional tennis player. Tennis career Born in Moscow, Russia, the 5' 10" Bogomolov's father, Alex Sr., was a Soviet tennis coach who worked with Larisa Neiland, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and Andrei Medvedev. In 1998 he won the USTA National Boys' 16 Championships, defeating Andy Roddick in the final. After losing in the first round of his first Grand Slam appearance at Wimbledon, Bogomolov was beaten by David Nalbandian in the first round of the 2001 US Open. In 2005, he was suspended for eight weeks after a positive doping test from the Australian Open. The banned substance found was salbutamol. Bogomolov admitted taking the substance through an inhaler to treat exercise-induced asthma and that he had not applied for a medical exemption. The tribunal decided he had not intentionally taken the drug in an effort to boost his performance and so the usual two-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Tomic
Bernard Tomic (; , ; born 21 October 1992) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 17 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Tomic has won four singles titles on the ATP Tour. As a junior, Tomic enjoyed a successful career in which he won an Dunlop Orange Bowl, Orange Bowl title and two junior Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam singles titles, the 2008 Australian Open and 2009 US Open (tennis), 2009 US Open. As a professional, Tomic has won the 2013 Apia International Sydney – Men's singles, 2013 Sydney International, 2014 Claro Open Colombia – Singles, 2014 and 2015 Claro Open Colombia – Singles, 2015 Colombia Open, as well as the 2018 Chengdu Open – Singles, 2018 Chengdu Open. He made a final appearance at the 2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel, 2016 Mexican Open and a quarterfinal appearance at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2011 Wimbledon Championships, the 2015 BNP Paribas Open – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil ( ; , ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 Wimbledon Championships and the 2015 BNP Paribas Open, 2015 Indian Wells Masters men's doubles titles. He also reached the quarterfinals in singles at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Early life and career Vasek was born on June 23, 1990, in Vernon, British Columbia, to Miloš and Mila. In 1988, before Vasek was born, his parents and older brothers unlawfully drove from Czechoslovakia to Austria to escape the Communist regime. Before moving, Miloš worked as the plant manager of a dairy factory, and Mila taught in a kindergarten. Both had experience playing recreational sports such as tennis with their sons and in local tournaments. The family lived in northeastern Austria and saved up to move to Canada d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernests Gulbis
Ernests Gulbis (, born 30 August 1988) is a Latvian former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 10, making him the only male Latvian tennis player ever to be ranked inside the top 10, a feat achieved in June 2014. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010, he won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final. In total, Gulbis has six ATP titles to his name. His best performance at a Grand Slam was reaching the semifinals of the 2014 French Open. He had previously reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open. Beginning after Wimbledon 2011, Gulbis was coached by Austrian Günter Bresnik, until his departure the day before the 2016 French Open. Previously, he was coached by Guillermo Cañas, and before that by Hernán Gumy (who before that was Marat Safin's coach), but their partnership ende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Érik Chvojka
Érik Chvojka (born October 26, 1986) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Chvojka's first ATP World Tour main-draw singles appearance was a close three-set loss in the first round of the 2011 Rogers Cup to world No. 21 Alexandr Dolgopolov. Chvojka has also made the main draw of the 2012 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy in Romania as a lucky loser, but lost to Cedrik-Marcel Stebe Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (; born 9 October 1990) is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 71 in February 2012. Career 2011: Grand Slam and Top 100 debuts He reached his first ATP World Tour quart ... in the first round. ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures finals Singles: 13 (6–7) Doubles: 33 (16–17) Personal Chvojka speaks French, Czech, and English. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chvojka, Erik 1986 births Living people Canadian male tennis players Canadian people of Czech descent Tennis players from Montreal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. For Summer Olympic Games, some National Olympic Committees, whose nations are underrepresented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Open 2010 Quarterfinals Nadal Vs Murray 8
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko ( rus, Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко, p=mɐˈrʲijə kʲɪrʲɪˈlʲenkə, a=Ru-Maria_Kirilenko.ogg; born 25 January 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. A junior Grand Slam champion at the 2002 US Open at the age of 15, she went on to become a top-ten player in both singles and doubles. Kirilenko won six WTA Tour singles titles and 12 doubles titles. She was a three-time major singles quarterfinalist (reaching that stage at the 2010 Australian Open, the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2013 French Open), a semifinalist at the 2012 London Olympics (where she lost to Victoria Azarenka in the bronze medal match), and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 10, on 10 June 2013. In women's doubles, she became ranked as high as No. 5 in the world on 24 October 2011, and reached two major finals, at the 2011 Australian Open with Azarenka and the 2012 French Open with compatriot Nadia Petrova. Along with Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
