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2013 China Open (tennis)
The 2013 China Open was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor hard courts. It was the 15th edition of the China Open (tennis), China Open for the men and (17th for the women), and was part of the ATP 500 Series of the 2013 ATP World Tour, and the WTA Premier tournaments, Premier Series of the 2013 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events were held at the Olympic Green Tennis Center, Beijing, National Tennis Center in Beijing, China, from September 28 to October 6, 2013. Points and prize money Point distribution Prize money ATP singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of September 23, 2013 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Lleyton Hewitt * Wu Di (tennis), Wu Di * Zhang Ze The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Roberto Bautista Agut * Somdev Devvarman * Santiago Giraldo * Yen-hsun Lu Withdrawals ;Before the tournament * Marin Čilić (suspension) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcourt
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a type of surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in the synthetic/acrylic layer placed on top of the asphalt foundation. More sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 209 weeks, and finished as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 five times. Nadal won 92 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including 22 List of Grand Slam men's singles champions#Champions list, major titles (among which a Rafael Nadal at the French Open, record 14 French Open titles), as well as 36 ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters titles and an Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Olympic gold medal. Nadal is one of three men to complete the List of Grand Slam men's singles champions#Career Golden Slam, career Golden Slam in singles. His Rafael Nadal career statistics#81 match win streak on clay courts, 81 consecutive wins on clay constitute the longest single-surface win streak in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yen-hsun Lu
Lu Yen-hsun (; born 14 August 1983) is a Taiwanese coach and former tennis player, who goes by the nickname Rendy Lu. He won the most titles on the ATP Challenger Tour in tennis history. His favorite surface is hardcourt, though several of his ATP Tour career highlights came on grass, including reaching the quarterfinals of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. Juniors Lu was an accomplished junior player, reaching as high as No. 3 in the ITF junior singles rankings in February 2001 (and No. 9 in doubles). In his junior career, he compiled a singles win–loss record of 80–37 (63–34 in doubles) and defeated a handful of future ATP stars, including Robin Söderling, Mario Ančić, and Philipp Kohlschreiber. His result in Junior Grand Slam events are as follows: * Australian Open: 1R (2001) * French Open: 1R (2000) * Wimbledon: 1R (2000) * US Open: 2R (2000) Tennis career In 2004, Lu became the first player from Taiwan to break into the ATP top 100, thanks to a solid perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Giraldo
Santiago Giraldo Salazar (, born 27 November 1987) is a Colombian former professional tennis player. He played on the ATP tour and represented Colombia Davis Cup team, Colombia in the Davis Cup competition. His best tournament result is reaching the final in the 2014 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. He is the highest-ranked male tennis singles player in Colombia's history, with a career-high singles ranking of 28th in the world, and 77th in doubles. Throughout his career he has beaten several ex-number-one players such as Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Carlos Ferrero, and Andy Murray as well as some top-ten players such as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Kei Nishikori, Marin Čilić, Milos Raonic, Dominic Thiem, Gilles Simon, Jürgen Melzer, Rainer Schüttler, Tommy Robredo, Janko Tipsarević, and Nicolás Lapentti. He has beaten golden-generation players from Argentinian tennis such as Gastón Gaudio, Guillermo Cañas, Mariano Puerta, Juan Martín del Potro, and David Nalbandian. Professional career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somdev Devvarman
Somdev Kishore Devvarman (born 13 February 1985) is an Indian former professional tennis player. He is known for being one of the few collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship, NCAA, winning back-to-back finals in his junior and senior years at the University of Virginia. Only three other players have matched that record since 1950. His 44–1 win–loss record in 2008 at the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship was the best record since 1971. His best achievement on the ATP World Tour was reaching the final of the Chennai Open in 2009, as a wild card entry. In 2010, Somdev won the gold medal in the Tennis at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, men's singles event of 2010 Commonwealth Games, XIXth Commonwealth Games at the R.K. Khanna Tennis Stadium in New Delhi, and he followed it up with both men's singles and doubles gold in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. He was coached by Scott McCain. In 2011, Devvarman received t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Bautista Agut
Roberto Bautista Agut (; born 14 April 1988) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 9 by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP in singles, achieved on 4 November 2019. Bautista Agut has won twelve ATP singles titles out of twenty three finals, the biggest being the ATP 500 2018 Dubai Tennis Championships. His biggest final has been the 2016 Shanghai Rolex Masters – Singles, 2016 Shanghai Masters, where he lost to Andy Murray. His best result at a major has been at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2019 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the semifinals. Career Juniors As a junior, Bautista Agut compiled a singles win–loss record of 41–13, reaching as high as No. 47 in junior world rankings in July 2006. He did not perform at the level of other future top players. 2009–2012: Pro tour highlights In 2009, Bautista Agut qualified for the ATP 500, ATP 500 tournament in Open de Tenis Comuni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Ze
Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese former professional tennis player. Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 China Open (defeating Richard Gasquet en route), playing the Australian Open main draw in two consecutive years (2014 and 2015), and teaming up with Roger Federer to play doubles at the 2013 Shanghai Rolex Masters. Career Zhang's early years were spent on the ITF Circuit throughout Asia. In February 2008, Zhang made his first appearance in the qualifying draw of an ATP Challenger tournament in Melbourne, defeating Mikal Statham. In the second round, Zhang lost to Nima Roshan. On 28 March 2010, Zhang won the first single's title of his professional career in an ITF Futures event in Mengzi City, China. He defeated Riccardo Ghedin. Just under two months later, on 22 May, Zhang reached his first final on the Challenger Tour in Fergana, Uzbekistan, after entering as a qualifier. He lost to Evgeny Kirillov. In 2010, Zhang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Di (tennis)
Wu Di (; ; born 14 September 1991) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. Professional career Wu has a career high singles ranking of world No. 140 achieved on 25 April 2016, and a career high doubles ranking of world No. 186 achieved on 2 April 2018. He has reached 24 singles finals on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures Tour, posting a record of 13–11, which includes a 1–4 record in ATP Challenger finals. Additionally, he has reached 15 doubles finals posting a record of 6–9, which includes a 3–4 record in ATP Challenger finals. Wu participated in the 2012 Hopman Cup together with the country's best female player Li Na. Wu had the chance to try out in a much bigger stage but he could not manage to win a match, as he and team China were eliminated in the round robin stage of the tournament. In the Asia-Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Play-off men's final, Wu defeated Thai Danai Udomchoke to obtain his wildcard to compete in the 2013 Australian Open m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born 24 February 1981) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 80 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2001 ATP Tour, 2001 and 2002 ATP Tour, 2002. Hewitt won Lleyton Hewitt career statistics, 30 singles titles and 3 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including two singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors at the 2001 US Open – Men's singles, 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2002 Wimbledon Championships, a doubles major at the 2000 US Open – Men's doubles, 2000 US Open, the 2001 Tennis Masters Cup – Singles, 2001 and 2002 Tennis Masters Cup – Singles, 2002 Tennis Masters Cups in singles, and led Australia Davis Cup team, Australia to Davis Cup crowns in 1999 Davis Cup, 1999 and 2003 Davis Cup, 2003. In November 2001, Hewitt became (at the time) the youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Isner
John Robert Isner (born April 26, 1985) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 8 in singles and No. 14 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Considered one of the best servers ever to play on the ATP Tour, Isner achieved his career-high singles ranking in July 2018 by virtue of his first Masters 1000 crown at the 2018 Miami Open and a semifinal appearance at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, Isner played the longest professional tennis match in history, requiring five sets and 183 games to defeat Nicolas Mahut in a match which lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes, and was played over the course of three days. Isner holds the record for hitting the ATP's fastest official serve ever and third-fastest on record in tennis at during his first-round 2016 Davis Cup match. He has the most aces in the history of the ATP Tour, having served 14,470, as of August 31, 2023. Isner retire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Haas
Thomas Mario Haas (; born 3 April 1978) is a German–American former professional tennis player. He competed on the ATP Tour from 1996 to 2017, and was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in May 2002. Haas won 15 career titles in singles, including a ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters title at the 2001 Stuttgart Masters – Singles, 2001 Stuttgart Masters, and a silver medal at the Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2000 Sydney Olympics. He reached the semifinals of the Australian Open three times, and in The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon once. He reached the quarterfinal stage at each of the Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors. Early life Born in Hamburg, Germany to Brigitte and Peter Haas, Tommy started playing his own version of tennis when he was four years old, using a wooden plank to hit balls against the wall or into his father's hands. When his father observed his talents, he started bringin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka (; born 28 March 1985) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), first achieved on 27 January 2014. Wawrinka has won 16 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors at the 2014 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2014 Australian Open, 2015 French Open – Men's singles, 2015 French Open and the 2016 US Open – Men's singles, 2016 US Open, where he defeated the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 player in the final on all three occasions. He has also won an Olympic gold medal in men's doubles at the Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles, 2008 Beijing Olympics partnering Roger Federer, and was pivotal in the Switzerland Davis Cup team, Swiss team's victory at the 2014 Davis Cup. Wawrinka's other achievements include reaching the final of the 2017 French Open – Men's singles, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
