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2014 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux
The 2014 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bordeaux, France between 12 and 18 May 2014. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of May 5, 2014. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Julien Benneteau * Jonathan Eysseric * Florent Serra * Maxime Teixeira The following players received special exempt into the singles main draw: * Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo * Yann Marti The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Martín Alund * Josselin Ouanna * Olivier Rochus * Andrea Collarini Doubles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of May 5, 2014. Other entrants The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Florent Serra / Maxime Teixeira * Jonathan Eysseric / Romain Jouan * Enzo Couacaud / Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. The French Open uses clay courts, the only Grand Slam tournament to do so. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness. Play Clay courts are considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Points are usually longer as there are fewer winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Teixeira
Maxime Teixeira (born 18 January 1989) is a French professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures circuit, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 154 in March 2012, and his highest ATP doubles ranking of World No. 256 in July 2015. He claimed his first Challenger singles title by winning the 2011 Open Prévadiès Saint–Brieuc in Saint-Brieuc, France. He won against Benoît Paire 6–3, 6–0. He qualified for his first Grand Slam tournament at the 2011 French Open, where he reached the second round before being defeated by third seed Roger Federer Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-e .... ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 14 (5–9) Doubles: 12 (8–4) Perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mateusz Kowalczyk (tennis)
Mateusz Kowalczyk (; born 3 May 1987) is a Polish tennis player who specialises in doubles. Career He reached his highest doubles ranking of world no. 77 on 9 September 2013. He has played with Tomasz Bednarek, Błażej Koniusz, Marcin Gawron, and Artem Sitak Artem Yurievich Sitak ( ; russian: Артём Юрьевич Ситак, Artyom Sitak; born 8 February 1986) is a Russian-born New Zealand professional tennis player. On 11 August 2008, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of Worl .... ATP career finals Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) Challengers and futures titles (18) External links * * Official site of Mateusz Kowalczyk 1987 births Living people Polish male tennis players People from Chrzanów Sportspeople from Lesser Poland Voivodeship 21st-century Polish people {{Poland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Oswald
Philipp Oswald (; born 23 January 1986) is an Austrian professional tennis player who primarily plays doubles events on the ATP Tour. On 7 December 2009, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 206, and his highest doubles ranking of No. 31 was reached on 21 June 2021. In 2021, he participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics partnering with Oliver Marach. ATP career finals Doubles: 21 (11 titles, 10 runners-up) Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 18 (10–8) Doubles: 81 (54–28) Doubles performance timeline ''Current through the 2022 Open Sud de France The 2022 Open Sud de France was a tennis tournament played on Tennis court#Indoor courts, indoor hard courts. It was the 35th edition of the Open Sud de France, event, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2022 ATP Tour. It took place at th ....'' References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oswald, Philipp 1986 births Living people Austrian male tennis players People from Feldki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominik Meffert
Dominik Meffert (born 9 April 1981) is a German professional tennis player. He qualified for the 2007 US Open, his only Grand Slam singles competition, but lost in the first round. He recorded a first round victory over 2003 French Open Champion Juan Carlos Ferrero at the 2010 Gerry Weber Open The 2010 Gerry Weber Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 18th edition of the event known that year as the Gerry Weber Open and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It took .... Titles Singles (5) Doubles (8) External links Official website* * 1981 births Living people People from Mayen German male tennis players Sportspeople from Rhineland-Palatinate 21st-century German people {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Skupski
Neal Skupski (born 1 December 1989) is a British professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He achieved his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 1 on 14 November 2022. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion in mixed doubles, having won the 2021 and 2022 Wimbledon Championships alongside Desirae Krawczyk. Skupski has won 13 titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2022 Madrid Open, 2022 Canadian Open and the 2022 Paris Masters with partner Wesley Koolhof, and has finished runner-up at the US Open and four further Masters 1000 events. He also reached the men's doubles semifinals at the 2019 US Open with Jamie Murray, and has reached the quarterfinals or better at all four major tournaments. He is the younger brother of former tennis player Ken Skupski, and the pair regularly competed together until 2021, most notably winning the 2021 Mexican Open. Skupski has represented Great Britain in the Davis Cup since 2019, and competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Skupski
Ken Skupski Jr. (born 9 April 1983) is a British former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles. He reached his career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 44 in July 2010, and won seven titles on the ATP Tour, most notably the 2021 Mexican Open alongside younger brother Neal Skupski, with whom he regularly competed from 2013. Skupski is a three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist, having reached this stage at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships in both men's and mixed doubles, and the 2020 Australian Open in men's doubles. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, he won two medals representing England, silver in men's doubles with Ross Hutchins, and bronze in mixed doubles partnering Sarah Borwell. Skupski also represented Great Britain in the Davis Cup on two occasions in 2010. Early and personal life Ken Skupski was born in Liverpool. His father, Ken Sr. of Polish descent, is a retired police officer, his mother Mary is a golfer. Skupski is a big fan of Liverpoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florin Mergea
Florin Mergea (; born 26 January 1985) is a Romanian tennis player and a doubles specialist. He has reached the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in 2015 and won an ATP Masters title at the Mutua Madrid Open earlier that year. He achieved a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 7 in doubles (July 2015) and World No. 243 in singles (May 2005). Coaching His current doubles partner is fellow Romanian Adrian Barbu. Florin Mergea is presently coached by Alex Pop-Moldovan and managed by the McCartney Group, Vienna. Tennis career Juniors As a junior Mergea compiled a singles win–loss record of 87–33, reaching as high as No. 2 in the world in July 2003 (and No. 1 in doubles). Along the way, he beat future top ten singles players like Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych, Gaël Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. As well as winning the Boys' Singles at Wimbledon in 2003 and being runner-up in the Boys' Singles tournament at the 2003 Australian Open, he won the Boys' Doubles in 2002 alongsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marin Draganja
Marin Draganja (; born 13 May 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP World Tour in doubles. Draganja reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 550 on 29 April 2013, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 20, on 6 April 2015. After having a hip surgery in August 2015 Draganja paused his career for recovery. Marin Draganja is currently coached by Gilbert Schaller and managed by the McCartney Group, Vienna. His younger brother is a professional tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ... player Tomislav Draganja. ATP career finals Doubles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner-ups) Challenger finals Doubles: 16 (13–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Draganja, Marin Croatian male tennis players Tennis p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Collarini
Andrea Collarini (; born 31 January 1992) is an Argentinian–American tennis player. Collarini had represented Argentina in the early days of his career from 2007 to 2010, until he chose to represent USA from 2010 to 2012 before switching back to represent Argentina. On the junior circuit, Collarini had a career high ITF junior ranking of 5 achieved in 2009. In 2010, he reached the final of the French Open boys' singles event, finishing runner up to Agustín Velotti. Collarini has a career high ATP singles ranking of 186 achieved on 9 June 2014. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 221 achieved on 14 September 2015. He has won 15 ITF singles titles and 10 ITF doubles titles. He won his first ATP Challenger title at the 2015 Blu-Express.com Tennis Cup in the doubles event partnering Andrés Molteni Andrés Molteni (; ; born 15 March 1988) is a professional tennis player from Argentina who specialises in doubles. He reached his highest ATP doubles ranking of No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Rochus
Olivier Rochus (; born 18 January 1981) is a retired Belgian tennis player. He is the younger brother of Christophe Rochus, also a former top-40 tennis player. Rochus won two singles titles in his career and in 2004 won the French Open doubles title, partnering fellow Belgian Xavier Malisse. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 24. At tall, he was the shortest player on the ATP World Tour. Career Juniors Rochus was a partner of Roger Federer on the junior circuit, winning the boys' doubles title at Wimbledon in 1998. As a junior, he compiled a singles win–loss record of 81–30 (42–20 in doubles), reaching as high as No. 11 in the world in 1997 (and No. 16 in doubles the following year). Rochus reached at least the quarterfinals of all four junior Grand Slam tournaments (including the semifinals of the French Open and Wimbledon). 1999–2008 He won his first title in Palermo in 2000, defeating his brother in the semifinals and Diego Nargiso in the final. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josselin Ouanna
Josselin Ouanna (born 14 April 1986) is a retired French tennis player. Biography Born in Tours and Guadeloupean origin, he was quickly spotted and integrates INSEP with her friends of "blackteam" Gaël Monfils (of Caribbean origin) and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (of Congolese origin). He was coached by Jérôme Potier of CNE Roland Garros. Several injuries have slowed his progress between 2005 and 2007. After another blank year in 2015, he announced his retirement from professional tennis. Career In 2004, Ouanna was the runner-up in the Australian Open Boys' Singles. He was defeated by his doubles partner and compatriot Frenchman Gaël Monfils handily. Soon afterwards, he took part his first Challenger tournament in Cherbourg and reached the quarterfinals. In September of the same year, he won his first professional tournament. In 2007, he reached the quarterfinals at Tunica and Freudenstadt tournaments. He won two Futures tournaments in France in this year. In 2008, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
