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2014 Sparkassen Open
The 2014 Sparkassen Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 21st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Braunschweig, Germany between 30 June and 5 July 2014. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of June 24, 2014. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Andrey Golubev * Maximilian Marterer * Philipp Petzschner * Alexander Zverev The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw: * Nikola Ćaćić The following players received entry as an alternate into the singles main draw: * Uladzimir Ignatik * Jaroslav Pospíšil * Martín Alund The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jozef Kovalík * Nils Langer * Philipp Davydenko * André Ghem The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Boris Pašanski Doubles main-draw entrants Seeds *1 Rankings as of ... [...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 is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other construction aggregate, aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles on top. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. The only Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts is the French Open. Clay courts come in the more common #Red clay, red clay (known in France as ''terre battue''), which is actually crushed brick, and the slightly harder #Green clay, green clay, which is actually crushed metabasalt. Although slightly less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, clay requires much maintenance: the surface must be watered and rolled regularly to preserve texture and flatness, and brushed carefully before and during each match. Early history Clay courts, although now commonly associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximilian Marterer
Maximilian Marterer (born 15 June 1995) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 45, achieved in 13 August 2018. Professional career 2015-2017: ATP and top 100 debuts, Maiden Challenger title Marterer made his ATP main draw debut at the 2015 MercedesCup in Stuttgart where he was given a wildcard into the singles event. Marterer won his first ATP Challenger Tour singles title at the 2016 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes, 2016 Morocco Tennis Tour in Meknes. Marterer entered the world's top 100 for the first time, becoming world No. 100 on 16 October 2017. 2018-2020: First ATP semifinal, French Open fourth round and top 50 At the 2018 Australian Open, Australian Open, Marterer won his first ATP main draw match after losing 14 first round matches in a row. He defeated compatriot Cedrik-Marcel Stebe in straight sets. In the second round, he upset former top-10 player Fernando Verdasco in a fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Oswald
Philipp Oswald (; born 23 January 1986) is an Austrian former professional tennis player who primarily played 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. In July 2024, Oswald retired from professional tennis and made his final appearance at the 2024 Generali Open Kitzbühel. ATP career finals Doubles: 22 (11 titles, 11 runner-ups) Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 18 (10–8) Doubles: 82 (55–28) Doubles performance timeline ''Current through the 2023 Wimbledon Championships The 2023 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam (tennis), major tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Tournament The tournament was played on grass courts, wi ....'' Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Farah (tennis)
Robert Charbel Farah Maksoud (; born 20 January 1987) is a Colombian former professional tennis player. A List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles, he also reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 163 in June 2011. Farah is a two-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam Champion, having won both the 2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2019 Wimbledon Championships (the first Hispanic duo to accomplish the feat) alongside compatriot Juan Sebastián Cabal and the 2019 US Open – Men's doubles, 2019 US Open. The pair also finished runners-up at the 2018 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2018 Australian Open, and Farah reached the final in mixed doubles at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles, 2016 Wimbledon Championships and 2017 French Open – Mixed doubles, 2017 French Open with Anna-Lena Grönefeld. Farah won 19 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including two at the ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 level, and becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Pašanski
Boris Pašanski ( sr-Cyrl, Бopиc Пaшaнcки), often spelled Pashanski in English-language media, is a former ATP professional player and a Serbian tennis coach. Career highlights Pašanski reached a career-high ranking of world No. 55 in singles on 27 February 2006, while in doubles, he reached a career-high of world No. 190 on 17 August 2009. He was coached by former ATP pros Adrian Voinea and Marcos Górriz. Pašanski reached one ATP doubles final at 2006 Copa Telmax in Buenos Aires, partnering up with Greek Vasilis Mazarakis, which they lost to the No. 1 seeds and the defending champions from Czech Republic, František Čermák and Leoš Friedl. During his career, he won 12 singles titles and 3 doubles titles on the ITF circuit. Representing Malta, the country of his residence, Pašanski won silver medal in singles at Games of the Small States of Europe held in Andorra, where he lost in the final to Benjamin Balleret of Monaco. Pašanski was also a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Loser
A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw. This can occur when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury, or other reasons, in which case the lucky loser re-enters the competition in place of the withdrawn competitor, or due to the structure of the tournament. In the event of a lucky loser's re-entry to a competition, it usually occurs before all competitors in the main draw have started their first match in the tournament. Tennis Lucky losers as winners and finalists It is rare for a lucky loser to win an ATP or WTA Tour tournament; Heinz Gunthardt did it in 1978 (at Springfield), Bill Scanlon in 1978 (at Maui), Francisco Clavet in 1990 in Hilversum, Christian Miniussi in 1991 in São Paulo, Sergiy Stakhovsky in 2008 in Zagreb, Rajeev Ram in 2009 in Newport, Andrey Rublev in 2017 in Umag, Leonardo Mayer in the followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Ghem
André Swytka Ghem (born 29 May 1982) is a former Brazilian professional tennis player. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking in July 2015, when he became the World No. 118. Career Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Ghem became the World No. 181 in August 2006. At the 2006 Brasil Open, he won against Gustavo Kuerten Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten (; born 10 September 1976) is a Brazilian 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 f .... The score was 3–6, 6–3, 6–4. Nowadays, Ghem is a tennis commentator at ESPN Brazil sports channels. Titles (14) Challengers and futures (5) Doubles (9) Runners-up (7) Singles (1) Doubles (6) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghem, Andre 1982 births Living people Brazilian male tennis players Brazilian people of German descent Brazilian people of Polish descen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Davydenko
Philipp Eduardovich Davydenko (; born 2 September 1992 in Volgograd) is a Russian tennis player. Tennis career Davydenko has a career high ATP singles ranking of 390 achieved on 8 December 2014. Davydenko made his ATP main draw debut at the 2009 Kremlin Cup in the doubles event partnering Ilya Belyaev losing in the first round to Martín Vassallo Argüello and Horacio Zeballos. At the 2014 MercedesCup, Davydenko qualified for the main draw, defeating Facundo Bagnis, Alexander Lobkov and Louk Sorensen en route. In the main draw he won his first round match defeating Blaž Rola 6–4, 7–6(10–8), before losing to Santiago Giraldo in the second round in three sets. Davydenko is the nephew of Nikolay Davydenko Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko ( ; born 2 June 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 in November 2006. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournam ..., a former wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Langer
Nils Langer (; born 25 January 1990, in Ludwigsburg) is a German retired tennis player. Langer reached a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 188, achieved in March 2016. Langer made his ATP main draw debut at the 2009 International German Open in the doubles event where he partnered Kevin Krawietz, but lost in the first round to Marcelo Melo and Filip Polášek, 0–6, 4–6. At the 2013 MercedesCup he qualified for the tournament, defeating Ivo Klec, Jan Mertl and Evgeny Korolev in the qualifying rounds. In the main draw he drew compatriot Robin Kern, a wildcard entrant, winning 3–6, 6–4, 6–3. His run came to an end where he lost to the second seed and compatriot Philipp Kohlschreiber Philipp Eberhard Hermann Kohlschreiber (; born 16 October 1983) is a German former professional tennis player. The right-hander won eight singles and seven doubles titles on the ATP World Tour and made the quarterfinals at the 2012 Wimbledon Cha ..., 5–7, 2–6. ATP C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef Kovalík
Jozef Kovalík (; born 4 November 1992) is a Slovak professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 80 and a doubles ranking of No. 245 reached in 2018. He is currently the No. 4 Slovak player. Career 2010–2014: First Challenger title Kovalík together with Filip Horanský won bronze medal in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. He won his first Challenger title on 17 August 2014, after beating second seed Andrey Kuznetsov. He became the fourth player to win an ATP Challenger title while ranked outside the top 300. 2016: ATP, Masters & Grand Slam debuts He played his first match at ATP level on 5 January 2016 in Chennai, where he lost in the first round. He played his first match at a Grand Slam at the 2016 Australian Open, where he lost to fellow qualifier Marco Trungelliti in the first round. At the 2016 BNP Paribas Open Kovalík won his first match at ATP level, defeating another qualifier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martín Alund
Martín Alund (; ; born 26 December 1985) is a retired Argentine professional tennis player. He reached the semifinals of the 2013 Brasil Open – Singles, 2013 Brasil Open; has won seven ATP Challenger Tour, ATP Challenger events in doubles; and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 84 in March 2013. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Alund reached as high as No. 45 in the world singles rankings in March 2003 (and No. 62 in doubles the same year). He gained victories over promising junior prospects such as Eduardo Schwank, Alex Kuznetsov and Scoville Jenkins. Pro tour 2013 As a lucky loser, Alund reached the semifinals of the 2013 Brasil Open – Singles, 2013 Brasil Open, defeating World No. 25 Jérémy Chardy (fresh off of his career-best 2013 Australian Open – Men's singles, Australian Open quarterfinal run) and experienced claycourter Filippo Volandri en route. In the semis he valiantly took a set off top seed Rafael Nadal before losing in 3 sets. In 2013 U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaroslav Pospíšil
Jaroslav Pospíšil (; born 9 February 1981) is a Czech tennis coach and a former professional player who competed on the ITF Futures and ATP Challenger tours. On 23 May 2011 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 103. On 1 October 2012, he reached his best doubles ranking of No. 115. To date, Pospíšil has reached 53 singles finals on the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures tours, from which he has won 28 titles. On the same tours, he has won 64 doubles titles after reaching a total of 101 doubles finals. Career Predominantly playing on the Challenger and Futures tours, Pospisil has made 7 main draw appearances on the ATP Tour, including the 2011 Wimbledon Championships as his only Grand Slam appearance. His sole ATP win came at the ATP 250 level on the hard courts of the 2013 Erste Bank Open in Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
