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2015 Banja Luka Challenger
The 2015 Banja Luka Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 14 to 20 September 2015. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds Marcel Granollers, who was set as 2nd seed withdrew, due to right hip injury. * 1 Rankings are as of September 7, 2015. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Ilija Bozoljac * Flavio Cipolla * Jaume Munar * Jaroslav Pospíšil The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Petru-Alexandru Luncanu * Sadio Doumbia * Axel Michon * Antonio Šančić The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Nicola Ghedin * Jérôme Inzerillo Champions Singles * Dušan Lajović def. Victor Hănescu , , 7-6(7–5), 7-6(7–5) Doubles * Ilija Bozoljac / Flavio Cipolla def. Jaroslav Pospíšil / Jan ... [...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] |
Mathias Bourgue
Mathias Bourgue (; born 18 January 1994) is a French tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 140 achieved on 24 April 2017. Career He received a wildcard to advance to the singles main draw in the 2016 French Open, where he reached the second round defeating Jordi Samper Montaña, before losing to world No. 2 Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British former professional tennis player and coach. 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 Professio ... in five sets. He also received a wildcard for the qualifying competition at the 2024 French Open, where he failed to qualifying, losing in the final round to Zizou Bergs. Performance timeline Singles ''Current after the 2024 French Open'' Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 25 (13-12) References External links * * 1994 births Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Šátral
Jan Šátral (born 24 July 1990, in Melnik) is an inactive Czech tennis player. Šátral has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 136 achieved on 3 October 2016. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 160 achieved on 21 September 2015. He has won two Challenger and nine International Tennis Federation, ITF singles titles as well as two Challenger and 21 ITF doubles titles. Šátral won his first ATP Challenger title at 2015 Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour, Poprad-Tatry in the doubles event partnering Roman Jebavý. In July 2016, he won his maiden singles Challenger title at Marburg by defeating heavily favoured Marco Trungelliti, in straight sets. On his Grand Slam debut in the main draw, he reached the second round of the 2016 US Open (tennis), 2016 US Open as a qualifier where he defeated Mackenzie McDonald in five sets. As a result of this best showing at a major event, he reached a career-high ranking of world No. 136 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Hănescu
Victor Hănescu (born 21 July 1981) is a Romanian former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world no. 26. Professional career Hănescu attained a career-high singles ranking of No. 26 on 6 July 2009. In a Davis Cup match against the United States, he suffered a severe rib injury, and a subsequent injury sidelined him further in May 2006. By January 2007, his ranking had plummeted to No. 759, before he finally began making progress on a comeback. 1999: Pro career begins Hănescu earned his first ATP singles ranking points in August 1999, with first-round wins two weeks in a row at the Romania F1 and F2 Futures tournaments. Although he played four more tournaments from September through December, he did not earn any additional points and finished the year ranked No. 1231. 2000: Success in Satellites and Futures In 2000, Hănescu played Satellites and Futures tournaments. His fourth-place finish at a Satellite in Croatia in April/May and third pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Inzerillo
Jérôme Inzerillo (born 15 February 1990, in Marseille) is a tennis player from France. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 354, which he achieved on 16 July 2012. Career In July 2004, Inzerillo won the U14 European Junior Championships after beating fellow countryman Nassim Slilam in the final, while in the doubles final he won alongside him, beating Spain's pair made of Jose Antonio Fuentes and Andoni Vivanco-Guzmán. He thus became just the fifth player to win both the singles and doubles tournaments in the U14 events, only after Johan Sjögren (1977), Florian Loddenkemper (1984), Kamil Čapkovič (2000), and Novak Djokovic (2001). This victory helped him finish the season as the No. 1 in the Tennis Europe ranking for U14s, ahead of the likes of future Top 50 player Ričardas Berankis. Inzerillo and Jonathan Eysseric were the 2007 US Open boys doubles champions as a sixth seed. In the semifinals, Inzerillo and Eysseric beat top-seeded Vladimir Igna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Šančić
Antonio Šančić (born 23 November 1988) is a Slovenia-born former professional Croatian tennis player and coach. "Antonio Šančić, mladi samoborski tenisač, poražen je u 1. kolu ATP Challenger turnira Zagreb Open." He played mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as ... .
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Axel Michon
Axel Michon (born 16 December 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Junior career Professional career 2014 Axel lost in the second round of qualifying at the 2014 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying, Australian Open. He made his first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam event at the 2014 French Open, French Open, where he received a wildcard. He won his first round match against Bradley Klahn, before losing in the second round against 19th seed Kevin Anderson (tennis), Kevin Anderson in straight sets. ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals Singles (15 titles, 11 runners-up) Doubles (1 title, 3 runners-up) Singles performance timeline Note: Only results from the Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slams, ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour Finals, Summer Olympics and Davis Cup are listed in an Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP player's performance timeline. Qualifying matches and walkovers are neither official match wins nor losses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadio Doumbia
Sadio Doumbia (born 12 September 1990) is a French professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 26 achieved on 26 May 2025. Doumbia has won five ATP titles with compatriot Fabien Reboul and 18 ATP Challenger doubles titles, 17 of them with Reboul. He also has a career-high singles ranking of No. 250 achieved on 7 November 2016. Career 2016-2022: Maiden Challenger singles title, ATP doubles debut Doumbia won his maiden ATP Challenger singles titles at the 2016 KPIT MSLTA Challenger in Pune, India. Doumbia and Fabien Reboul received a wildcard invitation into the main draw of their home tournament at the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters, making their debut at the Masters 1000 level. 2023: Maiden ATP title, top 50 The pair Doumbia and Reboul reached their first ATP final at the 2023 Córdoba Open. Doumbia reached the top 50 after a semifinal showing at the 2023 Rio Open with Reboul on 27 February 2023. In September, Doumbia an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petru-Alexandru Luncanu
Petru-Alexandru Luncanu (born 7 May 1989) is a Romanian professional tennis player. Luncanu has played on the ITF Men's Circuit, the ATP Challenger Tour and for the Romania Davis Cup Team. On 2 November 2009 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 304 whilst his highest doubles ranking was 286, which he achieved on 2 November 2015. In 2023, Luncanu was banned from professional tennis for five years and fined $40,000 by the International Tennis Integrity Agency The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) is the organisation responsible for safeguarding the integrity of professional tennis worldwide. It was established following a comprehensive review of integrity in the sport. The ITIA assumed re ... after being found guilty of five match fixing charges between 2017 and 2021. Davis Cup Singles performances (0–2) References External links * * * 1989 births Living people Tennis players from Bucharest Romanian male tennis players 21st-century Romanian ... [...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] |
Jaume Munar
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar (; ; born 5 May 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Munar has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 52 achieved on 20 May 2019 and a doubles ranking of No. 98 achieved on 21 April 2025. He is currently the No. 5 Spanish player. Juniors On the junior tour, Munar had a career-high combined ranking of No. 3, achieved on 26 January 2015. Munar reached the 2014 French Open Boys' Final, where he lost to Andrey Rublev. On his way to the final, he defeated top juniors such as Michael Mmoh and Quentin Halys. He also won the Junior Davis Cup 2013. Professional career 2015: First ATP win He won his first ATP Tour match at the 2015 German Open against Guillermo García-López, when the world No. 31 retired after three games, and the result launched Munar into the top 500 for the first time. 2018: Major debut At the 2018 French Open and in only his ninth pro tour match and his second major, Munar came from two sets down to defeat compatriot D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Granollers
Marcel Granollers Pujol (; ; born 12 April 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 1 on 6 May 2024, becoming the second Spanish man to achieve the feat (after Emilio Sánchez Vicario in 1989). He is a Grand Slam champion at the 2025 French Open with Horacio Zeballos. He also has a career-high singles ranking of No. 19 achieved on 23 July 2012. Granollers has won 34 ATP titles, 4 in singles and 30 in doubles, including also the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals in doubles with compatriot Marc López. He has also reached five doubles finals at the French Open and at the US Open in 2014 with López, at the 2019 US Open, at the 2021 and at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships with Zeballos. Personal life Granollers' brother Gerard is also a tennis player, and they have won five Challenger doubles titles together. Career 2006: Breaking top 200 Granollers made the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in 2006, but los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
