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2015 Samarkand Challenger
The 2015 Samarkand Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan between 11 and 16 May 2015. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of May 4, 2015. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Sanjar Fayziev * Temur Ismailov * Jurabek Karimov * Shonigmatjon Shofayziyev The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Luke Bambridge * Mikhail Elgin * Ivan Gakhov * Divij Sharan The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Riccardo Ghedin Doubles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of May 4, 2015. Other entrants The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Sanjar Fayziev / Jurabek Karimov * Temur Ismailov / Shonigmatjon Shofayziyev * Batyr Sapaev / Khumoun Sultanov Champions Singles * T ... [...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] |
Sanjar Fayziev
Sanjar Fayziev (born 29 July 1994) is an Uzbekistani tennis player. Fayziev has a career high ATP singles ranking of 253 achieved on 17 July 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 190 achieved on 20 June 2022. Fayziev has won 2 ATP Challenger doubles titles and 7 ITF singles and 16 ITF doubles title. Fayziev has represented Uzbekistan at the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ... where he has a W/L record of 7–16. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 17 (7–10) Doubles: 34 (17–17) Davis Cup Participations: (7–16) * indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface. External links * * * 1994 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khumoun Sultanov
Khumoyun Agzamdzhanovich Sultanov (born 27 October 1998) is an Uzbek tennis player. Sultanov has a career high ATP singles ranking of 299 achieved on 17 February 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 451 achieved on 28 October 2019. Sultanov represents Uzbekistan at the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the orga ..., where he has a W/L record of 1–1. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 5 (3-2) Doubles 14 (8–6) Davis Cup Participations: (1–1) * indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface. Another finals Universiade Singles 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles 1 (1 victory) External links * * * 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Vasilevski (tennis)
Andrei Aleksandrovich Vasilevski ( be, Андрэй Аляксандравіч Васілеўскі; russian: Андрей Александрович Василевский; born 28 May 1991) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 52 achieved on 5 February 2018. He is currently the No. 1 Belarusian doubles player. Vasilevski has competed for the Belarus Davis Cup team since 2009. Professional career 2017 Vasilevski finished as runner-up, partnering Hans Podlipnik Castillo in the doubles competition of the 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel, losing to 4th seeded pair of Pablo Cuevas and Guillermo Durán. Three weeks earlier in July, the pair also reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships for the first time in their career defeating seeds No. 12 Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah and seeds No. 7 Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram Rajeev Ram ( ; born March 18, 1984) is an American professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaraslav Shyla
Yaraslav Iharavich Shyla ( be, Яраслаў Ігаравіч Шыла; russian: Ярослав Игоревич Шило; born 5 March 1993 in Minsk) is a Belarusian tennis player. Shyla has a career high ATP singles ranking of 306 achieved on 22 June 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 164 achieved on 15 June 2015. Shyla won his first Challenger title of any kind in the doubles event at the 2015 Batman Cup, partnering Aslan Karatsev, defeating Mate Pavić Mate Pavić (; born 4 July 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. He is a five-time Grand Slam champion, having won three titles in men's doubles: the 2018 Australian Open with Oliver Marach, th ... and Michael Venus in the final. ITF finals (37-21) Singles (5-6) Doubles (32-15) References External links * * * * 1993 births Living people Belarusian male tennis players Tennis players from Minsk 21st-century Belarusian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Zaitcev
Anton Anatolyevich Zaitcev (russian: Антон Анатольевич Зайцев, Zaytsev; born 22 July 1987) is a Russian tennis player. Tennis career Zaitcev has a career high ATP singles ranking of 296 achieved on 24 November 2014. This ranking came shortly after his sole appearance at an ATP Challenger Tour Quarter-Final in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he was narrowly defeated by then world number 72 Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-4 5-7 4-6. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 232 achieved on 20 July 2015. He has won five ITF singles titles and seven ITF doubles titles. Zaitcev made his ATP ATP may refer to: Companies and organizations * Association of Tennis Professionals, men's professional tennis governing body * American Technical Publishers, employee-owned publishing company * ', a Danish pension * Armenia Tree Project, non ... main draw debut at the 2015 Kremlin Cup where he received entry to the doubles main draw as a wildcard entrant, partnering Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliaksandr Bury
Aliaksandr Ivanavich Bury ( be, Аляксандр Іванавіч Буры; russian: Александр Иванович Бурый; also spelt Alexander Bury), (born 14 September 1987) is a Belarusian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He has won one doubles title at ATP World Tour with Denis Istomin. Bury reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 366 on 10 February 2014, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 59, on 19 October 2015. Bury has represented Belarus at Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the orga ..., where he has a win–loss record of 8–5. ATP finals Doubles (1-0) ITF finals (30-33) Singles (1–1) Doubles (29-32) References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saketh Myneni
Saketh Myneni (born 19 October 1987) is an Indian professional tennis player. He is conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award in 2017 and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold medal in Mixed doubles and a silver medal in Men's doubles event at Incheon Asian Games 2014. Personal life Myneni was born in a small town named Vuyyuru in Andhra Pradesh to Prasad Myneni and Saroja Myneni. He grew up entirely in Visakhapatnam (Vizag). He completed his schooling from Timpany Secondary School , Visakhapatnam, before moving to Hyderabad for tennis. He started playing tennis at the age of 11. His nickname is Saké or Saki. He was selected on a sports scholarship in 2006 and graduated with a double major with degrees in Finance and Economics from the University of Alabama in 2010. His hobbies include listening to music, watching movies and TV shows. He currently resides in Visakhapatnam and trains every now & then in Hyderabad. He proposed his girlfriend Sri Lakshmi Anumolu duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Ghedin
Riccardo Ghedin (born 5 December 1985) is an Italian tennis player. He began playing tennis when he was 12 years old. At the 2009 Wimbledon Championships The 2009 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 123rd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and was held from ..., Ghedin advanced successfully through the qualifying rounds to reach his first and only grand slam main draw. He lost in 3 sets im the first round to Latvian Ernests Gulbis ''2–6, 4–6, 4–6''. In his career, he has reached 16 singles finals on the ITF Futures Tour which have resulted in winning 5 singles titles, and finishing runner-up 11 times.. In doubles, he has won 7 Challenger titles and 16 Futures titles. Ghedin reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 222 on 10 August 2009. He reached a career high doubles ranking of world No. 109 on August 15, 2016. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divij Sharan
Divij Sharan (born 2 March 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player. He specialises in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has won 5 ATP World Tour titles in men's doubles and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold medal in the men's doubles at the 2018 Asian Games. Personal and early life Sharan was born in New Delhi. He began playing tennis at the age of seven at a local tennis academy. His favorite surfaces are grass and hard courts. His overall favorite shot is the volley. His idols growing up were Roger Federer, Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes. He married British tennis player Samantha Murray in July 2019. Junior career Sharan's best junior world doubles ranking was No. 5 in 2003. His best result in Grand Slam junior championships was his semifinal appearance at the 2004 French Open where he partnered with compatriot Tushar Liberhan. Professional career Early years Sharan turned pro in 2004. He found limited success in singles and developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Gakhov
Ivan Andreevich Gakhov ( rus, Ива́н Андре́евич Га́хов, , ɪˈvan ˈɡaxəf; born 4 November 1996) is a Russian tennis player. Gakhov has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 142 achieved on 19 June 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 170 achieved on 17 September 2018. Gakhov has won one ATP Challenger title in singles at the 2023 Girona Challenger and one in doubles at the 2018 Fergana Challenger. Career 2022: ATP debut Ranked No. 315, he made his ATP singles main draw debut at the 2022 Generali Open Kitzbühel as a lucky loser where he lost to Yannick Hanfmann. 2023: Maiden Challenger title, Masters debut and first ATP win, top 150 He won his maiden ATP Challenger title in singles at the 2023 Girona Challenger. Ranked No. 198, he made his Masters debut at the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters after entering the qualifying competition as the fourth alternate, defeating second seed Adrian Mannarino and twelfth seed Luca Van Assche. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Elgin
Mikhail Nikolayevich Elgin ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Елгин, Yelgin, mʲɪxɐˈiɫ ɪ̯ɪɫˈɡʲin; born 14 October 1981) is a Russian professional tennis player. Elgin became famous when he advanced to the quarter–finals in singles at the 2008 St. Petersburg Open The 2008 St. Petersburg Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 14th edition of the St. Petersburg Open, and was part of the International Series of the 2008 ATP Tour. It took place at the Petersburg Sports and Conc ..., where he lost to Victor Hănescu from Romania 1–6, 4–6. Career finals ATP career finals Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up) Other Finals Futures and Challenger finals Singles: 27 (17 titles, 10 runners-up) Doubles: 95 (62 titles, 33 runners-up) Career statistics Doubles performance timeline External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Elgin, Mikhail 1981 births Living people Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg Russian male tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
