2015 Slovak Open
The 2015 Slovak Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It was also the 7th edition of the tournament which was part of the ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Bratislava, Slovakia between 9 and 15 November 2015. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of November 2, 2015. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Martin Blaško * Altuğ Çelikbilek * Alex Molčan * Radek Štěpánek The following players received entry to the main draw due to a protected ranking: * Ante Pavić * Amir Weintraub The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Egor Gerasimov * Danylo Kalenichenko * Alexey Vatutin * Mikael Ymer Champions Men's singles * Egor Gerasimov def. Lukáš Lacko 7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–5) Men's doubles * Ilija Bozoljac / Igor Zelenay def. Ken Sk ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP Tour. The ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments are on the entry-level of international professional tennis competition. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to become eligible for main draw or qualifying draw entry at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are usually young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP players looking to get back into the big tour. History of challenger events The first challenger events were held in 1978, with eighteen events taking place. Two were held on the week beginning January 8, one in Auckland and another in Ho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jan-Lennard Struff
Jan-Lennard Struff (; born 25 April 1990) is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 29 in August 2020. In doubles, he achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 21 in October 2018. He has reached one ATP singles final and won 3 ATP doubles titles. Tennis career 2014: First two ATP semifinals, Top 50 debut Struff advanced to his first semifinals on the ATP Tour in Marseille, Munich and Metz. He entered the top 50 in the ATP rankings for the first time in his career and finished the year in the top 100 also for the first time at World No. 59. 2015 Struff made his Davis Cup debut for Germany against France in the first round. He lost the first rubber to Gilles Simon with 8–10 in the fifth set, and his team lost the tie with 2–3. 2016: First Masters 1000 third rounds, first top-3 win Struff reached the third round of the Paris Masters as a qualifier, his best showing at the Masters 1000 level thus far, after beating w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikael Ymer
Mikael Ymer (born 9 September 1998) is a Swedish tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 67, achieved in March 2020. In the ATP doubles ranking his career high is No. 187, achieved in October 2017. He is currently the No. 1 Swedish player. Early life Ymer was born in Skara, Sweden to Ethiopian immigrant parents. His mother, Kelem, is a physician; his father, Wondwosen, works at a dairy company. He is the younger brother of fellow tennis player Elias Ymer. His other younger brother, Rafael, is a tennis player on the juniors' circuit. Juniors Mikael contested his first junior major final at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships but was defeated by American Reilly Opelka in straight sets. In 2015 Ymer managed to claim his second European Championships title (U18), beating Bernabé Zapata Miralles in the final in straight sets. Professional career 2016-2018: Masters debut, Maiden ATP title in doubles 2019-2021: Major & Top 70 debut, Two Majors third ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexey Vatutin
Alexey Vatutin (russian: Алексе́й Дми́триевич Вату́тин; born 27 October 1992) is a Russian tennis player. Vatutin achieved a career high ATP singles ranking of 136 on 2 July 2018. He has won one ATP Challenger singles title and ten ITF singles titles. One of his best results in the ATP World Tour so far was reaching the quarterfinal of Marrakech Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrak ... in 2018. Performance timeline Singles ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 20 (11-9) Doubles: 1 (0–1) External links * * 1992 births Living people Russian male tennis players Sportspeople from Volgograd {{Russia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Danylo Kalenichenko
Danylo Serhiyovych Kalenichenko ( uk, Данило Сергійович Каленіченко; born 2 February 1994) is a Ukrainian tennis player. Kalenichenko has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 439 achieved on 13 January 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 378 achieved on 22 October 2018. Kalenichenko has reached seven career singles finals, with a record of 4 wins and 3 losses. Additionally, he has reached 30 career doubles finals with a record of 18 wins and 12 losses. All 37 combined finals have come at the ITF Futures level. Kalenichenko has represented Ukraine at the Davis Cup where he has a W/L record of 0–1. In September 2022 the ITF anti-doping announced that Kalenichenko was provisionally suspended from 20 January 2022 from competition after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid LGD-4033 Ligandrol (VK5211, LGD-4033) is a novel nonsteroidal oral selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) for treatment of co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amir Weintraub
Amir Weintraub ( he, אמיר ויינטרוב; born 16 September 1986) is an Israeli professional tennis player. In 2010, he won the Israeli Tennis Championship. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 161 in May 2012. Career overview In August 2006 at the age of 19, Weintraub won his first ITF Futures title in Senegal. One year later, he made his first challenger final in Uzbekistan but lost to Denis Istomin. In December 2009, Weintraub made it to the finals of the Israeli Tennis Championship, losing to Dudi Sela in three sets. In December 2010, he won the Israeli Tennis Championship, winning against Sela 7–6, 3–6, 7–6. In January 2011 Weintraub participated for the first time in a Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open, but lost in the first qualifying round. In the same month, it was decided that he would play in the Israeli Davis Cup team as the second singles player in their tie against Poland. In March 2011 Weintraub won his first Davis Cup ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ante Pavić
Ante Pavić (; born 7 March 1989) is an inactive Croatian professional tennis player. His highest singles ranking is No. 132 achieved on 13 October 2014. He qualified for the main draw in the 2014 French Open The 2014 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 118th edition of the French Open and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros from 25 May to 8 June. It consisted of e ... after saving a match point in the final round of qualifying against Thanasi Kokkinakis. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 9 (5–4) Doubles: 37 (26–11) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pavic, Ante 1989 births Living people Croatian male tennis players People from Ogulin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Radek Štěpánek
Radek Štěpánek (; born 27 November 1978) is a Czech former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 8 and best doubles ranking was world No. 4. Štěpánek's biggest achievements are reaching two Masters 1000 event finals and the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2006, as well as winning the deciding match for Czech Republic's Davis Cup winning team in 2012 and again in 2013. In doubles, he won his first Grand Slam title at the 2012 Australian Open, along with Indian partner Leander Paes, defeating the Bryan Brothers in the final. Paes and Štěpánek also won the men's doubles title at the 2013 US Open, defeating Bruno Soares and Alexander Peya in the final. In November 2017, he became a coach of Novak Djokovic and in May 2019, he joined Andre Agassi as part of Grigor Dimitrov's coaching staff. Early life Born in Karviná, Moravia-Silesia, Štěpánek began playing tennis at age three with his father Vlastimil, who was a tennis coach. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alex Molčan
Alex Molčan (born 1 December 1997) is a Slovak professional tennis player. Molčan has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 38 achieved on 23 May 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 268 achieved on 14 June 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Slovak tennis player in singles. Molčan has reached three ATP 250 finals at the 2021 Belgrade Open, in Morocco in 2022 and at the 2022 ATP Lyon Open. He also reached eleven singles ITF finals, with a record of 6 wins and 5 losses which includes a 2–2 result in ATP Challenger finals. Additionally, he has reached five career doubles ITF finals, with a record of 2 wins and 3 losses, including a 1–3 result in ATP Challenger finals. Professional career 2021: First ATP final, Major debut & third round, Slovak No. 1, top 100 Ranked No. 313 at the beginning of the year in January, Molčan made his ATP debut at the 2021 Antalya Open in Turkey, where he defeated Andrey Golubev and Blaž Kavčič to qualify for th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Altuğ Çelikbilek
Altuğ Çelikbilek (; born 7 September 1996) is a Turkish professional tennis player. Çelikbilek has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 154 achieved on 21 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 224, achieved on 25 July 2022. Çelikbilek has won 2 ATP Challengers and 5 ITF singles titles and 11 ITF doubles titles. He is currently the No. 1 Turkish player. Professional career He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2021 French Open as a qualifier. Çelikbilek has represented Turkey 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 5–7. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 11 (8–3) Doubles: 27 (12–15) References External links * * * 1996 births Liv ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Édouard Roger-Vasselin
Édouard Roger-Vasselin (; born 28 November 1983) is a French professional tennis player who primarily specialises in doubles. He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2014 French Open, winning the men's doubles partnering Julien Benneteau, and also finished runner-up at the Wimbledon Championships in both 2016 and 2019, alongside Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut respectively. Roger-Vasselin reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 6 in November 2014, and has won 22 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2015 Cincinnati Masters with Daniel Nestor. In singles, his highest ranking was world No. 35, achieved in February 2014, and he finished runner-up at the 2013 Delray Beach Open and 2014 Chennai Open. Roger-Vasselin's best Grand Slam result in singles was reaching the third round at the French Open and Wimbledon Championships in 2007, and the 2014 Australian Open. He is the son of 1983 French Open semifinalist Christophe Roger-Vasselin. Career 2007 At the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Elias Ymer
Elias Ymer (born 10 April 1996) is a Swedish tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 105, achieved on 11 June 2018. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 188, achieved on 16 October 2017. Personal info Ymer was born in Skara, Sweden to Ethiopian immigrant parents. His mother, Kelem, is a physician; his father, Wondwosen, works at a dairy company. He is the elder brother of fellow tennis player Mikael Ymer. From 2017 to 2018, Ymer was coached by Robin Söderling. In the autumn of 2022 Ymer, together with ten other athletes was accepted as a student at Harvard Business School's “Crossover into Business” program. Career 2014: ATP debut Ymer made his ATP main draw singles debut at the 2013 Swedish Open where he lost in the first round to Grigor Dimitrov. Ymer received a wildcard at the 2014 Swedish Open defeating Mikhail Kukushkin in the first round before falling to João Sousa in the second round. 2015: Qualification at all ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |