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2016 Capri Watch Cup
The 2016 Capri Watch Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Naples, Italy between 4 April and 10 April 2016. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of March 21, 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Salvatore Caruso * Federico Gaio * Gianluca Mager * Stefano Napolitano The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: * Alexandre Sidorenko The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Flavio Cipolla * Dimitar Kuzmanov * Julian Reister * Alexey Vatutin Champions Singles * Jozef Kovalík def. Arthur De Greef, 6–3, 6–2 Doubles * Gero Kretschmer / Alexander Satschko Alexander Satschko (born 12 November 1980) is a Germans, German retired tennis player. He was a doubles specialist, who achieved his highest doub ... [...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] |
Andrej Martin
Andrej Martin (; born 20 September 1989, in Bratislava) is a Slovak professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 93 in February 2020. Career 2016: Best season: French Open third round, first ATP final, top 100 debut He was a lucky loser at the French Open and defeated Daniel Muñoz de la Nava in the first round of the main draw and 29th seed Lucas Pouille in the second, before losing to 8th-seed Milos Raonic in the third round. In July 2016, Martin reached first ATP final, in Umag, defeated Martin Klizan, Joao Sousa, Carlos Berlocq and Sergiy Stakhovsky en route. In the final he lost to Italian No. 1 Fabio Fognini. Later in the year, Martin participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics. After comfortably defeating Denis Kudla in the first round, Martin got a walkover into the 3rd round when opponent Philipp Kohlschreiber withdrew with an injury. However, Martin was then beaten by the 4th-seeded Kei Nishikori, 2–6, 2–6. He achieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Donati
Matteo Donati (; born 28 February 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player. On 13 April 2015, he reached the final of the ATP Challenger Tour Napoli Cup to claim a career-high of no. 247 on the ATP World Tour Singles rankings. Professional career 2015 Donati's first big professional result came in Naples at the 2015 Tennis Napoli Cup. As a wildcard, the Italian defeated Axel Michon in straight sets in the first round, World number 111 (former n. 33) and number 1 seed Andrey Golubev 6–7(3), 6–4, 6–2 in the following round, and fellow Italian Andrea Arnaboldi in a thriller three-setter in the quarterfinals. Donati then reached his first ATP Challenger Tour final (beating Marco Cecchinato 7–6(5), 6–2 in the semifinals) where he lost to Daniel Muñoz de la Nava in straight sets. In May Donati obtained a wildcard into the main draw of the 2015 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, in Rome. Playing for the first time in a Master 1000 tournament (also his first ATP match), Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur De Greef (tennis)
Arthur De Greef (; born 27 March 1992) is a former Belgian tennis player. De Greef has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 113, achieved on 19 June 2017 and has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 597 achieved on 4 March 2013. De Greef made his ATP main draw singles debut at the 2015 Grand Prix Hassan II where he qualified for the main draw and defeated the 8th seed Diego Schwartzman in the first round. In May 2021, De Greef was provisionally suspended for match-fixing by ITIA ''Itia'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitromorphidae.Marshall, B.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Itia Marwick, 1931. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.ma .... Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 25 (12–13) Doubles: 4 (3–1) References External links * * * 1992 births Living people Belgian male tennis players Sportspeople from Brussels Sportspeople from Flemish Brabant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Julian Reister
Julian Reister (; born 2 April 1986) is a German retired professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 83, achieved in November 2013. Reister reached the quarterfinals of Buenos Aires in 2013 as a qualifier. Career 2006 Reister qualified for his first ATP World Tour tournament at Basel where he lost in the first round to Guillermo García-López 6–7(4), 2–6. 2007 Reister entered Basel as a qualifier where he lost in the first round to Roko Karanušić 0–6, 3–6. 2010 Reister qualified into the main draw at Brisbane where he lost in the first round to Florent Serra 7–6(3), 6–7(5), 5–7. Reister next qualified into the main draw at the French Open. He defeated 27th seed Feliciano López in the first round 6–1, 7–6(5), 6–2 to record his first ever ATP World Tour victory. He went on to defeat Olivier Rochus in the second round 6–2, 6–2, 7–6(5) before losing to Roger Federer Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitar Kuzmanov
Dimitar Kuzmanov ( bg, Димитър Кузманов, ; nickname: Miko; born 28 July 1993) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He competes mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour. His highest singles ranking is No. 159 achieved on 29 August 2022, whilst his best doubles ranking is No. 438 achieved on 1 April 2019. Early years and personal life Dimitar Kuzmanov was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the son of Savko Kuzmanov (an aeronautical engineer) and Dora Rangelova (Bulgaria Fed Cup team's former tennis player and present team captain). His maternal family is entirely related to the sport. Dora's father Zdravko Rangelov, who is one of the founders of tennis in Plovdiv, has been a tennis player and longtime coach in Tennis Club Lokomotiv, whilst her mother has been a volleyball player and coach. Dora's brother, Stefan Rangelov is a former tennis player and present tennis coach. Kuzmanov began playing tennis at age of six when his mother Dora took him to play on courts of Tennis Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavio Cipolla
Flavio Cipolla (born 20 October 1983) is a former professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from Italy. He reached the second round at the French Open of 2007, where he lost to Rafael Nadal. He reached the 3rd round of the 2008 US Open. His career high rank is No. 70, achieved on 23 April 2012. Career 2008 Cipolla began 2008 with a bang the first week in January, winning the singles and doubles titles of the Challenger in New Caledonia, to get his singles ranking to a career high of #116. He won 2 more Challenger doubles titles in February in Belgrade and in March in Italy to establish himself as a top-100 doubles player. Cipolla got a chance to compete in a grand-slam tournament at the 2008 U.S. Open in the men's singles competition at Flushing Meadows. Despite losing in qualifying he, along with Rui Machado, were reinstated following the withdrawals of Mikhail Youzhny. Cipolla made the most of his opportunity and reached the third round. In the first round he beat Jan Herny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Sidorenko
Alexandre Sidorenko (born 18 February 1988) is a French tennis player. Sidorenko has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 145, achieved on 25 May 2009. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 168, achieved 7 June 2010. Junior career As a junior, Sidorenko reach as high a world No. 3 in the combined singles + doubles junior ranking system. Contributing most significantly to this ranking, was his title run in winning the 2006 Australian Open boys' singles. He defeated Australian Nick Lindahl in straight sets ''6–3, 7–6(7–4)'' to capture the championship. Career Sidorenko made his ATP Tour singles main draw debut at the 2006 Open 13 on hard courts in Marseille, France. Having received a wild card granting him direct entry into the first round, he was defeated by Evgeny Korolev of Russia in three sets ''6–2, 4–6, 1–6''. He made his ATP Tour doubles debut at the same tournament, receiving a wild card into the doubles main draw as well alongsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Napolitano
Stefano Napolitano (; born 11 April 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 12 June 2017, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 152 and his highest doubles ranking of 182 was achieved on 3 April 2017. Napolitano defeated Augusto Virgili in the qualifying of 2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup 6–0, 6–3, winning the first set without dropping a single point, which is referred to as a golden set In tennis, a golden set is a set which is won without losing a single point. This means scoring the 24 minimum points required to win the set 6–0, without conceding any points. In professional tennis, this has occurred twice in the main draw of .... Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 13 (2–11) Doubles: 10 (4–6) Singles performance timeline Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Napolitano, Stefano 1995 births Living people Italian male tennis pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianluca Mager
Gianluca Mager (born 1 December 1994) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 66 achieved on 13 September 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 310 achieved on 10 June 2019. Personal Info Born in Liguria, from a family of German origins. In 2010, Mager was disqualified for failing a doping test after smoking marijuana at a party. Professional career Mager made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 Internazionali BNL d'Italia after earning a wildcard in the pre-qualifying wildcard tournament. He was defeated by Aljaž Bedene in the first round. He got his first singles ATP main-draw win in the first round in Stockholm in October 2019 against Spaniard Pablo Andújar. At the 2020 Rio Open in Brazil, an ATP 500 level tournament on clay courts, he beat world No. 34 Casper Ruud in the first round, and world No. 4 Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals to reach the semifinal as a qualifier. Mager reached his first ATP Tour final, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Gaio
Federico Gaio (; born 5 March 1992) is an Italian professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and on the ITF circuit. He has won four Challenger titles and nine ITF futures singles titles. He reached his career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 124 in February 2020. In doubles, he has won three Challenger and four ITF futures doubles titles. He reached a career high in doubles of World No. 165 on 9 March 2020 after his maiden ATP doubles final at the 2020 Rio Open partnering Salvatore Caruso. Professional career 2015: ATP debut He played his first ATP main draw match in the 2015 Rome Open after gaining entry as a wildcard. 2018: Grand Slam singles debut He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2018 US Open as a qualifier where he lost to tenth seed David Goffin. 2020: Maiden doubles ATP final He reached his first doubles final at the ATP 500 2020 Rio Open partnering Salvatore Caruso where they lost to Horacio Zeballos/Marcel Granollers Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
