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2016 Samarkand Challenger
The 2016 Samarkand Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 20th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan between 9 and 14 May 2016. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of May 2, 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Sanjar Fayziev * Temur Ismailov * Shonigmatjon Shofayziyev * Pavel Tsoy The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Bar Tzuf Botzer * Mikhail Elgin * Markos Kalovelonis * Francesco Vilardo Champions Singles * Karen Khachanov def. Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo, 6–1, 6–7(6–8), 6–1 Doubles * Denis Matsukevich / Andrei Vasilevski def. Hsieh Cheng-peng / Yang Tsung-hua, 6–4, 5–7, 0–5 External linksOfficial Website {{2016 ATP Challenger Tour Samarkand Challenger The Samarkand Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan since ... [...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] |
Dmitry Popko
Dmitry Yevgenyevich Popko (russian: Дмитрий Евгеньевич Попко; born 24 October 1996) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. Popko has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 162 achieved on 25 October 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 304 achieved on 1 May 2017. Popko has participated in qualifying for all four of the Grand Slams. Popko represents Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental coun ... at the Davis Cup. He defeated Chinese tennis player Zhang Ze in his first tie. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 28 (19–9) Doubles: 11 (5–6) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Popko, Dmitry 1996 births Living people Kazakhstani male tennis players Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Tsung-hua
Yang Tsung-hua (; born March 29, 1991) is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. On the junior circuit, Yang reached a career-high combined ranking of No. 1 in 2008, when he won the French Open singles title against Polish player Jerzy Janowicz in two sets, and the Australian Open and Wimbledon doubles titles alongside Hsieh Cheng-peng. Career Juniors Yang was named International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior World Champion for the 2008 season by the ITF. As a junior, he compiled a 66–23 win–loss record in singles (and 61–16 in doubles), achieving his combined ranking of No. 1 in the world in July 2008. He reached 4 Junior Grand Slam finals in 2008, winning 3 titles. He started by losing the 2008 Australian Open – Boys' singles final, then rebounded to win the 2008 Australian Open – Boys' doubles, the 2008 French Open – Boys' singles and the 2008 Wimbledon Boys' Doubles titles. Pro tour Yang competes today on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsieh Cheng-peng
Hsieh Cheng-peng (; born 22 September 1991) is an inactive tennis player from Taiwan. Alongside Yang Tsung-hua he won the 2008 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title. He won the 2009 US Open – Boys' doubles with Márton Fucsovics, as well as the 2008 Australian Open – Boys' doubles title with Yang Tsung-hua and the 2009 Australian Open – Boys' doubles title with Francis Casey Alcantara. He is the brother of tennis players Hsieh Su-wei and Hsieh Yu-chieh. Tennis career Juniors In 2008 Hsieh won the 2008 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles alongside Yang Tsung-hua. In 2009 he won the Australian Open Boys' Doubles alongside Francis Casey Alcantara and the US Open Boys' Doubles together with Hungarian Márton Fucsovics. Hsieh compiled a doubles win–loss record of 124–33 (69-44 in singles) and reached a career-high of No. 8 in the ITF Junior combined world rankings in April 2009. Junior Slam results – Singles: Australian Open: QF (2009) French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo (; born 6 January 1978 in Alicante, Spain) is a former professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 50, achieved on 2 October 2006. His favourite surface is clay, where he has won numerous ATP Challenger Tour events, and has reached the final in three events of the ATP tour, all in 2007, finishing runner-up in all three finals. Career Ramírez Hidalgo turned pro in 1998. At the 2006 French Open, Ramírez Hidalgo reached the 4th round in a Grand Slam event for the first time in his career, defeating Thierry Ascione, Christophe Rochus and future finalist David Ferrer. Before the tournament, he had lost four consecutive times in the first round of a Grand Slam, a pattern he proceeded to return to for a further 9 appearances. On 4 August 2016, after defeating Ante Pavić in the 2nd round of the Chengdu Challenger, Ramírez Hidalgo became the first player ever to win 400 matches in the ATP Challenger Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markos Kalovelonis
Markos Kalovelonis ( gr, Μάρκος Καλοβελώνης, ; born 18 May 1994) is a Greek-Russian tennis player. Kalovelonis has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 445 achieved on 16 June 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 187 achieved on 20 June 2022. Kalovelonis has won 21 ITF doubles titles. Kalovelonis has represented Greece 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 6–5. He also represented Greece in the ATP Cup in 2020 and 2021. Kalovelonis is the son of former Greek tennis player, George Kalovelonis and Russian Karina Nazarenko. In 2014, Kalovelonis decided to represent Russia instead of Greece. In 2019, Kalovelonis switched back to represent Greece. He is fluent in Russi ... [...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] |
Bar Tzuf Botzer
Bar Tzuf Botzer ( he, בר צוף בוצר; born 2 March 1994) is an Israeli tennis player. He began playing for the Israel Davis Cup team at the age of 20, in 2014. His career-high ranking in singles is World # 583, which he achieved on 17 February 2014. Biography Botzer was born in and resides in Tel Aviv, Israel. He started playing tennis at age five. Botzer played for the Israel Davis Cup team against Argentina in September 2014, at age 20 as a substitute for Amir Weintraub. He lost singles matches to world # 25 Leonardo Mayer and world # 67 Carlos Berlocq. Botzer played for the team against the Romania Davis Cup team in 2015, losing in singles to world # 159 Adrian Ungur and to world # 168 Marius Copil. In doubles, he and 17-year-old Edan Leshem lost to Florin Mergea Florin Mergea (; born 26 January 1985) is a Romanian tennis player and a doubles specialist. He has reached the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in 2015 and won an ATP Masters title at the Mut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temur Ismailov
Temur Ismailov ( uz, Темур Исмаилов; born 14 January 1995) is a currently banned Uzbekistani tennis player. Ismailov has a career high ATP singles ranking of 419 achieved on 22 June 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 943 achieved on 27 July 2015. Ismailov 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 orga ... where he has a W/L record of 0–3. External links * * * 1995 births Living people Uzbekistani male tennis players Sportspeople from Tashkent Tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in tennis Asian Games bronze medalists for Uzbekistan Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games 21st-century Uzbekistani people {{Uzbekistan-tennis-bio-stub ... [...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] |
Enrique López Pérez
Enrique López Pérez (; born 3 June 1991) is a Spanish professional tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 16 July 2018, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 154 and his highest doubles ranking of 135 was achieved on 15 April 2019. López Pérez was provisionally suspended by the Tennis Integrity Unit in December 2019, later receiving an eight-year ban from the sport for match-fixing in three separate instances in 2017. Challenger and Futures Finals Singles: 38 (26–12) Doubles: 62 (31–31) References External links * * See also * Match fixing in tennis *Tennis Integrity Unit The Tennis Integrity Unit was the organisation responsible for investigating match fixing in tennis since 2008 until 2020. It was replaced by the International Tennis Integrity Agency. It had the ability to impose fines and sanctions, and ban pl ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez Perez, Enrique 1991 births Living people Spanish male tennis players Match fixing in te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Milojević (tennis)
Nikola Milojević ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Милојевић, ; born 19 June 1995) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Milojević has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 125, which he achieved on 21 February 2022. He also achieved a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 252 on 18 February 2019. He reached his highest ranking of no. 1 in ITF Junior rankings on 7 January 2013. Career 2014: ATP debut Milojević was a fifth player on a Serbian Davis Cup team in the first round tie against United States in the 2010 Davis Cup as well as a first round tie against Switzerland in 2014 and didn't play in any match. Milojević made his ATP main draw debut as a wildcard at 2014 Düsseldorf Open, where he defeated Mirza Bašić in the first round before losing to eventual finalist, Ivo Karlović, in the second round. 2017: Three Challengers finals, Top 150 debut He was also invited for a semifinal clash against France in 2017, but instead chose to play in a Challenger tourna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
