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2017 Città Di Como Challenger
The 2017 Città di Como Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Como, Italy between 28 August – 3 September 2017. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 21 August 2017. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Riccardo Balzerani * Alessandro Coppini * Matteo Donati * Julian Ocleppo The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: * Elias Ymer The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Gianluca Di Nicola * Lenny Hampel * Constant Lestienne * Corentin Moutet The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Federico Gaio * Kamil Majchrzak Champions Singles * Pedro Sousa def. Marco Cecchinato 1–6, 6–2, 6–4. Doubles * Sander Arends / Antonio Šančić def. Aliaksandr Bury / Kevin Krawiet ... [...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] |
Oscar Otte
Oscar Otte (; born 16 July 1993) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 36 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved on 27 June 2022, and has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 161, attained in May 2017. Since turning professional in 2011, Otte has won 23 singles and doubles titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour and seven on the ATP Challenger Tour. After several years of failing to qualify for most Grand Slam tournaments, he produced consistency in 2021 by entering into three consecutive main draws and showed his best performance at a major at the 2021 US Open, where he upset 20th seed Lorenzo Sonego in the first round and ultimately reached the fourth round. In January 2022, he made his top 100 debut in the singles rankings and emerged into the top 50 five months later, following his first career ATP 500 semifinal at the 2022 Halle Open. Tennis career 2017: First Challenger title Otte made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Krawietz
Kevin Krawietz (born 24 January 1992) is a German professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He achieved his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 5 on 10 February 2025. Krawietz has won eleven doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2024 ATP Finals with Tim Pütz, becoming the first all-German pair to win the title. He is a two-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion at the French Open in 2019 French Open – Men's doubles, 2019 and 2020 French Open – Men's doubles, 2020 with Andreas Mies. Krawietz was also a finalist with Tim Pütz at the 2024 US Open – Men's doubles, 2024 US Open and reached the mixed doubles semifinals at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles, 2021 Wimbledon Championships and at the 2022 French Open – Mixed doubles, 2022 French Open, partnering Květa Peschke and Nicole Melichar-Martinez respectively. In singles, Krawietz reached his highest ranking of world No. 211 in December 2018. He has represented Germany in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliaksandr Bury
Aliaksandr Ivanavich Bury (; ; also spelt Alexander Bury), (born 14 September 1987) is a Belarusian inactive professional tennis player who competed 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 organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ..., 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 * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bury, Alexander 1987 births Living people Belarusian male t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamil Majchrzak
Kamil Majchrzak (; born 13 January 1996) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 75 achieved on 28 February 2022 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 241 achieved on 8 August 2016. Professional career Juniors Partnered with Martin Redlicki, Majchrzak won the 2013 US Open boys' doubles title by defeating Quentin Halys and Frederico Ferreira Silva in the final. 2019: Grand Slam debut and first two wins, Top 100 During the 2019 Australian Open, Majchrzak advanced through the qualifying to reach the 1st round. He won the first two sets against top-10 player Kei Nishikori, but then was forced to retire due to an injury. In March 2019 Majchrzak celebrated his maiden Challenger triumph at the 2019 Open Harmonie mutuelle in St. Brieuc, France. Two months later he advanced to the 2019 Prosperita Open final with wins over Riccardio Bonadio, Zsombor Piros, No. 5 seeded Dennis Novak, and top seed Lloyd Harris. He 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 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. He has won three Challenger and four ITF futures doubles titles in doubles. He reached a career high in doubles of World No. 163 on 2 November 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 Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corentin Moutet
Corentin Moutet (; born 19 April 1999) is a French professional tennis player. Moutet has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 51, attained on 7 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 425, attained on 12 June 2017. Moutet has won six ATP Challenger Tour and five ITF World Tennis Tour singles tournaments. Moutet made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2017 French Open after receiving a wildcard to the doubles main draw with Constant Lestienne. Junior career 2013: First ITF tournaments, first titles In April, Moutet entered the singles qualifying of the ITF Junior Cap d'Ail. Two tournaments later, he reached his first singles final at the Podgorica Open. At the Copa Santa Catarina Internacional in October, Moutet again reached the singles final, losing to João Menezes in straight sets. In doubles, he took his first title with Fernando Yamacita. At the Copa Guga Kuerten, his final tournament of the year, he proved victorious in both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constant Lestienne
Constant Lestienne (; born 23 May 1992) is a French professional tennis player. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 48 on 6 February 2023 and his highest doubles ranking of No. 250 was achieved on 12 June 2023. He has won eight ATP Challenger singles titles. In addition, he has won five singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Career 2015: ATP Tour debut Lestienne reached his first career ATP Tour singles main draw at the 2015 Estoril Open after winning two singles qualifying matches. He lost in the first round to Pablo Carreño Busta. 2016: First challenger title, betting scandal and ban In May 2016, Lestienne won his first ATP Challenger Tour tournament in Ostrava. In September 2016, Lestienne was suspended for seven months and fined $10,000 by the International Tennis Federation for betting on tennis matches. The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) in cooperation with French online gambling regulator ARJEL found that Lestienne had bet on 220 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Ymer
Elias Ymer (born 10 April 1996) is a Swedish tennis player. Ymer has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, 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. He is the current No. 1 Swedish singles player. Personal info Ymer was born in Skara, Sweden to Ethiopian immigrant parents. He is the elder brother of 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 Grand Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Ocleppo
Julian Ocleppo (born 1 August 1997) is an Italian tennis player. Ocleppo is the son of former tennis professional Gianni Ocleppo and his wife Dee. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of 309 achieved on 24 February 2020. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 167 achieved on 23 July 2018. Ocleppo has won four ATP Challenger doubles titles in Italy. He made his main draw debut on the ATP World Tour at the 2018 Italian Open doubles competition partnering Andrea Vavassori. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 7 (3–4) Doubles: 27 (16–11) Personal life He is the son of former tennis player Gianni Ocleppo and Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger. His mother is of Turkish and British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture ... descent.. He is the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Donati
Matteo Donati (; born 28 February 1995) is an Italian former professional tennis player and current tennis coach. Career On 13 April 2015, he reached the final of the ATP Challenger, the Napoli Cup, and reached a career-high of No. 247 in 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny De Schepper
Kenny de Schepper (born 29 May 1987) is a French professional tennis player who competed on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP rankings of world No. 62 achieved in April 2014 in singles and No. 152 in doubles achieved in February 2012. Career Early years De Schepper was born in Bordeaux, France. His father Éric, originally from Belgium, was a former professional squash player. De Schepper, who is two meters tall, joined the National tennis centre in Poitiers when he was 13, however after a while he stopped playing tennis for two years due to growth injuries. He subsequently resumed and eventually turned pro in 2010. 2011 While not having any wins, he had several runner-up finishes in ITF Futures events and has a runner-up finish at an ATP Challenger event – the 2011 Open EuroEnergie de Quimper, where he lost to his compatriot David Guez in the final. He won his first ATP Challenger title at the 2011 Open Diputación Ciudad de Pozoblanco event against Iv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
