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2018 Open D'Orléans
The 2018 Open d'Orléans was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Orléans, France between 24 and 30 September 2018. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 17 September 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Aljaž Bedene * Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc * Antoine Hoang * Sergiy Stakhovsky The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Hugo Nys * Arthur Rinderknech * Emil Ruusuvuori * Tak Khunn Wang The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Maxime Janvier * Tim van Rijthoven * Tobias Simon Champions Singles * Aljaž Bedene def. Antoine Hoang 4–6, 6–1, 7–6(8–6). Doubles * Luke Bambridge / Jonny O'Mara def. Yannick Maden / Tristan-Samuel Weissborn Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (born 24 October 1991) is an Austrian professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcourt
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a type of surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in the synthetic/acrylic layer placed on top of the asphalt foundation. More sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugo Humbert
Ugo Humbert (; born 26 June 1998) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 13, achieved on 15 April 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 348, achieved on 26 August 2024. Humbert has won seven ATP Tour singles titles, and was runner-up at a Masters 1000 event at the 2024 Paris Masters. He also holds nine Challenger singles titles. He is currently the No. 2 player from France. Humbert won his first ATP Tour match and made his Grand Slam singles debut in 2018. At the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, he reached the fourth round, where he lost to eventual champion Novak Djokovic. Early life Humbert was born in Metz, the son of Eric and Anne, and has one sister, Léa. Both parents and sister are butchers and caterers and run a store in Metz. Career Juniors When Humbert was 12, he made the difficult decision to take the train to Poitiers to train with the French Tennis Federation. He ended up moving to Poitiers and continued hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Van Rijthoven
Tim van Rijthoven (; born 24 April 1997) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Van Rijthoven has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 101, which he first achieved on 18 July 2022, and a doubles ranking of No. 225, attained in 9 May 2022. As a junior, he reached a combined ranking of world No. 13 in 2015 and reached the quarterfinals of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships boys' singles tournament and semifinals of the boys' doubles. In June 2022, he claimed his first five ATP Tour wins (including over world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev) en route to his maiden Rosmalen Grass Court Championships title. Van Rijthoven has represented Netherlands at the Davis Cup where he has a W/L record of 2–1. Professional career 2016-2019: ATP debut and top 300 In 2016 he made his debut on the ATP World Tour by qualifying as a lucky loser for the Winston-Salem Open after Thanasi Kokkinakis withdrew due to a recurring shoulder injury, where he lost to Jiří Veselý in the first round ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Janvier
Maxime Janvier (; born 18 October 1996) is a French tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 170 achieved on 30 September 2019. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 297 achieved on 18 October 2021. Professional career 2014: First ITF title In July, Janvier won his first ITF title at the Serbia F6, defeating Tomislav Jotovski in the final. 2016: First Challenger title In January, Janvier made his Grand Slam qualifying debut at the Australian Open, losing in the second round to Daniel Brands. In October, Janvier won his first ATP Challenger singles title in Casablanca, defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final. 2018: Grand Slam debut, top 200 In June, Janvier was awarded a wildcard to the French Open, losing in the first round to twenty first seed Kei Nishikori. 2019: ATP Tour debut In May, Janvier made his debut on the ATP Tour as a qualifier at the Lyon Open, losing in the first round to Richard Gasquet. In June, he was awarded a wildc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tak Khunn Wang
Tak Khunn Wang (born 13 October 1991) is a French tennis player. Wang has a career high ATP singles ranking of 265 achieved on 3 February 2014. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 312 achieved on 15 August 2016. Wang has won 1 ATP Challenger 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. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as ... doubles title at the 2016 ZS-Sports China International Challenger. Tour titles Doubles External links * * 1991 births Living people French male tennis players Tennis players from Paris French people of Chinese descent 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Ruusuvuori
Emil Ruusuvuori (; born 2 April 1999) is a Finnish professional tennis player. He reached a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of World No. 37 on 3 April 2023. He is currently the No. 2 Finnish singles tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 179 achieved on 2 May 2022. As a junior, Ruusuvuori was ranked as high as World No. 4 in the International Tennis Federation, ITF combined junior rankings. In 2017, he reached the singles quarterfinals of the 2017 Australian Open – Boys' singles, Australian Open boys' singles, the singles semifinals of the 2017 US Open – Boys' singles, US Open boys' singles, and won the ITF Junior Masters. Ruusuvuori has also represented Finland Davis Cup team, Finland in the Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 5–5. In September 2019, he defeated reigning world number 5 and 2-time Roland Garros finalist Dominic Thiem in straight sets in a 2019 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I, Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Rinderknech
Arthur Rinderknech (; born 23 July 1995) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 42, achieved on 31 October 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 124, achieved on 8 November 2021. Personal life Rinderknech's mother is former tennis player Virginie Paquet. Monégasque tennis players Benjamin Balleret and Valentin Vacherot are his cousins. He is a fan of French football club AS Saint-Étienne. College career Rinderknech played college tennis at Texas A&M University. Professional career 2018–2020: Grand Slam singles and doubles debut Rinderknech made his Grand Slam main draw debut as a wildcard at the 2018 French Open in doubles partnering Florian Lakat. He also entered as a wildcard the first rounds of the 2020 French Open on his singles main draw debut and doubles main draw partnering with Manuel Guinard and reached the second round in doubles. 2021: ATP & Top 60 debuts, First Major win, Maiden doubles final In his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Nys
Hugo Nys (; born 16 February 1991) is a Monégasque professional tennis player who previously represented France until 2019. A doubles specialist, he reached his highest ATP doubles ranking of No. 12 on 12 June 2023 and singles ranking of No. 327 on 29 July 2019. He became the first ever Monegasque player to reach the semifinal and final of a Major at the 2023 Australian Open. His grandfather was Francis Nys, a French tennis player. Career 2019: Maiden ATP title At the 2019 Los Cabos Open, Nys won his maiden doubles title with partner Romain Arneodo. 2021: French Open quarterfinal, two doubles titles, top 50 Nys won his second doubles title at the Estoril Open, with partner Tim Pütz. Later in May, Nys won his next doubles title at the Lyon Open, again with Pütz. As a result, he reached a career-high of No. 53 in doubles on 24 May 2021. The Nys/Pütz duo reached the quarterfinals of the 2021 French Open, where they were defeated by eventual runner-ups Kazakh duo Bubli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky (, ; born January 6, 1986) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and played mostly at the Challenger level from 2005 to 2008. His career-high rankings were World No. 31 in singles (September 2010) and No. 33 in doubles (June 2011). Stakhovsky won his first career title in March 2008, as a lucky loser ranked No. 209, defeating top seed Ivan Ljubičić in the final, thus becoming the first lucky loser to win a title since Christian Miniussi in 1991. He is the elder brother of tennis player Leonard Stakhovsky. He was coached by Burghard Riehemann. He is perhaps best known for beating eight-time winner and defending champion Roger Federer in the second round of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships, ending the latter's record run of 36 consecutive Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major quarterfinals. Stakhovsky retired from tennis in January 2022, and following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Hoang
Antoine Hoang (born 4 November 1995) is a French tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 98 achieved on 19 August 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 132 achieved on 18 October 2021. Professional career 2018: ATP and Grand Slam doubles debut Hoang made his ATP main draw debut at the 2018 Open 13 in the doubles draw partnering Alexandre Müller. He received a wild card for the main draw of the 2018 French Open in the doubles draw, partnering with Ugo Humbert. 2019: First ATP singles win and doubles final, Grand Slam and top 100 debut He won his first ATP match in Montpellier against Steve Darcis in 2019 before losing to compatriot Jérémy Chardy and made the final in doubles, partnering Benjamin Bonzi. On his Grand Slam singles debut at the 2019 French Open, Hoang reached the third round as a wildcard defeating 23rd seed Fernando Verdasco before losing to 14th seed compatriot Gaël Monfils. He reached a career high ranking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Zopp
Jürgen Zopp (born 29 March 1988) is an Estonian retired tennis player. He is Estonia's all-time highest ranked male tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of World No. 71 in 2012. Career Zopp started playing tennis at the age of 6 and grew up idolizing Pete Sampras, Marat Safin, and Roger Federer Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 3 .... Zopp had a somewhat successful junior career, reaching the second round of the Australian and US Open Boys' tournaments in 2006. In 2008, he would officially turn pro. Zopp made a breakthrough on the ATP tour in 2012, qualifying for the main draws of the Australian Open, Roland-Garros and Wimbledon boosting his ranking to the point where he didn't have to go through qualifying by the time the US Open came around. and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yannick Maden
Yannick Maden (born 28 October 1989) is a retired German tennis player. He graduated from Clemson University, where he played on the tennis team before entering the professional tour. Professional career Maden made his ATP main draw debut as a qualifier at the 2016 European Open, where he lost to fifth seed Gilles Simon in the first round. He won his first match at ATP-level at the 2017 Moselle Open, defeating Nicolás Kicker Nicolás Kicker (, born 16 August 1992 in Merlo) is an Argentine tennis player. He plays mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Kicker achieved his highest career singles ranking of 78 in June 2017. He has won 4 singles titles, and 1 doubles title o ... in the first round. Performance timelines Singles ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 24 (8–16) Doubles: 7 (3–4) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maden, Yannick 1989 births Living people German male tennis players Tennis players from Stuttgart Clemson Tigers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
