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2020 Iași Open
The 2020 Iași Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2020 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Iași, Romania between 14 and 20 September 2020. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 31 August 2020. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Cezar Crețu * Nicholas David Ionel * Filip Cristian Jianu The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Arthur De Greef The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts: * Pablo Andújar * Marc-Andrea Hüsler The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Tomás Martín Etcheverry * Matteo Martineau * Felipe Meligeni Alves * Kacper Żuk Champions Singles * Carlos Taberner def. Mathias Bourgue 6–4, 7–6(7–4). Doubles * Rafael Matos / João Menezes def. Treat Huey / Nathaniel ... [...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] |
Marius Copil
Marius Copil (born 17 October 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player, competing currently on the ATP Challenger Tour. His career-high singles ranking is No. 56 achieved on 28 January 2019. Copil is known for his Fastest recorded tennis serves, extremely fast, powerful, and consistent serve. He was a member of the Romania Davis Cup team, Romanian Davis Cup team. Career 2009: ATP debut In September 2009 he received wild card (tennis), wildcard for the main draw of 2009 BCR Open Romania, where he defeated his fellow countryman Victor Crivoi in the first round, but lost to Spaniard Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo in the second round. 2010–2012: Challenger Tour success In May 2010, Copil reached his first ATP Challenger Tour final at the 2010 Trofeo Paolo Corazzi, Trofeo Paolo Corazzi as a qualifier. On his route to the final he won in three sets against Australian Bernard Tomic in the semifinals and finished runner-up to German Denis Gremelmayr. The 2011 season started well f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Lammons
Nathaniel Lammons (born August 12, 1993) is an American professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 17 in doubles, achieved on 27 January 2025. He has won 10 ATP doubles titles. A former player at Southern Methodist University, Lammons turned professional in 2016. Lammons sealed his top 100 doubles debut in July 2019, a year in which he won four doubles titles from seven doubles finals reached as he broke through on the ATP Challenger Tour. In 2022, he won his first two career ATP Tour doubles titles in San Diego and Seoul, earning him his top 50 debut. Together with partner Jackson Withrow in 2023, Lammons reached his first ATP 500 final in Acapulco and his first ATP Masters 1000 semifinal in Miami. In 2024, he made his first Grand Slam semifinal at the 2024 US Open with Withrow and reached the top 20. Professional career 2021–22: New partnership with Withrow, win over World No. 1 team, Two titles, top 50 At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treat Huey
Treat Conrad Huey (; born August 28, 1985) is a Filipino-American former tennis player who represented the Philippines in international competitions. Huey specialized in doubles and reached eighteen finals, winning 8 titles on the ATP World Tour. He won titles at the 2012 Citi Open, 2013 Swiss Indoors, and 2014 Aegon International alongside Dominic Inglot, 2015 Estoril Open with Scott Lipsky, 2015 St. Petersburg Open and 2015 Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur with Henri Kontinen, 2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel with Max Mirnyi and the 2017 Los Cabos Open with Juan Sebastián Cabal. He turned professional in 2008 and he started representing the Philippines in the Davis Cup and the Southeast Asian Games in 2009. Huey reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 18 in July 2016. Among his partners were Somdev Devvarman, Brian Battistone, Jeff Coetzee, Harsh Mankad, Jerzy Janowicz, Dominic Inglot, Jack Sock, Jonathan Erlich, Scott Lipsky, Max Mirnyi and Henri Kontine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Bourgue
Mathias Bourgue (; born 18 January 1994) is a French tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 140 achieved on 24 April 2017. Career He received a wildcard to advance to the singles main draw in the 2016 French Open, where he reached the second round defeating Jordi Samper Montaña, before losing to world No. 2 Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British former professional tennis player and coach. 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 Professio ... in five sets. He also received a wildcard for the qualifying competition at the 2024 French Open, where he failed to qualifying, losing in the final round to Zizou Bergs. Performance timeline Singles ''Current after the 2024 French Open'' Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 25 (13-12) References External links * * 1994 births Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kacper Żuk
Kacper Żuk (born 21 January 1999) is a former Polish professional tennis player. Żuk has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 162 achieved on 13 September 2021. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 278, achieved on 9 May 2022. Żuk has reached ten career singles finals with a record of 11 wins and 3 losses, which includes a 1–2 record in ATP Challenger Tour finals. Additionally, he has reached 21 career doubles finals, with a record of 12 wins and 9 losses all but one occurring at the ITF Futures level. Tennis career 2020–21: First Challenger title and top 200 Żuk made his ATP debut at the 2020 ATP Cup, where he represented Poland in a singles match, losing to Marin Čilić of team Croatia. He ended the 2020 season with back-to-back ITF World Tennis Tour titles at Hamburg and Vale do Lobo. He reached his first Challenger final in March 2021 and in April won his first Challenger title at the 2021 Split Open II in Croatia. As a result, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Meligeni Alves
Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves (born 19 February 1998) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 117 achieved on 21 April 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 75 achieved on 20 June 2022. He is currently the No. 4 Brazilian singles player. Career 2016: Juniors Meligeni Alves won the 2016 US Open boys' doubles title, partnering Juan Carlos Aguilar. 2020: ATP debut, Maiden Challenger singles and doubles titles In January 2020, he reached the semifinals of the Punta del Este Challenger. Meligeni made his debut in an ATP Tour singles main draw as wildcard at the 2020 Rio Open, losing in three sets to world No. 4 Dominic Thiem in the first round. Meligeni won his first ATP Challenger doubles title at Guayaquil alongside Venezuelan Luis David Martínez, defeating Spaniards Sergio Martos Gornés and Jaume Munar in the final. Meligeni Alves won his first ATP Challenger singles title at São Paulo, defeating Portuguese Frederic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Martineau
Matteo Martineau (born 16 January 1999) is a French tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 170 achieved on 1 July 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 220 achieved on 20 May 2024. Professional career 2018: First ITF title In October, Martineau won his first ITF title in Saint-Dizier, France, defeating fellow countryman Corentin Denolly in the final. 2019: Grand Slam qualifying debut In June, Martineau played his first Grand Slam qualifying match at the French Open, reaching the second round. 2023: ATP Tour debut, top 300 In November, Martineau made his ATP Tour debut at the 2023 Moselle Open after entering the singles main draw as a lucky loser. He lost to Dominic Thiem in the first round. At the same tournament, Martineau recorded his first ATP win in doubles by reaching the quarterfinal, playing along with Ugo Blanchet, after the pair received a wildcard to the main draw. 2024: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Martín Etcheverry
Tomás Martín Etcheverry (born 18 July 1999) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 27, achieved on 12 February 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 203, achieved on 6 January 2025. He is currently the No. 3 player from Argentina. Professional career 2021: ATP debut, maiden Challenger title, top 150 debut Etcheverry made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Delray Beach Open and won his first ATP match at the 2021 Córdoba Open defeating Andrej Martin. Etcheverry won his maiden Challenger title in Perugia, Italy, defeating top seed Salvatore Caruso in the semifinal, for his maiden top 100 win, and Vitaliy Sachko in the final, rising to a new career-high ranking of World No. 166 on 19 July 2021. He made his top 150 debut in singles at World No. 148 on 2 August 2021 after winning the Challenger title in Trieste, Italy. A week later he made his third Challenger final in Cordenons, Italy for 2021, where he lost to compatrio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc-Andrea Hüsler
Marc-Andrea Hüsler (born 24 June 1996) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP of world No. 47, achieved on 13 February 2023. In doubles, he achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 132 on 25 October 2021. He is currently the No. 3 Swiss player. Career 2017: ATP debut and first ATP win in doubles Hüsler made his ATP main-draw doubles debut at the 2017 Swiss Indoors, Swiss Indoors tournament, where he partnered former world No 1. Nenad Zimonjić, having received a wildcard into the tournament. The pair defeated Adrian Mannarino and Benoît Paire to give Hüsler a win in his first tour-level match, before losing in the quarterfinals to Marcus Daniell and Dominic Inglot. 2018: First Challenger doubles title, ATP singles debut, and first win Hüsler claimed his first ATP Challenger Tour doubles title in his first final, partnering Sem Verbeek at the 2018 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger – M ... [...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 Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (, ; born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He won four ATP Tour singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist ... in the first round. In May 2021, De Greef was provisionally suspended for match-fixing by ITIA. De Greef was criminally convicted of fraud and working for a criminal organization by the Belgian courts in 2023, refusing to cooperate with interviews. The ITIA subsequently banned him from professional tennis for three years and 9 months, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Cristian Jianu
Filip Cristian Jianu (born 18 September 2001) is a Romanian tennis player. He has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 210 achieved on 9 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 451 achieved on 10 April 2023. He is currently the No. 1 Romanian player. Jianu represents Romania Davis Cup team, Romania at the Davis Cup. Career In November 2024, Jianu reached his second singles final for the season at the 2024 Brazzaville Challenger, where he lost to Gonzalo Oliveira. In March 2025, Jianu received a wildcard for his home tournament, the 2025 Țiriac Open, and recorded his first ATP Tour win (outside of the Davis Cup) over Nishesh Basavareddy in straight sets. He lost to Damir Dzumhur in three sets. ATP Challenger Tour finals Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups) ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 21 (13 titles, 8 runner-ups) References External links * * * 2001 births Living people Romanian male tennis players Tennis playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
