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2021 Amex-Istanbul Challenger
The 2021 Amex-Istanbul Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 34th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey between 18 and 24 January 2021. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 11 January 2021. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Altuğ Çelikbilek * Cem İlkel * Ergi Kırkın The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jay Clarke * João Menezes * Arthur Rinderknech * Lukáš Rosol The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Denis Istomin Champions Singles * Arthur Rinderknech def. Benjamin Bonzi 4–6, 7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–3). Doubles * André Göransson / David Pel def. Lloyd Glasspool / Harri Heliövaara 4–6, 6–3, 0–8 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Amex-Istanbul Challenger, 2021 2021 ATP Challenger Tour 2021 File:2021 collage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game. Dimensions The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written down in the annual 'Rules of Tennis' document. The court is long. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. The service line is from the net. Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of wide and long. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net is high at the posts, and high in the center. The net posts are outside the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef Kovalík
Jozef Kovalík (; born 4 November 1992) is a Slovak tennis player playing mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Career 2010-2014 Kovalík together with Filip Horanský won bronze medal in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. He won his first title on 17 August 2014, after beating second seed Andrey Kuznetsov. He became the fourth player to win an ATP Challenger title while ranked outside the top 300. 2016 He played his first match at ATP level on 5 January 2016 in Chennai, where he lost in the first round. He played his first match at a Grand Slam on 18 January 2016 at the Australian Open, where he lost to fellow qualifier Marco Trungelliti in the first round. At the 2016 BNP Paribas Open Kovalík won his first match at ATP level, defeating another qualifier Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the first round. He lost in two tight tie-breaks in the subsequent round, to fellow up-and-coming talent Dominic Thiem. Despite the loss his tennis was of an extremely high quality. Kovalík ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PTT İstanbul Cup
The PTT Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on hard court. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Istanbul, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with .... Past finals Singles Doubles External linksOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:PTT Istanbul Cup ATP Challenger Tour [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harri Heliövaara
Harri Heliövaara (born 4 June 1989) is a Finnish tennis player. His highest ranking in singles is World No. 194, which he achieved on 19 December 2011. His highest ranking in doubles is world No. 9, which he achieved on 9 January 2023. In doubles he has won four ATP Tour titles, his first alongside Lloyd Glasspool at the 2021 Open 13, thirteen ATP Challenger tournaments, his first in 2011 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He has also won 20 ITF Futures in doubles and eight ITF Futures tournaments in singles. He won the 2007 Australian Open boys' doubles title with Graeme Dyce. A quite unusual thing about his professional tennis career, is that he ended it in the middle of 2013, but decided to make a comeback four years later, in 2017. Career 2021: First two titles, Wimbledon third round In March 2021, Heliövaara won his first ATP Tour title alongside Lloyd Glasspool at the 2021 Open 13 against Sander Arends and David Pel of the Netherlands and in October 2021, his second at the 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Glasspool
Lloyd Glasspool (born 19 November 1993) is a British professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 12 (November 2022) and a career-high singles ranking of No. 282 (July 2016). In his career, Glasspool has won three ATP titles, 16 Futures titles (eleven in doubles and five in singles), and in 2021 four ATP Challenger tournaments, in doubles. Career Glasspool studied at the University of Texas at Austin, where partnering Søren Hess-Olesen he captured the 2015 NCAA doubles championship. 2016: ATP debut Glasspool made his ATP Tour debut (in doubles) at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships having been given a wildcard to partner compatriot Dan Evans in the main draw. 2021: First ATP title, Wimbledon third round In March 2021, Glasspool won his first ATP Tour title alongside Harri Heliövaara at the 2021 Open 13 against Sander Arends and David Pel of the Netherlands. 2022: Two Major quarterfinals & ATP Finals semifinal, ATP 500 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Bonzi
Benjamin Bonzi (; born 9 June 1996) is a French professional tennis player. Bonzi has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 44 achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 124 achieved on 15 August 2022. Junior career Bonzi won the 2014 French Open boys' doubles title with partner Quentin Halys after defeating Lucas Miedler and Akira Santillan in the final in straight sets. Professional career 2017: Grand Slam debut & first win at the French Open A wildcard entry for the 2017 French Open, he won the match over Daniil Medvedev after his retirement in the first round, before losing to 19th seed Albert Ramos Vinolas in the second round. 2018: Wimbledon debut Bonzi qualified for the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, defeating Britain's James Ward in the final qualifying round, but lost to Lukáš Lacko in the first round of the main draw. 2019: Mixed Doubles Major quarterfinal, first ATP doubles final He reached the quarterfinals of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Istomin
Denis Olegovich Istomin (born 7 September 1986) is an Uzbek professional tennis player. He has won two singles titles (at the 2015 Aegon Open Nottingham and 2017 Chengdu Open) and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in August 2012. In January 2017, he defeated defending champion Novak Djokovic in the second round of the Australian Open. Personal life Denis Istomin was born in Orenburg to Russian parents Oleg and Klaudiya Istomin. His father moved the family to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, when Denis was 3 months old. Denis is coached by his mother, who introduced him to the sport at an early age. Injuries resulting from a car crash in 2001 en route to an event kept Istomin away from tennis for 2 years, with doctors initially stating that he would never hold a racquet again. Despite this, Istomin resumed training in April 2003. He is good friends with Varvara Lepchenko, who previously played for Uzbekistan. On court Istomin is one of the few top ATP Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukáš Rosol
Lukáš Rosol (; born 24 July 1985) is a Czech professional tennis player. He competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP Tour, both in singles and doubles. Rosol was coached by former Czech player, 1999 US Open quarterfinalist Ctislav Doseděl. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 26, achieved on 22 September 2014. His first notable victory was against world No. 8, Jürgen Melzer, at the 2011 French Open, whom he defeated in five sets in the second round a year after Melzer had reached the semifinal. A year later, Rosol defeated world No. 2, Rafael Nadal, in the second round of Wimbledon to achieve one of the biggest wins in his career. Rosol has had sustained success since then having played an integral part in the Czech Republic's Davis Cup winning team in 2012, and winning his first tour-level title in April 2013. Rosol also played in the longest ever ATP doubles match, alongside Tomáš Berdych, defeating Marco Chiudinelli and Stanislas Wawrinka in the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Menezes
João Magalhães Hueb de Menezes (born 17 December 1996) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Menezes has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 172 achieved on 17 February 2020. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 488 achieved on 3 February 2020. Menezes has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title at the 2019 Samarkand Challenger as well as a total of 12 ITF Futures titles (5 singles and 7 doubles). Menezes won the gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, defeating Chilean Tomás Barrios in the final. He qualified to represent Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) Performance timelines Singles ''Current through the 2022 French Open The 2022 French Open was a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 22 May to 5 June 2022, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Ju ....'' Davis Cup * ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Clarke (tennis)
Jay Alexander Clarke (born 27 July 1998) is a British tennis player. In 2017, on a Wimbledon wildcard, Clarke and Marcus Willis beat the defending doubles champions and second seeds, Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert, in five sets, to progress to the third round. Clarke has won four Futures titles and two Challenger titles. Early and personal life Clarke has an older brother Curtis (by four years) and an older sister Yasmin (by nine years), who are both former professional tennis players, and all were coached by their father Earol. Clarke is from Pear Tree, Derby. Junior career 2012 Playing in the Great Britain Under 14 boys team, with Samuel Ferguson, they won the European Winter Cup defeating Sweden in the final. Clarke won two Tennis Europe 14U Grade 1 events to become the 14U No.1 in Europe. Consequently, Clarke gained the May AEGON Junior Player of the Month Award. 2015 Clarke was the no 1 ranked British junior, living and training in Stockholm. Senior career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ergi Kırkın
Ergi Kırkın (born 27 January 1999) is a Turkish tennis player. Kırkın has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 270 achieved on 25 July 2022. He has won 9 ITF singles titles. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 330 achieved on 3 October 2022. Kırkın made his ATP main draw debut at the 2018 Antalya Open in the doubles draw partnering Koray Kırcı Koray Kırcı (born 17 August 1998) is a Turkish tennis player. Kırcı has a career high ATP singles ranking of 868 achieved on 30 July 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 855 achieved on 29 October 2018. Kırcı made his A .... External links * * 1999 births Living people Turkish male tennis players Sportspeople from Ankara 21st-century Turkish people {{Turkey-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cem İlkel
Cem İlkel (born 21 August 1995) is a Turkish tennis player. İlkel has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 144 achieved on 29 November 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 299 achieved on 27 August 2018. He has won one ATP Challenger title in singles. Ilkel has a singles final record of 5 wins and 19 losses, and a doubles final record of 13 wins and 11 losses. Professional career He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2017 US Open as a qualifier. In eight attempts at gaining entry through qualifying, Ilkel did not reach the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. But on his ninth attempt he reached the main draw of the 2021 US Open. He won his only ATP Challenger Tour title thus far in his career at the 2020 Open Quimper Bretagne, which was held in Quimper, France. In the final, he defeated Maxime Janvier of France, 7–6(8–6), 7–5. Playing for Turkey in Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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