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2021 Antalya Challenger II
The 2021 Antalya Challenger II was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Antalya, Turkey between 1 and 7 February 2021. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds *1 Rankings as of 25 January 2021. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Sarp Ağabigün * Marsel İlhan * Ergi Kırkın The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts: * Cem İlkel * Tommy Robredo The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: * Ernesto Escobedo The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Duje Ajduković * Tomás Martín Etcheverry * Facundo Mena * Akira Santillan The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Gian Marco Moroni Champions Singles * Carlos Taberner def. Jaume Munar 6–4, 6–1. Doubles * Denys Molchanov / ... [...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] |
Daniel Altmaier
Daniel Altmaier (born 12 September 1998) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved on 23 May 2022. Tennis career 2017: ATP debut Altmaier made his ATP main draw debut as a qualifier at the 2017 Geneva Open, defeating Alexander Ward and Petr Michnev in qualifying. He lost to Sam Querrey in the first round. He won his first ATP tour-level match as a lucky loser at the 2017 Antalya Open when he beat Víctor Estrella Burgos. In the next round, he defeated wildcard Marsel İlhan to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to Yūichi Sugita. Both of his victories were decided by a third set tiebreak. 2020: Grand Slam debut & fourth round & first top-10 win Shoulder and hip injuries held back Altmaier’s progress in his tennis career, but victories in qualifying over Tallon Griekspoor and Ruben Bemelmans led to his Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open, where he defeated Feliciano Lopez, 30th seed Jan-Lennard Struff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Lawson
Alex Lawson (born January 31, 1994) is an American tennis player who specializes in doubles. Lawson has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 101 achieved on 25 July 2022 and a singles ranking of world No. 1373 achieved on 15 August 2022. He has reached 28 career doubles finals posting a record of 8 wins and 22 losses, which includes a 4–12 record in ATP Challenger finals. He won the 2018 Granby Challenger alongside Chinese player Zhe Li, the 2019 Gatineau Challenger with Aussie Marc Polmans, the 2021 Cleveland Open and the Segovia Challenger pairing up with compatriot Robert Galloway. Lawson made his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships on grass courts in Newport, USA where he was given a wildcard entry into the main doubles draw alongside compatriot Mackenzie McDonald. They were defeated in the first round in two tie-break sets by British brother duo Neal Skupski and Ken Skupski Ken Skupski Jr. (born 9 April 1983) is a British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Galloway (tennis)
Robert Galloway (born September 24, 1992) is an American tennis player. Galloway has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 82 achieved on 22 April 2019. Galloway has won twelve 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. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T ... doubles titles. He also has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 1037 achieved on 25 October 2021. Challenger and Futures finals Doubles: 44 (26–18) External links * * 1992 births Living people American male tennis players Sportspeople from Columbia, South Carolina Sportspeople from Greenville, South Carolina Tennis people from South Carolina {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gian Marco Moroni
Gian Marco Moroni (born 13 February 1998) is an Italian professional tennis player. Moroni has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 159, which he first achieved in June 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 327, attained in May 2019. He has reached seven career singles finals, with a record of two wins and five losses, including a 1–4 record in ATP Challenger finals. Additionally, he has reached one career doubles final, in which he finished runner-up, at the ITF Futures level. Career 2019: ATP debut Moroni made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Swiss Open Gstaad after successfully qualifying for the singles main draw. He defeated Luca Margaroli Luca Margaroli (born 15 February 1992) is a Swiss tennis player. Margaroli has a career high ATP singles ranking of 692, achieved on 23 October 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 128 achieved on 6 June 2019. Margaroli made ... ''6–3, 6–4'' and Marco Trungelliti ''6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Santillan
is a Japanese born, Australian tennis player. Early life Santillan was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a South African father of Spanish descent. He lived the first 8 years of his life in Japan before his family relocated to the Gold Coast, Australia and became citizens. He played much of his junior tennis at the Gold Coast before moving to Brisbane to join the national academy program at the Queensland Tennis Centre. Junior career On the junior tour, Santillan has a career high ITF junior ranking of 7 achieved in September 2015. Santillan's major highlights on the junior tour included a semi-final at the 2015 Australian Open and doubles finals at the 2014 French Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships. In March 2015, Santillan opted to play under the Japanese flag instead due to a fractious relationship with Tennis Australia. He returned to playing under the Australian flag in 2017. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles Professional career Santillan has a career h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facundo Mena
Facundo Mena (born 22 September 1992) is an Argentine tennis player. Mena has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 159 achieved on 4 April 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 210 achieved on 26 July 2021. Mena has won two ATP Challenger singles titles at the 2019 Città di Como Challenger, defeating Andrej Martin in the final and the 2021 Quito Challenger The 2021 Quito Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Quito, Ecuador between 13 and 19 September 2021. Singl .... ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 27 (11–16) Doubles: 32 (15–17) References External links * * 1992 births Living people Argentine male tennis players Tennis players from Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine people {{Argentina-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Martín Etcheverry
Tomás Martín Etcheverry (born 18 July 1999) is an Argentine tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 72, achieved on 25 July 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 241, achieved on 28 February 2022. Etcheverry has captured three ATP Challenger and five ITF titles in singles as well as six ITF and one ATP Challenger title in doubles. 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 captured 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, raising 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, It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duje Ajduković
Duje Ajduković (born 5 February 2001) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 178 achieved on 2 October 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 491 achieved on 8 November 2021. Ajduković has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title and 9 ITF titles, 7 singles and 2 doubles. Professional career Ajduković made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Croatia Open Umag after receiving a wildcard into the singles and doubles main draws. In August 2023, Ajdukovic won his first ATP Challenger tournament in Lüdenscheid, Germany after going through the qualifying, defeating Hugo Dellien Hugo Dellien Jr. (; born 16 June 1993) is a Bolivian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 70 achieved on 25 July 2022. He is the current No. 1 Bolivian tennis player. He also has a career-high ATP doubles r ... in the final in straight sets. Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 11 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Escobedo
Ernesto "Neto" Escobedo III ( ; , born July 4, 1996) is a Mexican-American professional tennis player who has won four ATP Challenger titles. Personal life Escobedo began playing tennis at the age of 4. His father Ernesto Jr. briefly played professional tennis, and his aunt Xóchitl Escobedo was a Top 300 player who competed in the 1988 Olympics. He is of Mexican descent. Escobedo's cousin Emilio Nava is also a professional tennis player. Career 2016: Grand Slam debut, U.S. Open second round, multiple Challenger titles, Top 200 debut Escobedo reached his first ATP Challenger final at São Paulo in April 2016 to advance him to a career-high ranking inside the top 300. With that success, he became the seventh American teenager to reach a Challenger final in the previous seven months. He won his first career ATP match at the Aegon Open in Nottingham against top 100 player Diego Schwartzman shortly before turning 20 years old. The next month, he won his first Challenger title at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Robredo
Tomás Robredo Garcés, known as Tommy Robredo (, ; born 1 May 1982), is a Spanish former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 5, which he reached in August 2006 as a result of winning the Hamburg Masters earlier in the year. Robredo reached the quarterfinals at seven singles major tournaments. He was also a three-time semifinalist at the US Open men's doubles tournament, and a semifinalist at the Australian Open in mixed doubles. Robredo turned professional in 1998 and was coached by José Manuel "Pepo" Clavet and then by Karim Perona. Robredo considered his forehand to be his best shot, and red clay his favorite surface. He remains the only player in Open Era history to mount three consecutive comebacks from two sets down, a feat achieved en route to the quarterfinals of the 2013 French Open. He has one of the highest percentages of five-set matches won with 77.3 per cent (17–5 win–loss record). Tennis career Early years Robre ... [...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] |
