2021 Sibiu Open
The 2021 Sibiu Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sibiu, Romania between 27 September and 3 October 2021. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 20 September 2021. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Victor Vlad Cornea * Vlad Andrei Dancu * Petros Tsitsipas The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Yan Bondarevskiy * David Ionel * Yshai Oliel * Ștefan Paloși The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Elmar Ejupovic Champions Singles * Stefano Travaglia def. Thanasi Kokkinakis 7–6(7–4), 6–2. Doubles * Alexander Erler / Lucas Miedler def. James Cerretani / Luca Margaroli 6–3, 6–1. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sibiu Open, 2021 2021 ATP Challenger Tour 2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sibiu
Sibiu ( , , german: link=no, Hermannstadt , la, Cibinium, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Härmeschtat'', hu, Nagyszeben ) is a city in Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt. Now the capital of the Sibiu County, between 1692 and 1791 and 1849–65 Sibiu was also the capital of the Principality of Transylvania. Nicknamed ''The City with Eyes'', the city is a well-known tourist destination for both domestic and foreign visitors. Known for its culture, history, gastronomy and diverse architecture, which includes the iconic houses with eyes that gave Sibiu its nickname, the city has garnered significant attention since the beginning of the 21st century. In 2004, its historical center began the process of becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sibiu was designated the European Capital of Culture in 2007. One year later, it was ranked "Europe's 8th-most idyllic place to l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marc-Andrea Hüsler
Marc-Andrea Hüsler (born 24 June 1996) is a Swiss tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 51, achieved on 16 January 2023. In doubles, he achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 132 on 25 October 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Swiss player. Tennis career 2017: ATP debut and first ATP win in doubles Hüsler made his ATP main-draw doubles debut at the 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 Winnipeg Challenger. Just over a week later, Hüsler made his ATP main draw singles debut at the Swiss Open Gstaa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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September 2021 Sports Events In Romania
September is the ninth month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the third of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the fourth of five months to have a length of fewer than 31 days. September in the Northern Hemisphere and March in the Southern Hemisphere are seasonally equivalent. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological autumn is on 1 September. In the Southern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological spring is on 1 September. September marks the beginning of the ecclesiastical year in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is the start of the academic year in many countries of the northern hemisphere, in which children go back to school after the summer break, sometimes on the first day of the month. September (from Latin ''septem'', "seven") was originally the seventh of ten months in the oldest known Roman calendar, the calendar of Romulus , with March (Latin ''Martius'') the first month of the year until ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 his ATP main draw doubles debut at the 2015 Geneva Open where he partnered Henri Laaksonen receiving a wildcard. At the 2015 Swiss Open Gstaad The 2015 Swiss Open Gstaad presented by Visilab was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 48th edition of the Swiss Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2015 ATP World Tour. It took place at the R ..., Margaroli was also given a wildcard into the doubles event partnering Laaksonen. The pair defeated Santiago Giraldo and Feliciano López in the first round. Challenger and Futures finals Doubles: 60 (26–34) External links * * 1992 births Living people Swiss male tennis players Sportspeople from Brescia Sportspeople from Lugano ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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James Cerretani
Jamie Cerretani, (born October 2, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, he has won four ATP World Tour The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organ ... titles in his career. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of World No. 45 on July 21, 2008. Amateur career After an outstanding junior tennis career, he attended Brown University, where he had an excellent collegiate career. He earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors in 2001 and graduated from Brown in 2004 with a degree in International Relations and Business Economics. ATP career finals Doubles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups) Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles: 62 (28–34) Doubles performance timeline ''This table is current through 2019 US Open. Ref ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yshai Oliel
Yshai Oliel ( he, ישי עוליאל; born 5 January 2000) is an Israeli tennis player. He was the No. 1 Israeli singles from October 4, 2021, until October 3, 2022. Oliel is a two-time Junior Orange Bowl champion, having won in 2012 and 2014. He also won the 2016 French Open Boys' Doubles title, with Patrik Rikl. He made it to the finals in the boys' singles at the 2017 Australian Open, where he lost. Early and personal life Oliel is originally from Ramla, Israel. He is Jewish and his parents, Avraham and Floret Oliel, are of Sephardic Jewish ( Moroccan-Jewish) descent."PM Netanyahu Meets with World Youth Tennis Champion Yishai Oliel" Prime Minister's Office (30 December 2012) He is the youngest of their five ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Ionel
Nicholas David Ionel (born 12 October 2002) is a Romanian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 227 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 448 achieved on 28 November 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Romanian player. Career 2020: ATP qualification debut Ionel won the 2020 Australian Open – Boys' doubles title. Ionel was awarded with a qualification wildcard to play his first ATP tournament at the 2020 European Open, where he pushed former world No. 36 Yūichi Sugita is a Japanese tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 36 on 9 October 2017. Career Juniors As a junior Sugita compiled a win–loss record of 34–19 (and 26–18 in doubles), r ... to three sets. 2022: Top 250 debut He reached the top 250 in singles on 7 November 2022 at No. 241. Personal life He trains at the Mouratoglou Academy in Sophia Antipolis since 2018. Junior Grand ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petros Tsitsipas
Petros Tsitsipas ( gr, Πέτρος Τσιτσιπάς, ; born 27 July 2000) is a Greek professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 137, achieved on 30 January 2023, and also has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 727, achieved on 30 August 2021. Tsitsipas represents Greece at the Davis Cup, where he has a W–L record of 10–9. Petros is the younger brother of Stefanos Tsitsipas. Career 2021–2023: ATP singles and doubles debut, 14 wildcards in doubles The brothers first partnered at the 2021 Australian Open, where they received their first team wildcard to the main draw but lost in the first round. The next two tournaments were the 2021 Rotterdam Open and 2021 Open 13 Provence in Marseille, France where they entered as main draw wildcards and lost in the second and first rounds respectively. Petros made his ATP singles debut as a wildcard as well to the main draw of the event at the 2021 Open 13, but lost to Alejandro Davidovich Fok ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Victor Vlad Cornea
Victor Vlad Cornea (born 24 September 1993) is a Romanian tennis player. He reached his highest ATP doubles ranking of No. 66 on 2 October 2023. He has won 11 ATP Challenger doubles titles. He has three Davis Cup participations for Team Romania. Career Cornea made his Grand Slam debut at the 2023 French Open with Zhang Zhizhen and at the 2023 US Open with Nikola Cacic. He also qualified at the ATP 500 2023 Swiss Indoors as a lucky loser pair with Cacic and reached the quarterfinals by defeating Swiss duo Mika Brunold Mika Brunold (born 2 October 2004) is a Swiss tennis player. Brunold has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of 561 achieved on 16 October 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1165 achieved on ... and Marc-Andrea Hüsler in straight sets. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles: 52 (33–19) References External links * * 1993 births Living people Sp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sumit Nagal
Sumit Nagal (born 16 August 1997) is an Indian professional tennis player. He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with his Vietnamese partner Lý Hoàng Nam, thus becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title. He is currently the highest- ranked Indian singles tennis player and since 2018, he has been a regular member of India's national Davis Cup squad. Early life Sumit Nagal was born on 16 August 1997 to school teacher Suresh Nagal and his wife Krishna Devi, a homemaker in Jhajjar, Haryana. Nagal started playing tennis at the age of eight at a local sports club. When he was ten years old, he was selected to join Mahesh Bhupathi's training academy, as part of the first batch of Mahesh Bhupathi's Apollo Tyres Mission 2018 programme. As part of the programme, between 2008 and 2010, Nagal was based in Bangalore. Upon the programme closing down, Nagal shifted to Toronto for training with Coach Bobby Mahal. Career 2015: Junior Wimbledon Title Nag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thanasi Kokkinakis
Athanasios "Thanasi" Kokkinakis ( ; born 10 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player and a doubles specialist. He has been ranked as high as world No. 69 in singles by the ATP, which he first achieved on 8 June 2015. He has won one ATP Tour title in singles and produced his best Major singles performance at the 2015 French Open by reaching the third round. Kokkinakis also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 15 which he attained on 21 November 2022 after winning the 2022 Australian Open and reaching the semifinals of 2022 Miami Open with countryman Nick Kyrgios. As a junior, Kokkinakis was ranked as high as No. 10 in the world. He won one junior Grand Slam title, the doubles title at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships with partner Nick Kyrgios, and was the runner-up in two additional junior Grand Slam singles finals that same year. As a professional, Kokkinakis broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2015, during which he won one title on the ATP ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zdeněk Kolář
Zdeněk Kolář (; born 9 October 1996) is a Czech tennis player. Kolář has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 111 achieved on 13 June 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 110 achieved on 1 August 2022. Professional career 2018: ATP debut Kolář played his first match in an ATP tournament, after qualifying for the 2018 Swedish Open. He was defeated in straight sets by defending champion and former Top 10 member David Ferrer. 2021: Three Challenger titles In 2021, Kolář won 3 ATP Challenger singles titles: in April in Oeiras Portugal, in August in Iasi Romania, in September in Szczecin Poland and 4 ATP Challenger doubles titles. 2022: Grand Slam debut and first ATP & Major win In 2022, Kolář made his ATP main draw debut in doubles at Chile Open alongside Nikola Milojević. They reached the quarterfinals with a win over local wildcards Alejandro Tabilo and Gonzalo Lama. In his fifth qualifying attempt, Kolar finally reached the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |