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2021 Slovak Open
The 2021 Bratislava Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bratislava, Slovakia between 7 and 13 June 2021. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 31 May 2021. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Miloš Karol * Lukáš Klein * Alex Molčan The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Andrey Kuznetsov The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Duje Ajduković * Uladzimir Ignatik * Vít Kopřiva * Jiří Lehečka The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Lucas Miedler Champions Singles * Tallon Griekspoor Tallon Griekspoor (; born 2 July 1996) is a Dutch professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 36, achieved on 6 March 2023. He also has a car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Challenger Tour
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 Tour. The ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments are on the entry-level of international professional tennis competition. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to become eligible for main draw or qualifying draw entry at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are usually young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP players looking to get back into the big tour. History of challenger events The first challenger events were held in 1978, with eighteen events taking place. Two were held on the week beginning January 8, one in Auckland and another in Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaž Rola
Blaž Rola (born 5 October 1990) is a Slovenian tennis player. His highest career ranking is No. 78 in singles and No. 186 in doubles. In his career, he has won nine singles and six doubles ITF Futures tournaments, five ATP Challenger in singles and eight in doubles. He represents Slovenia on the Slovenia Davis Cup team. In the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, he won gold in singles and doubles. Personal life Rola was born in Ptuj, the oldest Slovenian town, to father Marijan Rola and mother Majda Rola. He was four years old when he started playing tennis and when he was six he joined the Tennis Club Terme Ptuj where he spent the most of his youth. He went to High school in Ptuj. In 2010 he moved to the United States where he studied at and competed in tennis for Ohio State University until 2013. In January 2019 he and his fiancée Vanesa welcomed daughter Izabela. The same year he married his long term girlfriend, Slovenian blogger Vanesa Rola. College career He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In Slovak Tennis
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Luis David Martínez
Luis David Martínez (; born 12 May 1989 in Lara) is a Venezuelan tennis player. Martínez has a career high ATP singles ranking of 390 achieved on 10 February 2014. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 97 achieved on 16 January 2023. Martínez has represented Venezuela at the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the orga ... where he has a W/L record of 23–13. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 5 (0–5) Doubles: 67 (29–38) Notes External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez, Luis David 1989 births Living people Venezuelan male tennis players People from Lara (state) Tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Venezu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sander Arends
Sander Arends (born 9 August 1991) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Arends has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) doubles ranking of world No. 55, achieved on 16 July 2019, and also attained his singles career-high ranking of world No. 1057 in January 2015. Arends has won one doubles ATP title with David Pel and 16 ATP Challenger doubles titles. He reached two ATP 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 organisa ... doubles finals partnering Matwé Middelkoop and one with David Pel. ATP career finals Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups) Challenger and Futures finals Doubles: 54 (31–23) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Arends, Sander 1991 births Living people Dutch male tennis players Sportspeople from Leeuwarden 21st-century Dutc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastián Báez
Sebastián Báez (; born 28 December 2000) is an Argentine professional tennis player. Báez has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 32 achieved on 18 July 2022 and doubles ranking of world No. 514 achieved on 12 October 2020. Báez has won one ATP in 2022 and six ATP Challenger singles titles in 2021, 5 ITF titles and 1 ITF doubles title to date. Báez became the top-ranked junior in the ITF combined ranking on 12 March 2018. Career 2021: ATP debut, six Challenger titles, NextGen finals & top 100 Báez made his ATP debut at the 2021 Chile Open where he lost to 2019 Junior French Open champion Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune in straight sets. He earned his first tour-level win at the 2021 Hamburg European Open, where he defeated Frenchman Corentin Moutet in the first round. Baez became the youngest player in history to claim five ATP Challenger Tour titles in a season, lifting the trophy in Concepcion (d. F. Cerundolo), Santiago (d. Barrios Vera), Zagreb (d. Varillas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Miedler
Lucas Miedler (; born 21 June 1996) is an Austrian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP ranking of World No. 201 achieved on 15 October 2018 and a doubles ranking of No. 53 achieved 7 November 2022. He has won two doubles titles on the ATP tour with compatriot Alexander Erler both at the home tournaments in Kitzbühel and in Vienna. Junior Career He won the boys' doubles at the 2014 Australian Open where he partnered with Australian Bradley Mousley, defeating the French duo of Quentin Halys and Johan-Sébastien Tatlot 6–3, 7–6(7–3). Professional career 2015: ATP debut In 2015, Miedler made his ATP World Tour main draw debut by qualifying to the first round of the Vienna Open, where he lost in three sets to Latvian Ernests Gulbis. 2021: Maiden ATP doubles title At the 2021 Generali Open Kitzbühel, he won the doubles title partnering Alexander Erler. 2022: Second ATP doubles title The Austrian team of Erler/Miedler clinched their second and biggest title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Lehečka
Jiří Lehečka (born 8 November 2001) is a Czech tennis player. Lehečka has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 59 achieved on 8 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 214 achieved on 7 March 2022. Lehečka has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 10 achieved on 11 March 2019. He is currently the No. 1 Czech tennis player in singles. Early life Jiří Lehečka is the son of two athletes. His father was a swimmer, and his mother was a track and field star. He has long enjoyed skiing, cycling and swimming and remembers first touching a tennis racquet at three. His grandmother, who competed on a national level, taught his older sister the game, so naturally he wanted to play. When Lehečka was young, he admired Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štěpánek. Professional career 2021: Challenger 2 singles & 3 doubles titles, Singles top 150, Doubles top 250 Lehečka won two ATP Challenger singles titles, one ATP Challenger doubles t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vít Kopřiva
Vít Kopřiva (born 15 June 1997) is a Czech tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 124 achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 264 achieved on 13 June 2022. Kopřiva has won 1 ATP Challenger single title at the 2022 UniCredit Czech Open in Prostějov and 1 ATP doubles title at the 2021 Aspria Tennis Cup in Milan with Jiří Lehečka. Professional career 2021: ATP and Top 200 debut On his ATP debut, ranked at a then career-high of World No. 249 in singles, at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad, Kopřiva defeated Denis Shapovalov for his career-best and first top-10 win. He was the lowest-ranked player to beat a Top 10 opponent since then World No. 698 Thanasi Kokkinakis defeated then World No. 6 Milos Raonic at The Queen's Club in 2017. Kopřiva advanced to the semifinals after beating Mikael Ymer in straight sets. He was the second player to reach the semifinals on his ATP Tour debut since May 2012, joining 2021 Córdoba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uladzimir Ignatik
Uladzimir Iharavich Ignatik ( be, Уладзімір Ігаравіч Ігнацік, Ihnatsik; russian: Владимир Игоревич Игнатик; born 14 July 1990 in Belarus) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Professional career Junior career Igantik was ranked the No. 1 junior in the world in June 2007 after winning the boys' singles title at 2007 Roland Garros, and later finished runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. Then as the top seed, Ignatik lost in the quarterfinals of the 2007 US Open. Early career Ignatik gained ATP points mainly by playing in Futures tournaments. He finished 2007 ranked 864 in the world, and 2008 ranked 431 in the world. Ignatik played his first two rubbers for Belarus in Davis Cup in 2008, at the age of 17, against Switzerland, losing in four sets to the top 20 player Stanislas Wawrinka, as well as losing a dead rubber to Yves Allegro in two sets. Ignatik got his first two wins in his next fixture against Georgia, def ... [...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] |
Andrey Kuznetsov (tennis)
Andrey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov (russian: Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Кузнецо́в, born 22 February 1991) is a Russian professional tennis player. On 25 April 2016, he achieved his singles career-high of world No. 39. Kuznetsov won the Boys' Singles title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. Career Early life Andrey Kuznestov started playing tennis at age six, coached by his father Alexander. In 2001, his family moved to Balashikha, attending the sports club there. His father resumed coaching Andrey and his elder brother Alexey. According to some mass media reports, Andrey allegedly had problems with his back since his childhood, so he attended manual therapies. But Andrey's coach and father declined it, stating he had problems with his hip and the therapy could be described as tough fitness. 2006–09: Grand Slam Junior title Kuznetsov played his first ITF junior tournament at the 2006 Black Gold of Udmurtia, but received a walkover in the qualify ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
