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2022 Indy Challenger
The 2022 Indy Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Indianapolis, United States between 18 and 24 July 2022. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of July 11, 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Nishesh Basavareddy * Michail Pervolarakis * Alex Rybakov The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Andrew Harris The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts: * Ben Shelton * Wu Yibing The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Aleksandar Kovacevic * Li Tu The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Hady Habib * Brandon Holt * Aidan McHugh * Shang Juncheng * Sho Shimabukuro * Evan Zhu The following player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Court
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Flat balls are favored on hard courts because of the extremely quick play style. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michail Pervolarakis
Michail Pervolarakis (born 6 June 1996) is a Cypriot-born Greek tennis player. Pervolarakis has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 366 achieved on 10 January 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 157 achieved on 14 November 2022. Pervolarakis represents Greece at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 3–3. College career Pervolarakis played college tennis at the University of Portland, winning WCC player of the year in 2017 and 2018. Professional career He made his ATP debut at the 2022 Winston-Salem Open The 2022 Winston-Salem Open was a men's tennis tournament play on outdoor hard courts. It was the 53rd edition of the Winston-Salem Open (as successor to previous tournaments in New Haven and Long Island), and part of the ATP Tour 250 Series of ... as a lucky loser. Personal life Pervolarakis has a wife, Amelia, and a daughter, Eleonora. References External links * * * 1996 births Living people Greek Cypriot p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purav Raja
Purav Raja ( ; born 7 December 1985) is an Indian tennis player. He specializes in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has 2 ATP world tour level titles in men's doubles. He represents India in the Davis Cup. Personal and early life Purav Raja grew up in Mumbai and began playing tennis when he was 7 years old. He cites indoor carpet as his preferred surface, with his favourite shot being the drop shot. Raja was educated at Millfield in Somerset. Raja is very active in the Ananda Ashran orphanage and The Fellowship of the Physically Handicapped in Mumbai. He splits his training between Mumbai and Bromley. Professional career Early years Raja turned pro in year 2005. He started with ITF tour finding negligible success in singles but continued to excel in doubles. In year 2007 he started emerging as a doubles specialist as he went on to win 4 ITF titles. He followed his success in year 2008 with four more ITF doubles titles. The same year he reached his first ATP C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Harris (tennis)
Billy Harris (born 25 January 1995) is a British tennis player. Harris has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 199 achieved on 25 December 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 274 achieved on 10 April 2023. Harris has won one ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2022 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger with Kelsey Stevenson. Career He reached his first singles Challenger final at the inaugural edition of the 2023 Challenger Club Els Gorchs in Las Franquesas del Valles, Spain as a qualifier where he lost to second seed Hugo Grenier. He made his ATP debut at the 2023 Sofia Open The 2023 Sofia Open was a men's tennis tournament to be played on indoor hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the event and it was part of the ATP 250 tournaments on the 2023 ATP Tour. It was played at the Arena Sofia in Sofia, Bulgaria, ... where as a qualifier he reached the main draw and defeated defending champion Marc-Andrea Huesler in the first round.https://www.bbc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Zhu
Evan Zhu (born August 15, 1998 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an United States of America, American tennis player. Zhu has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of 315, achieved on August 15, 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 371 achieved on August 12, 2019. He has reach 3 singles finals, boasting a record of 1 win and 2 losses. Additionally, he has reached 9 doubles finals with a record of 3 wins and 6 losses. All 12 of the finals he has reached have been on the ITF Futures Tour. Zhu made his ATP main draw doubles debut at the 2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Doubles, 2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships doubles tournament, where he partnered Martin Redlicki having received a wildcard into the tournament. At UCLA, he and Martin Redlicki were the 2018 NCAA doubles champions, defeating the team of Martin Joyce and Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (4), 1-0 (9), on May 28, 2018. His older sister, Amy Zhu, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sho Shimabukuro
Sho Shimabukuro (島袋 将, ''Shimabukuro Sho'', born 30 July 1997) is a Japanese professional tennis player. Shimabukuro has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 146 achieved on 11 September 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 438 achieved on 26 September 2022. Shimabukuro represents Japan at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1–0. Career 2023: Maiden Challenger title, Major and top 150 debuts Following his first two career Challengers titles, one in January and in May, he reached the top 200 at world No. 178 on 22 May 2023. In June, he defeated Liam Broady in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals of the 2023 Nottingham Open. As a result he reached a new career ranking of No. 172 on 19 June 2023. In the next grass Challenger, the 2023 Ilkley Trophy he reached also the quarterfinals as a lucky loser but retired against Arthur Cazaux. He climbed another 10 positions to world No. 162, one week later, on 26 June 2023. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shang Juncheng
Shang Juncheng (; also known as Jerry Shang; born 2 February 2005) is a Chinese tennis player. Shang reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 167 on 30 January 2023. In July 2021, he reached the number one in the ITF junior rankings. Personal life Shang currently trains and lives at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Shang is the son of former footballer Shang Yi and former table tennis player Wu Na. Junior career 2019: First ITF title In 2019, Shang was the first player born in 2005 to win a tournament on the ITF Junior Circuit. 2021: Major finalist Shang played in the French Open and reached the quarterfinals, in which he lost to Sean Cuenin in two sets. He also played in the Wimbledon Junior Division and reached the semifinals. He lost to Victor Lilov in two sets. In the US Open Junior Division, he reached the final and lost to Daniel Rincón in two sets (2–6, 6–76). Professional career 2022: ATP and historic Masters and top 200 debuts Shang made h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aidan McHugh
Aidan McHugh (born 9 July 2000) is a British professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 298 achieved on 28 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 285 achieved on 3 October 2022. Career From Bearsden, he attended St Aloysius' College, Glasgow. He became a client of Andy Murray’s 77 Sports Management firm, where he is joined by fellow tennis players Paul Jubb, Harriet Dart, Katie Swan and Jack Pinnington Jones. His usual training facility is the Scotstoun Sports Campus in Glasgow and he is on the Lawn Tennis Association’s Pro Scholarship Programme. McHugh has been described as Murray’s protégé. He reached the semifinals of the 2018 Australian Open – Boys' singles where he defeated Ondrej Styler, Filip Jianu, Jaimee Floyd Angele and Rinky Hijikata before he lost to Tseng Chun-hsin in three sets. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he took part in the Battle Of The Brits Team Tennis at the National Tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Holt
Brandon Holt (born April 6, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. Holt has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 211, achieved on 7 November 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 473, achieved on 10 February 2020. Career 2022-23: Major debut at the US and Australian Open, first ATP & Major career wins Ranked No. 303, Holt made his Grand Slam debut at the 2022 US Open as a qualifier after defeating Dimitar Kuzmanov in the last round of qualifying. He won his first Grand Slam level match, upsetting 10th seed Taylor Fritz. This was also Holt's first career win on the ATP Tour. In January 2023, Holt qualified and made his debut at the 2023 Australian Open. He recorded his first win at this Major after defeating fellow qualifier Aleksandar Vukic. Personal life Holt is the son of Tracy Austin Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born December 12, 1962) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. She won three Grand Slam titles: the wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hady Habib
Hady Habib (born 21 August 1998) is an American-born Lebanese tennis player. Habib has a career high ATP singles ranking of 408 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of 960. Habib has won 8 ITF Futures singles title and 4 ITF Futures doubles title. Habib has represented Lebanon at the Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 15–5 in singles and a 4–5 record in doubles. Habib also graduated with a degree in Sports Management from Texas A&M University in College Station. Davis Cup * indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 9 (5–4) Doubles: 5 (2–3) References External links * * *Hady Habibat Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Tu
Li Tu (born 27 May 1996) is an Australian tennis player who mainly competes on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. Tu has career-high rankings by the ATP of 190 in singles, reached on 17 October 2022, and 204 in doubles, achieved on 1 August 2022. He made his ATP Tour debut at the 2021 Murray River Open, where he received a wildcard into the singles main draw. Career 2011–2014: Debut and retirement Tu made his ITF Futures debut in February 2011 at the Australia F2. He played four other tournaments, losing in the first round in all. Tu competed in the 2012 Junior Davis Cup alongside Thanasi Kokkinakis, later working as a tennis coach prior to his debut on the senior tour. In February 2014, he won his first match on ITF-level. In April 2014, Tu reached the quarterfinal of the Australia F5, his best result this level, but retired in June 2014. 2020–2021: Return, ATP and major debut, four ITF titles In 2020, Tu was inspired to return to playing tennis and enjoyed suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Kovacevic (tennis)
Aleksandar Kovacevic ( sr, Александар Ковачевић, Aleksandar Kovačević; born August 29, 1998) is an American tennis player. Kovacevic has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 101, achieved on 3 April 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 254, achieved also on 3 April 2023. Career 2021: Turned Pro, Grand Slam qualifying debut Kovacevic made his Grand Slam qualifying debut at the US Open, where he advanced to the final round before falling to Argentine Marco Trungelliti. 2022: ATP debut, first win and semifinal, Top 200 Kovacevic made his Top 250 debut on July 25, 2022, as world No. 227 following a final showing at the 2022 Indy Challenger. Kovacevic made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Korea Open, where he entered as a lucky loser. He recorded his first ATP tour level win defeating seventh seed and world No. 32 Miomir Kecmanović in the first round. Next he defeated Tseng Chun-hsin to reach his first ATP quarter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |