2022 Vilnius Open
The 2022 Vilnius Open, branded as Vilnius Open by kevin. for sponsorship reasons, 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 Vilnius, Lithuania between 17 and 23 October 2022. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 10 October 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Edas Butvilas * Vilius Gaubas * Ainius Sabaliauskas The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: * Matteo Arnaldi The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: * Viktor Durasovic The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Elliot Benchetrit * Cem İlkel * Mark Lajal * Jules Marie * David Poljak * Mats Rosenkranz The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Térence Atmane Champions Singles * Mattia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Lukáš Klein
Lukáš Klein (born 22 March 1998) is a Slovak tennis player. Klein has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 136, achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 240, achieved on 5 April 2021. Klein has reached 12 career singles finals, with a record of 8 wins and 4 losses, including 2 ATP Challenger titles and the rest on the ITF Futures Tour. Additionally, he has reached 11 career doubles finals, with a record of 5 wins and 6 losses, including a 1–3 result in ATP Challenger finals. Career 2021: ATP & top 250 & Olympics singles & doubles debut Klein won the doubles title at the 2021 Challenger La Manche with compatriot Alex Molčan ''1–6, 7–5, 0–6'. Klein made his ATP main draw singles debut in March 2021 at the 2021 Argentina Open in Argentina, where he defeated Andrea Collarini, Thiago Seyboth Wild and Ernesto Escobedo to qualify for the main draw. Klein then went on to upset compatriot Andrej Martin in the first ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dan Added
Dan Added (born 13 April 1999) is a French professional tennis player. Added has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 270 achieved on 14 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 122 achieved on 16 January 2023. Added has won 22 ITF titles over the course of his career. Career 2019–2021: ATP and Grand slam doubles debut Added made his ATP main draw doubles debut at the 2019 Moselle Open after receiving a wildcard partnering Albano Olivetti. Added made his Grand Slam main draw doubles debut at the 2021 French Open The 2021 French Open was a major level tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 30 May to 13 June 2021, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. The qualifiers too ... also as a wildcard partnering with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga where he recorded his first Major win. Challenger and World Tour finals Singles: 12 (7–5) Doubles: 53 (29–24) Refe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Térence Atmane
46 Térence Atmane (born 9 January 2002) is a French professional tennis player. Atmane has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 132 achieved on 16 October 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 1946 achieved on 20 September 2021. Professional career 2022: First ITF titles In the first half of 2022, Atmane played multiple ITF tournaments in Monastir, Tunisia, reaching the finals five times, with two titles and three runner-ups. 2023: Maiden Challenger title & Top 150, ATP & Masters debuts and first win In May, Atmane played his first Grand Slam qualifying match at the French Open, losing in the first round to Zdenek Kolar. In August, Atmane made his US Open qualifying debut and recorded his first Grand Slam qualifying win, defeating Mate Valkusz in the first round, before losing to James Duckworth in the second round, having failed to convert three match points. In September, Atmane won his first Challenger title in Zhangjiagang, defeating qualifier Mika ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mats Rosenkranz
Mats Rosenkranz (born 23 August 1998) is a German tennis player. Rosenkranz has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 343, achieved on 9 May 2022, and a career high doubles ranking of No. 463, achieved on 19 August 2019. Professional career 2022: Challenger final, first top-25 win as Mallorca qualifier In January 2022, Rosenkranz won his first challenger title, defeating Matías Franco Descotte and Facundo Díaz Acosta at the 2022 Challenger de Tigre, partnering with Conner Huertas del Pino. In the first-round qualifying match for the Mallorca Open, Rosenkranz scored his biggest win against world number 25 Nikoloz Basilashvili in straight sets. He lost in the second qualifying round to Antoine Bellier Antoine Bellier (born 18 October 1996) is a Swiss tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 178, achieved on 24 October 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 355 achieved on 3 October 2022. B .... ATP Cha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mark Lajal
Mark Lajal (born 12 May 2003) is an Estonian tennis player. Lajal has a career high ATP singles ranking of 388, achieved on 16 January 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1376, achieved on 8 August 2022. On the junior tour, he had a career high ITF combined ranking of 13, achieved on 30 August 2021. Lajal has won three ITF singles title. Lajal represents Estonia 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 organis ..., where he has a W/L record of 1–2. Challenger and World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 5 (3–2) References External links * * * 2003 births Living people Estonian male tennis players 21st-century Estonian people {{Estonia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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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Elliot Benchetrit
Elliot Benchetrit (born 2 October 1998) is a Moroccan tennis player who formerly represented France. Since 1 January 2021 Benchetrit started to represent Morocco. His highest singles ranking was No. 198 on 10 February 2020, and his highest doubles ranking was No. 198 on 10 June 2019. He has won three singles titles on the ITF Men's Circuit, and two doubles titles, as well as another doubles title on the ATP Challenger Tour. Tennis career He won his first ITF singles tournament in 2017 in Tunisia, and his first ITF doubles tournament the same year in Morocco, with Maxime Hamou. Benchetrit made his Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2018 French Open, after receiving a wildcard to the singles main draw. He was defeated by fellow Frenchman Gaël Monfils in four sets in the first round. The following year at the 2019 French Open he also received wildcards in both singles and doubles and won his first round matches in both events. Banana incident at the 2020 Australian Open On ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Viktor Durasovic
Viktor Durasovic ( sr, Viktor Đurasović; born 19 March 1997) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. Durasovic has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 298, which he achieved in October 2019. He also attained his career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 173 in October 2022. Background Durasovic is of Bosnian Serbian origin.1 February 2016A Serbian among Norway's tennis hopes Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade. (Archive) Career Durasovic made the semifinals of the 2014 US Open boys' doubles competition where he partnered Nicolae Frunză. Playing for Norway in Davis Cup, Durasovic has a W/L record of 11–10 in singles and 5–8 in doubles. In August 2019, Durasovic reached his first ATP Challenger final at the 2019 Tilia Slovenia Open, where he lost 5–7, 3–6 to Slovenian Aljaž Bedene. Durasovic qualified for his first ATP Tour tournament at the 2021 Stockholm Open where he lost in the first round to wildcar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ainius Sabaliauskas
Ainius Sabaliauskas (born 26 July 2003) is a Lithuanian tennis player. Sabaliauskas has a career high ATP singles ranking of 1782 achieved on 15 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1100 achieved on 13 June 2022. Sabaliauskas represents Lithuania 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 organis ..., where he has a W/L record of 1–1. References External links * * * 2003 births Living people Lithuanian male tennis players Sportspeople from Panevėžys 21st-century Lithuanian people {{Lithuania-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vilius Gaubas
Vilius Gaubas (born 29 December 2004) is a Lithuanian tennis player. Gaubas has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1670, achieved on 6 January 2020. He also has a career high ITF juniors ranking of 40, achieved on 23 August 2021. Gaubas represents Lithuania 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 organis ..., where he has a W/L record of 0–1. Challenger and World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 8 (4–4) References External links * * * 2004 births Living people Lithuanian male tennis players 21st-century Lithuanian people {{Lithuania-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edas Butvilas
Edas Butvilas (born 23 July 2004) is a Lithuanian tennis player. Butvilas has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of 24 achieved on 19 July 2021. Butvilas won the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title partnering Alejandro Manzanera Pertusa and the 2022 French Open – Boys' doubles title partnering Mili Poljičak Mili Poljičak (born 13 July 2004) is a Croatian tennis player. Poljičak has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 500 achieved on 17 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 292 achieved on 3 October 2 .... Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 2 (2 titles) References External links * 2004 births Living people Lithuanian male tennis players French Open junior champions Wimbledon junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles 21st-century Lithuanian people {{Lithuania-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |