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2023 Emilia-Romagna Open
The 2023 Emilia-Romagna Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts in Parma, Italy as an ATP Challenger Tour 125 event for the men and WTA 125 event for the women. The fifth edition of the men's event was held between 19 and 24 June on the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour and the third edition for the women as part of the 2023 WTA 125 tournaments between 18 and 23 September. The first two editions were part of the WTA Tour and held as WTA 250 tournament. Champions Men's singles * Alexandre Müller def. Francesco Maestrelli 6–1, 6–4. Women's singles * Ana Bogdan def. Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 7–5, 6–1 Men's doubles * Jonathan Eysseric / Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela def. Luca Margaroli / Ramkumar Ramanathan 6–2, 6–3. Women's doubles * Dalila Jakupović / Irina Khromacheva def. Anna Bondár / Kimberley Zimmermann 6–2, 6–3 Men's singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 12 June 2023. Other entrants The following players ... [...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. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as the second tier of tennis. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP Tour and ahead of the ITF Men%27s World Tennis Tour, ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to enter the main or qualifying draws at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are typically young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP Tour players looking to return to the top tour. History of challenger events The first challenger events were held in 1978, with eighteen events taking place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA 250
WTA 250 is a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour, implemented since the reorganization of the schedule in 2021. Earlier these events were classified as WTA International Tournaments. At their introduction in 2021, WTA 250 tournaments' prize money was approximately $250,000. As of 2025 season, this has risen to $275,094. The ranking points awarded to the winners of these tournaments are 250. This compares to 2,000 points for winning a Grand Slam tournament ("Major"), up to 1,500 points for winning the WTA Finals, 1000 points for winning a WTA 1000 tournament, and 500 for winning a WTA 500 tournament. Events Current Defunct or Upgraded/Downgraded Historic names 1990–2008 ''WTA Tier III / IV / V'' 2009–2020 ''WTA International'' 2021–present ''WTA 250'' Singles champions WTA International WTA 250 Statistics Most titles Bold face designates active players See also * WTA Tour * WTA 1000 tournaments * WTA 500 tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef Kovalík
Jozef Kovalík (; born 4 November 1992) is a Slovak professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 80 and a doubles ranking of No. 245 reached in 2018. He is currently the No. 4 Slovak player. Career 2010–2014: First Challenger title Kovalík together with Filip Horanský won bronze medal in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. He won his first Challenger title on 17 August 2014, after beating second seed Andrey Kuznetsov. He became the fourth player to win an ATP Challenger title while ranked outside the top 300. 2016: ATP, Masters & Grand Slam debuts He played his first match at ATP level on 5 January 2016 in Chennai, where he lost in the first round. He played his first match at a Grand Slam at the 2016 Australian Open, where he lost to fellow qualifier Marco Trungelliti in the first round. At the 2016 BNP Paribas Open Kovalík won his first match at ATP level, defeating another qualifier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Passaro
Francesco Passaro (born 7 January 2001) is an Italian tennis player. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 89 on 17 February 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 256 on 20 February 2023. Career 2021: ATP debut Passaro made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Emilia-Romagna Open after receiving a wildcard for the doubles main draw. 2022–23: Masters, NextGen Finals and top 150 debuts He played his first ATP Challenger Tour final at the 2022 Sanremo Challenger and was defeated in three sets by the world No. 91 Holger Rune. He made his Masters debut at the 2022 Italian Open in Rome as a wildcard. He won his first Challenger in July 2022 in Trieste, Italy becoming the 20th #NextGenATP winner in 2022. As a result he reached a new career-high in the top 150 of world No. 144 on 25 July 2022. He qualified for the 2022 Next Generation ATP Finals. He reached a career high ranking of No. 108 on 13 February 2023. 2024–25: First Masters third round, Major & top 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Zeppieri
Giulio Zeppieri (born 7 December 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. Zeppieri has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 110 achieved on 29 January 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 242 achieved on 4 April 2022. Professional career 2019: NextGen Finals alternate Zeppieri was one of the alternates for the 2019 Next Generation ATP Finals. 2020-21: ATP debut, First Challenger title, Top 250 debut Zeppieri made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 Forte Village Sardegna Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. In August 2021, he won his first Challenger in Barletta, Italy defeating compatriot Flavio Cobolli. As a result he reached a new career-high inside the top 300 at No. 251 on 30 August 2021 and later inside the top 250 at No. 245 on 20 September 2021. 2022: Major & Masters 1000 debut, first ATP semifinal & top 150 He qualified into the main draw for his first Masters 1000 in Rome on his second attempt defea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fábián Marozsán
Fábián Marozsán (born 8 October 1999) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 36 achieved on 6 May 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 444 achieved on 16 January 2023. He is currently the No. 1 Hungarian player. Career 2022: First Challenger title and top 200 He won his first Challenger title in August 2022 in Banja Luka and reached the top 200 at world No. 185 on 29 August 2022. 2023: ATP, Major, Masters debut & win over world No. 2 & quarterfinal, top 65 He won his second Challenger in March 2023 in Antalya and moved to a new career high of No. 128 on 20 March 2023. Ranked No. 135, Marozsán made his ATP and Masters 1000 debut at the 2023 Italian Open after qualifying into the main draw. He won his first Masters level match, defeating Corentin Moutet. In his second round match, he defeated 32nd seed Jiří Lehečka in a third set tiebreaker. He then upset world No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaume Munar
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar (; ; born 5 May 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Munar has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 52 achieved on 20 May 2019 and a doubles ranking of No. 98 achieved on 21 April 2025. He is currently the No. 5 Spanish player. Juniors On the junior tour, Munar had a career-high combined ranking of No. 3, achieved on 26 January 2015. Munar reached the 2014 French Open Boys' Final, where he lost to Andrey Rublev. On his way to the final, he defeated top juniors such as Michael Mmoh and Quentin Halys. He also won the Junior Davis Cup 2013. Professional career 2015: First ATP win He won his first ATP Tour match at the 2015 German Open against Guillermo García-López, when the world No. 31 retired after three games, and the result launched Munar into the top 500 for the first time. 2018: Major debut At the 2018 French Open and in only his ninth pro tour match and his second major, Munar came from two sets down to defeat compatriot D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiago Monteiro (tennis)
Thiago Moura Monteiro (; born 31 May 1994) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 61, achieved on 17 October 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 144, achieved on 31 January 2022. He is currently the No. 3 player from Brazil. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Monteiro had a combined ranking of No. 2, attained on February 2012. His best junior singles result was the 2011 Copa Gerdau (Grade A) title in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Early life and background Thiago Moura Monteiro was born on 31 May 1994 in Fortaleza, Brazil. His first introduction to tennis happened when he watched a Gustavo Kuerten match on TV with his brother. Monteiro used to train football at a sports academy where his brother played tennis. He played it for the first time when his brother invited him to a hitting session. Thiago soon started training and playing in local tournaments: in early 2004, he won his first tournament, being o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Ramos Viñolas
Albert Ramos Viñolas (; born 17 January 1988) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 17, achieved in May 2017 after reaching the final of the 2017 Monte Carlo Masters. Career Juniors Ramos Viñolas has participated in the finals of six Futures tournaments, four of which he won. He lost in the finals of two ATP Challenger Tour tournaments (in Seville against his compatriot Pere Riba and in Palermo against Romanian player Adrian Ungur). In 2010 he won his first Challenger final in San Sebastián, defeating Benoît Paire. 2010: ATP Tour debut As World No. 167, Albert Ramos Viñolas began 2010 nearly 300 positions higher than the start of the previous season. He lost in the qualifying rounds of Doha, Sydney and the Australian Open before returning to Challenger tournaments for the next three months. After qualifying into the main draw of the Barcelona Open, and securing a straight sets victory in the first round, Ramos V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberley Zimmermann
Kimberley Zimmermann (born 9 November 1995) is a Belgian tennis player. Zimmermann has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 215, achieved on 13 May 2019. On 6 March 2023, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of No. 37. Zimmermann has specialized in doubles since 2021, and she has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour and two on WTA 125 tournaments, along with two singles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Career overview Zimmermann won her first tour title in July 2021 at the Palermo Ladies Open, in the doubles event, partnering Erin Routliffe and defended her title the following year partnering with Anna Bondár. She defended the doubles title for a third consecutive year in 2023, this time partnering Yana Sizikova. Family Kimberley Zimmermann is the daughter of Michel Zimmermann, men's 400 metres hurdles' finalist at the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Bondár
Anna Bondár (born 27 May 1997) is a Hungarian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 50 in singles, achieved on 18 July 2022, and No. 43 in doubles, achieved on 30 January 2023. She is currently the No. 1 Hungarian player. Playing for Hungary in Fed Cup, Bondár has a win–loss record of 16–9 (as of October 2024). Career overview 2021: WTA 125 title, top 100 debut The 2021 season was one of progress for Bondár. In July in Gdynia, at the Poland Open, she reached her first WTA Tour-level quarterfinal also recording her first two wins on the tour. Starting early September, she had a series of good results. The first step was the $60k Collonge-Bellerive tournament where she reached semifinal after defeating all her opponents in straight-sets. The following week, she advanced to quarterfinal of the Karlsruhe Open, a tournament that is part of WTA Challenger Tour. Two weeks later, she won her first significant ITF title at the $80k Wiesbaden in both singles a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramkumar Ramanathan
Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 111 in singles by the ATP, which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No. 58, achieved in August 2022. Ramkumar is currently the No. 3 ranked Indian player. He has represented India in the Davis Cup. Personal and early life Ramkumar was born to Ramanathan Chettiar and Alagammai Aachi in a Nattukottai Nagarathar family in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. Both his parents are in the textile business. He has a sister named Uma. He started playing tennis at the age of five, introduced to the sport by his father. He trains at the Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona, Spain. He graduated with a B.A. in economics from Loyola College, Chennai. He speaks Tamil, English and Spanish. Career 2008–2010: Junior career and turning pro Ramanathan began playing tennis at the age of five, turning professional in 2009. 2014–2016: Early career In 2014, Ramanatha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
