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2023 Florianópolis Challenger
The 2023 Florianópolis Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Florianópolis, Brazil from 17 to 23 April 2023. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 10 April 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Gustavo Ribeiro de Almeida * João Fonseca * Pedro Rodrigues The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Ignacio Carou * Arklon Huertas del Pino * Guido Iván Justo * Wilson Leite * Orlando Luz * Pedro Sakamoto Champions Singles * Tomás Barrios Vera def. Alejandro Tabilo 6–4, 6–4. Doubles * Pedro Boscardin Dias / Gustavo Heide def. Christian Oliveira / Pedro Sakamoto Pedro Henrique Morio Sakamoto (born 29 June 1993) is a Brazilian tennis player. Sakamoto has a career high ATP singles ranking of 271 achieved on 9 November 2024 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other construction aggregate, aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles on top. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. The only Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts is the French Open. Clay courts come in the more common #Red clay, red clay (known in France as ''terre battue''), which is actually crushed brick, and the slightly harder #Green clay, green clay, which is actually crushed metabasalt. Although slightly less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, clay requires much maintenance: the surface must be watered and rolled regularly to preserve texture and flatness, and brushed carefully before and during each match. Early history Clay courts, although now commonly associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiago Seyboth Wild
Thiago Seyboth Wild (; born 10 March 2000) is a Brazilians, Brazilian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 58, achieved on 20 May 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 197, achieved on 22 May 2023. He is currently the No. 2 player from Brazil. Seyboth Wild played on junior circuit and had a combined ITF ranking of No. 8, attained in January 2018. He won the 2018 US Open – Boys' singles, boys' singles title at 2018 US Open (tennis), 2018 US Open. In March 2020, at just 19 years old, Seyboth Wild won his first ATP Tour title at 2020 Chile Open, defeating second seed Casper Ruud in the final. Then he became the youngest Brazilian ATP titlist until João Fonseca (tennis), João Fonseca's trophy at 2025 Argentina Open. Early life Seyboth Wild was born on 10 March 2000 in the municipality of Marechal Cândido Rondon of Paraná (state), Paraná in the Southern Region, Brazil, Southern Region of Brazil. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Sakamoto
Pedro Henrique Morio Sakamoto (born 29 June 1993) is a Brazilian tennis player. Sakamoto has a career high ATP singles ranking of 271 achieved on 9 November 2024. He has a career high doubles ranking of 272 achieved on 3 February 2020. Sakamoto has won seven ITF Futures singles tournaments and fifteen ITF Futures doubles tournaments. He also won a ATP tournament in doubles in January 2024 alongside compatriot João Fonseca in Argentina. Sakamoto made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Brasil Open, where he qualified for the main draw defeating Matteo Donati and Carlos Berlocq Carlos Alberto Berlocq (; born February 3, 1983) is an Argentine former professional tennis player and coach nicknamed ''Charly'', ''Panther'' and ''Warlocq''. Berlocq's career-high singles ranking was World No. 37, achieved in March 2012. His .... ATP Challenger and Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 13 (5-8) References External links * 1993 births Living people Brazili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando Luz
Orlando Moraes Luz (born 8 February 1998) is a Brazilian tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 54 achieved on 9 June 2025 and a singles ranking of No. 272 achieved on 16 August 2021. Juniors Luz along with compatriot Marcelo Zormann won the 2014 Wimbledon boys' doubles title after defeating Stefan Kozlov and Andrey Rublev 6–4, 3–6, 8–6 in the final. At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing China, seeded second, Luz won the silver medal in singles, falling to Kamil Majchrzak of Poland in the final. Additionally, he and Marcelo Zormann teamed up to win the gold medal in doubles, defeating the Russian duo of Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov 7–5, 3–6, 0–3in the final (also seeded 2nd). He and Chung Yun-seong lost to Yishai Oliel of Israel and Patrik Rikl of the Czech Republic in the final of the 2016 French Open Boys' Doubles tournament, 6–3, 6–4. Professional career Luz made his ATP debut on 6 March 2017, when he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arklon Huertas Del Pino
Arklon Huertas del Pino Cordova (born 16 July 1994) is a Peruvian tennis player. Huertas del Pino has a career high ATP singles ranking of 453 achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 174 achieved on 15 January 2024. Huertas del Pino represents Peru at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 0–2. Personal life Huertas del Pino is the older brother of fellow tennis player Conner Huertas del Pino. Huertas del Pino has previously been banned from competition for as long as two years due to cannabis ''Cannabis'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae that is widely accepted as being indigenous to and originating from the continent of Asia. However, the number of species is disputed, with as many as three species be ... use. References External links * * * 1994 births Living people Peruvian male tennis players Tennis players from Lima Doping cases in tennis 21st-century Peruvian people {{Peru- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio Carou
Ignacio Carou (born 12 July 1999) is an Argentine-born Uruguayan tennis player. Carou has a career high ATP singles ranking of 697 achieved on 28 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 397 achieved on 21 February 2022. Carou represents Uruguay at the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual .... References External links * * * 1999 births Living people Argentine male tennis players Uruguayan male tennis players Tennis players from Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine sportsmen {{Uruguay-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Fonseca (tennis)
João Franca Guimarães Fonseca (; born 21 August 2006) is a Brazilians, Brazilian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 57, achieved on 9 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 431, achieved on 26 February 2024. Fonseca has won one ATP Tour singles title, as well as the 2024 Next Generation ATP Finals, 2024 NextGen Finals. He is the current No. 1 player from Brazil. Early life Fonseca was born in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, to parents Roberta and Christiano Fonseca. His father is CEO and co-founder of IP Capital Partners, the first independent hedge fund in Brazil. Fonseca began playing tennis at the age of 4 at the Rio de Janeiro Country Club, which was next to his home. Career 2023: Junior world No. 1, ATP debut Fonseca reached the final of the boys' doubles at 2023 Australian Open – Boys' doubles, 2023 Australian Open Jr. partnering with Belgian Alexander Blockx. Later on that year, he won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Comesaña
Francisco Comesaña (born 6 October 2000) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 67, achieved on 24 February 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 257, achieved on 8 May 2023. Early life Francisco Comesaña was born in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, to father Agustín and mother Adela. As his surname suggests, his family is of Galician descent. He has one brother, Valentín. He began playing tennis around the age of six. He began his career training at Edison Lawn Tennis in Mar de Plata, which is owned by the family of Horacio Zeballos. In 2021, he moved to Córdoba to train under coach Facundo Argüello. In 2023, he moved back to Buenos Aires to train under coach Sebastián Gutiérrez at the Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires. Career 2022–2023: Maiden Challenger titles In May 2022, Comesaña won his first ATP Challenger doubles title in Vicenza, partnering Luciano Darderi. The following month, he won back-to-bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Giannessi
Alessandro Giannessi (born 30 May 1990) is an Italian former professional tennis player. On 24 July 2017 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 84 while his best doubles ranking was No. 171 on 14 October 2013. Career Giannessi made his Grand Slam debut at the 2016 US Open as a qualifier where he recorded his first Major win defeating Denis Kudla in five sets. Giannessi was a singles semifinalist at the 2017 Croatia Open Umag. At the 2021 French Open, he made his debut at this Major after qualifying for the main draw with a win over Francisco Cerundolo. At the 2022 French Open, although he lost in the third round of qualifying to Sebastian Ofner Sebastian Ofner (born 12 May 1996) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 37 achieved on 8 January 2024. He is currently the No. 1 Austrian player. Professional career 2017: ATP and Gra ... — he entered the main draw as a lucky loser. He won his fourt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genaro Alberto Olivieri
Genaro Alberto Olivieri (born 4 August 1998) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 131 achieved on 2 October 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 304 achieved on 29 August 2022. Career 2023: Grand Slam debut, first wins & third round, top 135 Ranked No. 231, he made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2023 French Open defeating Adrian Andreev in the last round of qualifying. Next he defeated wildcard Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in five sets to reach the second round. As a result he moved 40 positions up a couple of spots shy of his career-high ranking of No. 190 reached on 21 November 2022. Next he defeated fellow qualifier Andrea Vavassori to reach the third round having never recorded an ATP win previously in his career. He lost to Holger Rune in straight sets. As a result he moved another 20 positions into the top 175 in the rankings on 12 June 2023. He reached a career-high singles ranking of worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florianópolis
Florianópolis () is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina, in the South Region, Brazil, South region of Brazil. The city encompasses Santa Catarina Island and surrounding small islands, as well as part of the mainland. It has a population of 537,211, according to the 2022 Brazilian census, the second-most populous city in the state (after Joinville), and the List of cities in Brazil by population, 39th in Brazil. The metropolitan area has an estimated population of 1,111,702, the Metropolitan areas in Brazil, 21st largest in the country. The city is known for having the country's third highest Human Development Index score among all Brazilian cities (0.847). The economy of Florianópolis is heavily based on information technology, tourism, and services. The city has 60 beaches and is a center of surfing activity. Lagoa da Conceição is the most famous area for tourism, recreation, nature, and extreme sports. ''The New York Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Collarini
Andrea Collarini (; born 31 January 1992) is an Argentine-American tennis player, who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 177 achieved on 24 April 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 193 achieved on 1 August 2022. He has won four ATP Challenger and 15 ITF singles titles, and two Challenger and 10 ITF doubles titles. Collarini had represented Argentina in the early days of his career from 2007 to 2010, until he chose to represent USA from 2010 to 2012 before switching back to represent Argentina. Career On the junior circuit, Collarini had a career high ITF junior ranking of world No. 5 achieved in 2009. In 2010, he reached the final of the French Open boys' singles event, finishing runner-up to Agustín Velotti. He won his first ATP Challenger title at the 2015 Blu-Express.com Tennis Cup in the doubles event partnering Andrés Molteni. He made his ATP debut at the 2021 Croatia Open Umag as a qualifier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
