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2023 Ilkley Trophy
The 2023 Ilkley Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 7th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2023 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Ilkley, United Kingdom between 18 and 24 June 2023. Champions Men's singles * Jason Kubler def. Sebastian Ofner 6–4, 6–4. Men's doubles * Gonzalo Escobar / Aleksandr Nedovyesov def. Robert Galloway / John-Patrick Smith 2–6, 7–5, 1–9 Women's singles * Mirjam Björklund def. Emma Navarro, 6–4, 7–5 Women's doubles * Nao Hibino / Natalija Stevanović def. Maja Chwalińska / Jesika Malečková, 7–6(12–10), 7–6(7–5) Men's singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 12 June 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Johannus Monday * Toby Samuel * Harry Wendelken The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass Court
A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Grass courts are made of grasses in different compositions depending on the tournament. Although grass courts are more traditional than other types of tennis courts, maintenance costs of grass courts are higher than those of hard courts and clay courts. Grass courts (in the absence of suitable covers) must be left for the day if rain appears, as the grass becomes very slippery when wet and will not dry for many hours. This is a disadvantage on outdoor courts compared to using hard and clay surfaces, where play can resume in 30 to 120 minutes after the end of rain. Grass courts are most common in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Navarro
Emma Navarro (born May 18, 2001) is an American tennis player. Navarro has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 145, achieved on 22 August 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 318, achieved on 2 August 2021. She won the 2019 Junior French Open Doubles Championship with Chloe Beck, and they also finished runners-up in the 2019 Junior Australian Open Championship. Navarro made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2019 Charleston Open, after receiving wildcards for the singles and doubles tournaments. She was rated as the best tennis recruit in the nation, and committed to the University of Virginia for the Fall 2020 semester. Navarro won the NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges and ... Division 1 women’s singles t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ritschard
Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss– American tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 163 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 388 achieved on 4 April 2022. Career Ritschard made his ATP main draw debut at the 2013 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad in the doubles draw partnering Alexander Sadecky. At the age of 28 he made his Grand Slam and ATP debut in singles after qualifying for the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. He drew fourth seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas whom despite his ranking, performed very poorly on grass, having lost in the first round of his two previous Wimbledon appearances. Ritschard stormed out to a 4-1 lead in the first set, on serve, looking like another possible upset but Tsitsipas rallied to win the set in a tiebreaker and the match in four sets. At the 2022 Swiss Open Gstaad he won his maiden ATP tour match defeating eight seed Joao Sousa as a wildcard. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cazaux
Arthur Cazaux (; born 23 August 2002) is a French tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 126 achieved on 14 August 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 430, achieved of 1 November 2021. Cazaux has won 1 singles Challenger title and 3 singles ITF titles. Junior career As a junior, Cazaux reached his highest ranking of number 4 in the world, in the combined singles and doubles junior ranking system. This was highlighted by a runner-up finish at the 2020 Australian Open where he was defeated by compatriot Harold Mayot in straight sets. Professional career 2020: Grand Slam doubles debut Cazaux made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 Open 13 in the doubles draw partnering Harold Mayot when they were granted a wildcard entry. They were defeated in the first round by Nicolas Mahut and Vasek Pospisil in straight sets 5–7, 1–6. Pairing Mayot again, they were also given a wildcard entry into the main doubles draw of the 2020 Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Samuel
Toby Samuel (born 6 September 2002) is a British tennis player. He has a career high singles ranking of 414 achieved on 30 October 2023. He has a career high doubles ranking of 303 achieved on 25 September 2023. Early and personal life From St. Leonards, parents Richard and Sarah (who represented Great Britain at gymnastics) he has an older brother called Ben and a younger brother called Rafe and all three are keen sportsmen. He attended Castle Court Prep School and Bournemouth Collegiate School. A student at the University of South Carolina, in 2023 Samuel alongside partner Connor Thomson won the All American Doubles title and became the number one ranked doubles team in Collegiate tennis. The pair received all-American honours for being seeded for the NCAA Championships. Career Junior career Samuel reached the semifinals of the Boys' doubles at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships alongside Arthur Fery. Senior career In June 2023, Samuel received a wildcard with his partner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannus Monday
Johannus Monday (born 22 January 2002) is a British tennis player. He has a career high singles ranking of 531 achieved on 10 October 2022. He has a career high doubles ranking of 192 achieved on 28 August 2023. Early life Monday was born in Kingston upon Hull and brought up in nearby Cottingham. He began playing tennis at four years old. He attended St Mary's College and, from 2015, boarded at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. In 2020 he began studying political science at the University of Tennessee on a tennis scholarship. Career After winning the title of the men's doubles of the Nottingham Open alongside Jacob Fearnley, the pair received wildcards for the 2023 Wimbledon Championships. He was also given a wildcard into the men's qualifying singles and beat Mili Poljicak before pushing the experienced Radu Albot to three sets. In the doubles, he and Fearnley beat Andre Goransson and Ben McLachlan in the opening round before losing to Matthew Ebden Matt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winning a qualifying stage. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. In Olympics, countries that fail to produce ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosuke Watanuki
is a Japanese tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 138 achieved on 9 January 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 374 achieved on 7 January 2019. He is currently the No. 3 Japanese player. Juniors On the junior tour, Watanuki has a career high combined ranking of No. 2 achieved on 21 March 2016. Watanuki was the winner of the 2016 Campeonato Internacional Juvenil de Tenis de Porto Alegre, a Grade A event in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Professional career 2018-19: Maiden ATP win and Challenger title Watanuki first main draw match victory on the ATP Tour came at the 2018 Rakuten Japan Open over Robin Haase as a qualifier. He won his maiden title at the 2019 Kobe Challenger. 2021-22: ATP quarterfinal, Two Challenger titles, Top 150 debut Watanuki entered the 2021 Winston-Salem Open as a lucky loser and won his first match against Jaume Munar. He lost to Marton Fucsovics in the second round. He reached the quarterfinals of an ATP tournament for the first time ... [...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] |
Dominic Stricker
Dominic Stephan Stricker (born 16 August 2002) is a Swiss tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 111 achieved on 7 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 161 achieved on 27 June 2022. On the junior tour, he had a career high junior ranking of No. 8, achieved on 3 February 2020. Junior career Stricker won the 2020 French Open boys' singles title, defeating compatriot Leandro Riedi in the final. He also won the 2020 French Open boys' doubles title, partnering Flavio Cobolli. Professional career 2021: Maiden ATP doubles title, ATP & Top 250 debut in singles, Top 200 in doubles In March, ranked No. 874 in the world, he received a wild card entry into the 2021 BSI Challenger Lugano, Switzerland. He won the tournament, defeating Vitaliy Sachko in straight sets in the final. He became the 3rd youngest Swiss player after Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka to win an ATP Challenger title. Following this successful run, he made his top 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurij Rodionov
Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian tennis player of Belarusian descent. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 120 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 268 achieved on 15 July 2019. Professional career 2018-2020: Major debut, Three Challenger titles, top 150, top-20 win Rodionov won three ATP Challenger singles titles. The first came at the 2018 Almaty Challenger. His second title came when he won the 2020 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas. His third title came at the 2020 Morelos Open. In 2019, he won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the Shymkent Challenger. Rodionov made his main draw Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open as qualifier and reached the second round with a win over Jérémy Chardy in 5 sets. He reached the top 150 on 12 October 2020 at World No. 148. Also in October 2020, as a wildcard, he had the biggest win of his career in Vienna, where he beat 8th seed and World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Molčan
Alex Molčan (born 1 December 1997) is a Slovak professional tennis player. Molčan has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 38 achieved on 23 May 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 268 achieved on 14 June 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Slovak tennis player in singles. Molčan has reached three ATP 250 finals at the 2021 Belgrade Open, in Morocco in 2022 and at the 2022 ATP Lyon Open. He also reached eleven singles ITF finals, with a record of 6 wins and 5 losses which includes a 2–2 result in ATP Challenger finals. Additionally, he has reached five career doubles ITF finals, with a record of 2 wins and 3 losses, including a 1–3 result in ATP Challenger finals. Professional career 2021: First ATP final, Major debut & third round, Slovak No. 1, top 100 Ranked No. 313 at the beginning of the year in January, Molčan made his ATP debut at the 2021 Antalya Open in Turkey, where he defeated Andrey Golubev and Blaž Kavčič to qualify for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
