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2023 Lisboa Belém Open
The 2023 Lisboa Belém Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the seventh (men) and third (women) editions of the tournament which were part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2023 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Lisbon, Portugal between 2 and 8 October 2023. It was Pedro Sousa last professional event before he retired. Men's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 25 September 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Gastão Elias * João Sousa * Pedro Sousa The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: * Oriol Roca Batalla The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Javier Barranco Cosano * Enrico Dalla Valle * Francesco Forti * Oleksii Krutykh * Luka Mikrut * Alexander Weis The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Henri Laaksonen * Henrique Rocha Women's single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both Types of tennis match, doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game. Dimensions The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written down in the annual 'Rules of Tennis' document. The court is long. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. The Service line (tennis), service line is from the net. Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of wide and long. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the Glossary of tennis terms#Baseline, baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Llamas Ruiz
Pablo Llamas Ruiz (born 13 October 2002) is a Spanish tennis player. Llamas Ruiz has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 131 achieved on 16 October 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 696 achieved on 2 October 2023. Career 2023-25: ATP, Major, Masters debuts & first wins, top 150, hiatus In 2023, Llamas Ruiz made his ATP main draw debut in Lyon after qualifying for the main draw. He won his first ATP match over Max Purcell. He lost to top seed Félix Auger-Aliassime in straight sets in the second round. He won his first title at the Challenger 100, the 2023 Open Castilla y León. In 2024, ranked No. 156, he qualified in Montpellier and recorded his second ATP win and first on hardcourt over Richard Gasquet. He lost to top seed Holger Rune in the second round. He also qualified for the 2024 Estoril Open and defeated eight seed Dominik Koepfer and lucky loser David Jordà Sanchis to reach his first ATP career quarterfinal, where he lost to eventual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrique Rocha
Henrique Rocha (born 6 April 2004) is a Portuguese professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 149, achieved on 9 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 166, achieved on 9 September 2024. He is currently the No. 3 player from Portugal. Early career Rocha is from Maia. In 2018, he was training at the Centro de Alto Rendimento do Jamor, in Cruz Quebrada. When he was 15 years-old he began training in Lisbon, at the Portuguese Tennis Federation. He won Portuguese under-14, and under-16 age-group titles. In July 2020, he became the first tennis player born in 2004 to beat a player ranked in the world top 600 when he defeated Tiago Cação, number 547 in the world, in Figueira da Foz. Career In 2023, Rocha made his ATP main draw debut after qualifying at the 2023 Estoril Open. He defeated higher ranked players Ryan Peniston, and Máté Valkusz to reach the main draw. It was his first ATP tour qualifying event, having never previously even qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Laaksonen
Henri Joona Julius Laaksonen (, Swiss Standard German: ; born 31 March 1992) is a Swiss inactive professional tennis player. His highest singles ranking is world No. 84, which he achieved on 14 February 2022, and his highest doubles ranking is world No. 191, achieved on 24 December 2018. Early life Laaksonen's father, Sandro Della Piana, is a former Swiss tennis player. His mother is from Finland. His parents separated very early in his life, but he nonetheless kept contact with his father. He started playing tennis at the age of 3. During his adolescent years he lived in Hyvinkää where he was coached by Pasi Virtanen. At 16, he became European champion for the Under-16s category. In 2009, he moved to Switzerland to train at the Swiss Tennis National Tennis Center in Bienne. Before January 2011, he represented his country of birth, Finland. Since then, he has represented Switzerland. Professional career 2021: Two Major third rounds & two top-20 wins, back to top 100 in tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luka Mikrut
Luka Mikrut (born 16 April 2004) is a Croatian tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 280, achieved on 19 May 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 391, achieved on 1 April 2024. Career Mikrut made his ATP main draw doubles debut at the 2023 Croatia Open Umag after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Zvonimir Babić. For his singles debut, he received a wildcard for the main draw of the 2024 Croatia Open Umag where he lost to Camilo Ugo Carabelli. ATP Challenger Tour finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner-ups) Doubles: 11 (9 titles, 2 runner-ups) References External links * * 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksii Krutykh
Oleksii Krutykh (born 10 March 2000) is a Ukrainian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 160 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 275 achieved on 5 December 2022. He has won two ATP Challenger singles titles and two doubles titles. Career 2022: Two Challenger titles, top 200 debut In August, Krutych won his first Challenger title at the 2022 IBG Prague Open defeating German Lucas Gerch and becoming the youngest Ukrainian champion on the Challenger Tour since Alexandr Dolgpolov won the Meknes Challenger in 2010 and the first Ukrainian to win a Challenger title in the season. He rose to a career-high No. 226 on 29 August 2022. He reached the top 200 in singles at world No. 190 climbing more than 60 positions up on 28 November 2022 after winning his second Challenger for the season and in his career in Valencia. At the same tournament he also won the doubles event climbing to a new career-high ranking of No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Forti
Francesco Forti (born 26 July 1999) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 303 achieved on 4 December 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 203 achieved on 13 November 2023. Forti has won 1 ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2021 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Todi with 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 achieve .... Career titles Doubles References External links * * 1999 births Living people Italian male tennis players Sportspeople from Cesena People from Cesenatico 21st-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Dalla Valle
Enrico Dalla Valle (born 21 March 1998) is an Italian tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player. Career Dalla Valle began playing tennis at the age of 6. He won his first four ITF singles title in a two month period in the middle of the 2019 season. He struggled with injuries for the next few years before winning his fifth singles title in Aprilia in 2022. Dalle Valle has a career high ATP singles ranking of 242 achieved on 24 June 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 299 achieved on 24 June 2019. Career finals Singles: 10 (7–3) Doubles: 12 (8–4) References External links * * 1998 births Living people Italian male tennis players Sportspeople from Ravenna {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Barranco Cosano
Javier Barranco Cosano (born 17 November 1998) is a Spanish tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 213 achieved on 5 August 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 258 achieved on 12 November 2018. Career 2024: ATP debut He made his ATP main draw debut at the 2024 Lyon Open after entering the singles main draw as a lucky loser, losing to Dominik Koepfer Dominik Koepfer (born 29 April 1994), also spelled Köpfer, is a German professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 49 on 4 March 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 69 on 24 June 2024. He played college ... in the first round. ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals Singles: 23 (14–9) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barranco Cosano, Javier 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from Almería Tennis players from Andalusia Spanish male tennis players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriol Roca Batalla
Oriol Roca Batalla (, ; born 30 April 1993) is a professional Spanish tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 150 achieved on 19 August 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 128 achieved on 16 October 2023. Roca Batalla has won 30 ITF singles titles, including two ATP Challengers, and 51 ITF doubles titles. Career He made it to his first ATP Challenger Tour singles final in Kenitra, Morocco on 19 September 2015. Roca Batalla made his ATP main draw debut in doubles at the 2015 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, where he received a wildcard partnering Gerard Granollers. He made his ATP singles debut as a lucky loser at the 2018 Swiss Open Gstaad where he defeated Paolo Lorenzi for his first ATP win before losing to Feliciano López. He won his first singles Challenger title at the 2023 Braga Open The 2023 Braga Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Sousa
João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa (born 30 March 1989), known as João Sousa (), is a Portuguese former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 28 on 16 May 2016 and a doubles ranking of No. 26 on 13 May 2019. Continuously ranked in the world's top-100 between July 2013 and March 2021, and with four ATP Tour singles titles, Sousa is often regarded as the best Portuguese tennis player of all time. He is nicknamed ''Conquistador'' (Portuguese for "Conqueror") for sharing his birthplace of Guimarães with Afonso I of Portugal, Afonso I, the country's first king. Sousa is coached by former player Frederico Marques and practices at the BTT Tennis Academy in Barcelona.Sousa began playing tennis at the age of seven. After winning national youth titles, he decided at the age of fifteen to invest in his career by moving to Barcelona. After an unimpressive junior career, Sousa turned professional in 2008 and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastão Elias
Gastão José Ministro Elias (; born 24 November 1990) is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. In October 2016, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 57 to become the third highest-ranked Portuguese player, after João Sousa (No. 28) and Nuno Borges (tennis), Nuno Borges (No. 30). He became the fifth Portuguese tennis player to break into the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings. Early and personal life Gastão Elias was born on 24 November 1990 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. At age four, he started playing tennis with his father. In 2001, he participated in the national under-12 singles competition, falling to future Davis Cup partner João Sousa in the semifinals. Elias idolized James Blake (tennis), James Blake and Roger Federer while growing up. He is a supporter of Sporting Clube de Portugal, Real Madrid C.F. and Liverpool F.C. Career Professional career 2016 proved to be a break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
