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2023 Winston-Salem Open
The 2023 Winston-Salem Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 54th edition of the Winston-Salem Open (as successor to previous tournaments in New Haven and Long Island), and part of the ATP Tour 250 Series of the 2023 ATP Tour. It took place at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, from August 21 to August 27, 2023. Champions Singles * Sebastián Báez def. Jiří Lehečka, 6–4, 6–3 Doubles * Nathaniel Lammons / Jackson Withrow def. Lloyd Glasspool / Neal Skupski, 6–3, 6–4 Points & prize money Point distribution Prize money *per team Singles main draw entrants Seeds † Rankings are as of 14 August 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcard entry into the singles main draw: * Sebastian Korda * Alex Michelsen * Michael Mmoh The following players received entry as alternates: * Juan Manuel Cerúndolo * Rinky Hijikata * Dominic Thiem The follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP World Tour 250 Series
The ATP 250 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 250'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series'', and ''ATP World Series'') are the lowest tier of annual men's tennis tournaments on the main ATP Tour, after the four Grand Slam tournaments, ATP Finals, ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, and ATP 500 tournaments. As of 2020, the series includes 39 tournaments, with 250 ranking points awarded to each singles champion—which accounts for the name of the series. Draws consist of 28, 32, or 48 for singles and 16 for doubles. Thomas Muster holds the record for most singles titles at 26, while Mike Bryan holds the record for most doubles titles won with 46. Historic names 1990–1999 ''ATP World Series'' 2000–2008 ''ATP International Series'' 2009–2018 ''ATP World Tour 250'' 2019–present ''ATP Tour 250'' ATP Points * Players with byes receive first round points. Tournaments became an ATP 500 event.ATPTour.com"ATP Tour calendar"/ref> Singles champions ATP Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Fils
Arthur Fils (born 12 June 2004) is a French professional tennis player. Fils has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 260, which he achieved on 7 November 2022. He also attained his career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 459 in July 2022. Juniors As a junior, Fils achieved his best results at the Grand Slam level at the 2021 French Open, where he won the boys' doubles title with Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and placed runner-up in the boys' singles tournament, after which he was ranked as high as world No. 3 in July 2021. Career Ranked No. 308 at the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters on his ATP debut, he became the youngest French qualifier to enter the main draw of a Masters 1000 tournament with a win against former top-10 player Fabio Fognini since Gael Monfils The Gaels ( ; ga, Na Gaeil ; gd, Na Gàidheil ; gv, Ny Gaeil ) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man in the British Isles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rinky Hijikata
is an Australian professional tennis player. Following a successful career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hijikata went professional and has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 70 achieved on 16 October 2023 and in doubles of world No. 31 on the same date. Early life and education Hijikata was born in Sydney, Australia to Japanese immigrant parents. He began playing tennis at age three or four. He attended The King's School in Sydney from 2013 to 2016. His father is a tennis coach. His favourite player growing up was Lleyton Hewitt and later, Kei Nishikori. Hijikata played college tennis for North Carolina Tar Heels men's tennis from 2019 to 2021. Career 2018–2021: Career beginnings In March 2018, Hijikata made his ITF debut at the Australia F3 in Mornington, Australia. He won his first match the following week at the Australia F4. In October 2018, Hijikata won silver at the Tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' doubles, tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Manuel Cerúndolo
Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (born 15 November 2001) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title. Cerúndolo has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 79, achieved on 31 January 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 376 achieved on 3 February 2020. Professional career 2021: First ATP title, three Challengers titles, top 100 and NextGen finals debut Cerúndolo made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Córdoba Open where, as a qualifier, he won the title. The world No. 335 was the fifth lowest ranked player to win an ATP Tour title since 1990 and the youngest Argentine tennis player to reach an ATP final since José Acasuso in 2001 and win an ATP tournament since Guillermo Coria in 2001, and the first player to win a title in his debut ATP event since Santiago Ventura in 2004. In May 2021, Juan Manuel won his first challenger title on clay in an all-teenage final at the 2021 Garden Open II Challenger in Rome. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mmoh
Michael Mmoh ( ; born January 10, 1998) is a Saudi-born American tennis player. Mmoh has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 82 achieved on 20 February 2023. He has won 7 ATP Challenger titles and 4 ITF Futures tournaments, including his first at the age of 16. He won the USTA junior national championship in 2016. Personal life Born in Saudi Arabia, where he lived until the age of 13, Mmoh has both Irish and Nigerian ancestry. Michael's father Tony Mmoh was also a professional tennis player who represented Nigeria and reached a career-high ranking of 105. His mother was born in Ireland and is also an Australian citizen. Mmoh's parents named him after basketball superstar Michael Jordan. Mmoh began playing tennis at age 3. He trains at the IMG Academy in Florida. Junior career Mmoh peaked in the Boy's Junior rankings at No. 2 after reaching the semifinals at the 2015 Junior French Open. He won the 2016 USTA 18s Boys' National Championship to earn a wild card into the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Michelsen
Alex Michelsen (born August 25, 2004) is an American tennis player. Michelsen has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 356 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 693 achieved on 6 February 2023. He won the singles and doubles title at the 2022 Easter Bowl, becoming the first American champion in both disciplines since Donald Young in 2006. He also won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title. He is committed to play college tennis at the University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ .... ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 5 (2–3) Doubles: 2 (1–1) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runners-up) References External links * * 2004 births Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Ruusuvuori
Emil Ruusuvuori (; born 2 April 1999) is a Finnish professional tennis player. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 41 on 31 October 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Finnish singles tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 179 achieved on 2 May 2022. As a junior, Ruusuvuori was ranked as high as World No. 4 in the ITF combined junior rankings. In 2017, he reached the singles quarterfinals of the Australian Open boys' singles, the singles semifinals of the US Open boys' singles, and won the ITF Junior Masters. Ruusuvuori has also represented Finland in the Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 5–5. In September 2019, he defeated reigning world number 5 and 2-time Roland Garros finalist Dominic Thiem in straight sets in a Davis Cup singles rubber. Junior career 2013–2016: Early junior career At the age of 14, nine years after he first began playing tennis, Ruusuvuori entered his first ITF Juniors tournament, the Nokia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. 126 achieved on 6 May 2019. He was a semifinalist at the 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel in his home country. Professional career 2017: ATP and Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon & third round Ofner made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships after going through qualifying, defeating Kimmer Coppejans, Miljan Zekić and Jay Clarke. In the first round, he beat Thomaz Bellucci in straight sets. In the next round, he upset world No. 18 Jack Sock in a five-setter. In August, Ofner caused another surprise in front of his home crowd at the 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel by defeating first seed Pablo Cuevas as a wildcard in the second round. He then won over Renzo Olivo to reach the semifinals where he fell to João Sousa. 2018: Maiden Challenger title Ofner won his maiden ATP Challenger title at the President's Cup in Astana. 2022: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Márton Fucsovics
Márton Fucsovics ( hu, Fucsovics Márton, ; born 8 February 1992) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 31 on 4 March 2019. He is currently the No. 1 Hungarian player. Early life Fucsovics started to play tennis at the age of five. He came through the ranks quickly and at the age of 8 he played in a field 3–4 years older. In 2003 Fucsovics won his age group National Championship and the Nike Junior Tour. With that he got the chance to represent Hungary on the World Final in Sun City, South Africa. Fucsovics also showed talent in basketball as a youth, but chose to make tennis his career path. Junior tennis Fucsovics's first major success came in 2009, when he won the US Open Boys' Doubles title, with Hsieh Cheng-peng of Chinese Taipei. In 2010 he reached the semi-final of the Australian Open Boys' Singles, and a few months later he won the Wimbledon Boys' Singles, defeating qualifier Benjamin Mitchell in a strai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Giron
Marcos Andres Giron (born July 24, 1993; ) is an American professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 49 on 16 May 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 194 on August 1, 2022. He won the boys' singles in the Ojai Tennis Tournament in 2009 and the men’s invitational in 2011. In 2014, Giron won the singles title at the 2014 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships for UCLA. Professional career 2020: First US Open win & top 100 debut Giron reached the second round of a major at the 2020 US Open where he won his first match against Marc Polmans in five sets and at the French Open for the first time in his career. In November, Giron recorded his first top-ten win against seventh seed Matteo Berrettini at the Paris Masters. 2021: Major third round, Olympics & top 60 debuts Giron started his 2021 season at the Murray River Open, an event that was organized as a lead-up tournament to the Australian Open due to other tournaments in Australia being cancelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French professional tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 7, attained on 9 July 2007. He has won a total of 15 singles titles on the ATP Tour. His best performances in Grand Slam singles tournaments have been three semifinal appearances, two at the Wimbledon Championships (in 2007 and 2015) and once at the US Open (in 2013). His best performance in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 singles tournaments was being the runner-up in Hamburg in 2005 and Toronto in 2006 and 2012. He won the mixed doubles title at the 2004 French Open, partnering with Tatiana Golovin. He also won the men's doubles Olympic bronze medal in 2012 with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. Gasquet is best known for his elegant groundstrokes and his one-handed backhand.In March 2021, Gasquet became only the sixth active player on the ATP tour to win 550 matches. He is currently No. 4 on the list of active players with over 580 wins. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Altmaier
Daniel Altmaier (born 12 September 1998) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved on 23 May 2022. Tennis career 2017: ATP debut Altmaier made his ATP main draw debut as a qualifier at the 2017 Geneva Open, defeating Alexander Ward and Petr Michnev in qualifying. He lost to Sam Querrey in the first round. He won his first ATP tour-level match as a lucky loser at the 2017 Antalya Open when he beat Víctor Estrella Burgos. In the next round, he defeated wildcard Marsel İlhan to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to Yūichi Sugita. Both of his victories were decided by a third set tiebreak. 2020: Grand Slam debut & fourth round & first top-10 win Shoulder and hip injuries held back Altmaier’s progress in his tennis career, but victories in qualifying over Tallon Griekspoor and Ruben Bemelmans led to his Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open, where he defeated Feliciano Lopez, 30th seed Jan-Lennard Struff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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