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2024 Atlanta Open
The 2024 Atlanta Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 36th edition of the tournament, classified as an ATP 250 tournament on the 2024 ATP Tour. It took place at Atlantic Station in Atlanta, United States between July 22 and 28, 2024. Champions Singles * Yoshihito Nishioka def. Jordan Thompson, 4–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–2 Doubles * Nathaniel Lammons / Jackson Withrow def. André Göransson / Sem Verbeek, 4–6, 6–4, 2–10 Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 15 July 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Alejandro Davidovich Fokina * Andres Martin * Denis Shapovalov The following player received entry as a special exempt: * Reilly Opelka The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Mattia Bellucci * Billy Harris * Shang Juncheng * Zachary Svajda The following player received entry as lucky losers: * Harold Mayot * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Tour 250
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 (tennis), Grand Slam/major tournaments, ATP Finals, ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, ATP 1000 tournaments, and ATP 500 tournaments, ATP 500 tournaments. As of 2024 ATP Tour, 2024, the series included 38 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. In 2025 ATP Tour, 2025, the series includes only 30 tournaments after the retirement of three tournaments (Atlanta, Córdoba and Lyon), the downgrade of two (Estoril and Newport) and the upgrade of three tournaments to the 500 level (Dallas, Doha and Munich). Thomas Muster holds the record for most singles titles at 26, while Mike Bryan holds the record for most doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (born 5 June 1999) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 21 achieved on 21 August 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 196 achieved on 21 February 2022. He is currently the No. 2 Spanish player. Early life Davidovich Fokina was born and raised in La Cala del Moral, Rincón de la Victoria, about 10 km away from Málaga, Spain, to Swedish-Russian father Eduard Mark Davidovich, and Russian mother Tatiana Fokina. His father is a former boxer. Davidovich Fokina has a brother, Mark. Alejandro began playing tennis with his father at the age of three. When he turned five, he started training at Calaflores and later Serramar tennis courts with coach Manolo Rubiales. Junior career Davidovich Fokina was Spanish Champion at U12, U15 and U18 levels. He started his professional tennis career in 2016. He won his first ITF Grade 1 in Canada at the Repentigny Internationaux de Tennis Junior, defeating Fé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Walton (tennis)
Adam Walton (born 17 April 1999) is an Australian professional tennis player. Walton has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 85 achieved on 31 March 2025. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 136 achieved on 4 March 2024. He has won four singles and four doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour. College career Walton played college tennis at the University of Tennessee, where he won the 2021 NCAA doubles title with Patrick Harper. Professional career 2023: First Challenger title Walton won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2023 San Luis Open Challenger with Colin Sinclair. He won his first singles Challenger in August at the Atlantic Tire Championships in Cary, North Carolina. 2024: Masters, Major debut and first win, top 100 For his Grand Slam debut, he received a wildcard for the 2024 Australian Open. Ranked No. 150, he qualified for the 2024 Miami Open making his Masters debut. Following his third singles title at the 2024 Taipe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Mayot
Harold Mayot (born 4 February 2002) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 103 achieved on 14 October 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 255 achieved on 16 September 2024. Junior career As a junior, Mayot reached his highest ranking of number 1 in the world in the combined singles and doubles ITF junior ranking system, which he reached on 3 February 2020 and sustained to end the year as the number one male juniors player in the world. This was highlighted by a winning the championship at the 2020 Australian Open where he defeated compatriot Arthur Cazaux in straight sets ''6–4, 6–1''. Professional career 2020: Grand Slam singles and doubles debut Mayot made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 Open 13 simultaneously in both single and doubles when he was granted a wildcard entry into both draws partnering compatriot Arthur Cazaux. They were defeated in the first round by Nicolas Mahut an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Svajda
Zachary Svajda ( ; born November 29, 2002) is an American professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 102 on 26 August 2024, and he peaked at No. 664 in doubles on 8 August 2022. Early life and background A native of San Diego, California, Svajda took up tennis at the age of 2, initially coached by Matt Hanlin. He is of Czech descent. He has a younger brother Trevor who is also a tennis player, who is currently studying at SMU. He earned his first ATP World Tour ranking point at the age of 15, defeating top-seeded João Lucas Reis da Silva of Brazil 6–3, 6–4 at the 2018 Claremont Club Pro Classic as a local main-draw wild card. Professional career 2019: ATP and Grand Slam debut On August 11, 2019, Svajda defeated Govind Nanda 6–7(3–7), 7–5, 6–3, 6–1 to win the USTA Boys 18s National Championship. This victory earned the 16-year-old a wildcard into the main draw of the 2019 US Open, making him the youngest player to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shang Juncheng
Shang Juncheng (; also known as Jerry Shang; born 2 February 2005) is a Chinese professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 47 on 21 October 2024. He is the current No. 2 Chinese player. In July 2021, he reached No. 1 in the ITF junior rankings. Personal life Shang currently trains and lives at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. He is coached by Martin Alund. Shang is the son of former national footballer Shang Yi and former table tennis world champion Wu Na. Career 2019: First ITF Junior title In 2019, Shang was the first player born in 2005 to win a tournament on the ITF Junior Circuit. 2021: Major Junior finalist Shang played in the French Open and reached the quarterfinals, in which he lost to Sean Cuenin in two sets. He also played in the Wimbledon Junior Event and reached the semifinals. He lost to Victor Lilov in two sets. In the US Open Junior Event, he reached the final and lost to Daniel Rincón in two sets (2–6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Harris (tennis)
Billy Harris (born 25 January 1995) is a British tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 101 achieved on 9 September 2024. He is the current British No. 4. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 265 achieved on 12 February 2024. Career 2022: Maiden Challenger doubles title Harris won his first ATP Challenger doubles title at the Winnipeg National Bank Challenger playing with Kelsey Stevenson, defeating Max Schnur and John-Patrick Smith in the final. 2023: ATP debut and first win Harris reached his first singles Challenger final at the inaugural edition of the Challenger Club Els Gorchs in Las Franquesas del Valles, Spain, as a qualifier where he lost to second seed Hugo Grenier. He made his ATP Tour debut at the Sofia Open, where as a qualifier, he defeated defending champion Marc-Andrea Huesler in the first round, before losing his next match to third seed Jan-Lennard Struff. 2024: Wimbledon, Davis Cup, Masters debuts Given a wild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattia Bellucci
Mattia Bellucci (born 1 June 2001) is an Italian tennis professional player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 66 achieved on 7 April 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 321 achieved on 17 June 2024. Career 2022: Maiden Challenger title Bellucci won two ATP Challenger Tour, ATP Challenger singles titles at the 2022 Saint-Tropez Open and at the 2022 Vilnius Open both in October 2022. He became the second Italian NextGen ATP player to lift multiple trophies in the season (after Luca Nardi with three) and the youngest from his nation to win Challenger titles in back-to-back weeks since 19-year-old Stefano Pescosolido in 1991. As a result, he rose to a career-high world No. 156 in the singles rankings. 2023–2024: Major, Masters debuts, ATP quarterfinal, top 100 In January 2023, Bellucci qualified for the 2023 Australian Open - Men's singles, 2023 Australian Open to make his Grand Slam debut. As a result he made his debut in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reilly Opelka
Reilly Opelka (born 28 August 1997) is an American professional tennis player. At , he is tied (with Ivo Karlović) for the tallest-ever Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP-ranked player, and can produce serves that measure over . He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 17 in singles by the ATP, which he achieved on February 28, 2022, and in doubles as world No. 89 on August 2, 2021. He has won four ATP singles titles and one doubles title. He won the junior 2015 Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon championship in 2015. Personal life Opelka was born in St. Joseph, Michigan and moved to Palm Coast, Florida at age 4. He did not start playing tennis regularly until he began training through United States Tennis Association, USTA in Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton at 12 years old. He credits Tom Gullikson, whom his father knew from playing golf, for much of his early development as a tennis player. Opelka is close friends with Taylor Fritz and was the best man at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Shapovalov
Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born ) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, which he first achieved on September 21, 2020. Shapovalov has won three ATP Tour singles titles and produced his best Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam performance at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2021 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the semifinals. Shapovalov also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 44, which he achieved on February 24, 2020. Shapovalov is the third highest-ranked Canadian singles male player in history behind Milos Raonic (world No. 3 in 2016) and Félix Auger-Aliassime (world No. 6 in 2022). As a junior, he has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. He won two junior Grand Slam titles, his first being the doubles title at the 2015 US Open – Boys' doubles, 2015 US Open with Auger-Aliassime and his second being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andres Martin (tennis)
Andres Martin (; born July 7, 2001) is an American tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 354 achieved on 16 June 2025 and a high doubles ranking of world No. 455 achieved on 19 May 2025. Personal life His mother Andrea and father Rafael moved to Flowery Branch, Georgia in 2001 having previously lived in Atlanta, Georgia. He has a younger sister named Eva. College career He turned down offers from Stanford, Dartmouth and the University of Columbia, amongst others, to become a student at Georgia Tech where he is an engineering major. Professional career He made his ATP tour debut as a wildcard at the 2021 Atlanta Open, playing doubles alongside Keshav Chopra. He made his ATP Tour singles debut at the 2022 Atlanta Open as a wildcard and in the first round defeated Thanasi Kokkinakis for his first ATP win. He also received a wildcard for the main draw and of the 2023 Atlanta Open and of the 2024 Atlanta Open. Ranked at a career-high ranking of N ... [...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 an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. 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. For Summer Olympic Games, some National Olympic Committees, whose nations are underrepresented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
