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2024 Dallas Open
The 2024 Dallas Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the Dallas Open, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series on the 2024 ATP Tour. It took place at the Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex in the city of Dallas, United States, between February 5–11, 2024. Finals Singles * Tommy Paul def. Marcos Giron, 7–6(7–3), 5–7, 6–3 Doubles * Max Purcell / Jordan Thompson def. William Blumberg / Rinky Hijikata, 6–4, 2–6, 0–8 Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 29 January 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Mitchell Krueger * Adam Neff * Ethan Quinn The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Steve Johnson * Nicolas Moreno de Alboran * Emilio Nava * Tennys Sandgren The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Térence Atmane * Denis Kudla Withdrawals * Miomir Kecmanović → replaced by Térence A ... [...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 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 In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominik Koepfer
Dominik Koepfer (born 29 April 1994) is a German professional tennis player. He has achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 50 on 10 May 2021, and a doubles ranking of No. 92 on 14 February 2022. He played college tennis at Tulane University. Professional career 2017: ATP debut Koepfer made his ATP main draw debut at the Winston-Salem Open as a lucky loser. He won his first ATP Challenger Tour title in doubles at the 2017 Columbus Challenger, partnering Denis Kudla. 2018: First ATP win Koepfer won his first match on the ATP Tour, again as a lucky loser at the Winston-Salem Open, defeating Tennys Sandgren. 2019: First Challenger title, Grand Slam debut, US Open fourth round By winning his first Challenger in singles at the Ilkley Trophy Koepfer gained a wildcard for the 2019 Wimbledon Championships. There, he won his first Grand Slam main draw match by defeating Filip Krajinović in the first round before losing to Diego Schwartzman in straight sets. He reache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Duckworth (tennis)
James Duckworth (born 21 January 1992) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of World No. 47 achieved on 8 November 2021 and No. 185 in doubles achieved on 10 February 2020. As a junior, Duckworth enjoyed a successful career which included winning three titles and reaching the semi-finals of the 2010 French Open. Duckworth represented Australia in tennis at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 ATP Cup. Personal life Duckworth was born in Sydney. He attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School, where he was on the school tennis first team from Year 7 and went on to win several AAGPS Premierships. He was offered a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport, where he was able to further develop his tennis. Duckworth is a keen supporter of the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League. Junior career Duckworth played his first ITF under-18 tournament in December 2005 as a 13-y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackenzie McDonald
Michael Mackenzie Lowe "Mackie" McDonald (born April 16, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 48 on 1 August 2022, and No. 90 in doubles on 17 October 2022. He won the 2016 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships in both singles and doubles. Juniors career McDonald was a semifinalist in the boys' singles of the 2012 Australian Open. In 2012, he reached a career high ranking in the ITF World Tour Junior Rankings of number 12 and won the 18s singles title at the 2012 Easter Bowl. While still a junior, he won the men's singles in the Ojai Tennis Tournament in 2013 and also qualified for the 2013 Cincinnati Masters at age 18 by defeating top 100 players Nicolas Mahut and Steve Johnson. However, he lost in the first round of the main draw to fellow qualifier David Goffin. College career 2014 McDonald was listed as the No. 1 player coming into college according to the ITA. As a freshman at UCLA, he was named a Singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miomir Kecmanović
Miomir Kecmanović ( sr-Cyrl, Миомир Кецмановић, ; born 31 August 1999) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Kecmanović reached his best singles ranking of world No. 28 on 24 October 2022 and he peaked at world No. 161 on 16 September 2019 in the doubles rankings. He has won one singles and one doubles ATP title, as well as two Challenger titles in his career. Career Juniors: Orange Bowl champion & junior No. 1 In December 2015, Kecmanović won the Orange Bowl in a 3-set match against Stefanos Tsitsipas from Greece, 6–3, 2–6, 7–6(5). He reached the final in singles at 2016 Junior US Open where he was defeated by Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime. He finished the year 2016 as ITF Juniors number 1 ranked tennis player. 2016: Davis Cup alternate player Kecmanović was a fifth (reserve) player on a Serbian Davis Cup team in their quarterfinal tie against Great Britain in the 2016 Davis Cup – a standard practice of Tennis Federation of Serbia for each ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Kudla
Denis Kudla ( ; born August 17, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. A product of the Junior Tennis Champions Center, he has won eight Challenger singles titles and nine Challenger doubles titles in his career. His career-high ATP singles ranking is World No. 53, achieved in May 2016. His career-high ATP doubles ranking is World No. 133, achieved in August 2018. Personal life Kudla's family moved from Ukraine to Fairfax, Virginia on his first birthday. He began playing tennis at age 7, in part because his older brother Nikita played tennis, but also because many of his father's friends played. He would tag along as Nikita took informal lessons from their father in Fairfax's Van Dyck Park. Kudla's father, Vladimir Kudla, took his family out of Ukraine shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed. Kudla's parents came to the USA not speaking a word of English, but learned it within a few years. His mother got permission to pick him up from elementary school one hour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Térence Atmane
46 Térence Atmane (born 9 January 2002) is a French professional tennis player. Atmane has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 132 achieved on 16 October 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 1946 achieved on 20 September 2021. Professional career 2022: First ITF titles In the first half of 2022, Atmane played multiple ITF tournaments in Monastir, Tunisia, reaching the finals five times, with two titles and three runner-ups. 2023: Maiden Challenger title & Top 150, ATP & Masters debuts and first win In May, Atmane played his first Grand Slam qualifying match at the French Open, losing in the first round to Zdenek Kolar. In August, Atmane made his US Open qualifying debut and recorded his first Grand Slam qualifying win, defeating Mate Valkusz in the first round, before losing to James Duckworth in the second round, having failed to convert three match points. In September, Atmane won his first Challenger title in Zhangjiagang, defeating qualifier Mika ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennys Sandgren
Tennys Sandgren II ( ; born July 22, 1991) is an American professional tennis player. He has achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 41 on January 14, 2019. He broke into the top 100 of the ATP rankings toward the end of 2017 after competing mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Born and raised in Gallatin, Tennessee, he played two years of college tennis at the University of Tennessee before launching his professional career. Early life Sandgren's parents, South African Lia Lourens and American David Sandgren, met at a tennis club in Johannesburg. They married and moved to Tennessee in 1988 with Sandgren's older brother, Davey. Sandgren, who was named Tennys after his Swedish great-grandfather, was home-schooled and is coached by his mother. Davey Sandgren is also a tennis player who achieved a career-high ATP ranking of 800 in doubles in 2009 Junior career As a junior, Sandgren compiled a singles win–loss record of 70–38 (and 53–35 in doubles), reaching as high a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Nava
Emilio Nava (born 2 December 2001) is an American professional tennis player. Nava has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 173 achieved on 19 September 2022. He reached two finals of the Boys' Singles Grand Slam tournaments, losing to Lorenzo Musetti in the 2019 Australian Open and to Jonáš Forejtek in the 2019 US Open. Early life and background Nava is the son of Olympic sprinter Eduardo Nava and professional tennis player Xóchitl Escobedo, both of whom are originally from Mexico. He is also the cousin of fellow pro tennis player Ernesto Escobedo. His brother, Eduardo Nava also is a professional tennis player who played college tennis at TCU and Wake Forest University. Professional career 2019: ATP main draw debut Nava made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Abierto Mexicano Telcel after receiving a wildcard into the singles main draw. He lost to Mackenzie McDonald in the first round. 2021: Masters 1000, Grand Slam and top 350 debuts At the 2021 Miami Open, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran
Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (born 14 July 1997) is an American tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 141 achieved on 19 June 2023 and a doubles ranking of World No. 486, achieved on 9 August 2021. Moreno de Alboran has won two Challenger singles titles and five ITF doubles titles. Career Moreno de Alboran had an excellent collegiate tennis career for University of California, Santa Barbara and made sporadic appearances on the ITF circuit while still in college. He turned professional in 2019 and, following a period of inactivity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, progressed to regular appearances on the ATP Challenger Tour during the second half of the 2021 season. He won his first Challenger title at the 2022 Braga Open. He reached the top 200 at world No. 188 on 20 February 2023, following a third Challenger final at the 2023 Chennai Open Challenger where he lost to Max Purcell Max Purcell (born 3 April 1998) is an Australian professional ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Johnson (tennis)
Steve "Stevie" Johnson Jr. (born December 24, 1989) is an American professional tennis player. For one week in August 2016 he was the top-ranked American in men's singles. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 21 achieved on July 25, 2016 and a doubles ranking of world No. 39 achieved on May 23, 2016. He has won four ATP Challenger Tour titles and four ATP Tour 250 titles, one at Nottingham on grass, twice at Houston on clay and most recently at Newport on grass. He won a bronze medal in men's doubles at the 2016 Olympics with fellow American Jack Sock. Johnson played college tennis for the USC Trojans. He won the NCAA Men's Singles Championship in his junior and senior seasons (2011–2012), and he was a part of a Trojan team that won four consecutive NCAA Championships. Personal life His father, Steve Johnson Sr. (died May 11, 2017, aged 58), was a tennis coach at the Rancho San Clemente Tennis and Fitness Club, and his mother, Michelle, is a mathematics pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Quinn
Ethan Quinn (born March 12, 2004) is an American tennis player. Quinn has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 501 achieved on 15 August 2022 and a doubles career-high ranking of No. 736 achieved on August 8 2022. Personal life Quinn attended the San Joaquin Memorial High School in Fresno, California. He was an early enrolee at the University of Georgia in January 2022. He was ranked the No. 1 national tennis recruit in 2022. Career 2022: Grand Slam debut Quinn won the doubles at the 2022 USTA Boys 18s National Championship with his partner Nicholas Godsick which earned them a wildcard into the main draw of the 2022 US Open. They won the final with a 6–4, 6–0 defeat of Sebastian Gorzny and Alex Michelsen who had been top seeds following their 2022 Wimbledon Junior doubles victory. In the singles event at the same competition Quinn also reached the final but lost to Learner Tien in 4 sets. For reaching the final, Quinn gained a wildcard into the singles qualifyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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