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2024 European Open
The 2024 European Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the European Open and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2024 ATP Tour. It took place at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium, from 14 October until 20 October 2024. Champions Singles * Roberto Bautista Agut def. Jiří Lehečka, 7–5, 6–1 Doubles * Alexander Erler / Lucas Miedler def. Robert Galloway / Aleksandr Nedovyesov, 6–4, 1–6, 0–8 Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of 30 September 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Alexander Blockx * Raphaël Collignon * Richard Gasquet The following player received a late entry into the singles main draw: * Alex de Minaur The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Thiago Seyboth Wild * Alexey Vatutin * Gilles-Arnaud Bailly * Luca Van Assche Withdrawals * Nuno Borges → replaced by Már ... [...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] |
Sebastián Báez
Sebastián Báez (; born 28 December 2000) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 18, achieved on 24 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of world No. 189, achieved on 29 July 2024. Báez has won seven ATP singles titles. He is currently the No. 2 player from Argentina. Career Junior Báez became the top-ranked junior in the ITF combined ranking on 12 March 2018. 2021: ATP debut, six Challenger titles, NextGen finals & top 100 Báez made his ATP debut at the 2021 Chile Open where he lost to 2019 Junior French Open champion Holger Rune in straight sets. He earned his first tour-level win at the 2021 Hamburg European Open, where he defeated Frenchman Corentin Moutet in the first round. Baez became the youngest player in history to claim five ATP Challenger Tour titles in a season, lifting the trophy in Concepción (d. F. Cerundolo), Santiago (d. Barrios Vera), Zagreb (d. Varillas), Santiago-3 (d. Meligeni Rodrigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Márton Fucsovics
Márton Fucsovics (, ; 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. 2 Hungarian player. Early life Fucsovics started playing 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 straight-sets final. Fucsov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuno Borges (tennis)
Nuno Borges (; born 19 February 1997) is a Portuguese professional tennis player. Borges has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 30, achieved on 9 September 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 69, achieved on 19 September 2022. He is currently the No. 1 player from Portugal. Borges won his first ATP singles title at the 2024 Swedish Open in Båstad, Sweden. In the final, he beat Rafael Nadal, becoming one of only five players (with Federer, Djokovic, Murray and Zeballos) to beat Nadal in a clay court final. Juniors Borges had a combined ITF juniors ranking of world No. 44, achieved on 13 April 2015. College career Borges played US college tennis at Mississippi State University from 2015 to 2019. As a player of the Mississippi State Bulldogs he was NCAA singles runner-up in 2019, Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Player of the Year in 2019, and won the SEC Player of the Year Award three times (2017, 2018, 2019), having ranked #1 in both singles and doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Van Assche
Luca Van Assche (; born 11 May 2004) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 63, achieved on 23 October 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 335, achieved on 9 January 2023. Career Juniors Van Assche won the 2021 French Open Boys' Singles title, defeating fellow countryman Arthur Fils in the final. 2022: ATP, Major doubles debuts, Maiden Challenger title and top 150 In January 2022, ranked No. 445, Van Assche received a wildcard for the qualifying event at the 2022 Open Sud de France but lost to Roman Safiullin. He also made his ATP main draw doubles debut after receiving a wildcard into the main draw with Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg where they defeated David Vega Hernandez and Denys Molchanov to win their first ATP tour level match. He also made his Grand Slam debut in doubles at the French Open as a wildcard pair partnering also Gueymard Wayenburg. In October, Van Assche reached his first singles final on the ATP Chall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles-Arnaud Bailly
Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (born 19 September 2005) is a Belgian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 468, achieved on 13 November 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 1723, achieved on 27 February 2023. Bailly had a ITF junior combined ranking of No. 1, achieved on 28 November 2022. Career Juniors Bailly was a runner-up at the 2022 French Open and the 2022 US Open in the boys' singles competition. 2022-2025: ATP debut He made his debut at the 2022 European Open where he received a main draw wildcard but lost in the first round to compatriot David Goffin despite playing for more than three hours and winning the second set. He also received a wildcard for the qualifying competition at the 2023 European Open in Antwerp. He qualified for his second ATP main draw at his home tournament, the 2024 European Open but lost to Daniel Altmaier Daniel Altmaier (; born 12 September 1998) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Vatutin
Alexey Vatutin (; born 27 October 1992) is a Russian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 136 achieved on 2 July 2018 and a doubles ranking of No. 510 achieved on 10 June 2019. Vatutin competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour where he has won one singles title. He has also won twelve ITF singles titles. Career In 2018 he achieved one of his best results in the ATP World Tour thus far, reaching the quarterfinal in Marrakech with an upset over top seed Albert Ramos Viñolas. In 2023, after five years, he again qualified for the main draw in Marrakech this time as a lucky loser replacing Juan Pablo Varillas who withdrew in the last minute. He lost to Benjamin Bonzi. Ranked No. 336, he qualified for the main draw of the 2024 European Open but lost to Hugo Gaston Hugo Gaston (; born 26 September 2000) is a French professional tennis player. His career high ATP ranking in singles is world No. 58, which he achieved on 11 July 2022, and in double ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiago Seyboth Wild
Thiago Seyboth Wild (; born 10 March 2000) is a Brazilians, Brazilian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 58, achieved on 20 May 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 197, achieved on 22 May 2023. He is currently the No. 2 player from Brazil. Seyboth Wild played on junior circuit and had a combined ITF ranking of No. 8, attained in January 2018. He won the 2018 US Open – Boys' singles, boys' singles title at 2018 US Open (tennis), 2018 US Open. In March 2020, at just 19 years old, Seyboth Wild won his first ATP Tour title at 2020 Chile Open, defeating second seed Casper Ruud in the final. Then he became the youngest Brazilian ATP titlist until João Fonseca (tennis), João Fonseca's trophy at 2025 Argentina Open. Early life Seyboth Wild was born on 10 March 2000 in the municipality of Marechal Cândido Rondon of Paraná (state), Paraná in the Southern Region, Brazil, Southern Region of Brazil. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glossary Of Tennis Terms
This page is a glossary of tennis terminology. A * Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the '' service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near one of the corners at the back of the service box. Initially, the term was used to indicate the scoring of a point. * Action: Synonym of '' spin''. * Ad court: Left side of the court of each player, so called because the ''ad'' (''advantage'') point immediately following a deuce is always served to this side of the court. * Ad in: '' Advantage'' to the '' server''. * Ad out: '' Advantage'' to the '' receiver''. * Ad: Used by the chair umpire to announce the score when a player has the '' advantage'', meaning they won the point immediately after a '' deuce''. See scoring in tennis. * Advantage set: Set won by a player or team having won at least six games with a two-game advantage over the opponent (as opposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles titles on the ATP Tour, and earned over 600 career match wins. His best performances in Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles tournaments were three semifinal appearances, two at the Wimbledon Championships (in 2007 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2007 and 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2015) and one at the US Open (tennis), US Open (in 2013 US Open – Men's singles, 2013). His best performance in ATP Masters 1000 tournaments tournaments was runner-up finishes in German Open Tennis Championships, Hamburg in 2005 and Canadian Open (tennis), Toronto in 2006 and 2012. Gasquet won the mixed doubles title at the 2004 French Open – Mixed doubles, 2004 French Open, partnering Tatiana Golovin, and an Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphaël Collignon
Raphaël Collignon (born 13 January 2002) is a Belgian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 81, achieved on 21 April 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 435, achieved on 31 March 2025. He is currently the No. 3 player from Belgium. Collignon has won four singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour. Career 2022: Four ITF titles In 2022 he won four ITF event finals. This included the Marburg Open which he won over Yshai Oliel in 2022 without dropping a set. 2023: Maiden Challenger final, top 250 In 2023 he reached the final at the Challenger di Roseto degli Abruzzi, where he lost 4–6, 7–5, 7–6 to Filip Misolic. It was his maiden ATP Challenger Tour event final and it pushed his career-high ranking in the top 210, and a place in the qualification event for a Grand Slam for the first time at the 2023 French Open. 2024: Maiden Challenger title, ATP and top 125 debuts In 2024, Collignon won his maiden Challenger title at the 2024 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Blockx
Alexander Blockx (born 8 April 2005) is a Belgian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 140, achieved on 16 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 634, achieved on 24 February 2025. He is currently the No. 4 player from Belgium. Early life Blockx has trained since childhood with Philippe Cassiers at his Forest Hills tennis academy in Belgium. By 2022, he was training at thTopsportcentrum Tennis Vlaanderenin Wilrijk, Antwerp alongside the likes of Tibo Colson, Zizou Bergs and Ruben Bemelmans. Career Juniors In 2022, Blockx reached the third round and then quarterfinals of the junior events at Wimbledon and the US Open, respectively. Shortly after the US Open, Blockx and sometimes junior doubles partner Gilles-Arnaud Bailly were invited to train with the Belgium Davis Cup team by captain Johan Van Herck. He reached a career-high junior ranking of No. 1 in singles and doubles on 1 May 2023 after winning the 2023 Australian Open in the boys single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
