2024 Open De Oeiras
The 2024 Open de Oeiras was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2024 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Oeiras, Portugal between 15 and 21 April 2024. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 8 April 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Gastão Elias * Jaime Faria * Frederico Ferreira Silva The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts: * Jozef Kovalík * Stefano Napolitano The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Adrian Andreev * Mathys Erhard * Gauthier Onclin * Valentin Royer * Tseng Chun-hsin * Samuel Vincent Ruggeri The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Maks Kaśnikowski Champions Singles * Francisco Comesaña def. Ugo Blanchet 6–4, 3–6, 7–5. Doubles * Filip Bergevi / Mick Veldheer def. Sergio Martos Gornés / ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. The French Open uses clay courts, the only Grand Slam tournament to do so. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness. Play Clay courts are considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Points are usually longer as there are fewer winn ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jesper De Jong
Jesper de Jong (born 31 May 2000) is a Dutch tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 160 achieved on 13 June 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 135 achieved on 23 May 2022. De Jong has won one singles and five ATP Challenger doubles titles. Professional career 2021: Maiden single Challenger title, top 250 in singles, top 200 in doubles In March, he won his first Challenger title at the 2021 Saint Petersburg Challenger II with Sem Verbeek. He won his third doubles title at the 2021 Almaty Challenger with Vitaliy Sachko. As a result, he hit a career-high in doubles of No. 204 on 14 June 2021. A week later, De Jong won also his first singles Challenger at the 2021 Almaty Challenger II defeating Marcelo Tomás Barrios Vera which resulted in a career-high of No. 260 on 21 June 2021. 2022: Top 160 in singles, top 150 in doubles, ATP debut Following a semifinal showing at the Challenger in Traralgon, Australia in January, he mad ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petros Tsitsipas
Petros Tsitsipas ( gr, Πέτρος Τσιτσιπάς, ; born 27 July 2000) is a Greek professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 137, achieved on 30 January 2023, and also has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 727, achieved on 30 August 2021. Tsitsipas represents Greece at the Davis Cup, where he has a W–L record of 10–9. Petros is the younger brother of Stefanos Tsitsipas. Career 2021–2023: ATP singles and doubles debut, 14 wildcards in doubles The brothers first partnered at the 2021 Australian Open, where they received their first team wildcard to the main draw but lost in the first round. The next two tournaments were the 2021 Rotterdam Open and 2021 Open 13 Provence in Marseille, France where they entered as main draw wildcards and lost in the second and first rounds respectively. Petros made his ATP singles debut as a wildcard as well to the main draw of the event at the 2021 Open 13, but lost to Alejandro Davidovich Fok ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sergio Martos Gornés
Sergio Martos Gornés (born 19 October 1994) is a Spanish tennis player. Martos Gornés has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 726 achieved on 20 July 2015. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 106 achieved on 6 February 2023. Martos Gornés has won 4 ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2021 Rafa Nadal Open, 2021 Vesuvio Cup, 2022 San Marino Open The 2022 San Marino Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. The 29th edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour, took place in City of San Marino, San Marino between 8 and 14 August 2022. Si ... and the 2023 Tenerife Challenger. Tour titles Doubles References External links * * 1994 births Living people Spanish male tennis players People from Ciutadella de Menorca Sportspeople from Barcelona Tennis players from the Balearic Islands {{Spain-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ugo Blanchet
Ugo Blanchet (born 5 January 1999) is a French tennis player. Blanchet has a career high ATP singles ranking of 282 achieved on 14 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 422 achieved on 26 September 2022. Blanchet made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Open 13 after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Timo Legout Timo Legout (born 13 March 2002) is a French tennis player. Legout has a career high ATP singles ranking of 406 achieved on 29 May 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 647 achieved on 25 July 2022. Legout made his ATP main dra .... Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 10 (6-4) References External links * * * 1999 births Living people French male tennis players People from Saint-Julien-en-Genevois Sportspeople from Haute-Savoie {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maks Kaśnikowski
Maks Kaśnikowski (born 6 July 2003) is a Polish tennis player. Kaśnikowski has a career high ATP singles ranking of 355 achieved on 20 March 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 766 achieved on 17 October 2022. Kaśnikowski represents Poland at the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the orga ..., where he has a W/L record of 1–1. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals Singles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups) Doubles: 2 (1 titles, 1 runner-ups) References External links * * * 2003 births Living people Polish male tennis players Sportspeople from Warsaw {{Poland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tseng Chun-hsin
Tseng Chun-hsin (; born 8 August 2001), also known as Jason Tseng, is a Taiwanese tennis player. Tseng is currently the highest ranked Taiwanese player on the ATP tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 83, achieved on 8 August 2022. He was also the ITF junior No. 1, first reaching this ranking on 11 June 2018 after winning the French Open Boys' Singles. He is also part of the Chinese Taipei Davis Cup team since 2018, with a W/L record of 1–0. Early and personal life Tseng began playing tennis at the age of five with his father, who worked at a night market in Taiwan. He first trained in elementary school team located in Yonghe District, New Taipei City. He is nicknamed "the Night Market Champion" () by the Taiwanese media as his parents used to sell Tanghulu at the Lehua Night Market in New Taipei City in order to support his tennis career. Career Pre-2019: Junior years He continued his training at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in France ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gauthier Onclin
Gauthier Onclin (born 26 February 2001) is a Belgian tennis player. He has a career high ranking of 184 achieved on September 18, 2023. Career 2023 In January 2023 Onclin reached the semifinals of the 2023 BW Open in Mons where he lost to eventual champion and compatriot David Goffin. In May 2023 he beat the higher-ranked Elias Ymer at a challenger event in Bordeaux. At the 2023 French Open he defeated Nicholas David Ionel in straight sets in the first round of qualifying before losing to Argentine Thiago Agustin Tirante in three sets. Onclin got his revenge over the Argentine in the qualifying at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, winning in straight sets during his first ever grass-court summer, as his junior years coincided with the grass-court cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2023, he received a wildcard in doubles for the European Open in Antwerp, alongside compatriot Michael Geerts Michael Geerts (born 17 January 1995) is a Belgian tennis pl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adrian Andreev
Adrian Andreev ( bg, Адриан Андреев, born 12 May 2001) is a professional Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Mac ...n tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 189 achieved on 19 December 2022. He is currently the No. 3 Bulgarian player. Andreev won the 2018 US Open – Boys' doubles, 2018 US Open Junior doubles title with Anton Matusevich. He has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 584 achieved on 12 September 2022. Junior career As a junior, he reached a career-high ITF ranking of No. 2 on 31 December 2018. Andreev won the 2017 Eddie Herr Junior Championships both in singles and in doubles. In 2018, Andreev won the Junior title at the US Open in doubles with Anton Matusevich, becoming the second Bulgarian to win ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stefano Napolitano
Stefano Napolitano (; born 11 April 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 12 June 2017, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 152 and his highest doubles ranking of 182 was achieved on 3 April 2017. Napolitano defeated Augusto Virgili in the qualifying of 2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup 6–0, 6–3, winning the first set without dropping a single point, which is referred to as a golden set In tennis, a golden set is a set which is won without losing a single point. This means scoring the 24 minimum points required to win the set 6–0, without conceding any points. In professional tennis, this has occurred twice in the main draw of .... Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 13 (2–11) Doubles: 10 (4–6) Singles performance timeline Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Napolitano, Stefano 1995 births Living people Italian male tennis pla ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jozef Kovalík
Jozef Kovalík (; born 4 November 1992) is a Slovak tennis player playing mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Career 2010-2014 Kovalík together with Filip Horanský won bronze medal in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. He won his first title on 17 August 2014, after beating second seed Andrey Kuznetsov. He became the fourth player to win an ATP Challenger title while ranked outside the top 300. 2016 He played his first match at ATP level on 5 January 2016 in Chennai, where he lost in the first round. He played his first match at a Grand Slam on 18 January 2016 at the Australian Open, where he lost to fellow qualifier Marco Trungelliti in the first round. At the 2016 BNP Paribas Open Kovalík won his first match at ATP level, defeating another qualifier Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the first round. He lost in two tight tie-breaks in the subsequent round, to fellow up-and-coming talent Dominic Thiem. Despite the loss his tennis was of an extremely high quality. Kovalík ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Frederico Ferreira Silva
Frederico Ferreira "Kiko" Silva (born 18 March 1995) is a Portuguese tennis player who currently plays at ITF Men's Circuit and ATP Challenger Tour. In May 2021, Silva reached a career singles high ranking of No. 168. He also reached a career-high of No. 242 in doubles in August 2016. In 2012, Silva became the first Portuguese player to win a Grand Slam title with the win at the US Open junior doubles tournament, teaming with Brit Kyle Edmund. In 2013, he would repeat the feat at the French Open junior doubles with Edmund. He reached a junior high world no. 6 in January 2012. Juniors Silva began his junior career in 2009. In May 2010, he won his first singles and doubles titles in a Grade 4 tournament at Istanbul, Turkey. Silva made his debut at Junior Grand Slams at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, reaching the 3rd round. Silva was also the runner-up in the 2012 European Junior Championship (U18 division). Professional career 2010 In 2010, Silva made his ITF Men's Circuit deb ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |