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2024 Tennis Napoli Cup
The 2024 Tennis Napoli Cup was a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament, and part of the 2024 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place at the Tennis Club Napoli in Naples, Italy from 25 to 31 March 2024. Champions Singles * Luca Nardi def. Pierre-Hugues Herbert 5–7, 7–6(7–3), 6–2. Doubles * Guido Andreozzi / Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela def. Théo Arribagé / Victor Vlad Cornea 6–4, 1–6, 0–7 Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of 18 March 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Raúl Brancaccio * Enrico Dalla Valle * Francesco Maestrelli The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Filip Krajinović The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: * Nikoloz Basilashvili The following player received entry into the singles main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other construction aggregate, aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles on top. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. The only Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts is the French Open. Clay courts come in the more common #Red clay, red clay (known in France as ''terre battue''), which is actually crushed brick, and the slightly harder #Green clay, green clay, which is actually crushed metabasalt. Although slightly less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, clay requires much maintenance: the surface must be watered and rolled regularly to preserve texture and flatness, and brushed carefully before and during each match. Early history Clay courts, although now commonly associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsombor Piros
Zsombor Piros (born 13 October 1999) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. Piros has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 106, achieved on 4 March 2024. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 991, achieved on 8 August 2022. He is currently the No. 3 Hungarian player. Junior career On the junior tour Piros had a career-high ranking of 3 achieved on 4 September 2017. Piros won the 2017 Australian Open – Boys' singles, 2017 Australian Open boys' singles championships, defeating Israeli Yshai Oliel in the final. He made headlines at Wimbledon 2017 when he and doubles partner Yibing Wu fell foul of Wimbledon's pants police, and were required to change their underpants from black to white to comply with regulations. Even without their lucky pants they won the subsequent match 6–4 6–1. Piros won the Hungarian Tennis Championships on 1 October 2017. Professional career 2018: First Challenger win, first Top 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Ymer
Elias Ymer (born 10 April 1996) is a Swedish tennis player. Ymer has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of World No. 105, achieved on 11 June 2018. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 188, achieved on 16 October 2017. He is the current No. 1 Swedish singles player. Personal info Ymer was born in Skara, Sweden to Ethiopian immigrant parents. He is the elder brother of tennis player Mikael Ymer. From 2017 to 2018, Ymer was coached by Robin Söderling. In the autumn of 2022 Ymer, together with ten other athletes, was accepted as a student at Harvard Business School's “Crossover into Business” program. Career 2014: ATP debut Ymer made his ATP main draw singles debut at the 2013 Swedish Open where he lost in the first round to Grigor Dimitrov. Ymer received a wildcard at the 2014 Swedish Open defeating Mikhail Kukushkin in the first round before falling to João Sousa in the second round. 2015: Qualification at all Grand Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Guinard
Manuel Guinard (born 15 November 1995) is a French professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 36 on 14 April 2025 and a career-high singles ranking of world No. 134 on 31 October 2022. Guinard won his first ATP Tour title at the 2025 Monte-Carlo Masters in doubles, partnering with Romain Arneodo. He also competes on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he has won 15 doubles titles and 2 singles titles. Early life Born in Saint-Malo, Guinard began playing tennis at the age of 5-6 at the TCJA Saint-Malo under the guidance of his first coach, Olivier Courteau. At 12, he joined a tennis-studies program in Quimperlé, where he trained from 5th to 3rd grade. He later spent four seasons at the French Tennis Academy near Gorron, Mayenne. Driven by his passion for tennis, he aimed to build a career as a professional player, setting long-term goals such as breaking into the Top 100 worldwide. Early international experiences included Futures and Chal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Geerts
Michael Geerts (born 17 January 1995) is a Belgian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 212 achieved on 3 April 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 162 achieved on 17 October 2022. Geerts competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Career Geerts made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 European Open in the doubles draw partnering Yannick Mertens. In 2022, he won two Challenger titles in doubles: in Cassis with Joran Vliegen and in Ismaning with Patrik Niklas-Salminen. He took part in the Belgium Davis Cup team The Belgium men's national tennis team represents Belgium in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Royal Belgian Tennis Federation. History Belgium competed in its first Davis Cup in 1904 when it achieved its best result until 2 ... in 2021 against Bolivia and in 2022 against France. ATP Challenger and ITF Tour Finals Singles: 17 (10–7) Performance timeline Singles References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Géa
Arthur Géa (born 2 January 2005) is a French tennis player. He has a career high singles ranking of world No. 290 achieved on 17 February 2025. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 470 achieved on 28 October 2024. Early life Géa is from Velleron near Carpentras, in Vaucluse. Between the ages of seven and thirteen he trained at the Alain Barrère academy in Pontet, before joining the Ligue de Provence. He later joined the National Training Center of the French Tennis Federation in Paris. Junior career Géa reached the third round of the boys' singles at the 2022 French Open, and in the boys' singles at the 2022 US Open. He went a round better to reach the quarter final of the boys’ singles at the 2023 Australian Open. At the 2023 French Open Géa reached the second round of the boys' singles, and first round in the boys' doubles. At the 2023 Wimbledon Championships he lost to Henry Searle in the third round of the singles, but reached the semifinals of the boys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Furness
Evan Furness (born 13 August 1998) is a French inactive professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 197, achieved on 2 October 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 513, achieved on 27 May 2019. Furness has won one ATP Challenger and eight ITF singles titles. Career 2017: First win over Top 100 player In October 2017 he secured his first win over a top 100 player when he beat Marcos Baghdatis at the Eckental Challenger. Furness reached 5 semifinals on the Futures Tour in 2017; at Poitiers, Gdynia, Troyes, Riga and Nottingham. 2018: First title on the Futures Tour In March 2018 he won his first tournament on the Futures Tour. In Faro, he defeated David Guez in the final, winning in straight sets, In April 2018 he reached the semifinals of the Futures event in Porto but had to retire when one set apiece against Pedro Cachin with a calf injury. He was awarded a wildcard to the French Open qualifying. He lost to Peđa K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Bourgue
Mathias Bourgue (; born 18 January 1994) is a French tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 140 achieved on 24 April 2017. Career He received a wildcard to advance to the singles main draw in the 2016 French Open, where he reached the second round defeating Jordi Samper Montaña, before losing to world No. 2 Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professio ... in five sets. He also received a wildcard for the qualifying competition at the 2024 French Open, where he failed to qualifying, losing in the final round to Zizou Bergs. Performance timeline Singles ''Current after the 2024 French Open'' Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 25 (13-12) References External links * * 1994 births Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Passaro
Francesco Passaro (born 7 January 2001) is an Italian tennis player. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 89 on 17 February 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 256 on 20 February 2023. Career 2021: ATP debut Passaro made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Emilia-Romagna Open after receiving a wildcard for the doubles main draw. 2022–23: Masters, NextGen Finals and top 150 debuts He played his first ATP Challenger Tour final at the 2022 Sanremo Challenger and was defeated in three sets by the world No. 91 Holger Rune. He made his Masters debut at the 2022 Italian Open in Rome as a wildcard. He won his first Challenger in July 2022 in Trieste, Italy becoming the 20th #NextGenATP winner in 2022. As a result he reached a new career-high in the top 150 of world No. 144 on 25 July 2022. He qualified for the 2022 Next Generation ATP Finals. He reached a career high ranking of No. 108 on 13 February 2023. 2024–25: First Masters third round, Major & top 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikoloz Basilashvili
Nikoloz Basilashvili ( ka, ნიკოლოზ ბასილაშვილი, tr, ; born 23 February 1992) is a Georgian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 16 on 27 May 2019 making him the highest ranked player from Georgia. Basilashvilli became the first Georgian to win an ATP title at the 2018 German Open. He is currently the No. 1 Georgian player. In October 2018, Basilashvili won his second ATP 500 title at the China Open by defeating world No. 4 Juan Martín del Potro in the final. In 2019, Basilashvili completed his first title defense by winning the German Open for a second successive year. Personal life Basilashvili was born 23 February 1992 in Tbilisi, Georgia. His father, Nodar, is a dancer of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet, his mother, Natalia, worked as a physician. He has a brother, Tengiz. Apart from his native language he also speaks Russian and English. Basilashvili started playing tennis at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Krajinović
Filip Krajinović (, ; born 27 February 1992) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 on 23 April 2018.Filip Krajinović at the Association of Tennis Professionals His best individual result has been a Masters 1000 final, at the 2017 Rolex Paris Masters – Singles, 2017 Paris Masters. He played a Davis Cup semifinal with the Serbia Davis Cup team, Serbian national team. His ATP Tour debut came at the 2009 Serbia Open – Singles, 2009 Serbia Open. Career Junior career Krajinović started playing tennis in local tennis clinic TK Žak. In 2006, he reached the fourth round of 2006 Orange Bowl, losing to Bernard Tomic.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Maestrelli
Francesco Maestrelli (born 21 December 2002) is an Italian tennis player. Maestrelli has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 149 achieved on 26 June 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 318 achieved on 21 August 2023. Career Maestrelli won his maiden ATP Challenger title at the 2022 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Verona. In June 2023, he reached the top 150 following his 2023 Emilia-Romagna Open Challenger final showing in Montechiarugolo Montechiarugolo ( Parmigiano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Parma in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna and about southeast of Parma. Montechiarugolo borders the following municipalities: ..., Parma, Italy. He returned to the top 250 at No. 240 in the singles rankings on 25 November 2024 following his final showing at the 2024 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Rovereto Challenger. Grand Slam performance timeline Singles ATP Challeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
