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2024 Tunis Open
The 2024 Tunis Open, known as the Kia Tunis Open, was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 14th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2024 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tunis, Tunisia between 13 and 18 May 2024. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 6 May 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Nikoloz Basilashvili * Martín Landaluce * Aziz Ouakaa The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Gijs Brouwer * Aziz Dougaz * Mitchell Krueger The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Gerard Campana Lee * Marco Cecchinato * Felix Gill * Timofey Skatov * Michael Vrbenský * Alexander Weis The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Tristan Lamasine Champions Singles * Oriol Roca Batalla def. Valentin Royer 7–6(7–5), 7–5. Doubles * Federico Agustín Gómez / Marcus Willis d ... [...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] |
Genaro Alberto Olivieri
Genaro Alberto Olivieri (born 4 August 1998) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 131 achieved on 2 October 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 304 achieved on 29 August 2022. Career 2023: Grand Slam debut, first wins & third round, top 135 Ranked No. 231, he made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2023 French Open defeating Adrian Andreev in the last round of qualifying. Next he defeated wildcard Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in five sets to reach the second round. As a result he moved 40 positions up a couple of spots shy of his career-high ranking of No. 190 reached on 21 November 2022. Next he defeated fellow qualifier Andrea Vavassori to reach the third round having never recorded an ATP win previously in his career. He lost to Holger Rune in straight sets. As a result he moved another 20 positions into the top 175 in the rankings on 12 June 2023. He reached a career-high singles ranking of worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrik Rikl
Patrik Rikl (born 6 January 1999) is a Czech tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 65 achieved on 5 May 2025. Rikl has won one ATP Tour and five ATP Challenger doubles titles. Personal life Rikl is the son of Czech former tennis player David Rikl. Career Juniors Rikl won the 2016 French Open boys' doubles title alongside Israeli Yshai Oliel. The pair defeated Chung Yun-seong and Orlando Luz in the final. Professional Partnering with Petr Nouza, Rikl was runner-up in the doubles at the 2024 Stockholm Open, losing to top seeds Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten in the final. Rikl was nominated as part of Czech Team at 2025 United Cup, losing both mixed doubles matches alongside Gabriela Knutson. Partnering with Petr Nouza, Rikl made his Grand Slam debut at 2025 Australian Open. At the 2025 Grand Prix Hassan II Rikl and Nouza defeated top seeds Hugo Nys and Édouard Roger-Vasselin Édouard Roger-Vasselin (; born 28 November 1983) is a French profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Royer
Valentin Royer (; born 29 May 2001) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 112, achieved on 23 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 778, achieved on 20 June 2022. Early life Royer was born from French parents, but lived in Central and Eastern European countries until he was 17 years-old, including the Czech Republic, Serbia, and Poland. Professional career Juniors A member of Ninon Tennis Club in Pornichet, he was European U18 champion in both singles and doubles in 2019, playing doubles alongside Harold Mayot. 2022: First ITF title In May, Royer won his first ITF title in Ulcinj, Montenegro, defeating Samuel Vincent Ruggeri in the final. 2024: Maiden Challenger title, Top 200 In April, he defeated Dennis Novak at ITF Tour event in Oeiras, Portugal to ensure a ranking high enough to make his debut in senior qualifying for a Grand Slam at the 2024 French Open. In the men's qualifying at Roland Garros in May 2024 he won his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristan Lamasine
Tristan Lamasine (; born 5 March 1993) is a French, professional tennis player. Lamasine has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 181 achieved on 3 August 2015. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 85 achieved on 13 June 2016. Career 2010–2015 From 2010 to 2015, Lamasine played mostly in the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Men's Circuit. He made his ITF Men's Circuit singles debut (at a tournament in France) in September 2010 and his ATP Challenger Tour singles debut (at the 2011 Challenger Banque Nationale de Rimouski) in March 2011.Tristan Lamasine – player's singles activity ATP Tour official website From 2010 to 2015, Lamasine played in the singles event of only four ATP World Tour events ( [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Vrbenský
Michael Vrbenský (born 26 December 1999) is a Czech tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 277 achieved on 15 July 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 177 achieved on 9 September 2024. Vrbenský has won four ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2019 Liberec Open and at the 2021 ATP Prague Open with Jonáš Forejtek, at the 2023 Sibiu Open with Andrew Paulson and in 2024 again in Liberec with Forejtek. Career Vrbenský made his ATP main draw debut as qualifier at the 2021 Antalya Open with two straight sets victories. He then lost in the first round to former Top 10 member Fabio Fognini Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. Fognini's most successful surface is Clay court#Red clay, ... in two tight sets. ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals Singles: 18 (11–7) Doubles: 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timofey Skatov
Timofey Dmitriyevich Skatov (; born 21 January 2001) is a Kazakh tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 123, achieved on 11 September 2023 and No. 627 in doubles, achieved on 17 July 2023. Skatov had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 1 achieved on 1 January 2018. He is the current No. 4 Kazakh player. Professional career 2020-21: ATP debut & first win, First Challenger final, Top 250 Skatov made his ATP debut at the 2020 Astana Open in Nur-Sultan as a wildcard where he lost to Emil Ruusuvuori. In June 2021, he reached his first Challenger final as a wildcard in Almaty where he lost to Zizou Bergs. He won his first ATP match also as a wildcard at the 2021 Astana Open in Kazakhstan defeating Andreas Seppi. 2022: Major and top 150 debuts, Maiden Challenger title Skatov made his first Grand Slam main draw appearance after successfully making it all the way through in the 2022 Australian Open qualifications, defeating Hugo Grenier, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Gill
Felix Gill (born 1 June 2002) is a British tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 306 achieved on 20 May 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 459 achieved on 13 June 2022. Career He has reached eleven career singles finals on the ITF World Tennis Tour with four victories. In 2022, Gill made his ATP Tour debut reaching the second round of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles draw with compatriot Arthur Fery defeating Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar Gonzalo Escobar (; born 20 January 1989, in Manta, Ecuador, Manta) is an Ecuadorian tennis player. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 38, achieved on 15 November 2021. He has won three ATP doubles titles with Uruguayan Ariel Behar and .... ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 11 (4–7) References External links * * 2002 births Living people English male tennis players British male tennis players Tennis players from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Cecchinato
Marco Cecchinato (; born 30 September 1992) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 16 reached on 25 February 2019. On 29 April 2018, he won his first ATP World Tour title at the 2018 Hungarian Open as a lucky loser, becoming the first Sicilian tennis player to win an ATP title. Cecchinato is a clay specialist and his best Grand Slam result is a semifinal at the 2018 French Open. At the other Grand Slams he has not won a match in singles. Career 2013–2017: ATP and Grand Slam debut In May 2013, Cecchinato qualified for the main draw at the ATP tournament in Nice, losing to countryman and No. 6 seed, Fabio Fognini, in the first round. In July 2014, Cecchinato qualified for Umag, where he played another countryman and No. 6 seed, Andreas Seppi, in the first round. Cecchinato lost the match in three sets. Cecchinato then made his Grand Slam debut at the 2015 US Open. On 20 July 2016, Cecchinato was suspended for 18 month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell Krueger
Mitchell Krueger (born January 12, 1994) is an American tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking by the ATP of world No. 135, achieved on July 18, 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 173, achieved on April 27, 2015. Professional career Krueger received a wildcard into the 2012 US Open mixed doubles event, where he partnered fellow American Samantha Crawford, but lost in the first round. He made his ATP Tour main-draw debut and recorded his first ATP win when he qualified and defeated Benoît Paire for a first of two wins of his career against this same player at the 2017 Western & Southern Open and the 2018 BNP Paribas Open. He made his Grand Slam debut when he qualified into the main draw of the 2018 US Open. At the 2019 Australian Open, Krueger qualified for the first time at this Major but lost to world No. 1, Novak Djokovic, in the first round. His first Grand Slam win was at the 2020 US Open where he defeated Pedro Sousa in the first round as a wildcard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz Dougaz
Mohamed Aziz Dougaz (; born 26 March 1997) is a Tunisian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 192 achieved on 21 October 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 261 achieved on 2 December 2019. On the junior tour, Dougaz had a career high ranking of No. 46 achieved on 16 February 2015. Dougaz reached the quarterfinals of the 2015 Wimbledon Championships boys' doubles event. Dougaz has represented Tunisia in the Davis Cup, where he has a win-loss record of 15–11. Career He achieved a career high singles ranking of No. 214 on 12 June 2023 following lifting three ITF trophies in Monastir, Tunisia within a month, which made him only the second player from Africa in the top 250, and later the top 200 on 21 October 2024. Ranked No. 230, Dougaz made his Grand Slam debut at the 2025 Australian Open after qualifying for the main draw, guaranteeing a six continent representation in both the men and women events at the tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gijs Brouwer
Gijs Brouwer (; born 14 March 1996) is a Dutch tennis player. Brouwer has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 114 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 22 August 2022. Brouwer has won two ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2021 Puerto Vallarta Open with Reese Stalder and at the 2022 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger with Christian Harrison. Career 2022: ATP & Major debut & top-50 win, top 150 in singles & doubles On his ATP Tour debut at the 2022 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, Brouwer as a qualifier, made the quarterfinals after defeating Feliciano López and J. J. Wolf. He lost to third seed and eventual champion Reilly Opelka in the quarterfinals. As a result he made his top 300 debut at world No. 286. In May, Brouwer reached his first Challenger final at the 2022 Tunis Open losing to Roberto Carballés Baena. Brouwer made his Grand Slam debut at the US Open as a qualifier. He rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
