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2024 UniCredit Czech Open
The 2024 UniCredit Czech Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 31st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2024 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Prostějov, Czech Republic between 3 and 8 June 2024. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 27 May 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Laslo Djere * Martin Kližan * Andrew Paulson The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Alibek Kachmazov * Gauthier Onclin * Jiří Veselý The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Arthur Géa * Toby Kodat * Jérôme Kym * Mohamed Safwat * Matías Soto * Michael Vrbenský The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Martin Krumich Champions Singles * Jérôme Kym def. Tseng Chun-hsin 6–2, 3–6, 6–2. Doubles * Ivan Liutarevich / Sergio Martos Gornés def. Matwé Middelkoop / Ph ... [...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] |
Ugo Blanchet
Ugo Blanchet (born 5 January 1999) is a French tennis player who plays mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 139 achieved on 30 September 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 387 achieved on 15 July 2024. Professional career 2022: ATP doubles debut In February, Blanchet made his ATP Tour debut at the 2022 Open 13 in Marseille after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Timo Legout. The pair went on to reach the quarterfinals, earning Blanchet his first ATP Tour doubles win. 2023: Maiden Challenger title, Top 200 debut In October, Blanchet won his maiden Challenger title at the 2023 Málaga Open as a qualifier, defeating Mattia Bellucci in the final. In November, Blanchet recorded his second ATP career win in doubles at the 2023 Moselle Open, playing along with Matteo Martineau, after the pair received a wildcard to the main draw. 2024: ATP singles debut and first win, Top 150 In Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matwé Middelkoop
Matwé Middelkoop (; born 3 September 1983) is a Dutch professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He has won 14 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, most notably the 2022 Rotterdam Open alongside Robin Haase, and reached a career high doubles ranking of world No. 18 on 6 February 2023. Middelkoop has reached the 2022 French Open semifinal in doubles and the 2019 Wimbledon Championships semifinal in mixed doubles, and two more Grand Slam quarterfinals in men's doubles, at the 2017 US Open and at the 2021 Australian Open. In singles, Middelkoop reached his highest ranking of world No. 197 in November 2008. He has represented the Netherlands in the Davis Cup since 2009, and holds a 10–6 record. Professional career Middelkoop has reached 93 doubles finals in his career, with a record of 51 wins and 42 losses. This includes a record of 14–17 in ATP finals, 15–14 in ATP Challenger finals and 22–11 in ITF Futures finals. Additionally, he has reached 28 career s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tseng Chun-hsin
Tseng Chun-hsin ( zh, t=曾俊欣, p=Zēng Jùnxīn; born 8 August 2001), also known as Jason Tseng, is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 83 by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, achieved on 8 August 2022. Tseng is currently the No. 1 Taiwanese player. He was also the International Tennis Federation, ITF junior No. 1, first reaching this ranking on 11 June 2018 after winning the 2018 French Open – Boys' singles, 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 an elementary school team located in Yonghe District, New Taipei City. He is nicknamed "the Night Market Champion" ( zh, t=夜市球王) by the Taiwanese media as his parents used to sell Tanghulu at the Lehua Night Market in ... [...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] |
Matías Soto (tennis)
Matías Soto (born 27 April 1999) is a Chilean tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 240 and a doubles ranking of No. 106, achieved in April 2025. He is currently the No. 5 player from Chile. Soto represents Chile at the Davis Cup. He played college tennis at Baylor University. Career Soto made his ATP main draw debut in doubles at the 2023 Chile Open after receiving a wildcard with Thiago Seyboth Wild, where he notched his first career ATP tour-level win in doubles, and after two more wins, he reached his first career ATP doubles final. As a result he reached the top 300 in the doubles rankings. He also received a wildcard for the 2024 Chile Open this time partnering Orlando Luz, another Brazilian where he reached his second doubles final. At the same tournament, he also received a wildcard for the singles qualifying competition. In March 2025, Soto won three back-to-back Challenger doubles titles in Santiago, Asunción and in Concepción, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed Safwat
Mohamed Safwat (; born 19 September 1990) is an Egyptian tennis player. Safwat has been a regular player on the Egypt Davis Cup team since 2009. Safwat has won one singles and three titles in doubles on the ATP Challenger Tour. He is currently the Egyptian No. 1. Professional career In 2016, Safwat became the first Egyptian player since 1997 to reach the final of a Challenger tournament when he reached the final in Kenitra, where he lost to Maximilian Marterer in straight sets. He also reached the semifinals at the Challenger tournament in Launceston in 2017, eventually losing to Mitchell Krueger. In 2018, Safwat beat No. 3 seed and top 100 player Jordan Thompson en route to his second Challenger singles final in Anning, where he lost to Prajnesh Gunneswaran. Safwat qualified for his first Grand Slam at the 2018 French Open as a lucky loser, where he lost to Grigor Dimitrov Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov (, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Kodat
Toby Alex Kodat (born 13 January 2003) is an American professional tennis player. Kodat and fellow American Martin Damm are the youngest men's doubles team to win a US Open match in the Open Era. Kodat has a career high ATP singles ranking of 311 achieved on 18 September 2023. He has a career high junior ranking of 4, achieved on January 11, 2021. Kodat is the half-brother of former tennis player Nicole Vaidišová. Career 2019: Grand Slam debut and win, Junior Grand Slam Final In the junior tour, Kodat had reached the finals of the 2019 French Open where he ultimately lost in the final to Holger Rune. In August 2019, Kodat and his partner Martin Damm won the USTA Boys 18s National Championships doubles title, earning the pair a wild-card entry into the doubles main draw of the 2019 US Open. Kodat and fellow American Damm became the youngest men's doubles team to win a US Open match in the Open Era. 2020: First ITF final Kodat lost his first ITF final at an M15 event in Cair ... [...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] |
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý (; born 10 July 1993) is a Czech professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 35 on 27 April 2015. Youth career Veselý reached the No. 1 junior combined world ranking in January 2011, compiling a singles win–loss record of 125–45. Professional career 2012–2015: Grand Slam debut, first singles and doubles titles, Top 35 Veselý made his Davis Cup debut for Czech Republic in February 2013, and to date has nine singles titles on the ITF Futures circuit to his name and three Challengers. 2016: Two ATP top 10 wins, including over the World No. 1 Djokovic, Wimbledon fourth round At the 2016 US Open, Veselý beat Saketh Myneni in the first round and set up a rematch of Monte Carlo with world number one Novak Djokovic. However, Veselý pulled out before the match was set to begin because of a left arm injury. 2017–2020: Second doubles title, second singles title & first since 2015 In 2020 Maharashtra Open, Vesel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauthier Onclin
Gauthier Onclin (born 26 February 2001) is a Belgian professional tennis player who plays mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 192, achieved on 5 May 2025. Career 2023: ATP debut in doubles In January, Onclin reached the semifinals of the 2023 BW Open in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve where he lost to eventual champion and compatriot David Goffin. In May, he defeated the higher-ranked Elias Ymer at a Challenger event in Bordeaux in the first round. 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 portion of the Tour cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In October, he received a wildcard in doubles for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alibek Kachmazov
Alibek Muratovich Kachmazov ( rus, Алибек Муратович Качмазов, , ɐlʲɪˈbʲek kɐˈt͡ɕmazəf, links=no; born 17 August 2002) is a Russian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 161 achieved on 5 May 2025. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 250 achieved on 8 May 2023. Career 2019-2023: ATP debut and first win Kachmazov made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Kremlin Cup after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. He entered the main draw at the 2023 Chengdu Open as a qualifier but lost in the first round to Christopher O'Connell. He entered the qualifying draw at the 2023 Astana Open as an alternate and won in the first round against third seed Fabian Marozsan and seventh seed Damir Dzumhur to qualify for his third main draw. He won his first ATP Tour level match against Corentin Moutet. 2024: First ATP semifinal, top 200 debut Ranked No. 252, he again entered the main draw at the 2024 Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
