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2024 Zagreb Open
The 2024 Zagreb Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was part of the 2024 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2024 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Zagreb, Croatia between 3 and 9 June 2024 for men and 5 and 11 August for women. ATP singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of 27 May 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Matej Dodig * Roko Horvat * Luka Mikrut The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Nicolás Álvarez Varona The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: * Rio Noguchi The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Guy den Ouden * Gastão Elias * Mathys Erhard * Nino Serdarušić * Carlos Taberner * Alexey Zakharov WTA singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of 29 July, 2024. Other entrants The following players received w ... [...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, 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] |
Oriol Roca Batalla
Oriol Roca Batalla (, ; born 30 April 1993) is a professional Spanish tennis player. Roca Batalla has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 193 achieved on 3 August 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 175 achieved on 28 November 2022. Roca Batalla has won 27 ITF singles titles and 47 ITF doubles titles including six Challenger titles. He made it to his first ATP Challenger Tour singles final in Kenitra, Morocco on 19 September 2015. Roca Batalla made his ATP main draw debut at the 2015 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell The 2015 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell (also known as the ''Torneo Godó'') was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 63rd edition of the event and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2015 ATP World Tour. I ..., where he received a wildcard into the doubles event, partnering Gerard Granollers. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 40 (27-13) Notes External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léolia Jeanjean
Léolia Jeanjean (born 14 August 1995) is a French tennis player. Jeanjean has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 107 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 28 November 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 248, reached in April 2022. Early life Jeanjean was a gifted juniors player, but suffered a serious knee injury at age 14. In 2008, Jeanjean was a quarterfinalist iLes Petits Asand reached the final of the French U14 Championship. A league coach is then sent eleven weeks a year to La Grande-Motte where she lives. In 2009, she received a wildcard at Roland Garros for the junior singles and another for the junior doubles with her partner Darja Salnikova, but she was eliminated in the first round each time. She was invited again in 2010, but did not do better in singles, while in doubles with Clothilde de Bernardi, she reached the quarterfinals. College career Jeanjean attended Baylor University (Bachelor in Sociology) and played college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Taberner
Carlos Taberner Segarra (; born 8 August 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Taberner has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 85 achieved on 23 May 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 337 achieved on 18 September 2017. He has reached 16 career singles finals, with a record of 7 wins and 9 losses which includes four ATP Challenger singles titles: the 2020 Iași Open, the 2021 Antalya Challenger II, the 2021 Open du Pays d'Aix and the 2021 Lošinj Open. Additionally, he has reached 7 career doubles finals with a record of 4 wins and 3 losses which includes one ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2017 San Benedetto Tennis Cup. Professional career 2018: ATP and Grand Slam debut Taberner made his ATP Tour debut at the 2018 Open Sud de France in Marseilles where he advanced through 2 qualifying matches to reach the main draw. In qualifying, he defeated Benjamin Bonzi ''6–2, 6–4'' and Marco Trungelliti ''4–6, 6–2, 6–4'', w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Serdarušić
Nino Serdarušić (; born 13 December 1996) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 183 achieved on 4 April 2022. Juniors Serdarušić had a career high junior ranking of No. 21, and partnering Petros Chrysochos, made the doubles semifinals of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships boys' doubles. Professional career He made his ATP main draw debut at the 2014 ATP Vegeta Croatia Open Umag in the doubles event, partnering Dino Marcan, losing in the first round to the second seeds Pablo Cuevas and Horacio Zeballos in three sets. In 2016, he made his first appearance in an ATP singles draw - also in the Croatia Open - losing in straight sets to Teymuraz Gabashvili. In 2018, he played his first Challenger final in Ostrava, Czechia and he lost against Arthur De Greef 6:4,4:6,2:6. In 2021, he reached his second Challenger final in Verona, Italy where he was defeated by Holger Rune. Personal life In 2022, after losing in Australian Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastão Elias
Gastão José Ministro Elias (; born 24 November 1990) is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who competes on the ATP World Tour. He became the fifth Portuguese tennis player to break into the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings. In October 2016, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 57 to become the second-highest-ranked Portuguese player, after João Sousa (No. 28). Early and personal life Gastão Elias was born on 24 November 1990 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. At age four, he started playing tennis with his father. In 2001, he participated in the national under-12 singles competition, falling to future Davis Cup partner João Sousa in the semifinals. Elias idolized James Blake and Roger Federer while growing up. He is a supporter of Sporting Clube de Portugal, Real Madrid C.F. and Liverpool F.C. Career Professional career 2016 proved to be a breakthrough year for Elias. After winning an ATP Challenger Tour tourname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Noguchi
is a Japanese tennis player. Noguchi has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 201 achieved on 7 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 273 achieved on 12 June 2023. Career 2022: ATP debut, first win and Top 250 Noguchi made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships after qualifying for the singles main draw, defeating Tatsuma Ito and Yusuke Takahashi to qualify. He won his first ATP and ATP 500 level match defeating fellow qualifier Ramkumar Ramanathan Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as No. 111 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No. 58 ac .... As a result he climbed 75 positions up the rankings into the top 250. Singles: 16 (7–9) Doubles: 16 (6–10) References External links * * 1998 births Living people Japanese male tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás Álvarez Varona
Nicolás Álvarez Varona (born 18 May 2001) is a Spanish tennis player. Álvarez Varona has a career high ATP ATP may refer to: Companies and organizations * Association of Tennis Professionals, men's professional tennis governing body * American Technical Publishers, employee-owned publishing company * ', a Danish pension * Armenia Tree Project, non ... singles ranking of World No. 219 achieved on 17 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 288 achieved on 3 April 2023. Career 2022: ATP tour debut Álvarez Varona made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell after qualifying for the singles main draw, defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber and Max Alcalá Gurri before losing to Brandon Nakashima. References External links * * 2001 births Living people Spanish male tennis players Sportspeople from Burgos {{Spain-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luka Mikrut
Luka Mikrut (born 16 April 2004) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career high ATP ATP may refer to: Companies and organizations * Association of Tennis Professionals, men's professional tennis governing body * American Technical Publishers, employee-owned publishing company * ', a Danish pension * Armenia Tree Project, non ... singles ranking of world No. 350 achieved on 22 July 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 391 achieved on 1 April 2024. Career Mikrut made his ATP main draw doubles debut at the 2023 Croatia Open Umag after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Zvonimir Babić. For his singles debut, he received a wildcard for the main draw of the 2024 Croatia Open Umag where he lost to Camilo Ugo Carabelli. ATP Challenger and Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 7 (2 titles, 5 runner-ups) Doubles: 11 (9 titles, 2 runner-ups) References External links * * 2004 births Living people Croatian male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matej Dodig
Matej Dodig (born 19 July 2005) is a Croatian tennis player. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 286 on 29 July 2024. Professional career 2023: Professional debut and first title In March 2023, a week after making his professional debut, Dodig won his first title at the $15k event in Rovinj without dropping a set. 2024: ATP Tour debut and first win Dodig made his ATP Tour debut after receiving a wildcard for the main draw of his home tournament, the 2024 Croatia Open Umag, and recorded his first ATP win over qualifier Enzo Couacaud. ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dodig, Mateg Living people 2005 births Croatian male tennis players Sportspeople from Osijek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Prižmić
Dino Prižmić (born 5 August 2005) is a Croatian professional tennis player. Prižmić has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 155 achieved on 23 October 2023. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 1444 achieved on 16 January 2023. Career Juniors Prižmić reached two finals in the European Junior Championships, the first in 2019 in the under 14s and then in 2022 in the under 18s, but lost both of them. During his career at the ITF Junior Circuit, Prižmić reached a career-high ranking of No. 8 on 2 January 2023. His best junior result was winning the title at the 2023 French Open Junior tournament with the final win against Juan Carlos Prado Ángelo in straight sets. 2022: ATP debut In April 2022, Prižmić reached his first ITF final at the tournament in Dubrovnik, Croatia where he lost to Gergely Madarász in straight sets. Prižmić made his ATP debut in the singles draw of the 2022 Croatia Open Umag as a wildcard where he lost to Bernabé Zapata M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrique Rocha
Henrique Rocha (born April 6, 2004) is a professional tennis player from Portugal. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 167 achieved on 29 July 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 180 achieved on 6 May 2024. Early career From Maia, by 2018 he was training at the Centro de Alto Rendimento do Jamor, in Cruz Quebrada. He won Portuguese under-14, and under-16 age-group titles. In July 2020, he became the first tennis player born in 2004 to beat a player ranked in the world top 600 when he defeated Tiago Cação, number 547 in the world, in Figueira da Foz. Career In 2023 he made his ATP main draw debut by winning through qualifying at the 2023 Estoril Open. He defeated higher ranked players Ryan Peniston, and Máté Valkusz to reach the main draw. It was his first ATP tour qualifying event, having never previously even qualified for a Challenger tournament in 12 tries. He won his maiden Challenger title at the 2024 Murcia Open defeating Nikoloz Basilashvili. He bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
