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2025 Open 13 Provence
The 2025 Open 13 Provence was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 33rd edition of the Open 13, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2025 ATP Tour. It took place at the Palais des Sports de Marseille in Marseille, France, from 10 through 16 February 2025. Champions Singles * Ugo Humbert def. Hamad Medjedovic, 7–6(7–4), 6–4 Doubles * Benjamin Bonzi / Pierre-Hugues Herbert def. Sander Gillé / Jan Zieliński, 6–3, 6–4 Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of 3 February 2025. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Richard Gasquet * Daniil Medvedev * Stan Wawrinka The following player received entry as an alternate: * Raphaël Collignon The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Clément Chidekh * Arthur Géa * Hugo Grenier * Pierre-Hugues Herbert The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Manuel Guinard * Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both Types of tennis match, doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game. Dimensions The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written down in the annual 'Rules of Tennis' document. The court is long. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. The Service line (tennis), service line is from the net. Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of wide and long. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the Glossary of tennis terms#Baseline, baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Hurkacz
Hubert Hurkacz (; born 11 February 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Polish man in singles history. He has won eight ATP Tour singles titles, including two ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 titles at the 2021 Miami Open – Men's singles, 2021 Miami Open and the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters – Singles, 2023 Shanghai Masters, becoming the first Pole to win an ATP Masters 1000 title. Hurkacz also has a career-high ranking of world No. 30 in doubles, which he attained in June 2022. As a junior, Hurkacz was ranked as high as No. 29 in the world. He and his partner Alex Molčan were the runners-up at the 2015 Australian Open – Boys' doubles, 2015 Australian Open boys' doubles final. As a professional, he broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2018 after reaching the second rounds of the 2018 French Open – Men's singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Van Assche
Luca Van Assche (; born 11 May 2004) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 63, achieved on 23 October 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 335, achieved on 9 January 2023. Career Juniors Van Assche won the 2021 French Open Boys' Singles title, defeating fellow countryman Arthur Fils in the final. 2022: ATP, Major doubles debuts, Maiden Challenger title and top 150 In January 2022, ranked No. 445, Van Assche received a wildcard for the qualifying event at the 2022 Open Sud de France but lost to Roman Safiullin. He also made his ATP main draw doubles debut after receiving a wildcard into the main draw with Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg where they defeated David Vega Hernandez and Denys Molchanov to win their first ATP tour level match. He also made his Grand Slam debut in doubles at the French Open as a wildcard pair partnering also Gueymard Wayenburg. In October, Van Assche reached his first singles final on the ATP Chall ... [...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] |
Hugo Grenier
Hugo Grenier (born 23 March 1996) is a French professional tennis player. Grenier has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 95 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 362 achieved on 21 February 2022. Grenier has won five ATP Challenger Tour singles titles. He has also won six singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Futures Tour. Career 2021: ATP and top 150 debuts, maiden Challenger title In January, Grenier made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2021 Antalya Open, where he defeated Slovak qualifier Alex Molčan in the first round in straight sets before losing to fifth seed German Jan-Lennard Struff by walkover in the second round. In November, Grenier won his first career ATP Challenger Tour singles title in Roanne, France. 2022: Major & top 100 debuts He entered the main draw as a lucky loser at the 2022 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. He made his Grand Slam singles main draw debut also as a lucky loser at ... [...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] |
Clément Chidekh
Clément Chidekh (born 13 June 2001) is a French tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 184 achieved on 27 January 2025. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 437 achieved on 21 April 2025. Chidekh played college tennis at the University of Washington. Professional career 2021: First ITF title In June 2021, Chidekh won his first ITF title in Ajaccio, France, defeating Petros Tsitsipas in the final. 2023: ATP Tour debut In February, Chidekh made his ATP main draw debut at the 2023 Open Sud de France in Montpellier, France as a qualifier, losing to fellow countryman Quentin Halys in the first round. 2024: First Challenger title, Top 200 debut In February, Chidekh won his first title on the ATP Challenger Tour at the 2024 Glasgow Challenger, defeating Paul Jubb in the final. The following month, he reached his second Challenger final in Hamburg, losing to Henri Squire in the final. As a result he reached the top 300 in the ATP si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphaël Collignon
Raphaël Collignon (born 13 January 2002) is a Belgian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 81, achieved on 21 April 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 435, achieved on 31 March 2025. He is currently the No. 3 player from Belgium. Collignon has won four singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour. Career 2022: Four ITF titles In 2022 he won four ITF event finals. This included the Marburg Open which he won over Yshai Oliel in 2022 without dropping a set. 2023: Maiden Challenger final, top 250 In 2023 he reached the final at the Challenger di Roseto degli Abruzzi, where he lost 4–6, 7–5, 7–6 to Filip Misolic. It was his maiden ATP Challenger Tour event final and it pushed his career-high ranking in the top 210, and a place in the qualification event for a Grand Slam for the first time at the 2023 French Open. 2024: Maiden Challenger title, ATP and top 125 debuts In 2024, Collignon won his maiden Challenger title at the 2024 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Wawrinka
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka (; born 28 March 1985) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), first achieved on 27 January 2014. Wawrinka has won 16 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including three majors at the 2014 Australian Open, 2015 French Open and the 2016 US Open, where he defeated the world No. 1 player in the final on all three occasions. He has also won an Olympic gold medal in men's doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics partnering Roger Federer, and was pivotal in the Swiss team's victory at the 2014 Davis Cup. Wawrinka's other achievements include reaching the final of the 2017 French Open, winning a Masters 1000 title at the 2014 Monte-Carlo Masters, and reaching three other Masters finals (at 2008 Rome, 2013 Madrid and 2017 Indian Wells). He considers clay his best and favorite surface, and his serve and backhand his best shots. John McEnroe once said that Wawrinka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles titles on the ATP Tour, and earned over 600 career match wins. His best performances in Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles tournaments were three semifinal appearances, two at the Wimbledon Championships (in 2007 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2007 and 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2015) and one at the US Open (tennis), US Open (in 2013 US Open – Men's singles, 2013). His best performance in ATP Masters 1000 tournaments tournaments was runner-up finishes in German Open Tennis Championships, Hamburg in 2005 and Canadian Open (tennis), Toronto in 2006 and 2012. Gasquet won the mixed doubles title at the 2004 French Open – Mixed doubles, 2004 French Open, partnering Tatiana Golovin, and an Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. For Summer Olympic Games, some National Olympic Committees, whose nations are underrepresented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuno Borges (tennis)
Nuno Borges (; born 19 February 1997) is a Portuguese professional tennis player. Borges has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 30, achieved on 9 September 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 69, achieved on 19 September 2022. He is currently the No. 1 player from Portugal. Borges won his first ATP singles title at the 2024 Swedish Open in Båstad, Sweden. In the final, he beat Rafael Nadal, becoming one of only five players (with Federer, Djokovic, Murray and Zeballos) to beat Nadal in a clay court final. Juniors Borges had a combined ITF juniors ranking of world No. 44, achieved on 13 April 2015. College career Borges played US college tennis at Mississippi State University from 2015 to 2019. As a player of the Mississippi State Bulldogs he was NCAA singles runner-up in 2019, Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Player of the Year in 2019, and won the SEC Player of the Year Award three times (2017, 2018, 2019), having ranked #1 in both singles and doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
