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Louis Wessels
Louis Wessels (; born 27 August 1998) is a German tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 267, achieved in July 2022. Tennis career On the junior tour, Wessels has a career high ITF junior ranking of 17 achieved in May 2016. Wessels has reached the doubles semifinals at three of the four junior grand slams, including the 2015 Australian Open, 2015 US Open and the 2016 Wimbledon Championships. Wessels made his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 German Open, where he upset Steven Diez in the first round. This victory made him the youngest player to win a main draw match on the 2016 ATP World Tour The 2016 ATP World Tour was the global elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2016 tennis season. The 2016 ATP World Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by ... at that time. Ranked No. 347, he qualified for his home tournament at the 2023 Halle Open having received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detmold
Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of the district of Lippe and of the Regierungsbezirk Detmold. The Church of Lippe has its central administration located in Detmold. The Reformed Redeemer Church is the preaching venue of the state superintendent of the Lippe church. History Iron Age About to the southwest of Detmold is the hill with a prehistoric circular rampart and the Hermann monument (). The monument commemorates the so-called Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a battle in 9 AD which may or may not have been fought close to the present location of Detmold. In this encounter, Germanic tribes led by Hermann () defeated Roman legions under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus. Middle Ages Detmold was first mentioned as ''Theotmalli'' in 783, the year of a battle be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples, Florida
Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 19,115, down from 19,539 at the 2010 census. Naples is a principal city of the Collier County, Florida, Naples–Marco Island metropolitan area, which had a population of about 375,752 as of 2020. The city is known mostly for its high-priced homes, white-sand beaches, and numerous golf courses. Naples is the self-titled "Golf Capital of the World", as it has the second most golf holes per capita out of all communities, and the most holes of any city in Florida. The city is also known for being appealing to retirees, who make up a large percentage of the population. History Before the period of European colonization of the Americas, European colonization, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous Calusa lived in Florida (including the region of present-day Naples) for thousands of years, from Charlotte Harbor (estuary), Charlotte Harbor to Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horgen
Horgen () is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. It is one of the larger towns along the south bank of the Lake of Zurich. On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Hirzel merged into the municipality of Horgen. History Horgen is also the type-site of Switzerland's middle Neolithic archaeological culture. The settlement there, the so-called ''Horgner Kultur'' ( Horgen culture), produced examples of a type of crude pottery with parallels to the Seine-Oise-Marne culture of northern France. Horgen is first mentioned in 952 as ''Horga''. Geography Horgen has an area of . Of this area, 27.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 49.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 20.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 12.5% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (7.9%). Of the total unpro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesper De Jong
Jesper de Jong (born 31 May 2000) is a Dutch tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 87, achieved on 19 May 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 135, achieved on 23 May 2022. He is the current Dutch No. 2 singles player. De Jong has won three singles and seven doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour. Early life and background De Jong was born in Haarlem and lives in Hoofddorp. He began playing tennis at the age of five. In his youth, he trained at Zwaanshoek Tennis & Padel. His tennis idol was Roger Federer. De Jong and his grandfather, Jan, who died in October 2023, had dreamed of playing in a Grand Slam. After qualifying for the main draw of the 2024 Australian Open, de Jong got a tattoo to commemorate his late grandfather. Professional career 2021: Maiden Challenger titles, top 250 debut In March 2021, de Jong won his first Challenger doubles title at the Saint Petersburg Challenger II with Sem Verbeek. In May, he won his second Challenger doubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marburg
Marburg (; ) is a college town, university town in the States of Germany, German federal state () of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf Districts of Germany, district (). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximately 76,000. Having been awarded town privileges in 1222, Marburg served as capital of the Landgrave, landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg during periods of the 15th to 17th centuries. The University of Marburg was founded in 1527 and dominates the public life in the town to this day. Marburg is a historic centre of the pharmaceutical industry in Germany, and there is a plant in the town (by BioNTech) to produce vaccines to tackle Covid-19. History Founding and early history Like many settlements, Marburg developed at the crossroads of two important early medieval highways: the trade route linking Cologne and Prague and the trade route from the North Sea to the Alps and on to Italy, the former crossing the river La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille (Elbe), Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen (state), Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's List of busiest ports in Europe, third-largest, after Port of Rotterdam, Rotterda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Bortolotti
Marco Bortolotti (born 21 January 1991) is an Italian tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 87 achieved on 19 August 2024. Bortolotti has won nine ATP Challenger The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as ... doubles titles. He also has a career high singles ranking of No. 355 achieved on 25 April 2016. ATP Challenger titles Doubles (7) References External links * * 1991 births Living people Italian male tennis players People from Guastalla Sportspeople from the Province of Reggio Emilia Doping cases in tennis 21st-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pula, Sardinia
Pula (Latin: Nora) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari in the Italy, Italian region of Sardinia, located about southwest of Cagliari. It has 7,090 inhabitants. Pula is a holiday resort, with numerous hotels and beaches. The ruins of the ancient city of Nora, Italy, Nora are among the most important archaeological sites of the island. History Pula is located near the ancient city of Nora, Italy, Nora. Nora was built by Phoenicians around the 8th century BC. There is evidence that Pula rose on a pre-existing Nuragic civilization, Nuragic settlement or according, to legend, by Iberians brought to Sardinia by Norax. In the following centuries, the city was ruled by the Carthaginians, and then by the Roman Empire, Romans. The Romans made Nora the capital of Corsica and Sardinia for a short time, before giving the title to the nearby Caralis (modern Cagliari). After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Nora, like many other Sardinian coastal citie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Ehrat
Sandro Ehrat (born 18 April 1991) is a Swiss tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player. Ehrat has a career high ATP singles ranking of 286, achieved on 9 September 2019 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 467, achieved on 12 July 2021. Ehrat made his ATP main draw debut at the 2010 MercedesCup, partnering Raphael Hemmeler in doubles, but they lost in the first round. ATP Challengers and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 25 (11–14) Doubles 9 (4–5) External links * * 1991 births Living people Swiss male tennis players Sportspeople from Schaffhausen 21st-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schlieren, Switzerland
Schlieren (Zürich German ''Schlierä'') is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Dietikon (district), Dietikon in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Zürich (canton), Zürich in Switzerland. History The oldest Artifact (archaeology), artifact discovered in the Canton of Zürich is a Stone Age Neanderthal hand axe which was found in Schlieren, and dates back to approximately 100,000 BCE. Schlieren was first mentioned in 828. Until 1415, Schlieren belonged to Habsburg. After the conquest of Aargau by the Swiss Confederates it was a component of the county of Baden. In 1803 Schlieren was assigned to the Canton of Zürich. In 1777 the minister Heinrich Keller created here the first "deaf-mute school" in Switzerland. In the late 1800s, Schlieren began evolving from a rural agricultural village into a burgeoning urban town, a change driven by the industrial revolution. Thanks to the proximity to the city of Zürich and the good traffic facilities (Tram, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essen
Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the List of cities in Germany by population, tenth-largest city of Germany. Essen lies in the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top 4 German metropolitan regions, second largest by GDP in the EU, and is part of the cultural area of Rhineland. Because of its central location in the Ruhr, Essen is often regarded as the Ruhr's "secret capital". Two rivers flow through the city: the Emscher in the north, and in the south the Ruhr (river), Ruhr River, which is dammed in Essen to form the and reservoirs. The central and northern boroughs of Essen historically belong to the Low German Westphalian dialects area, and the south of the city to the Low Franconian Bergish dialects, Bergish ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
