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Royan Atlantique Open
The Royan Atlantique Open is a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It has been held in Royan Royan (; in the Saintongeais dialect; ) is a commune and town in the south-west of France, in the Departments of France, department of Charente-Maritime in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Capital of the Côte de Beauté, Royan is one of the mai ..., France. It returned to the tennis schedule in 2025 after last being held in 1981. Past finals Singles Doubles References External linksRoyan Overview ATP Tour Tennis ATP Challenger Tour Clay court tennis tournaments Recurring sporting events established in 2025 {{ATPtour-competition-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royan
Royan (; in the Saintongeais dialect; ) is a commune and town in the south-west of France, in the Departments of France, department of Charente-Maritime in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Capital of the Côte de Beauté, Royan is one of the main French Atlantic coastal resort towns, and has five beaches, a marina for over 1,000 boats, and an active fishing port. As of 2013, the population of the greater urban area was 48,982. The town had 19,029 inhabitants in 2021. Royan is located on the peninsula of Arvert, at the mouth of the Gironde estuary on its eastern shore. Royan was once of strategic importance, coveted in particular by the Visigoths and the Vikings. During the Reformation the city became a Protestant stronghold, and was besieged and destroyed by King Louis XIII of France (ruled 1610–43). During the Bourbon Restoration in France, Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830), and especially during the Second French Empire, Second Empire (1852–1870), Royan was celebrated for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Challenger Tour
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 the second tier of tennis. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP Tour and ahead of the ITF Men%27s World Tennis Tour, ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to enter the main or qualifying draws at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are typically young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP Tour players looking to return to the top tour. History of challenger events The first challenger events were held in 1978, with eighteen events taking place. ... [...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] |
2025 Royan Atlantique Open
The 2025 Royan Atlantique Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament since returning to the tennis schedule after an absence of over 40 years (since 1981). It was part of the 2025 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Royan, France from 16 to 21 June 2025. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 9 June 2025. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Enzo Couacaud * Thomas Faurel * Benoît Paire The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings: * Kalin Ivanovski * Cedrik-Marcel Stebe The following player received entry into the singles main draw through the Next Gen Accelerator programme: * Kilian Feldbausch The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Max Alcalá Gurri * Buvaysar Gadamauri * Théo Papamalamis * Tom Paris * Lucas Poullain * Andrés Santamarta Roig Champions Sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titouan Droguet
Titouan Droguet (; born 15 June 2001) is a French tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 130 achieved on 6 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 211 achieved on 24 April 2023. Droguet has won two singles and three doubles ATP Challengers. Career 2022: First ITF titles In April 2022, Droguet won his first ITF singles title in Angers, France. In May, Droguet won his first Challenger doubles title in Aix-en-Provence, France playing alongside Kyrian Jacquet. 2023: Major debut and first win, top 200 In February, Droguet reached his first Challenger singles final in Cherbourg, France, where he lost to third seed Giulio Zeppieri. In June, Droguet made his Grand Slam qualifying debut as a wildcard, at the French Open, losing in the first round to Andrea Vavassori. Following two more Challenger finals, both lost, in Modena, Italy and Amersfoort, Netherlands, Droguet made his debut in the ATP top 200 at No. 185 on 23 July 2023. Ranked No. 172, Drogue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitar Kuzmanov
Dimitar Kuzmanov (, ; nickname: Miko; born 28 July 1993) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. His career-high singles ranking is No. 159 achieved on 29 August 2022 and his best doubles ranking is No. 438 achieved on 1 April 2019. Early years and personal life Dimitar Kuzmanov was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the son of Savko Kuzmanov (an aeronautical engineer) and Dora Rangelova (Bulgaria Fed Cup team's former tennis player and present team captain). His maternal family is entirely related to the sport. Dora's father Zdravko Rangelov, who is one of the founders of tennis in Plovdiv, has been a tennis player and longtime coach in Tennis Club Lokomotiv, whilst her mother has been a volleyball player and coach. Dora's brother, Stefan Rangelov is a former tennis player and present tennis coach. Kuzmanov began playing tennis aged six when his mother Dora took him to play on courts of Tennis Club Lokomotiv Plovdiv, and Stefan was the man, tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matej Dodig
Matej Dodig (born 19 July 2005) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 263, achieved on 27 January 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 502, achieved on 26 May 2025. 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, top 300 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 Enzo Couacaud (; born 1 March 1995) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career high singles ranking of world No. 151, which he achieved on 17 July 2023 and a doubles ranking of world No. 188 achieved on 8 March 2021. Career 2015: .... ATP Challenger Tour finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 6 (5 ti ... [...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. 167, achieved on 27 June 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 159, achieved on 20 November 2023. 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 doubles main draw debut at the 2014 ATP Vegeta Croatia Open Umag, partnering Dino Marcan, losing in the first round to the second seeds Pablo Cuevas Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz (; born January 1, 1986) is a Uruguayan tennis coach and a former professional player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open – Men's doubles, 2008 French Open men's doubles title with Luis Horna, and was especially noted t ... and Horacio Zeballos in three sets. In 2016, he made his first appearance in an ATP singles draw, also in the Croatia Open but lost in straight sets to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court Tennis Tournaments
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide. Clays develop plasticity (physics), plasticity when wet but can be hardened through Pottery#Firing, firing. Clay is the longest-known ceramic material. Prehistoric humans discovered the useful properties of clay and used it for making pottery. Some of the earliest pottery shards have been radiocarbon dating, dated to around 14,000 BCE, and Clay tablet, clay tablets were the first known writing medium. Clay is used in many modern industrial processes, such as paper making, cement production, and chemical filtration, filtering. Between one-half and two-thirds of the world's population live or work in buildings made with clay, often baked into brick, as an essenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
