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Takeru Yuzuki
is a Japanese tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 108 achieved on 23 June 2025. Career Yuzuki made his ATP main draw debut at the 2023 Japan Open Tennis Championships after entering the doubles main draw with Seita Watanabe as lucky losers. Yuzuki made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2025 Australian Open The 2025 Australian Open was a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park from 12 to 26 January 2025. It was the 113th edition of the Australian Open, the 57th in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam (tenn ... after entering the doubles main draw with Seita Watanabe as a wildcard pair. References External links * * 1998 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Sportspeople from Tochigi Prefecture {{Japan-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tochigi (city)
is a Cities of Japan, city located in Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 151,842 in 66,018 households, and a population density of 458 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Because the city escaped war damage during World War II, many historical temples, traditional shops and ''Kura (storehouse), kura'' (Japanese traditional storehouses) remain in the city center. The city was awarded th"Utsukushii-machinami Taisho"prize from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in 2009. Geography Tochigi is located in the very southern portion of Tochigi Prefecture, bordering on Ibaraki Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture to the southwest. The city is located in the northern part of the Kanto plain, with a mountain range extending in the northern part of the city. The Tomawa River runs through the city center, the Oshigawa River runs through the eastern part, and the Watarase River runs through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Tour
The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is the sole worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) founded in 1990 that replaced the earlier dual Grand Prix tennis circuit, Grand Prix Circuit and WCT Circuit. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organisation is the WTA Tour. ATP Tour tournaments The ATP Tour comprises ATP Masters 1000, ATP 500, and ATP 250 and the United Cup. The ATP also oversees the ATP Challenger Tour, a level below the ATP Tour, and the ATP Champions Tour for seniors. The Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments, the Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Olympic tennis tournament, the Davis Cup, and the entry-level 2022 ITF Men's World Tennis Tour, ITF World Tennis Tour do not fall under the purview of the ATP, but are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) instead and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year. In doubles, a Grand Slam may be achieved as a team or as an individual with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a "non-calendar-year Grand Slam", while winning the four majors at any point during the course of a career is known as a "Career Grand Slam". The term Grand Slam is also attributed to the Grand Slam tournaments, referred to as Majors, and they are the world's four most important annual professional tennis tournaments. They offer the most ranking points, prize money, public and media attention, the greatest strength and size of the field and, in recent years, the longest matches for men (best of five sets, best of three for the women). The tournaments are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), rather than the separate men's and women's tour orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual team sporting competition. It is described by the organisers as the "World Cup of Tennis" and the winners are referred to as the world champions. The competition began in 1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain Davis Cup team, Great Britain and the United States Davis Cup team, United States. By 2023 Davis Cup, 2023 155 nations entered teams into the competition. The most successful country over the history of the competition is the United States (winning 32 titles and finishing as runners-up 29 times). The most recent champions are Italy Davis Cup team, Italy, who beat Netherlands Davis Cup team, Netherlands to win their third title (and second consecutive one) in 2024 Davis Cup, 2024. The wome ... [...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] |
2025 Australian Open – Men's Doubles
Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten defeated Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in the final, 6–7(16–18), 7–6(7–5), 6–3 to win the men's doubles tennis title at the 2025 Australian Open. It was the second major title for both players. Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Bopanna partnered Nicolás Barrientos, but lost to Pedro Martínez and Jaume Munar in the first round. Ebden partnered Joran Vliegen, but lost to Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram in the first round. Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić retained the ATP No. 1 doubles ranking by reaching the quarterfinals. Nikola Mektić and Kevin Krawietz were also in contention for the top ranking at the beginning of the tournament. Jordan Thompson and the pair of Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos would also have been in contention, but they withdrew from their first-round matches. Jean-Julien Rojer was vying to complete the career Grand Slam, but he and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is the governing body of the men's professional tennis circuits – the ATP Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour. It was formed in September 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of professional tennis players, and Drysdale became the first president. Since 1990 the association has organized the ATP Tour, the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the organization's name. It is the governing body of men's professional tennis. In 1990 the organization was called the ATP Tour, which was renamed in 2001 as just ATP and the tour being called ATP Tour. In 2009 the name of the tour was changed again and was known as the ATP World Tour, but changed again to the ATP Tour by 2019. It is an evolution of the tour competitions previously known as Grand Prix tennis tournaments and World Championship Tennis (WCT). The ATP's global headquarters are in London. ATP Americas is base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Japan Open Tennis Championships
The 2023 Japan Open Tennis Championships (also known as the Kinoshita Group Japan Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 48th edition of the Japan Open, and was part of the ATP Tour 500 series of the 2023 ATP Tour. It was held at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, from 16 to 22 October 2023. Champions Singles * Ben Shelton def. Aslan Karatsev, 7–5, 6–1 Doubles * Rinky Hijikata / Max Purcell def. Jamie Murray / Michael Venus, 6–4, 6–1 Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 2 October 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Shintaro Mochizuki * Sho Shimabukuro * Yosuke Watanuki The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Taro Daniel * Jack Draper * Cristian Garín * Marcos Giron Withdrawals * Andy Murray → replaced by Sebastian Ofner * Kei Nishikori → replaced by Zhang Zhizhen * Milos Rao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seita Watanabe
is a Japanese tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 173 achieved on 6 January 2025. Career Watanabe made his ATP main draw debut at the 2023 Japan Open Tennis Championships after entering the doubles main draw with Takeru Yuzuki as lucky losers. Watanabe made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2025 Australian Open The 2025 Australian Open was a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park from 12 to 26 January 2025. It was the 113th edition of the Australian Open, the 57th in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam (tenn ... after entering the doubles main draw with Takeru Yuzuki as a wildcard pair. References External links * * 2000 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Sportspeople from Fukushima Prefecture {{Japan-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Australian Open
The 2025 Australian Open was a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park from 12 to 26 January 2025. It was the 113th edition of the Australian Open, the 57th in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. Jannik Sinner defeated Alexander Zverev and successfully defended the men's singles title. Madison Keys won the women's singles champion, after defeating two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in the final. The 2025 Australian Open became the first Australian Open to present pickleball. From January 24 to the 26th the Pickleball in Australia, AO Pickleball Slam tournament was held. Over in prize money was awarded to some of Australia's top professional pickleball players. Singles players * 2025 Australian Open – Men's singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Births
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
