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Toby Samuel
Toby Samuel (born 6 September 2002) is a British tennis player. He has a career high singles ranking of 414 achieved on 30 October 2023. He has a career high doubles ranking of 303 achieved on 25 September 2023. Early and personal life From St. Leonards, parents Richard and Sarah (who represented Great Britain at gymnastics) he has an older brother called Ben and a younger brother called Rafe and all three are keen sportsmen. He attended Castle Court Prep School and Bournemouth Collegiate School. A student at the University of South Carolina, in 2023 Samuel alongside partner Connor Thomson won the All American Doubles title and became the number one ranked doubles team in Collegiate tennis. The pair received all-American honours for being seeded for the NCAA Championships. Career Junior career Samuel reached the semifinals of the Boys' doubles at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships alongside Arthur Fery. Senior career In June 2023, Samuel received a wildcard with his partner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Wimbledon Championships
The 2023 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Tournament The tournament was played on grass courts, with all main draw matches played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, from 3 to 16 July 2023. Qualifying matches were played from 26 to 29 June 2023 at the Bank of England Sports Ground in Roehampton. The 2023 Championships was the 136th edition, the 129th staging of the Ladies’ Singles Championship event, the 55th in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and included in the 2023 ATP Tour and the 2023 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category, as well as the 2023 ITF tours for junior and wheelchair competitions respectively. The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), mixed dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Vukic
Aleksandar Vukic (, , ; born 6 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player. Vukic has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 117 achieved on 28 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 394 achieved on the same date. Vukic has won one ITF Futures singles title. Vukic made his main draw ATP singles debut at the 2018 Sydney International and his Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open, after qualifying for both. Early life Vukic was born in Sydney, Australia. His parents and older brother left Montenegro during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and settled in Sydney before Vukic was born. Vukic began playing tennis at the age of 6 and later attended the University of Illinois between 2015 and 2018 where he was named three-time All-American in tennis. Professional career 2014–2019: ITF and ATP debut Vukic made his ITF Tour debut in Spain in May 2014. Vukic made his main draw ATP singles debut at the 2018 Sydne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Harris (tennis)
Billy Harris (born 25 January 1995) is a British tennis player. Harris has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 199 achieved on 25 December 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 274 achieved on 10 April 2023. Harris has won one ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2022 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger with Kelsey Stevenson. Career He reached his first singles Challenger final at the inaugural edition of the 2023 Challenger Club Els Gorchs in Las Franquesas del Valles, Spain as a qualifier where he lost to second seed Hugo Grenier. He made his ATP debut at the 2023 Sofia Open The 2023 Sofia Open was a men's tennis tournament to be played on indoor hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the event and it was part of the ATP 250 tournaments on the 2023 ATP Tour. It was played at the Arena Sofia in Sofia, Bulgaria, ... where as a qualifier he reached the main draw and defeated defending champion Marc-Andrea Huesler in the first round.https://www.bbc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham
Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Nottingham is a tourist destination; in 2018, the city received the second-highest number of overnight visitors in the Midlands and the highest number in the East Midlands. In 2020, Nottingham had an estimated population of 330,000. The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638. It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midlands. Its Functional Urban Area, the largest in the East Midlands, has a population of 919,484. The popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Michelsen
Alex Michelsen (born August 25, 2004) is an American tennis player. Michelsen has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 356 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 693 achieved on 6 February 2023. He won the singles and doubles title at the 2022 Easter Bowl, becoming the first American champion in both disciplines since Donald Young in 2006. He also won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title. He is committed to play college tennis at the University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ .... ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 5 (2–3) Doubles: 2 (1–1) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runners-up) References External links * * 2004 births Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. In the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the second-largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region, the 5th most populous city in North Carolina, the third-largest urban area in North Carolina, and the 90th most populous city in the United States. With a metropolitan population of 679,948 it is the fourth largest metropolitan area in North Carolina. Winston-Salem is home to the tallest office building in the region, 100 North Main Street, formerly known as the Wachovia Building and now known locally as the Wells Fargo Center. In 2003, the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point metropolitan statistical area was redefined by the OMB and separated into the two major metropolitan areas of Winston-Salem and Greensboro-High Point. The population of the Winston-Salem metropolitan area in 2020 was 679,948. The metro area covers over 2,000 square miles and spans the five co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Learner Tien
Learner Tien (born December 2, 2005) is an American tennis player. Tien has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 526 achieved on November 6, 2023. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 963 achieved on July 17, 2023. Early life Tien was born in Irvine, California to Vietnamese parents. His first name, Learner, is inspired by his mother's profession - a math teacher. His sister is named Justice after his father's profession - an attorney. Tien started playing tennis as an infant, and won his first tournament at the Racquet Club of Irvine at the age of 5. Junior Career Tien had a very successful career as a junior, compiling a 76-23 win-loss record and reaching two junior Grand Slam finals, at the 2023 Australian Open and the 2023 US Open, culminating with a ranking of world no. 4 in singles. He also reached the world no. 4 ranking in doubles, compiling a 36-18 win-loss record and winning the 2023 Australian Open, partnering with Cooper Williams. Junior Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fayetteville () is the second-largest city in Arkansas, the county seat of Washington County, and the biggest city in Northwest Arkansas. The city is on the outskirts of the Boston Mountains, deep within the Ozarks. Known as Washington until 1829, the city was named after Fayetteville, Tennessee, from which many of the settlers had come. It was incorporated on November 3, 1836, and was rechartered in 1867. The three-county Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area is ranked 102nd in terms of population in the United States with 560,709 in 2021 according to the United States Census Bureau. The city had a population of 95,230 in 2021. Fayetteville is home to the University of Arkansas, the state's flagship university. When classes are in session, thousands of students on campus change up the pace of the city. Thousands of Arkansas Razorbacks alumni and fans travel to Fayetteville to attend football, basketball, and baseball games. The city of Fayetteville i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Patten
Henry Patten (born 6 May 1996) is a United Kingdom, British tennis player. Patten has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of 462 achieved on 19 September 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 64 achieved on 9 January 2023. Patten has won ten ATP Challenger Tour, ATP Challenger doubles titles, all in 2022 with Julian Cash. Personal From Manningtree, Patten was educated at Ipswich School and Culford School. He played college tennis at University of North Carolina at Asheville, UNC Asheville (2015–2019) and as a postgraduate at Durham University (2019–2020). Patten is also a chess enthusiast, often playing the game while on tour. Career College While at UNC Asheville Patten became the No. 1 ranked NCAA doubles player and placed as high as No. 32 in singles. In 2018 he was the first player in the history of his program to be selected for the singles draw of the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships. At Durham he finished runner-up with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roehampton
Roehampton is an area in southwest London, in the Putney SW15 postal district, and takes up a far western strip running north to south of the London Borough of Wandsworth. It contains a number of large council house estates and is home to the University of Roehampton. Etymology The ''Roe'' in Roehampton's name is thought to refer to the large number of rooks that still inhabit the area. Location Roehampton is centred about 6.3 miles (roughly 10 km) south-west of Charing Cross. It occupies high land, with Barnes to the north, Putney and Putney Heath to the east, and Richmond Park and Richmond Park Golf Course to the west. To the south is Roehampton Vale, that straddles the A3, with Wimbledon Common and Putney Vale beyond. History Roehampton was originally a small village – with only 14 houses during the reign of Henry VII – with the area largely forest and heath. The population gradually increased in the 18th and 19th centuries as it became a favoured residen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Seggerman
Ryan Seggerman (born 6 August 1999) is an American tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 89 achieved on 15 July 2024. He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 407 achieved on 22 July 2024. College career Seggerman played college tennis at Princeton before transferring to North Carolina. Professional career Singles Seggerman won his first ITF singles title in 2023 at the M25 Monastir tournament, defeating Ilia Simakin, 7–5, 6–4 in the final. In 2024, Seggerman reached the semifinals as a qualifier at both the Macedonian Open and Cranbrook Tennis Classic. Seggerman reached the main draw as a qualifier at the 2024 Lexington Challenger, rising into the top 400 with a career-high ranking of 396. Doubles With fellow American Patrik Trhac, the duo won seven consecutive ITF doubles titles, winning 28 straight matches between July and September 2023. The pair won their first ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2023 City of Playford Tennis In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Calgary National Bank Challenger
The 2023 Calgary National Bank Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour and the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Calgary, Canada between 6 and 12 November 2023. Champions Men's singles * Liam Draxl def. Dominik Koepfer 6–4, 6–3. Women's singles * Sabine Lisicki def. Stacey Fung 7–6(7–2), 6–7(5–7), 6–3. Men's doubles * Juan Carlos Aguilar / Justin Boulais def. Charles Broom / Ben Jones 6–3, 6–2. Women's doubles * Sarah Beth Grey / Eden Silva def. Hanna Chang / Katarina Jokić, 6–4, 6–4 Men's singles main draw entrants Seeds *1 Rankings are as of 30 October 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Justin Boulais * Liam Draxl * Dan Martin The following players received entry from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
