The 2021
Split Open
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was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
clay court
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T ...
s. It was part of the
2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in
Split, Croatia
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between 5 and 11 April 2021.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of 22 March 2021.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Duje Ajduković
Duje Ajduković (born 5 February 2001) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 178 achieved on 2 October 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 491 achieved on 8 November 2021. Ajduko ...
*
Mili Poljičak
Mili Poljičak (born 13 July 2004) is a Croatian tennis player.
Poljičak has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 500 achieved on 17 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 292 achieved on 3 October 20 ...
*
Nino Serdarušić
Nino Serdarušić (; born 13 December 1996) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 183 achieved on 4 April 2022. Juniors
Serdarušić had a career high junior ranking of No. 21, and partnering Petros Chrys ...
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:
*
Dustin Brown
*
Thanasi Kokkinakis
Athanasios "Thanasi" Kokkinakis ( ; born 10 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player and a doubles specialist. He has been ranked as high as world No. 69 in singles by the ATP, which he first achieved on 8 June 2015. He has won o ...
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:
*
Zdeněk Kolář
Zdeněk Kolář (; born 9 October 1996) is a Czech tennis player.
Kolář has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 111 achieved on 13 June 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 110 achieved on 1 August 2022.
Pr ...
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:
*
Kacper Żuk
Kacper Żuk (born 21 January 1999) is a Polish professional tennis player.
Żuk has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 162 achieved on 13 September 2021. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 278, achieved on 9 M ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Mirza Bašić
*
Uladzimir Ignatik
Uladzimir Iharavich Ignatik ( be, Уладзімір Ігаравіч Ігнацік, Ihnatsik; russian: Владимир Игоревич Игнатик; born 14 July 1990 in Belarus) is a Belarusian professional tennis player.
Professional ...
*
Blaž Kavčič
Blaž Kavčič (born 5 March 1987) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player.
He was the highest ranked Slovenian male player ever, achieving a career-high of World No. 68 in August 2012, until Aljaž Bedene began to play for Slovenia ...
*
Akira Santillan
is a Japanese born, Australian tennis player.
Early life
Santillan was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a South African father of Spanish descent. He lived the first 8 years of his life in Japan before his family relocated to the Gold C ...
Champions
Singles
*
Blaž Rola
Blaž Rola (born 5 October 1990) is a Slovenian tennis player.
His highest career ranking is No. 78 in singles and No. 186 in doubles. In his career, he has won nine singles and six doubles ITF Futures tournaments, five ATP Challenger in singl ...
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Blaž Kavčič
Blaž Kavčič (born 5 March 1987) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player.
He was the highest ranked Slovenian male player ever, achieving a career-high of World No. 68 in August 2012, until Aljaž Bedene began to play for Slovenia ...
2–6, 6–3, 6–2.
Doubles
*
Andrey Golubev
Andrey Golubev ( rus, Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Го́лубев; born July 22, 1987) is a Kazakh professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 33, achieved on 4 October 2010 and his doubles ranking i ...
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Aleksandr Nedovyesov
Aleksandr Nedovyesov (born 15 February 1987), formerly known as Oleksandr Nedovyesov, is a Ukrainian-Kazakhstani professional tennis player. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 72 on 21 April 2014 and his highest doubles ranki ...
def.
Szymon Walków
Szymon Walków (; born 22 September 1995) is a Polish tennis player who specialises in doubles. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 818 achieved on 3 December 2018. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 86 achie ...
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Jan Zieliński
Jan Zieliński (born 16 November 1996) is a Polish professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has an ATP career-high doubles ranking of world No. 15, which he attained on 30 January 2023 following the 2023 Australian Open final. ...
7–5, 6–7
(5–7),
0–5
References
2021 ATP Challenger Tour
2021 in Croatian tennis
April 2021 sports events in Croatia
Split Open
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