2009 Karshi Challenger
The 2009 Karshi Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Qarshi, Uzbekistan between 17 and 23 August 2009. Singles entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of August 10, 2009. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Rifat Biktyakov * Jakhongir Jalalov * Sergey Shipilov * Vaja Uzakov The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Ričardas Berankis * Murad Inoyatov * Sadik Kadir * Mikhail Ledovskikh * Patrick Taubert (as a Lucky Loser) Champions Singles Rainer Eitzinger def. Ivan Sergeyev, 6–3, 1–6, 7–6(3) Doubles Sadik Kadir / Purav Raja def. Andis Juška / Deniss Pavlovs, 6–3, 7–6(4) External linksOfficial website [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Qarshi
Qarshi ( uz, Qarshi/Қарши, ; fa, نخشب ''Nakhshab'') is a city in southern Uzbekistan. It is the capital of Qashqadaryo Region. Administratively, Qarshi is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Qashqadaryo (town), Qashqadaryo. It has a population of 278,300 (2021 estimate). It is about 520 km south-southwest of Tashkent, and about 335 km north of Uzbekistan's border with Afghanistan. It is located at latitude 38° 51' 48N; longitude 65° 47' 52E at an altitude of 374 meters. The city is important in natural gas production, but Qarshi is also famous for its production of woven flat carpets. History Originally the Sogdiana, Sogdian city of Nakhshab (which could be possibly named Eucratideia during the rule of Greco-Bactrian Kingdom), and the Islamic Uzbek (Turkic) city of Nasaf, and the Mongol Empire, Mongol city of Qarshi (pronounced ''Kharsh''), Qarshi was the second city of the Emirate of Bukhara. It is in the center of a fertile oasi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kamil Čapkovič
Kamil Čapkovič (; born 2 June 1986) is a professional Slovak tennis player. He was born in Michalovce, Slovak Republic Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s .... Career Čapkovič has spent most of his time on the Futures and Challenger circuits, where he has won several Futures titles. Singles Titles References External links * * 1986 births Living people Slovak male tennis players People from Michalovce Sportspeople from the Košice Region {{Slovakia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Murad Inoyatov
Murad Inoyatov (born November 13, 1984) is a professional Uzbekistani tennis player. Inoyatov reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on May 11, 2009, when he became World number 437. He primarily plays on the Futures circuit and the Challenger circuit. Inoyatov has been a member of the Uzbekistani Davis Cup team since 2003, posting a 3–8 record in singles and a 3–5 record in doubles in fifteen ties played. Inoyatov represented Uzbekistan at the 2006 and 2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ... Asian Games, winning the silver medal in the Men's Team event at the 2010 Games. Satellite, Future and Challenger finals Singles: 5 (3–2) Doubles 25 (12–13) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Inoyatov, Murad 1984 births Living people ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ričardas Berankis
Ričardas Berankis (; born June 21, 1990) is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the first and only Lithuanian citizen (not counting Lithuanian American Vitas Gerulaitis) to enter the ATP top 50 rankings, making him the highest ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time. Berankis has reached two finals on the ATP World Tour, at the Los Angeles Open in 2012 and Kremlin Cup in 2017. He is also a prominent member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team. Tennis career Early career Berankis started playing tennis at the age of two, when his six years older sister Lina took him to her tennis practices. Berankis' first coach was Valdas Adomaitis from Jurbarkas. When Berankis was nine years old he accepted an invitation from Remigijus Balžekas to practise with him at the Šiauliai tennis school (over 200 km from Vilnius). It turned out to be a long term partnership and friendship. In 2004, Berankis won several prestigious junior events (under 14 division) – Tennis Europe Ju ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vaja Uzakov
Vaja Uzakov (born 4 June 1988) is an Uzbek tennis player. Uzakov has a career high ATP singles ranking of 698 achieved on 7 June 2010. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 316, achieved on 11 August 2008. Uzakov has represented Uzbekistan at Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 0–6. He played at the 2010 Asian Games on singles he lost from the late champion Somdev Devvarman at the 3rd round. On mixed doubles with Nigina Abduraimova lost on 1st round. On the men's team event won the silver medal with Farrukh Dustov, Murad Inoyatov and Denis Istomin Denis Olegovich Istomin (born 7 September 1986) is an Uzbek professional tennis player. He has won two singles titles (at the 2015 Aegon Open Nottingham and 2017 Chengdu Open) and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in Au .... Future and Challenger finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles 9 (3–6) Davis Cup Participations: (0–6) * indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup mat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Valery Rudnev
Valery Yuryevich Rudnev (russian: Валерий Юрьевич Руднев; born 16 February 1988, in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian tennis player. Tennis career Rudnev has a career high ATP singles ranking of 210 achieved on 21 July 2014. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 490 achieved on 22 March 2010. Rudnev has won a total of 7 ITF singles titles on the futures circuit as well as 1 ITF doubles title. As a junior, Rudnev reached the boys' doubles final of the 2006 French Open with his partner Artur Chernov, where they lost to Emiliano Massa and Kei Nishikori 6-2, 1-6, 2-6. Rudnev made his ATP main draw debut at the 2009 St. Petersburg Open where he received entry to the main draw as a wildcard entrant into the doubles event partnering Pavel Chekhov. The pair lost an all Russian first round encounter, losing to Igor Andreev and Mikhail Youzhny Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny (born 25 June 1982), nicknamed "Misha" and "Colonel" by his fans, is a Russian ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Deniss Pavlovs
Deniss Pavlovs (born 15 April 1983) is a Latvian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 20 July 2009, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 263, whilst his highest doubles ranking of 155 was reached on 23 September 2009. Pavlovs represents his native country Latvia while competing in the Davis Cup. He has a singles record of 7–7 and a doubles record of 9–6 for a combined record of 16–13 in Davis Cup play. Deniss has reached 12 career singles finals resulting in 4 wins and 8 runners up. In addition, he has reached 56 career doubles finals, resulting in 33 wins and 23 losses, including a 2–4 record in 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. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T ... finals. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 12 (4–8) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ivan Sergeyev
Ivan Sergeyev (born 22 January 1988) is a retired professional Ukrainian tennis player Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cove ... who reached a highest singles ranking of world No. 147 in August 2010. Performance timeline Singles ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 21 (11–10) Doubles: 12 (7–5) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sergeyev, Ivan Ukrainian male tennis players Universiade medalists in tennis Sportspeople from Dnipro Living people 1988 births Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andis Juška
Andis Juška (born 22 May 1985) is a Latvian tennis coach and former player. He is a coach of American player Amanda Anisimova, and former coach of Ukrainian player Elina Svitolina. In addition, Andis has worked with Latvian tennis player Jeļena Ostapenko. In addition to coaching individual players, in 2008 uska was the captain of Latvian team for Billie Jean King Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan .... Juška's career-high singles ranking is world number 226, achieved in October 2009. For several years, he has been the second-highest ATP-ranked Latvian tennis player. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Juška reached as high as no. 43 in the junior world singles rankings in 2002 (and no. 15 in doubles). He competed in the main draw of the Australian Open ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Carles Poch-Gradin
Carles Poch Gradin (born 9 November 1982) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has won two ATP Challenger events, both in doubles. Poch Gradin has reached the finals of ten Futures tournaments; five of these he won—in Romania, Latvia, Poland, and Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i .... References External links * * Living people Spanish male tennis players Tennis players from Barcelona 1982 births {{spain-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Illya Marchenko
Illya Vasylovych Marchenko ( uk, Ілля Васильович Марченко) (born 8 September 1987) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Marchenko turned professional in 2005 and had been playing at the Futures and Challengers level from 2005 to 2008. His career high in singles is World No. 49 achieved on 26 September 2016 and No. 268 in doubles achieved on 25 August 2014. On the ATP Tour, Marchenko reached the semifinals of Moscow in 2009, the 2010 St. Petersburg Open and Doha in 2016. He is noted for his backhand, which he cites as his best shot. His favorite surface is hard courts. Personal life Illya began playing tennis at age seven. His father Vassili and mother Anna are both engineers. Has one older brother, Igor Marchenko, a manager and former ice skater who took part in the 1998 Winter Olympics. Growing up, he admired Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer. He has played doubles on the Futures level with fellow Ukrainian Artem Smirnov. He was coached by Orest ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is surrounded by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Tajikistan to the southeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest. Its capital and largest city is Tashkent. Uzbekistan is part of the Turkic world, as well as a member of the Organization of Turkic States. The Uzbek language is the majority-spoken language in Uzbekistan, while Russian is widely spoken and understood throughout the country. Tajik is also spoken as a minority language, predominantly in Samarkand and Bukhara. Islam is the predominant religion in Uzbekistan, most Uzbeks being Sunni Muslims. The first recorded settlers in what is now Uzbekistan were Eastern Iranian no ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |