2010 Qatar ExxonMobil Open
The 2010 Qatar Open, known as the 2010 Qatar ExxonMobil Open for sponsorship reasons, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 18th edition of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex in Doha, Qatar, from 4 January through 9 January 2010. Third-seeded Nikolay Davydenko won the singles title. Finals Singles Nikolay Davydenko defeated Rafael Nadal, 0–6, 7–6(10–8), 6–4 *It was Davydenko's first title of the year and 20th overall. Doubles Guillermo García-López / Albert Montañés defeated František Čermák / Michal Mertiňák, 6–4, 7–5 Entrants Seeds Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Younes El Aynaoui * Abdulla Hajji * Karim Maamoun The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Benjamin Becker * Steve Darcis * Ryler DeHeart * Mikhail ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ATP World Tour 250 Series
The ATP 250 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 250'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series'', and ''ATP World Series'') are the lowest tier of annual men's tennis tournaments on the main ATP Tour, after the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments, ATP Finals, ATP Tour Masters 1000, ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, and ATP 500 tournaments. As of 2020 ATP Tour, 2020, the series includes 39 tournaments, with 250 ranking points awarded to each singles champion—which accounts for the name of the series. Draws consist of 28, 32, or 48 for singles and 16 for doubles. Thomas Muster holds the record for most singles titles at 26, while Mike Bryan holds the record for most doubles titles won with 46. Historic names 1990–1999 ''ATP World Series'' 2000–2008 ''ATP International Series'' 2009–2018 ''ATP World Tour 250'' 2019–present ''ATP Tour 250'' ATP Points * Players with byes receive first round points. Tournaments became an ATP 500 event.ATPTour. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michal Mertiňák
Michal Mertiňák (born 11 October 1979) is a retired professional tennis player from Slovakia. He turned professional in 1999, and has won six doubles titles in his career on the ATP Tour. He reached his career high doubles ranking of World No. 12 in February 2010. He played in the 2005 Davis Cup for Slovakia, who finished runner-up to Croatia. Mertiňák played two ties in the final, including losing the deciding fifth rubber to Mario Ančić Mario Ančić (; born 30 March 1984) is a Croatian former professional tennis player who currently works as a private equity vice president in New York City. He won three singles titles and five doubles titles. His career-high singles ranking .... From 2009 until 2010 his doubles partner was Czech František Čermák. He has won five tournaments with him in the 2009 season. Now he partners up with André Sá. Performance timelines Singles Doubles Mixed doubles ATP career finals Doubles: 23 (13 titles, 10 runner-ups) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ryler DeHeart
Ryler DeHeart (born March 1, 1984 in Kauai, Hawaii) is an American former professional tennis player. He reached his singles career high ranking of 174 on May 3, 2010. He was coached by Brad Dancer. DeHeart resides in Champaign, Illinois. Professional career His first win on the ATP Tour came as a qualifier at the 2008 US Open where he beat Olivier Rochus in five sets. He lost to Rafael Nadal in the next round, 1–6, 2–6, 4–6, despite taking a 3–0 lead in the third set. He predominantly played Challenger tournaments. On June 7, 2009, he won his first title on the ATP Challenger Tour, with a 6–2, 3–6, 7–5 victory over Carsten Ball in the final of the Yuba City Challenger in California. Career titles Singles (3) Doubles (2) Collegiate career DeHeart played college tennis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research uni ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Steve Darcis
Steve Darcis (, born 13 March 1984) is a Belgium, Belgian retired professional tennis player. In his career, he won two ATP titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 38 on 22 May 2017. Personal life Steve Darcis was born in Liège the son of Marie Agnes, a sports instructor, and Alain Darcis, a tennis coach. He has a sister named Céline. Growing up, he looked up at Pete Sampras. On 29 May 2013, his girlfriend Lauranne gave birth to daughter Camille. Career Juniors As a junior, Darcis compiled a singles win–loss record of 73–32, reaching as high as No. 8 in the junior world singles rankings in May 2002 (and No. 15 in doubles). He reached the semifinals at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships boys' singles event. 2007–2009 Darcis won his first ATP World Tour event at the Dutch Open (tennis), Dutch Open in July 2007 and achieved his first top-100 ranking on 26 November 2007 after winning a ITF Men's Circuit, Challenger event in Finland. Darcis competed at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker (born 16 June 1981) is a German retired professional tennis player who is known for defeating former world No. 1 Andre Agassi in the third round at the 2006 US Open in what was Agassi's last match as a professional player. Becker has reached a career-high ATP ranking of No. 35 in singles on October 27, 2014, and No. 58 in doubles on July 5, 2010. Becker has no relation to Boris Becker, another German tennis player who was ranked as high as world No. 1 and won Wimbledon three times. Early life and family Benjamin Becker was born on 16 June 1981 in Merzig, West Germany, to Jörg, a tax office worker, and Ulrike. Becker has one younger sister. From 2001 to 2005, Becker played tennis at Baylor University, winning the NCAA singles championship as a junior in 2004 and leading the Bears to the team title that year. In 2005, the team finished runner-up at the NCAA tournament and won the ITA team indoor championship. He is the school's all-time leader in singles and d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karim Maamoun
Karim Maamoun (born 18 November 1979) is an Egyptian tennis 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 ... player. External links * * * 1979 births Egyptian male tennis players Living people African Games gold medalists for Egypt African Games medalists in tennis African Games bronze medalists for Egypt Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games African Games silver medalists for Egypt 21st-century Egyptian people {{Egypt-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Abdulla Hajji
Abdulla Al-Haji (born December 5, 1990) is a tennis player from Qatar. He played an Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament at the 2008 Qatar Open, where he fell to Michael Berrer. He again participated in the 2010 Qatar Open, where he lost to Olivier Rochus Olivier Rochus (; born 18 January 1981) is a retired Belgian tennis player. He is the younger brother of Christophe Rochus, also a former top-40 tennis player. Rochus won two singles titles in his career and in 2004 French Open – Men's double .... External linksProfile on Yahoo! Sports* Living people Qatari male tennis players Tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games 1990 births Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games competitors for Qatar {{Qatar-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Younes El Aynaoui
Younes El Aynaoui ( ar, يونس العيناوي) (born 12 September 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Morocco. He is a five-time singles winner on the ATP Tour and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 14 in March 2003, at the age of 31. His long career has been plagued by injuries and he did not play competitive tennis between September 2008 and January 2010. However, in December 2009 he scheduled to play at the ATP Champions Tour tournament in London, where he made his debut at the senior tour. He received a gold medal – the nation's highest sporting honor – from King Mohammed VI. In a 2003 poll by leading Moroccan newspaper ''L'Economiste'', readers named El Aynaoui their favorite role model for society, ahead of the prime minister and athletics star Hicham El Guerrouj. Tennis career At the Bollettieri Academy In 1990, at the age of 18, El Aynaoui traveled to Bradenton, Florida, to spend a week at the Nick Bollettieri Tenni ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ivo Karlović
Ivo Karlović (; born 28 February 1979) is a former Croatian professional tennis player. His height of 211 cm (6 ft 11 in) makes him the joint tallest ranked tennis player in history, along with Reilly Opelka. He has won eight ATP singles titles between 2007 and 2016. He is a serve-and-volleyer and officially held the record for the fastest serve recorded in professional tennis, measured at 251 km/h (156 mph), before being surpassed unofficially by Samuel Groth in 2012, and officially by John Isner in 2016. In his prime, he was considered one of the best servers on tour, and held the all-time record for career aces with 13,728 (not including Davis Cup) before the record was broken by John Isner on July 1 2022. This makes him one of only five players in history to surpass 10,000 aces. His height enables him to serve with high speed and unique trajectory. Junior career Karlović played his first junior match in April 1995 at the age of 16 at a grade 3 tourna ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Viktor Troicki
Viktor Troicki ( sr-Cyrl, Виктор Троицки, ; born 10 February 1986) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. He won his first ATP singles title at the 2010 Kremlin Cup, and his second and third ATP singles titles at the 2015 and 2016 Apia International Sydney. His biggest achievements were a career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 (achieved in June 2011) and winning the deciding rubber in Serbia's Davis Cup final against France in 2010. Since then, in every Davis Cup he attended, he contributed to Serbia reaching a quarterfinal or better. He is known for serving a 12-month ban for anti-doping rule violation in 2013–14 for missing a blood test. By winning the inaugural ATP Cup in 2020, Troicki became the first player in tennis Open Era history to win all three major team competitions (Davis Cup in 2010 and World Team Cup in 2009 and 2012). In December 2020, Troicki was appointed as captain of the Serbian team for the Davis Cup and ATP Cup. Personal li ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny (born 25 June 1982), nicknamed "Misha" and "Colonel" by his fans, is a Russian retired professional tennis player who was ranked inside the top 10 and was the Russian No. 1. He achieved a top-10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the first time on 13 August 2007, and reached a career peak of World No. 8 in January 2008, and again in October 2010.Youzhny reached the quarterfinals of all grand slams; going beyond the quarterfinals at the US Open in 2006 and 2010. The closest he came to a grand slam final was at the 2006 US Open semifinals when he took the first set from World No. 9 Andy Roddick, after upsetting World No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals. At the other semifinal he lost in straight sets to the eventual champion, Nadal. Youzhny reached the finals of twenty-one ATP tour-level titles, winning ten of them. His first title win came at the Mercedes Cup held in Stuttgart, Germany, when he defeated Guillermo Cañas f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roger Federer
Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. He won 103 ATP singles titles, the second most of all time, including 20 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam singles titles, a record eight men's singles Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon titles, an Open Era record-tying five men's singles US Open (tennis), US Open titles, and a record-tying six ATP Finals, year-end championships. Federer played during an era where he dominated men's tennis along with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic as the Big Three (tennis), Big Three, collectively considered by some to be the three most successful male tennis players of all time. Federer's 20 Grand Slam singles titles also put him at third most of all time, on ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |