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2015 Banja Luka Challenger
The 2015 Banja Luka Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 14 to 20 September 2015. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds Marcel Granollers, who was set as 2nd seed withdrew, due to right hip injury. * 1 Rankings are as of September 7, 2015. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Ilija Bozoljac * Flavio Cipolla * Jaume Munar * Jaroslav Pospíšil The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Petru-Alexandru Luncanu * Sadio Doumbia * Axel Michon * Antonio Šančić The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Nicola Ghedin * Jérôme Inzerillo Champions Singles * Dušan Lajović def. Victor Hănescu , , 7-6(7–5), 7-6(7–5) Doubles * Ilija Bozoljac / Flavio Cipolla def. Jaroslav Pospíšil Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. The French Open uses clay courts, the only Grand Slam tournament to do so. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness. Play Clay courts are considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Points are usually longer as there are fewer winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Bourgue
Mathias Bourgue (; born 18 January 1994) is a French tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 140 achieved on 24 April 2017. Career He received a wildcard to advance to the singles main draw in the 2016 French Open, where he reached the second round defeating Jordi Samper-Montaña, before losing to world No. 2 Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray ... in five sets. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 24 (12-12) References External links * * 1994 births Living people French male tennis players Sportspeople from Avignon {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Šátral
Jan Šátral (born 24 July 1990, in Melnik) is a Czech tennis player. Šátral has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 136 achieved on 3 October 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 160 achieved on 21 September 2015. He has won 2 Challengers and 9 ITF singles titles and 2 Challengers and 21 ITF doubles titles. Šátral won his first ATP Challenger title at the 2015 Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour in the doubles event partnering Roman Jebavý. In July 2016 he won his maiden singles challenger title at Marburg defeating heavily favoured Marco Trungelliti in straight sets. On his Grand Slam debut in the main draw, he reached the second round of the 2016 US Open as a qualifier where he defeated Mackenzie McDonald in five sets. As a result of this best showing at a Grand Slam he reached a career-high ranking of World No. 136 on 3 October 2016. Personal life In 2019, he married fellow tennis player Denisa Allertová Denisa is a feminine give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Hănescu
Victor Hănescu (born 21 July 1981) is a former Romanian tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world no. 26. Professional career Hănescu attained a career-high singles ranking of No. 26 on 6 July 2009. In a Davis Cup match against the United States, he suffered a severe rib injury, and a subsequent injury sidelined him further in May 2006. By January 2007, his ranking had plummeted to No. 759, before he finally began making progress on a comeback. 1999: Pro career begins Hănescu earned his first ATP singles ranking points in August 1999, with first-round wins two weeks in a row at the Romania F1 and F2 Futures tournaments. Although he played four more tournaments from September through December, he did not earn any additional points and finished the year ranked No. 1231. 2000: Success in Satellites In 2000, Hănescu played Satellites and Futures tournaments. His fourth-place finish at a Satellite in Croatia in April/May and third place at a Satellite in Por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Inzerillo
Jérôme Inzerillo (born 15 February 1990, in Marseille) is a tennis player from France. Inzerillo and Jonathan Eysseric were the 2007 US Open boys doubles champions as a sixth seed. In the semifinals, Inzerillo and Eysseric beat top-seeded Vladimir Ignatic and Roman Jebavý. In the final, they defeated Grigor Dimitrov and Vasek Pospisil Vasek Pospisil ( ; cs, Vašek Pospíšil, ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high world singles ranking of No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 .... In 2012 Inzerillo was ranked #354 in men's singles, the highest of his career. In January 2019, the AP reported that Inzerillo was one of four French tennis professionals arrested in a large tennis-fixing ring. Up to 100 players were suspected of working for a syndicate led by 28-year old Grigor Sargsyan, known as the Maestro. Sargsyan was arrested and held in a Belgian jail. The scheme was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Šančić
Antonio Šančić (born 23 November 1988, in Samobor) is professional Croatian tennis player. "Antonio Šančić, mladi samoborski tenisač, poražen je u 1. kolu ATP Challenger turnira Zagreb Open." He is playing mostly on the 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 ... .
ATP career finals Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups) Challenger and Futures Finals Singles: 4 (2–2) |
Axel Michon
Axel Michon (born 16 December 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Junior career Professional career 2014 Axel lost in the second round of qualifying at the Australian Open. He made his first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam event at the French Open, where he received a wildcard. He won his first round match against Bradley Klahn, before losing in the second round against 19th seed Kevin Anderson in straight sets. ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals Singles (15 titles, 11 runners-up) Doubles (1 title, 3 runners-up) Singles performance timeline Note: Only results from the Grand Slams, ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour Finals, Summer Olympics and Davis Cup are listed in an ATP player's performance timeline. Qualifying matches and walkovers are neither official match wins nor losses. This table is current through the 2015 US Open. Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Michon, Axel 1990 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadio Doumbia
Sadio Doumbia (born 12 September 1990) is a French tennis player. Doumbia has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 250 achieved on 7 November 2016. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 52 achieved on 13 February 2023. Doumbia has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title at the 2016 KPIT MSLTA Challenger and 14 ATP Challenger doubles titles, 13 partnering with compatriot Fabien Reboul. Career Doumbia and Reboul received a wildcard invitation into the main draw of their home tournament at the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters The 2022 Rolex Paris Masters was a professional men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 50th edition of the tournament, and a Masters 1000 event on the 2022 ATP Tour. It took place at the Accor Arena in Paris, France, fro ..., making their debut at the Masters 1000 level. The pair reached their first ATP final at the 2023 Córdoba Open. Doumbia reached the top 50 after a semifinal showing at the 2023 Rio Open with Reboul on 27 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petru-Alexandru Luncanu
Petru-Alexandru Luncanu (born 7 May 1989) is a Romanian professional tennis player playing on the ITF Men's Circuit and the ATP Challenger Tour and is a current member of the Romania Davis Cup Team The Romania men's national tennis team represents Romania in Davis Cup 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 pla .... On 2 November 2009 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 304 whilst his highest doubles ranking was 286 achieved on 2 November 2015. Davis Cup Singles performances (0–2) References External links * * * 1989 births Living people Tennis players from Bucharest Romanian male tennis players 21st-century Romanian people {{Romania-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaroslav Pospíšil
Jaroslav Pospíšil (; born 9 February 1981) is a Czech tennis player playing on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. On 23 May 2011 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 103. The following year, on 1 October 2012, he reached the highest ATP doubles ranking of his career of World No. 115. To date, Pospíšil has reached 53 singles finals on the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures tours, from which he has won 28 titles. From the same tours, he has won 64 doubles titles after reaching a total of 100 doubles finals. Career Predominantly playing on the Challenger and Futures tours, Pospisil has made 7 main draw appearances on the ATP Tour, including the 2011 Wimbledon Championships as his only Grand Slam appearance. His sole win came at the ATP 250 level on the hard courts of the 2013 Erste Bank Open in Vienna, Austria, where despite losing in qualifying, he was granted entry to the tournament proper as a lucky loser and defeated France's Gaël Monfils in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaume Munar
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar (; ; born 5 May 1997, in Majorca) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Munar has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 52 achieved on 20 May 2019. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 149 achieved on 10 February 2020. Juniors On the junior tour, Munar had a career-high combined ranking of No. 3, achieved on 26 January 2015. Munar reached the 2014 French Open Boys' Final, where he lost to Andrey Rublev. On his way to the final, he defeated top juniors such as Michael Mmoh and Quentin Halys. He also won the Junior Davis Cup 2013. Professional career 2015: Maiden ATP win He won his first ATP Tour match at the 2015 German Open against Guillermo García-López, when the world No. 31 retired after three games, and the result launched Munar into the top 500 for the first time. 2018: Major debut At the 2018 French Open and in only his ninth pro tour match and his second major, Munar came from two sets down to defeat compatriot David Ferr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Granollers
Marcel Granollers Pujol (; ; born 12 April 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 19 in July 2012, and his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4 in February 2013. Granollers has won four ATP singles titles and 24 doubles titles, including the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals. He has also reached the men's doubles finals at the 2014 French Open, the 2014 and 2019 US Open, and the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. Personal life Granollers' brother Gerard is also a tennis player, and they have won five Challenger doubles titles together. Career 2006: Breaking top 200 Granollers made the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in 2006, but lost to Andrei Pavel. In the qualifying rounds, he beat Stéphane Robert, Konstantinos Economidis and Marco Chiudinelli. 2007: Breaking top 150 In 2007, Granollers won the Naples and Rome Challengers for doubles with Flavio Cipolla, and the Maspalomas Challenger for doubles with Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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