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2015 Batman Cup
The 2015 Batman Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Batman, Turkey from April 6 to April 12, 2015. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of March 23, 2015. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Altuğ Çelikbilek * Barış Ergüden * Barkın Yalçınkale * Anıl Yüksel The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Riccardo Ghedin * Aleksandre Metreveli * Lukas Mugevičius * Michael Venus Champions Singles * Dudi Sela def. Blaž Kavčič, 6–7(5–7), 6–3, 6–3 Doubles * Aslan Karatsev / Yaraslav Shyla def. Mate Pavić / Michael Venus, 7–6(7–4), 4–6, 0–5 {{2015 ATP Challenger Tour Batman Cup The Batman Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. From 2015, it is part of the ATP Challenger Tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcourt
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Flat balls are favored on hard courts because of the extremely quick play style. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in the syn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels Desein
Niels Desein (born 9 June 1987) is a Belgian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He was born in Ghent, Belgium, and currently resides in Wondelgem Wondelgem used to be a village in East Flanders, Belgium. It is now part of the city of Ghent. History In the 9th century the Carolingian emperors owned a large estate in Wondelgem. Ghent has a total population of about 230,000, of which about 12, ..., Belgium. Juniors Desein reached as high as No. 4 in the combined junior world rankings in May 2005. Junior Slam results: Australian Open: - French Open: 1R ( 2005) Wimbledon: 3R ( 2004, 2005) US Open: 2R ( 2004) Professional tour His career-high ATP rankings are world No. 154 in singles in March 2015 and World No. 182 in doubles in August 2009. His favourite surface is clay. He made his main draw debut on the ATP World Tour at the 2013 Portugal Open as a qualifier. He represented the Belgium Davis Cup team on one occasion in 2015. Singles: 47 (27–20) Doubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Venus (tennis)
Michael Venus (born 16 October 1987), is a New Zealander professional tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 6, achieved on 29 August 2022. Venus won the 2017 French Open men's doubles partnering Ryan Harrison, and followed with a runner-up finish in the 2017 US Open mixed doubles partnering Chan Hao-ching. Venus and Harrison qualified for the year-end championships ATP Finals, where they reached the semifinals. In 2018 Venus made the men's doubles final at Wimbledon with Raven Klaasen, losing to Mike Bryan and Jack Sock, and was a semifinalist in the mixed doubles there as well with Katarina Srebotnik. He and Klaasen qualified for the ATP Finals, but won only one round-robin match. They also qualified in 2019, finishing runners-up. In the meantime Venus and Chan Hao-ching again finished runners-up in the US Open mixed doubles. Venus and John Peers qualified for the 2020 ATP Finals, but lost very close contests in all three of their round-robin m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukas Mugevičius
Lukas Mugevičius (born December 7, 1994) is a Lithuanian professional tennis player and a member of Lithuania Davis Cup team. Mugevičius reached his highest combined ranking of No. 81 in the world on ITF junior circuit on March 19, 2012. Mugevičius is coached by his father Rimvydas Mugevičius. ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Men's Circuit finals Singles: 2 (0–2) Doubles: 7 (5–2) Davis Cup Mugevičius is a member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team The Lithuania men's national tennis team represents Lithuania in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Lithuanian Tennis Association. Lithuania has never been a tennis country – no tennis player from Lithuania entered ATP to ..., having posted a 3–5 record in singles and a 1–3 record in doubles in eight ties played. References External links * * * Lithuanian male tennis players Sportspeople from Vilnius 1994 births Living people 21st-century Lithuanian people {{Lithua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandre Metreveli
Aleksandre Metreveli ( ka, ალექსანდრე მეტრეველი, tr, ; born 10 August 1993), nicknamed Sandro, is a Georgian tennis player. Metreveli has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 264 achieved on 6 June 2016. His career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 184 was achieved on 25 July 2015. He has won 7 ITF singles titles and 4 ITF doubles titles. Personal life He is the grandson of the famous tennis player Alexander Metreveli, former ATP No. 9 and 1973 Wimbledon finalist. In 2016, Metreveli broke both of his legs in a car accident, eventually recovering after five surgeries. Career Playing for Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ... in Davis Cup, Metreveli has a W/L record of 18–10. ATP Challengers and ITF Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Ghedin
Riccardo Ghedin (born 5 December 1985) is an Italian tennis player. He began playing tennis when he was 12 years old. At the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, Ghedin advanced successfully through the qualifying rounds to reach his first and only grand slam main draw. He lost in 3 sets im the first round to Latvian Ernests Gulbis ''2–6, 4–6, 4–6''. In his career, he has reached 16 singles finals on the ITF Futures Tour which have resulted in winning 5 singles titles, and finishing runner-up 11 times.. In doubles, he has won 7 Challenger titles and 16 Futures titles. Ghedin reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 222 on 10 August 2009. He reached a career high doubles ranking of world No. 109 on August 15, 2016. He has played in 4 ATP Tour The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The eq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anıl Yüksel
Anıl Yüksel (born 19 May 1990) is a Dutch–born Turkish tennis player. Yüksel has a career high ATP singles ranking of 492 achieved on 11 November 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 465, achieved on 30 July 2018. Yüksel has won 4 ITF doubles titles. Yüksel has represented Turkey at Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organi ..., where he has a win–loss record of 4–3. References External links * * * 1990 births Living people Turkish male tennis players Sportspeople from Venlo Sportspeople from Istanbul Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis {{Turkey-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barış Ergüden
Barış Ergüden (born 1 January 1986) is a Turkish tennis player. Ergüden has a career high ATP singles ranking of 520 achieved on 15 June 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 532, achieved on 16 June 2014. Ergüden has represented Turkey at Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organi ..., where he has a win–loss record of 8–9. Career titles External links * * * 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Istanbul Turkish male tennis players 21st-century Turkish people {{Turkey-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altuğ Çelikbilek
Altuğ Çelikbilek (; born 7 September 1996) is a Turkish professional tennis player. Çelikbilek has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 154 achieved on 21 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 224, achieved on 25 July 2022. Çelikbilek has won 2 ATP Challengers and 5 ITF singles titles and 11 ITF doubles titles. He is currently the No. 1 Turkish player. Professional career He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2021 French Open as a qualifier. Çelikbilek has represented Turkey at Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organi ..., where he has a win–loss record of 5–7. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 11 (8–3) Doubles: 27 (12–15) References External links * * * 1996 births Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Kravchuk
Konstantin Vladimirovich Kravchuk ( rus, Константи́н Влади́мирович Кравчу́к, , kənstɐnʲˈtʲin krɐfˈtɕuk; born 23 February 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player. He is known for his strong serve and good skills on fast and indoor courts. Personal life Kravchuk was born in Moscow to Vladimir, a chief of security, and Irina, a psychologist. He started playing tennis at age five. His mother played amateur tennis and it was her dream that the son become a professional tennis player. Kravchuk married Veronika, a fashion model, on 12 February 2011; the couple have a daughter, Eva. Career In 2013 at age 28 Kravchuk made his debut at the Davis Cup in the 2013 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I Second round play-off match against South Africa. In the third rubber, he partnered with Andrey Kuznetsov and defeated Raven Klaasen and Tucker Vorster in four sets. Kravchuk also took part in the fifth dead rubber against Jacob Coenraad de Klerk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroki Moriya
is a Japanese tennis player. He has won three ATP Challenger Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 143 on 5 January 2015. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Moriya compiled a singles win–loss record of 76–37, reaching as high as No. 17 in the junior combined world rankings in October 2008. Junior Grand Slam results: Australian Open: 3R (2007, 2008) French Open: Q1 (2007) Wimbledon: 1R (2008) US Open: Q2 (2006) 2008-11 Moriya had won three ITF Futures events in Japan and Chinese Taipei. He also had participated in a number of ATP Challenger Tour events, winning some matches of those tournaments. He ended 2011 as ranked world no. 327. 2012: Major debut, First ATP win Moriya failed to qualify for French Open and Wimbledon, but he qualified for the 2012 US Open to make his Grand Slam main draw debut, losing to Ivan Dodig in the first round. During the Asian hardcourt swing, he defeated Robin Haase in the Thailand Open to record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radu Albot
Radu Albot (born 11 November 1989) is a Moldovan professional tennis player. He is the first player from Moldova to win ATP singles (2019 Delray Beach Open) and doubles ( 2015 Istanbul Open) titles. Albot has won 1 ATP World Tour singles title, 1 ATP World Tour doubles title, 7 singles and 10 doubles Challenger titles in his career, as well as 14 singles and 7 doubles Futures titles. He has been a regular member of the Moldovan Davis Cup team since 2007 and holds his country's records for the most singles wins (28) and total wins (41). His ATP singles ranking of No. 99 on August 3, 2015, made him the first Moldovan to break into the top 100. Albot achieved a career high ranking of No. 39 on August 5, 2019. He finished in the top 100 in the year-end rankings for five years (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). His year-end career high was in 2019 when he finished at No. 46. Personal life Albot became a father on 19 April 2020, after his girlfriend Doina, gave birth to daughter A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
