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2016 Tampere Open
The 2016 Tampere Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 35th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Tampere, Finland, on 18–24 July 2016. Men's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 11 July 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Vladimir Ivanov * Ristomatti Lanne * Patrik Niklas-Salminen * Eero Vasa The following player entered the singles main draw as a special exempt: * Clément Geens The following players entered as an alternate: * Markus Eriksson The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Lauri Kiiski * Hubert Hurkacz * Milos Sekulic * Alexander Vasilenko Women's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 11 July 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Monica Malinen * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Tour. The ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments are on the entry-level of international professional tennis competition. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to become eligible for main draw or qualifying draw entry at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are usually young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP players looking to get back into the big tour. History of challenger events The first challenger events were held in 1978, with eighteen events taking place. Two were held on the week beginning January 8, one in Auckland and another in Hoba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Souza
João Olavo Soares de Souza (; born 27 May 1988) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. Before receiving a lifetime ban for match-fixing, Souza competed mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 69, on April 6, 2015, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 70, on January 7, 2013. Souza was coached by former Brazilian player Ricardo Acioly. Souza is also known as "Feijão" (Portuguese for Bean). Career In 2011, he qualified to the US Open, but was defeated in the first round by wildcard Robby Ginepri 3–6, 4–6, 7–6, 1–6. In the 2014 season, Souza beat world No. 45, Robin Haase in round of 32 of the ATP 250 São Paulo. Later he reached semifinals at the Marburg, Scheveningen and Poznan Challengers. At the Medellin Challenger, he beat Facundo Bagnis in semifinals and lost to Austin Krajicek in the final. He reached semifinals at the Quito Challenger. In 2015, he played in the longest singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Niedmers
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Katharina Hering
Katharina is a feminine given name. It is a German form of Katherine. It may refer to: In television and film: *Katharina Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter * Katharina Mückstein, Austrian film director * Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director * Katherine Pierce, a character in '' The Vampire Diaries'' originally named Katharina Petrova. In artistry: * Katharina Fröhlich, lover of Franz Grillparzer * Katharina Rapp, German artist In other fields: * Katharina Baunach, German footballer * Katharina Dalton, British physician and pioneer in the research of premenstrual stress syndrome. * Katharina Klafsky, Hungarian operatic singer * Katharina von Bora, German Catholic nun who was an early convert to Protestantism. * Katharina von Zimmern (1478-1547), last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey See also *320 Katharina Katharina (minor planet designation: 320 Katharina) is a small Main belt asteroid orbiting in the Eos family of asteroids, including 513 Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Tarasova
Alena is a feminine given name from the origins Russia and Czechia. People Alena is a variant of Helen. People with this name include: * Saint Alena (died 640), born in Dilbeek, Belgium, and martyred c. 640 * Alena Douhan, Belarusian diplomat * Alena Holubeva (born 1994), Belarusian basketball player * Alena Martinovská, Czech actress, appearing in the 1954 film ''Komedianti'' * Alena Matejka (Alena Matějková, born 1966), Czech sculptor and glass designer * Alena Mazouka (born 1967), Belarusian long-distance runner * Alena Mihulová (born 1965), Czech actress, married to director Karel Kachyňa * Alena Šeredová (born 1978), Czech model * Alena Vránová, Czech actress, appearing in the 1956 film ''Lost Children (1956 film)'' * Alena Vrzáňová (1931–2015), Czech athlete, figure skater It is also a Catalan last name. People with this name include: * Carles Aleñá (born 1998), Spanish footballer Fiction * Alena (Encantadia), a fictional character who possesses the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milos Sekulic
Milos Sekulic ( sr, Милош Секулић, Miloš Sekulić, ; born 4 November 1989) is a Swedish professional tennis player. Sekulic has a career high ATP singles ranking of 643, achieved on 25 August 2014 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 288, achieved on 1 August 2016. Sekulic made his ATP main draw debut at the 2012 If Stockholm Open, partnering Patrik Rosenholm, but they lost in the first round to the top seeds. At the 2013 If Stockholm Open The 2013 If Stockholm Open was a professional men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 45th edition of the tournament, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2013 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Kungliga ten ..., Sekulic qualified for his home event, defeating Tobias Blomgren, Fred Simonsson and Julian Reister in the qualifying rounds. In the main draw he lost to Jan-Lennard Struff in the first round in straight sets. References External links * * 1989 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Hurkacz
Hubert Hurkacz (; born 11 February 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 9 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in November 2021, making him the highest-ranked Polish man in singles history. He has won five ATP Tour singles titles, including a Masters 1000 title at the 2021 Miami Open. With the win, he became the first Pole to win an ATP Masters 1000 title. Hurkacz also has a career-high ranking of world No. 30 in doubles, which he attained in June 2022. As a junior, Hurkacz was ranked as high as No. 29 in the world. He and his partner Alex Molčan were the runners-up at the 2015 Australian Open boys' doubles final. As a professional, he broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2018 after reaching the second rounds of the 2018 French Open and 2018 US Open. That year, he qualified for the Next Generation ATP Finals, where he won against Jaume Munar, but lost to Frances Tiafoe and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauri Kiiski
Lauri Kiiski (born 10 October 1980) is a Finnish tennis player. Kiiski has a career high ATP singles ranking of 427 achieved on 9 September 2002. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 300 achieved on 29 July 2002. Kiiski represented Finland at the Davis Cup where he had a W/L record of 2–2. See also *List of Finland Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Finland Davis Cup team in an official 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 co ... References External links * * * 1980 births Living people Finnish male tennis players Sportspeople from Tampere {{Finland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Eriksson (tennis)
Markus Eriksson (born 29 November 1989) is a retired Swedish tennis player. Eriksson has a career high ATP singles ranking of 277, achieved on 19 August 2019. Tennis career Eriksson made his ATP main draw singles debut at the 2013 Swedish Open where he lost in the first round to Martín Alund. In 2014, he made his debut in the main draw of an ATP doubles event, when he and partner Isak Arvidsson received a wild card at the Swedish Open. They lost in the quarterfinals to the tournament third seeds, Tomasz Bednarek and Henri Kontinen. In 2012, Eriksson was selected to represent the Swedish Davis Cup team in the World Group Playoffs against Belgium. For the period 2012 to 2020, he played in 14 Davis Cup ties winning 7 of the 16 singles matches and 4 of the 7 doubles matches that he played. Eriksson won his first ATP Challenger title in the doubles, when he and his compatriot André Göransson won the title at the Tampere challenger, where they beat Ivan Gakhov and Alexan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrik Niklas-Salminen
Patrik Niklas-Salminen (born 5 March 1997) is a Finnish professional tennis player. Niklas-Salminen has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 418 achieved on 3 March 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 95 achieved on 17 April 2023. Niklas-Salminen has won one singles and nineteen doubles titles on the ITF Men's Circuit including four Challengers. On the junior tour, Niklas-Salminen had a career high ITF junior ranking of No. 20 achieved in September 2015. Niklas-Salminen reached the semifinals of the 2015 Wimbledon boys' singles event, losing to Mikael Ymer in the semifinal. Niklas-Salminen has represented Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ... in Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 2–3. External links * * * 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Ivanov (tennis)
Vladimir Ivanov (born 10 April 1987) is an Estonian tennis player. Ivanov has a career high ATP singles ranking of 310 achieved on 27 July 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 408, achieved on 10 December 2018. Ivanov has won 7 ITF singles titles and 15 doubles titles. Despite relative success on the ITF Futures Tour, Ivanov has struggled at higher levels, only reaching one ATP Challenger Tour Semi-Final. This came in 2015 in Tampere, Finland, where he was defeated 4-6 3-6 by Andre Ghem. Ivanov has represented Estonia at Davis Cup, in 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 organis ... he has a win–loss record of 25–15. Future and Challenger finals Singles: 22 (7–15) Doubles: 42 (15–27) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Milojević (tennis)
Nikola Milojević ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Милојевић, ; born 19 June 1995) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Milojević has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 125, which he achieved on 21 February 2022. He also achieved a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 252 on 18 February 2019. He reached his highest ranking of no. 1 in ITF Junior rankings on 7 January 2013. Career 2014: ATP debut Milojević was a fifth player on a Serbian Davis Cup team in the first round tie against United States in the 2010 Davis Cup as well as a first round tie against Switzerland in 2014 and didn't play in any match. Milojević made his ATP main draw debut as a wildcard at 2014 Düsseldorf Open, where he defeated Mirza Bašić in the first round before losing to eventual finalist, Ivo Karlović, in the second round. 2017: Three Challengers finals, Top 150 debut He was also invited for a semifinal clash against France in 2017, but instead chose to play in a Challenger tournam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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