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2017 Burnie International
The 2017 Caterpillar Burnie International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts as part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $75,000 in prize money for men and $60,000 for women. It was the fourteenth (for men) and eighth (for women) edition of the tournament, which returned to the tennis calendar after missing 2016 due to difficulty acquiring funds. It took place in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia, on 28 January–4 February 2017. Men's singles entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 16 January 2017. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Alex Bolt * Harry Bourchier * Matthew Ebden * Bradley Mousley The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Maverick Banes * James Frawley * Greg Jones * Dayne Kelly Women's singles entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 16 January 2017 Other entrants The following players received wildcard ... [...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] |
Andrew Whittington (tennis)
Andrew Whittington (born 11 August 1993) is a former Australian professional tennis player. Whittington has now turned to coaching, he will be coaching former doubles partner and current professional Australian tennis player Alex Bolt for the upcoming 2022 summer. He made the world's top 200 in August 2016 following a semi-final run at the 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships. His best performance came by reaching the quarter finals of the 2014 Australian Open with Alex Bolt. In May 2014, Whittington and Bolt won the China International Challenger, which was both players' first Challenger doubles title. He made his singles grand slam debut at the 2017 Australian Open after being given a wild card. Career 2010–2012: Career beginnings Whittington made his first singles appearance in April 2010 at the Australian F3 where he lost in round 1 to Brendan Moore. Throughout 2010/11, Whittington played mostly on the ITF circuits across Australia and the USA where he reached two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayne Kelly
Dayne Kelly (born 23 July 1990) is an Australian tennis player playing 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 .... On 18 September 2017, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 252. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 26 (15-11) Doubles External links * * 1990 births Living people Australian male tennis players Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Jones (tennis)
Greg Jones (born 1989) is a former Australian professional tennis player. Early life Born in Sydney, Jones is an only child. He is the son of Russell Jones, a quantity surveyor, and Donna Jones, a teacher's aide. He competed in the Sydney GPS Schools tennis competition representing the Shore school, before eventually forgoing his school education to pursue his tennis career. Jones competed in a number of high-profile events throughout his junior career including all four of the junior grand slams, most notably making the final of the 2007 French Open. In 2007, Jones, having reached the finals of the junior event at the French Open, a semifinal at Wimbledon and a quarterfinal finish at the Australian Open, was very hopeful for a win at the last US Open Junior event, which was his last match in the International Tennis Federation Junior Competition. Jones had a Junior career high ranking of 4 and won 191 out of 219 matches. Professional career Jones began playing prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Frawley (tennis)
James Frawley (born 29 March 1994) is an Australian tennis player. Frawley has a career high ATP singles ranking of 606 achieved on 27 May 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 289 achieved on 19 December 2022. Frawley made his ATP main draw debut at the 2015 Malaysian Open in the doubles draw partnering Nick Kyrgios Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios ( ; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. In singles, Kyrgios' career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 was achieved on 24 October 2016. He has won seven ATP Tour singles titles, includin .... ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Doubles: 15 (10–5) References External links * * 1994 births Living people Australian male tennis players Tennis people from the Australian Capital Territory 21st-century Australian people {{Australia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maverick Banes
Maverick Banes (born 10 April 1992) is an inactive Australian 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. Banes has a career high ATP singles ranking of 216 achieved on 27 August 2018. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 236 achieved on 9 May 2016. Banes has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title at the 2018 Gwangju Open. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 17 (8–9) Doubles: 26 (12–14) External links * * 1992 births Living people Australian male tennis players Tennis people from the Gold Coast 21st-century Australian people {{Australia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradley Mousley
Bradley Mousley (born 3 January 1996) is an Australian tennis player. Mousley won the Australian Open boys' doubles title in both 2013 and 2014. In August 2014, Mousley received a one-year ban, backdated to 30 May 2014, after testing positive for ecstasy in March. Mousley had admitted he had taken the drug at a party in March, and was originally given a two-year ban, but since the drug was not taken with the intent to enhance his performance, the ban was dropped to 12 months. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Mousley reached a career-high ITF Junior combined ranking of world No. 14, which is achieved on March 3rd 2014. Partnering compatriot Jay Andrijic, he won the 2013 Australian Open boys' doubles tournament as a 17 year old. He successfully defended the title, winning the boys' doubles championship for the second consecutive year at the 2014 Australian Open, this time alongside partner Lucas Miedler of Austria. 2017 At the 2017 Australian Open, Mousley and partner Alex B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Ebden
Matthew Ebden (born 26 November 1987) is an Australian professional tennis player. He is a two-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles alongside Max Purcell, and the 2013 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2013 Australian Open in mixed doubles with Jarmila Gajdošová. Ebden also finished runner-up at the 2022 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2022 Australian Open in men's doubles with Purcell, and the 2021 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2021 Australian Open and 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles partnering Samantha Stosur. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 24 in January 2022, and has won six doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2014 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Men's doubles, 2014 Mexican Open. In singles, Ebden reached his highest ranking of world No. 39 in October 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Bourchier
Harry Bourchier (born 24 January 1996) is an Australian tennis player. Bourchier has a career high ATP singles ranking of 279 achieved on 13 January 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 275 achieved on 2 March 2020. Bourchier made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Murray River Open, where he was a late alternate into the singles main draw. He beat fellow compatriot Marc Polmans in the first round but lost to 13th seed Nick Kyrgios in the second round. Personal life Bourchier started playing tennis at the age of six. Career 2012–2020: Career beginnings Bourchier made his debut on the ITF circuit at the Australia F5 in August 2012. Bourchier won his first ATP Challenger Tour match at the 2014 West Lakes Challenger in February 2014. In March 2015, Bourchier reached his first ITF final in Mildura. In February 2015, Bourchier reacher the quarter-final of the Launceston Tennis International. In March 2015, Bourchier reached his first ITF final in Mildura. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Bolt
Alex Bolt (born 5 January 1993) is an inactive Australian professional tennis player. His career-high ranking is World No. 125 in singles and World No. 81 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Highlights of Bolt's career thus far include a quarterfinal appearance at the 2014 Australian Open men's doubles, and also winning the China International Challenger with his partner Andrew Whittington. Personal life Bolt was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia. He began playing tennis at the age of seven and also spent time playing Australian rules football and basketball throughout his youth. During his hiatus from tennis in 2016, Bolt began playing local football for the Mypolonga Tigers in River Murray Football League and worked as a fence-builder. Bolt is an avid supporter of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League. In August 2021, Bolt tested positive for COVID-19. Career 2010-2012: Career beginnings Bolt began his tennis care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Santillan
is a Japanese born, Australian tennis player. Early life Santillan was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a South African father of Spanish descent. He lived the first 8 years of his life in Japan before his family relocated to the Gold Coast, Australia and became citizens. He played much of his junior tennis at the Gold Coast before moving to Brisbane to join the national academy program at the Queensland Tennis Centre. Junior career On the junior tour, Santillan has a career high ITF junior ranking of 7 achieved in September 2015. Santillan's major highlights on the junior tour included a semi-final at the 2015 Australian Open and doubles finals at the 2014 French Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships. In March 2015, Santillan opted to play under the Japanese flag instead due to a fractious relationship with Tennis Australia. He returned to playing under the Australian flag in 2017. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles Professional career Santillan has a career high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Bublik
Alexander Stanislavovich "Sasha" Bublik (; born 17 June 1997) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 30 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in February 2022, and is the current Kazakhstani No. 1 player. Bublik also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 47, attained on 8 November 2021. In November 2016, Bublik announced he would change his citizenship from that of his home country of Russia to Kazakhstan after receiving support from the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation that the Russian Tennis Federation allegedly did not provide him. Since turning professional, Bublik has won one ATP Tour singles title and been a runner-up in four additional finals, and he achieved his greatest success at a Grand Slam at the 2021 French Open as the runner-up in his first career doubles final with partner Andrey Golubev. At , Bublik is known for his powerful serve and led the 2021 ATP Tour in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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