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2018 Liuzhou International Challenger
The 2018 Liuzhou International Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament for men and third edition for women. It was the part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Liuzhou, China between 22 and 28 October 2018. Men's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of October 15, 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Sun Fajing * Te Rigele * Wu Di * Wu Yibing The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Chung Yun-seong * Alejandro Davidovich Fokina * Sumit Nagal * Renta Tokuda Women's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of October 22, 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Ren Jiaqi * Wang Yafan * Wei Sijia * Zheng Qinwen The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Choi Ji ...
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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 ...
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Thomas Fabbiano
Thomas Fabbiano (born 26 May 1989) is an Italian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 11 September 2017, he reached his then highest ATP singles ranking of 70. His highest doubles ranking was 208 on 20 July 2009. He reached his first third round at a Grand Slam tournament at the US Open 2017 where he was defeated by fellow italian Paolo Lorenzi. Since then he reached the second round or better at each of the Grand Slams. Junior grand slam finals Doubles finals: 1 (1–0) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 25 (17–8) Doubles Performance timelines Singles ''Current through the 2022 Australian Open The 2022 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park, Australia from 17 to 30 January 2022. It was the 110th edition of the Australian Open, the 54th in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the ye ....'' Wins over top 10 players References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:F ...
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Anhelina Kalinina
Anhelina Serhiyivna Kalinina ( uk, Ангеліна Сергіївна Калініна ; born 7 February 1997) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Kalinina has won 15 singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 27 June 2022, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 34. On 15 July 2019, she peaked at No. 196 in the doubles rankings. In June 2022, she was the No. 1 Ukrainian player. Juniors In 2014, Kalinina partnering with Elizaveta Kulichkova won the girls' doubles tournament at the Australian Open, defeating Katie Boulter and Ivana Jorović in the final. Later that year, she reached the final of the Junior US Open, losing to Marie Bouzková in straight sets. Professional career 2018: Grand Slam debut At the 2018 US Open (tennis), Kalinina had her main-draw debut in a Grand Slam singles tournament, after winning three matches in the qualifying. She defeated Elena-Gabriela Ruse in the first qualifying round, Tereza Martincová in roun ...
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Sumit Nagal
Sumit Nagal (born 16 August 1997) is an Indian professional tennis player. He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with his Vietnamese partner Lý Hoàng Nam, thus becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title. He is currently the highest-ranked Indian singles tennis player and since 2018, he has been a regular member of India's national Davis Cup squad. Early life Sumit Nagal was born on 16 August 1997 to school teacher Suresh Nagal and his wife Krishna Devi, a homemaker in Jhajjar, Haryana. Nagal started playing tennis at the age of eight at a local sports club. When he was ten years old, he was selected to join Mahesh Bhupathi's training academy, as part of the first batch of Mahesh Bhupathi's Apollo Tyres Mission 2018 programme. As part of the programme, between 2008 and 2010, Nagal was based in Bangalore. Upon the programme closing down, Nagal shifted to Toronto for training with Coach Bobby Mahal. Career 2015: Junior Wimbledon Title Nagal ...
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Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (born 5 June 1999) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 27 achieved on 18 April 2022 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 213 achieved on 17 May 2021. Early life Davidovich Fokina was born and raised in La Cala del Moral, Rincón de la Victoria, about 10 km away from Málaga, Spain, to a Swedish-Russian father Eduard Mark Davidovich, and a Russian mother Tatiana Fokina. His father is a former boxer. Davidovich Fokina has a brother, Mark. He began playing tennis with his father at the age of three. When he turned five, he started training at Calaflores and later Serramar tennis courts with coach Manolo Rubiales. Since 2009, Jorge Aguirre has been his coach. Junior career Davidovich Fokina was Spanish Champion at U12, U15 and U18 levels. He started his professional tennis career in 2016. He won his first ITF Grade 1 in Canada at the Repentigny Internationaux de Tennis Junior, ...
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Chung Yun-seong
Chung Yun-seong ( ko, 정윤성; born 27 March 1998) is a South Korean tennis player. Chung has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 233 achieved on 22 July 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 129 achieved on 22 May 2023. Chung has won three doubles ATP Challenger titles as well as four International Tennis Federation, ITF singles and five doubles titles. On the junior tour, Chung had a career-high combined ranking of 3 achieved on 21 March 2016. Chung was a semifinalist at the 2016 Australian Open boys' singles event and the 2015 US Open (tennis), 2015 US Open boys' singles event where he fell to both eventual champions Oliver Anderson and Taylor Fritz, respectively. Chung was also a singles finalist at the Osaka Mayor's Cup in 2014. He and Orlando Luz lost to Yishai Oliel of Israel and Patrik Rikl of the Czech Republic in the final of the 2016 French Open – Boys' doubles, 2016 French Open boys' doubles, 6–3 ...
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Wu Yibing
Wu Yibing (; ; born 14 October 1999) is a Chinese professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 58, achieved on 13 February 2023, and a doubles ranking of No. 295, achieved on 23 April 2018. He is the first Chinese man in the Open Era to reach, and to win, an ATP Tour-level singles final, doing so at the 2023 Dallas Open. Wu became the world No. 1 in the ITF Junior Circuit ranking after winning the boys' singles title at the 2017 US Open. Wu represented China at the 2017 Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1–0. He defeated Jason Jung in his first Davis Cup match. Juniors In December 2016, Wu reached the final of the 2016 Orange Bowl, a Grade A junior event, losing to Miomir Kecmanović in the final. In 2017, Wu reached the semifinals in both boys' singles and doubles at the Australian Open, and won both the boys' singles and doubles champions (with Chinese Taipei's Hsu Yu-hsiou) at the US Open, thus became the first Chinese male to win a ...
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Wu Di (tennis)
Wu Di (; ; born 14 September 1991) is a professional Chinese tennis player. Professional career Wu has a career high singles ranking of world No. 140 achieved on April 25 2016, and a career high doubles ranking of world No. 186 achieved on April 2 2018. He has reached 24 singles finals on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures Tour, posting a record of 13–11, which includes a 1–4 record in ATP Challenger finals. Additionally, he has reached 15 doubles finals posting a record of 6–9, which includes a 3–4 record in ATP Challenger finals. Wu participated in the 2012 Hopman Cup together with the country's best female player Li Na. Wu had the chance to try out in a much bigger stage but he could not manage to win a match, as he and team China were eliminated in the round robin stage of the tournament. In the Asia-Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Play-off men's final, Wu defeated Thai Danai Udomchoke 7–6(1), 6–4 to obtain his wildcard to compete in the 2013 Australian ...
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Te Rigele
Te Rigele (born 9 October 1997) is a Chinese 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. On the junior tour, Te has a career-high ranking of No. 48, achieved in January 2015. Te has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 395, achieved on 22 October 2018. On 4 March 2019, he achieved No. 384 in ATP doubles ranking which is his career high. Te has won 3 ITF singles titles and 5 ITF doubles titles. He has yet to reach a final at the ATP Challenger level. Te made his ATP main draw debut at the 2014 ATP Shenzhen Open, in the doubles draw partnering Qiu Zhuoyang. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 10 (5–5) Doubles: 10 (6–4) External links * * 1997 births Living people Chinese male tennis players People from Hohhot Tenn ...
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Sun Fajing
Sun Fajing (; ; born 3 October 1996) is a Chinese tennis player. Sun has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 351 achieved on 10 February 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 223 achieved on 14 October 2019. He has reached 10 career singles finals posting a record of 3 wins and 7 losses, all coming on the ITF Futures tour. Additionally, he has reached 17 doubles finals posting a record of 10 wins and 7 losses, which includes 2 ATP Challenger Tour doubles titles. Sun made his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 Chengdu Open, where he was granted a wild card entry in the doubles draw alongside compatriot He Yecong. They were defeated in the first round by Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram in straight sets ''4–6, 5–7''. The following year, he was again given a wild card at the 2017 Chengdu Open with partner Te Rigele, and again he would lose in the first round to Nenad Zimonjic and Santiago Gonzalez in straight sets ''4–6, 4–6''. In his thir ...
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Tatsuma Ito
, fullname = Tatsuma Ito , country = , residence = , birth_date = , birth_place = Inabe, Japan , height = , turnedpro = December 2006 , plays = Right-handed (two-handed backhand) , coach = Alexander Waske , careerprizemoney = $1,735,524. , singlesrecord = 36–66 , singlestitles = 0 , highestsinglesranking = No. 60 (22 October 2012) , currentsinglesranking =No. 219 (12 July 2021) , AustralianOpenresult = 2R (2012, 2013, 2020) , FrenchOpenresult = 1R (2012, 2015) , Wimbledonresult = 1R (2012, 2014) , USOpenresult = 2R (2014) , Othertournaments= yes , Olympicsresult= 1R (2012) , doublesrecord = 3–16 , doublestitles = 0 , highestdoublesranking = No. 312 (09 June 2014) , currentdoublesranking = No. 0 , AustralianOpenDoublesresult= , FrenchOpenDoublesresult= , WimbledonDoublesresult= , USOpenDoublesresult= 1R (2012) , updated = 14 July 2021 is a Japanese professional tennis player. He has won 6 Challenger tournaments and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World ...
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Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Prajnesh Gunneswaran (born 12 November 1989) is an Indian tennis player. He has won 2 ATP Challenger and 8 ITF titles in singles and 1 ITF title in doubles. He is currently the highest-ranked Indian singles player. He represents India at the Davis Cup. At the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, he won the bronze medal in the men's singles event. Personal life Prajnesh Gunneswaran is the son of Mr. S G Prabhakharan and Mrs. Usha. He married Sudarshana Pai in Ernakulam, Kerala in 2019. Career 2010–2017: Early career Gunneswaran mainly participated in ITF and ATP Challenger events in his early years. While he won eight ITF Futures singles titles, he found limited success on the Challenger tour. In October 2016, he reached his first ATP Challenger singles final at Pune Challenger. He lost the title match to Frenchman Sadio Doumbia. In May 2017, he reached his first ATP Challenger doubles final at 2017 Samarkand Challenger. Partnering with compatriot Vishnu Vardhan, the pair lost the ...
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