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2018 Sarasota Open
The 2018 Sarasota Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 10th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sarasota, Florida, United States between 16 and 22 April. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of April 9, 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * JC Aragone * Sebastian Korda * Mackenzie McDonald * Tyler Zink The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts: * Facundo Argüello * Juan Ignacio Londero The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jay Clarke * Federico Coria * Frank Dancevic * Kaichi Uchida The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Jan Choinski Champions Singles * Hugo Dellien def. Facundo Bagnis 2–6, 6–4, 6–2. Doubles * Evan King / Hunter Reese def. Christian Harrison / Peter Polansky 6–1, 6–2. External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green 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 winne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaž Rola
Blaž Rola (born 5 October 1990) is a Slovenian tennis player. His highest career ranking is No. 78 in singles and No. 186 in doubles. In his career, he has won nine singles and six doubles ITF Futures tournaments, five ATP Challenger in singles and eight in doubles. He represents Slovenia on the Slovenia Davis Cup team. In the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, he won gold in singles and doubles. Personal life Rola was born in Ptuj, the oldest Slovenian town, to father Marijan Rola and mother Majda Rola. He was four years old when he started playing tennis and when he was six he joined the Tennis Club Terme Ptuj where he spent the most of his youth. He went to High school in Ptuj. In 2010 he moved to the United States where he studied at and competed in tennis for Ohio State University until 2013. In January 2019 he and his fiancée Vanesa welcomed daughter Izabela. The same year he married his long term girlfriend, Slovenian blogger Vanesa Rola. College career He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Harrison
Christian Harrison (born May 29, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 198 achieved on 2 July 2018 and a doubles ranking of world No. 162 achieved on 26 August 2013. He is the younger brother of Ryan Harrison. Early life Christian was coached by his father, Pat Harrison, and attended the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Professional career 2012: Grand Slam doubles debut and quarterfinal In July, Christian made it to the quarterfinals of the Lexington, Kentucky Challenger event. Christian was awarded a wildcard into the 2012 US Open to play doubles alongside Ryan Harrison, where they reached the quarterfinals. 2013 Earlier in the year he reached the quarterfinals, semifinals, the final, and won, respectively, the four Futures events in which he participated. He failed to qualify in Indian Wells, losing in the first round of qualifying to Ernests Gulbis, who made a deep run to the fourth round after qualifying. However, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facundo Bagnis
Facundo Bagnis (; born 27 February 1990) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won 1 ATP doubles event at Stuttgart and 16 Challengers in singles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 55 in November 2016. Tennis career 2011-2012: ATP debut and first win Bagnis played in his first ATP World Tour match at the 2011 Movistar Open on January 31, 2011, losing to Santiago Giraldo in three sets, and he won his first tour level match at 2012 Copa Claro beating Leonardo Mayer. 2014-2017: First Major win, Career high year-end ranking Bagnis secured his biggest victory (and first at Grand Slam level) when he defeated Julien Benneteau in the first round of the 2014 French Open, winning the deciding set 18–16. 2021: First ATP final, US Open third round In 2021, Bagnis recorded his first ATP semifinal at the Córdoba Open, where he would lose to 5th seeded Albert Ramos Viñolas in 3 sets. Two weeks later at the Chile Open, he would go even further by recordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Choinski
Jan Choinski (born 10 June 1996) is a German-born British tennis player of Polish descent. Choinski has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 234, achieved in April 2018. Juniors Choinski reached the semifinals of the 2014 US Open – Boys' singles. He peaked at No. 17 combined world ranking, compiling a 78–30 match record in singles. Professional career Choinski made his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 MercedesCup, where he was given a wildcard into the singles event. Ranked No. 457, he reached his second Challenger final at the 2022 Campeonato Internacional de Tênis de Campinas being the first qualifier in the history of the tournament to do so. He won his maiden Challenger title defeating Juan Pablo Varillas, moving more than a 150 positions back up close to the top 300 at No. 301 on 10 October 2022. https://www.atptour.com/en/news/svajda-skatov-claim-maiden-atp-challenger-tour-titles He returned to the top 250 on 19 December 2022. Personal life Choinski was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaichi Uchida
is a Japanese professional tennis player. Uchida has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 155 achieved on 3 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 202 also achieved on 19 September 2022. Uchida has won 2 Challengers and reached 14 ITF Futures singles finals, where he won the title on 8 occasions. He won his first career ATP Challenger Tour singles title in December 2021 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil where he defeated Nicolás Álvarez Varona of Spain. Additionally, he has reached 3 Challenger doubles finals and 17 ITF Futures finals, and won the title 11 times. Career 2022: ATP debut and first win He made his ATP debut at the 2022 Los Cabos Open as a qualifier. Having received a wildcard, he recorded his first ATP win at the Korea Open defeating wildcard Hong Seong-chan. National Representation Davis Cup In March 2021, Uchida made his debut in the Davis Cup where he represented team Japan on grass courts against team Pakistan Pakistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Dancevic
Frank Russell Dancevic ( ; sr, Френк Расел Данчевић, Frenk Rasel Dančević, ; born September 26, 1984) is a retired Canadian professional tennis player. He first became the country's top singles tennis, singles player, according to ATP rankings, on February 10, 2003, as an 18-year-old, and remained so from January 30, 2006 until June 20, 2010. Dancevic has reached two ATP singles finals (Atlanta Open (tennis), Indianapolis and Eastbourne International, Eastbourne), the quarterfinals of the 2007 Rogers Masters – Singles, 2007 Montreal Masters and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 65 in September 2007. In August 2011, Dancevic became the first men's singles player, in one calendar year, to enter the main draw of all four grand slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments by playing the qualifying competition for each event. He has been the captain of Canada's Canada Davis Cup team, Davis Cup team since 2017. Personal Dancevic's father is John and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Coria
Federico Coria (born 9 March 1992) is an Argentine tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 49 achieved on 13 February 2023. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 238, achieved on 22 November 2021. Coria has won one ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2016 Campeonato Internacional de Tênis de Campinas and two ATP Challenger singles titles at the 2019 Savannah Challenger and the 2021 Czech Open. Professional career 2019–2020: Maiden Challenger title, Major & top 100 debuts In 2019, he won his maiden title in Savannah at the Challenger tour level. In 2020, on his Grand Slam debut at the US Open, Coria reached the second round, where he won his first match at a Major after the retirement of Jason Jung in the fifth set. He made his top 100 debut at a career-high of World No. 98 on 21 September 2020. He also reached the third round of a Grand Slam at the 2020 French Open on his debut at this Major, where he defeated Benoît Paire in the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Clarke (tennis)
Jay Alexander Clarke (born 27 July 1998) is a British tennis player. In 2017, on a Wimbledon wildcard, Clarke and Marcus Willis beat the defending doubles champions and second seeds, Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert, in five sets, to progress to the third round. Clarke has won four Futures titles and two Challenger titles. Early and personal life Clarke has an older brother Curtis (by four years) and an older sister Yasmin (by nine years), who are both former professional tennis players, and all were coached by their father Earol. Clarke is from Pear Tree, Derby. Junior career 2012 Playing in the Great Britain Under 14 boys team, with Samuel Ferguson, they won the European Winter Cup defeating Sweden in the final. Clarke won two Tennis Europe 14U Grade 1 events to become the 14U No.1 in Europe. Consequently, Clarke gained the May AEGON Junior Player of the Month Award. 2015 Clarke was the no 1 ranked British junior, living and training in Stockholm. Senior career 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Ignacio Londero
Juan Ignacio Londero (; born 15 August 1993, in Jesus Maria) is an Argentine tennis player. Londero made his first appearance on an ATP World Tour in July 2013 when he lost in the first round of 2013 Claro Open Colombia against eventual champion Ivo Karlović. He managed to win his first tour level match at the 2019 Córdoba Open against Nicolás Jarry and subsequently won his first ATP title at the tournament, defeating Guido Pella Guido Pella (; born 17 May 1990) is an inactive Argentine professional tennis player. In August 2019, Pella reached his career best world No. 20 in singles. In July 2019, he peaked at No. 55 in doubles. Personal life His father, Carlos, taught ... in the final. Londero reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 50 in November 2019 and his highest ATP doubles ranking of world No. 186 in March 2020. Performance timelines Singles ''Current after the 2022 Chile Open.'' ATP career finals Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facundo Argüello (tennis)
Facundo Argüello (; born 4 August 1992) is an Argentine tennis player. He played in an ATP 250 doubles event in 2011. In 2013 he played the qualifying stages of the Roland Garros Open and US Open. In 2014 he won the Itajai Challenger, beating Diego Schwartzman in the final match. He qualified directly to the 2014 Roland Garros Open, where he lost to world number 43 Radek Štěpánek Radek Štěpánek (; born 27 November 1978) is a Czech former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 8 and best doubles ranking was world No. 4. Štěpánek's biggest achievements are reaching two Masters 1000 ... after winning the first two sets. In the 2015 Roland Garros draw, he faced Andy Murray in the first round, Murray won in straight sets. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 31 (15–16) Doubles: 32 (20–12) References Sources * * Argentine male tennis players Living people 1992 births Sportspeople from Córdoba, Argentina Tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Zink
Tyler Zink (born January 30, 2001) is an American tennis player. Zink won the 2019 US Open – Boys' doubles title with fellow American Eliot Spizzirri. Zink plays college tennis at Oklahoma State University. Zink has won 2 ITF Futures Tour doubles tournaments. His career high ATP ATP may refer to: Companies and organizations * Association of Tennis Professionals, men's professional tennis governing body * American Technical Publishers, employee-owned publishing company * ', a Danish pension * Armenia Tree Project, non ... doubles ranking of 880 was achieved on 20 January 2020. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Doubles: 9 (8–1) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) References External links * * 2001 births Living people American male tennis players Sportspeople from Lancaster, Pennsylvania Sportspeople from Bradenton, Florida US Open (tennis) junior champions Georgia Bulldogs men's tennis players Oklahoma State Cowboys tennis players Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
