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2019 Città Di Como Challenger
The 2019 Città di Como Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Como, Italy between 26 August and 1 September 2019. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 19 August 2019. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Francesco Forti * Federico Iannaccone * Lorenzo Musetti * Julian Ocleppo * Giulio Zeppieri The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Daniel Altmaier The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Riccardo Bonadio * Andrea Collarini The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Gonzalo Escobar * Khumoyun Sultanov The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Fabien Reboul Champions Singles * Facundo Mena def. Andrej Martin 2–6, 6– ...
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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 winners ...
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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 ...
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Riccardo Bonadio
Riccardo Bonadio (born 13 July 1993) is an Italian tennis player. Bonadio has a career high ATP singles ranking of 177 achieved on 15 August 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 278 achieved on 21 March 2022. Bonadio has won 1 ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2021 Antalya Challenger III with Giovanni Fonio Giovanni Fonio (born 7 May 1998) is an Italian tennis player. Fonio has a career high ATP singles ranking of 435 achieved on 25 October 2021. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 475 achieved on 10 February 2020. Fonio has won 1 ATP Cha .... Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 20 (10–10) Doubles References External links * * 1993 births Living people Italian male tennis players {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Daniel Altmaier
Daniel Altmaier (born 12 September 1998) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved on 23 May 2022. Tennis career 2017: ATP debut Altmaier made his ATP main draw debut as a qualifier at the 2017 Geneva Open, defeating Alexander Ward and Petr Michnev in qualifying. He lost to Sam Querrey in the first round. He won his first ATP tour-level match as a lucky loser at the 2017 Antalya Open when he beat Víctor Estrella Burgos. In the next round, he defeated wildcard Marsel İlhan to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to Yūichi Sugita. Both of his victories were decided by a third set tiebreak. 2020: Grand Slam debut & fourth round & first top-10 win Shoulder and hip injuries held back Altmaier’s progress in his tennis career, but victories in qualifying over Tallon Griekspoor and Ruben Bemelmans led to his Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open, where he defeated Feliciano Lopez, 30th seed Jan-Lennard Struff an ...
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Giulio Zeppieri
Giulio Zeppieri (born 7 December 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. Zeppieri has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 136 achieved on 1 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 242 achieved on 4 April 2022. Professional career 2019 Zeppieri was one of the alternates for the 2019 Next Generation ATP Finals. 2020-2021: ATP debut, First Challenger title, Top 250 debut Zeppieri made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 Forte Village Sardegna Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. In August 2021, he won his first Challenger in Barletta, Italy defeating compatriot Flavio Cobolli. As a result he reached a new career-high inside the top 300 at No. 251 on 30 August 2021 and later inside the top 250 at No. 245 on 20 September 2021. 2022: Grand Slam & Masters 1000 debut, first ATP semifinal & top 150 debut He qualified into the main draw for his first Masters 1000 at the 2022 Italian Open (tennis) on his second attempt defeat ...
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Julian Ocleppo
Julian Ocleppo (born 1 August 1997) is an Italian tennis player. Ocleppo has a career high ATP singles ranking of 309 achieved on 24 February 2020. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 167 achieved on 23 July 2018. Ocleppo has won 3 ATP Challenger doubles titles on the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour in Italy. He made his main draw debut on the ATP World Tour at the 2018 Italian Open doubles competition partnering Andrea Vavassori. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 3 (1–2) Doubles: 24 (14–10) Personal life He is the son of former tennis player Gianni Ocleppo and Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger. His mother is of Turkish and British descent.. He is the stepson of fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger Thomas Jacob Hilfiger ( /hɪlˈfɪgər/; born March 24, 1951) is an American fashion designer and the founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. After starting his career by co-founding a chain of jeans/fashion stores called People's Place in upst ..., through ...
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Lorenzo Musetti
Lorenzo Musetti (born 3 March 2002) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP ranking of World No. 19 achieved on 9 January 2023 and a doubles ranking of World No. 283 achieved on 2 May 2022. Musetti has won two ATP Tour singles titles. As a junior, Musetti was ranked as high as world No. 1, reaching the final of the 2018 US Open boys' singles and winning the 2019 Australian Open boys' title. Since turning professional in 2019, he has won two titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour and two ATP Challenger titles. Musetti trains at La Spezia TC and Tirrenia. Early life Lorenzo Musetti was born on March 3, 2002, in Carrara, Tuscany, Italy. His father Francesco is a marble producer, and his mother Sabrina is a secretary. He began playing tennis at age 4, and has been coached by Simone Tartarini since childhood. His tennis idol growing up was Roger Federer. Professional career Juniors He has achieved a career-high ITF juniors ranking of 1 in the world ...
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Francesco Forti
Francesco Forti (born 26 July 1999) is an Italian tennis player. Forti has a career high ATP singles ranking of 368 achieved on 12 July 2021. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 253 achieved on 7 March 2022. Forti has won 1 ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2021 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Todi with Giulio Zeppieri Giulio Zeppieri (born 7 December 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. Zeppieri has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 136 achieved on 1 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 242 achieved on 4 April 2 .... Tour titles Doubles References External links * * 1999 births Living people Italian male tennis players Sportspeople from Cesena People from Cesenatico 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Aslan Karatsev
Aslan Kazbekovich Karatsev (russian: Аслан Казбекович Карацев, os, Хъарацаты Хъазыбеджы фырт Аслан; born 4 September 1993) is a Russian-Israeli professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ATP ranking of world No. 14 on 7 February 2022, and peaked at No. 76 in the doubles rankings on 16 May 2022. In February 2021, Karatsev went through qualifiers for the Australian Open. In his first main draw of a major, ranked 114th, he defeated 8th seed Diego Schwartzman, 20th seed Félix Auger-Aliassime and 18th seed Grigor Dimitrov to reach the semifinals. Karatsev is the first man in the Open Era to reach the semifinals in his Grand Slam debut. In March 2021, he won his first ATP title at the Qatar Open with Andrey Rublev in doubles. A week later, as a wildcard, Karatsev won his first ATP singles title at the 2021 Dubai Open, beating South African Lloyd Harris in the final. Karatsev, who was unseeded and beat four seeded ...
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Thomaz Bellucci
Thomaz Cocchiarali Bellucci (born 30 December 1987, in Tietê) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 21 in July 2010. Bellucci used a string of ATP Challenger Tour victories early in 2008 to break into the top 100 rankings of the ATP World Tour as a 20-year-old. He has won 4 ATP World Tour titles (the 2009 and 2012 Swiss Open, the 2010 Movistar Open and the 2015 Geneva Open), reached the quarterfinals at the 2016 Olympics and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 Madrid Masters. Playing style Thomaz's playing style relies on using the heavy topspin of his forehand to control the points. He lacks outright power to produce a lot of aces, but he has excellent spin on his serve, allowing him to force his opponents off of the court which leads to him taking the offensive at the beginning of the point. His two-handed backhand is much more compact than his forehand, and is flatter, which allows him to take balls earlier on ...
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Alejandro Tabilo
Alejandro Tabilo (born 2 June 1997) is a Chilean tennis player. Tabilo has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 64 achieved on 25 July 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 249 achieved on 22 February 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Chilean player. He participated at the 2020 ATP Cup and the 2022 ATP Cup with the Chilean team as the No. 2 player. Tabilo represents Chile at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1–3. He participated in his first tie against Germany in a doubles rubber against Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies. Professional career 2020: Grand Slam debut, top 200 debut At his first tournament of the year, Tabilo qualified for his first Grand Slam at the 2020 Australian Open. He defeated fellow qualifier Daniel Elahi Galán in the first round, losing to John Isner in straight sets in the second round. This run resulted in his first top 200 ranking, reaching no. 172, a career-high at that moment. Tabilo played home country ...
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Viktor Galović
Viktor Galović (; born 19 September 1990) is a former Croatian tennis player. Galović has a career high ATP singles ranking of 173, achieved on 14 May 2018. Galović had previously represented Italy where he was raised but in 2014 switched back to his home country of Croatia. Career Galović made his ATP main draw singles debut at the 2014 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel where he qualified for the main draw, defeating Philipp Davydenko, Lukáš Dlouhý and Antonio Veić en route. In the main draw he lost to Albert Ramos-Viñolas in three sets in the first round. Galović had his grass debut in Stuttgart where he lost in the second round of qualifications to Denis Kudla. But he was lucky and he received an entry as a lucky loser. In the first round of the ATP tournament in Stuttgart he lost to Maximilian Marterer Maximilian Marterer (born 15 June 1995) is a German tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 45, achieved in August 2018. Professional ca ...
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