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2019 Columbus Challenger
The 2019 Columbus Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Columbus, United States between 7 and 13 January 2019. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of December 31, 2018. Other entrants The following players received entry into the singles main draw as wildcards: * Martin Joyce * John McNally * Kyle Seelig * Mikael Torpegaard * J. J. Wolf The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking: * Tom Jomby * Fabien Reboul * Jelle Sels * João Souza The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Gijs Brouwer * João Menezes Champions Singles * J. J. Wolf def. Mikael Torpegaard 6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–4. Doubles * Maxime Cressy / Bernardo Saraiva def. Robert Galloway / Nathaniel Lammons 7–5, 7–6(7–3). References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Court
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Flat balls are favored on hard courts because of the extremely quick play style. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in the sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastão Elias
Gastão José Ministro Elias (; born 24 November 1990) is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who competes on the ATP World Tour. He became the fifth Portuguese tennis player to break into the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings. In October 2016, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 57 to become the second-highest-ranked Portuguese player, after João Sousa (No. 28). Early and personal life Gastão Elias was born on 24 November 1990 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. At age four, he started playing tennis with his father. In 2001, he participated in the national under-12 singles competition, falling to future Davis Cup partner João Sousa in the semifinals. Elias idolized James Blake and Roger Federer while growing up. He is a supporter of Sporting Clube de Portugal, Real Madrid C.F. and Liverpool F.C. Career Professional career 2016 proved to be a breakthrough year for Elias. After winning an ATP Challenger Tour tournament i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gijs Brouwer
Gijs Brouwer (born 14 March 1996) is an American-born Dutch tennis player. Brouwer has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 116 achieved on 20 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 22 August 2022. Brouwer has won two ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2021 Puerto Vallarta Open with Reese Stalder and at 2022 Tallahassee Challenger with Christian Harrison. Career 2022: ATP & Major debut & top-50 win, top 150 in singles & doubles On his ATP Tour debut at the 2022 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, Brouwer as a qualifier, made the quarterfinals after beating Feliciano López and JJ Wolf. He lost to third seed Reilly Opelka in the quarterfinals. As a result he made his top 300 debut at world No. 286. In May, he reached his first Challenger final at the 2022 Tunis Open losing to Roberto Carballes. He made his Grand Slam debut at the US Open as a qualifier. He recorded his first Major win defeating world No ... [...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] |
Jelle Sels
Jelle Sels (born 10 August 1995) is a Dutch tennis player. Sels competes mainly in the Challenger tour circuit. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 127 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 201 achieved on 20 June 2022. Career In October 2022, Sels won his maiden ATP Challenger singles title at the 2022 Internationaux de Tennis de Vendée The 2022 Internationaux de Tennis de Vendée was a professional tennis tournament played on hardcourt, hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Mouilleron-le-Captif, F ... in Mouilleron-le-Captif, France. As a result, he moved more than 30 positions up in the rankings in the top 150 at world No. 141 on 10 October 2022.https://www.atptour.com/en/news/svajda-skatov-claim-maiden-atp-challenger-tour-titles Tour titles Singles References External links * * 1995 births Living people People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabien Reboul
Fabien Reboul (born 9 September 1995) is a French tennis player who plays mainly doubles. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 328 achieved on 17 December 2018. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 36 achieved on 6 November 2023. Reboul has won has won 1 ATP doubles title at the 2023 Chengdu Open and 15 ATP Challengers all partnering Sadio Doumbia. He won titles at the 2019 Banja Luka Challenger, two in 2020 in Sibiu (Romania) and Campinas (Brazil), five in 2021 – including three in Italy and two in France, and seven in 2022–2023. Career 2022: ATP debut Reboul and Sadio Doumbia received a wildcard invitation into the main draw of their home tournament at the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters making their debut at the Masters 1000 level. 2023: Maiden ATP title, top 50 debut The pair reached their first ATP final at the 2023 Córdoba Open. Reboul reached the top 50 on 13 February 2023. Next they reached the semifinals at the 2023 Rio Open. In S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Torpegaard
Mikael Torpegaard (born 8 May 1994) is a Danish professional tennis player, who as of April 2022 is the second highest ranked male tennis player from Denmark behind Holger Rune. Mikael Torpegaard is a member of the Denmark Davis Cup team. Earlier career Torpegaard won his first career ATP Challenger $75,000 title at the 2016 Columbus Challenger, which is played at Ohio State, where Mikael went to college and became a five-time All-American and a two-time Big Ten Athlete of the Year, an achievement that ranks him among the most successful tennis players in Ohio State history. Professional career 2019: ATP debut Torpegaard qualified for his first ATP main draw at the 2019 Citi Open in Washington, USA where he lost to Marius Copil. 2021: Grand Slam debut Torpegaard made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2021 Australian Open as a lucky loser where he lost to Lloyd Harris. Davis Cup On 22 September 2015 Torpegaard, representing host Denmark for the third time in Davis Cup p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McNally (tennis)
John McNally (born 18 October 1998) is a former American tennis player. Juniors On the junior tour, McNally had a career high ranking of No. 13 achieved on 30 May 2016. Professional career McNally made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2016 US Open in the doubles event, partnering J. J. Wolf. He won his first Professional Title at the ITF Mens 25K Future in Columbus, Ohio.(November 2021) He received a wild card into qualifying for the 2019 Western & Southern Open. His younger sister, Caty McNally Catherine "Caty" McNally (born November 20, 2001) is an American tennis player. She achieved her highest doubles ranking of world No. 11 on 4 April 2022. On 7 November 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 94. She is best known ..., is also a professional tennis player. Both are coached by their mother. On 13 November 2022, he announced his retirement via Instagram. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 2 (1–1) Doubles: 7 (5–2) Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Vilella Martínez
Mario Vilella Martínez (; born 3 July 1995) is a Spanish former tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 158 achieved on 19 July 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 286 achieved on 23 November 2020. Professional career 2015 Vilella Martínez made his ATP main draw debut at the 2015 Valencia Open in the doubles draw partnering Eduardo Russi Assumpção.http://www.protennislive.com/posting/2015/573/mdd.pdf 2020 Vilella Martínez made his Grand Slam debut at the 2020 Australian Open as a qualifier where he lost to sixteenth seed Karen Khachanov. 2021 Vilella Martínez qualified for the 2021 Australian Open where he lost in the first round to first time qualifier Tomáš Macháč. Vilella Martínez made his debut at the 2021 French Open as a qualifier where he lost to eleventh seed fellow Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut. In July, he won his second Challenger title in Todi, Italy defeating Federico Gaio. As a result he reached a new c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianluca Mager
Gianluca Mager (born 1 December 1994) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 66 achieved on 13 September 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 310 achieved on 10 June 2019. Personal Info Born in Liguria, from a family of German origins. In 2010, Mager was disqualified for failing a doping test after smoking marijuana at a party. Professional career Mager made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 Internazionali BNL d'Italia after earning a wildcard in the pre-qualifying wildcard tournament. He was defeated by Aljaž Bedene in the first round. He got his first singles ATP main-draw win in the first round in Stockholm in October 2019 against Spaniard Pablo Andújar. At the 2020 Rio Open in Brazil, an ATP 500 level tournament on clay courts, he beat world No. 34 Casper Ruud in the first round, and world No. 4 Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals to reach the semifinal as a qualifier. Mager reached his first ATP Tour final, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Tatlot
Johan Sébastien Tatlot (born 26 March 1996 in Schœlcher) is a French tennis player. Tatlot has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 226, achieved in September 2018. He also has an ATP career high doubles ranking of 525 achieved on 7 May 2018. Tatlot was the world no.5 junior ranked player in January 2014 and reached the 2014 Australian Open boys' doubles final. He received a wild card to advance to the doubles main draw in the 2015 French Open with doubles partner Tristan Lamasine Tristan Lamasine (; born 5 March 1993) is a French, professional tennis player. Career 2010–2015 From 2010 to 2015, Lamasine played mostly in the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Men's Circuit. He made his ITF Men's Circuit singles debut (at ..., losing in the first round. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 14 (6–8) Doubles: 7 (2–5) External links * * 1996 births Living people French male tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Hernández-Fernández
José Hernández-Fernández (; born March 13, 1990) is a professional male tennis player from the Dominican Republic. Tennis career Hernández-Fernández reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour of World No. 179 in August 2015 and his highest doubles ranking of No. 206 in 2016. He has played primarily on the Futures circuit with a record of 74-40 and the ATP Challenger Tour where he currently has a record of 5-11. Hernández-Fernández is a member of the Dominican Republic Davis Cup team, having posted a 7–5 record in singles and a 5–1 record in doubles in eighteen ties played since 2006. Hernández-Fernández has represented the Dominican Republic in multiple international competitions. Hernández-Fernández partnered with countrywoman Chandra Capozzi in the mixed doubles competition at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games, winning the bronze medal. He also represented the Dominican Republic at the 2011 Pan American Games, though did not win any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |