2020 Dubai Tennis Championships
The 2020 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was an ATP Tour 500 event on the 2020 ATP Tour and a Premier tournament on the 2020 WTA Tour. Both events were held at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The women's tournament took place from February 17 to 22 and the men's tournament from February 24 to 29. The Women's event was expanded to 30 places in the main draw, and 48 places in qualifying; following the cancellation of the Hungarian Ladies Open, which was scheduled in the same week as the Dubai Tennis Championships. Points Point distribution ATP singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of February 17, 2020. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Prajnesh Gunneswaran * Malek Jaziri * Mohamed Safwat The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw: * Lu Yen-hsun T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ATP Tour 500
The ATP 500 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 500'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series Gold'', and ''ATP Championship Series'') are the fourth highest tier of annual men's tennis tournament after the four Grand Slam tournaments, ATP Finals, and the ATP Masters 1000. The series includes 13 tournaments, with 500 ranking points awarded for the events' singles champions – which accounts for the name of the series. Tournaments have various draws of 32 and 48 for singles and 16 and 24 for doubles. It is mandatory for leading players to enter at least four 500 events, including at least one after the US Open; if they play fewer than four, or fail to play in one after the US Open they get a "zero" score towards their world ranking for each one short. Roger Federer holds the record for most singles titles at 24, while Daniel Nestor holds the record for most doubles titles won with 20. Rafael Nadal is very close to Roger Federer's record with 23 singles titles. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gaël Monfils
Gaël Sébastien Monfils (; born 1 September 1986) is a French professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in November 2016. His career highlights include reaching two Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major semifinals at the 2008 French Open – Men's singles, 2008 French Open and 2016 US Open – Men's singles, 2016 US Open, and three ATP Tour Masters 1000, ATP Masters 1000 finals – two at the BNP Paribas Masters, Paris Masters in 2009 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles, 2009 and 2010 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles, 2010, and the other at the 2016 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters – Singles, 2016 Monte-Carlo Masters. Monfils was named the ATP Newcomer of the Year in 2005 ATP Tour, 2005. He has won eleven ATP Tour singles titles and been runner-up twenty-two times, and has reached at least one ATP Tour singles final every year since 2005. Early life Gaël Sébastien ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yasutaka Uchiyama
is a Japanese tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 78 on 04 November 2019 and doubles ranking of No. 102 on 20 August 2018. He has won eight ITF Futures singles titles and reached the final of the Lexington Challenger in August 2015, losing to John Millman in three sets. Career Juniors As a junior Uchiyama compiled a win–loss record of 99–61 (and 77–56 in doubles), reaching as high as No. 12 in the combined world rankings in March 2010.ITF Juniors profile ''ITF Tennis.com'' Retrieved on 29 February 2016. He reached the final of the 2009 Australian Open Boys' Doubles with [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dennis Novak
Dennis Novak (; born 28 August 1993, in Wiener Neustadt) is an Austrian professional tennis player. Novak achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 85 in March 2020. Professional career 2013 Novak made his ATP main draw debut at the 2013 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel where he defeated Matthias Haim, Lorenzo Giustino and Tihomir Grozdanov in the qualifying rounds. In the main draw, Novak lost to compatriot Andreas Haider-Maurer. 2018: Grand Slam debut, Wimbledon third round 2019: Two Challenger titles In April, he won his first ATP Challenger Tour title in Taipei. In November, he won his second at the 2019 Slovak Open. 2020: Top 100 debut He made his debut in the top 100 on 13 January 2020 at world No. 99 and reached a career high ranking of No. 85 on 2 March 2020. 2022: Wimbledon second round, Austrian No.1 He became Austrian No. 1 on 15 August 2022. Performance timelines Singles ''Current through the 2022 Davis Cup.'' Doubles ATP career finals Doubles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lloyd Harris (tennis)
Lloyd George Muirhead Harris (born 24 February 1997) is a South African professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as World No. 31 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 13 September 2021, making him the current African and South African No. 1 men's singles player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 108, achieved on 6 June 2022. Harris has won three ATP Challenger singles titles and two Challenger doubles titles and has also won 13 ITF singles titles and 4 ITF doubles titles. Juniors In November 2012, Harris won his first ITF junior singles title at the G5 in Windhoek, Namibia. In August 2014, Harris represented South Africa at the Youth Olympic Games. As a junior, Harris reached a ranking of No. 38 by the International Tennis Federation, and he compiled a singles win–loss record of 73–44. Professional career 2015–2017 Harris turned pro in 2015 and ended the year with a single ranking of 358. During the 201 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lu Yen-hsun
Lu Yen-hsun (; born 14 August 1983) is a Taiwanese retired professional tennis player, who goes by the nickname Rendy Lu. He won the most titles on the ATP Challenger Tour in tennis history. His favorite surface is hardcourt, though several of his ATP Tour career highlights came on grass, including reaching the quarterfinals of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. Juniors Lu was an accomplished junior player, reaching as high as No. 3 in the ITF junior world singles rankings in February 2001 (and No. 9 in doubles). In his junior career, he compiled a singles win–loss record of 80–37 (63–34 in doubles) and defeated a handful of future ATP stars, including Robin Söderling, Mario Ančić, and Philipp Kohlschreiber. His result in the Junior Slam are as follows: * Australian Open: 1R ( 2001) * French Open: 1R (2000) * Wimbledon: 1R (2000) * US Open: 2R (2000) Tennis career In 2004, Lu became the first player from Taiwan to break into ATP top 100, thanks to a solid perform ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mohamed Safwat
Mohamed Safwat ( ar, محمد صفوت; born 19 September 1990) is an Egyptian tennis player. Safwat has been a regular player on the Egypt Davis Cup team since 2009. Safwat has won one singles and three titles in doubles on the ATP Challenger Tour. He is currently the Egyptian No. 1. Professional career In 2016, Safwat became the first Egyptian player since 1997 to reach the final of an Challenger tournament when he reached the final in Kenitra, where he lost to Maximilian Marterer in straight sets. He also reached the semifinals at the Challenger tournament in Launceston in 2017, eventually losing to Mitchell Krueger. In 2018, Safwat beat No. 3 seed and top 100 player Jordan Thompson en route to his second Challenger singles final in Anning, where he lost to Prajnesh Gunneswaran. Safwat qualified for his first Grand Slam at the 2018 French Open as a lucky loser, where he lost to Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets. He was the first man from Egypt to play in a Grand Slam tenni ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Malek Jaziri
Malek Jaziri ( ar, مالك الجزيري, Mālik al-Jazīrī; born January 20, 1984) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. Jaziri reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour of World 42 in January 2019. He reached the final of 2018 Istanbul Open, the semifinals of Moscow in 2012, Winston-Salem in 2015, Dubai in 2018 and the quarterfinals of Dubai in 2014. Career He appeared in the qualifying draw at the 2010 Australian Open, losing in the first round to Michał Przysiężny of Poland. He primarily plays on the Futures circuit and the Challenger circuit. Jaziri qualified for the 2011 US Open, defeating Brian Dabul, Michael Ryderstedt, and Guillaume Rufin in the qualifying draw. This was the first time Jaziri played in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. In the first round, Jaziri defeated world No. 159, Thiemo de Bakker, in four sets. Jaziri lost to world No. 8, Mardy Fish, in the second round. Jaziri has been coached by Tunisian legend Haythem Abi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Benoît Paire
Benoît Paire (; born 8 May 1989) is a French professional tennis player. His best result in a Grand Slam has been reaching the fourth round, which he has achieved on four occasions. He has won three singles titles, at the 2015 Swedish Open, the 2019 Marrakesh Open and the 2019 Lyon Open, and his career-high singles ranking is World No. 18, first achieved in January 2016. He has a career-high ranking of World No. 65 in doubles achieved on 15 November 2021. In 2015, Paire was voted Comeback Player of the Year, rising from world No. 118 ATP singles ranking at year-end 2014 to a then career-high world No. 19 at year-end 2015, after a knee injury had sidelined him for much of 2014. Career 2007–09: Early career In 2007, Paire played his tennis at Futures level, winning one event (the France F10). In 2008, Paire continued to play primarily on the Futures circuit, but made his first appearances in higher-tier tournaments, losing in the qualifying rounds at the Open 13 and the O ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karen Khachanov
Karen Abgarovich Khachanov (russian: Каре́н Абга́рович Хача́нов; born 21 May 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. Khachanov has won four ATP Tour singles titles, including a ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 title at the 2018 Rolex Paris Masters – Singles, 2018 Paris Masters, claimed an Olympic silver medal at the Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and reached a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major semifinal at the 2022 US Open – Men's singles, 2022 US Open. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 on 15 July 2019. Early life and background Khachanov started playing tennis at the age of three in kindergarten when his parents put him into the tennis group. His father Abgar, an Armenians, Armenian from Yerevan, played volleyball before studying medicine, while his mother, Nataliya, a Russian, also studied medicine. Khachanov's maternal grandfather was also half Armenian. Despite havi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |