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2020 Prosperita Open
The 2020 Prosperita Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 17th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2020 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ostrava, Czech Republic between 31 August and 6 September. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 24 August 2020. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Tomáš Macháč * Dalibor Svrčina * Otto Virtanen The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts: * Tallon Griekspoor * Aslan Karatsev The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Marc-Andrea Hüsler * Zdeněk Kolář * Vít Kopřiva * Mats Moraing The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Malek Jaziri Champions Singles * Aslan Karatsev def. Oscar Otte 6–4, 6–2. Doubles * Artem Sitak / Igor Zelenay def. Karol Drzewiecki / Szymon Walków 7–5, 6–4. References External linksOff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky ( uk, Сергій Едуардович Стаховський, ; born January 6, 1986) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and played mostly at the Challenger level from 2005 to 2008. His career-high rankings were World No. 31 in singles (September 2010) and No. 33 in doubles (June 2011). Stakhovsky won his first career title in March 2008, as a lucky loser ranked no. 209, defeating top seed Ivan Ljubičić in the final, thus becoming the first lucky loser to win a title since Christian Miniussi in 1991. He is the elder brother of tennis player Leonard Stakhovsky. He was coached by Burghard Riehemann. He is well known for beating eight-time winner and defending champion Roger Federer in the second round of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, ending the latter's record run of 36 consecutive major quarterfinals. Stakhovsky retired from tennis in January 2022, and following the Russian invasion of Ukr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szymon Walków
Szymon Walków (; born 22 September 1995) is a Polish tennis player who specialises in doubles. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 818 achieved on 3 December 2018. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 86 achieved on 13 June 2022. He has reached one ATP doubles final. Additionally, he has reached 40 career doubles finals with a record of 23 wins and 17 losses, which includes a 11–7 record in ATP Challenger Tour doubles finals. He reached one singles final, winning the title at the Poland F4 futures tournament in Koszalin in 2018. Career Walków reached his maiden ATP doubles final at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad partnering Jan Zieliński. In January 2022, he made his debut participating as part of the Polish team at the 2022 ATP Cup, where he played doubles with Zieliński and won against Georgia and Argentina. After Hurkacz's win over Diego Schwartzman sealed the victory for Poland over Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karol Drzewiecki
Karol Drzewiecki (; born 1 November 1995) is a Polish professional tennis player. Drzewiecki has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is the governing body of the men's professional tennis circuits – the ATP Tour, the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP Champions Tour. It was formed in September 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, a ... (ATP) singles ranking of 820, which he first achieved on 3 December 2018. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of 144 on 9 August 2021. Drzewiecki has won 3 ATP Challenger doubles titles. Tour titles Doubles External links * * 1995 births Living people Polish male tennis players Sportspeople from Poznań Sportspeople from Gorzów Wielkopolski 20th-century Polish people 21st-century Polish people {{Poland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Otte
Oscar Otte (; born 16 July 1993) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 36 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved on 27 June 2022, and has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 161, attained in May 2017. Since turning professional in 2011, Otte has won 23 singles and doubles titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour and seven on the ATP Challenger Tour. After several years of failing to qualify for most Grand Slam tournaments, he produced consistency in 2021 by entering into three consecutive main draws and showed his best performance at a major at the 2021 US Open, where he upset 20th seed Lorenzo Sonego in the first round and ultimately reached the fourth round. In January 2022, he made his top 100 debut in the singles rankings and emerged into the top 50 five months later, following his first career ATP 500 semifinal at the 2022 Halle Open. Tennis career 2017: First Challenger doubles title Otte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Mats Moraing
Mats Hans Moraing (born 20 June 1992) is a German professional tennis player. He achieved his career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 115 on 23 May 2022. Personal life Mats is the son of former German tennis player Heiner Moraing and is coached by his uncle Peter Moraing, also a former professional player. Professional career 2013–17 Moraing contested mainly on the ITF Futures Tour, where he won eight titles. 2018: Top 150 debut Moraing won his maiden ATP Challenger singles title at the Koblenz Open. He made his top 150 debut on 16 July 2018 at world No. 149. 2019: ATP debut Moraing made his ATP main draw debut as a qualifier at the Halle Open. 2021 Moraing won his first ATP Tour-level match at the Belgrade Open. As a lucky loser, he defeated Egor Gerasimov in the first round after saving 3 match points and a 4–6, 0–4 deficit. In the second round he lost in straight sets to the number 1 seed and world No. 1 Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl, Но ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vít Kopřiva
Vít Kopřiva (born 15 June 1997) is a Czech tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 124 achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 264 achieved on 13 June 2022. Kopřiva has won 1 ATP Challenger single title at the 2022 UniCredit Czech Open in Prostějov and 1 ATP doubles title at the 2021 Aspria Tennis Cup in Milan with Jiří Lehečka. Professional career 2021: ATP and Top 200 debut On his ATP debut, ranked at a then career-high of World No. 249 in singles, at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad, Kopřiva defeated Denis Shapovalov for his career-best and first top-10 win. He was the lowest-ranked player to beat a Top 10 opponent since then World No. 698 Thanasi Kokkinakis defeated then World No. 6 Milos Raonic at The Queen's Club in 2017. Kopřiva advanced to the semifinals after beating Mikael Ymer in straight sets. He was the second player to reach the semifinals on his ATP Tour debut since May 2012, joining 2021 Córdoba cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdeněk Kolář
Zdeněk Kolář (; born 9 October 1996) is a Czech tennis player. Kolář has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 111 achieved on 13 June 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 110 achieved on 1 August 2022. Professional career 2018: ATP debut Kolář played his first match in an ATP tournament, after qualifying for the 2018 Swedish Open. He was defeated in straight sets by defending champion and former Top 10 member David Ferrer. 2021: Three Challenger titles In 2021, Kolář won 3 ATP Challenger singles titles: in April in Oeiras Portugal, in August in Iasi Romania, in September in Szczecin Poland and 4 ATP Challenger doubles titles. 2022: Grand Slam debut and first ATP & Major win In 2022, Kolář made his ATP main draw debut in doubles at Chile Open alongside Nikola Milojević. They reached the quarterfinals with a win over local wildcards Alejandro Tabilo and Gonzalo Lama. In his fifth qualifying attempt, Kolar finally reached the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc-Andrea Hüsler
Marc-Andrea Hüsler (born 24 June 1996) is a Swiss tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 51, achieved on 16 January 2023. In doubles, he achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 132 on 25 October 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Swiss player. Tennis career 2017: ATP debut and first ATP win in doubles Hüsler made his ATP main-draw doubles debut at the Swiss Indoors tournament, where he partnered former world No 1. Nenad Zimonjić, having received a wildcard into the tournament. The pair defeated Adrian Mannarino and Benoît Paire to give Hüsler a win in his first tour level match, before losing in the quarterfinals to Marcus Daniell and Dominic Inglot. 2018: First Challenger doubles title, ATP singles debut and first win Hüsler claimed his first ATP Challenger Tour doubles title in his first final, partnering Sem Verbeek at the Winnipeg Challenger. Just over a week later, Hüsler made his ATP main draw singles debut at the Swiss Open Gsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallon Griekspoor
Tallon Griekspoor (; born 2 July 1996) is a Dutch professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 36, achieved on 6 March 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 217 achieved on 31 October 2022. Griekspoor is the current Dutch No. 2 men's singles player. He has won a record eight Challenger titles in one season (2021), and became also the first player in history to win five consecutive such titles. Professional career 2017–2019: ATP debut Griekspoor made his ATP main draw debut as a wildcard at the 2017 Rotterdam Open in the singles draw against Gilles Müller. In 2018, at the same tournament a year later, he defeated Grand Slam champion and 5th seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in three sets to reach the second round as a wildcard. And in 2019, Griekspoor defeated the World No.11 and 2nd seed Karen Khachanov in the first round again as a wildcard. 2020–2021: Grand Slam debut, record eight Challenger titles G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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