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2021 Almaty Challenger II
The 2021 Almaty Challenger II was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan between 14 and 20 June 2021. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 31 May 2021. Other entrants The following players received entry into the singles main draw as wildcards: * Dostanbek Tashbulatov * Denis Yevseyev * Beibit Zhukayev The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: * Timofey Skatov The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jesper de Jong * Ergi Kırkın * Vladyslav Orlov * Vitaliy Sachko The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Filip Jianu Champions Singles * Jesper de Jong def. Marcelo Tomás Barrios Vera 6–1, 6–2. Doubles * Vladyslav Manafov / Vitaliy Sachko def. Corentin Denolly / Adrián Menéndez Maceiras Adrián Menéndez Mace ... [...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] |
Dmitry Popko
Dmitry Yevgenyevich Popko (russian: Дмитрий Евгеньевич Попко; born 24 October 1996) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. Popko has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 162 achieved on 25 October 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 304 achieved on 1 May 2017. Popko has participated in qualifying for all four of the Grand Slams. Popko represents Kazakhstan at the Davis Cup. He defeated Chinese tennis player Zhang Ze Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese male tennis player. Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 China Open (defeating Richard Gasquet en route), playing the Australian Open main draw in two consec ... in his first tie. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 28 (19–9) Doubles: 11 (5–6) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Popko, Dmitry 1996 births Living people Kazakhstani male tennis players Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián Menéndez Maceiras
Adrián Menéndez Maceiras (; born 28 October 1985) is a Spanish tennis player. He has a career high-ranking singles of World No. 111, achieved in June 2015. Menéndez Maceiras has reached the finals of fourteen Futures tournaments, winning nine of them. He has won four Challenger tournaments, lifting his maiden title at the 2007 Open Diputación Challenger in Pozoblanco, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ... defeating Dudi Sela in the final. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 32 (13–19) Doubles: 35 (16–19) Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Menendez Maceiras, Adrian 1985 births Living people People from Marbella Sportspeople from the Province of Málaga Spanish male tennis players Tennis players from An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corentin Denolly
Corentin Denolly (born 6 June 1997 in Vienne, Isère) is a French tennis player. On the junior tour, Denolly has a career high combined ranking of 3 achieved on 8 June 2015. He reached the semifinals of the 2015 French Open boys' singles event, losing to Taylor Harry Fritz Taylor Harry Fritz (born October 28, 1997) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on October 10, 2022, and a doubles ranking of w .... Denolly has a career high ATP singles ranking of 289 achieved on 25 November 2019. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 24 (8-16) Doubles: 12 (8–4) References External links * * 1997 births Living people French male tennis players Sportspeople from Vienne, Isère Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis {{France-tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Tomás Barrios Vera
Marcelo is a given name, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Marcellus. The Italian version of the name is Marcello, differing in having an additional "l". Marcelo may refer to: *Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born 1967), Brazilian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile *Marcelinho Carioca (Marcelo Pereira Surcin born 1971 in RJ), Brazilian international midfielder in 1990s *Marcelinho Machado (born 1975), Brazilian professional basketball player *Marcelinho Paraíba (Marcelo dos Santos b. 1975 in Paraíba state), Brazilian international midfielder *Marcelinho Paulista (Marcelo José de Souza born 1973 in SP state), Brazilian youth international in 1996 Olympics *Marcelo (footballer, born January 1987), Brazilian footballer *Marcelo (footballer, born May 1987), Brazilian footballer, who played for Lyon *Marcelo (footballer, born 1988), Brazilian footballer, who played for Real Madrid *Marcelo (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian footballer, who plays for Paços Ferreira *Marcelo Arriagada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Jianu
Filip Cristian Jianu (born 18 September 2001) is a Romanian tennis player. Jianu has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 284 achieved on 15 August 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 639 achieved on 28 November 2022. Jianu has a career high ITF junior ranking of No. 5 achieved on 4 February 2019. Jianu represents Romania at the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis .... ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 9 (5–4) References External links * * * 2001 births Living people Romanian male tennis players Tennis players from Bucharest Tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics 21st-century Romanian people {{Romania-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ergi Kırkın
Ergi Kırkın (born 27 January 1999) is a Turkish tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ... player. Kırkın has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 270 achieved on 25 July 2022. He has won 9 ITF singles titles. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 330 achieved on 3 October 2022. Kırkın made his ATP main draw debut at the 2018 Antalya Open in the doubles draw partnering Koray Kırcı. External links * * 1999 births Living people Turkish male tennis players Sportspeople from Ankara 21st-century Turkish people {{Turkey-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timofey Skatov
Timofey Dmitriyevich Skatov (russian: Тимофей Дмитриевич Скатов; born 21 January 2001) is a Kazakhstani tennis player of Russian descent. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 125, achieved on 13 February 2023 and No. 724 in doubles, achieved on 16 January 2023. He is the current No. 2 Kazakhstani player. Skatov had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 1 achieved on 1 January 2018. Professional career 2020-21: ATP debut & first win, First Challenger final, Top 250 Skatov made his ATP debut at the 2020 Astana Open in Nur-Sultan as a wildcard where he lost to Emil Ruusuvuori. In June 2021, he reached his first Challenger final as a wildcard in Almaty where he lost to Zizou Bergs. He won his first ATP match also as a wildcard at the 2021 Astana Open in Kazakhstan defeating Andreas Seppi. 2022: Grand Slam and top 150 debuts, Maiden Challenger title Skatov made his first Grand Slam main draw appearance after successfully making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Yevseyev
Denis Yevseyev (born 22 May 1993) is a Kazakh tennis player. Yevseyev has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 262 achieved on 8 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 247 achieved on 12 July 2021. Career 2017 He played at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in singles but was defeated by Farrukh Dustov in the quarterfinal. In men's doubles partnering Timur Khabibulin, he lost the final and won a silver medal. 2018: Silver medalist at the Asian Games Yevseyev participated at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. In singles, he lost to the bronze medalist South Korean Lee Duck-hee in the third round. In doubles, he won the silver medal after losing in the final with his partner Alexander Bublik against the Indian duo of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan. 2019 In 2019, Yevseyev was nominated for the Kazakhstan Davis Cup team but has not participated in a match. 2020: ATP doubles debut Yevseyev made his ATP main draw debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brayden Schnur
Brayden Schnur (born July 4, 1995) is a Canadian professional tennis player. Schnur reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 92 in August 2019. He was a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tennis team from January 2014 to May 2016. Schnur turned professional in July 2016 at the Rogers Cup. Early life Schnur was born in Pickering, Ontario, to Chris Schnur and Anne-Marie Nielsen; he has a younger sister named Amanda. He first started playing tennis at the age of eight, on public courts near his home in Pickering. Schnur left home at the age of 14 and moved to Bradenton, Florida, where he trained with Heath Turpin. He was part of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre from 2011 to 2013 under the guidance of Guillaume Marx. Tennis career 2011–13 In April 2011, Schnur won the first title of his career on the Junior Circuit at the G5 in Burlington. He played his first professional tournament at the Futures in Indian Harbour Beach in June 2011 where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Menezes
João Magalhães Hueb de Menezes (born 17 December 1996) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Menezes has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 172 achieved on 17 February 2020. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 488 achieved on 3 February 2020. Menezes has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title at the 2019 Samarkand Challenger as well as a total of 12 ITF Futures titles (5 singles and 7 doubles). Menezes won the gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, defeating Chilean Tomás Barrios in the final. He qualified to represent Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) Performance timelines Singles ''Current through the 2022 French Open The 2022 French Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 22 May to 5 June 2022, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair ....'' Davis Cup * ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Istomin
Denis Olegovich Istomin (born 7 September 1986) is an Uzbek professional tennis player. He has won two singles titles (at the 2015 Aegon Open Nottingham and 2017 Chengdu Open) and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in August 2012. In January 2017, he defeated defending champion Novak Djokovic in the second round of the Australian Open. Personal life Denis Istomin was born in Orenburg to Russian parents Oleg and Klaudiya Istomin. His father moved the family to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, when Denis was 3 months old. Denis is coached by his mother, who introduced him to the sport at an early age. Injuries resulting from a car crash in 2001 en route to an event kept Istomin away from tennis for 2 years, with doctors initially stating that he would never hold a racquet again. Despite this, Istomin resumed training in April 2003. He is good friends with Varvara Lepchenko, who previously played for Uzbekistan. On court Istomin is one of the few top ATP Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
