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2021 Lima Challenger II
The 2021 Lima Challenger II was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the sixteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lima, Peru between 25 and 31 October 2021. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 18 October 2021. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Nicolás Álvarez * Arklon Huertas del Pino * Conner Huertas del Pino The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Gerald Melzer The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Peđa Krstin * Orlando Luz * Nicolás Mejía * Gonçalo Oliveira * Roberto Quiroz The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Hernán Casanova * Alexandar Lazarov * Jaroslav Pospíšil * Gonzalo Villanueva The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Alexis Galarneau * ... [...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] |
Juan Pablo Varillas
Juan Pablo Varillas Patiño-Samudio (; born 6 October 1995) is a Peruvian tennis player. Varillas has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 97 achieved on 1 August 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Peruvian tennis player in the singles rankings. Varillas has won 4 ATP Challenger and 5 ITF singles titles. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 289 achieved on 10 May 2021. Varillas has won 4 ITF doubles titles. He has represented Peru at the Davis Cup where he has a total W/L record of 11–12. In singles his W/L is 9–8. Career 2020-21: ATP & Olympics debut Varillas made his ATP debut at the 2020 Chile Open as a lucky loser where he reached the second round by defeating Filip Horansky before losing to Albert Ramos-Vinolas. Varillas qualified to represent Peru at the Summer Olympics. 2022: Grand Slam & top 100 debut At the 2022 French Open he qualified to make his Grand Slam main draw debut. He reached the quarterfinals at the 2022 Swiss Open Gstaad as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaroslav Pospíšil
Jaroslav Pospíšil (; born 9 February 1981) is a Czech tennis player playing on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. On 23 May 2011 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 103. The following year, on 1 October 2012, he reached the highest ATP doubles ranking of his career of World No. 115. To date, Pospíšil has reached 53 singles finals on the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures tours, from which he has won 28 titles. From the same tours, he has won 64 doubles titles after reaching a total of 100 doubles finals. Career Predominantly playing on the Challenger and Futures tours, Pospisil has made 7 main draw appearances on the ATP Tour, including the 2011 Wimbledon Championships as his only Grand Slam appearance. His sole win came at the ATP 250 level on the hard courts of the 2013 Erste Bank Open in Vienna, Austria, where despite losing in qualifying, he was granted entry to the tournament proper as a lucky loser and defeated France's Gaël Monfils in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandar Lazarov
Alexandar Lazarov ( bg, Александър Лазаров, born 6 November 1997) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. His highest singles ranking is No. 272 achieved on 14 November 2022, whilst his best doubles ranking is No. 359 achieved on 3 February 2020. Professional career 2016: Professional debut, first ITF title In 2016 Lazarov made his debut at ATP level at the ATP Sofia Open. He received a wild card for the qualification of the event in his homeland, losing in two sets to the world No. 214 Marius Copil. A month later Alexandar made his debut for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team against Turkey, losing the first match to Marsel İlhan, but claiming his maiden win over Altuğ Çelikbilek in the second. In September he won his first ITF singles title at the Serbia F8 event in Sokobanja, defeating Filip Veger in the final. 2017–2020: Maiden ATP main draw appearance & ATP Cup match win Lazarov lost in the first qualifying round at the ATP Sofia Open in 2017 and 2018, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Casanova
Hernán Casanova (born 6 February 1994) is an Argentine tennis player. Casanova had a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 255 achieved on 21 May 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 183 achieved on 27 June 2022. Casanova made his ATP doubles main draw debut at the 2022 Argentina Open after entering into the main draw as alternates with Sergio Galdós. He made his ATP singles main draw debut at the 2022 Generali Open Kitzbühel as a qualifier where he lost to Jurij Rodionov Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian tennis player of Belarusian descent. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 120 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 268 achieved on .... References External links * * 1994 births Living people Argentine male tennis players Tennis players from Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine people {{Argentina-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Quiroz
Roberto Quiroz Gómez (; born 23 February 1992) is an Ecuadorian professional tennis player. Quiroz is the nephew of Andrés Gómez and the cousin of Emilio Gómez and Nicolás Lapentti. He attended and played collegiate tennis at the University of Southern California. In 2010 he won the finals stage of Boys' Doubles events on the French Open and US Open with Peruvian tennis player Duilio Beretta. They defeated Argentinian pair Facundo Argüello and Agustín Velotti 6–3, 6–2 in France and they won against Oliver Golding and Jiří Veselý 6–1, 7–5 in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie .... Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 12 (6–6) Doubles: 32 (20–12) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 2 (2 titles) References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás Mejía
Nicolás Mejía (; born 11 February 2000) is a Colombian tennis player. Mejía has a career high ATP singles ranking of 239 achieved on 18 April 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 154 achieved on 3 October 2022. Mejía represents Colombia 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 ..., where he has a W/L record of 0–1. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 6 (3–3) Doubles: 14 (6–8) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 0–1 Notes External links * * * 2000 births Living people Colombian male tennis players Sportspeople from Bogotá Tennis players from Miami Tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Tennis players at the 2019 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games bronze meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando Luz
Orlando Moraes Luz (born 8 February 1998 in Carazinho) is a Brazilian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 272 achieved on 16 August 2021, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 90 achieved on 27 September 2021. Juniors Luz along with Marcelo Zormann won the 2014 Wimbledon boys' doubles title after defeating Stefan Kozlov and Andrey Rublev ''6–4, 3–6, 8–6'' in the final. At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing China, Luz (seeded 2nd) won the silver medal in singles, falling to Kamil Majchrzak of Poland ''4–6, 5–7'' in the final. Additionally, he and compatriot Marcelo Zormann teamed up to win the gold medal in doubles, defeating the Russian pairing of Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov ''7–5, 3–6, 0–3' in the final also seeded second. He and Chung Yun-seong lost to Yishai Oliel of Israel and Patrik Rikl of the Czech Republic in the final of the 2016 French Open Boys' Doubles tournament, 6–3, 6–4. Profession ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peđa Krstin
Peđa Krstin ( sr-Cyrl, Пеђа Крстин; born 3 September 1994) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Krstin has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 159, which he achieved on 9 May 2016. He also achieved a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 554 on 17 October 2015. He has won one Challenger and 14 Futures singles titles in his career. Career Krstin made his ATP main draw debut at 2014 PBZ Zagreb Indoors after defeating Marcos Baghdatis, Gianluigi Quinzi and Martin Fischer in the qualifying rounds before losing to compatriot Dušan Lajović in the first round of the main draw. Krstin was a fifth player on a Serbian Davis Cup team in the first round tie against Croatia in the 2015 Davis Cup, but didn't play in any match. He finally played his first match for the Davis Cup team against United States in the first round of 2018 Davis Cup, defeating world No. 50 Steve Johnson in two sets in a dead rubber. He received a wildcard for 2021 Serbia Open and won hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Melzer
Gerald Melzer (born 13 July 1990) is a professional Austrian tennis player. As a qualifier, he reached the semifinals of Munich in 2015. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 68 in November 2016. He is the younger brother of top Austrian tennis player Jürgen Melzer (hence his nickname, Mini Melts) and is the son of Rudolf Melzer, an Austrian businessman and mayor of Deutsch-Wagram, and Michaela, a saleswoman. Career Gerald Melzer has primarily spent his time on the Futures circuit, while also playing challengers and several doubles events with his brother. He began playing on the tour in 2007, competing in tournaments in Austria as well as Futures tournaments in Africa. He has had more success playing doubles, partnering with his brother to win a challenger in Graz, Austria. Gerald faced his brother, Jürgen, in the first round of the 2015 Wimbledon qualifying tournament, and lost in straight sets. Jürgen described it as the "worst tennis day of my life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conner Huertas Del Pino
Conner Huertas del Pino (born 20 December 1995) is a Peruvian tennis player. Huertas del Pino has a career high ATP singles ranking of 520 achieved on 1 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 239 achieved on 12 December 2022. Huertas del Pino represents Peru at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 0–2. Huertas del Pino is the younger brother of fellow tennis player Arklon Huertas del Pino Arklon Huertas del Pino Cordova (born 16 July 1994) is a Peruvian tennis player. Huertas del Pino has a career high ATP singles ranking of 453 achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 233 achieved on 12 Decemb .... ATP Challenger finals Doubles References External links * * * 1995 births Living people Peruvian male tennis players Tennis players from Lima 21st-century Peruvian people Auburn Tigers men's tennis players {{Peru-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arklon Huertas Del Pino
Arklon Huertas del Pino Cordova (born 16 July 1994) is a Peruvian tennis player. Huertas del Pino has a career high ATP singles ranking of 453 achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 233 achieved on 12 December 2022. Huertas del Pino represents Peru at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 0–2. Huertas del Pino is the older brother of fellow tennis player Conner Huertas del Pino. Huertas del Pino has previously been banned from competition for as long as two years due to cannabis ''Cannabis'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae. The number of species within the genus is disputed. Three species may be recognized: ''Cannabis sativa'', '' C. indica'', and '' C. ruderalis''. Alternatively ... use.https://antidoping.itftennis.com/news/317329.aspx References External links * * * 1994 births Living people Peruvian male tennis players Tennis players from Lima Doping cases in tennis 21st-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
