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2022 European Open
The 2022 European Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the European Open and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2022 ATP Tour. It took place at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium, from 17 October until 23 October 2022. Champions Singles * Félix Auger-Aliassime def. Sebastian Korda, 6–3, 6–4 Doubles * Tallon Griekspoor / Botic van de Zandschulp def. Rohan Bopanna / Matwé Middelkoop, 3–6, 6–3, 0–5 Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of 10 October 2022 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Gilles-Arnaud Bailly * Michael Geerts * Stan Wawrinka The following player was accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking: * Dominic Thiem The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jesper de Jong * Dominic Stricker * Luca Van Assche * Tim van Rijthoven The following players received entry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Tour 250
The ATP 250 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 250'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series'', and ''ATP World Series'') are the lowest tier of annual men's tennis tournaments on the main ATP Tour, after the four Grand Slam tournaments, ATP Finals, ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, and ATP 500 tournaments. As of 2020, the series includes 39 tournaments, with 250 ranking points awarded to each singles champion—which accounts for the name of the series. Draws consist of 28, 32, or 48 for singles and 16 for doubles. Thomas Muster holds the record for most singles titles at 26, while Mike Bryan holds the record for most doubles titles won with 46. Historic names 1990–1999 ''ATP World Series'' 2000–2008 ''ATP International Series'' 2009–2018 ''ATP World Tour 250'' 2019–present ''ATP Tour 250'' ATP Points * Players with byes receive first round points. Tournaments became an ATP 500 event.ATPTour.com"ATP Tour calendar"/ref> Singles champions ATP Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Manuel Guinard
Manuel Guinard (born 15 November 1995) is a French tennis player. Guinard has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 134 achieved on 31 October 2022, and a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 146 achieved on 3 October 2022. Professional career 2019–2020: Grand Slam doubles debut and first win in doubles Guinard made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2019 French Open after receiving a wildcard for the doubles main draw, partnering Arthur Rinderknech. At the 2020 French Open he reached the second round for his first Grand Slam win in doubles also as a wildcard partnering Rinderknech. 2021: First Challenger final, Top 250 singles debut He made his first Challenger final at the 2021 Open du Pays d'Aix where he lost to Carlos Taberner. He reached the top 250 on 8 November 2021 at World No. 247. 2022: Maiden challenger title, Major, ATP & Top 150 debut in singles & doubles He reached a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 155 on 17 January 2022, aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
Geoffrey Blancaneaux (born 8 August 1998) is a French tennis player. He competes mainly on the ITF Men's Circuit and ATP Challenger Tour. Blancaneaux has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 134 achieved on 14 November 2022 and a doubles ranking of World No. 164 achieved on 18 July 2022. Junior Career Blancaneaux won the 2016 French Open boys' singles title, defeating Félix Auger-Aliassime in the final. Professional career 2017: Grand Slam debut In September 2017, Blancaneaux made his Grand Slam debut, after receiving a wildcard to enter the main draw at the US Open. 2021: First Challenger title In December 2021, Blancaneaux won his first Challenger singles tournament at the Maia Challenger, defeating Tseng Chun-hsin in the finals. 2022: French Open, Masters and top 150 debuts Seeded No. 190 at the 2022 French Open he qualified to make his Grand Slam debut at this Major in his sixth attempt. He reached the top 150 on 8 August 2022. In October, Blancaneaux made h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Van Rijthoven
Tim van Rijthoven (born 24 April 1997) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Van Rijthoven has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 101, which he first achieved on 18 July 2022, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 225, attained in May 2022. As a junior, he reached a high of world No. 13 in 2015 and reached the quarterfinals of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships boys' singles tournament and semifinals of the boys' doubles. In June 2022, he claimed his first five ATP Tour wins (including over world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev) en route to his maiden Rosmalen Grass Court Championships title. Van Rijthoven has represented Netherlands at the Davis Cup where he has a W/L record of 1–1. He has won 13 Futures tournaments on the ITF World Tennis Tour, including eight singles titles and five doubles titles. Professional career 2016: ATP debut and top 300 In 2016 he made his debut on the ATP World Tour by qualifying as a lucky loser for the Winston-Salem Open after Than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Van Assche
Luca Van Assche (born 11 May 2004) is a Belgian-born French tennis player. Van Assche has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 137 achieved on 12 December 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 344 achieved on 3 October 2022. Junior Career Van Assche won the 2021 French Open Boys' Singles title, defeating fellow countryman Arthur Fils in the final. Professional career 2022: Professional, ATP & Major doubles debuts, Maiden Challenger & top 150 In January, Van Assche made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Open Sud de France after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg. He made his Grand Slam debut in doubles at the 2022 French Open as a wildcard pair partnering also Gueymard Wayenburg. In October, Van Assche reached his first singles final on the ATP Challenger Tour in Lisbon, Portugal, entering the main draw as a qualifier and losing to Marco Cecchinato in the finals. As a result he climbed close ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Stricker
Dominic Stephan Stricker (born 16 August 2002) is a Swiss tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 111 achieved on 7 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 161 achieved on 27 June 2022. On the junior tour, he had a career high junior ranking of No. 8, achieved on 3 February 2020. Junior career Stricker won the 2020 French Open boys' singles title, defeating compatriot Leandro Riedi in the final. He also won the 2020 French Open boys' doubles title, partnering Flavio Cobolli. Professional career 2021: Maiden ATP doubles title, ATP & Top 250 debut in singles, Top 200 in doubles In March, ranked No. 874 in the world, he received a wild card entry into the 2021 BSI Challenger Lugano, Switzerland. He won the tournament, defeating Vitaliy Sachko in straight sets in the final. He became the 3rd youngest Swiss player after Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka to win an ATP Challenger title. Following this successful run, he made his top 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesper De Jong
Jesper de Jong (born 31 May 2000) is a Dutch tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 160 achieved on 13 June 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 135 achieved on 23 May 2022. De Jong has won one singles and five ATP Challenger doubles titles. Professional career 2021: Maiden single Challenger title, top 250 in singles, top 200 in doubles In March, he won his first Challenger title at the 2021 Saint Petersburg Challenger II with Sem Verbeek. He won his third doubles title at the 2021 Almaty Challenger with Vitaliy Sachko. As a result, he hit a career-high in doubles of No. 204 on 14 June 2021. A week later, De Jong won also his first singles Challenger at the 2021 Almaty Challenger II defeating Marcelo Tomás Barrios Vera which resulted in a career-high of No. 260 on 21 June 2021. 2022: Top 160 in singles, top 150 in doubles, ATP debut Following a semifinal showing at the Challenger in Traralgon, Australia in January, he mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, which he first achieved in March 2020. He is the second-highest ranked Austrian player in history, behind former world No. 1 Thomas Muster. Thiem has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2020 US Open where he came back from two sets down to defeat Alexander Zverev in the final. With the win, Thiem became the first male player born in the 1990s to claim a major singles title, as well as the first Austrian to win the US Open singles title. He had previously reached three other major finals, finishing runner-up at the 2018 and 2019 French Opens to Rafael Nadal, and at the 2020 Australian Open to Novak Djokovic. Thiem was also runner-up at the 2019 and 2020 ATP Finals, where he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev, respectively. Thiem won the 2020 Austrian Spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Wawrinka
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka (; born 28 March 1985) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 3 for the first time on 27 January 2014. His career highlights include three Grand Slam titles, those being the 2014 Australian Open, 2015 French Open and 2016 US Open, where he defeated the world No. 1 player in the final on all three occasions. Other achievements include reaching the final of the 2017 French Open, winning an ATP Tour Masters 1000 title at the 2014 Monte-Carlo Masters, and reaching three other Masters finals (at 2008 Rome, 2013 Madrid and 2017 Indian Wells). Representing Switzerland, Wawrinka won gold in doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with teammate Roger Federer, and was also pivotal in the Swiss team's victory at the 2014 Davis Cup.Wawrinka considers clay his best and favorite surface, and his serve and backhand his best shots. John McEnroe once said that Wawrinka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Geerts
Michael Geerts (born 17 January 1995) is a Belgian tennis player. Geerts has a career high ATP singles ranking of 212 achieved on 3 April 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 162 achieved on 17 October 2022. Geerts competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Geerts made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 European Open in the doubles draw partnering Yannick Mertens Yannick Mertens (born 25 June 1987) is a professional tennis player from Belgium who mainly has played on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 27 July 2015, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 179, and his highest doubles ranking of 363 was re .... Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 13 (7–6) References External links * * 1995 births Living people Belgian male tennis players Sportspeople from Antwerp {{Belgium-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles-Arnaud Bailly
Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (born 19 September 2005) is a Belgian tennis player. Bailly has a career high ATP singles ranking of 468 achieved on 13 November 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1723 achieved on 27 February 2023. He has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 1 achieved on 28 November 2022 and ended the 2022 season as No. 1, winning the ITF Junior World Champion title. Career Bailly was a runner-up at the 2022 French Open and the 2022 US Open in the boys' singles competition. 2022: ATP debut He made his debut at the 2022 European Open in Antwerp where he received a wildcard for the main draw competition. He lost in the first round to David Goffin despite playing for more than three hours and winning the second set. 2023 He received a wildcard for the qualifying competition at the Antwerp Open The Antwerp Open is a darts tournament that has been held annually since 1988. List of winners Men's Women's Tournament records * Most wins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
