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2022 Ilkley Trophy
The 2022 Ilkley Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 6th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Ilkley, United Kingdom between 13 and 19 June 2022. Champions Men's singles * Zizou Bergs def. Jack Sock 7–6(9–7), 2–6, 7–6(8–6). Men's doubles * Julian Cash / Henry Patten def. Ramkumar Ramanathan / John-Patrick Smith 7–5, 6–4. Women's singles * Dalma Gálfi def. Jodie Burrage, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3 Women's doubles * Lizette Cabrera / Jang Su-jeong def. Naiktha Bains / Maia Lumsden, 6–7(7–9), 6–0, 1–9 Men's singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 6 June 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Arthur Fery * Felix Gill * Aidan McHugh The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts: * Jordan Thompson * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass Court
A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Grass courts are made of grasses in different compositions depending on the tournament. Although grass courts are more traditional than other types of tennis courts, maintenance costs of grass courts are higher than those of hard courts and clay courts. Grass courts (in the absence of suitable covers) must be left for the day if rain appears, as the grass becomes very slippery when wet and will not dry for many hours. This is a disadvantage on outdoor courts compared to using hard and clay surfaces, where play can resume in 30 to 120 minutes after the end of rain. Grass courts are most common in the United Kingdom and Australia, although the Northeastern United States also has some private grass courts. Play style Because grass courts tend to be slippery, the ball often skids and bounces low while retaining most of its speed, rarely rising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodie Burrage
Jodie Anna Burrage (born 28 May 1999) is a British tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 136, achieved on 3 October 2022, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 329, set on 12 July 2021. She has won four singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Early life Burrage was born in Kingston upon Thames but grew up in Hindhead, Surrey. She won a scholarship to Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, which enabled her to develop her tennis at the nearby West Hants Club. Following the completion of GCSE exams Burrage relocated to Junior Tennis Coaching (JTC) in Chiswick, London, where she was guided by former tour professionals Colin Beecher and Lucie Ahl. Professional career 2020–2021: WTA Tour and Grand Slam debut Burrage made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in doubles at the 2020 Linz Open, where she received a wildcard into the doubles tournament partnering Sabine Lisicki. In January 2021, she made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in singles at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aidan McHugh
Aidan McHugh (born 9 July 2000) is a British professional tennis player. He has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 298 achieved on 28 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 285 achieved on 3 October 2022. Career From Bearsden, he attended St Aloysius' College, Glasgow. He became a client of Andy Murray’s 77 Sports Management firm, where he is joined by fellow tennis players Paul Jubb, Harriet Dart, Katie Swan and Jack Pinnington Jones. His usual training facility is the Scotstoun Sports Campus in Glasgow and he is on the Lawn Tennis Association’s Pro Scholarship Programme. McHugh has been described as Murray’s protégé. He reached the semifinals of the 2018 Australian Open – Boys' singles where he defeated Ondrej Styler, Filip Jianu, Jaimee Floyd Angele and Rinky Hijikata before he lost to Tseng Chun-hsin in three sets. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he took part in the Battle Of The Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Gill
Felix Gill (born 1 June 2002) is a British tennis player. Gill has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 370 achieved on 30 October 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 459 achieved on 13 June 2022. He has reached ten career singles finals on the ITF World Tennis Tour with three victories. Career In 2022, Gill made his ATP Tour debut reaching the second round of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles draw with compatriot Arthur Fery defeating Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar Gonzalo Escobar (; born 20 January 1989, in Manta) is an Ecuadorian tennis player. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 38, achieved on 15 November 2021. He has won three doubles titles with Uruguayan partner Ariel Behar. Escobar has a c .... ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 11 (4–7) References External links * * 2002 births Living people British male tennis players 21st-century British people Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Fery
Arthur Fery (french: Féry; born 12 July 2002) is a British tennis player. Fery has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 386 achieved on 19 June 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 324 achieved on 20 March 2023. Education Fery attended King's College School before enrolling at Stanford University, playing in the Pac-12 Conference. Career Fery competed in ITF junior events, reaching a career high junior world ranking of 12 on 2 March 2020. He reached the semi-finals of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles and the 2020 Australian Open – Boys' doubles. He received a wildcard into 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles qualifying, where he beat Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Matthew Ebden before losing in five sets in the final round of qualifying to Tallon Griekspoor, despite winning the first two sets and going a break up in the third. He was entered into the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles as an alternate, partnering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winning a qualifying stage. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. In Olympics, countries that fail to produce athlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 15 July 2019. Professional career 2018-2020: Major debut, Three Challenger titles, top 150, top-20 win Rodionov won three ATP Challenger singles titles. The first came at the 2018 Almaty Challenger. His second title came when he won the 2020 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas. His third title came at the 2020 Morelos Open. In 2019, he won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the Shymkent Challenger. Rodionov made his main draw Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open as qualifier and reached the second round with a win over Jérémy Chardy in 5 sets. He reached the top 150 on 12 October 2020 at World No. 148. Also in October 2020, as a wildcard, he had the biggest win of his career in Vienna, where he beat 8th seed and Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Kubler
Jason Murray Kubler ( ; born 19 May 1993) is an Australian professional tennis player. Despite a promising junior career, which included the junior world No. 1 ranking and comparisons to Rafael Nadal, Kubler has spent the majority of his professional career on the lower circuits due to a hereditary knee condition that results in weakened meniscus around the joints. The condition has plagued Kubler throughout his career, resulting in six knee surgeries. Kubler also spent four years of his professional career playing exclusively on clay courts to avoid further structural damage to his knees. Early life Kubler was born in Brisbane, Australia to an Australian father and a Philippine-born mother. His father, John, introduced Kubler to tennis at the age of five, but died from cancer when Kubler was eight years of age. Kubler grew up in the north Brisbane suburb of Mango Hill with an older brother and a younger sister. Junior career In 2009, Kubler became just the second player in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona (; born 15 November 1983) is a Spanish professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 7, achieved in April 2009. His best performance in a Grand Slam was making the semifinals of the 2009 Australian Open, where he lost to compatriot and eventual champion Rafael Nadal in five sets. The match itself has been considered one of the greatest Grand Slam semifinals of all time. Verdasco has also reached the quarterfinals twice at the US Open (tennis), US Open, in 2009 and 2010, losing to Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal respectively, the latter of whom went on to win the title, and once at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships, where he led eventual champion Andy Murray by two sets to love before being defeated in five sets. In singles, the Spaniard won the 2010 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell and six ATP 250 tournaments and was a finalist at the 2010 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters and five ATP 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Millman
John H. Millman OLY (born 14 June 1989) is an Australian professional tennis player and commentator. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in October 2018. He has won one ATP title in his career. Personal life Millman was born in Brisbane, Australia, into a family of five children (four girls) and he is the second youngest. During his schooling years he attended Brisbane Grammar School then the Anglican Church Grammar School . Outside tennis he enjoys soccer and supports Liverpool Football Club who compete in the English Premier League. In January 2019, Millman received the OLY post-nominal title at the Brisbane International tournament. Junior career Millman made his ITF junior tournament debut in Darwin as a 15-year-old in 2004 and reached the quarterfinals. He made his junior Grand Slam debut at the 2006 Australian Open. He won his first junior tournament in June 2006 at a tournament held in New Caledonia. He then won his next two tournaments in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Laaksonen
Henri Joona Julius Laaksonen (, Swiss Standard German: ; born 31 March 1992) is a Swiss professional tennis player. His highest singles ranking is world No. 84, which he achieved on 14 February 2022, and his highest doubles ranking is world No. 191, achieved on 24 December 2018. Early life Laaksonen's father, Sandro Della Piana, is a former Swiss tennis player. His mother is from Finland. His parents separated very early in his life, but he nonetheless kept contact with his father. He started playing tennis at the age of 3. During his adolescent years he lived in Hyvinkää where he was coached by Pasi Virtanen. At 16, he became European champion for the Under-16s category. In 2009, he moved to Switzerland to train at the Swiss Tennis National Tennis Center in Bienne. Before January 2011, he represented his country of birth, Finland. Since then, he has represented Switzerland. Professional career 2021: Success at Grand Slams: two third rounds & two top-20 wins, return to top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý (; born 10 July 1993) is a Czech professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 35 on 27 April 2015. He is currently the No. 2 Czech tennis player in singles, as he lost his previous No. 1 ranking to Jiří Lehečka in August 2022. Juniors In 2011, Veselý won the boys' singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Australian Luke Saville in straight sets. He also won the boys' doubles titles at the Australian Open, partnering Filip Horanský of Slovakia; they defeated Ben Wagland and Andrew Whittington of Australia in the final. The same year he reached the finals of the US Open singles and the Wimbledon doubles (as well the final of the US Open doubles in 2010). Veselý reached the No. 1 junior combined world ranking in January 2011, compiling a singles win–loss record of 125–45. Professional career 2012–2015: Grand Slam debut, first singles and doubles titles, Top 35 debut and career-high ranking V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
