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2023 Braga Open
The 2023 Braga Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Braga, Portugal between 24 September and 1 October 2023. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 18 September 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Gastão Elias * Jaime Faria * Henrique Rocha The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: * João Sousa The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Javier Barranco Cosano * João Domingues * Moez Echargui * Oriol Roca Batalla * Carlos Sánchez Jover * Timo Stodder Champions Singles * Oriol Roca Batalla def. Duje Ajduković 4–6, 6–1, 6–1. Doubles * Marco Bortolotti / Alexandru Jecan def. Stefano Travaglia Stefano Travaglia (born 18 December 1991 in Ascoli Piceno) is an Italian tennis player. ... [...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] |
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] |
Stefano Travaglia
Stefano Travaglia (born 18 December 1991 in Ascoli Piceno) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 60, which he reached on 8 February 2021. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 231 achieved on 26 July 2021. Career 2014: ATP debut, First Challenger title Travaglia made his ATP main-draw debut at the 2014 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where he qualified for the main draw by defeating Albert Montañés and Blaž Rola in the qualifying rounds. In the main draw, he put up a good fight against fellow Italian Simone Bolelli in the first round. Travaglia won his first Challenger title in the doubles event at the 2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes, partnering Hans Podlipnik-Castillo, defeating Gerard Granollers and Jordi Samper Montaña in the final. 2020-2021: French Open third round, First ATP final and Top 60 debut career-high ranking Travaglia reached the third round of a Grand Slam at the 2020 French Open for the first time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duje Ajduković
Duje Ajduković (born 5 February 2001) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 178 achieved on 2 October 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 491 achieved on 8 November 2021. Ajduković has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title and 9 ITF titles, 7 singles and 2 doubles. Professional career Ajduković made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Croatia Open Umag after receiving a wildcard into the singles and doubles main draws. In August 2023, Ajdukovic won his first ATP Challenger tournament in Lüdenscheid, Germany after going through the qualifying, defeating Hugo Dellien Hugo Dellien Jr. (; born 16 June 1993) is a Bolivian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 70 achieved on 25 July 2022. He is the current No. 1 Bolivian tennis player. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ... in the final in straight sets. Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 11 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Sánchez Jover
Carlos Sánchez Jover (born 21 July 2000) is a Spanish tennis player. Sánchez Jover has a career high ATP singles ranking of 329 achieved on 21 August 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 405 achieved on 22 November 2021. Sánchez Jover has won 1 ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2024 Engie Open Florianópolis with Daniel Cukierman Daniel Cukierman ( he, דניאל צוקרמן; born 9 July 1995) is an Israeli tennis player. During his junior year at the University of Southern California from November 13, 2019, until the close of competition in 2020, Cukierman was ranked N .... ATP Challenger and Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 7 (3–7) References External links * * 2000 births Living people Spanish male tennis players {{Spain-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moez Echargui
Moez Echargui (born 10 January 1993) is a Tunisian tennis player. Echargui has a career high ATP singles ranking of 339 achieved on 17 December 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 362 achieved on 27 May 2019. Echargui represents Tunisia 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 3–4. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 17 (8–9) Doubles: 19 (8–11) Davis Cup Participations: (3–4) * indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface. References External links * * * 1993 births Living people Nevada Wolf Pack athletes Tunisian male tennis players Peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Domingues
João Domingues (born 5 October 1993) is a Portuguese tennis player who currently competes on the ATP Challenger as well as the ATP World Tour. In 2015, Domingues made his debut for Portugal Davis Cup team. In February 2020, he achieved a career-high singles world ranking No. 150. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 22 (10–12) Doubles: 28 (15–13) Performance timelines Singles ''Current through the 2022 Australian Open The 2022 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park, Australia from 17 to 30 January 2022. It was the 110th edition of the Australian Open, the 54th in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the ye ....'' Career earnings :* As of 20 May 2019 National participation Davis Cup (2 wins, 0 losses) Domingues debuted for the Portugal Davis Cup team in 2015 and has played 2 matches in 2 ties. His singles record is 2–0 and his doubles record is 0–0 (2–0 overall). * indicates the result of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Barranco Cosano
Javier Barranco Cosano (born 17 November 1998) is a Spanish 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. Barranco Cosano has a career high ATP singles ranking of 262 achieved on 4 April 2022 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 258 achieved on 12 November 2018. Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour and Challenger finals Singles: 20 (12–8) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barranco Cosano, Javier 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from Almería Tennis players from Andalusia Spanish male tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Sousa
João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa (born 30 March 1989), known as João Sousa (), is a Portuguese professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 28 on 16 May 2016 and a doubles ranking of No. 26 on 13 May 2019. Continuously ranked in the world's top-100 between July 2013 and March 2021, and with four ATP Tour singles titles, Sousa is often regarded as the best Portuguese tennis player of all time. He is nicknamed ''Conquistador'' (Portuguese for "Conqueror") for sharing his birthplace of Guimarães with Afonso I, the country's first king. Sousa is coached by former player Frederico Marques and practices at the BTT Tennis Academy in Barcelona. Sousa began playing tennis at the age of seven. After winning national youth titles, he decided at the age of fifteen to invest in his career by moving to Barcelona. After an unimpressive junior career, Sousa turned professional in 2008 and won his first singles tournament in 2009. He started playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrique Rocha
Henrique Rocha (born April 6, 2004) is a professional tennis player from Portugal. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 167 achieved on 29 July 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 180 achieved on 6 May 2024. Early career From Maia, by 2018 he was training at the Centro de Alto Rendimento do Jamor, in Cruz Quebrada. He won Portuguese under-14, and under-16 age-group titles. In July 2020, he became the first tennis player born in 2004 to beat a player ranked in the world top 600 when he defeated Tiago Cação, number 547 in the world, in Figueira da Foz. Career In 2023 he made his ATP main draw debut by winning through qualifying at the 2023 Estoril Open. He defeated higher ranked players Ryan Peniston, and Máté Valkusz to reach the main draw. It was his first ATP tour qualifying event, having never previously even qualified for a Challenger tournament in 12 tries. He won his maiden Challenger title at the 2024 Murcia Open defeating Nikoloz Basilashvili. He bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Faria
Jaime Faria (born 6 August 2003) is a Portuguese tennis player. He achieved a career high singles ranking of world No. 262 on 1 April 2024. He achieved a career high doubles ranking of No. 209 on 20 November 2023. Career In October 2021, He won his first ATP point in Setúbal. In July 2022, he won his first singles and doubles titles in Castelo Branco, Portugal, on consecutive days. In January 2023, he made his debut on the ATP Challenger circuit. The same month he made headlines when he threw his racquet in frustration during a match at the 2023 Oeiras Indoors II in Portugal and nearly struck his opponent Aziz Dougaz. In February and March 2024, he won four consecutive tournaments on the 2024 ITF Men's World Tennis Tour (January–March), ITF Men's World Tennis Tour, winning the Vale do Lobo Open in Portugal as well as the Vila Real de Santo António, the Faro Open, and the Quinta do Lago. He qualified for the main draw at the 2024 Estoril Open, making his ATP Tour debut. Perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastão Elias
Gastão José Ministro Elias (; born 24 November 1990) is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who competes on the ATP World Tour. He became the fifth Portuguese tennis player to break into the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings. In October 2016, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 57 to become the second-highest-ranked Portuguese player, after João Sousa (No. 28). Early and personal life Gastão Elias was born on 24 November 1990 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. At age four, he started playing tennis with his father. In 2001, he participated in the national under-12 singles competition, falling to future Davis Cup partner João Sousa in the semifinals. Elias idolized James Blake and Roger Federer while growing up. He is a supporter of Sporting Clube de Portugal, Real Madrid C.F. and Liverpool F.C. Career Professional career 2016 proved to be a breakthrough year for Elias. After winning an ATP Challenger Tour tournament i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
