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2023 Cary Challenger
The 2023 Cary Challenger was a professional tennis tournament being played on hard courts. It was the 10th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cary, North Carolina, United States between 7 and 13 August 2023. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of July 31, 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Rinky Hijikata * Patrick Kypson * Ethan Quinn The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Bjorn Fratangelo * Ryan Peniston The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Stefan Dostanic * Blake Ellis * Billy Harris * Karl Poling * Keegan Smith * Quinn Vandecasteele The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Yuki Mochizuki Champions Singles * Adam Walton def. Nicolas Moreno de Alboran 6–4, 3–6, 7–5. Doubles * Evan King / Reese Stalder def. Miķelis Lībietis / Adam W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcourt
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Flat balls are favored on hard courts because of the extremely quick play style. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in the sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gijs Brouwer
Gijs Brouwer (born 14 March 1996) is an American-born Dutch tennis player. Brouwer has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 116 achieved on 20 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 22 August 2022. Brouwer has won two ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2021 Puerto Vallarta Open with Reese Stalder and at 2022 Tallahassee Challenger with Christian Harrison. Career 2022: ATP & Major debut & top-50 win, top 150 in singles & doubles On his ATP Tour debut at the 2022 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, Brouwer as a qualifier, made the quarterfinals after beating Feliciano López and JJ Wolf. He lost to third seed Reilly Opelka in the quarterfinals. As a result he made his top 300 debut at world No. 286. In May, he reached his first Challenger final at the 2022 Tunis Open losing to Roberto Carballes. He made his Grand Slam debut at the US Open as a qualifier. He recorded his first Major win defeating world No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miķelis Lībietis
Miķelis Lībietis (born 9 July 1992 in Sigulda) is a Latvian tennis player that competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Men's Circuit. On 28 November 2016, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 352, and his highest doubles ranking of 172 was achieved on 6 November 2017. He has also been a regular member of the Latvian Davis Cup team since 2014. He played NCAA college tennis at the University of Tennessee, graduating with a degree in Sociology – Criminal Justice in May 2015. College career Libietis arrived at Tennessee before the 2011–12 season and was one of four newcomers on the team, so he immediately found a role at the top of the lineup, a spot he has held for a majority of his All-American career. As a sophomore in 2012–13, he earned the Intercollegiate Tennis Association national No. 1 ranking in singles and doubles with fellow sophomore Hunter Reese. He was the first Tennessee player in program history to hold both rankings simultaneously. He jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keegan Smith (tennis)
Keegan Smith (born June 23, 1998) is an American tennis player. Smith has a career high ATP singles ranking of 339 achieved on September 19, 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 262 achieved on September 12, 2022. Smith made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Hall of Fame Open after receiving a wildcard for the doubles main draw. He also played the U.S. Open main draw doubles in 2019 and in 2022. Smith played college tennis at UCLA, where he and Maxime Cressy won the 2019 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are annual tournaments held in the spring to crown team, singles, and doubles champions in American college tennis. The first intercollegiate championship was held in 1883, 23 years before the founding of the NCA ... doubles tournament. ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 3 (2–1) References External links * * 1998 births Living people American male tennis players Sportspeople from Wilmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Harris (tennis)
Billy Harris (born 25 January 1995) is a British tennis player. Harris has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 199 achieved on 25 December 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 274 achieved on 10 April 2023. Harris has won one ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2022 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger with Kelsey Stevenson. Career He reached his first singles Challenger final at the inaugural edition of the 2023 Challenger Club Els Gorchs in Las Franquesas del Valles, Spain as a qualifier where he lost to second seed Hugo Grenier Hugo Grenier (born 23 March 1996) is a French tennis player. Grenier has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 95 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 362 achieved on 21 February 202 .... He made his ATP debut at the 2023 Sofia Open where as a qualifier he reached the main draw and defeated defending champion Marc-Andrea Huesler in the first round.https://www. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Ellis (tennis)
Blake Ellis (born 6 January 1999) is an Australian tennis player. Ellis won the 2016 Australian Open boys' doubles alongside Alex De Minaur. Career 2014 – 2017: Senior Beginnings Ellis made his senior debut in October 2014 at the Australia F7, where he lost in round 1. Between 2015 and 2017, Ellis competed in the ITF Men's Circuit around Australia, Asia, and Europe, with his best result in that time period being a semi-final appearance in the August 2017 Thailand F6 Futures tournament in Nonthaburi. In October 2017, Ellis won his first Challenger match against Austrian Lucas Mielder in the Canberra International. 2018 At the 2018 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships, Ellis had his best Challenger-level performance to date, winning his qualifying matches and then defeating two previous tournament champions in 5th seed Tatsuma Ito and 3rd seed Go Soeda en route to a semi-final loss against fellow Australian and eventual champion John Millman John H. Millman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Peniston
Ryan Peniston (born 10 November 1995) is a British tennis player from Essex. He has a career-high singles ranking of world no. 123, achieved in July 2022, and a doubles ranking of world no. 384 achieved in June 2022. Personal life Ryan Harold Peniston was born in November 1995 to Paul and Penny (née Gok). He has two older brothers, Sam and Harry. As a child Peniston survived rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer, and had to have surgery to remove a tumour and chemotherapy. Cancer slowed his growth, and he was much smaller than his classmates until he was 16 years old. At 13, he moved to Nice, France to train at ISP Academy before going to college at 18. A graduate of the University of Memphis tennis program, he was part of the GB University Team that won the nation's first ever team gold medal at Master’U Championships. Professional career 2020: Battle of the Brits During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Peniston took part in the 'Battle of the Brits' tournament and performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjorn Fratangelo
Bjorn Fratangelo ( ; born July 19, 1993) is a professional American tennis player. He won the boys' singles title at the 2011 French Open defeating Dominic Thiem. Fratangelo is only the second American out of three to win the event, following John McEnroe in 1977 and preceding Tommy Paul in 2015. Early life Fratangelo began playing tennis at age three. and is named after tennis champion Björn Borg. His father, Mario, is his coach. Fratangelo attended St. John the Baptist School in Plum, Pennsylvania until the 8th grade when he moved to Naples, Florida for training reasons, and was an online student of Barron Collier High School. Junior career Fratangelo won the boys' singles title at the 2011 French Open, beating Dominic Thiem in the final. The win propelled him to a career high of No. 2 in the junior rankings. He also played in the junior championship at the 2011 US Open, losing in the third round to eventual champion Oliver Golding in three sets. Professional Early years F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Quinn
Ethan Quinn (born March 12, 2004) is an American tennis player. Quinn has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 501 achieved on 15 August 2022 and a doubles career-high ranking of No. 736 achieved on August 8 2022. Personal life Quinn attended the San Joaquin Memorial High School in Fresno, California. He was an early enrolee at the University of Georgia in January 2022. He was ranked the No. 1 national tennis recruit in 2022. Career 2022: Grand Slam debut Quinn won the doubles at the 2022 USTA Boys 18s National Championship with his partner Nicholas Godsick which earned them a wildcard into the main draw of the 2022 US Open. They won the final with a 6–4, 6–0 defeat of Sebastian Gorzny and Alex Michelsen who had been top seeds following their 2022 Wimbledon Junior doubles victory. In the singles event at the same competition Quinn also reached the final but lost to Learner Tien in 4 sets. For reaching the final, Quinn gained a wildcard into the singles qualifying at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Kypson
Patrick Kypson (born 28 October 1999) is an American tennis player. Biography Kypson has a career high ATP singles ranking of 449 achieved on 18 February 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 577 achieved on 27 May 2019. Kypson made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2017 US Open after receiving a wild card for winning the under-18 boys championship. 2018 Kypson began the season at the USA F1 Futures in Los Angeles, where he won three qualifying matches before losing in the first round of the main draw. His next event was the USA F2 Futures in Long Beach Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California. Incorporate .... Failing to make the main draw here, he lost in the final round of qualifying. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 4 (3–1) Doubles: 2 (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leandro Riedi
Leandro Riedi (born 27 January 2002) is a Swiss tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 161 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 224 achieved on 14 November 2022. Junior career As a junior, Riedi reached as high as World No. 6 in the combined singles and doubles ITF Junior Circuit ranking system, which he attained on 12 October 2020. Alongside Romanian partner Nicholas David Ionel he captured the 2020 Australian Open – Boys' doubles title by defeating Mikołaj Lorens and Kārlis Ozoliņš 6–7(8–10), 7–5, 0–4in the championship match. He also reached the boys' singles final at the 2020 French Open but came up just short being defeated by compatriot Dominic Stricker 2–6, 4–6. Professional career 2021: ATP debut Riedi reached five finals on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour winning three and losing two. In May, he won the first senior level title of his career when he won the doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Gómez (tennis)
Emilio Gómez Estrada (; born 28 November 1991) is an Ecuadorian professional tennis player competing primarily on the ATP Challenger Tour. He is currently the No. 1 Ecuadorian tennis player. On 20 February 2023, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 90 and his highest doubles ranking of world No. 254 was achieved on 14 September 2015. Career 2016-2018 He defeated Adam Hornby of Barbados during Davis Cup play on March 4, 2016, by a score of 6–0, 6–0, 6–0, making him the first player to win by such a scoreline at any tournament since 2011, and one of two players to accomplish the feat on that day (Jarkko Nieminen of Finland earned a triple bagel victory over Courtney John Lock of Zimbabwe at Davis Cup competition elsewhere). 2019-2021: First Challenger title, Top 200 & Grand Slam debuts He reached the top 200 on 29 April 2019 following his first title at the 2019 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger in Florida. Gómez made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
