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2023 Swiss Open Gstaad
The 2023 Swiss Open Gstaad (also known as the EFG Swiss Open Gstaad for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 55th edition of the Swiss Open, and part of the ATP Tour 250 Series of the 2023 ATP Tour. It took place at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad, Switzerland, from 17 through 23 July 2023. Champions Singles * Pedro Cachin def. Albert Ramos Viñolas, 3–6, 6–0, 7–5 Doubles * Dominic Stricker / Stan Wawrinka def. Marcelo Demoliner / Matwé Middelkoop, 7–6(10–8), 6–2 Points and prize money Point distribution Prize money *per team Singles main draw entrants Seeds * † Rankings are as of 3 July 2023 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Fabio Fognini * Alexander Ritschard * Dominic Stricker The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Facundo Bagnis * Zizou Bergs * Hamad Medjedovic * Jurij Rodionov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP World Tour 250 Series
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 (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments, ATP Finals, ATP Tour Masters 1000, ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, and ATP 500 tournaments. As of 2020 ATP Tour, 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. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Zhizhen
Zhang Zhizhen (; ; born 16 October 1996) is a Chinese professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 69 on 8 May 2023, and his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 211 in September 2017. He has won two singles and two doubles titles on the ATP Challenger, and two singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Futures Tour. In 2021, Zhang became the first Chinese man in the Open Era to play in the main draw at Wimbledon. In October 2022, he became the first Chinese player to reach the top 100 in the ATP singles rankings. Then, in May 2023, he became the first Chinese man to reach an ATP Tour Masters 1000 quarterfinal. Early life In 1996, Zhang was born to a sports family in Shanghai. His father Zhang Weihua (张卫华) played football in the Chinese Jia-A League as a defender for Shanghai ShenHua. His mother was a member of the Shanghai shooting sports team and later worked at the Shanghai bureau of China Telecom. When he was 4-6 years old, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Rinderknech
Arthur Rinderknech (born 23 July 1995) is a French tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 42 achieved on 31 October 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 124 achieved on 8 November 2021. Personal life Rinderknech's mother is former tennis player Virginie Paquet. Monégasque tennis player Benjamin Balleret is his cousin. He is a fan of French football club AS Saint-Étienne. College career Rinderknech played college tennis at Texas A&M University. Professional career 2018–2020: Grand Slam singles and doubles debut Rinderknech made his Grand Slam main draw debut as a wildcard at the 2018 French Open in doubles partnering Florian Lakat. He also entered as a wildcard the first rounds of the 2020 French Open on his singles main draw debut and doubles main draw partnering with Manuel Guinard and reached the second round in doubles. 2021: ATP & Top 100 debut, First Major win, Maiden doubles final, Top 60 In his debut on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Félix Auger-Aliassime (; born August 8, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He is the second-youngest player ranked in the top 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and has a career-high singles ranking of No. 6, which he achieved on 7 November 2022, making him the second-highest-ranked Canadian man in ATP rankings history, and the fourth-highest-ranked Canadian player in history. He has a doubles ranking of No. 60, attained on 1 November 2021. He has won four singles titles and one doubles title on the ATP Tour. Auger-Aliassime began competing on the professional tour at a young age. On the second-tier ATP Challenger Tour, he is the youngest player to win a main draw match at 14 years and 11 months old, and is one of seven players to win a Challenger title by the age of 16. He is the second-youngest to win multiple Challenger titles at 17 years and one month, and the youngest player to defend a Challenger title at 17 years and ten months. Auger-Aliass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Virtanen
Otto Virtanen (born 21 June 2001) is a Finnish tennis player. Virtanen has a career high ATP singles ranking of 176 achieved on 21 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 270 achieved on 31 October 2022. Virtanen won the Boys' Doubles title in the Wimbledon Championships in 2018. In December 2018 Virtanen won singles tournament in Orange Bowl. He won his first Challenger title at the 2022 Trofeo Faip–Perrel and reached the top 200 on 7 November 2022 at world No. 195. Personal life Virtanen appeared in two videos on the Finland-based YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ... channel Pongfinity, one titled "Tennis Trick Shots" in July 2019, and another titled "Return a Pro Tennis Serve, Win $1000" in June 2022. Unsurprisingly, no memb ... [...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] |
Hamad Medjedovic
Hamad Medjedovic ( sr, Хамад Међедовић, Hamad Međedović; born 18 July 2003) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 16 October 2023, Medjedovic reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 102. On 24 May 2021, he peaked at No. 1267 in the doubles rankings. Medjedovic has a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 4 January 2021. He is the reigning Next Gen ATP Finals champion. Early life Medjedovic was born in Novi Pazar, at the time part of Serbia and Montenegro. He first met countryman Novak Djokovic at age nine or ten and first practised with him at age 16, after which Djokovic began providing Medjedovic advice and financial support for all of his tennis expenses. Career 2021: ATP debut Medjedovic made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Belgrade Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles and doubles main draws. 2022: Maiden Challenger title Medjedovic reached the final at the 2022 Platzmann-Sauerland O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zizou Bergs
Zizou Bergs (born 3 June 1999) is a Belgian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 128 achieved on 26 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 449 achieved on 25 October 2021. He is currently the No. 2 Belgian singles tennis player. Professional career 2020: ATP debut and first win Bergs made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 European Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. In the first round, he recorded his first ATP victory by defeating Albert Ramos Viñolas in straight sets, before pushing world No. 17 Karen Khachanov to three sets. 2021: Three ATP Challenger titles, top 200 debut Bergs won his first Challenger title at the 2021 Saint Petersburg Challenger in March and later on in the month, would win his second Challenger title at the 2021 Lille Challenger. In June, he won his third Challenger title at the 2021 Almaty Challenger. After a second round showing at the 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facundo Bagnis
Facundo Bagnis (; born 27 February 1990) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won 1 ATP doubles event at Stuttgart and 16 Challengers in singles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 55 in November 2016. Tennis career 2011-2012: ATP debut and first win Bagnis played in his first ATP World Tour match at the 2011 Movistar Open on January 31, 2011, losing to Santiago Giraldo in three sets, and he won his first tour level match at 2012 Copa Claro beating Leonardo Mayer. 2014-2017: First Major win, Career high year-end ranking Bagnis secured his biggest victory (and first at Grand Slam level) when he defeated Julien Benneteau in the first round of the 2014 French Open, winning the deciding set 18–16. 2021: First ATP final, US Open third round In 2021, Bagnis recorded his first ATP semifinal at the Córdoba Open, where he would lose to 5th seeded Albert Ramos Viñolas in 3 sets. Two weeks later at the Chile Open, he would go even further by recordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ritschard
Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss–American tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 163 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 388 achieved on 4 April 2022. Career Ritschard made his ATP main draw debut at the 2013 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad in the doubles draw partnering Alexander Sadecky. At the age of 28 he made his Grand Slam and ATP debut in singles after qualifying for the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. He drew fourth seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas whom despite his ranking, performed very poorly on grass, having lost in the first round of his two previous Wimbledon appearances. Ritschard stormed out to a 4-1 lead in the first set, on serve, looking like another possible upset but Tsitsipas rallied to win the set in a tiebreaker and the match in four sets. At the 2022 Swiss Open Gstaad he won his maiden ATP tour match defeating eight seed Joao Sousa as a wildcard. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Fognini
Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. He is currently ranked (July 2022) in 64th place by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Fognini's most successful surface is red clay, upon which he has won eight of his nine ATP singles titles, most notably at the 2019 Monte-Carlo Masters, as well as having reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 French Open. Together with Simone Bolelli, Fognini won the 2015 Australian Open doubles championship, becoming the first all-Italian men's pair to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era."ATP player profile" ''ATPWorldTour.com'' Early life Fognini was born to Silvana and Fulvio, a businessman, and has a younger sister.[...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] |
