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2023 Tennis Open Karlsruhe
The 2023 Tennis Open Karlsruhe was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Karlsruhe, Germany between 3 and 9 July 2023. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 26 June 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Liam Gavrielides * Henri Squire * Marko Topo The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Dali Blanch * Hady Habib * Tim Handel * Oriol Roca Batalla * Akira Santillan * Denis Yevseyev Champions Singles * Alejandro Tabilo def. Giulio Zeppieri 2–6, 1–0 ret. Doubles * Neil Oberleitner / Tim Sandkaulen def. Vít Kopřiva / Michail Pervolarakis Michail Pervolarakis (born 6 June 1996) is a Cypriot-born Greek tennis player. Pervolarakis has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 366 achieved on 10 January 2022. He also has ... [...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] |
Timofey Skatov
Timofey Dmitriyevich Skatov (russian: Тимофей Дмитриевич Скатов; born 21 January 2001) is a Kazakhstani tennis player of Russian descent. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 125, achieved on 13 February 2023 and No. 724 in doubles, achieved on 16 January 2023. He is the current No. 2 Kazakhstani player. Skatov had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 1 achieved on 1 January 2018. Professional career 2020-21: ATP debut & first win, First Challenger final, Top 250 Skatov made his ATP debut at the 2020 Astana Open in Nur-Sultan as a wildcard where he lost to Emil Ruusuvuori. In June 2021, he reached his first Challenger final as a wildcard in Almaty where he lost to Zizou Bergs. He won his first ATP match also as a wildcard at the 2021 Astana Open in Kazakhstan defeating Andreas Seppi. 2022: Grand Slam and top 150 debuts, Maiden Challenger title Skatov made his first Grand Slam main draw appearance after successfully making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michail Pervolarakis
Michail Pervolarakis (born 6 June 1996) is a Cypriot-born Greek tennis player. Pervolarakis has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 366 achieved on 10 January 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 157 achieved on 14 November 2022. Pervolarakis represents Greece at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 3–3. College career Pervolarakis played college tennis at the University of Portland, winning WCC player of the year in 2017 and 2018. Professional career He made his ATP debut at the 2022 Winston-Salem Open The 2022 Winston-Salem Open was a men's tennis tournament play on outdoor hard courts. It was the 53rd edition of the Winston-Salem Open (as successor to previous tournaments in New Haven and Long Island), and part of the ATP Tour 250 Series of ... as a lucky loser. Personal life Pervolarakis has a wife, Amelia, and a daughter, Eleonora. References External links * * * 1996 births Living people Greek Cypriot p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vít Kopřiva
Vít Kopřiva (born 15 June 1997) is a Czech tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 124 achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 264 achieved on 13 June 2022. Kopřiva has won 1 ATP Challenger single title at the 2022 UniCredit Czech Open in Prostějov and 1 ATP doubles title at the 2021 Aspria Tennis Cup in Milan with Jiří Lehečka. Professional career 2021: ATP and Top 200 debut On his ATP debut, ranked at a then career-high of World No. 249 in singles, at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad, Kopřiva defeated Denis Shapovalov for his career-best and first top-10 win. He was the lowest-ranked player to beat a Top 10 opponent since then World No. 698 Thanasi Kokkinakis defeated then World No. 6 Milos Raonic at The Queen's Club in 2017. Kopřiva advanced to the semifinals after beating Mikael Ymer in straight sets. He was the second player to reach the semifinals on his ATP Tour debut since May 2012, joining 2021 Córdoba cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Yevseyev
Denis Yevseyev (born 22 May 1993) is a Kazakh tennis player. Yevseyev has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 262 achieved on 8 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 247 achieved on 12 July 2021. Career 2017 He played at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in singles but was defeated by Farrukh Dustov in the quarterfinal. In men's doubles partnering Timur Khabibulin, he lost the final and won a silver medal. 2018: Silver medalist at the Asian Games Yevseyev participated at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. In singles, he lost to the bronze medalist South Korean Lee Duck-hee in the third round. In doubles, he won the silver medal after losing in the final with his partner Alexander Bublik against the Indian duo of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan. 2019 In 2019, Yevseyev was nominated for the Kazakhstan Davis Cup team but has not participated in a match. 2020: ATP doubles debut Yevseyev made his ATP main draw d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Santillan
is a Japanese born, Australian tennis player. Early life Santillan was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a South African father of Spanish descent. He lived the first 8 years of his life in Japan before his family relocated to the Gold Coast, Australia and became citizens. He played much of his junior tennis at the Gold Coast before moving to Brisbane to join the national academy program at the Queensland Tennis Centre. Junior career On the junior tour, Santillan has a career high ITF junior ranking of 7 achieved in September 2015. Santillan's major highlights on the junior tour included a semi-final at the 2015 Australian Open and doubles finals at the 2014 French Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships. In March 2015, Santillan opted to play under the Japanese flag instead due to a fractious relationship with Tennis Australia. He returned to playing under the Australian flag in 2017. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles Professional career Santillan has a career high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriol Roca Batalla
Oriol Roca Batalla (, ; born 30 April 1993) is a professional Spanish tennis player. Roca Batalla has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 193 achieved on 3 August 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 175 achieved on 28 November 2022. Roca Batalla has won 27 ITF singles titles and 47 ITF doubles titles including six Challenger titles. He made it to his first ATP Challenger Tour singles final in Kenitra, Morocco on 19 September 2015. Roca Batalla made his ATP main draw debut at the 2015 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, where he received a wildcard into the doubles event, partnering Gerard Granollers Gerard Granollers Pujol (; ; born 30 January 1989 in Barcelona) is an inactive professional tennis player from Spain. He has won 12 ATP Challenger tournament The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, i .... Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 40 (27-13) Notes External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Handel
Tim Handel (born 18 October 1996) is a German tennis player. Handel has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 385, achieved on 4 December 2023, and has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 642, achieved on 16 May 2022. Handel won his first ITF title at the Luxoil Open in Trier in August 2021. Collegiate career Handel played four years at the Northern Arizona University Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public research university based in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was founded in 1899 as the final public university established in the Arizona Territory, 13 years before Arizona was admitted as the 48th state. ... in Flagstaff, Arizona. He won three Big Sky Conference MVP Honors and qualified for the NCAA singles tournament in his last year. He became just the fourth men's tennis player in Big Sky history to win three MVP awards since it was first given out in 1983. Handel was the first Big Sky player to play in the NCAA Singles tournament since 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hady Habib
Hady Habib (born 21 August 1998) is an American-born Lebanese tennis player. Habib has a career high ATP singles ranking of 408 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of 960. Habib has won 8 ITF Futures singles title and 4 ITF Futures doubles title. Habib has represented Lebanon at the Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 15–5 in singles and a 4–5 record in doubles. Habib also graduated with a degree in Sports Management from Texas A&M University in College Station. Davis Cup * 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. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 9 (5–4) Doubles: 5 (2–3) References External links * * *Hady Habibat Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Topo
Marko Topo (; born 13 September 2003) is a German tennis player. Topo has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 437 achieved on 29 August 2022. Career 2021: ATP debut Topo made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Belgrade Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. In September 2021, he obtained his first challenger level win, in Banja Luka, thanks to a wild card, defeating compatriot Danilo Petrović 4–6, 7–6, 6–2. In the next round he then defeated Vitaliy Sachko, winning 7-6 in the third set, thus reaching the quarterfinals and landing in the top 1000 for the first time. 2022: Top 500 In April 2022, he got a qualifications wildcard for ATP Munich, where he defeated 4th seed Henri Laaksonen in straights sets and Norbert Gombos in three sets to qualify for his second ATP main draw, where he lost to the German Oscar Otte in the first round. In Hamburg he qualified for his first ATP 500 tournament after receiving also a wildcard but lost in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Squire
Henri Squire (born 27 September 2000) is a German tennis player. Squire has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 287, achieved in August 2022, and has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 445, attained in April 2023. He played two seasons of college tennis for Wake Forest and became 2021 ACC Freshman of the Year and 2021 First-Team all ACC Singles. Tennis career Squire made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2022 Halle Open as a wild card, where he lost by retirement to Laslo Đere in the first round. In November 2022, he won his first ATP Challenger Tour doubles title at the Trofeo Faip–Perrel in Bergamo, partnering Jan-Lennard Struff Jan-Lennard Struff (; born 25 April 1990) is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 29 in August 2020. In doubles, he achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 21 in October 2018. He ha .... He has been linked to suspicious actions within tennis matches such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Gakhov
Ivan Andreevich Gakhov ( rus, Ива́н Андре́евич Га́хов, , ɪˈvan ˈɡaxəf; born 4 November 1996) is a Russian tennis player. Gakhov has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 142 achieved on 19 June 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 170 achieved on 17 September 2018. Gakhov has won one ATP Challenger title in singles at the 2023 Girona Challenger and one in doubles at the 2018 Fergana Challenger. Career 2022: ATP debut Ranked No. 315, he made his ATP singles main draw debut at the 2022 Generali Open Kitzbühel as a lucky loser where he lost to Yannick Hanfmann. 2023: Maiden Challenger title, Masters debut and first ATP win, top 150 He won his maiden ATP Challenger title in singles at the 2023 Girona Challenger. Ranked No. 198, he made his Masters debut at the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters after entering the qualifying competition as the fourth alternate, defeating second seed Adrian Mannarino and twelfth seed Luca Van A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
