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2011 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships
The 2011 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 17th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour and the 12th edition for the 2011 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States between 18 and 24 July 2011. ATP singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of July 11, 2011. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Alexis Musialek * Eric Quigley * Jack Sock * Rhyne Williams The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Devin Britton * Chase Buchanan * Michael McClune * Blake Strode The following players received entry as a lucky loser into the singles main draw: * Jordan Cox WTA singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of July 11, 2011. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Robin Anderson * Nicole Gib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County. By population, it is the List of cities in Kentucky, second-largest city in Kentucky and List of United States cities by population, 57th-largest city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's List of United States cities by area, 28th-largest city. The city is also known as "Horse Capital of the World". It is within the state's Bluegrass region. Notable locations in the city include the Kentucky Horse Park, The Red Mile and Keeneland race courses, Rupp Arena, Central Bank Center, Transylvania University, the University of Kentucky, and Bluegrass Community and Technical College. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census the population was 322,570, anchoring a Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area, metropolitan area of 516,811 people and a Lexington-Fayette-Frankfort-Richmond, KY Combined Statistical Area, combined statistical ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amer Delić
Amer Delić (; born June 30, 1982) is a Bosnian American former professional tennis player. He is a former captain and member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team. Delić was born in Tuzla, then in Yugoslavia, now in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1996, his family emigrated to Jacksonville, Florida where he attended Samuel W. Wolfson High School, a public high school with the largest Bosnian population in Florida. Representing the United States as a tour player until 2009, he then began representing his country of birth, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was a member of its Davis Cup team. Career Delić played High School Tennis at Wolfson High in Jacksonville, Florida. It was here that he won a State Championship. Delić played collegiate tennis at the University of Illinois. At Illinois he won both the NCAA Division I singles and team championships in 2003. In Grand Slams, Delić's best singles performance was to reach the third round at the 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetiana Luzhanska
Tetiana Luzhanska ( uk, Тетяна Лужанська; born 4 September 1984) is a Ukrainian-American former tennis player. Luzhanska has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 131, achieved on 26 September 2011, and a highest WTA doubles ranking of 99, set on 12 February 2007. In her career, she won two singles titles and twenty doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit. Career Luzhanska won singles titles at $25k tournaments in Monterrey and Saltillo, Mexico. During the 2007 season, she won six doubles titles at $25k tournaments on the ITF Circuit. In August 2007, Luzhanska and Chan Chin-wei reached the doubles final at the WTA Tier IV event Nordic Light Open in Stockholm, losing to Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual Virginia Ruano Pascual (; born 21 September 1973) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She had moderate success in singles, winning three career Women's Tennis Association (WTA) titles as well as reaching tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloane Stephens
Sloane Stephens (born March 20, 1993) is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-best ranking of world No. 3 after Wimbledon in 2018. Stephens was the 2017 US Open champion, and has won seven WTA Tour singles titles in total. Born to athletic parents with backgrounds in collegiate swimming and professional American football, Stephens was introduced to tennis at the club across the street from her house in Fresno, California. Her stepfather was a competitive recreational tennis player and was her primary inspiration for beginning to play the sport. Stephens moved to Florida to train at a tennis academy, ultimately working with Nick Saviano. She became a promising junior player, reaching an ITF junior ranking of world No. 5 and winning three out of four major girls' doubles titles in 2010 with her partner Tímea Babos. While 19 years old, Stephens rose to prominence at the 2013 Australian Open with a semifinal run beating world No. 3, Serena Williams. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Riske
Alison Riske-Amritraj (née Riske; born July 3, 1990) is an American professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 2019 and won her first WTA Tour title in October 2014 at the Tianjin Open. She has won three WTA singles titles, as well as nine singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Her best singles performances at Grand Slam tournaments include reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open in 2020, the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 2019 (where she defeated world No. 1 and reigning French Open champion, Ashleigh Barty, in the fourth round) and the fourth round of the US Open in 2013. Despite having not won a WTA doubles title, Riske-Amritraj has had success in doubles at the Grand Slam-level, reaching the 2019 Australian Open semifinals with Jennifer Brady and the 2020 US Open quarterfinals with Gabriela Dabrowski, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 40 on January 13, 2020. She has had numerous care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Oudin
Melanie Jennings Oudin (born September 23, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. The former world junior No. 2 was a member of the American Fed Cup team from 2009 to 2011 and the winner of the 2011 US Open mixed-doubles title, with fellow American player Jack Sock. As a 17-year-old in the middle of 2009, Oudin reached the round of 16 of the Wimbledon Championships, followed by a quarterfinal at the US Open six weeks later. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 31 in April 2010. Oudin retired from professional tour on August 18, 2017, citing numerous health issues and injuries. Personal life Oudin, a Marietta, Georgia native, has a twin sister, Katherine, and a younger sister, Christina. Introduced to the sport at the age of seven alongside sister Katherine, it was clear Melanie had a gift. As Melanie continued to improve, her time spent on the court increased as well. In seventh grade, Melanie made the decision to homeschool, giving her more time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Cox (tennis)
Jordan Cox (born January 7, 1992) is an American 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. Cox has a career high ATP singles ranking of 449 achieved on March 21, 2011. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 605 achieved on July 30, 2012. Cox made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 BB&T Atlanta Open in the doubles draw partnering Emil Reinberg. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 3 (1–2) Doubles: 5 (3–2) Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) External links * * 1992 births Living people American male tennis players Sportspeople from Bradenton, Florida Tennis players from Miami Georgia Gwinnett Grizzlies athletes College men's tennis players in the United States {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Loser
A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw, usually when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury, or other reasons. The lucky loser then re-enters the competition, normally in place of the withdrawn competitor. In the event of a lucky loser's re-entry to a competition, it usually occurs before all competitors in the main draw have started their first match in the tournament. Lucky losers as tennis tournament winners and finalists It is rare for a lucky loser to win an ATP or WTA tournament; Heinz Gunthardt did it in 1978 (at Springfield), Bill Scanlon in 1978 (at Maui), Francisco Clavet in 1990 in Hilversum, Christian Miniussi in 1991 in São Paulo, Sergiy Stakhovsky in 2008 in Zagreb, Rajeev Ram in 2009 in Newport, Andrey Rublev in 2017 in Umag, Leonardo Mayer in the following week in 2017 in Hamburg and Marco Cecchinato at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Strode
Blake Strode (born July 9, 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American civil rights lawyer serving as the executive director of ArchCity Defenders (ACD), and is a former professional tennis player. Early life and education Strode grew up in Charlack, Berkeley, and Bridgeton, in North St. Louis County, Missouri, and graduated first in his class at Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights in 2005. He earned degrees in Spanish and economics at the University of Arkansas, where he was an All American tennis player for the Razorbacks. Strode was admitted into Harvard Law School in 2009, which he deferred for three years to pursue his career in tennis. At Harvard, he participated in the student practice organization "Project No One Leaves," reaching out to recently-foreclosed homeowners and informing them of their legal rights. He interned at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's voting section. He graduated in 2015, after several high-profile police brutalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McClune
Michael McClune (born August 22, 1989) is an American professional tennis player. He turned professional in 2007, was represented by IMG and signed a lucrative contract with Nike. Junior career Michael was a finalist at the 2007 Luxilon Cup held at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open where he lost to Kei Nishikori. As a Junior, McClune held the No. 1 ranking in the Boys' Singles 12s, 16s, and 18s divisions. Pro career 2005 McClune attempted to qualify for numerous USTA Pro Circuit events and, as a 15-year-old, received a wildcard to the qualifying round of the ATP event in Los Angeles, California. 2006 A breakout year for McClune on the USTA Pro Circuit – he reached the quarterfinals in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Honolulu, Hawaii; the semifinals in McAllen, Texas; and was a finalist in Mansfield, Texas. He also received wildcards to the qualifying rounds of the ATP event in Los Angeles, California, and the ATP Masters Series event in Cincinnati, Ohio. 2007 McClune attempted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chase Buchanan
Chase Buchanan (born June 4, 1991) is an inactive American male tennis player. Buchanan grew up and attended grade school and high school in New Albany, Ohio and attended Ohio State University as a member of the tennis team. Career Buchanan reached no. 6 on the junior rankings on March 9, 2009. His first title came at age 15 on the junior tour. He emerged victorious at the Panama Bowl in both singles, emerging from the qualifying to do so; and doubles, alongside fellow 2009 U.S. Open wildcard Devin Britton. He won the 2008 Easter Bowl, beating Alex Llompart in the final. In 2008 and 2009, Buchanan was rated no. 1 in the United States by both TennisRecruiting and Tennis RPI. In 2009, Buchanan won the USTA Boys 18s National Championship in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Buchanan competed in the 2009 US Open as a wildcard in the men's singles draw. He fell there to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He reached the junior singles final of the U.S. Open the same year, falling to Bernard Tomic Bernar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devin Britton
Devin Britton (born March 17, 1991) is an American professional tennis player. He is a native of Brandon, Mississippi. He is currently an assistant coach for the Ole Miss Rebels men's tennis team. Tennis career Juniors Britton's most notable ITF junior tournament win was in June 2008, when he captured the International Grass Courts Championships. Also, in the summer of 2008 at the U.S. Open Junior Championships, he advanced to the finals match – making him the first ever qualifying wildcard to make a final where he lost to Grigor Dimitrov. As a junior Britton compiled a singles win–loss record of 54–36 (and 92-29 in doubles), reaching as high as No. 13 in the junior world combined rankings in July 2009. Junior Slam results – Singles: Australian Open: - French Open: 1R (2009) Wimbledon: SF (2009) US Open: F (2008) Junior Slam results – Doubles: Australian Open: - French Open: 3R (2009) Wimbledon: QF (2009) US Open: QF (2007) College NCAA Men's Singles Title Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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