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2013 Sport 1 Open
The 2013 Sport 1 Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 21st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Scheveningen, Netherlands, between 8 and 15 July 2013. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of June 24, 2013. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Stephan Fransen * Mark de Jong * Thomas Schoorel * Nick van der Meer The following players received special exempt into the singles main draw: * Miljan Zekić The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Colin Ebelthite * Lorenzo Giustino * Andis Juška * Thiago Monteiro The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Roberto Carballés Baena Champions Singles * Jesse Huta Galung def. Robin Haase 6–3, 6–7(2–7), 6–4 Doubles * Antal van der Duim / Boy Westerhof def. Gero Kretschmer / Alexander Satschko 6–3, 6–3 External link ... [...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] |
Simon Greul
Simon Greul (; born 13 April 1981) is a retired German male tennis player. His career high rank was No. 55, achieved on 22 March 2010. Career His major breakthrough was at the 2006 Nasdaq-100 Open, where after beating Adrián García and Ricardo Mello in the qualifying rounds, he reached the round of 16 at the main draw, defeating Paradorn Srichaphan, Dominik Hrbatý, and Tim Henman before succumbing to fourth seed Andy Roddick 6–3, 3–6, 6–2. In 2009 he reached the quarterfinal at the German Open in Hamburg. He lost to Spaniard David Ferrer. At the 2009 US Open he defeated Giovanni Lapentti in the first round but lost to eventual finalist Roger Federer in the second round. In his next tournament, the BCR Romania Open in Bucharest he reached the semifinal where he lost to Juan Mónaco. Greul finished the season ranked No.59. The year was highlighted by a win at an ATP Challenger Tour Event in Todi, a semifinal appearance in Trani and Genoa. It was the best season in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Satschko
Alexander Satschko (born 12 November 1980) is a German retired tennis player. He was a doubles specialist, who achieved his highest doubles ranking of world No. 80 in October 2014. He won his first ATP World Tour title with partner Gero Kretschmer Gero Kretschmer (; born 6 May 1985) is a German retired tennis player. He was a doubles specialist, who achieved his highest doubles ranking of world No. 79 in May 2014. He won his only ATP World Tour The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier ten ... as alternates in Quito on 7 February 2015. ATP career finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ATP Challenger Tour finals Doubles: 28 (12 titles, 16 runner-ups) Doubles performance timeline ''Current till 2017 ATP World Tour'' References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Satschko, Alex 1980 births Living people German male tennis players German people of Ukrainian descent Tennis people from Bavaria 21st-century German people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gero Kretschmer
Gero Kretschmer (; born 6 May 1985) is a German retired tennis player. He was a doubles specialist, who achieved his highest doubles ranking of world No. 79 in May 2014. He won his only ATP World Tour The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organi ... title with partner Alexander Satschko as alternates in Quito on 7 February 2015. ATP career finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ATP Challenger Tour finals Doubles: 24 (9 titles, 15 runner-ups) Doubles performance timeline References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kretschmer, Gero 1985 births Living people Tennis players from Cologne German male tennis players 21st-century German people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Carballés Baena
Roberto Carballés Baena (; born 23 March 1993) is a Spanish tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 71 on 15 November 2021. His preferred surface is clay, on which he has won one ATP title and 19 ITF titles in singles. Tennis career 2014-2015: First ATP win In a first-round contest between two qualifiers, Carballés Baena recorded his first ATP World Tour win at the 2014 Casablanca Open as he defeated David Goffin of Belgium in straight sets. He followed this up with a tightly fought win over João Sousa in the second round. He faced lucky loser Andrey Kuznetsov in the quarterfinals and won in straight sets. His run was stopped in the semifinals by Guillermo García-López, again in a close three-set match. 2016-2018: Grand Slam debut, top 100 debut, first singles ATP title In February 2018, he won his first ATP tournament at the 2018 Ecuador Open Quito, beating Albert Ramos Vinolas in the final. He became the 1st Spanish qualifier to win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiago Monteiro (tennis)
Thiago Moura Monteiro (; born 31 May 1994) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Monteiro has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 61 achieved on 17 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 144 achieved on 31 January 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Brazilian tennis player. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Monteiro peaked in the rankings at No. 2 on 2 February 2012, with his biggest junior singles title being the Grade A, Copa Gerdau in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2011. In his first ATP match, as a wildcard ranked world No. 338 in the ATP 500 Rio de Janeiro in February 2016, Monteiro upset No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first round. In the second round, Monteiro lost to eventual champion Pablo Cuevas. In his next tournament, the ATP 250 São Paulo, Monteiro won two matches (against former World No. 9 Nicolás Almagro, and Daniel Muñoz de la Nava), losing again to eventual champion Cuevas in the quarterfinals. On May 8, 2016, Monteiro wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andis Juška
Andis Juška (born 22 May 1985) is a Latvian tennis coach and former player. He is a coach of American player Amanda Anisimova, and former coach of Ukrainian player Elina Svitolina. In addition, Andis has worked with Latvian tennis player Jeļena Ostapenko. In addition to coaching individual players, in 2008 uska was the captain of Latvian team for Billie Jean King Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan .... Juška's career-high singles ranking is world number 226, achieved in October 2009. For several years, he has been the second-highest ATP-ranked Latvian tennis player. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Juška reached as high as no. 43 in the junior world singles rankings in 2002 (and no. 15 in doubles). He competed in the main draw of the Australian Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Giustino
Lorenzo Giustino (; born 10 September 1991, in Naples) is an Italian tennis player. Giustino has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 127 achieved on 12 August 2019 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of 311 achieved on 15 April 2019. Giustino made his ATP main draw debut at the 2015 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, where he qualified for the main draw. Giustino defeated Frenchman Corentin Moutet 0–6, 7–6 (7), 7–6 (3), 2–6, 18–16 in the first round of 2020 French Open The 2020 French Open was a Grand Slam (tennis), major tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. Originally scheduled for 24 May to 7 June, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was firs .... The match was the second-longest in French Open history, lasting 6 hours, 5 minutes. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 21 (10–11) Doubles: 6 (3–3) References External links * * 1991 births Living people Italian male tennis pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Ebelthite
Colin Ebelthite (born 27 November 1984) is a former Australian professional tennis player. Ebelthite's highest ATP singles ranking is World 209, which he reached on 23 June 2008. His career high in doubles was at 98 set at 17 September 2012. The South Australian won three Futures titles including Sorrento (WA), Perth and Wellington. Ebelthite joined the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Pro Tour squad in January. His impressive run saw his ranking rocket to a career high 230, an outstanding feat given only sixteen months before he was ranked No.703 in the world. While qualifying for his grand slam he defeated Australian rising talent Bernard Tomic Bernard Tomic (; hr, Bernard Tomić, ; born 21 October 1992) is an Australian professional tennis player whose career-high ranking was world No. 17. As a junior, Tomic enjoyed a successful career in which he won an Orange Bowl title and two ju .... Ebelthite competed in the Australian Open in 2009 where he was knocked out in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miljan Zekić
Miljan Zekić ( sr-Cyrl, Миљан Зекић, ; born 12 July 1988) is a Serbian tennis player. Career Zekić made his ATP main draw debut in doubles with compatriot David Savić as a wildcard pair at the 2011 Serbia Open, losing in the first round to top-seeded pair Zimonjić/Granollers. On 11 July 2016, Zekic reached his best singles ranking of world number 188, while on 8 July 2013, he peaked at world number 269 in the doubles rankings. In July 2016 he won his first trophy on the ATP Challenger Tour winning Internazionali di Tennis dell'Umbria in Todi. Zekić made his ATP main draw debut in singles as a qualifier at 2017 Croatia Open Umag, losing to Radu Albot in the first round. In two weeks' time, he played in another ATP tournament, 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel, defeating top seed Alessandro Giannessi and eighth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the qualifying rounds, and earned his first ATP main draw victory by defeating world No. 66 Andrey Kuznetsov, before losing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Schoorel
Thomas Schoorel (born 8 April 1989) is a retired Dutch people, Dutch tennis player. Schoorel has a career high ATP Tour, ATP singles ranking of World No. 94, achieved on 4 July 2011. He also has a career high ATP Tour, ATP doubles ranking of World No. 299, achieved on 30 August 2010. Career Schoorel made his ATP Tour singles main draw debut at the 2010 If Stockholm Open – Singles, 2010 If Stockholm Open on hard courts in Sweden. Having to earn his spot in the main draw by advancing through three qualifying rounds, Thomas proceeded to beat Patrik Rosenholm ''6–4, 6–4'', followed by Erling Tveit 6–7(2–7), ''6–4, 6–4'' and finally Marcel Granollers ''6–4, 7–5'' to secure a main draw birth. In the first round, he would go on to be defeated by German Benjamin Becker in straight sets ''3–6, 0–6''. He made his ATP Tour doubles main draw debut at the 2008 Dutch Open – Singles, 2008 Dutch Open in Amersfoort, Netherlands when he was gifted entry as an alternate pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Fransen
Stephan Fransen (born 8 August 1988) is a Dutch tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T .... On 7 June 2010, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 817 and his highest doubles ranking of 163 achieved on 18 November 2013. Tour titles Doubles External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fransen, Stephan 1988 births Living people Dutch male tennis players Sportspeople from The Hague ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
