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2014 ATP Challenger China Int'l
The 2014 Anning Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the third edition for men and first edition for women, of the tournament which is part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Anning, China between 28 April and 3 May 2014. Men's singles main-draw entrants Seeds Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Li Yuanfeng * Liu Siyu * Wang Ruikai * Gong Maoxin The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Giuseppe Menga * Aliaksandr Bury * Wang Chuhan * James Cluskey Women's singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 21 April 2014 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Yang Zhaoxuan * Zhang Ying The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Nozomi Fujioka * Riko Sawayanagi * Wang Yan * Zhu Lin Men's doubles main-draw entrants Seeds O ... [...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] |
Daniel Cox
Daniel Mark L. Cox (born 28 September 1990 in Lincoln, England), is a British tennis player. While playing tennis for Lincolnshire, he first came into international prominence when he reached the finals of Le Petit As, Tarbes. A right-hander who favours slow hardcourts, but seems to be comfortable on all surfaces, Cox recently chose Marco Tennis Academy, in Marbella, as a training base, favouring the warm weather training in Spain over that in the United Kingdom. Career 2006 Daniel spent the first few months of the year attempting to qualify for various Futures and Satellite tournaments. Although he came across little success initially, he finally qualified for a Futures event in Portugal before losing in the first round to an ATP top 500 player. He took very little time to adjust himself to the 18-and-under circuits when he finally made his debut in April. He reached the semi-finals of a Grade 5 tournament in Sutton [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Burger (tennis)
Cindy Burger (born 25 November 1992) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 134, achieved on 31 October 2016. Her highest doubles ranking is 163, which she reached on 16 January 2017. In her career, Burger won seven singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2015 Copa Colsanitas where she qualified for the main draw. Burger made her first WTA Tour quarterfinal at the 2016 Rio Open where she defeated Heidi El Tabakh and Fiona Ferro in qualifying, and Christina McHale with Elitsa Kostova in the main draw. She lost to Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone (; born 23 June 1980) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1998 and won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She wa ..., after failing to convert a match point. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 22 (7 titles, 15 ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Melnikova
Marina Anatolyevna Melnikova (russian: Марина Анатольевна Мельникова; born 5 February 1989) is a Russian tennis player. She has won six singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 4 May 2015, Melnikova reached her best singles ranking of world No. 170. On 20 June 2016, she peaked at No. 80 in the doubles rankings. Melnikova made her WTA Tour debut 2008 at Barcelona and also featured 2009 in the Rosmalen Open, both times in the doubles draw. She was a finalist at the ITF Delhi in doubles, alongside Elise Mertens. Personal life and background Melnikova is currently coached by Oleg Mannapov. Her father is Anatoliy, mother is Elena, and brother is Sergey. She started playing at age seven when introduced to the sport by her dad. Her favorite surfaces are hard and clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Khromacheva
Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva ( rus, Ирина Павловна Хромачёва; born 12 May 1995) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She has career-high WTA rankings of 89 in singles and 41 in doubles. Khromacheva was provisionally suspended by the Tennis Integrity Unit for one month from September 2019. Personal life Irina was born to Pavel and Natalya Khromacheva, on 12 May 1995 in Moscow. She trained at the Justine Henin Academy in Belgium. Khromacheva states that she doesn't have a favourite surface and likes everything. She started playing tennis at the age of four. Khromacheva, after her unsuccessful partnership with a Belgian coach, is now coached by Larisa Savchenko in Riga. Junior tennis Khromacheva had a breakthrough on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2008, in that year she won her first title at the Junior Zagreb Open. In 2009, she won four junior titles and competed for the first time at the 2009 French Open, French Open and 2009 US Open (tennis), US Open. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeja Majerič
Tadeja Majerič (born 31 August 1990, in Maribor) is a former tennis player from Slovenia. Majerič has won nine singles and six doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 25 November 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 111. On 28 January 2013, she peaked at No. 227 in the WTA doubles rankings. Career 2005–2012 Majerič made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in April 2005 as a qualifier at a $10k event in Makarska, Croatia. The following year, she reached her first professional final in Zadar, losing in straight sets to Ani Mijačika. 2006 also saw her qualify for the main draw at the Tier IV Slovenia Open in Portorož, defeating Margit Rüütel, Dominika Cibulková and Lucie Hradecká in the qualifying tournament, only to lose to fellow Slovenian Andreja Klepač in round one on her WTA Tour main-draw debut. In 2007, Majerič played her first matches in national colours for the Slovenia Fed Cup team. In August 2007, she won her first ITF singles to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsieh Su-wei
Hsieh Su-wei ( ;''Xiè 謝淑薇Shūwēi'' in Chinese mainland. Taiwanese Mandarin: ; in Standard Mandarin of Chinese mainland. born 4 January 1986) is an inactive Taiwanese professional tennis player. She has won three singles titles and 30 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 doubles title, 27 singles and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, seven medals at the Asian Games (2 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze), 1 gold and bronze medal at the 2005 Summer Universiade, and has amassed over $10 million in prize money. On 25 February 2013, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 23, and on 12 May 2014, she reached world No. 1 in the doubles rankings for the first time; she has spent a total of 47 weeks with the top ranking, the longest tenure by a tennis player from the Far East. Hsieh is the highest-ranked Taiwanese player in history, in both singles and doubles. Known for playing with two hands on both sides, flat and quick groundstrokes, crafty gameplay, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovana Jakšić (tennis)
Jovana is a Serbian feminine name. People with the name include: *Jovana Brakočević, Serbian volleyball player *Jovana Crnogorac, Serbian cyclist *Jovana Damnjanović, Serbian football player *Jovana Jakšić, Serbian tennis player *Jovana Janković, Serbian television presenter * Jovana Jovičić, Serbian volleyball player *Jovana Jovović, Serbian handball player *Jovana Karakašević, Serbian basketball player *Jovana Kovačević, Serbian handball player * Jovana Marjanović, Serbian beauty pageant *Jovana Milosevic, Australian handball player * Jovana Mrkić, Montenegrin football player *Jovana Nikolić, Serbian figure skater * Jovana Pašić, Montenegrin basketball player *Jovana Petrović (boen 2001), Serbian women's football goalkeeper *Jovana Preković, Serbian karateka, Olympic champion *Jovana Rad, Serbian basketball player *Jovana Rapport, Serbian chess player *Jovana Rogić, Serbian judoka *Jovana Risović, Serbian handball player *Jovana Sretenović, Serbian football p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cluskey
James Cluskey (born 18 August 1986) is a retired Irish professional tennis player, mainly playing doubles. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and attended Belvedere College along with fellow Irish tennis player James McGee. Cluskey was, for some time, the highest ranked Irish doubles player. Cluskey retired from professional tennis in November 2015. Career Early career In 2004, Cluskey won the Irish under-18 singles championship. He also reached the final of the men's doubles and won the mixed doubles at the national championships. He then took the decision in 2005 to move to the United States, where he played college tennis for Louisiana State University. He had a successful four years there where he achieved a national doubles ranking of 3 with partner Ken Skupski. In total he won 82 doubles and 57 singles matches in college tennis. Cluskey played his first futures event in Limerick in June 2006. He reached the quarter-finals of the doubles with university teammate Ken Skupski a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Chuhan
Wang Chuhan (; ; born 24 February 1992 in Dalian) is a Chinese male tennis player. As a junior, Wang peaked at a career high of world No. 24. He played in the junior Australian and French Open but did not perform significantly. Wang represents his native country China in Davis Cup matches and has a record of 0– in singles matches. 1 Wang has a career high ATP singles ranking of 377 achieved on 9 February 2015. He received a wildcard entry into the main draw of the 2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters, where he made his ATP Tour match debut and made the most of it. In the first round, he defeated the 15th seed Fabio Fognini of Italy ''7–6(7–5(, 6–4'' which was a huge upset. He fell in the second round to Tunisia's Malek Jaziri Malek Jaziri ( ar, مالك الجزيري, Mālik al-Jazīrī; born January 20, 1984) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. Jaziri reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour of World 42 in January 2019. He reached the final of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliaksandr Bury
Aliaksandr Ivanavich Bury ( be, Аляксандр Іванавіч Буры; russian: Александр Иванович Бурый; also spelt Alexander Bury), (born 14 September 1987) is a Belarusian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He has won one doubles title at ATP World Tour with Denis Istomin. Bury reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 366 on 10 February 2014, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 59, on 19 October 2015. Bury has represented Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ... at Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 8–5. ATP finals Doubles (1-0) ITF finals (30-33) Singles (1–1) Doubles (29-32) References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gong Maoxin
Gong Maoxin (; ; born August 24, 1987), is a professional male 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 cov ... player. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 11 (5–6) Doubles: 73 (42–31) Davis Cup Singles performances (2–2) Doubles performances (7–9) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gong, Maoxin 1987 births Living people Chinese male tennis players Sportspeople from Nanjing Tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in tennis Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Tennis players from Jiangsu 21st-century Chinese people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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