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2016 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux
The 2016 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bordeaux, France between 9 and 15 May 2016. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of May 2, 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Mathias Bourgue * Maxime Janvier * Tristan Lamasine * Constant Lestienne The following player received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw: * Thiago Monteiro The following player received entry as an alternate into the singles main draw: * Quentin Halys The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jonathan Eysseric * Calvin Hemery * Daniil Medvedev * Tommy Paul Champions Singles * Rogério Dutra Silva def. Bjorn Fratangelo, 6–3, 6–1 Doubles * Johan Brunström / Andreas Siljeström def. Guillermo Durán / Máxi ... [...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] |
Thiemo De Bakker
Thiemo Carsten Jannick de Bakker (born 19 September 1988) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Considered a top prospect of his generation as a junior, he also made an impressive breakthrough as a young pro, reaching a career-high ranking in singles of World No. 40 achieved on 19 July 2010 and World No. 115 in doubles achieved on 10 February 2014. However, in a career largely plaqued by injuries and inconsistencies afterwards, he was never quite able to build on his early career success. Career Junior career De Bakker finished 2006 as the ITF Junior Champion, after having won the Boys' Singles title at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships. Early career De Bakker received a wild card into the ATP Amersfoort event in July 2006 and defeated top 100 and French Open Quarterfinalist Julien Benneteau in the 1st round, winning in straight sets 6–3, 6–3. In the 2nd round he faced Frenchman Marc Gicquel and lost in 3 sets. As he was the reigning Junior Champion, De Bakker received a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillermo Durán
Guillermo Durán (; born 6 June 1988) is an Argentine 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 2 April 2012, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 385. His highest ATP doubles ranking of 48 was achieved on 23 May 2016. ATP career finals Doubles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up) Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 10 (1–9) Doubles: 76 (47–29) Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duran, Guillermo 1988 births Living people Argentine male tennis players Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players of Argentina Sportspeople from Tucumán Province 21st-century Argentine people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjorn Fratangelo
Bjorn Fratangelo ( ; born July 19, 1993) is a professional American tennis player. He won the boys' singles title at the 2011 French Open defeating Dominic Thiem. Fratangelo is only the second American out of three to win the event, following John McEnroe in 1977 and preceding Tommy Paul in 2015. Early life Fratangelo began playing tennis at age three. and is named after tennis champion Björn Borg. His father, Mario, is his coach. Fratangelo attended St. John the Baptist School in Plum, Pennsylvania until the 8th grade when he moved to Naples, Florida for training reasons, and was an online student of Barron Collier High School. Junior career Fratangelo won the boys' singles title at the 2011 French Open, beating Dominic Thiem in the final. The win propelled him to a career high of No. 2 in the junior rankings. He also played in the junior championship at the 2011 US Open, losing in the third round to eventual champion Oliver Golding in three sets. Professional Early years F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Paul (tennis)
Thomas John "Tommy" Paul (born May 17, 1997) is an American professional tennis player. Paul has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 28, achieved on 26 September 2022, and doubles ranking of No. 97, achieved on 12 September 2022. He won his maiden ATP title at the 2021 Stockholm Open. Junior career Tommy Paul was consistently one of the highest ranked juniors of his class. Paul reached a career-high ITF junior rank of No. 3 on December 9, 2015. Paul reached two junior Grand Slam finals in 2015. He won the 2015 French Open – Boys' singles, 2015 French Open boys' singles title by defeating fellow American Taylor Fritz in the final in three sets. At the same tournament he reached the final in doubles partnering fellow American William Blumberg. He also reached the final at the 2015 US Open – Boys' singles, 2015 US Open boys' singles, this time losing to Fritz in three sets. Professional 2015: Grand Slam debut Paul turned pro in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev (russian: Даниил Сергеевич Медведев; born 11 February 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 7 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and was ranked as the singles world No. 1 for 16 total weeks. Medvedev has won 15 ATP Tour singles titles, including the 2021 US Open and 2020 ATP Finals. In the former, Medvedev defeated then-world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the final to deny him the Grand Slam. In the latter, he became the first and only player to defeat the top three ranked players in the world en route to the year-end championship title. He has also won four Masters 1000 titles and contested four major finals.Medvedev made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the singles event of the 2015 Kremlin Cup.In 2017, he participated in a major for the first time at Wimbledon, where he defeated world No. 3 Stan Wawrinka. In 2018, Medvedev won his first ATP Tour singles titles at Sydney and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Hemery
Calvin Hemery (born 28 January 1995) is a French tennis player of Nigerian descent. Hemery has a career high ATP singles ranking of 116 achieved on 30 April 2018. Hemery has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 252 achieved on 24 December 2018. Hemery made his ATP main draw debut at the 2015 Swiss Open Gstaad where he qualified for the main draw, then lost in the first round to Dušan Lajović. Hemery was a runner-up at a Futures event in 2013. In 2015, he won his first singles Futures title in Italy. He was awarded a wildcard to the 2018 French Open. Personal life Calvin Hemery was born in Les Lilas Les Lilas () is a commune in the northern-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. History The commune of Les Lilas (literally "the lilacs") was created on 24 July 1867 by detaching a part of the territory of .... He is one of few tennis players who are on the vegan diet. He is vegan and animal defender according to his Instagram profile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Eysseric
Jonathan Eysseric (born 27 May 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Tennis career Juniors In 2007, he was the junior finalist at the 2007 Australian Open. At the 2007 French Open, he competed in the men's and juniors singles draws. In men's doubles he competed with Jérémy Chardy, losing in tiebreak sets to seeded Martin Damm and Leander Paes. In mixed doubles, he competed with Alizé Cornet, where they reached the second round. Kellen Damico and Eysseric also competed in the boys' doubles final with Kellen Damico of the United States, and both seniors and juniors singles competitions, losing in four sets in singles and lost to Ričardas Berankis of Lithuania, despite being seeded second. He won the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quentin Halys
Quentin Halys (; born 26 October 1996) is a French professional tennis player. Halys has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 64 achieved on 21 November 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 129 achieved on 3 October 2022. He has won six singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour and seven in doubles. Junior career Quentin Halys reached four Junior Grand Slam finals, three in doubles and one in singles. Of the four finals, Halys won the 2014 French Open partnering Benjamin Bonzi. He reached a career high combined (singles and doubles) of World No. 3 on March 31, 2014. He ended his junior career with a 98–44 record on singles and 83–35 on doubles. 2010 Quentin played in his first ITF Junior Circuit tournament in 2010 at the G4 Tournoi International de Clermont-Ferrand, as a wildcard. He lost in the first round. He reached his first final later that year, at the G5 International Junior Saint-Cyprien, in doubles. In an all-French final, Halys and Armel Rancezot lost in t ... [...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] |
Constant Lestienne
Constant Lestienne (; born 23 May 1992) is a French professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ITF Men's Circuit and ATP Challenger Tour. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 61 on 3 October 2022 and his highest doubles ranking of World No. 343 was achieved on 28 May 2018. He has won five ATP Challenger Tour singles titles. In addition, he has won five singles titles and three doubles titles in the ITF Men's Circuit. Career 2015: ATP Tour debut Lestienne reached his first career ATP Tour singles main draw at the 2015 Estoril Open after winning two singles qualifying matches. He lost in the first round to Pablo Carreño Busta. 2016: First challenger title, betting scandal and ban In May 2016, Lestienne won his maiden ATP Challenger Tour tournament in Ostrava. In September 2016 Lestienne was suspended for seven months and fined $10,000 by the International Tennis Federation for betting on tennis matches. The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) in cooperati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristan Lamasine
Tristan Lamasine (; born 5 March 1993) is a French, professional tennis player. Career 2010–2015 From 2010 to 2015, Lamasine played mostly in the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Men's Circuit. He made his ITF Men's Circuit singles debut (at a tournament in France) in September 2010 and ATP Challenger Tour singles debut (at the 2011 Challenger Banque Nationale de Rimouski) in March 2011.Tristan Lamasine – player's singles activity ATP Tour official website From 2010 to 2015, Lamasine played in the singles event of only four ATP World Tour events ( 2011 Metz, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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