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2016 Brest Challenger
The 2016 Brest Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Brest, France between 17 and 23 October 2016. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of October 10, 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Evan Furness * Corentin Moutet * Laurent Lokoli The following players received entry using special exemptions: * Stefanos Tsitsipas * Maxime Janvier The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Grégoire Jacq * Romain Jouan * Yann Marti * Maximilian Neuchrist The following players entered as a lucky losers: * Norbert Gombos * Sander Gillé Champions Singles * Norbert Gombos def. Yannik Reuter, 7–5, 6–2 Doubles * Sander Arends / Mateusz Kowalczyk def. Marco Chiudinelli / Luca Vanni Luca Vanni (born 4 June 1985) is an Italian former ...
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Hardcourt
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Flat balls are favored on hard courts because of the extremely quick play style. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in the sy ...
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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 ...
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Sander Gillé
Sander Gillé (born 15 January 1991) is a Belgian tennis player. Gillé has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 24 by the ATP, achieved on 8 November 2021. He also has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 574, reached on 24 December 2018. Career 2019: Three ATP doubles titles Gillé won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the 2019 Swedish Open with fellow Belgian Joran Vliegen. A week later, they won their second title at Gstaad. In the next week, their 11-match winning streak was ended in the final of Kitzbühel. Two months later, Gillé and Vliegen picked up their third title of 2019 at the Zhuhai Championships. 2020-2021: Two ATP doubles titles, first Grand Slam quarterfinal, Masters 1000 semifinal, top 25 debut Gillé won two more titles with his partner Jordan Vliegen at the 2020 Astana Open and at the 2021 Singapore Open. They also reached the quarterfinals at the 2020 US Open (tennis) losing to the eventual runners-up Mektic/Koolhof, their best showing ...
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Maximilian Neuchrist
Maximilian Neuchrist (born 22 July 1991) is an Austrian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour who competes on the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures tour level. Neuchrist has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 244 achieved on 30 July 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 135 achieved on 3 March 2014. Neuchrist has reached 27 career singles finals with a record of 13 wins and 14 losses, one at the ATP Challenger and the rest at the ITF Futures level. Additionally, he has reached 60 career doubles finals posting a record of 37 wins and 23 losses, which includes a 2–3 record in ATP Challenger finals. Neuchrist made his ATP Tour debut at the 2012 Vienna Open where he was granted a wild card entry into the main doubles draw alongside compatriot Andreas Haider-Maurer. They were defeated in the first round in three sets by Aljaž Bedene and Grega Žemlja ''7–6(7–5), 3–6, –10'. He reached his maiden final at the 2022 Maia Cha ...
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Yann Marti
Yann Marti (born 7 June 1988) is a Swiss tennis player. His highest ranking is World No. 200, which was achieved on 18 August 2014. In September 2014, Yann Marti was called as fifth player and sparring partner for the Davis Cup semifinal Switzerland-Italy in Geneva together with Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka, Marco Chiudinelli, and Michael Lammer. Although Marti ranked as the fourth Swiss player on the ATP (no. 209), Lammer (ATP 497) was preferred due to his qualities as doubles player. He had won the doubles partnering Chiudinelli in the first round in Serbia. Swiss Severin Lüthi said that due to the importance of the game against Italy, he would not proceed with any experiment with new players at this stage. Marti was allowed to wear the team uniform for the first time, and he stayed with the team during the whole week. Marti came very close to a nomination for the Davis Cup Final 2014 against France, when Federer was uncertain due to a back injury. Marti stayed in Switzerland ...
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Romain Jouan
Romain Jouan (born 16 July 1985) is a French professional tennis player. Career 2008 On September 29, Jouan qualified for the first ATP tournament of his career in Metz after beating Fabio Fognini, Prakash Amritraj and Tobias Kamke. Ranked #440, he defeated #51 Agustín Calleri 5–7, 6–1, 6–2 in the first round of the main draw, but lost to fourth-seeded Paul-Henri Mathieu 6–4, 6–4 in the second. 2009 His ranking not allowing him to enter even the qualifications, it looked like Jouan would not participate in Roland Garros that year; but when wild-card John Isner withdrew, the qualifications had already started, so his wild-card went to Jouan. He was drawn against World No. 6 Andy Roddick in the first round, who defeated him 6–2, 6–4, 6–2 without facing a single break point. 2010 In October, Jouan qualified for the first edition of the Open Sud de France in Montpellier by defeating Josselin Ouanna, Andrea Agazzi and Vincent Millot. For his first ATP Tour-leve ...
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Grégoire Jacq
Grégoire Jacq (born 9 November 1992) is a French tennis player. Jacq has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 332 achieved on 29 October 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 210 achieved on 14 August 2017. Jacq made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 French Open after receiving a wildcard to the doubles main draw with Hugo Nys. They were defeated by 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 ... and Mischa Zverev in the first round. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 13 (5–8) References External links * * 1992 births Living people French male tennis players Sportspeople from Clermont-Ferrand 20th-century French people 21st-century French people {{France-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Maxime Janvier
Maxime Janvier (; born 18 October 1996) is a French tennis player. Janvier has a career high ATP singles ranking of 170 achieved on 30 September 2019. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 297 achieved on 18 October 2021. Janvier has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title at the 2016 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca II. He was awarded a wildcard to the 2018 French Open, the 2019 French Open and the 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 .... Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 14 (8–6) Doubles: 9 (6–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Janvier, Maxime 1996 births Living people French male tennis players People from Creil Sportspeople from Oise ...
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Stefanos Tsitsipas
Stefanos Tsitsipas ( gr, Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς, ; born 12 August 1998) is a Greek professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 9 August 2021, making him the highest-ranked Greek player in history alongside Maria Sakkari. Tsitsipas was the champion at the 2019 ATP Finals, becoming the youngest winner of the year-end championships in eighteen years. He has won nine ATP singles titles (including two Masters 1000 championships) and appeared in a major final at the 2021 French Open, finishing runner-up to Novak Djokovic. He is also a three-time semifinalist at the Australian Open. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 64, achieved on 29 August 2022.Born into a tennis family – his mother Julia Apostoli was a professional on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour and his father trained as a tennis coach – Tsitsipas was introduced to the sport at age three a ...
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Laurent Lokoli
Laurent Lokoli (born 18 October 1994) is a French professional tennis player. Lokoli plays primarily ATP Challenger and ITF events. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 169 achieved on 30 January 2023. Career Lokoli received a wildcard for the 2014 French Open men's singles qualifying draw. He won three qualifying matches and hence advanced to the main draw 1st round, where he lost to Steve Johnson. He was given a wildcard for the 2017 French Open where he lost in the first round to Martin Klizan. He made minor news by twice refusing to shake hands with Klizan after the match. He reached the top 200 at No. 199 on 3 October 2022. He made his first Challenger final at the 2023 Open Nouvelle-Calédonie in Noumea, New Caledonia losing to Raul Brancaccio. As a result he reached a new career-high ranking of No. 176 inside the top 200 in 9 January 2023. Next he qualified into the 2023 Australian Open The 2023 Australian Open was a Grand Slam level tennis tournament ...
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Corentin Moutet
Corentin Moutet (; born 19 April 1999) is a French tennis player. Moutet has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 51, attained on 7 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 425, attained on 12 June 2017. Moutet has won 6 ATP Challenger Tour and 5 ITF World Tennis Tour singles tournaments. He also idolised legendary tennis player Rafael Nadal growing up. Moutet made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2017 French Open after receiving a wildcard to the doubles main draw with Constant Lestienne. They defeated Dustin Brown and Lu Yen-hsun in the first round, but were defeated by Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău in the second round. Junior career 2013: First ITF tournaments, first titles In April, Moutet entered the singles qualifying of the ITF Junior Cap d'Ail. Two tournaments later, he reached his first singles final at the Podgorica Open. At the Copa Santa Catarina Internacional in October, Moutet again reached the singles final, lo ...
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Evan Furness
Evan Furness (born 13 August 1998) is a French professional tennis player. Furness has a career high ATP singles ranking of 197, achieved on 2 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 513, achieved on 27 May 2019. Furness has won eight ITF singles titles and one challenger single title. Furness made his grand slam main draw debut at the 2018 French Open, where he received a wildcard into the mixed doubles event, partnering Fiona Ferro. Career 2017: First win over Top 100 player In October 2017 he secured his first win over a top 100 player when he beat Marcos Baghdatis at the Eckental Challenger. Furness reached 5 semi-finals on the futures tour in 2017; at Poitiers, Gdynia, Troyes, Riga and Nottingham. 2018: First win on futures tour In March 2018 he won his first tournament on the futures tour. In Faro, he defeated David Guez in the final, winning in straight sets, losing only 2 games in a 6-1 6–1 victory. In April 2018 he reached the semi-finals ...
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