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2016 São Paulo Challenger De Tênis
The 2016 São Paulo Challenger de Tênis was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in São Paulo, Brazil between 18 and 24 April 2016. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 11 April 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Gabriel Décamps * Rafael Camilo * Wilson Leite * Felipe Meligeni Alves The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * João Pedro Sorgi * Ricardo Hocevar * André Miele * Alexandre Tsuchiya Champions Singles * Gonzalo Lama def. Ernesto Escobedo, 6–2, 6–2 Doubles * Fabrício Neis / Caio Zampieri Caio Cesar Cardoso Zampieri (born May 27, 1986 in Mogi Guaçu, Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with ov ... [...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] |
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] |
Ernesto Escobedo
Ernesto "Neto" Escobedo III ( ; , born July 4, 1996) is a Mexican-American professional tennis player who has won four ATP Challenger titles. Personal life Escobedo began playing tennis at the age of 4. His father Ernesto Jr. briefly played professional tennis, and his aunt Xóchitl Escobedo was a Top 300 player who competed in the 1988 Olympics. He is of Mexican descent. Escobedo's cousin Emilio Nava is also a professional tennis player. Career 2016: Grand Slam debut, U.S. Open second round, multiple Challenger titles, Top 200 debut Escobedo reached his first ATP Challenger final at São Paulo in April 2016 to advance him to a career-high ranking inside the top 300. With that success, he became the seventh American teenager to reach a Challenger final in the previous seven months. He won his first career ATP match at the Aegon Open in Nottingham against top 100 player Diego Schwartzman shortly before turning 20 years old. The next month, he won his first Challenger title a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Miele
André Luís Volpe Miele (born 12 April 1987) (also spelled Andre Miele), is a tennis player from Brazil. He was elected the best junior in Brazil in 2003. "Eleito em 2003 o melhor juvenil do Brasil" He and his partner Ricardo Hocevar
Ricardo Hocevar ( sl, Hočevar; born 5 May 1985) is a former Brazilian professional tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( double ... won the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Hocevar
Ricardo Hocevar ( sl, Hočevar; born 5 May 1985) is a former Brazilian professional 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. ATP Challenger finals Singles: 3 (1–2) Doubles: 9 (1–8) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hocevar, Ricardo Brazilian male tennis players Tennis players from São Paulo 1985 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Pedro Sorgi
João Pedro Sorgi (born October 18, 1993) is a former Brazilian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 251, achieved on 18 September 2017. Sorgi also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 263 achieved on 30 September 2013. Career In May 2011, Sorgi reached the semifinals in Trofeo Bonfiglio (a prestigious junior tennis tournament) after defeating top ranked Dominic Thiem in quarterfinals. Sorgi reached the final of ten Futures in singles, but has only one title; he won the Brazil F10 in São José do Rio Preto in October 2013. In doubles, he won 17 titles out of 27 finals, including three consecutive titles in three weeks, doing this two times: Egypt F11, F12, F13 (in June 2013) partnering André Miele and Argentina F5, F6, F7 (in May 2016) partnering Marcelo Zormann. At Challenger level, he reached two finals in doubles, finishing runner-up in both. In singles, he reached a lone final, losing in straight sets to Tennys Sandgren at the Savannah C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Meligeni Alves
Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves (born 19 February 1998) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 137 achieved on 25 July 2022 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 75 achieved on 20 June 2022. He is currently the No. 2 Brazilian tennis player. Junior career Meligeni Alves won the 2016 US Open boys' doubles title, partnering Juan Carlos Aguilar. Professional career 2020: ATP debut and maiden Challenger singles and doubles titles Meligeni made his debut in an ATP Tour singles main draw as wildcard at the 2020 Rio Open, losing in three sets to world No. 4 Dominic Thiem in the first round. Meligeni won his first ATP Challenger doubles title at Guayaquil alongside Venezuelan Luis David Martínez, defeating spaniards Sergio Martos Gornés and Jaume Munar in the final. Meligeni Alves won his first ATP Challenger singles title at São Paulo, defeating Portuguese Frederico Ferreira Silva, on 29 November 2020. He also won his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Décamps
Gabriel Décamps (born 7 August 1999) is a Brazilian tennis player. Décamps has a career high ATP singles ranking of 262 achieved on 19 September 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 406 achieved on 6 March 2023. Décamps has won 1 ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2022 Shymkent Challenger with Antoine Bellier. Décamps played college tennis at Central Florida. In April 2023, Décamps announced his temporary withdrawal of professional tennis due mental health Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior. It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making. Mental health ... issues. In September 2023, Décamps returned his tennis activities after a five months temporary withdrawal.https://tenisbrasil.uol.com.br/noticias/71267/Decamps-e-Sell-param-nas-quartas-em-torneios-da-ITF Tour titles Doubles References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Lindell
Christian Meira Lindell (born 20 November 1991) is an inactive professional tennis player from Brazil who plays for Sweden. He has played seven Davis Cup matches, with a 4–3 record. Personal information He has a Swedish father and a Brazilian mother. Although he has lived his entire life in Brazil, Lindell represents Sweden through a curious chain of events. Despite having been one of the best Brazilian juniors in his age group, he was not picked to play for Brazil in the South American Junior Championships in 2007. A few months later, while on holiday in Sweden, he decided to play in the Swedish Junior Championships. Lindell won the title and received an invitation to train with the Swedish Tennis Federation and to represent Sweden, which he accepted. On 15 May 2011 Lindell was invited to join Sweden's number one singles player Robin Söderling and the doubles pairing of Simon Aspelin and Robert Lindstedt for the 2011 Power Horse World Team Cup. He faced the top-tier player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Arévalo
Marcelo Arévalo González (; born October 17, 1990) is a Salvadoran professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 5 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 14 November 2022. Together with his career-high singles ranking of world No. 139, attained in April 2018, Arévalo is the highest-ranked player, male or female, across both disciplines in Salvadoran tennis history. He has won six career ATP Tour doubles titles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2022 French Open with partner Jean-Julien Rojer. With the win, he became the first player from Central America to claim a men's doubles major title. He had previously reached one other Grand Slam final, having lost at the 2021 US Open in the mixed doubles tournament with partner Giuliana Olmos. As a junior, Arévalo was ranked as high as No. 8 in the world and won seven singles and doubles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit. As a professional, he emerged into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guilherme Clezar
Guilherme Sarti Clezar (pronounced ''Clézar''; born 31 December 1992), is a professional tennis player from Brazil. He played in several ATP 250 events, including the 2011 Brasil Open. Clezar plays mainly in 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 ... events. Career finals Singles: 7 (2–5) References External links * * * Living people 1992 births Brazilian male tennis players South American Games bronze medalists for Brazil South American Games medalists in tennis Competitors at the 2010 South American Games Sportspeople from Porto Alegre 20th-century Brazilian people 21st-century Brazilian people {{Brazil-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city proper in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo Macrometr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
