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2016 Vivo Tennis Cup
The 2016 Vivo Tennis Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 18 and 24 January 2016. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of January 11, 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Wilson Leite * Thiago Monteiro * Pedro Sakamoto * Carlos Eduardo Severino The following player received entry to the main draw as an alternate: * Axel Michon The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Andrea Collarini * Gonzalo Escobar * Peter Torebko * Clement Geens The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Fabrício Neis Champions Singles * Facundo Bagnis def. Guilherme Clezar 6–4, 4–6, 6–2 Doubles * Gastão Elias / André Ghem def. Jonathan Eysseric / Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela ...
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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 ...
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Gerald Melzer
Gerald Melzer (born 13 July 1990) is a professional Austrian tennis player. As a qualifier, he reached the semifinals of Munich in 2015. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 68 in November 2016. He is the younger brother of top Austrian tennis player Jürgen Melzer (hence his nickname, Mini Melts) and is the son of Rudolf Melzer, an Austrian businessman and mayor of Deutsch-Wagram, and Michaela, a saleswoman. Career Gerald Melzer has primarily spent his time on the Futures circuit, while also playing challengers and several doubles events with his brother. He began playing on the tour in 2007, competing in tournaments in Austria as well as Futures tournaments in Africa. He has had more success playing doubles, partnering with his brother to win a challenger in Graz, Austria. Gerald faced his brother, Jürgen, in the first round of the 2015 Wimbledon qualifying tournament, and lost in straight sets. Jürgen described it as the "worst tennis day of my life and ...
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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.Jonathan Eysseric's profile, 2007 French Open
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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 ...
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Fabrício Neis
Fabrício Neis (born 15 June 1990, in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian former 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. Neis has a career high ATP singles ranking of 449 achieved on 13 May 2013. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 96 achieved on 3 October 2016. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 5 (2–3) Doubles: 78 (46–32) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Neis, Fabricio 1990 births Living people Brazilian male tennis players Sportspeople from Porto Alegre 21st-century Brazilian people ...
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Peter Torebko
Peter Torebko (born 10 February 1988) is a German tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Men's Circuit. On 16 July 2012, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 182. Torebko made his ATP World Tour debut at the 2011 Romanian Open, losing to Igor Andreev Igor Valeryevich Andreev (russian: link=no, И́горь Вале́рьевич Андре́ев, BGN/PCGN: ''Andreyev'', ISO 9: ''Andreev'', ; born 14 July 1983) is a Russian former professional tennis player. He won three ATP Tour singles ti ... in the first round. Singles performance timeline References External links * * 1988 births Living people German male tennis players {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Gonzalo Escobar
Gonzalo Escobar (; born 20 January 1989, in Manta, Ecuador, Manta) is an Ecuadorian tennis player. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 38, achieved on 15 November 2021. He has won three doubles titles with Uruguayan partner Ariel Behar. Escobar has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 281 achieved on 15 June 2015. Playing for Ecuador Davis Cup team, Ecuador in Davis Cup, Escobar has a W/L record of 8–9. Career 2018-2022: Three ATP doubles titles and top 50 Partnering with Uruguyan Ariel Behar, Escobar won two ATP titles at the 2021 Delray Beach Open and the 2021 Andalucía Open and reached three other finals on the ATP tour in 2021 after winning two ATP Challenger Tour titles together in 2020. He entered the top 50 following the final at the 2021 Serbia Open on 26 April 2021. The pair has also won a total of 8 Challenger titles. Escobar finished the year 2021 ranked No. 38, a career-high doubles ranking. In 2022, he reached ...
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Andrea Collarini
Andrea Collarini (; born 31 January 1992) is an Argentinian–American tennis player. Collarini had represented Argentina in the early days of his career from 2007 to 2010, until he chose to represent USA from 2010 to 2012 before switching back to represent Argentina. On the junior circuit, Collarini had a career high ITF junior ranking of 5 achieved in 2009. In 2010, he reached the final of the French Open boys' singles event, finishing runner up to Agustín Velotti Agustín Velotti (; born May 24, 1992) is an Argentine tennis player. Velotti won the 2010 French Open Boys' singles competition after beating his good friend Andrea Collarini, 6–4, 7–5. Previously, he had won different junior tournaments, .... Collarini has a career high ATP singles ranking of 186 achieved on 9 June 2014. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 221 achieved on 14 September 2015. He has won 15 ITF singles titles and 10 ITF doubles titles. He won his first ATP Challenger title ...
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Axel Michon
Axel Michon (born 16 December 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Junior career Professional career 2014 Axel lost in the second round of qualifying at the Australian Open. He made his first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam event at the French Open, where he received a wildcard. He won his first round match against Bradley Klahn, before losing in the second round against 19th seed Kevin Anderson in straight sets. ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals Singles (15 titles, 11 runners-up) Doubles (1 title, 3 runners-up) Singles performance timeline Note: Only results from the Grand Slams, ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour Finals, Summer Olympics and Davis Cup are listed in an ATP player's performance timeline. Qualifying matches and walkovers are neither official match wins nor losses. This table is current through the 2015 US Open. Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Michon, Axel 1990 births Living people ...
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Pedro Sakamoto
Pedro Henrique Morio Sakamoto (born 29 June 1993) is a Brazilian tennis player. Sakamoto has a career high ATP singles ranking of 284 achieved on 24 February 2020. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 272 achieved on 3 February 2020. Sakamoto has won two ITF Futures singles tournaments and ten ITF Futures doubles tournaments. Sakamoto made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Brasil Open, where he qualified for the main draw defeating Matteo Donati and Carlos Berlocq Carlos Alberto Berlocq (; born February 3, 1983) is an Argentine retired professional tennis player nicknamed ''Charly'', ''Panther'' and ''Warlocq''. His favourite surface was clay and he was last coached by Walter Grinovero. Berlocq's career .... Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 13 (5-8) References External links * * 1993 births Living people Brazilian male tennis players Sportspeople from Guarulhos Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian people of ...
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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 ...
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Andrej Martin
Andrej Martin (; born 20 September 1989, in Bratislava) is a Slovak professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 93 in February 2020. Career 2016: Best season: French Open third round, first ATP final, top 100 debut He was a lucky loser at the French Open and defeated Daniel Muñoz de la Nava in the first round of the main draw and 29th seed Lucas Pouille in the second, before losing to 8th-seed Milos Raonic in the third round. In July 2016, Martin reached first ATP final, in Umag, defeated Martin Klizan, Joao Sousa, Carlos Berlocq and Sergiy Stakhovsky en route. In the final he lost to Italian No. 1 Fabio Fognini. Later in the year, Martin participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics. After comfortably defeating Denis Kudla in the first round, Martin got a walkover into the 3rd round when opponent Philipp Kohlschreiber withdrew with an injury. However, Martin was then beaten by the 4th-seeded Kei Nishikori, 2–6, 2–6. He achieved ...
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