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2016 ZS-Sports China International Challenger
The 2016 ZS-Sports China International Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 1st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Qingdao, China between 8 and 14 August 2016. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of August 1, 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Lyu Chengze * Zheng Wei Qiang * Te Rigele * Wu Yibing The following players entered as an alternate: * Di Wu The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan * Danilo Petrović * Janko Tipsarević * He Yecong Champions Singles * Janko Tipsarević def. Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo, 1–6, 7–5, 6–1 Doubles * Danilo Petrović / Tak Khunn Wang def. Gong Maoxin / Zhang Ze Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese male tennis player. Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals 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] |
Zhang Ze
Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese male tennis player. Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 China Open (defeating Richard Gasquet en route), playing the Australian Open main draw in two consecutive years (2014 and 2015), and teaming up with Roger Federer to play doubles at the 2013 Shanghai Rolex Masters. Career Zhang's early years were spent on the ITF Circuit throughout Asia. In February 2008, Zhang made his first appearance in the qualifying draw of an ATP Challenger tournament in Melbourne, defeating Mikal Statham (5–7, 7–5, 6–4). In the second round, Zhang lost to Nima Roshan (6–7(6–8), 1–6). On 28 March 2010, Zhang won the first single's title of his professional career in an ITF Futures event in Mengzi City, China. He defeated Riccardo Ghedin (6–1, 6–4). Just under two months later, on 22 May, Zhang reached his first final on the Challenger Tour in Fergana, Uzbekistan, after entering as a qualifier. He l ... [...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] |
He Yecong
He Yecong (; ; born 15 February 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of 492 achieved on 27 June 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 498 achieved on 21 August 2017. He made his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 Chengdu Open, in the doubles draw partnering Sun Fajing. He has won 1 singles title and has won 2 doubles tiles on the ITF Futures The ITF World Tennis Tour (formerly known as the ''ITF Men's World Tennis Tour'', and previously ''ITF Men's Circuit'') is a series of professional tennis tournaments held around the world that are organized by the International Tennis Federation. ... Tour. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 5 (1–4) Doubles: 5 (2–3) External links * * 1994 births Living people Chinese male tennis players Sportspeople from Hangzhou Tennis players from Zhejiang 21st-century Chinese people {{China-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (born 20 October 1988) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of No. 64 achieved on 18 March 2019. He won the doubles title with Rohan Bopanna at the 2017 Chennai Open, in a historic final featuring four Indian players. He broke into the top 100 of the ATP rankings in doubles in 2017. Personal life He is the grandson of veteran political leader V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, who was acting chief minister of Tamil Nadu in two tenures. Maternally he is the grandson of Col.Dr. M. D. K. Kuthalingam, who was a former vice chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University, and has also been Jeevan's mentor. Professional career 2011: Turned pro Nedunchezhiyan turned pro in year 2011. 2017: First ATP doubles title Nedunchezhiyan won his first ATP World Tour level title at the 2017 Aircel Chennai Open. He won the title with partner Rohan Bopanna by defeating a pair of compatriots, Purav Raja and Divij Sharan, in an all Indian final. As a result he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Yibing
Wu Yibing (; ; born 14 October 1999) is a Chinese professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 58, achieved on 13 February 2023, and a doubles ranking of No. 295, achieved on 23 April 2018. He is the first Chinese man in the Open Era to reach, and to win, an ATP Tour-level singles final, doing so at the 2023 Dallas Open. Wu became the world No. 1 in the ITF Junior Circuit ranking after winning the boys' singles title at the 2017 US Open. Wu represented China at the 2017 Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1–0. He defeated Jason Jung in his first Davis Cup match. Juniors In December 2016, Wu reached the final of the 2016 Orange Bowl, a Grade A junior event, losing to Miomir Kecmanović in the final. In 2017, Wu reached the semifinals in both boys' singles and doubles at the Australian Open, and won both the boys' singles and doubles champions (with Chinese Taipei's Hsu Yu-hsiou) at the US Open, thus became the first Chinese male to win a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Rigele
Te Rigele (born 9 October 1997) is a Chinese 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. On the junior tour, Te has a career-high ranking of No. 48, achieved in January 2015. Te has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 395, achieved on 22 October 2018. On 4 March 2019, he achieved No. 384 in ATP doubles ranking which is his career high. Te has won 3 ITF singles titles and 5 ITF doubles titles. He has yet to reach a final at the ATP Challenger level. Te made his ATP main draw debut at the 2014 ATP Shenzhen Open, in the doubles draw partnering Qiu Zhuoyang. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 10 (5–5) Doubles: 10 (6–4) External links * * 1997 births Living people Chinese male tennis players People from Hohhot Tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Zhe (tennis)
Li Zhe (; ; born September 20, 1986) is a Chinese tennis player who plays mainly in the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Tours. On 11 November 2019, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 193. His highest doubles ranking of world No. 136 was achieved on 28 February 2011. Personal Li Zhe was born in Tianjin, China on September 20, 1986. He began playing tennis at age 8 and turned professional in 2004. He plays right-handed, and his favorite surface is hard court. He is 6 feet, 1 inch (185 cm) and 178 pounds (81 kg). His goal as a professional tennis player is to enter the top 100 ranked tennis players in the world. Career In December 2018 Li defeated his compatriot Ze Zhang in three sets to win the 2019 Australian Open Asia-Pac Wildcard Play-off, which secured a wildcard place for him to make his grand slam singles debut at age 32 at the 2019 Australian Open. Li represents his native country of China competing during the Davis Cup. He competes in bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo (; born 6 January 1978 in Alicante, Spain) is a former professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 50, achieved on 2 October 2006. His favourite surface is clay, where he has won numerous ATP Challenger Tour events, and has reached the final in three events of the ATP tour, all in 2007, finishing runner-up in all three finals. Career Ramírez Hidalgo turned pro in 1998. At the 2006 French Open, Ramírez Hidalgo reached the 4th round in a Grand Slam event for the first time in his career, defeating Thierry Ascione, Christophe Rochus and future finalist David Ferrer. Before the tournament, he had lost four consecutive times in the first round of a Grand Slam, a pattern he proceeded to return to for a further 9 appearances. On 4 August 2016, after defeating Ante Pavić in the 2nd round of the Chengdu Challenger, Ramírez Hidalgo became the first player ever to win 400 matches in the ATP Challenger Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pere Riba
Pere Riba Madrid (, ; born 7 April 1988) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. Riba competed on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 65, on May 16, 2011, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 81, on June 7, 2010. Nowadays it is co-founder of ELITE TENNIS TEAM with Julián Alonso based in Barcelona (Club Tennis Els Gorchs) focusing in junior development and professional tennis players ( Qinwen Zheng) (arantxa Rus) Career At one point in his career he ranked as the youngest Spaniard in the top 100, but injury (leading to hip surgery) saw his ranking drop to as low 843 in early 2013. Riba was coached by former Spanish player Jordi Arrese, and Juanse Martínez. Riba is currently the coach of Zheng Qinwen Zheng Qinwen ( zh, 郑钦文; born 8 October 2002 in Shiyan 十堰, Hubei 湖北, China 中国) is a Chinese tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Duck-hee
Lee Duck-hee (이덕희; born 29 May 1998) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He has won 10 titles on the ITF Junior Circuit as a teenager, including Grade 2 tournaments in Nanjing and Sarawak. Personal life Lee was born deaf. On the tennis court, he can hear vibrations, but must rely on hand gestures to pick up line calls and the umpire. In 2015, his story was included during a campaign for the ANZ Bank, which was a sponsor for the Australian Open that year. Professional career He turned pro in 2013. He played his first Challenger match at age 14. In August 2019 he became the first deaf player to compete in and win a match in the main draw of an ATP tournament with a win over Henri Laaksonen Henri Joona Julius Laaksonen (, Swiss Standard German: ; born 31 March 1992) is a Swiss professional tennis player. His highest singles ranking is world No. 84, which he achieved on 14 February 2022, and his highest doubles ranking is world No. 1 ... at the Winston-Sale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique López Pérez
Enrique López Pérez (; born 3 June 1991) is a Spanish professional tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 16 July 2018, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 154 and his highest doubles ranking of 135 was achieved on 15 April 2019. López Pérez was provisionally suspended by the Tennis Integrity Unit in December 2019, later receiving an eight-year ban from the sport for match-fixing in three separate instances in 2017. Challenger and Futures Finals Singles: 38 (26–12) Doubles: 62 (31–31) References External links * * See also *Match fixing in tennis The issue of match fixing in tennis is an ongoing problem. First reported on by The Sunday Telegraph in 2003, an organisation called the Tennis Integrity Unit was set up in 2008 following an investigation into the problem. In 2011, Daniel Köller ... * Tennis Integrity Unit {{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez Perez, Enrique 1991 births Living people Spanish male tennis players Match fixing in ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
