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2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships
The 2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 22nd edition, for men, and 20th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on 31 July – 6 August 2017. Men's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 24 July 2017. Other entrants The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * William Bushamuka * Eric Quigley * Martin Redlicki * Michael Redlicki The following players received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Tom Jomby * Kevin King The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: * Cameron Norrie The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * JC Aragone * Ryan Haviland * Christopher Rungkat * Jesse Witten The following players received entry as lu ...
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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 Tour. The ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments are on the entry-level of international professional tennis competition. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to become eligible for main draw or qualifying draw entry at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are usually young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP players looking to get back into the big tour. History of challenger events The first challenger events were held in 1978, with eighteen events taking place. Two were held on the week beginning January 8, one in Auckland and another in Hoba ...
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John Millman
John H. Millman OLY (born 14 June 1989) is an Australian professional tennis player and commentator. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in October 2018. He has won one ATP title in his career. Personal life Millman was born in Brisbane, Australia, into a family of five children (four girls) and he is the second youngest. During his schooling years he attended Brisbane Grammar School then the Anglican Church Grammar School . Outside tennis he enjoys soccer and supports Liverpool Football Club who compete in the English Premier League. In January 2019, Millman received the OLY post-nominal title at the Brisbane International tournament. Junior career Millman made his ITF junior tournament debut in Darwin as a 15-year-old in 2004 and reached the quarterfinals. He made his junior Grand Slam debut at the 2006 Australian Open. He won his first junior tournament in June 2006 at a tournament held in New Caledonia. He then won his next two tournaments in ...
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Jesse Witten
Jesse Witten (born October 15, 1982 in Naples, Florida) is an American professional list of male tennis players, tennis player. He is a graduate of Lely High School and the University of Kentucky, where he majored in kinesiology. College career Witten had a highly successful college career at the University of Kentucky from 2001 to 2005. His achievements include: *Reached Final of NCAA Championships (2002) *Named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Rookie of the Year (2002) *Named the SEC Rookie of the Year (2002) *Attained (4) first team All-SEC singles selections during his career *The University of Kentucky's first (5) time ITA All-American (4 singles; 1 doubles) *The University of Kentucky's first Southeastern Conference, SEC Men's Tennis Player of the Year Professional career 2001 Upon graduating from Lely High School, Witten was given a wildcard to the USTA Pro Circuit event in Seminole, Florida where he reached the semifinal. 2002 Witten was given a w ...
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Christopher Rungkat
Christopher Benjamin Rungkat (born 14 January 1990) is an Indonesian tennis player. In 2008, he won the final stage of French Open 2008 Boys' Doubles Juniors category with Finnish tennis player Henri Kontinen.(11 June 2008French Open glory for Indonesian junior player ''Jakarta Globe'', Retrieved 6 November 2010 He is the youngest ever Indonesian to be the All Indonesian Champion, and by the end of his junior career, he was awarded for Indonesian best promising athlete 2008. Rungkat also reached the final of the 2008 US Open boys' final with Henri Kontinen. Rungkat is the first Indonesian to reach US open boys' finalist and to win the doubles title of French Open. In June 2010, he won the Tarakan Open International Men's Futures tournament, his first international tournament title since going pro.(13 June 2010Christopher Brings Home Tarakan Title, ''Jakarta Globe'', Retrieved 6 November 2010 He won his maiden ATP title in Men's Doubles partnered with Swedish player André Gör ...
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JC Aragone
Juan Cruz "JC" Aragone (born June 28, 1995) is an American tennis player. He attended the University of Virginia and was a member of three NCAA Men's Tennis Championship winning teams. Aragone made his first Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP main-draw appearance at the 2017 US Open (tennis), 2017 US Open after coming through qualifying. Early life and amateur career Aragone is from Yorba Linda, California and took classes through the Parkview School, an independent study school based in Placentia, California. In January 2012, Aragone was hospitalized due to liver and kidney failure after developing an allergic reaction to an acne medication. That same year, he was diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus type 1, type 1 diabetes. Despite these challenges, Aragone finished his junior career competing in two junior US Open (tennis), US Opens and ranked 14th in his graduating class. He committed to playing college tennis at the Virginia Cavaliers men's tennis, University of Virginia. ...
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Cameron Norrie
Cameron Norrie (; born 23 August 1995) is a South African-born British professional tennis player, having previously represented New Zealand. He has reached career-high rankings of world No. 8 in singles (on 12 September 2022) and No. 117 in doubles (on 13 June 2022). He has four ATP Tour singles titles (including a Masters 1000 title at the 2021 Indian Wells Masters) and one doubles title. Norrie has been the British No. 1 in men's singles since 18 October 2021. Early and personal life Norrie was born in 1995 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to British microbiologist parents: his father David is from Glasgow and his mother Helen is from Cardiff. In 1998, when Norrie was three, he and his family moved to Auckland, New Zealand, after being victims of a burglary in South Africa. Norrie said: "I don't remember too much about it, but my mum told me it got a little bit too dangerous so we moved to New Zealand." His parents still live in New Zealand. In 2011, at age 16, he moved to hi ...
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Kevin King (tennis)
Kevin King (born February 28, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player who primarily played on the ATP Challenger Tour. He played collegiate tennis for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and was a two-time ITA All-American (2011 and 2012) and a three-time All-ACC performer. On May 7, 2018, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of No. 162. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 9 (6–3) Doubles: 25 (11–14) Personal life Kevin King is the son of Bill and Nuala King. He comes from a family of athletes – his father played football at Villanova and his sister, Lara, played tennis at Saint Leo University. Kevin graduated with honors from Georgia Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. In 2019, Kevin married Caroline Price, a fellow tennis player, who played collegiate tennis for North Carolina. Caroline is the daughter of former professional basketball player, Mark Price. See also * List of Georgia Institute of Technology ...
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Michael Redlicki
Michael Redlicki (born 16 November 1993) is an American tennis player. Redlicki has a career high ATP singles ranking of 351 achieved on 7 January 2018. His career high ATP doubles ranking of 470 was achieved on 8 July 2013. Redlicki made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2012 US Open in the doubles draw partnering Dennis Novikov. Redlicki played college tennis at Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ... before transferring and playing at the University of Arkansas. Redlicki is also the older brother of fellow tennis player Martin. Challenger and Futures Finals Singles: 3 (1–2) References External links * * 1993 births Living people American male tennis players Duke Blue Devils men's tennis players Arkansas Razorbacks men's tenni ...
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Martin Redlicki
Martin Redlicki (born August 24, 1995) is an American tennis player of Polish descent. Juniors Redlicki along with Kamil Majchrzak won the 2013 US Open boys' doubles title after defeating Quentin Halys and Frederico Ferreira Silva 6–3, 6–4 in the final. Redlicki has a career high ATP singles ranking of 381 as of April 29, 2019, and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 187 achieved on November 25, 2019. Junior Grand Slam finals Finals: 1 (1 title) Professional career Redlicki made his ATP main draw debut at the 2014 Sony Open Tennis in the doubles event, where he partnered Deiton Baughman, losing in the first round to Ryan Harrison and Jack Sock, 7–5, 6–4. For the 2016 season, he played for the Pac-12 Conference men's tennis champions UCLA Bruins and teamed with teammate Mackenzie McDonald to win the doubles individual championship at the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship. They defeated the team of Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow from the University of Tex ...
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Eric Quigley
Eric Quigley (born January 30, 1989) is an American professional tennis player. High school career Quigley was a four-time Kentucky High School Athletic Association tennis champion. He attended South Oldham High School. College career Quigley was an All-American and NCAA runner-up for the University of Kentucky. Professional career In 2013, Quigley won his first professional singles tournament, an ITF Men's Circuit tournament in Decatur, Illinois. In 2016, Quigley entered the US Open and played doubles with fellow American Nicolas Meister but they lost to Poland's Łukasz Kubot & Austria's Alexander Peya in the first round. Quigley qualified for the main draw at the Delray Beach in 2015, but lost in the first round. This was his first ATP World Tour The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The eq ...
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William Bushamuka
William Bushamuka (born January 24, 1996) is an American tennis player of Congolese descent. Bushamuka has a career high ATP singles ranking of 904, achieved on November 11, 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 638, achieved on October 7, 2019. He has won two ITF doubles title. Bushamuka represents DR Congo at the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ..., where he has a W/L record of 7–1. References External links * * * 1996 births Living people American male tennis players Democratic Republic of the Congo male tennis players American people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent Sportspeople from Ithaca, New York Kentucky Wildcats men's tennis players Tennis people from New York (state) {{US-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Blaž Rola
Blaž Rola (born 5 October 1990) is a Slovenian tennis player. His highest career ranking is No. 78 in singles and No. 186 in doubles. In his career, he has won nine singles and six doubles ITF Futures tournaments, five ATP Challenger in singles and eight in doubles. He represents Slovenia on the Slovenia Davis Cup team. In the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, he won gold in singles and doubles. Personal life Rola was born in Ptuj, the oldest Slovenian town, to father Marijan Rola and mother Majda Rola. He was four years old when he started playing tennis and when he was six he joined the Tennis Club Terme Ptuj where he spent the most of his youth. He went to High school in Ptuj. In 2010 he moved to the United States where he studied at and competed in tennis for Ohio State University until 2013. In January 2019 he and his fiancée Vanesa welcomed daughter Izabela. The same year he married his long term girlfriend, Slovenian blogger Vanesa Rola. College career He ...
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