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2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
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 prof ... was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title. Michael Mmoh won the title after defeating John Millman 4–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–3 in the final. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half ReferencesMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships - Men's Singles Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships - Men's Singles 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mmoh
Michael Mmoh ( ; born January 10, 1998) is a Saudi-born American tennis player. Mmoh has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 82 achieved on 20 February 2023. He has won 7 ATP Challenger titles and 4 ITF Futures tournaments, including his first at the age of 16. He won the USTA junior national championship in 2016. Personal life Born in Saudi Arabia, where he lived until the age of 13, Mmoh has both Irish and Nigerian ancestry. Michael's father Tony Mmoh was also a professional tennis player who represented Nigeria and reached a career-high ranking of 105. His mother was born in Ireland and is also an Australian citizen. Mmoh's parents named him after basketball superstar Michael Jordan. Mmoh began playing tennis at age 3. He trains at the IMG Academy in Florida. Junior career Mmoh peaked in the Boy's Junior rankings at No. 2 after reaching the semifinals at the 2015 Junior French Open. He won the 2016 USTA 18s Boys' National Championship to earn a wild card into the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Giron
Marcos Andres Giron (born July 24, 1993; ) is an American professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 49 on 16 May 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 194 on August 1, 2022. He won the boys' singles in the Ojai Tennis Tournament in 2009 and the men’s invitational in 2011. In 2014, Giron won the singles title at the 2014 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships for UCLA. Professional career 2020: First US Open win & top 100 debut Giron reached the second round of a major at the 2020 US Open where he won his first match against Marc Polmans in five sets and at the French Open for the first time in his career. In November, Giron recorded his first top-ten win against seventh seed Matteo Berrettini at the Paris Masters. 2021: Major third round, Olympics & top 60 debuts Giron started his 2021 season at the Murray River Open, an event that was organized as a lead-up tournament to the Australian Open due to other tournaments in Australia being cancelled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Bolt
Alex Bolt (born 5 January 1993) is an inactive Australian professional tennis player. His career-high ranking is World No. 125 in singles and World No. 81 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Highlights of Bolt's career thus far include a quarterfinal appearance at the 2014 Australian Open men's doubles, and also winning the China International Challenger with his partner Andrew Whittington. Personal life Bolt was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia. He began playing tennis at the age of seven and also spent time playing Australian rules football and basketball throughout his youth. During his hiatus from tennis in 2016, Bolt began playing local football for the Mypolonga Tigers in River Murray Football League and worked as a fence-builder. Bolt is an avid supporter of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League. In August 2021, Bolt tested positive for COVID-19. Career 2010-2012: Career beginnings Bolt began his tennis care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Saville
Luke Saville (born 1 February 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has had success as a doubles player where he reached his highest ranking of World No. 23 on 8 November 2021. Saville reached the final at the 2020 Australian Open, partnering with fellow Australian Max Purcell. As a junior, Saville enjoyed a successful career in which he won two junior grand slam singles titles at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and 2012 Australian Open respectively. Saville is also a former junior World No. 1 and an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. In January 2013, he competed in his first ATP main draw event at the 2013 Australian Open, but has struggled in transitioning from Juniors onto the professional circuit, reaching his highest singles ranking of World No. 152. Personal life Saville was born in Berri, South Australia. He is a keen supporter of the Carlton in the Australian Football League. He has a brother Troy and a sister Katie, who also play club te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jose Statham
Rubin Statham (born 25 April 1987), often referred to by his nickname of "José," is a professional tennis player from New Zealand. His twin brother Mikal (usually referred to by his nickname of "Oliver") is also a professional tennis player. He has reached a ATP career high ranking of 279 in singles as of 25 February 2013, and 139 in doubles as of 17 June 2013. Career In June 2005, Statham's second year on the professional tour, he made his first final at the Japan F8 tournament. He lost in the final to Go Soeda of Japan 4–6, 3–6. In November 2008, Kyu Tae Im of Korea defeated him 6–7(3), 1–6 in the final of the Malaysia F2 event. This was the second time he had made a final in over three years. In May 2009 Statham won his first tournament, at Australia F3, defeating Australian Greg Jones 4–6, 6–4, 6–1 in the final. In his next tournament, Australia F4, he lost in the final to Jones 5–7, 6–7(6). He won his next tournament in Egypt F7 by defeating Jean-Noel I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Nguyen
Daniel Nguyen (born October 16, 1990) is an inactive tennis player. He is the first Vietnamese American to play in the US Open (tennis), US Open tennis tournament. He has won a total of 15 singles and 5 doubles Futures titles and 2 doubles Challenger titles as of December 2019. Daniel Nguyen is a graduate of Santa Barbara High School and the University of Southern California (USC). Nguyen was part of the USC team that won the NCAA Team Championship title four consecutive years. Other accomplishments include winning the Boys 16s & 18s Doubles National Championships in Kalamazoo, being named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player in his sophomore year, and clinching the 2009–10 and 2010-11 NCAA Championships for USC. In the 2009 US Open (tennis), 2009 US Open, he and former teammate JT Sundling were defeated 3–6, 6–2, 6–1 in the first-round of the men's doubles tournament by Máximo González and Juan Mónaco. They qualified after winning the Boy's Junior National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |