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2018 Brasil Open
The 2018 Brasil Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts. It was the 18th edition of the Brasil Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place from February 26 through March 4, 2018, in São Paulo, Brazil. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds *1 Rankings as of February 19, 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Thiago Monteiro * Corentin Moutet * Thiago Seyboth Wild The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Guilherme Clezar * João Domingues * Sebastian Ofner * Renzo Olivo Withdrawals ;Before the tournament * Cedrik-Marcel Stebe → replaced by Gastão Elias * Jiří Veselý → replaced by Carlos Berlocq Doubles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of February 19, 2018. Other entrants The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Thomaz Bellucci / André Sá * Dorian Descloix ...
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ATP World Tour 250 Series
The ATP 250 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 250'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series'', and ''ATP World Series'') are the lowest tier of annual men's tennis tournaments on the main ATP Tour, after the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments, ATP Finals, ATP Tour Masters 1000, ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, and ATP 500 tournaments. As of 2020 ATP Tour, 2020, the series includes 39 tournaments, with 250 ranking points awarded to each singles champion—which accounts for the name of the series. Draws consist of 28, 32, or 48 for singles and 16 for doubles. Thomas Muster holds the record for most singles titles at 26, while Mike Bryan holds the record for most doubles titles won with 46. Historic names 1990–1999 ''ATP World Series'' 2000–2008 ''ATP International Series'' 2009–2018 ''ATP World Tour 250'' 2019–present ''ATP Tour 250'' ATP Points * Players with byes receive first round points. Tournaments became an ATP 500 event.ATPTour. ...
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Corentin Moutet
Corentin Moutet (; born 19 April 1999) is a French tennis player. Moutet has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 51, attained on 7 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 425, attained on 12 June 2017. Moutet has won 6 ATP Challenger Tour and 5 ITF World Tennis Tour singles tournaments. He also idolised legendary tennis player Rafael Nadal growing up. Moutet made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2017 French Open after receiving a wildcard to the doubles main draw with Constant Lestienne. They defeated Dustin Brown and Lu Yen-hsun in the first round, but were defeated by Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău in the second round. Junior career 2013: First ITF tournaments, first titles In April, Moutet entered the singles qualifying of the ITF Junior Cap d'Ail. Two tournaments later, he reached his first singles final at the Podgorica Open. At the Copa Santa Catarina Internacional in October, Moutet again reached the singles final, lo ...
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Guillermo Durán
Guillermo Durán (; born 6 June 1988) is an Argentine tennis player playing on the 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 .... On 2 April 2012, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 385. His highest ATP doubles ranking of 48 was achieved on 23 May 2016. ATP career finals Doubles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up) Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 10 (1–9) Doubles: 76 (47–29) Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duran, Guillermo 1988 births Living people Argentine male tennis players Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players of Argentina Sportspeople from Tucumán Province 21st-century Argentine people ...
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Andrei Vasilevski (tennis)
Andrei Aleksandrovich Vasilevski ( be, Андрэй Аляксандравіч Васілеўскі; russian: Андрей Александрович Василевский; born 28 May 1991) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 52 achieved on 5 February 2018. He is currently the No. 1 Belarusian doubles player. Vasilevski has competed for the Belarus Davis Cup team since 2009. Professional career 2017 Vasilevski finished as runner-up, partnering Hans Podlipnik Castillo in the doubles competition of the 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel, losing to 4th seeded pair of Pablo Cuevas and Guillermo Durán. Three weeks earlier in July, the pair also reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships for the first time in their career defeating seeds No. 12 Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah and seeds No. 7 Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram en route. 2020-2021: Maiden ATP doubles title Vasilevski won his ma ...
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Hans Podlipnik Castillo
Hans Podlipnik Castillo (; born 9 January 1988) is a Chilean retired tennis player of Slovenian descent. His best results are in doubles, winning one ATP World Tour and reaching another final in this category, besides from winning 19 Challengers and 29 Futures. In singles, he won 23 Futures and reaching in 2015 the final in the Poprad-Tatry Challenger. Since 2015, Podlipnik focused his career on doubles, ranking No. 43 in February 2018. He finished the 2014 season as the Chilean top singles player, ranked No. 196. and again in 2015 as No. 167. He reached his best singles ranking in August 2015, at no. 157. In November 2019, after his participation with the Chile Davis Cup Team at the 2019 Davis Cup Finals The Finals, formerly known as World Group, was the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2019. It was held on indoor hard courts at the Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain from 18 until 24 November. The ties were contested in a best-of-three rubbe ..., he announced his retir ...
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Horacio Zeballos
Horacio Zeballos Jr. (; born 27 April 1985) is an Argentine professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 39 achieved in March 2013 and his career-high doubles ranking is world No. 3 achieved in September 2019. In doubles, he has reached the men's doubles finals at the 2019 US Open and Wimbledon 2021 alongside Marcel Granollers. In singles, he has reached the fourth round at the French Open, doing so in 2017. Zeballos won his first ATP title at the 2013 VTR Open in Chile on 10 February. In the final, he beat Rafael Nadal, becoming one of only four players (with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray) to beat Nadal in a clay-court final."Tennis: Nadal denied title in comeback tournament"
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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-high singles ranking was World No. 37, achieved in March 2012. Career Berlocq started playing tennis at the age of four and had success on the ATP Futures and Challenger circuits. In 2004, he made six consecutive finals on the Futures circuit and won half of them, two each in Argentina, France and Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an .... He also made his first Challenger final in Manta, Ecuador, losing to Giovanni Lapentti before winning another Futures title in Argentina. At the end of 2005, Berlocq finished inside t ...
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Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý (; born 10 July 1993) is a Czech professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 35 on 27 April 2015. He is currently the No. 2 Czech tennis player in singles, as he lost his previous No. 1 ranking to Jiří Lehečka in August 2022. Juniors In 2011, Veselý won the boys' singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Australian Luke Saville in straight sets. He also won the boys' doubles titles at the Australian Open, partnering Filip Horanský of Slovakia; they defeated Ben Wagland and Andrew Whittington of Australia in the final. The same year he reached the finals of the US Open singles and the Wimbledon doubles (as well the final of the US Open doubles in 2010). Veselý reached the No. 1 junior combined world ranking in January 2011, compiling a singles win–loss record of 125–45. Professional career 2012–2015: Grand Slam debut, first singles and doubles titles, Top 35 debut and career-high ranking V ...
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Gastão Elias
Gastão José Ministro Elias (; born 24 November 1990) is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who competes on the ATP World Tour. He became the fifth Portuguese tennis player to break into the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings. In October 2016, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 57 to become the second-highest-ranked Portuguese player, after João Sousa (No. 28). Early and personal life Gastão Elias was born on 24 November 1990 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. At age four, he started playing tennis with his father. In 2001, he participated in the national under-12 singles competition, falling to future Davis Cup partner João Sousa in the semifinals. Elias idolized James Blake and Roger Federer while growing up. He is a supporter of Sporting Clube de Portugal, Real Madrid C.F. and Liverpool F.C. Career Professional career 2016 proved to be a breakthrough year for Elias. After winning an ATP Challenger Tour tournament i ...
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Cedrik-Marcel Stebe
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (; born 9 October 1990) is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 71 in February 2012. Career 2011: Grand Slam and Top 100 debut He reached his first ATP World Tour quarterfinal at the 2011 MercedesCup in Stuttgart, Germany, where he beat Nikolay Davydenko and Fabio Fognini. He was then awarded a wildcard to the 2011 International German Open where he beat Juan Carlos Ferrero and Davydenko again, before losing to Fernando Verdasco. Stebe finished the year by winning the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour Finals. 2012: First and second Grand Slam wins Stebe recorded his best Grand Slam result, when he got to the second round in the 2012 French Open. He reached the same stage at the 2012 US Open (tennis). At the 2012 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs he won the deciding rubber against former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt in straight sets. 2013-2014: Injury and hiatus Stebe suffered a hip injury in the Heilbronn Ope ...
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Renzo Olivo
Renzo Olivo (; born 15 March 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 78 achieved on 9 January 2016 and a doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 29 April 2013. Career In Bastad he made it through three rounds of qualifying to reach his first ATP tour main draw, where he reached the quarterfinals, defeating second seed Tommy Robredo. He earned the biggest win of his career at the 2017 French Open, when he beat twelfth seed and home favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (; born 17 April 1985) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in February 2012. Tsonga won 18 singles titles on th ... in four sets. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 16 (8–8) Doubles: 31 (16–15) Singles perf ...
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Sebastian Ofner
Sebastian Ofner (born 12 May 1996) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 126 achieved on 6 May 2019. He was a semifinalist at the 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel in his home country. Professional career 2017: ATP and Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon & third round Ofner made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships after going through qualifying, defeating Kimmer Coppejans, Miljan Zekić and Jay Clarke. In the first round, he beat Thomaz Bellucci in straight sets. In the next round, he upset world No. 18 Jack Sock in a five-setter. In August, Ofner caused another surprise in front of his home crowd at the 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel by defeating first seed Pablo Cuevas as a wildcard in the second round. He then won over Renzo Olivo to reach the semifinals where he fell to João Sousa. 2018: Maiden Challenger title Ofner won his maiden ATP Challenger title at the President's Cup in Astana. 2022: Fre ...
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