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2018 Hungarian Challenger Open
The 2018 Hungarian Challenger Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hardcourt, hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament and was a part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Budapest, Hungary between 5 and 11 February 2018. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of January 29, 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Gábor Borsos * Péter Nagy (tennis), Péter Nagy * Zsombor Piros * Máté Valkusz The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: * Nicola Kuhn The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jeremy Jahn * Kevin Krawietz * Constant Lestienne * Andrea Pellegrino Champions Singles * Vasek Pospisil def. Nicola Kuhn 7–6(7–3), 3–6, 6–3. Doubles * Félix Auger-Aliassime / Nicola Kuhn def. Marin Draganja / Tomislav Draganja 2–6, 6–2, [11–9]. External links Official website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game. Dimensions The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written down in the annual 'Rules of Tennis' document. The court is long. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. The service line is from the net. Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of wide and long. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net is high at the posts, and high in the center. The net posts are outside the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Galović
Viktor Galović (; born 19 September 1990) is a former Croatian tennis player. Galović has a career high ATP singles ranking of 173, achieved on 14 May 2018. Galović had previously represented Italy where he was raised but in 2014 switched back to his home country of Croatia. Career Galović made his ATP main draw singles debut at the 2014 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel where he qualified for the main draw, defeating Philipp Davydenko, Lukáš Dlouhý and Antonio Veić en route. In the main draw he lost to Albert Ramos-Viñolas in three sets in the first round. Galović had his grass debut in Stuttgart where he lost in the second round of qualifications to Denis Kudla. But he was lucky and he received an entry as a lucky loser. In the first round of the ATP tournament in Stuttgart he lost to Maximilian Marterer Maximilian Marterer (born 15 June 1995) is a German tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 45, achieved in August 2018. Professional ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marin Draganja
Marin Draganja (; born 13 May 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP World Tour in doubles. Draganja reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 550 on 29 April 2013, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 20, on 6 April 2015. After having a hip surgery in August 2015 Draganja paused his career for recovery. Marin Draganja is currently coached by Gilbert Schaller and managed by the McCartney Group, Vienna. His younger brother is a professional tennis player Tomislav Draganja Tomislav Draganja (; born 10 August 1994) is a Croatian tennis player. Draganja usually competes on the ATP Challenger Tour Draganja primarily focuses on doubles, where he has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 115 achieved on 26 February 2018 .... ATP career finals Doubles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner-ups) Challenger finals Doubles: 16 (13–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Draganja, Marin Croatian male tennis players Tennis pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Pellegrino
Andrea Pellegrino (; born 23 March 1997) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 136 achieved on 26 September 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 165 achieved on 13 January 2020. Pellegrino has won two singles and five doubles ATP Challenger 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 ... titles. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 12 (7–5) Doubles: 14 (9–5) References External links * * 1997 births Living people Italian male tennis players 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constant Lestienne
Constant Lestienne (; born 23 May 1992) is a French professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ITF Men's Circuit and ATP Challenger Tour. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 61 on 3 October 2022 and his highest doubles ranking of World No. 343 was achieved on 28 May 2018. He has won five ATP Challenger Tour singles titles. In addition, he has won five singles titles and three doubles titles in the ITF Men's Circuit. Career 2015: ATP Tour debut Lestienne reached his first career ATP Tour singles main draw at the 2015 Estoril Open after winning two singles qualifying matches. He lost in the first round to Pablo Carreño Busta. 2016: First challenger title, betting scandal and ban In May 2016, Lestienne won his maiden ATP Challenger Tour tournament in Ostrava. In September 2016 Lestienne was suspended for seven months and fined $10,000 by the International Tennis Federation for betting on tennis matches. The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) in cooperati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Krawietz
Kevin Krawietz (born 24 January 1992) is a German professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the French Open doubles title in both 2019 and 2020 alongside compatriot Andreas Mies. The pair were also semifinalists at the 2019 US Open. Krawietz reached the mixed doubles semifinals at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships and 2022 French Open, partnering Květa Peschke and Nicole Melichar-Martinez respectively, and has qualified for the ATP Finals on three occasions. He achieved his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 7 in November 2019, and has won eight doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including two at ATP Tour 500 level. In singles, Krawietz reached his highest ranking of world No. 211 in December 2018. He has represented Germany in the Davis Cup since 2019, and also competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in both men's and mixed doubles. Junior career Krawietz won one junior Grand Slam title, the 2009 Wimbledon Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máté Valkusz
Máté Valkusz (born 13 August 1998) is a Hungarian tennis player. Valkusz has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 204, achieved on 12 June 2023. Juniors On the junior tour, Valkusz has a career high combined junior ranking of 1 achieved on 11 January 2016. Valkusz was the winner of the 2015 Yucatán Cup, a Grade 1 event in Mérida and the Canadian Open Junior Championships in Repentigny. He was also a semifinalist at the 2015 Orange Bowl and a finalist at the 2015 Osaka Mayor's Cup. Valkusz was also a semifinalist at the 2015 Australian Open boys' doubles and 2015 French Open boys' doubles events. Pro Career He won his first Challenger title defeating Francisco Comesaña at the 2023 Macedonian Open. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 19 (14-5) Doubles: 3 (3-0) Davis Cup Participations: (3–2) * indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsombor Piros
Zsombor Piros (born 13 October 1999) is a Hungarian tennis player. Piros has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 138, achieved on 10 October 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 991, achieved on 8 August 2022. He is currently the No. 2 Hungarian player. Junior career On the junior tour Piros had a career-high ranking of 3 achieved on 4 September 2017. Piros won the 2017 Australian Open boys' singles championships, defeating Israeli Yshai Oliel in the final. He made headlines at Wimbledon 2017 when he and doubles partner Yibing Wu fell foul of Wimbledon's pants police, and were required to change their underpants from black to white to comply with regulations. Even without their lucky pants they won the subsequent match 6–4 6–1. Piros won the Hungarian Tennis Championships on 1 October 2017. Professional career 2018: First Challenger win, first Top 100 win Piros began his year at the Nouméa Challenger, where he came through q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Nagy (tennis)
Péter Nagy (born 17 March 1992) is a Hungarian tennis player and coach, who is current coach the current Hungarian number 1 player, Márton Fucsovics. Nagy has a career high ATP singles ranking of 409 achieved on 15 May 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 283 achieved on 10 December 2018. Nagy has won three ITF singles titles and thirteen doubles titles. Playing for Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ... in Davis Cup, Nagy has a W/L record of 4–5. Future and Challenger finals Singles: 11 (3–8) Doubles 31 (13–18) Record against other players Nagy's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 100, with those who are active in boldface. ATP Tour, Challenger and Future tournaments' main draw and qualifying m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Borsos
Gábor Borsos (born 30 June 1991) is a Hungarian tennis player. Borsos has a career high ATP singles ranking of 551 achieved on 14 January 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 188, achieved on 13 November 2017. Borsos has won 25 ITF doubles titles. Borsos has represented Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ... at Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 2–5. Tour doubles titles – all levels (25) Davis Cup Participations: (2–5) * indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface. External links * * * 1991 births Living people Hungarian male tennis players Sportspeople from Székesfehérvár People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Milojević (tennis)
Nikola Milojević ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Милојевић, ; born 19 June 1995) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Milojević has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 125, which he achieved on 21 February 2022. He also achieved a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 252 on 18 February 2019. He reached his highest ranking of no. 1 in ITF Junior rankings on 7 January 2013. Career 2014: ATP debut Milojević was a fifth player on a Serbian Davis Cup team in the first round tie against United States in the 2010 Davis Cup as well as a first round tie against Switzerland in 2014 and didn't play in any match. Milojević made his ATP main draw debut as a wildcard at 2014 Düsseldorf Open, where he defeated Mirza Bašić in the first round before losing to eventual finalist, Ivo Karlović, in the second round. 2017: Three Challengers finals, Top 150 debut He was also invited for a semifinal clash against France in 2017, but instead chose to play in a Challenger tournam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Zopp
Jürgen Zopp (born 29 March 1988) is a retired professional Estonian tennis player. He is Estonia's all-time highest ranked male tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of World No. 71 in 2012. Career Zopp started playing tennis at the age of 6 and grew up idolizing Pete Sampras, Marat Safin, and Roger Federer. Zopp had a somewhat successful junior career, reaching the second round of the Australian and US Open Boys' tournaments in 2006. In 2008, he would officially turn pro. Zopp made a breakthrough on the ATP tour in 2012, qualifying for the main draws of the Australian Open, Roland-Garros and Wimbledon boosting his ranking to the point where he didn’t have to go through qualifying by the time the US Open came around. and achieving his first main draw ATP tournament win at the 2012 Bucharest Open establishing himself as a top-100 player in the ATP rankings at world No. 71. 2013-2014 would see a huge dip in form and rankings as his ranking plummeted all the way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
