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2018 Kunming Open
The 2018 Kunming Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the seventh (ATP) and first (WTA) edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 WTA 125K series. It took place in Anning, China, from 23 April–5 May 2018. Men's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 16 April 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Bai Yan * Li Yuanfeng * Wang Ruikai * Wang Ruixuan The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Sriram Balaji * Chung Yun-seong * Sasikumar Mukund * Vishnu Vardhan The following player entered as a lucky loser: * Hugo Grenier Women's singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 23 April 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Jiang Xinyu * Peng Shuai * Tang Qianhui * Yang Zhaoxuan * Zheng Wushuang The following players received entr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramkumar Ramanathan
Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as No. 111 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No. 58 achieved in August 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Indian player. He has represented India in the Davis Cup. In 2018, he became the first Indian player to reach an ATP Tour singles final since Somdev Devvarman in 2011. Personal and early life Ramanathan started playing tennis at the age of five. He was introduced to the sport by his father Ramanathan. His mother's name is Alagammai and sister's name is Uma. Both his parents are into the textile business. He speaks English, Spanish and Tamil. He trains at Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona, Spain. He is currently pursuing B.A. in Economics at Loyola College. Career 2014–2016: Early career In 2014, Ramanathan qualified for the main draw of the Chennai Open and beat the then-Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer (born 20 October 1989) is a Belgian professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals at the 2009 US Open, and a career-high WTA ranking of world No. 12, on 19 April 2010. In doubles, she achieved a career-high of world No. 71 on 15 February 2010. She was awarded "Most Improved Player" by the WTA in 2009. In June 2011, ''Time magazine'' named her one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future". Personal life Wickmayer was born on 20 October 1989 to Marc Wickmayer and Daniella Dannevoye. She was introduced to tennis at the age of nine by friends at local courts. Her mother died at an early age shortly thereafter. She is named after Diego Maradona's youngest daughter Gianinna. The surname 'Wickmayer' traces back to Austria through her father Marc. Wickmayer, who fluently speaks Dutch, English, and French, most admires former Belgian tennis player Kim Clijsters. In 2017, she announced that Clijsters would be working with her during the 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Yafan
Wang Yafan (; ; born 30 April 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. In her career, she has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four doubles titles on WTA 125 tournaments, plus eleven singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 7 October 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 47. She peaked at No. 49 in the doubles rankings on 15 February 2016. Career She was born in Nanjing in 1994. Wang Yafan started playing tennis when she was nine year old. Wang made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Shenzhen Open, partnering Zheng Jie in doubles. The pair won their first-round match against wildcards Sun Ziyue and Xu Shilin, and defeated third seeds Irina Buryachok and Oksana Kalashnikova, before losing to eventual champions Monica Niculescu and Klára Zakopalová in the semifinals. In September 2014 at the Guangzhou Open, Wang was given a wildcard into the singles main draw, and she advanced to the semifinals, upsett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai (; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese retired professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked world No. 1 doubles player by the WTA, becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking (in either singles or doubles). She peaked at No. 14 of the singles rankings in August 2011, and won two singles and 23 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Peng won a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova in the singles final. At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, Peng won her first major title in doubles, with Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan. She also won the women’s doubles title at the 2014 French Open with Hsieh. Her best performance at a major in singles came at the 2014 US Open where she reached the semifinals, becoming the third Chinese tennis player in history to make a Grand Slam semifinal after Zheng Jie and Li Na. Peng is known for playing with two hands on both sides and hits very flat. She has defeated many top-10 and top-5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Grenier
Hugo Grenier (born 23 March 1996) is a French tennis player. Grenier has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 95 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 362 achieved on 21 February 2022. Grenier has won 3 Challenger and 6 more ITF singles titles and 3 ITF doubles title on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. Career 2021: ATP Tour singles main draw and top 150 debut, maiden ATP Challenger singles title Grenier made his ATP Tour singles main draw debut at the 2021 Antalya Open, where he defeated Alex Molčan in the first round. He also won his first Challenger tournament in Roanne, France. 2022: Grand Slam and top 100 debut He made his Grand Slam singles main draw debut as a lucky loser at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships where he won his first match in a Grand Slam singles main draw and just his second career ATP tour main draw singles match by defeating fellow first-time qualifier Marc-Andrea Hüsler in five sets in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishnu Vardhan
Vishnu Vardhan (born 27 July 1987), also known as J. Vishnuvardhan, is a professional tennis player from India. He won bronze medal in men's doubles at 2010 Asian games in Guangzhou, China. He paired-up with and Sania Mirza for mixed doubles and won silver medal at the same event. He was featured as ITF player of April 2011. He won the national singles title for the fourth time by winning the Men's final of Fenesta Open tennis Championship on October 8, 2016 Personal life Vishnuvardhan's father Mr Jagadeesan is a businessman. He started playing at the age of 9 and was greatly inspired by Leander Paes. He did his schooling from DAV Safilguda Hyderabad. Career Vishnuvardhan was considered a promising prospect for Indian tennis, representing the next generation of the sport in the country and succeeding Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. He has represented India in the Davis Cup and was part of the team that defeated Uzbekistan and Philippines en route to qualifying for the Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasikumar Mukund
Mukund Sasikumar (born 14 January 1997) is an Indian 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. Sasikumar has a career high ATP singles ranking of 229 achieved on 17 October 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 431 achieved on 3 February 2020. Sasikumar made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 Maharashtra Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 12 (6–6) References External links * * 1997 births Living people Indian male tennis players Sportspeople from Chennai Sportspeople from Hyderabad, India 21st-century Indian people {{India-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chung Yun-seong
Chung Yun-seong ( ko, 정윤성; born 27 March 1998) is a South Korean tennis player. Chung has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 233 achieved on 22 July 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 129 achieved on 22 May 2023. Chung has won three doubles ATP Challenger titles as well as four International Tennis Federation, ITF singles and five doubles titles. On the junior tour, Chung had a career-high combined ranking of 3 achieved on 21 March 2016. Chung was a semifinalist at the 2016 Australian Open boys' singles event and the 2015 US Open (tennis), 2015 US Open boys' singles event where he fell to both eventual champions Oliver Anderson and Taylor Fritz, respectively. Chung was also a singles finalist at the Osaka Mayor's Cup in 2014. He and Orlando Luz lost to Yishai Oliel of Israel and Patrik Rikl of the Czech Republic in the final of the 2016 French Open – Boys' doubles, 2016 French Open boys' doubles, 6–3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sriram Balaji
Sriram Balaji (born 18 March 1990) is an Indian professional tennis player. Balaji has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 287, achieved on 19 June 2017 and a doubles ranking of world No. 96 achieved on 23 July 2018. Balaji has won a total of 9 ITF singles titles on the futures circuit as well as 43 doubles ITF Futures and 6 Challenger doubles titles on the circuit. He is currently a member of the Indian Davis Cup team. He played his debut Davis cup partnering Rohan Bopanna in March 2017 making India win 3–0 and enter into Davis Cup World Play off. Personal life Sriram was born to Narayanaswamy and Jayanthi Narayanaswamy in Coimbatore. He started playing tennis at the age of nine. He succeeded his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya and PERKS Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Coimbatore. He started his tennis career at PERKS Tennis Academy, Coimbatore. He is currently getting trained at Schüttler-Waske Tennis University in Germany. His hobbies are swimming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bai Yan (tennis)
Bai Yan (; ; born May 21, 1989 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese male tennis player. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Bai reach his highest ranking as world No. 10 in the singles world rankings in January 2007. 2010 Yan won back-to-back ITF Men's Circuit titles in September before knocking off World No. 30 Radek Štěpánek at the Shanghai Masters the following month. 2012 After not competing on tour in 2011, Bai opened 2012 by reaching the singles semifinals of China F2 ITF Men's Circuit tournament. 2017 Bai opened the 2017 season by winning the Hong Kong F6 futures. Yan has reached 24 career singles finals all on the ITF Futures tour, with a record of 19 wins and 5 losses. Additionally, he has reached 20 career doubles finals with a record of 13 wins and 7 losses, which includes a record of 4–0 in ATP Challenger Tour finals. Yan represents his native country of China competing during the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwon Soon-woo
Kwon Soon-woo ( ko, 권순우; born 2 December 1997) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 52 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in November 2021. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 227, attained in October 2022. Since turning professional in 2015, Kwon has won two ATP, three ATP Challenger Tour and five ITF World Tennis Tour singles titles. He broke into the top 100 of the ATP singles rankings in August 2019 after reaching the quarterfinals at the Los Cabos Open and contested his first ATP Tour final at the Astana Open in September 2021, where he won his maiden title and made his top 60 debut. In January 2023, he won his second ATP Tour title at the Adelaide International, becoming the first Korean to win multiple ATP titles. Early life Kwon was born in a small town Sangju and began playing tennis at age 10. He moved to Seoul at age 16 and attended high scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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