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2018 Oracle Challenger Series – Houston
The 2018 Oracle Challenger Series – Houston was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. This tournament was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 WTA 125K series. The first edition took place at the George R. Brown Tennis Center from November 12 to 18, 2018 in Houston, United States. Men's singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 5 November 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Tom Fawcett * Sumit Sarkar * Ronnie Schneider * Roy Smith The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Harrison Adams * Alexis Galarneau * Julian Lenz * Michael Redlicki Women's singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 5 November 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Belinda Bencic * Kayla Day * Michaela Haet * Peng Shuai * Bianca Turati The following players received entry from the ... [...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] |
Jason Jung
Jason Jung (; ; born 15 June 1989) is an American-born professional tennis player who represents Taiwan. He is a University of Michigan alumnus who has cracked the Top 150 in the ATP rankings and also won four ATP Challenger events. Personal life Jung played college tennis at the University of Michigan, where he majored in political science. As a tennis player, he was the National and Midwest Regional winner of the ITA/Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership & Sportsmanship in 2010, made the All Big Ten team as a junior and senior, and is 4th all-time in Michigan history in career doubles wins. He blogs about his experiences and his life as a professional tennis player. He was featured in an article by ESPN's Grantland (along with fellow Michigan alum Evan King and up-and-coming players Frances Tiafoe and William Blumberg) that highlighted the struggles and low prize money in playing on the ITF Futures Tour. Career Jung's reached his first quarterfinal at the 2018 Hall of Fame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Lepchenko
Varvara (Cyrillic: Варвара; el, Βαρβάρα, ''Varvára''), a variant of " Barbara", may refer to: Places * Varvara, Azerbaijan * Varvara, Prozor, on the Rama river, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Varvara, Burgas Province, Bulgaria * Varvara, Pazardzhik Province, Septemvri Municipality, Bulgaria * Varvara, Chalkidiki, Greece * Varvara, Tearce, Tearce Municipality, Republic of North Macedonia Books *''Varvara'', US title of 1956 novel ''Sea of Glass'' by Dennis Parry People * Varvara (singer) *Varvara Annenkova (1795–1866), Russian poet * Varvara Bakhmeteva, Mikhail Lermontov's muse * Varvara Baruzdina (1862–1941), Russian painter * Varvara Barysheva (born 1977), Russian speed skater *Varvara Bubnova (1886–1983), Russian painter and pedagogue *Varvara Flink, Russian tennis player *Varvara Golitsyna ( Engelhardt (1752–1815), Russian lady in waiting and noble *Varvara Ivanova (born 1987), Russian virtuoso harpist *Varvara Lepchenko (born 1986), former Uzbekistan an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Stollár
Fanny Stollár (born 12 November 1998) is a Hungarian tennis player. Stollár has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as one singles title and twelve doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 19 November 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 114. On 10 September 2018, she peaked at No. 67 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Hungary Fed Cup team, Stollár has a win–loss record of 7–2 (as of January 2023). Career highlights In 2015, Budapest-born Stollár won the Wimbledon girls' doubles title, partnering Dalma Gálfi. She defeated sixth seed Johanna Konta in straight sets in the second round of the WTA Tour event of Charleston in April 2018. Stollar had played two qualifying matches and beaten Francesca Di Lorenzo in the first round. Her biggest doubles title, so far, came at the 2018 Hungarian Ladies Open, where she together with Spanish player Georgina García Pérez defe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Watson
Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player. A former British No. 1, Watson has won nine titles over her career, including the mixed-doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships partnering Henri Kontinen, making her the first British woman to win a major title since Jo Durie in 1991, and the first to win a Wimbledon title since Durie in 1987. In October 2012, Watson won her first WTA Tour singles title at the Japan Open, becoming the first British woman to win a WTA Tour singles title since Sara Gomer in 1988. In her junior career, Watson won the US Open and a gold medal at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games. She reached No. 3 in the world on the ITF Junior Circuit. Early life and junior career Heather Watson was born in Guernsey to Michelle and Ian Watson. Her mother is from Papua New Guinea and her father is British, and was the managing director of Guernsey Electricity from 1995 until retirement in 2010. She has one brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles title at WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 19 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She has ranked within the top 30 for several years in singles. Niculescu entered the Grand Slam doubles final at Wimbledon 2017 tournament, together with Chan Hao-ching. She reached the quarterfinals in doubles in all Grand Slam championships. In WTA 1000 tournaments, she got into three finals (doubles), six semifinals (5 in doubles), and 12 quarterfinals (11 in doubles). In singles, her best Grand Slam performance is reaching round four, which she did at the 2011 US Open and 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Early life Niculescu was born in Slatina but moved to Bucharest when she was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Bencic
Belinda Bencic ( sk, Belinda Benčičová, ; born 10 March 1997) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 4 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) which she achieved in February 2020. Bencic has won six singles titles, including a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Born in Switzerland to Slovak parents at a time when another Slovak-Swiss player Martina Hingis was one of the best tennis players in the world, Bencic began playing tennis at the age of two. Her father arranged for her to train with Hingis's mother and coach daily from the age of seven. By the time she was 16, Bencic became the No. 1 ranked junior in the world and won two junior Grand Slam singles titles at the French Open and Wimbledon. On the professional tour, she made her top 100 debut shortly after turning 17. Her first big breakthrough came at the 2014 US Open, where she became the youngest quarterfinalist since Hingis in 1997. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Lenz
Julian Lenz (born 17 February 1993 in Giessen) is a German tennis player. He has an ATP career high singles ranking of world No. 227, achieved in January 2020. In doubles, he reached his career-high ranking of No. 162 in June 2021. Career Lenz won the 2011 US Open boys' doubles title, partnering Robin Kern. He played college tennis for the Baylor University. He made his ATP Tour main draw debut by qualifying for both singles and doubles at the 2019 Hamburg European Open. In singles, he lost to world No. 10 Fabio Fognini in the first round. In doubles, he and partner Daniel Masur upset compatriots Alexander Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ... and Mischa Zverev after saving two match points in the opening round. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Galarneau
Alexis Galarneau (born 2 March 1999) is a Canadian tennis player. Galarneau has a career-high singles ranking by the ATP of world No. 204, achieved on November 21, 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of 362, achieved on October 3, 2022. College career Galarneau played college tennis at North Carolina State University. Professional career 2021-22: ATP, Masters & top 250 debuts, Davis Cup champion Galarneau made his ATP main-draw debut at the 2021 National Bank Open after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with partner Félix Auger-Aliassime. He made his singles debut the following year in 2022, when he lost to 15th-seeded Grigor Dimitrov Grigor Dimitrov ( bg, Григор Димитров, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on ... in the first round. As a result, he made his top 250 debut a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Schneider (tennis)
Ronnie Schneider (born September 27, 1994) is an American tennis player. Schneider has a career high ATP singles ranking of 406 achieved on 9 September 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 313 achieved on 12 October 2018. Schneider made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2013 US Open in the doubles draw partnering Paul Oosterbaan. Schneider played college tennis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States .... References External links * * 1994 births Living people American male tennis players Sportspeople from Bloomington, Indiana North Carolina Tar Heels men's tennis players Tennis people from Indiana {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Fawcett
Tom Fawcett (born 18 October 1995) is an American tennis player. Fawcett has a career high ATP singles ranking of 400 achieved on 7 January 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 602 achieved on 15 July 2019. Fawcett made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2018 US Open after receiving a wildcard into the qualifying singles draw, and mixed doubles main draw with Danielle Collins Danielle Rose Collins (born December 13, 1993) is an American professional tennis player. She has reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 7 in singles and world No. 86 in doubles. Collins has won two WTA Tour singles titles, at the 2021 Palerm .... External links * * 1995 births Living people American male tennis players People from Winnetka, Illinois People from Skokie, Illinois Stanford Cardinal men's tennis players Tennis people from Illinois {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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