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2019 Little Rock Challenger
The 2019 Little Rock Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States from June 3 to June 9, 2019. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 27 May 2019. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Oliver Crawford * Brandon Holt * Aleksandar Kovacevic * Jason Kros * Tim Smyczek The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings: * Carlos Gómez-Herrera * Daniel Nguyen * Raymond Sarmiento The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: * Alejandro González The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking: * Nicolás Álvarez * Jordi Arconada * Francisco Cerúndolo * Martin Redlicki * Alexander Ritschard The followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcourt
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Flat balls are favored on hard courts because of the extremely quick play style. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in the sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Smyczek
Timothy Smyczek ( ; ; born December 30, 1987) is an American former professional tennis player. He made three quarterfinals on the main tour as well as the semi-finals of Newport in 2018. Additionally he won seven Challenger titles. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 68 in April 2015. Smyczek recorded wins over several notable players in his career including Kei Nishikori, John Isner, Ivo Karlović, Sam Querrey, Robby Ginepri, Gilles Müller, and Benjamin Becker. Personal life Smyczek plays the violin and wants to be a lawyer when his tennis career is over. He is good friends with Mardy Fish. He is also a Roman Catholic and a cooperator of Opus Dei. On November 21, 2015, Smyczek married Ana Pier. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Smyczek reached as high as No. 14 in the world combined rankings in January 2005. Pro tour Smyczek reached the quarterfinals of the SAP Open in 2011, beating Kei Nishikori en route, but lost to Gaël Monfils. He qualified again i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Sarmiento
Raymond Sarmiento (born July 24, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. Sarmiento has a career high ATP singles ranking of 287 achieved on September 11, 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 386 achieved on March 7, 2016. Sarmiento made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Winston-Salem Open after qualifying for the singles main draw, defeating Christopher Eubanks and Daniel Nguyen. He lost against Jérémy Chardy. Hitting partner In May 2022 he began working as Emma Raducanu's hitting partner, with plans to continue through the 2022 French Open The 2022 French Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 22 May to 5 June 2022, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair ... in Paris. References External links * * 1992 births Living people American male tennis players Sportspeople from Glendale, California American spo ... [...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] |
Carlos Gómez-Herrera
Carlos Gómez-Herrera (; born 30 April 1990) is a Spanish tennis player. Gómez-Herrera has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 268 achieved on 7 May 2018. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 195 achieved on 26 July 2021. Gómez-Herrera made his ATP main draw debut at the 2012 Serbia Open in the singles draw after he qualified for the tournament. He lost in the first round to Victor Hănescu. In 2021 he played doubles at the ATP 250 Mallorca tournament on grass alongside world No. 1 in singles Novak Djokovic. They defeated Tomislav Brkić and Nikola Ćaćić in the first round after saving two match points in the third-set match tiebreak. They advanced to the semifinals by beating top seeded Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, again in the third-set match tiebreak. They subsequently defeated third seeded Oliver Marach and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi to reach the final but they withdrew before the championship match with Gómez-Herrera citing an ank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Kovacevic (tennis)
Aleksandar Kovacevic ( sr, Александар Ковачевић, Aleksandar Kovačević; born August 29, 1998) is an American tennis player. Kovacevic has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 101, achieved on 3 April 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 254, achieved also on 3 April 2023. Career 2021: Turned Pro, Grand Slam qualifying debut Kovacevic made his Grand Slam qualifying debut at the US Open, where he advanced to the final round before falling to Argentine Marco Trungelliti. 2022: ATP debut, first win and semifinal, Top 200 Kovacevic made his Top 250 debut on July 25, 2022, as world No. 227 following a final showing at the 2022 Indy Challenger. Kovacevic made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Korea Open, where he entered as a lucky loser. He recorded his first ATP tour level win defeating seventh seed and world No. 32 Miomir Kecmanović in the first round. Next he defeated Tseng Chun-hsin to reach his first ATP quarterf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Holt
Brandon Holt (born April 6, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. Holt has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 211, achieved on 7 November 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 473, achieved on 10 February 2020. Career 2022-23: Major debut at the US and Australian Open, first ATP & Major career wins Ranked No. 303, Holt made his Grand Slam debut at the 2022 US Open as a qualifier after defeating Dimitar Kuzmanov in the last round of qualifying. He won his first Grand Slam level match, upsetting 10th seed Taylor Fritz. This was also Holt's first career win on the ATP Tour. In January 2023, Holt qualified and made his debut at the 2023 Australian Open. He recorded his first win at this Major after defeating fellow qualifier Aleksandar Vukic. Personal life Holt is the son of Tracy Austin Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born December 12, 1962) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. She won three Grand Slam titles: the wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Crawford (tennis)
} Oliver Crawford (born 30 April 1999) is a British tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 190, achieved on 29 January 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 340, achieved on 20 May 2024. Early life Crawford started playing tennis at two years-old. His parents had no tennis background. His parents are from Birmingham, England and moved to work in Spartanburg, South Carolina, before he was born. He graduated from Laurel Springs School, an online high school based in California, and attended the University of Florida. He was named SEC Freshmen of the Year and before turning professional in 2020, was twice included as a First Team All-SEC and a three-time ITA All-America. Career A former world-number nine junior player, Crawford won his first senior title in October 2018 at a $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Harlingen, Texas. In March 2021, Crawford won his third title on the ITF World Tennis Tour when he defeated American Zane Khan 6-3 6-0 in the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Cressy
Maxime Cressy (born May 8, 1997) is a French-American professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 31 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on August 8, 2022. He has been ranked as high as world No. 180 in doubles, achieved on November 18, 2019. Cressy has won one title on the ATP Tour and three singles titles and two doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour. Before 2018, he played for his country of birth, France. College career On May 25, 2019, he and Keegan Smith won the 2019 NCAA tennis doubles championship at UCLA. Professional career 2019–20: Grand Slam debut in doubles and singles and first win Cressy made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2020 US Open as a wildcard entrant where he reached the second round after defeating Jozef Kovalík. He lost in the second round to fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas. 2021: Top 150 debut He qualified for the 2021 Australian Open and reached the second round by defeating Taro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Menezes
João Magalhães Hueb de Menezes (born 17 December 1996) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Menezes has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 172 achieved on 17 February 2020. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 488 achieved on 3 February 2020. Menezes has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title at the 2019 Samarkand Challenger as well as a total of 12 ITF Futures titles (5 singles and 7 doubles). Menezes won the gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, defeating Chilean Tomás Barrios in the final. He qualified to represent Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) Performance timelines Singles ''Current through the 2022 French Open The 2022 French Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 22 May to 5 June 2022, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair ....'' Davis Cup * ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collin Altamirano
Collin Altamirano (born December 7, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. Altamirano won the 2013 USTA Boys 18 National Championship as an unseeded player, the first ever to do so, defeating Jared Donaldson 6–1, 6–2, 6–4 in the final. This earned him a wild card entry into the 2013 U.S. Open where he lost to 22-seed Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in the first round. Prior to the 2013 U.S. Open, Altamirano had only played in six professional-level matches, all at the ITF Men's Circuit level (commonly referred to as Futures), and had lost all six. Gear Altamirano currently plays with the Wilson Blade racquet and Solinco Tour Bite strings, wearing Babolat Propulse 4 shoes.http://www.tennistownonline.com/collin-altamirano/ Tournaments2013 USTA Boys' 18 Champion - Kalamazoo, MI- USTA Nationals: Collin Altamirano becomes first unseeded player to win singles title *2013 US Open – Boys' singles – Lost in quarterfinals to #1 seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Peliwo
Filip Peliwo ( , ; born January 30, 1994) is a Canadian-born Polish professional tennis player. Peliwo became the first Canadian male and second Canadian ever to win a Grand Slam in singles at any level with his 2012 Wimbledon boys' title win. This was Canada's second Grand Slam title in two days, one day after Eugenie Bouchard's. With the victory, Peliwo reached the No. 1 combined junior world ranking in July 2012, the first time a Canadian has been top ranked.CBC News, "The National", airdate 2012 July 7 He won his second straight junior Grand Slam title at the 2012 US Open. Peliwo was also runner-up in the boys singles events at the 2012 Australian Open and French Open. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 161 on May 21, 2018. In 2022, he began competing for Poland. Early life Peliwo was born in Vancouver to Polish parents Mark and Monika. He played his early tennis through his teens at the North Shore Winter Club in North Vancouver BC and was part of the Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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