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2019 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger
The 2019 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on green clay courts. It was the 20th edition of the tournament and was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tallahassee, Florida, United States between 22 and 28 April 2019. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of April 15, 2019. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Sekou Bangoura * Zane Khan * Sebastian Korda * Dennis Novikov * Alexander Ritschard The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking: * Sandro Ehrat * Aslan Karatsev * Arthur Rinderknech * Alejandro Tabilo * Alexander Zhurbin The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jordi Arconada * Benjamin Hassan The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Johannes Härteis Champions Singles * Emilio Gómez def. Tommy Paul 6–2, 6–2. Doubles * Roberto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. The French Open uses clay courts, the only Grand Slam tournament to do so. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness. Play Clay courts are considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Points are usually longer as there are fewer win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Paul (tennis)
Thomas John "Tommy" Paul (born May 17, 1997) is an American professional tennis player. Paul has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 28, achieved on 26 September 2022, and doubles ranking of No. 97, achieved on 12 September 2022. He won his maiden ATP title at the 2021 Stockholm Open. Junior career Tommy Paul was consistently one of the highest ranked juniors of his class. Paul reached a career-high ITF junior rank of No. 3 on December 9, 2015. Paul reached two junior Grand Slam finals in 2015. He won the 2015 French Open – Boys' singles, 2015 French Open boys' singles title by defeating fellow American Taylor Fritz in the final in three sets. At the same tournament he reached the final in doubles partnering fellow American William Blumberg. He also reached the final at the 2015 US Open – Boys' singles, 2015 US Open boys' singles, this time losing to Fritz in three sets. Professional 2015: Grand Slam debut Paul turned pro in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Ehrat
Sandro Ehrat (born 18 April 1991) is a Swiss 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. Ehrat has a career high ATP singles ranking of 286, achieved on 9 September 2019 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 467, achieved on 12 July 2021. Ehrat made his ATP main draw debut at the 2010 MercedesCup, partnering Raphael Hemmeler in doubles, but they lost in the first round. ATP Challengers and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 25 (11–14) Doubles 9 (4–5) External links * * 1991 births Living people Swiss male tennis players People from Schaffhausen Sportspeople from the canton of Schaffhausen {{Switzerland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ritschard
Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss–American tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 163 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 388 achieved on 4 April 2022. Career Ritschard made his ATP main draw debut at the 2013 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad in the doubles draw partnering Alexander Sadecky. At the age of 28 he made his Grand Slam and ATP debut in singles after qualifying for the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. He drew fourth seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas whom despite his ranking, performed very poorly on grass, having lost in the first round of his two previous Wimbledon appearances. Ritschard stormed out to a 4-1 lead in the first set, on serve, looking like another possible upset but Tsitsipas rallied to win the set in a tiebreaker and the match in four sets. At the 2022 Swiss Open Gstaad he won his maiden ATP tour match defeating eight seed Joao Sousa as a wildcard. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Novikov
Dennis Novikov (born 6 November 1993 in Moscow, Russia) is an American professional tennis player born in Russia. He won both the singles and doubles titles at the USTA Boys 18s National Championships in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2012. As a result, he was awarded wild cards into the main draw of the US Open in both singles and doubles. He did not join the UCLA tennis team until March 2012, first competing on March 27. Tennis career Novikov won his first main-draw match at the US Open in 2012, defeating world no. 86 Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in four sets. In doubles, he teamed with Michael Redlicki. In the first round, they defeated compatriots Bobby Reynolds and Michael Russell in three sets, with a tie-break in the third set. In 2015, he qualified for the main draw in Indian Wells. That year, Novikov also captured his first two titles on the ATP Challenger Tour in back-to-back weeks. He won the inaugural Cary Challenger the week of September 14 followed by the Columbus Challe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Korda
Sebastian Korda (born July 5, 2000) is an American professional tennis player. Korda's career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 26 was achieved on 30 January 2023. He has won one ATP singles tournament, the 2021 Emilia-Romagna Open. He also won the junior title at the 2018 Australian Open, 20 years after his father Petr Korda won the Australian Open title. Early life and background Sebastian Korda ( ) is the son of two Czech tennis players, former men's world number two Petr Korda and former top 30 women's player Regina Rajchrtová. His father was an Australian Open champion and French Open finalist in both singles and doubles. Sebastian's older sisters Jessica and Nelly are both LPGA golf professionals. Korda grew up playing competitive junior ice hockey from the age of 3, but decided to switch to tennis at the age of 9 after accompanying his father to the 2009 US Open. At age 11, he won a golf tournament in Prague, in which his sister Nelly also competed. Professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zane Khan
Zane Khan (born February 11, 2002) is an American professional tennis player. Khan has a career high ATP singles ranking of 404 achieved on November 8, 2021. Khan made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 European Open The 2020 European Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the European Open and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2020 ATP Tour. It took place at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium, f ... in the doubles draw partnering Luca Nardi. References External links * * 2002 births Living people American male tennis players Tennis players from Houston {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekou Bangoura
Sekou Bangoura Jr. (born November 18, 1991) is an American professional tennis player. Bangoura partnered with Nathan Pasha to win the 2010 Kalamazoo Boys' Junior National Tennis Championship, defeating Jack Sock and Matthew Kandath 7–5, 6–3 in the finals. With their victory, Bangoura and Pasha earned a wildcard into the 2010 US Open doubles event, where they lost in the first round to Michael Kohlmann and Jarkko Nieminen 3–6, 1–6. Bangoura made his ATP main draw debut at the 2014 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships in the doubles event partnering Vahid Mirzadeh. The pair had only made through the doubles draw as an alternate team but in the first round they defeated the 2nd seeds Eric Butorac and Raven Klaasen 7–5, 3–6, 0–5 Their run came to a stop in the quarterfinals where they lost to Sam Groth and Max Mirnyi 6–7(5–7), 4–6. Bangoura has won 10 singles titles and 21 doubles titles all achieved on the ITF Futures Tour with one sole double ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Serdarušić
Nino Serdarušić (; born 13 December 1996) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 183 achieved on 4 April 2022. Juniors Serdarušić had a career high junior ranking of No. 21, and partnering Petros Chrysochos, made the doubles semifinals of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships boys' doubles. Professional career He made his ATP main draw debut at the 2014 ATP Vegeta Croatia Open Umag in the doubles event, partnering Dino Marcan, losing in the first round to the second seeds Pablo Cuevas and Horacio Zeballos in three sets. In 2016, he made his first appearance in an ATP singles draw - also in the Croatia Open - losing in straight sets to Teymuraz Gabashvili. In 2018, he played his first Challenger final in Ostrava, Czechia and he lost against Arthur De Greef 6:4,4:6,2:6. In 2021, he reached his second Challenger final in Verona, Italy where he was defeated by Holger Rune. Personal life In 2022, after losing in Australian Open Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JC Aragone
Juan Cruz "JC" Aragone (born June 28, 1995) is an American tennis player. He attended the University of Virginia and was a member of three NCAA Men's Tennis Championship winning teams. Aragone made his first Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP main-draw appearance at the 2017 US Open (tennis), 2017 US Open after coming through qualifying. Early life and amateur career Aragone is from Yorba Linda, California and took classes through the Parkview School, an independent study school based in Placentia, California. In January 2012, Aragone was hospitalized due to liver and kidney failure after developing an allergic reaction to an acne medication. That same year, he was diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus type 1, type 1 diabetes. Despite these challenges, Aragone finished his junior career competing in two junior US Open (tennis), US Opens and ranked 14th in his graduating class. He committed to playing college tennis at the Virginia Cavaliers men's tennis, University of Virginia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guilherme Clezar
Guilherme Sarti Clezar (pronounced ''Clézar''; born 31 December 1992), is a professional tennis player from Brazil. He played in several ATP 250 events, including the 2011 Brasil Open. Clezar plays mainly in ATP Challenger Tour events. Career finals Singles: 7 (2–5) References External links * * * Living people 1992 births Brazilian male tennis players South American Games bronze medalists for Brazil South American Games medalists in tennis Competitors at the 2010 South American Games Sportspeople from Porto Alegre 20th-century Brazilian people 21st-century Brazilian people {{Brazil-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Torpegaard
Mikael Torpegaard (born 8 May 1994) is a Danish professional tennis player, who as of April 2022 is the second highest ranked male tennis player from Denmark behind Holger Rune. Mikael Torpegaard is a member of the Denmark Davis Cup team. Earlier career Torpegaard won his first career ATP Challenger $75,000 title at the 2016 Columbus Challenger, which is played at Ohio State, where Mikael went to college and became a five-time All-American and a two-time Big Ten Athlete of the Year, an achievement that ranks him among the most successful tennis players in Ohio State history. Professional career 2019: ATP debut Torpegaard qualified for his first ATP main draw at the 2019 Citi Open in Washington, USA where he lost to Marius Copil. 2021: Grand Slam debut Torpegaard made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2021 Australian Open as a lucky loser where he lost to Lloyd Harris. Davis Cup On 22 September 2015 Torpegaard, representing host Denmark for the third time in Davis Cup p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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