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2022 Chicago Men's Challenger
The 2022 Chicago Men's Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Chicago, United States between August 8 and August 14, 2022. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 1 August 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Aleksandar Kovacevic * Govind Nanda * Ben Shelton The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Bradley Klahn The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Mikhail Kukushkin * Genaro Alberto Olivieri The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Enzo Couacaud * Billy Harris * Ryan Harrison * Brandon Holt * Aidan McHugh * Keegan Smith The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Zachary Svajda * Li Tu * Evan Zhu Champions Single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Court
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] |
Govind Nanda
Govind Nanda (born February 17, 2001) is an American tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of 339 achieved on October 3, 2022, and a career-high doubles ranking of 497 achieved on August 22, 2022. Personal life Nanda is of Indian heritage. The son of Meena and Rajesh Nanda, he has a sister called Shyamlee. He grew up in Redlands, California before moving to Cerritos, California to be nearer his training facilities at the USTA centre in Carson. He and his sister started playing tennis at Clement Middle School in Redlands. Nanda attended Laurel Springs School in Ojai, California, before attending University of California, Los Angeles. Career Nanda reached the final of the Wimbledon boys doubles in 2019 losing to Jonáš Forejtek and Jiří Lehečka alongside his partner Liam Draxl. Nanda was given a wildcard into the 2022 US Open men's doubles alongside his partner Brandon Holt Brandon Holt (born April 6, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. Holt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Zhu
Evan Zhu (born August 15, 1998 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American tennis player. Zhu has a career high ATP singles ranking of 315, achieved on August 15, 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 371 achieved on August 12, 2019. He has reach 3 singles finals, boasting a record of 1 win and 2 losses. Additionally, he has reached 9 doubles finals with a record of 3 wins and 6 losses. All 12 of the finals he has reached have been on the ITF Futures Tour. Zhu made his ATP main draw doubles debut at the 2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships doubles tournament, where he partnered Martin Redlicki having received a wildcard into the tournament. At UCLA, he and Martin Redlicki were the 2018 NCAA doubles champions, defeating the team of Martin Joyce and Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (4), 1-0 (9), on May 28, 2018. His older sister, Amy Zhu, is also a professional tennis player playing on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Tu
Li Tu (born 27 May 1996) is an Australian tennis player who mainly competes on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. Tu has career-high rankings by the ATP of 190 in singles, reached on 17 October 2022, and 204 in doubles, achieved on 1 August 2022. He made his ATP Tour debut at the 2021 Murray River Open, where he received a wildcard into the singles main draw. Career 2011–2014: Debut and retirement Tu made his ITF Futures debut in February 2011 at the Australia F2. He played four other tournaments, losing in the first round in all. Tu competed in the 2012 Junior Davis Cup alongside Thanasi Kokkinakis, later working as a tennis coach prior to his debut on the senior tour. In February 2014, he won his first match on ITF-level. In April 2014, Tu reached the quarterfinal of the Australia F5, his best result this level, but retired in June 2014. 2020–2021: Return, ATP and major debut, four ITF titles In 2020, Tu was inspired to return to playing tennis and enjoyed succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Svajda
Zachary Svajda ( ; born November 29, 2002) is an American professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 168 on September 18, 2023, and he peaked at No. 664 in doubles on August 8, 2022. Early life and background A native of San Diego, California, Svajda took up tennis at the age of 2, initially coached by Matt Hanlin. He is of Czech descent. He earned his first ATP World Tour ranking point at the age of 15, defeating top-seeded João Lucas Reis da Silva of Brazil 6–3, 6–4 at the 2018 Claremont Club Pro Classic as a local main-draw wild card. Professional career 2019: ATP and Grand Slam debut On August 11, 2019, Svajda defeated Govind Nanda 6–7(3–7), 7–5, 6–3, 6–1 to win the USTA Boys 18s National Championship. This victory earned the 16-year-old a wild card into the main draw of the 2019 US Open, making him the youngest player to play in the men's US Open since Donald Young in 2005. There, despite succumbing to full-body ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keegan Smith (tennis)
Keegan Smith (born June 23, 1998) is an American tennis player. Smith has a career high ATP singles ranking of 339 achieved on September 19, 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 262 achieved on September 12, 2022. Smith made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Hall of Fame Open after receiving a wildcard for the doubles main draw. He also played the U.S. Open main draw doubles in 2019 and in 2022. Smith played college tennis at UCLA, where he and Maxime Cressy won the 2019 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are annual tournaments held in the spring to crown team, singles, and doubles champions in American college tennis. The first intercollegiate championship was held in 1883, 23 years before the founding of the NCA ... doubles tournament. ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 3 (2–1) References External links * * 1998 births Living people American male tennis players Sportspeople from Wilmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aidan McHugh
Aidan McHugh (born 9 July 2000) is a British professional tennis player. He has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 298 achieved on 28 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 285 achieved on 3 October 2022. Career From Bearsden, he attended St Aloysius' College, Glasgow. He became a client of Andy Murray’s 77 Sports Management firm, where he is joined by fellow tennis players Paul Jubb, Harriet Dart, Katie Swan and Jack Pinnington Jones. His usual training facility is the Scotstoun Sports Campus in Glasgow and he is on the Lawn Tennis Association’s Pro Scholarship Programme. McHugh has been described as Murray’s protégé. He reached the semifinals of the 2018 Australian Open – Boys' singles where he defeated Ondrej Styler, Filip Jianu, Jaimee Floyd Angele and Rinky Hijikata before he lost to Tseng Chun-hsin in three sets. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he took part in the Battle Of The Br ... [...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] |
Ryan Harrison
Ryan Harrison (born May 7, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. Harrison has won one career ATP title in singles at the 2017 Memphis Open to go along with four in doubles, including the 2017 French Open. Before turning 16, Harrison was regarded a prodigy after cracking the top 10 in the junior rankings and becoming one of the youngest players ever to win an ATP match. Although he broke through onto the ATP level by the age of 20, Harrison then fell out of the top 100 for several years. He since returned to the top 100 in 2016 after a strong second half of the season that included multiple wins over opponents ranked in the top 20 and his first career appearance in the round of 32 at a Grand Slam. Harrison built on that momentum in 2017 to reach a top-40 career-high ranking in singles after winning his first career ATP title. Personal life Harrison began playing tennis at age 2 and was coached by his father, Pat Harrison, who had a brief career as a professional, pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Harris (tennis)
Billy Harris (born 25 January 1995) is a British tennis player. Harris has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 199 achieved on 25 December 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 274 achieved on 10 April 2023. Harris has won one ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2022 Winnipeg National Bank Challenger with Kelsey Stevenson. Career He reached his first singles Challenger final at the inaugural edition of the 2023 Challenger Club Els Gorchs in Las Franquesas del Valles, Spain as a qualifier where he lost to second seed 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 202 .... He made his ATP debut at the 2023 Sofia Open where as a qualifier he reached the main draw and defeated defending champion Marc-Andrea Huesler in the first round.https://www. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enzo Couacaud
Enzo Couacaud (born 1 March 1995) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career high singles ranking of world No. 155, which he achieved on 14 February 2022 and a doubles ranking of world No. 188 achieved on 8 March 2021. Career 2015: Grand Slam doubles debut Couacaud received a wildcard to enter the doubles main draw in the 2015 French Open with doubles partner Quentin Halys, losing in the first round. He competed in the 2015 Wimbledon singles qualifying event, losing to John Millman in the third qualifying round. 2021: Grand Slam singles debut and first win Couacaud made his Grand Slam singles main draw debut at the 2021 French Open as a wildcard where he defeated Egor Gerasimov to reach the second round. 2022: Wimbledon and US Open debut In May, Couacaud was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of the 2022 French Open in doubles partnering Manuel Guinard Manuel Guinard (born 15 November 1995) is a French tennis player. Guinard has a career high ATP single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genaro Alberto Olivieri
Genaro Alberto Olivieri (born 4 August 1998) is an Argentine professional tennis player. Olivieri has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 137 achieved on 18 September 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 304 achieved on 29 August 2022. Career 2022-2023: Grand Slam debut, first ATP & Major wins & third round, top 150 Ranked No. 231, he made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2023 French Open defeating Adrian Andreev in the last round of qualifying. Next he defeated wildcard Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in five sets to reach the second round. As a result he moved 40 positions up a couple of spots shy of his career-high ranking of No. 190 reached on 21 November 2022. Next he defeated fellow qualifier Andrea Vavassori to reach the third round having never recorded an ATP win previously in his career. He lost to Holger Rune in straight sets. As a result he moved another 20 positions into the top 175 in the rankings on 12 June 2023. Personal life Olivieri star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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