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2022 Generali Open Kitzbühel
The 2022 Generali Open Kitzbühel was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 78th edition of the Austrian Open Kitzbühel, and part of the World Tour 250 series of the 2022 ATP Tour. It took place at the Tennis stadium Kitzbühel in Kitzbühel, Austria, from 25 through 31 July 2022. Champions Singles * Roberto Bautista Agut def. Filip Misolic, 6–2, 6–2 Doubles * Pedro Martínez / Lorenzo Sonego def. Tim Pütz / Michael Venus, 5–7, 6–4, 0–8 Points and prize money Point distribution Prize money *per team Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 18 July 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Nicolás Jarry * Filip Misolic * Jurij Rodionov The following player received entry with a protected ranking: * Dominic Thiem The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Hernán Casanova * Vít Kopřiva * Gerald Melzer * Sebastian Ofner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP World Tour 250 Series
The ATP 250 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 250'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series'', and ''ATP World Series'') are the lowest tier of annual men's tennis tournaments on the main ATP Tour, after the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments, ATP Finals, ATP Tour Masters 1000, ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, and ATP 500 tournaments. As of 2020 ATP Tour, 2020, the series includes 39 tournaments, with 250 ranking points awarded to each singles champion—which accounts for the name of the series. Draws consist of 28, 32, or 48 for singles and 16 for doubles. Thomas Muster holds the record for most singles titles at 26, while Mike Bryan holds the record for most doubles titles won with 46. Historic names 1990–1999 ''ATP World Series'' 2000–2008 ''ATP International Series'' 2009–2018 ''ATP World Tour 250'' 2019–present ''ATP Tour 250'' ATP Points * Players with byes receive first round points. Tournaments became an ATP 500 event.ATPTour. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Berrettini
Matteo Berrettini (; born 12 April 1996) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in January 2022, and world No. 105 in doubles achieved on July 2019. Berrettini has won seven ATP Tour singles titles and two doubles titles, and produced his best major performance by reaching the singles final of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. He has also reached the quarterfinals or better at all four majors, being the first man born in the 1990s and the first Italian man to achieve the feat. After turning professional in 2015, Berrettini won two singles titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour and three on the ATP Challenger Tour, breaking into the top 100 of the ATP rankings in May 2018. Two months later, he reached his first ATP Tour final at the 2018 Swiss Open, where he won his maiden title and made his top 60 debut. In 2019, after claiming two further titles at the Hung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Ofner
Sebastian Ofner (born 12 May 1996) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 126 achieved on 6 May 2019. He was a semifinalist at the 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel in his home country. Professional career 2017: ATP and Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon & third round Ofner made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships after going through qualifying, defeating Kimmer Coppejans, Miljan Zekić and Jay Clarke. In the first round, he beat Thomaz Bellucci in straight sets. In the next round, he upset world No. 18 Jack Sock in a five-setter. In August, Ofner caused another surprise in front of his home crowd at the 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel by defeating first seed Pablo Cuevas as a wildcard in the second round. He then won over Renzo Olivo to reach the semifinals where he fell to João Sousa. 2018: Maiden Challenger title Ofner won his maiden ATP Challenger title at the President's Cup in Astana. 2022: Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Melzer
Gerald Melzer (born 13 July 1990) is a professional Austrian tennis player. As a qualifier, he reached the semifinals of Munich in 2015. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 68 in November 2016. He is the younger brother of top Austrian tennis player Jürgen Melzer (hence his nickname, Mini Melts) and is the son of Rudolf Melzer, an Austrian businessman and mayor of Deutsch-Wagram, and Michaela, a saleswoman. Career Gerald Melzer has primarily spent his time on the Futures circuit, while also playing challengers and several doubles events with his brother. He began playing on the tour in 2007, competing in tournaments in Austria as well as Futures tournaments in Africa. He has had more success playing doubles, partnering with his brother to win a challenger in Graz, Austria. Gerald faced his brother, Jürgen, in the first round of the 2015 Wimbledon qualifying tournament, and lost in straight sets. Jürgen described it as the "worst tennis day of my life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vít Kopřiva
Vít Kopřiva (born 15 June 1997) is a Czech tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 124 achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 264 achieved on 13 June 2022. Kopřiva has won 1 ATP Challenger single title at the 2022 UniCredit Czech Open in Prostějov and 1 ATP doubles title at the 2021 Aspria Tennis Cup in Milan with Jiří Lehečka. Professional career 2021: ATP and Top 200 debut On his ATP debut, ranked at a then career-high of World No. 249 in singles, at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad, Kopřiva defeated Denis Shapovalov for his career-best and first top-10 win. He was the lowest-ranked player to beat a Top 10 opponent since then World No. 698 Thanasi Kokkinakis defeated then World No. 6 Milos Raonic at The Queen's Club in 2017. Kopřiva advanced to the semifinals after beating Mikael Ymer in straight sets. He was the second player to reach the semifinals on his ATP Tour debut since May 2012, joining 2021 Córdoba cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Casanova
Hernán Casanova (born 6 February 1994) is an Argentine tennis player. Casanova had a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 255 achieved on 21 May 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 183 achieved on 27 June 2022. Casanova made his ATP doubles main draw debut at the 2022 Argentina Open after entering into the main draw as alternates with Sergio Galdós. He made his ATP singles main draw debut at the 2022 Generali Open Kitzbühel as a qualifier where he lost to Jurij Rodionov Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian tennis player of Belarusian descent. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 120 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 268 achieved on .... References External links * * 1994 births Living people Argentine male tennis players Tennis players from Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine people {{Argentina-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, which he first achieved in March 2020. He is the second-highest ranked Austrian player in history, behind former world No. 1 Thomas Muster. Thiem has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2020 US Open where he came back from two sets down to defeat Alexander Zverev in the final. With the win, Thiem became the first male player born in the 1990s to claim a major singles title, as well as the first Austrian to win the US Open singles title. He had previously reached three other major finals, finishing runner-up at the 2018 and 2019 French Opens to Rafael Nadal, and at the 2020 Australian Open to Novak Djokovic. Thiem was also runner-up at the 2019 and 2020 ATP Finals, where he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev, respectively. Thiem won the 2020 Austrian Spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurij Rodionov
Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian tennis player of Belarusian descent. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 120 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 268 achieved on 15 July 2019. Professional career 2018-2020: Major debut, Three Challenger titles, top 150, top-20 win Rodionov won three ATP Challenger singles titles. The first came at the 2018 Almaty Challenger. His second title came when he won the 2020 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas. His third title came at the 2020 Morelos Open. In 2019, he won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the Shymkent Challenger. Rodionov made his main draw Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open as qualifier and reached the second round with a win over Jérémy Chardy in 5 sets. He reached the top 150 on 12 October 2020 at World No. 148. Also in October 2020, as a wildcard, he had the biggest win of his career in Vienna, where he beat 8th seed and Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás Jarry
Nicolás Jarry Fillol (; born 11 October 1995) is a professional tennis player from Chile. He has won one tournament in singles and two in doubles on the ATP Tour. He achieved his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 38 in July 2019, after clinching his first ATP title in Båstad. His highest doubles ranking of World No. 40 was achieved in March 2019. Personal life He is the grandson of Jaime Fillol, a former ATP player who won seven titles, and the great-nephew of Álvaro Fillol. Career Junior and early career Jarry reached the final of the 2013 French Open in boys' doubles, partnering with Cristian Garín were defeated by Kyle Edmund and Frederico Ferreira Silva. Fillol ended the year no. 18 in junior rankings. Jarry was called for the Chile Davis Cup team for the first time in September 2013 in the rubber against Dominican Republic. Chile lost and was relegated to the Group II of Americas Zone. 2015–16: Pro debut, top 200 and constant injuries In February 2015 Jarry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winning a qualifying stage. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. In Olympics, countries that fail to produce athlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French professional tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 7, attained on 9 July 2007. He has won a total of 15 singles titles on the ATP Tour. His best performances in Grand Slam singles tournaments have been three semifinal appearances, two at the Wimbledon Championships (in 2007 and 2015) and once at the US Open (in 2013). His best performance in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 singles tournaments was being the runner-up in Hamburg in 2005 and Toronto in 2006 and 2012. He won the mixed doubles title at the 2004 French Open, partnering with Tatiana Golovin. He also won the men's doubles Olympic bronze medal in 2012 with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. Gasquet is best known for his elegant groundstrokes and his one-handed backhand.In March 2021, Gasquet became only the sixth active player on the ATP tour to win 550 matches. He is currently No. 4 on the list of active players with over 580 wins. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Sousa
João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa (born 30 March 1989), known as João Sousa (), is a Portuguese professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 28 on 16 May 2016 and a doubles ranking of No. 26 on 13 May 2019. Continuously ranked in the world's top-100 between July 2013 and March 2021, and with four ATP Tour singles titles, Sousa is often regarded as the best Portuguese tennis player of all time. He is nicknamed ''Conquistador'' (Portuguese for "Conqueror") for sharing his birthplace of Guimarães with Afonso I, the country's first king. Sousa is coached by former player Frederico Marques and practices at the BTT Tennis Academy in Barcelona. Sousa began playing tennis at the age of seven. After winning national youth titles, he decided at the age of fifteen to invest in his career by moving to Barcelona. After an unimpressive junior career, Sousa turned professional in 2008 and won his first singles tournament in 2009. He started playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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