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2022 Open Du Pays D'Aix
The 2022 Open du Pays d'Aix was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Aix-en-Provence, France between 2 and 8 May 2022. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 25 April 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Titouan Droguet * Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg * Jo-Wilfried Tsonga The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Grégoire Barrère * Antoine Hoang The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Mathias Bourgue * Martín Cuevas * Gabriel Debru * Calvin Hemery * Kyrian Jacquet * Alexei Popyrin Champions Singles * Benjamin Bonzi def. Grégoire Barrère 6–2, 6–4. Doubles * Titouan Droguet / Kyrian Jacquet def. Nicolás Barrientos / Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela 6–2, 6–3. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Open du P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corentin Moutet
Corentin Moutet (; born 19 April 1999) is a French tennis player. Moutet has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 51, attained on 7 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 425, attained on 12 June 2017. Moutet has won 6 ATP Challenger Tour and 5 ITF World Tennis Tour singles tournaments. He also idolised legendary tennis player Rafael Nadal growing up. Moutet made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2017 French Open after receiving a wildcard to the doubles main draw with Constant Lestienne. They defeated Dustin Brown and Lu Yen-hsun in the first round, but were defeated by Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău in the second round. Junior career 2013: First ITF tournaments, first titles In April, Moutet entered the singles qualifying of the ITF Junior Cap d'Ail. Two tournaments later, he reached his first singles final at the Podgorica Open. At the Copa Santa Catarina Internacional in October, Moutet again reached the singles final, lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela
Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela (; born June 21, 1987) is a Mexican professional 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. Reyes-Varela has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 400, achieved on 17 June 2013. In the doubles rankings he has a career high of world No. 49, achieved on 20 August 2018. He has played multiple seasons of the Davis Cup, including on the 2011 Mexican Davis Cup squad. "El tapatío Miguel Ángel Reyes Varela es la esperanza de México en la segunda edición del Jalisco Open." ATP career finals Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up) Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 5 (4–1) Doubles: 84 (42–42) Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reyes-Varela, Miguel Angel 1987 births Mexican male tennis pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás Barrientos
Nicolás Barrientos (; born 24 April 1987) is a Colombian professional tennis player competing mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour both in singles and doubles. Barrientos reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 237 on 21 September 2015 and his highest ATP doubles ranking of world No. 61 on 24 October 2022. Barrientos also made his first appearance on an ATP World Tour in July 2013 when he lost in the first round of 2013 Claro Open Colombia against Ruben Bemelmans Ruben Bemelmans (; born 14 January 1988) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 84 in singles, achieved on 28 September 2015, and world No. 128 in doubles, achieved on 1 October 2012. Beme .... Doubles performance timeline ''Current till 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles. ATP career finals Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) ATP Challenger & ITF Futures Singles: 10 (6–4) Doubles: 41 (20–21) National representation Pan Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexei Popyrin
Alexei Popyrin (born 5 August 1999) is an Australian professional tennis player. Popyrin has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 59 achieved on 8 November 2021. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 235 achieved in June 2022. He turned professional in 2017 and has won one singles title on the ATP Tour. Personal life Popyrin was born in Sydney, Australia to Russian parents. He began playing tennis at the Kim Warwick Tennis Academy in Hornsby at the age of four and was in attendance for the historic 2008 Australian Open third round match between Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis. At the age of 8, Popyrin relocated to Dubai for two years due to his father's work commitments before moving to Alicante, Spain where fellow Australian Alex de Minaur was his neighbour. Popyrin also spends time training in Nice, France, Marbella, Spain and Dubai. He has trained at the Mouratoglou Academy since April 2017. Popyrin is multilingual in English, Russian and Spanish. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Hemery
Calvin Hemery (born 28 January 1995) is a French tennis player of Nigerian descent. Hemery has a career high ATP singles ranking of 116 achieved on 30 April 2018. Hemery has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 252 achieved on 24 December 2018. Hemery made his ATP main draw debut at the 2015 Swiss Open Gstaad where he qualified for the main draw, then lost in the first round to Dušan Lajović. Hemery was a runner-up at a Futures event in 2013. In 2015, he won his first singles Futures title in Italy. He was awarded a wildcard to the 2018 French Open. Personal life Calvin Hemery was born in Les Lilas Les Lilas () is a commune in the northern-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. History The commune of Les Lilas (literally "the lilacs") was created on 24 July 1867 by detaching a part of the territory of .... He is one of few tennis players who are on the vegan diet. He is vegan and animal defender according to his Instagram profile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Debru
Gabriel Debru (born 21 December 2005) is a French 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. Debru has a career high ATP singles ranking of 539 achieved on 17 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1073 achieved on 17 October 2022. Debru won the 2022 French Open – Boys' singles title. Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) Doubles: 1 (1 runners-up) References External links * Profile at ITF 2005 births Living people Sportspeople from Grenoble French male tennis players French Open junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martín Cuevas
Martín Cuevas Urroz (; born January 14, 1992, in Salto, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. Martín Cuevas is the brother of the Uruguayan player Pablo Cuevas. They have played together in the ATP Challenger Tour, winning the Copa Petrobras in Montevideo twice and Lyon once. Martín made his debut in Davis Cup against Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ..., losing to Jhonson García. In total, he has a W/L record in Davis Cup of 15–19. Cuevas won 11 ITF Future singles titles and 12 ITF doubles titles. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 23 (11–12) Doubles: 41 (16–24) Notes References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuevas, Martin Uruguayan male tennis players 1992 births Living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Bourgue
Mathias Bourgue (; born 18 January 1994) is a French tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 140 achieved on 24 April 2017. Career He received a wildcard to advance to the singles main draw in the 2016 French Open, where he reached the second round defeating Jordi Samper-Montaña, before losing to world No. 2 Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray ... in five sets. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 24 (12-12) References External links * * 1994 births Living people French male tennis players Sportspeople from Avignon {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Hoang
Antoine Hoang (born 4 November 1995) is a French tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 98 achieved on 19 August 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 132 achieved on 18 October 2021. Professional career 2018: ATP and Grand Slam doubles debut Hoang made his ATP main draw debut at the 2018 Open 13 in the doubles draw partnering Alexandre Müller. He received a wild card for the main draw of the 2018 French Open in the doubles draw, partnering with Ugo Humbert. 2019: First ATP singles win and doubles final, Grand Slam and top 100 debut He won his first ATP match in Montpellier against Steve Darcis in 2019 before losing to compatriot Jeremy Chardy and made the final in doubles, partnering Benjamin Bonzi. On his Grand Slam singles debut at the 2019 French Open, Hoang reached the third round as a wildcard defeating 23rd seed Fernando Verdasco before losing to 14th seed compatriot Gael Monfils. He reached a career high ranking of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grégoire Barrère
Grégoire Barrère (; born 16 February 1994) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 80 achieved on 7 October 2019. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 161 achieved on 26 April 2021. Barrère has won five ATP Challenger Tour singles titles and six ITF Futures singles titles as well as five Challenger doubles titles and six ITF Futures doubles titles in his career. Professional career 2016-17: Grand Slam debut Barrère made his Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2016 French Open, where he received a wildcard, but lost to David Goffin in the first round. 2018: Top 100 debut He was awarded a wildcard to the 2018 French Open, where he lost to Radu Albot in the first round after leading 2 sets to 0. 2019: Best season, Grand Slam success, Top 80 career-high ranking In 2019, he succeeded to qualify and reach the second round of two Grand Slams 2019 Wimbledon Championships and the US Open, and also reached the second rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (; born 17 April 1985) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in February 2012. Tsonga won 18 singles titles on the ATP Tour, including two ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 titles.In his early career, Tsonga won the 2003 US Open – Boys' singles, 2003 US Open junior singles title and was the ATP World Tour Awards#Most improved player, Comeback player & Newcomer of the year, ATP Newcomer of the Year for 2007 ATP Tour, 2007. He rose to fame by reaching the 2008 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2008 Australian Open final as an unseeded player, defeating four seeded players (including world No. 2 Rafael Nadal) en route. He followed by winning his first Masters title at the 2008 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles, 2008 Paris Masters, and reached the final of the 2011 ATP World Tour Finals – Singles, 2011 ATP Finals. At the Tennis at the 2012 Summer Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
