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2023 Open 13 Provence
The 2023 Open 13 Provence was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 31st edition of the Open 13, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2023 ATP Tour. It took place at the Palais des Sports de Marseille in Marseille, France, from 20 through 26 February 2023. Finals Singles * Hubert Hurkacz def. Benjamin Bonzi, 6–3, 7–6(7–4) Doubles * Santiago González / Édouard Roger-Vasselin def. Nicolas Mahut / Fabrice Martin, 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 0–7 Points and prize money Point distribution Prize money Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of 13 February 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Geoffrey Blancaneaux * Arthur Fils * Luca Van Assche The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Gijs Brouwer * Lukáš Klein * Laurent Lokoli * Alexander Ritschard Withdrawals * Pablo Carreño Busta → replaced by P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game. Dimensions The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written down in the annual 'Rules of Tennis' document. The court is long. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. The service line is from the net. Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of wide and long. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net is high at the posts, and high in the center. The net posts are outside the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigor Dimitrov
Grigor Dimitrov ( bg, Григор Димитров, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 20 November 2017, making him the highest-ranked Bulgarian player in history. Dimitrov achieved the ranking after winning the biggest title of his career at the season-ending ATP Finals. He has won eight ATP Tour singles titles to date. Prior to his professional career, Dimitrov enjoyed a successful junior career, in which he reached the world No. 1 ranking and won consecutive major boys' singles titles at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships and the 2008 US Open. In October 2013 at the Stockholm Open, Dimitrov became the first Bulgarian man to win an ATP Tour singles title. As of the 2022 US Open, he is the male player with the longest active streak of consecutive Grand Slam appearances, at 47. Dimitrov is the first (and only) Bulgarian m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Carreño Busta
Pablo Carreño Busta (; born 12 July 1991) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 11 September 2017. He also reached a best doubles ranking of No. 16, on 17 July 2017. He has won seven singles titles, including a Masters 1000 title at the Canadian Open, and four doubles titles on the ATP Tour. Representing Spain, Carreño Busta has won an Olympic bronze medal in men's singles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (defeating world No. 1 Novak Djokovic en route) and was a member of the Spanish team that won the 2019 Davis Cup. Career Juniors Carreño Busta reached as high as No. 6 in the combined junior world rankings in February 2009. 2009–13: Early pro tour, Grand Slam debut His first appearance in an ATP Tour tournament was at the 2011 Barcelona Open, where he lost in the first round to Benoît Paire. He has reached 18 singles finals competing in ITF Futures to ... [...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] |
Laurent Lokoli
Laurent Lokoli (born 18 October 1994) is a French professional tennis player. Lokoli plays primarily ATP Challenger and ITF events. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 169 achieved on 30 January 2023. Career Lokoli received a wildcard for the 2014 French Open men's singles qualifying draw. He won three qualifying matches and hence advanced to the main draw 1st round, where he lost to Steve Johnson. He was given a wildcard for the 2017 French Open where he lost in the first round to Martin Klizan. He made minor news by twice refusing to shake hands with Klizan after the match. He reached the top 200 at No. 199 on 3 October 2022. He made his first Challenger final at the 2023 Open Nouvelle-Calédonie in Noumea, New Caledonia losing to Raul Brancaccio. As a result he reached a new career-high ranking of No. 176 inside the top 200 in 9 January 2023. Next he qualified into the 2023 Australian Open The 2023 Australian Open was a Grand Slam level tennis tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukáš Klein
Lukáš Klein (born 22 March 1998) is a Slovak tennis player. Klein has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 136, achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 240, achieved on 5 April 2021. Klein has reached 12 career singles finals, with a record of 8 wins and 4 losses, including 2 ATP Challenger titles and the rest on the ITF Futures Tour. Additionally, he has reached 11 career doubles finals, with a record of 5 wins and 6 losses, including a 1–3 result in ATP Challenger finals. Career 2021: ATP & top 250 & Olympics singles & doubles debut Klein won the doubles title at the 2021 Challenger La Manche with compatriot Alex Molčan ''1–6, 7–5, 0–6'. Klein made his ATP main draw singles debut in March 2021 at the 2021 Argentina Open in Argentina, where he defeated Andrea Collarini, Thiago Seyboth Wild and Ernesto Escobedo to qualify for the main draw. Klein then went on to upset compatriot Andrej Martin in the first ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gijs Brouwer
Gijs Brouwer (born 14 March 1996) is an American-born Dutch tennis player. Brouwer has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 116 achieved on 20 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 22 August 2022. Brouwer has won two ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2021 Puerto Vallarta Open with Reese Stalder and at 2022 Tallahassee Challenger with Christian Harrison. Career 2022: ATP & Major debut & top-50 win, top 150 in singles & doubles On his ATP Tour debut at the 2022 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, Brouwer as a qualifier, made the quarterfinals after beating Feliciano López and JJ Wolf. He lost to third seed Reilly Opelka in the quarterfinals. As a result he made his top 300 debut at world No. 286. In May, he reached his first Challenger final at the 2022 Tunis Open losing to Roberto Carballes. He made his Grand Slam debut at the US Open as a qualifier. He recorded his first Major win defeating world No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Van Assche
Luca Van Assche (born 11 May 2004) is a Belgian-born French tennis player. Van Assche has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 137 achieved on 12 December 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 344 achieved on 3 October 2022. Junior Career Van Assche won the 2021 French Open Boys' Singles title, defeating fellow countryman Arthur Fils in the final. Professional career 2022: Professional, ATP & Major doubles debuts, Maiden Challenger & top 150 In January, Van Assche made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Open Sud de France after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg. He made his Grand Slam debut in doubles at the 2022 French Open as a wildcard pair partnering also Gueymard Wayenburg. In October, Van Assche reached his first singles final on the ATP Challenger Tour in Lisbon, Portugal, entering the main draw as a qualifier and losing to Marco Cecchinato in the finals. As a result he climbed close ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Fils
Arthur Fils (born 12 June 2004) is a French professional tennis player. Fils has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 260, which he achieved on 7 November 2022. He also attained his career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 459 in July 2022. Juniors As a junior, Fils achieved his best results at the Grand Slam level at the 2021 French Open, where he won the boys' doubles title with Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and placed runner-up in the boys' singles tournament, after which he was ranked as high as world No. 3 in July 2021. Career Ranked No. 308 at the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters on his ATP debut, he became the youngest French qualifier to enter the main draw of a Masters 1000 tournament with a win against former top-10 player Fabio Fognini since Gael Monfils in 2004, the year of his birth.https://www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/Actualites/Arthur-fils-et-quentin-halys-sortent-des-qualifications-du-rolex-paris-masters/1362086 He lost to Fabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
Geoffrey Blancaneaux (born 8 August 1998) is a French tennis player. He competes mainly on the ITF Men's Circuit and ATP Challenger Tour. Blancaneaux has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 134 achieved on 14 November 2022 and a doubles ranking of World No. 164 achieved on 18 July 2022. Junior Career Blancaneaux won the 2016 French Open boys' singles title, defeating Félix Auger-Aliassime in the final. Professional career 2017: Grand Slam debut In September 2017, Blancaneaux made his Grand Slam debut, after receiving a wildcard to enter the main draw at the US Open. 2021: First Challenger title In December 2021, Blancaneaux won his first Challenger singles tournament at the Maia Challenger, defeating Tseng Chun-hsin in the finals. 2022: French Open, Masters and top 150 debuts Seeded No. 190 at the 2022 French Open he qualified to make his Grand Slam debut at this Major in his sixth attempt. He reached the top 150 on 8 August 2022. In October, Blancaneaux made h ... [...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] |
Marc-Andrea Hüsler
Marc-Andrea Hüsler (born 24 June 1996) is a Swiss tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 51, achieved on 16 January 2023. In doubles, he achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 132 on 25 October 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Swiss player. Tennis career 2017: ATP debut and first ATP win in doubles Hüsler made his ATP main-draw doubles debut at the Swiss Indoors tournament, where he partnered former world No 1. Nenad Zimonjić, having received a wildcard into the tournament. The pair defeated Adrian Mannarino and Benoît Paire to give Hüsler a win in his first tour level match, before losing in the quarterfinals to Marcus Daniell and Dominic Inglot. 2018: First Challenger doubles title, ATP singles debut and first win Hüsler claimed his first ATP Challenger Tour doubles title in his first final, partnering Sem Verbeek at the Winnipeg Challenger. Just over a week later, Hüsler made his ATP main draw singles debut at the Swiss Open Gsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
