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Challenger Britania Zavaleta
The Abierto de Puebla (previously known as the Challenger Varonil Britania Zavaleta) is a professional tennis tournament played on hardcourt, hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) ITF Women's Circuit, Women's Circuit. It was held annually in Puebla, Mexico, from 1996 to 2009. The tournament was reinstated in 2016. Past finals Singles Doubles Women's singles Women's doubles External linksITF search {{ITF Women's Circuit ATP Challenger Tour ITF Women's World Tennis Tour Hard court tennis tournaments Recurring sporting events established in 1996 Challenger Britania Zavaleta Tennis tournaments in Mexico Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2016 1996 establishments in Mexico 2016 disestablishments in Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is the city of Puebla. It is located in East-Central Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Veracruz to the north and east, Hidalgo, México, Tlaxcala and Morelos to the west, and Guerrero and Oaxaca to the south. The origins of the state lie in the city of Puebla, which was founded by the Spanish in this valley in 1531 to secure the trade route between Mexico City and the port of Veracruz. By the end of the 18th century, the area had become a colonial province with its own governor, which would become the State of Puebla, after the Mexican War of Independence in the early 19th century. Since that time the area, especially around the capital city, has continued to grow economically, mostly through industry, despite being the scene o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kendrick
Robert Bradley Kendrick (born November 15, 1979) is an American retired professional tennis player. He turned professional in 2000. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 69, achieved in July 2009. Early life Robert Kendrick was born to Tom and Doris Kendrick and began playing tennis at the age of 5. Tom is a real estate appraiser and Doris is a housewife. Kendrick has three older siblings: Kerry, Tommy, and Scott. He graduated from Bullard High School in 1997. In 1996, he led his team to an undefeated section championship. College and junior tennis career Kendrick has been called a serve-and-volley player. Kendrick's main strengths are his serve and his forehand. Throughout high school, he competed in junior tennis and enjoyed some intermittent success. In 1996, he was the runner-up in singles at the 1996 USTA Boys’ 18s National Indoor Championships. Then in 1997, he reached the final in doubles of the Easter Bowl and reached the singles final and took the doubles tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Hernández (tennis)
Alejandro Hernández Julia (; born October 1, 1977) is a tennis player from Mexico. Career Hernández turned professional in 1995. A right-hander, he represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ..., where he was defeated in the first round. Hernández reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on February 24, 1997, when he became the 125th best player in the world. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 17 (8–9) Doubles: 31 (18–13) Performance timeline Singles External links * * * * 1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Tijuana Mexican male tennis players Olympic tennis players of Mexico Tennis players at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sell
Michael Sell (born August 23, 1972) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He was the co-head coach of the women’s tennis team at Louisiana State University with Julia Sell from 2015 to April 2022. Career Before he turned professional, Sell played for the University of Georgia and was an All-American every year from 1992 to 1995. He won a bronze medal in the men's doubles at the 1993 Summer Universiade, partnering Rob Givone. Sell appeared in the main singles draw of two Grand Slams. In the 1997 US Open he beat Cecil Mamiit in the opening round, then lost in four sets to Daniel Vacek the next time he played. He exited in the opening round of the 1998 French Open, losing to Jordi Mas, despite taking the first set 6–0. His best performance on the singles circuit came at the 1999 Japan Open Tennis Championships, where he defeated Mark Woodforde and Gouichi Motomura to make the round of 16. In the 2000 Heineken Open he had a win over world number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Dupuis
Antony Dupuis (; born 24 February 1973) is a French retired professional tennis player. __TOC__ Personal life Dupuis began playing tennis at the age of nine with his father Xavier. He mentioned in an interview once that he prefers clay and hard court surfaces. He was coached by Benoit Carelli, whom he credits with improving his physical and mental ability. Carelli had coached Dupuis since February 1998. Career Dupuis won one singles title in Milan in 2004 and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 57 in September 2001. In 2005, at the Valencia tournament, Dupuis became the first French player to defeat Novak Djokovic. In 2006 he tested positive for the banned drug Salbutamol and was suspended for two and a half months. ATP career finals Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 1 (1 title) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 23 (12–11) Doubles: 2 (0–2) Performance timelines Singles See also *List of doping cases in sport T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Hawk
Brandon Hawk (born September 3, 1979) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Tennis career Hawk is originally from Abilene, Texas. While still at Clyde High School in 1997 he played in the main draw of the US Open, in the doubles with Nathan Overholser. The pair won through to the second round by beating Marius Barnard and Tom Nijssen, then were eliminated by the 11th seeds, Swedes Jonas Björkman and Nicklas Kulti. He excelled in basketball while at Clyde High and received inquiries from universities over scholarship opportunities, but ended up playing tennis for the University of Texas. In 1999, his freshman year, Hawk earned All-American honours. Coached on tour by Rick Meyers, Hawk was most successful in the doubles format. He made the quarter-finals of the doubles at Newport's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, an ATP Tour tournament, in 2000. As a singles player he managed to defeat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at a Futures tournament in Jamaica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbynek Mlynarik
Zbynek Mlynarik (born 24 April 1977; cz, Zbyněk Mlynárik) is a former 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 from Austria. Biography Mlynarik is originally from Czechoslovakia, born in Děčín, a town now part of the Czech Republic. Based in Vienna, he began competing professionally from 1998. He made his only main draw appearance on the ATP Tour at his home event, the 2000 CA-TennisTrophy, where he was beaten the first round by eighth seed Cédric Pioline. At Challenger level he won two titles, the singles at Lübeck in 2001 and the doubles at Canberra in 2004. He competed in the qualifying draws of all four Grand Slam tournaments. Since retiring from the tour he has lived in the United States. He has worked as a coach and runs ''My Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rik De Voest
Rik de Voest (born 5 June 1980) is a former professional South African tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 110 in August 2006. Rik resides in Vancouver, Canada where he pursues a career in real estate. De Voest qualified for the 2007 Wimbledon Championships where he lost to Marat Safin in the first round. He also qualified for the US Open later on in 2007, where he defeated Thierry Ascione 6–2, 3–0 before Ascione retired. De Voest went on to lose to John Isner in the following round. Playing with Scott Lipsky in men's doubles, he won the Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger in Binghamton, New York in 2009. In Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ... matches for South Africa, de Voest has a win–loss record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Bogomolov Jr
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolov Jr. (russian: Александр Александрович «Алекс» Богомолов; born April 23, 1983), nicknamed Bogie, is a Russian-American retired professional tennis player. Tennis career Bogomolov's father, Alex Sr., was a former Soviet national tennis coach who worked with Larisa Neiland, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and Andrei Medvedev. Born in Moscow, Russia, the 5' 10" Bogomolov was the no. 1 ranked USTA player for the 18s section in 200 and had a career-high ranking of world no. 33 on October 31, 2011. In 1998, Bogomolov won the United States Tennis Association, USTA National Boys' 16 Championships, defeating Andy Roddick in the final. He was the first player to be beaten by David Nalbandian in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at the 2001 US Open. In 2005, he was suspended for 1.5 months due to a positive doping test during the Australian Open. The banned substance found was salbutamol, which Bogomolov admit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Hantschk
Markus Ferdinand Hantschk (born 19 November 1977) is a German former 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 who was active between 1996 and 2006. He reached two singles finals in ATP tournaments, both in 2000. ATP career finals Singles: 2 (2 runners-up) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 8 (2–6) Doubles: 3 (1–2) Performance timeline Singles References External links * * Official web site 1977 births Living people German male tennis players People from Dachau Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria Tennis people from Bavaria {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Mello
Ricardo Mello (born 21 December 1980) is a Brazilian retired tennis player. His preference is for clay courts. He has had the occasional win in hard court tournaments. His best singles rank was No. 50 in 2005. He won one singles tournament (Delray Beach in 2004) and reached the semifinals three times at the Brasil Open. He played most of his tennis in Challenger tournaments, where he won 15 singles titles and three doubles titles. Career Early days Ricardo was born in Campinas, Brazil and started to play tennis at the age of three. At 15, he drew a wild card into a tournament in his hometown. He lost to veteran and French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten. However, he gained his first ATP career points. In 1999, Ricardo won his first Futures events in Uruguay and Paraguay. 2004 Mello won his lone ATP title at Delray Beach, defeating Vincent Spadea in the final. 2006 At the Campbell's Hall of Fame Championships, Mello played top seed Andy Murray. Murray was in control of the first set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Răzvan Sabău
Răzvan Sabău (born 18 June 1977) is a Romanian retired professional tennis player. He reached the semifinals of Bucharest in 2003 and Gstaad in 2005, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 74 in September 2005. He is the coach of Patricia Maria Țig. Tennis career Juniors Born in Bucharest, Romania, Sabău trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in his junior years and in 1993 he won the Wimbledon junior singles title, finishing the year as the No. 2 junior in the world. He ranked No. 1 for four months that year. Pro tour Sabău turned pro in 1993, at age 16, and the next year he reached the doubles semifinals of the Bucharest Open (with Andrei Pavel) Sabău made his Davis Cup debut in 1994, when he posted his first two wins, against Jeremy Bates and Mark Petchey of Great Britain. When he made his first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament, at Roland Garros in 1999, he lost in the first round. After a series of injuries between 2000 and 2002, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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