Lucky Loser (tennis)
A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw, usually when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury, or other reasons. The lucky loser then re-enters the competition, normally in place of the withdrawn competitor. In the event of a lucky loser's re-entry to a competition, it usually occurs before all competitors in the main draw have started their first match in the tournament. Lucky losers as tennis tournament winners and finalists It is rare for a lucky loser to win an ATP or WTA tournament; Heinz Gunthardt did it in 1978 (at Springfield), Bill Scanlon in 1978 (at Maui), Francisco Clavet in 1990 in Hilversum, Christian Miniussi in 1991 in São Paulo, Sergiy Stakhovsky in 2008 in Zagreb, Rajeev Ram in 2009 in Newport, Andrey Rublev in 2017 in Umag, Leonardo Mayer in the following week in 2017 in Hamburg and Marco Cecchinato at the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Israeli Team Playing Against Wales At The Ramat Gan Stadium, 1958 D448-079
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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German Open Tennis Championships
The Hamburg European Open (formerly ''German Open Tennis Championships'') is an annual tennis tournament for professional players held in Hamburg, Germany and part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. Before 2021, it was a male-only event. The tournament is played on outdoor clay courts at the tennis center '' Am Rothenbaum'' in the Harvestehude quarter. For much of its history, the tournament was contested in May, as a precursor to the French Open on the professional tennis calendar. Starting with the 2009 tournament, it has been held in July instead. The women's event was held initially separately from 1982 to 1983 (in Hittfeld), and again from 1987 through to 2002. It was part of the WTA Tour and existed under several different sponsored names, most commonly known as the Citizen Cup (1987–1995) and the Betty Barclay Cup (1999–2002). WTA Hamburg was the location where Monica Seles, then-world No.1, was stabbed during a match by a disorderly local te ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy – Singles
Jürgen Melzer was the defending champion. He successfully defended his last year's title by beating Lucky loser and his compatriot, Andreas Haider-Maurer Andreas Haider-Maurer (; born 22 March 1987) is a retired professional tennis player from Austria. In the first round of the 2010 US Open, he forced world No. 5 Robin Söderling to a fifth set before losing the match. That same year, Haider-Mau ... 6–7(10–12), 7–6(7–4), 6–4 in the final match. Seeds The top four seeds received a bye into the second round. Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References Main DrawQualifying Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2010 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy - Singles Bank Austria-TennisTrophy - Singles 2010 - Singles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andreas Haider-Maurer
Andreas Haider-Maurer (; born 22 March 1987) is a retired professional tennis player from Austria. In the first round of the 2010 US Open, he forced world No. 5 Robin Söderling to a fifth set before losing the match. That same year, Haider-Maurer reached the final of his home tournament in Vienna. He lost to compatriot, defending champion and top seed Jürgen Melzer Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. Melzer reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in April 2011, and a doubles ranking of world No. 6 in September 2010. He has a younger brother, Gera .... In late 2015, Haider-Maurer suffered a right heel injury and it eventually turned out that he missed the whole 2016 season. He retired in January 2019 after 3 years of injury problems. Haider-Maurer won 9 Challenger events and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 47 in April 2015. ATP career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Singles performance ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Daniela Vismane
Daniela Adrija Vismane (born 10 August 2000) is a tennis player from Latvia. She is a member of the Latvia Fed Cup team and has a win–loss record in Fed Cup competition of 3–9. On the ITF Circuit, she has won three singles and two doubles titles. She has career-high rankings of 228 in singles and 208 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Junior career Grand Slam performance Singles: * Australian Open: QF (2018) * French Open: 2R (2017, 2018) * Wimbledon: 1R (2017, 2018) * US Open: 1R (2017) Doubles: * Australian Open: – * French Open: 1R (2017) * Wimbledon: QF (2017) * US Open: – Career She made her ITF Circuit debut in May 2015 as a qualifier at the $10k tournament of Puszczykowo. In March 2018, she reached her first semifinal at the $15k event in Mâcon, and then in July was advanced to her first final at the $15k Pärnu. In the final, she defeated Angelina Zhuravleva in three sets. A month later, she won her first doubles title at the $15k Budape ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2021 Open Angers Arena Loire – Singles
This was the first edition of this tennis tournament. Vitalia Diatchenko won her third career WTA 125 title, defeating Zhang Shuai Zhang Shuai (; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She is a two-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open, both alongside Samantha Stosur. Zhang also ... 6–0, 6–4 in the final. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Lucky loser Draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier References External links Singles Main DrawSingles Qualifying Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2021 Open Angers Arena Loire - Singles Open Angers Arena Loire - Singles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vitalia Diatchenko
Vitalia Anatolyevna Diatchenko ( rus, Виталия Анатольевна Дьяченко, , vʲɪˈtalʲɪjə dʲjɪˈtɕenkə, Ru-Vitalia_Diatchenko.ogg; born 2 August 1990) is a Russian professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 71, achieved on 17 November 2014. On 21 February 2011, she peaked at No. 60 in the doubles rankings. Career 2009: Grand Slam debut Diatchenko's first Grand Slam tournament was Roland Garros, where she 2009 qualified for the main draw. In the tournament, she upset world No. 75 player, Mathilde Johansson, before she lost to then-world No. 1, Dinara Safina. In 2009, she lost the finals of Pattaya Open along with Yulia Beygelzimer to opponents Tamarine Tanasugarn and Yaroslava Shvedova, in straight sets, and of Tashkent Open with Ekaterina Dzehalevich to Tatiana Poutchek and Olga Govortsova, in three sets. 2010 In 2010, she lost the final of the Portugal Open with Aurélie Védy to opponents Anabel Medina Garrigues an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jeļena Ostapenko
Jeļena Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997), also known as Aļona Ostapenko, is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 5 in singles, achieved on 19 March 2018, and world No. 9 in doubles, reached on 22 August 2022. Ostapenko won the 2017 French Open singles title, becoming the first player from Latvia to win a Grand Slam singles tournament and the first unseeded player to win the French Open since 1933. In addition to her singles career, she has played as a member of the Latvia Fed Cup team. She has won seven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and she also won the junior singles event at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. Personal life Ostapenko was born in Riga to former Ukrainian footballer Jevgēnijs Ostapenko (d. 2020) and Russian Jeļena Jakovļeva. Jevgēnijs played professional football for FC Metalurh Zaporizhya in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia where Jeļena's grandmother lives. Jeļena has one half-br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Coco Gauff
Cori Dionne "Coco" Gauff (born March 13, 2004) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in singles, reached on October 24, 2022, and world No. 1 in doubles, achieved on August 15, 2022. Gauff won her first WTA Tour singles title at the 2019 Linz Open aged 15, making her the youngest singles title-holder on the Tour since 2004. She has won two WTA Tour singles titles and six doubles titles – three partnering with Caty McNally and three with Jessica Pegula. Gauff rose to prominence with a win over Venus Williams in the opening round of 2019 Wimbledon. Born to parents with NCAA Division I collegiate backgrounds in basketball and track and field, Gauff experimented with a variety of sports as a child. She chose tennis, inspired by the Williams sisters and preferring an individual sport. Gauff had success as a junior, earning a sponsorship to train at Patrick Mouratoglou's academy in France. She began playing on the ITF Junior Circu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018 Moscow River Cup
The 2018 Moscow River Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the first edition of the event and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the National Tennis Center in Moscow, Russia from 23 through 29 July 2018. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds *1 Rankings as of July 16, 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Antonia Lottner * Anastasia Potapova The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw: * Laura Siegemund The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Paula Badosa Gibert * Deborah Chiesa * Varvara Flink * Valentini Grammatikopoulou * Valentyna Ivakhnenko * Martina Trevisan The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Irina Bara * Olga Danilović Withdrawals ;Before the tournament * Irina-Camelia Begu → replaced by Irina Bara * Mihaela Buzărnescu → replace ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Olga Danilović
Olga Danilović ( sr-cyr, Олга Даниловић, ; born 23 January 2001) is a Serbian tennis player. In July 2018, Danilović won her first WTA Tour singles title in Moscow by beating Anastasia Potapova in the final. She also won two WTA doubles titles, first in Tashkent and the second one in Lausanne. On the WTA Challenger Tour, she has won one doubles title. She has also won five singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 October 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 96. On 24 June 2019, she peaked at No. 117 in the WTA doubles rankings. In 2018, Danilović's coach became former world No. 2, Àlex Corretja, having been her mentor since 2016. During her title tour in Moscow, former Serbian Fed Cup captain, Dejan Vraneš, traveled with Danilović and coached her although he is not her official coach. In 2018-19, she was briefly coached by Petar Popović. In 2017–18, her coach was Juan Lizariturry. Danilović was coached in th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andrea Jaeger
Andrea Jaeger ( ; born June 4, 1965) is an American former professional tennis player. A world No. 2, Jaeger's brief but highly successful tennis career ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. Jaeger started her professional tennis career at the age of 14 and went on to win pro tennis tournaments while still competing in other junior tennis events. By the age of 16, she was the second ranked female professional tennis player in the world. She reached the singles final of Wimbledon in 1983 and the French Open in 1982. She reached the singles semifinals of the Australian Open in 1982 and of the U.S. Open in 1980 and 1982. She also won 10 singles titles. During her career she defeated almost all top ranked tennis players and defeated Chris Evert three times in a row becoming the only player able to stop Chris Evert’s clay court historic win streak. In mixed doubles, Jaeger won the French Open with Jimmy Arias in 1981. During her career, Jaeger won U.S. $1.4 million in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |