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Napa Valley Challenger
The Napa Valley Challenger is a tennis List of tennis tournaments, tournament held in Napa, California, United States, since 2013. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on outdoor hard courts. Past finals Singles Doubles External links Official website {{ATP Challenger Tour Napa Valley Challenger, ATP Challenger Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napa, California
Napa is the largest city and county seat of Napa County and a principal city of Wine Country in Northern California. Located in the North Bay region of the Bay Area, the city had a population of 77,480 as of the end of 2021. Napa is a major tourist destination in California, known for its wineries, restaurants, and arts culture. History The name "Napa" was probably derived from the name given to a southern Nappan village whose native people shared the area with elk, deer, grizzlies and cougars for many centuries, according to Napa historian Kami Santiago. Mexican era At the time of the first recorded exploration into Napa Valley in 1823, the majority of the inhabitants consisted of Native American Indians. Padre José Altimira, founder of Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma, led the expedition. Spanish priests converted some natives; the rest were attacked and dispersed by Mexican soldiers. The first now American immigrants began arriving in area in the 1830s. Post-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Napa Valley Challenger
The 2013 Napa Valley Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the First edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Napa, California, United States between 23 and 29 September 2013. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of September 16, 2013. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Collin Altamirano * Ben McLachlan * Dennis Novikov * Tim Smyczek The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Greg Ouellette * Thanasi Kokkinakis * Jesse Witten * Dimitar Kutrovsky Champions Singles * Donald Young def. Matthew Ebden 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 Doubles * Bobby Reynolds / John-Patrick Smith def. Steve Johnson / Tim Smyczek 6–4, 7-6(7-2) External linksOfficial Website {{2013 ATP Challenger Tour Napa Valley Challenger The Napa Valley Challenger is a tennis List of tennis tournaments, tournament held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Johnson (tennis)
Steve "Stevie" Johnson Jr. (born December 24, 1989) is an American professional tennis player. For one week in August 2016 he was the top-ranked American in men's singles. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 21 achieved on July 25, 2016 and a doubles ranking of world No. 39 achieved on May 23, 2016. He has won four ATP Challenger Tour titles and four ATP Tour 250 titles, one at Nottingham on grass, twice at Houston on clay and most recently at Newport on grass. He won a bronze medal in men's doubles at the 2016 Olympics with fellow American Jack Sock. Johnson played college tennis for the USC Trojans. He won the NCAA Men's Singles Championship in his junior and senior seasons (2011–2012), and he was a part of a Trojan team that won four consecutive NCAA Championships. Personal life His father, Steve Johnson Sr. (died May 11, 2017, aged 58), was a tennis coach at the Rancho San Clemente Tennis and Fitness Club, and his mother, Michelle, is a mathematics professo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John-Patrick Smith
John-Patrick Tracey "JP" Smith (born 24 January 1989) is an Australian professional tennis player who competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He attended the University of Tennessee from 2007 through 2011 where he was a four-time All-American and made it to the college No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. Smith reached his highest ATP singles ranking of No. 108 on 28 September 2015, and his highest ATP doubles ranking of No. 52 on 11 September 2017. In July 2015, Smith won his maiden ATP Tour match defeating fellow Aussie Bernard Tomic in the first round of the Hall of Fame Championships in Newport. He went on to reach the semifinals. In 2019, he reached the final of the Australian Open mixed doubles alongside fellow Aussie Astra Sharma. College career Knoxville became Smith's home away from home when he enrolled at the University of Tennessee in August 2007. It was on those campus' hardcourts that he became one of the most prolific at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Reynolds
Robert Thomas "Bobby" Reynolds (born July 17, 1982) is an American retired professional tennis player who resides in Auburn, Alabama. He was named head men's tennis coach at Auburn University in June 2016. Professional career Reynolds, a native of Acworth, Georgia, led the Vanderbilt Commodores to the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship final in 2003, and was named the tournament's MVP (he defeated fellow future pro Amer Delic of Illinois in the team final, but the Commodores fell 4–3 to the Illini in the championship). That same year, he finished the season number one in the nation in singles. He was also named ITA National Player of Month a record three times in '03, and named Southeastern Conference Player of Year in '03, finishing his final season with a 46–7 singles record. He owned the school record for career wins in singles (99) until 2015. He holds the record for single-season wins (46 in '03). Reynolds attended Vanderbilt for three years and majored in business, but l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradley Klahn
Bradley Klahn (born August 20, 1990) is an American professional tennis player from Poway, California. Klahn played collegiate tennis at Stanford University, where he won the 2010 NCAA Singles Championships as a sophomore. His next year as a junior, he was a finalist in the NCAA Doubles Championship. He played at the 2010 US Open, taking a set from 20th seed Sam Querrey before being defeated in four sets. Klahn received a wild card into the 2011 SAP Open. He underwent back surgery in February 2015 and did not resume playing until late 2016, accepting a wild card into qualifying for the Challenger event in Champaign-Urbana and winning three matches to reach the main draw, where he defeated Sam Groth in the first round and Tennys Sandgren in the second before falling to Jared Donaldson in the quarterfinals. Personal life Began playing tennis at age 11 after his mother, Nancy, who played tennis at University of Iowa, signed him up for a summer round-robin league; Father, Denn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adil Shamasdin
Adil Shamasdin ( ; born May 23, 1982) is a Canadians, Canadian professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He reached his highest doubles ranking of world No. 41 on June 26, 2017. Tennis career Shamasdin's junior career saw him finish ranked No. 5 in singles and No. 1 in doubles in Canada. In his senior career, he has won so far three Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP World Tour doubles titles, in 2011 at the 2011 SA Tennis Open, SA Tennis Open with James Cerretani, in 2015 at the 2015 Grand Prix Hassan II, Grand Prix Hassan II with Rameez Junaid and in 2017 at the 2017 Lyon Open, Lyon Open with Andrés Molteni. He also has won twenty ATP Challenger Tour doubles titles and seven ITF Men's Circuit, ITF Futures doubles titles. In 2015 in the 2015 Davis Cup World Group, Davis Cup World Group quarterfinals, he was selected to play his first tie for Canada, losing the doubles match with Daniel Nestor. The next year in the 2016 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs, Davis C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Polansky
Peter Polansky ( ; born June 15, 1988) is a Canadian professional tennis player of Czech origin. He was Canada's top singles player from June 21, 2010, until January 17, 2011, in the ATP rankings. He was also Canada's No. 2 from August 4, 2008, until June 21, 2010, with the exception of one week. In 2018, he became the first player in the Open Era to qualify for all four Grand Slam tournaments as a lucky loser within the same calendar year. He is currently coaching fellow Canadian Denis Shapovalov while on a hiatus from competing professionally. Personal Polansky ( cz, Polanský) was born in North York, Ontario, Canada. Polansky survived a major scare as an 18-year-old. While in Mexico for a Davis Cup tie as a team hitting partner, he woke up sleepwalking and jumped or fell from a three-story room suffering serious injuries. Later, he said that he saw a dark figure approaching his bed wielding a knife and only thought about escaping through the window. He recovered miraculously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Ebden
Matthew Ebden (born 26 November 1987) is an Australian professional tennis player. He is a two-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles alongside Max Purcell, and the 2013 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2013 Australian Open in mixed doubles with Jarmila Gajdošová. Ebden also finished runner-up at the 2022 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2022 Australian Open in men's doubles with Purcell, and the 2021 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2021 Australian Open and 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles partnering Samantha Stosur. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 24 in January 2022, and has won six doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2014 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Men's doubles, 2014 Mexican Open. In singles, Ebden reached his highest ranking of world No. 39 in October 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Smyczek
Timothy Smyczek ( ; ; born December 30, 1987) is an American former professional tennis player. He made three quarterfinals on the main tour as well as the semi-finals of Newport in 2018. Additionally he won seven Challenger titles. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 68 in April 2015. Smyczek recorded wins over several notable players in his career including Kei Nishikori, John Isner, Ivo Karlović, Sam Querrey, Robby Ginepri, Gilles Müller, and Benjamin Becker. Personal life Smyczek plays the violin and wants to be a lawyer when his tennis career is over. He is good friends with Mardy Fish. He is also a Roman Catholic and a cooperator of Opus Dei. On November 21, 2015, Smyczek married Ana Pier. Tennis career Juniors As a junior, Smyczek reached as high as No. 14 in the world combined rankings in January 2005. Pro tour Smyczek reached the quarterfinals of the SAP Open in 2011, beating Kei Nishikori en route, but lost to Gaël Monfils. He qualified again i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Young (tennis)
Donald Oliver Young Jr. (born July 23, 1989) is an American professional tennis player. Young had a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 38 achieved on 27 February 2012 and doubles ranking of No. 43 achieved on 14 August 2017. As a junior he was ranked No. 1 in the world in 2005. His best singles performance in the Grand Slams was reaching the fourth round of the 2011 US Open, as well as the 2015 US Open. In doubles he reached the final of the 2017 French Open partnering Santiago González. Early life Young began playing tennis at age three with mother, Illona, and father, Donald Sr., who are both tennis teaching professionals. Career Junior and early career In 2001 he came in second to Jesse Levine in the U.S. Clay Court 14 Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was up 5-love in the third set of the final. Young had lost the first set, won the second, and was winning 5–0 and serving for the match at 40–15. Levine scored 23 consecutive points to defeat Young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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