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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 ...

in 2017. Primarily, it provides the results of notable tournaments throughout the year on both the ATP and WTA Tours, the Davis Cup, and the

Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ...

ITF

Grand Slam events

Davis Cup

Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ...

Important events

Other tennis events

* September 22–24: 2017 Laver Cup in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...

Team Europe defeated Laver-Cup-Globe

Team World, 15–9, to win their first Laver Cup title.

Number-1-ranked players

Men's singles

Female singles

Men's doubles

Female doubles

Beach tennis ''For the sport called "beach paddleball", see Matkot. For other sports called "paddleball", see Paddleball (sport).'' Beach tennis is a game combining elements of tennis and volleyball and played on a beach. Forms Beach tennis Beach tenni ...

Continental and world events

* July 10: 2017 ITF Beach Tennis World Team Championship in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

** In the final, defeated , 2–0. took third place and fourth place. * August 1–6: World Championships in Cervia ** Men's doubles: Michele Cappelletti & Luca Carli ** Women's doubles: Federica Bacchetta & Giulia Gasparri * October 8–10: 2017 ITF European Championships in

Sozopol Sozopol ( bg, Созопол , el, Σωζόπολη, translit=Sozopoli) is an ancient seaside town located 35 km south of Burgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Today it is one of the major seaside resorts in the country, known for th ...

ITF Beach Tennis Tour (only prize money)

;Europe * January 6–8: #1 in

Monopoli Monopoli (; Monopolitano: ) is a town and municipality in Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Bari and region of Apulia. The town is roughly in area and lies on the Adriatic Sea about southeast of Bari. It has a population of 49,24 ...

** Men's doubles: Faccini Marco & Niccolò Strano ** Women's doubles: Sofia Cimatti & Flaminia Daina * February 18 & 19 #2 in Nijmegen ** Men's doubles: Ioannis Dimopoulos & Massimo Mattei ** Women's doubles: Katarína Páleníková & Natascia Sciolti * February 18 & 19: #3 in

San Lazzaro di Savena San Lazzaro di Savena ( Bolognese: ) is an Italian ''comune'' (municipality) of some 32,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. Geography The town is located on the Via Emilia, a major thoroughfare for town traffic, ...

** Men's doubles: Michele Cappelletti & Luca Carli ** Women's doubles: Sofia Cimatti & Flaminia Daina * April 22 & 23: #4 in Cervia ** Men's doubles: Mikael Alessi & Alessio Chiodioni ** Women's doubles: Michela Romani & Noemi Romani * April 29 & 30: #5 in

Larnaca Larnaca ( el, Λάρνακα ; tr, Larnaka) is a city on the south east coast of Cyprus and the capital of the district of the same name. It is the third-largest city in the country, after Nicosia and Limassol, with a metro population of 1 ...

** Men's doubles: Gregorio Barison & Diego Bollettinari ** Women's doubles: Ekaterina Glazkova & Anna Romanova * April 30 & May 1: #6 in Lido degli Estensi #1 ** Men's doubles: Nicolò Appiotti & Francesco Pesaresi ** Women's doubles: Federica Bacchetta & Giulia Gasparri * May 20 & 21: #7 in

Póvoa de Varzim Póvoa de Varzim (, ) is a Portugal, Portuguese city in Norte Region, Portugal, Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho River, Minho ...

** Men's doubles: Gerard Rodriguez & Thibaut François ** Women's doubles: Omayra Farías & Silvia Arroyo * May 26–28: #8 in

Lignano Sabbiadoro Lignano Sabbiadoro (; fur, Lignan) is a town and comune within the province of Udine, in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of north-eastern Italy. It is one of the main summer resorts in northern Italy and on the Adriatic Sea coast. History ...

** Men's doubles: Luca Cramarossa & Marco Garavini ** Women's doubles: Sofia Cimatti & Flaminia Daina * May 27 & 28: #9 in Jurmala ** Men's doubles: Gerard Rodriguez & Ioannis Dimopoulos ** Women's doubles: Anelle Luik & Dorothee Berreth * June 3 & 4: #10 in Lido degli Estensi #2 ** Men's doubles: Diego Bollettinari & Matteo Marighella ** Women's doubles: Sofia Cimatti & Flaminia Daina * June 3: #11 in

Viljandi Viljandi (, german: Fellin, sv, Fellin) is a town and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,407 in 2019. It is the capital of Viljandi County and is geographically located between two major Estonian cities, Pärnu and Tartu. ...

** Men's doubles: Ainar Laube & Priit Pihl ** Women's doubles: Anelle Luik & Anna Svaronoka * June 4 & 5: #12 in

La Flèche La Flèche () is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most po ...

** Men's doubles: Jérôme Maillot & Jean Nouaux ** Women's doubles: Pauline Bourdet & Catherine Henuzet * June 10 & 11: #13 in Liepaja ** Men's doubles: Nikolay Guryev & Ioannis Dimopoulos ** Women's doubles:

Liudmila Nikoyan Liudmila Nikoyan ( hy, Լյուդմիլա Նիկոյանը; born 1 August 1979) is a Russian born former Armenian tennis player. In her career, Nikoyan won five doubles titles on the ITF circuit. On 9 October 2000, she reached her best singles ...

& Irina Kuzmina-Rimša * June 10 & 11: #14 in

Furiani Furiani (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department, on the island of Corsica, France. Population See also * Communes of the Haute-Corse department * Tour de Furiani * Railway stations in Corsica The railways in Corsica (part of Fra ...

** Men's doubles: Patricio Pallara & Davide Fontana ** Women's doubles: Giorgia Gilardi & Elisa Cappelli * June 17 & 18: #15 in Sillery ** Men's doubles: Benjamin Gros & Jean Nouaux ** Women's doubles: Magali Garnier & Natascia Sciolti * June 17 & 18: #16 in

Ravenna Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the ca ...

** Men's doubles: Luca Cramarossa & Marco Garavini ** Women's doubles: Federica Bacchetta & Giulia Gasparri * June 18: #17 in

Ingelheim am Rhein Ingelheim (), officially Ingelheim am Rhein ( en, Ingelheim upon Rhine), is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. The town sprawls along the Rhine's west bank. It has been Mainz-Bingen's district seat ...

** Men's doubles: Benjamin Ringlstetter & Manuel Ringlstetter ** Women's doubles: Nadja Leuenberger & Sarah Leuenberger * June 24 & 25: #18 in

Montauban Montauban (, ; oc, Montalban ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, region of Occitania, Southern France. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, ...

** Men's doubles: Régis Courtois & Simone Burini ** Women's doubles: Elisa Cappelli & Giorgia Gilardi * July 1 & 2: #18 in

Rhodes Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the S ...

** Men's doubles: Andrea Stuto & Simone Burini ** Women's doubles: Alessia Angelini & Natascia Sciolti * July 1 & 2: #19 in

Fregene Fregenae ( el, ; it, Fregene), was a maritime town of ancient Etruria, situated between Alsium and the mouth of the Tiber. The modern Fregene is an Italian hamlet (''frazione'') of Fiumicino, in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio. As of 2012 i ...

** Men's doubles: Doriano Beccaccioli & Davide Benussi ** Women's doubles: Veronica Casadei & Nicole Nobile * July 7–9: #20 in

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering an ...

** Men's doubles: Luca Cramarossa & Marco Garavini ** Women's doubles: Sofia Cimatti & Flaminia Daina * July 15–16: #21 in

Alba Adriatica Alba Adriatica is a town and ''comune'' with 12,386 residents (2014) in the province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of central eastern Italy. It is known as one of the "seven sisters" of the northern Abruzzo coast, i.e. the seven coastal towns ...

** Men's doubles: Tommaso Giovannini & Luca Meliconi ** Women's doubles: Maddalena Cini & Greta Giusti * July 21 & 23: #22 in

Ugento Ugento (Salentino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Lecce, Apulia, southern Italy. It has a small harbour on the Gulf of Taranto of the Ionian Sea. History The city is the ancient ''Uxentum'', and claims to have been founded by Uxen ...

** Men's doubles: Alessandro Calbucci & Marco Garavini ** Women's doubles: Sofia Cimatti & Flaminia Daina * July 22 & 23: #23 in

Preddvor Preddvor (; german: Höflein''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 54.) is a town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Preddvo ...

** Men's doubles: Alessandro Taccaliti & Mattia Spoto ** Women's doubles: Katarína Páleniková & Giulia Curzi * July 22 & 23: #24 in Samara ** Men's doubles: Nikolay Guryev & Andrey Kozbinov ** Women's doubles: Ekaterina Kamenetckaia & Regina Livanova * July 22 & 23: #25 in Angoulême ** Men's doubles: Igor Panin & Gerard Rodriguez-Querol ** Women's doubles: Catherine Henuzet & Capucine Rousseau * July 28–30: #26 in

Frontignan Frontignan (; ) is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. Frontignan is renowned for its AOC wine, the Muscat de Frontignan, a sweet wine made solely from the Muscat grape variety. Geography Frontignan is located in the ...

** Men's doubles: Gregorio Barison & Diego Bolletinari ** Women's doubles: Dorothee Berreth & Julie Labrit * July 29 & 30: #27 in

Torre del Lago Torre del Lago (Tower of the Lake) is a town of almost 11,000 inhabitants, a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Viareggio, in the province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, between the Lake of Massaciuccoli and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Festival Puccini, ...

** Men's doubles: Luca Cramarossa & Marco Garavini ** Women's doubles: Sofia Cimatti & Flaminia Daina * August 5 & 6: #28 in Faro ** Men's doubles: Pedro Maio & Henrique Freitas ** Women's doubles: Manuela Cunha & Ana Catarina Alexandrino * August 6: #29 in

Dąbrowa Górnicza Dąbrowa Górnicza is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, southern Poland, near Katowice and Sosnowiec. It is located in eastern part of the Silesian Voivodeship, on the Czarna Przemsza and Biała Przemsza rivers (tributaries of the Vistula River, ...

** Men's doubles: Uroš Brinovec & Daniel Kahr ** Women's doubles: Aniko Kovacs & Monika Erdelyi * August 19 & 20: #24 in

Ahlbeck Ahlbeck is a village (''Ortsteil'') of the Heringsdorf municipality on the island of Usedom on the Baltic coast. It is the easternmost of the so-called ''Kaiserbäder'' ("Imperial Spas") seaside resorts on the German part of the island, situa ...

;Africa * February 17 & 18: #1 in

Marsa Alam Marsa Alam ( ar, مرسى علم ' , Classical Arabic ) is a town in south-eastern Egypt, located on the western shore of the Red Sea. It is currently seeing fast increasing popularity as a tourist destination and development following the openi ...

** Men's doubles: Yves Fornasier & Alexander Bailer ** Women's doubles: Laura Galli & Manuela Cunha * March 11 & 12: #2 in Saint-Pierre ** Men's doubles: Romain Say & Philippe Vadel ** Women's doubles: Marie-Eve Hoarau & Mathilde Hoarau * March 17–19: #3 in Saint-Gilles #1 ** Men's doubles: Michele Cappelletti & Luca Carli ** Women's doubles: Federica Bacchetta & Giulia Gasparri * March 18 & 19: #4 in

Dahab Dahab ( arz, دهب, , "gold") is a small Egyptian town on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, approximately northeast of Sharm el-Sheikh. Formerly a Bedouin fishing village, Dahab is now considered to be one of Egypt's most tre ...

** Men's doubles: Georgios Karavasilis & Oliver Munz ** Women's doubles: Daria Churakova & Angelina Gordienko * April 15 & 16: #5 in Casablanca #1 ** Men's doubles: Massimo Mattei & Dennis Valmori * April 22 & 23: #6 in

Las Palmas Las Palmas (, ; ), officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital (jointly with Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the most populous city in the auto ...

** Men's doubles: Luca Cramarossa & Marco Garavini ** Women's doubles: Flaminia Daina & Sofia Cimatti * April 23 & 24: #7 in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...

** Men's doubles: Ioannis Dimopulos & Giorgos Martinis ** Women's doubles: Anastasia Kokkinou & Evaggelia Tsavou * May 7 & 8: #8 in L'Étang-Salé ** Men's doubles: Mathieu Guegano & Ugo Quilici ** Women's doubles: Julia Coll & Elodie Vadel * May 15 & 16: #9 in Casablanca #2 ** Men's doubles: Marco Scudellari & Stefano Casadei ** Women's doubles: Angelina Gordienko & Yulia Chubarova * May 20 & 21: #10 in Casablanca #3 ** Men's doubles: Marco Scudellari & Stefano Casadei ** Women's doubles: Sarah Benabdeljalil & Camilia Benabdeljalil * May 27 & 28: #11 in Saint-Gilles #2 ** Men's doubles: Frédéric Pamard & Théo Irigaray ** Women's doubles: Mathilde Hoareau & Marie-Eve Hoarau * July 29 & 30: #12 in

Tanger Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the ca ...

** Men's doubles: Adil Medina & Javeir Mendez ** Women's doubles: Camilia Benabdeljalil & Sarah Benabdeljalil ;Asia * April 1 & 2: #1 in Fujisawa #1 ** Men's doubles: Yusuke Hiraki & Susumu Kawashima ** Women's doubles: Eri Homma & Akiko Otani * May 20 & 21: #2 in Miura ** Men's doubles: Keita Iseki & Naoaki Yamamoto ** Women's doubles: Misa Miyasaka & Tomomi Takahashi * May 27 & 28: #3 in Fujisawa #2 ** Men's doubles: Susumu Nakajima & Naoaki Yamamoto ** Women's doubles: Eri Homma & Akiko Otani * July 1 & 2: #4 in Fujisawa #3 ** Men's doubles: Daisuke Tsuruoka & Naoaki Yamamoto ** Women's doubles: Eri Homma & Akiko Otani * August 19 & 20: #5 in

Fukuoka is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since anc ...

;Central America * April 8 & 9: #1 in Orient Bay ** Men's doubles: Mathieu Porry & Raphael Porry ** Women's doubles: Maraike Biglmaier & Patricia Diaz * April 14–16: #2 in

Le Moule Le Moule ( gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Moul) is the sixth-largest commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. It is located on the northeast side of the island of Grande-Terre. History Beginning 1635 with the arrival of the French ...

** Men's doubles: Nikita Burmakin & Tommaso Giovannini ** Women's doubles: Maraike Biglmaier & Patricia Diaz * April 21–23: #3 in

Le Carbet Le Carbet (, ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Kabé) is a village and commune in the French overseas department of Martinique. Population See also *Communes of Martinique The following is a list of the 34 communes of the Martinique overseas ...

** Men's doubles: Nikita Burmakin & Tommaso Giovannini ** Women's doubles: Maraike Biglmaier & Patricia Diaz * May 26–28: #4 in Carolina ** Men's doubles: Carlos Rivera & Carlos Vigon ** Women's doubles: Lady Correa & Marie-Pier Huet * June 3–5: #5 in

Schœlcher Schœlcher (; Martinican Creole: ) is a town and the fourth-largest commune in the French overseas department of Martinique. The town was named Case-Navire until 1889, when it was renamed in honor of French abolitionist writer Victor Schœlcher ...

** Men's doubles: Nicholas Giannotti & Maxence Tournebize ** Women's doubles: Julie Labrit & Alizé Ayassamy ;South America * March 3–5: #1 in Salinas ** Men's doubles: Alessandro Calbucci & Michele Cappelletti ** Women's doubles: Sofia Cimatti & Flaminia Daina * April 15 & 16: #2 in Maitencillo ** Men's doubles: Vicente Brusadelli & Juan Pablo Ramirez ** Women's doubles: Jessica Orselli & Belen Tejeda * April 29 & 30: #3 in João Pessoa ** Men's doubles: Ralff Abreu & Diogo Carneiro ** Women's doubles:

Joana Cortez Joana Amorim Cortez dos Santos (born 11 January 1979) is a retired Brazilian tennis player. In her career, Cortez won seven singles and 26 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 17 September 2001, she reached her best singles ranking of w ...

& Rafaella Miiller * May 6 & 7: #4 in Niterói ** Men's doubles: Luca Cramarossa & Marco Garavini ** Women's doubles:

& Rafaella Miiller * May 13 & 14: #5 in Balneário Camboriú ** Men's doubles: Ralff Abreu & Diogo Carneiro ** Women's doubles: Nathalia Font & Flávia Muniz * May 20 & 21: #6 in

Maceió Maceió (), formerly sometimes Anglicised as Maceio, is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state of Alagoas, Brazil. The name "Maceió" is an Indigenous term for a spring. Most maceiós flow to the sea, but some get trapped and form l ...

** Men's doubles: Ralff Abreu & Diogo Carneiro ** Women's doubles:

& Rafaella Miiller * July 1 & 2: #7 in São Miguel do Gostoso ** Men's doubles: Ralff Abreu & Diogo Carneiro ** Women's doubles: Marilia Câmara & Lorena Melo * August 4–6: #8 in Fortaleza ** Men's doubles: Allan Oliveira & Adolfo Januário ** Women's doubles: Flávia Muniz & Marilia Câmara

International Tennis Hall of Fame The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It honors both players and other contributors to the sport of tennis. The complex, the former Newport Casino, includes a museum, grass tennis courts, an indo ...

*Class of 2017: **

Kim Clijsters Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters (; born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Clijsters reached the world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles, having held both rankings simultaneously in 2003. She won six major titles, ...

, player ** Monique Kalkman-Van Den Bosch, player **

Andy Roddick Andrew Stephen Roddick (born 30 August 1982) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He is a major champion, having won the 2003 US Open. Roddick reached four other major finals ( Wimbledon in 2004, 2005, and 2009, and the US Ope ...

, player **

Vic Braden Victor Kenneth Braden Jr. (August 2, 1929 – October 6, 2014) was an American tennis player, instructor and television broadcaster for the sport. He earned a PhD in psychology and was married twice. He had 2 children, 1 grandchild and 3 st ...

, contributor ** Steve Flink, contributor

References

External links

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