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2012 Türk Telecom İzmir Cup
The 2012 Türk Telecom İzmir Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in İzmir, Turkey between 17 and 23 September 2012. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of September 10, 2012. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Haluk Akkoyun * Tuna Altuna * Durukan Durmus * Efe Yurtacan The following players received a special exempt into the singles main draw: * Tomislav Brkić The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Mirza Bašić * James McGee * Ruan Roelofse * Luca Vanni The following players received entry into the singles main draw as a lucky loser: * Roman Borvanov Champions Singles * Dmitry Tursunov def. Illya Marchenko, 7–6(7–4), 6–7(5–7), 6–3 Doubles * David Rice / Sean Thornley def. Brydan Klein / Dane Propoggia Dane Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcourt
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a type of surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. Historically, hardwood surfaces were also in use in indoor settings, similar to an indoor basketball court, but these surfaces are rare now. Tennis Tennis hard courts are made of synthetic/acrylic layers on top of a concrete or asphalt foundation and can vary in color. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court, as with grass courts but unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play. Speed of rebound after tennis balls bounce on hard courts is determined by how much sand is in the synthetic/acrylic layer placed on top of the asphalt foundation. More sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Bubka (tennis)
Sergei Sergeevich Bubka (; born 10 February 1987) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. He was a member of the Ukraine Davis Cup team and was coached by Tibor Toth, who is also the former coach of Sergiy Stakhovsky. Bubka is the son of pole vaulter Sergey Bubka. On 1 November 2012, Sergei Bubka was seriously injured in a fall from the third floor of an apartment building in Paris. He returned to play tennis in February 2014. Career summary Sergei's biggest success in his career was beating the 5th-seeded Ivan Ljubičić in the first round of the 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships. He also hit a 157 MPH serve during qualifying for the 2011 US Open, which would have been the record had the serve not been out. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures titles Singles: 2 Doubles: 7 References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bubka, Sergei 1987 births Living people Ukrainian male tennis players Sportspeople from Donetsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brydan Klein
Brydan Klein (born 31 December 1989) is an Australian-born British professional tennis player. As a junior, Klein won the 2007 Australian Open and reached a career-high top five in the ITF junior rankings. However, Klein has struggled to make the transition onto the men's professional circuit, failing to enter the top 150 or gain entry into any Grand Slam event without being given a Wild card. Klein competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Junior career Klein began his professional tennis career playing on the ITF Men's Circuit in various events across Australia aged just 15. He featured sporadically on the ITF Circuit throughout 2005 and 2006, winning his first title alongside Matthew Ebden in a doubles event in Traralgon in October 2006. During that year, he also competed at Challenger level for the first time in his career. At the start of 2007, Klein competed in the Australian Open Junior Championships, and won the event after beating Jonathan Eysseric in three sets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illya Marchenko
Illya Vasylovych Marchenko (; born 8 September 1987) is a Ukrainian tennis player. He has a career high in singles of World No. 49 achieved on 26 September 2016 and of No. 268 in doubles achieved on 25 August 2014. On the ATP Tour, Marchenko reached the semifinals of Moscow in 2009, the 2010 St. Petersburg Open and Doha in 2016. He is noted for his backhand, which he cites as his best shot. His favorite surface is hard courts. Personal life Illya began playing tennis at age seven. His father Vassili and mother Anna are both engineers. Has one older brother, Igor Marchenko, a manager and former ice skater who took part in the 1998 Winter Olympics. Growing up, he admired Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer. He has played doubles on the Futures level with fellow Ukrainian Artem Smirnov. He was coached by Orest Tereschuk from July 2009 till 2014 and by Tibor Toth from 2014. Marchenko also has a YouTube channel with close to 3,000 subscribers and 150,000 views where he posts tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Borvanov
Roman Borvanov (born 31 March 1982) is a professional tennis player who represents Moldova. He played NCAA collegiate tennis at the University of Portland. He represented the United States until the end of 2005. Borvanov has won nine singles and seven doubles Futures titles in his career as well as three ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as ... doubles titles. When he achieved his career high ATP singles ranking of 200 in October 2011 he became the first Moldovan player to ever be ranked in the top 200. Roman was sponsored by several top tennis and sports brands. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 15 (9–6) Doubles: 17 (10–7) References External links * * * Interview with him on itftennis.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Borvanov, Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Vanni
Luca Vanni (born 4 June 1985) is an Italian former professional tennis player. He competed mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 100 on 11 May 2015, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 204, on 9 July 2012. Career In 2014, he won seven ITF Futures tournaments, his best season to date. In 2015, he reached his first ATP final in the Brasil Open, but lost to Pablo Cuevas. Later he qualified to the Madrid Masters and reached second round after defeating the world number 26 player Bernard Tomic Bernard Tomic (; , ; born 21 October 1992) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 17 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Tomic has won four singles titles on the ATP To .... In 2015, at the age of 30, he became the oldest Challenger winner in Portoroz, Slovenia. ATP career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) ATP Chall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruan Roelofse
Ruan Roelofse (born 18 November 1989) is a professional South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...n tennis player. Roelofse has a career high ATP singles ranking of 357 achieved on 27 February 2012 and he has a career high ATP Doubles ranking of 122 achieved on 18 April 2016. He has had more success playing doubles, winning 6 ATP Challenger doubles titles. Roelofse has also won 2 ITF singles titles and 39 ITF doubles titles. Roelofse has represented South Africa at the Davis Cup where he has a W/L record of 12–7. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 11 (2–9) Doubles: 82 (45–39) External links * 1989 births Living people Tennis players from Cape Town South African male tennis players Illinois Fighting Illini men's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McGee (tennis)
James McGee (born 10 June 1987) is an Irish former professional tennis player. He was born in Castleknock, Ireland. He attended Belvedere College in Dublin, County Dublin. Personal life McGee was born to Kieran and Marie McGee. He started playing tennis at the age of seven at Castleknock. He won his school's tennis championship in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and was also awarded the Most Outstanding Player of the Year in Ireland in 2003. He was educated at Belvedere College in Dublin and then obtained a major in Psychology from North Carolina State University in 2008. Career McGee has spent most of his career on the Futures and Challenger circuits. As of 9 June 2014, he had played in 10 Davis Cup ties for Ireland with a record of 13 wins and 8 losses (9–5 in singles & 4–3 in doubles). 2014 McGee had finished 2013 in good form and continued this into 2014, reaching the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas de Nouvelle-Calédonie in Nouméa, equalling his best performance at a challeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirza Bašić
Mirza Bašić (; born 12 July 1991) is a Bosnian professional tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title at the 2018 Sofia Open and is a member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team. Career Bašić reached his first Grand Slam tournament after qualifying for the 2016 Australian Open. He became the second male player representing Bosnia and Herzegovina, after compatriot Damir Džumhur, to reach the main draw of a Grand Slam. In 2018, Bašić won his first ATP World Tour title at the Sofia Open as a qualifier. He entered the 2022 edition of the same tournament as a lucky loser. ATP career finals Singles: 1 (1 title) Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 20 (10–10) Doubles: 8 (3–5) Performance timeline ''Current as far as the 2022 Wimbledon Championships.'' Davis Cup * indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score The Score may refer to: Films and television * The Score (1978 film), ''The Score'' (1978 film), a 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomislav Brkić
Tomislav Brkić (; born 9 March 1990) is a Bosnian professional tennis player. Brkić achieved a career-high in doubles of World No. 40 on 17 January 2022. He has won two ATP doubles titles one with Nikola Ćaćić and one with Francisco Cabral. He is currently the captain and a member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team. Professional career 2021–2023: First ATP title, First Grand Slam quarterfinal, top 40 debut in doubles 2021 was the most successful year in Brkić's career. Partnered with Nikola Ćaćić, he won his first ATP title at the 2021 Argentina Open and reached the final of the 2021 Andalucía Open and semifinal at 2021 Serbia Open. On his Grand Slam debut, he reached the second round of the 2021 Australian Open partnering with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi. The pair Brkić/Ćaćić also reached the quarterfinals of the 2021 French Open for their best showing in their careers defeating fourth seeds M. Granollers/H. Zeballos and M. González/S. Bolelli en route ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuna Altuna
Tuna Altuna (born 30 January 1989 in Istanbul) is a Turkish tennis player. Altuna has a career high ATP singles ranking of 651 achieved on 9 September 2013. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 355 achieved on 28 December 2015. In February 2016 he entered the doubles main draw of the inaugural ATP Garanti Koza Sofia Open in Sofia, Bulgaria. Alongside Konstantin Kravchuk, they lost in the quarterfinals against Philipp Oswald and Adil Shamasdin. Playing for Turkey in Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ..., Altuna has a W/L record of 1–1. ATP career finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) References External links * * * 1989 births Living people Turkish male tennis players Tennis players from Istanbul 21st-century Turkish sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
