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2016 Columbus Challenger 1 – Singles
Dennis Novikov was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Evan King. Mikael Torpegaard won the title after defeating Benjamin Becker Benjamin Becker (born 16 June 1981) is a German former professional tennis player. He is most known for defeating former world No. 1 Andre Agassi in the third round at the 2006 US Open, in Agassi's last match as a professional player. Becker ... 6–4, 1–6, 6–2 in the final. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half ReferencesMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2016 Columbus Challenger 1 - Singles Columbus Challenger 1 - Singles Columbus Challenger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Torpegaard
Mikael Torpegaard (born 8 May 1994) is a Danish professional tennis player. He was a member of the Denmark Davis Cup team. Earlier career Torpegaard won his first career ATP Challenger $75,000 title at the 2016 Columbus Challenger, which is played at Ohio State, where Mikael went to college and became a five-time All-American and a two-time Big Ten Athlete of the Year, an achievement that ranks him among the most successful tennis players in Ohio State history. Professional career 2019: ATP debut Torpegaard qualified for his first ATP main draw at the 2019 Citi Open in Washington, USA where he lost to Marius Copil. 2021: Grand Slam debut Torpegaard made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2021 Australian Open as a lucky loser where he lost to Lloyd Harris. Davis Cup On 22 September 2015 Torpegaard, representing host Denmark for the third time in Davis Cup play, played Rafael Nadal, losing 6–4, 6–3, 6–2. ATP Challenger Tour finals Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Norrie
Cameron Norrie (; born 23 August 1995) is a British professional tennis player. He has reached career-high ATP Rankings, rankings of world No. 8 in singles (on 12 September 2022) and No. 117 in doubles (on 13 June 2022). Norrie has won five ATP Tour singles titles, including a ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 title at the 2021 BNP Paribas Open – Men's singles, 2021 Indian Wells Masters, and one doubles title. He has reached a major semifinal, in Wimbledon in 2022. He was the British No. 1 in men's singles from October 2021 to June 2024. Born in South Africa, he represented New Zealand, where he grew up, before switching nationality in May 2013. From 2014 to 2017 he studied at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth playing for its Horned Frogs team on the U.S. college tennis circuit. Early and personal life Norrie was born in 1995 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to British microbiologist parents: his father David is from Glasgow and his mother Helen is ... [...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] |
Roberto Quiroz
Roberto Quiroz Gómez (; born 23 February 1992) is an Ecuadorian professional tennis player. Quiroz is the nephew of Andrés Gómez and the cousin of Emilio Gómez and Nicolás Lapentti. He attended and played collegiate tennis at the University of Southern California. In 2010 he won the finals stage of Boys' Doubles events on the French Open and US Open with Peruvian tennis player Duilio Beretta. They defeated Argentinian pair Facundo Argüello and Agustín Velotti 6–3, 6–2 in France and they won against Oliver Golding and Jiří Veselý Jiří Veselý (; born 10 July 1993) is a Czech professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 35 on 27 April 2015. Youth career Veselý reached the No. 1 junior combined world ranking in January 2011, co ... 6–1, 7–5 in the United States. Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 12 (6–6) Doubles: 32 (20–12) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 2 (2 titles) References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Bester
Philip Bester (born October 6, 1988) is a Canadian former professional tennis player from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Bester was a finalist at the 2006 junior French Open. In doing so he became the first Canadian male to reach a Grand Slam final in singles. As a junior Bester was coached by his dad Alek Bester from age 5 when he started. Alek, a long time P.E. teacher at York House School in Vancouver, was the core of Philip's physical and tennis development till around the age of 16. Rufus Nel a high performance coach from South Africa was also a big part of Philip's early development, contributing his tennis knowledge and expertise on the game of tennis. At age 13, still coached by his dad, Philip moved down to Florida to attend the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. There he spent 4 years, before teaming up with Jon Sorbo for the 2006 year. He was a member of the 2005 Canadian Davis Cup team as a 17-year-old. He was also voted British Columbia's junior male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Scholtz (tennis)
Nicolaas (Nikala) "Nik" Scholtz (born 5 February 1991) is a former professional tennis player from Greyton, South Africa. Nicolaas qualified for the 2011 SA Tennis Open. Scholtz is the son of Calla Scholtz, a former rugby player who represented Western Province in South Africa's domestic competition, the Currie Cup, from 1982 to 1989 (a total of 116 matches). In 2012, Nicolaas represented South Africa in their Davis Cup play-off against Canada for a spot in the much esteemed World Group. He faced world number fifteen, Milos Raonic, in his first and only match, losing 5–7, 4–6, 5–7. South Africa lost the tie 4–1. In total he played seven ties for South Africa, producing a 5–7 singles record. After spending his childhood in Greyton, a small town in the Boland, Western Cape, Nicolaas' family moved to Caledon and he attended Paarl Boys High School. He completed his studies at the University of Mississippi in the United States in 2015, earning four All-American colou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Gómez (tennis)
Emilio Gómez Estrada (; born 28 November 1991) is an Ecuadorian inactive professional tennis player who competed primarily on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 20 February 2023, he reached his highest Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 90 and a doubles ranking of world No. 254, achieved on 14 September 2015. He is currently the No. 3 Ecuadorian tennis player. Career 2016–2018 He defeated Adam Hornby of Barbados during Davis Cup play on March 4, 2016, by a score of 6–0, 6–0, 6–0, making him the first player to win by such a scoreline at any tournament since 2011, and one of two players to accomplish the feat on that day (Jarkko Nieminen of Finland earned a triple bagel victory over Courtney John Lock of Zimbabwe at Davis Cup competition elsewhere). 2019–2021: First Challenger title, Top 200 & Grand Slam debuts He reached the top 200 on 29 April 2019 following his first title at the 2019 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger in Florida. Gómez mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Meister (tennis)
Nicolas Christian Meister (born May 15, 1989) is an American tennis player. Meister has a career high ATP singles ranking of 263 achieved on June 13, 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 180 achieved on September 26, 2016. Meister made his ATP main draw debut at the 2012 Farmers Classic where he qualified for the main draw, defeating Ilija Bozoljac, Rik de Voest and Jimmy Wang in the qualifying rounds. In the main draw he lost in the first round to the fifth seed Xavier Malisse, 4–6, 1–6. He was also given a wildcard into the doubles event partnering Marcos Giron, where they lost in the first round to Rajeev Ram and Michael Russell in straight sets. Four years later, Meister made his Grand Slam debut when he received a wildcard entry into the 2016 US Open Men's Doubles tournament alongside countryman Eric Quigley. They were defeated in the first round by eventual quarter-finalists Łukasz Kubot and Alexander Peya. Meister has graduated from UCLA Bru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Dancevic
Frank Russell Dancevic ( ; , ; born September 26, 1984) is a retired Canadian professional tennis player. He first became the country's top singles tennis, singles player, according to ATP rankings, on February 10, 2003, as an 18-year-old, and remained so from January 30, 2006, until June 20, 2010. Dancevic has reached two ATP singles finals (Atlanta Open (tennis), Indianapolis and Eastbourne International, Eastbourne), the quarterfinals of the 2007 Rogers Masters – Singles, 2007 Montreal Masters and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 65 in September 2007. In August 2011, Dancevic became the first men's singles player, in one calendar year, to enter the main draw of all four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments by playing the qualifying competition for each event. He has been the captain of Canada's Canada Davis Cup team, Davis Cup team since 2017. Personal Dancevic's father is John and mother Doris. His mother is French-speaking Quebecer, Québécoise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Glasspool
Lloyd Glasspool (born 19 November 1993) is a British professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 7 reached in June 2023 and a singles ranking of No. 282 reached in July 2016. Glasspool has won seven ATP and five ATP Challenger doubles titles and 16 Futures titles (11 in singles and 5 in doubles). Career Glasspool studied at the University of Texas at Austin, where partnering Søren Hess-Olesen he captured the 2015 NCAA doubles championship. 2016: ATP debut Glasspool made his ATP Tour debut (in doubles) at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships having been given a wildcard to partner compatriot Dan Evans in the main draw. 2021: Partnership with Heliövaara, maiden title, Wimbledon third round Partnering Harri Heliövaara, Glasspool won his first ATP Tour title at the 2021 Open 13 against Sander Arends and David Pel of the Netherlands in March. 2022: Two Major quarterfinals & ATP Finals semifinal, ATP 500 title, top 15 In M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Hurkacz
Hubert Hurkacz (; born 11 February 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Polish man in singles history. He has won eight ATP Tour singles titles, including two ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 titles at the 2021 Miami Open – Men's singles, 2021 Miami Open and the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters – Singles, 2023 Shanghai Masters, becoming the first Pole to win an ATP Masters 1000 title. Hurkacz also has a career-high ranking of world No. 30 in doubles, which he attained in June 2022. As a junior, Hurkacz was ranked as high as No. 29 in the world. He and his partner Alex Molčan were the runners-up at the 2015 Australian Open – Boys' doubles, 2015 Australian Open boys' doubles final. As a professional, he broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2018 after reaching the second rounds of the 2018 French Open – Men's singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McNally (tennis)
John McNally (born 18 October 1998) is a former American tennis player. Juniors On the junior tour, McNally had a career high ranking of No. 13 achieved on 30 May 2016. Professional career McNally made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2016 US Open in the doubles event, partnering J. J. Wolf. He won his first Professional Title at the ITF Mens 25K Future in Columbus, Ohio.(November 2021) He received a wild card into qualifying for the 2019 Western & Southern Open. His younger sister, Caty McNally Catherine "Caty" McNally (born November 20, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 54 on 22 May 2023 and her best WTA doubles ranking of No. 11 on 4 April 2022. She has won ei ..., is also a professional tennis player. Both are coached by their mother. On 13 November 2022, he announced his retirement via Instagram. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 2 (1–1) Doubles: 7 (5–2) Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
