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2018 Milex Open
The 2018 Milex Open was a professional tennis tournament played on green clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic between 8 and 13 October 2018. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings were as of 1 October 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Víctor Estrella Burgos * Emilio Gómez * José Hernández-Fernández * José Olivares The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings: * Santiago Giraldo * Jürgen Melzer The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Thomaz Bellucci * Pedro Cachin The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Federico Coria * Martín Cuevas * Alejandro Gómez * Juan Pablo Varillas Champions Singles * Christian Garín def. Federico Delbonis 6–4, 5–7, 6–4. Doubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles on top. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. The only Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts is the French Open. Clay courts come in the more common red clay (known in France as ''terre battue''), which is actually crushed brick, and the slightly harder green clay, which is actually crushed metabasalt. Although slightly less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, clay requires much maintenance: the surface must be watered and rolled regularly to preserve texture and flatness, and brushed carefully before and during each match. Early history Clay courts, although now commonly associated with continental Europe, were the creation of the English tennis playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facundo Bagnis
Facundo Bagnis (; born 27 February 1990) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 55 reached in November 2016. Bagnis competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour where he has won 17 singles Challengers. He also won one ATP doubles title in Stuttgart. Tennis career 2011-2013: ATP debut and first win, Maiden ATP title Bagnis played in his first ATP World Tour match at the 2011 Movistar Open on January 31, 2011, losing to Santiago Giraldo in three sets,. He won his first tour-level match at 2012 Copa Claro, beating Leonardo Mayer. 2014-2016: Major debut and first win, Top 55 debut & career best year-end ranking Bagnis secured his biggest victory and first win at the Grand Slam level on his debut when he defeated Julien Benneteau in the first round of the 2014 French Open, winning the deciding set 18–16. He finished the 2016 season at a career-best year-end high of No. 56. 2021: First ATP singles final, US Open third round ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Behar
Ariel Behar (; born November 12, 1989) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 34 achieved on 6 May 2024. He has won three ATP titles with Ecuadorian partner Gonzalo Escobar. He has taken part of the Uruguay Davis Cup team since 2009. Personal life Behar played tennis for the first time at 3 years old and began playing seriously aged 10. Growing up, he admired Roger Federer and Andre Agassi. He is from a Jewish family but is "not a big fan" of religion. Professional career 2012–2017: ATP and Grand Slam singles debut Since the mid 2010s till 2017, Behar competed primarily on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he won 7 doubles titles. Partnering with Aliaksandr Bury, he was a semifinalist at the 2017 Estoril Open. He entered the main draw at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, his first appearance at a Grand Slam. 2018–2022: Three doubles titles, 15 Challenger titles, top 40 Partnering with Ecuadori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Pablo Varillas
Juan Pablo Varillas Patiño-Samudio (; born 6 October 1995) is a Peruvian professional tennis player. Varillas has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 60 achieved on 26 June 2023. He is currently the No. 2 Peruvian player. Varillas has won 7 ATP Challenger Tour, ATP Challenger and 5 International Tennis Federation, ITF singles titles. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 289 achieved on 10 May 2021. He has also won 4 ITF doubles titles. He has represented Peru Davis Cup team, Peru at the Davis Cup where he has a total W/L record of 16–15. In singles his W/L is 13–11. Career 2020–2021: ATP & Olympics debut Varillas made his ATP debut at the 2020 Chile Open as a lucky loser where he reached the second round by defeating Filip Horansky before losing to Albert Ramos Viñolas. The following year at the same 2021 Chile Open, tournament he reached the quarterfinals as a qualifier where he lost to top seed and eventual wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Gómez (tennis)
Alejandro Gómez (; born 14 August 1991) is a former Colombian tennis player. Gómez has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 352, achieved on 20 March 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 161 achieved on 8 August 2022. Gómez made his ATP main draw singles debut at the 2015 Claro Open Colombia where he qualified for the main draw, defeating Felipe Rojas, Andrés Molteni and Juan Ignacio Londero in the qualifying rounds. In the main draw, he defeated fifth-seed Marcos Baghdatis in the first round, but lost to the Japanese Tatsuma Ito in the second round Gómez has a very fast and accurate serve, though one of his weaknesses are his frequent double faults, he has an average of 11 double faults per game. In fact, he recorded a 227 km/h at the 2015 Claro Open Colombia. In August 2022, Gómez was suspended from competition after testing positive for cocaine Cocaine is a tropane alkaloid and central nervous system stimulant, deriv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martín Cuevas
Martín Cuevas Urroz (; born January 14, 1992, in Salto, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. Career Martín Cuevas is the brother of the Uruguayan player Pablo Cuevas. The brothers have played together in the ATP Challenger Tour, winning the Copa Petrobras in Montevideo twice and Lyon once. Martín made his debut in Davis Cup against Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ..., losing to Jhonson García. In total, he has a W/L record in Davis Cup of 15–19. Cuevas won 11 ITF Future singles titles and 12 ITF doubles titles. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals Singles: 23 (11–12) Doubles: 41 (16–24) Notes References External links * Uruguayan male tennis players 1992 births Living people Sportspeople f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Coria
Federico Coria (born 9 March 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 49, achieved on 13 February 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 238, achieved on 22 November 2021. Coria has won six ATP Challenger singles titles and one in doubles. Professional career 2019–20: Maiden Challenger title, major & top 100 debuts In 2019, he won his maiden title in Savannah at the Challenger tour level. In 2020, on his Grand Slam debut at the US Open, Coria reached the second round, where he won his first match at a Major after the retirement of Jason Jung in the fifth set. He made his top 100 debut at a career-high of World No. 98 on 21 September 2020. He also reached the third round of a Grand Slam at the 2020 French Open on his debut at this Major, where he defeated Benoît Paire in the second round before losing to Jannik Sinner in straight sets. 2021: Olympic Games, Challenger Tour success, first ATP final In June 2021, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Cachin
Pedro Cachin (; born 12 April 1995) is an Argentine professional tennis player. Cachin has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 48 achieved on 7 August 2023 and a career-high doubles ranking of No. 219 achieved on 9 May 2022. As a junior, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 8 on 9 December 2013. Professional career 2015–2019: ATP debut in doubles, first Challenger title Cachin made his ATP main-draw debut as a wildcard in the 2015 Argentina Open – Doubles, doubles competition of the 2015 Argentina Open, partnering Facundo Argüello (tennis), Facundo Argüello. They saved a match point and defeated the second-seeded pair of Máximo González and Horacio Zeballos before losing to Carlos Berlocq and Diego Schwartzman in the second round. Cachin entered his first Grand Slam tournament at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles qualifying, 2015 Wimbledon Championships, but was eliminated by Jimmy Wang (tennis), Jimmy Wang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomaz Bellucci
Thomaz Cocchiarali Bellucci (born 30 December 1987, in Tietê, São Paulo, Tietê) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 21 in July 2010. Bellucci used a string of ATP Challenger Tour victories early in 2008 to break into the top 100 rankings of the ATP World Tour as a 20-year-old. He has won 4 ATP Tour titles (the 2009 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad, 2009 and 2012 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad, 2012 Swiss Open, the 2010 Movistar Open and the 2015 Geneva Open), reached the quarterfinals at the Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2016 Olympics and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's singles, 2011 Madrid Masters. Playing style Thomaz's playing style relies on using the heavy topspin of his forehand to control the points. He lacks outright power to produce a lot of aces, but he has excellent spin on his serve, allowing him to force his opponents off the court which le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981) is an Austrian tennis coach and 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, Gerald Melzer, with whom he played doubles in several tournaments. In 1999 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' singles, 1999, Melzer won the boys' singles title at Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon. For many years, he was known as one of the best players on the tour not to have progressed past the third round of a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major. He ended this by reaching the semifinals of the 2010 French Open – Men's singles, 2010 French Open, losing to Rafael Nadal after coming from two sets down to defeat Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals. As of January 2025, he remains the only person to defeat Djokovic from two sets down. Melzer had greater success in doubles, winning the men's doubles title at the 2010 Wimbled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Giraldo
Santiago Giraldo Salazar (, born 27 November 1987) is a Colombian former professional tennis player. He played on the ATP tour and represented Colombia Davis Cup team, Colombia in the Davis Cup competition. His best tournament result is reaching the final in the 2014 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. He is the highest-ranked male tennis singles player in Colombia's history, with a career-high singles ranking of 28th in the world, and 77th in doubles. Throughout his career he has beaten several ex-number-one players such as Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Carlos Ferrero, and Andy Murray as well as some top-ten players such as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Kei Nishikori, Marin Čilić, Milos Raonic, Dominic Thiem, Gilles Simon, Jürgen Melzer, Rainer Schüttler, Tommy Robredo, Janko Tipsarević, and Nicolás Lapentti. He has beaten golden-generation players from Argentinian tennis such as Gastón Gaudio, Guillermo Cañas, Mariano Puerta, Juan Martín del Potro, and David Nalbandian. Professional career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Olivares
José Olivares (; born 8 January 1997) is a Dominican tennis player. Olivares has a career high ATP singles ranking of 605 achieved on 28 October 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 689 achieved on 20 November 2017. Olivares represents the Dominican Republic in the Davis Cup. He was first nominated to the team for the 2014 Davis Cup and has played in matches against Marcelo Tomás Barrios Vera, Hans Podlipnik-Castillo, and Juan Sebastián Cabal Juan Sebastián Cabal Valdés (; born 25 April 1986) is a Colombian former professional tennis player. A world No. 1 in doubles, he also reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 184 in February 2011. Cabal is a three-time Grand Slam cham .... References External links * * * 1997 births Living people Dominican Republic male tennis players Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for the Dominican Republic Central American and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
