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2018 Open Città Della Disfida
The 2018 Open Città della Disfida was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Barletta, Italy between 9 and 15 April 2018. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 2 April 2018. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Matteo Donati * Gian Marco Moroni * Andrea Pellegrino The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Kimmer Coppejans * Daniel Gimeno Traver * Zsombor Piros * Marco Trungelliti The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Maxime Chazal * Oscar Otte * Marko Tepavac Champions Singles * Marco Trungelliti def. Simone Bolelli 2–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–4. Doubles * Denys Molchanov / Igor Zelenay def. Ariel Behar / Máximo González 6–1, 6–2. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Open Citta della Disfida, 2018 Open Città della Disfida 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 construction aggregate, 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 (tennis), Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts is the French Open. Clay courts come in the more common #Red clay, red clay (known in France as ''terre battue''), which is actually crushed brick, and the slightly harder #Green clay, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef Kovalík
Jozef Kovalík (; born 4 November 1992) is a Slovak professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 80 and a doubles ranking of No. 245 reached in 2018. He is currently the No. 4 Slovak player. Career 2010–2014: First Challenger title Kovalík together with Filip Horanský won bronze medal in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. He won his first Challenger title on 17 August 2014, after beating second seed Andrey Kuznetsov. He became the fourth player to win an ATP Challenger title while ranked outside the top 300. 2016: ATP, Masters & Grand Slam debuts He played his first match at ATP level on 5 January 2016 in Chennai, where he lost in the first round. He played his first match at a Grand Slam at the 2016 Australian Open, where he lost to fellow qualifier Marco Trungelliti in the first round. At the 2016 BNP Paribas Open Kovalík won his first match at ATP level, defeating another qualifier ... [...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] |
Simone Bolelli
Simone Bolelli (; born 8 October 1985) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking in doubles of World No. 6 achieved on 13 January 2025 and in singles of No. 36 achieved on 23 February 2009. Bolelli is a Grand Slam champion, having won the 2015 Australian Open doubles event with Fabio Fognini, together becoming the first male all-Italian pair to win a Major title in the Open Era. He also reached three other major finals with Andrea Vavassori at the 2024 and the 2025 Australian Open, and at the 2024 French Open. He is also a champion as part of the team winning the 2023 and the 2024 Davis Cups. He won the bronze medal in the 2005 Mediterranean Games. Career 2003–2005: Pro beginnings, first ITF singles titles In 2003, Bolelli reached his first ITF Futures tournament semifinal at Egypt F1, losing to 485th-ranked Jaroslav Pospíšil. He played entirely Futures events except for one Challenger tournament in Brindisi. In 2004, Bolelli reached ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Tepavac
Marko Tepavac ( sr-Cyrl, Марко Тепавац; born 5 April 1994) is a former Serbian professional tennis player, mainly competing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 24 October 2016, he reached his best singles ranking of world No. 174, while on 19 June 2017, he peaked at world No. 584 in the doubles rankings. Professional career 2016 In May 2016, he won his first trophy on the ATP Challenger Tour, winning Karshi Challenger in Uzbekistan. 2017 Tepavac made his ATP main draw debut as a lucky loser at 2017 Garanti Koza Sofia Open, losing in the first round to Mikhail Youzhny Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny (born 25 June 1982), nicknamed "Misha" and "Colonel" by his fans, is a Russian former professional tennis player who was ranked inside the top 10 and was the Russian No. 1. He achieved a top-10 ranking by the Associ .... ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures finals Singles: 24 (17–7) Doubles: 7 (4–3) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tepavac, Marko 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Otte
Oscar Otte (; born 16 July 1993) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 36 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved on 27 June 2022, and has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 161, attained in May 2017. Since turning professional in 2011, Otte has won 23 singles and doubles titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour and seven on the ATP Challenger Tour. After several years of failing to qualify for most Grand Slam tournaments, he produced consistency in 2021 by entering into three consecutive main draws and showed his best performance at a major at the 2021 US Open, where he upset 20th seed Lorenzo Sonego in the first round and ultimately reached the fourth round. In January 2022, he made his top 100 debut in the singles rankings and emerged into the top 50 five months later, following his first career ATP 500 semifinal at the 2022 Halle Open. Tennis career 2017: First Challenger title Otte made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Chazal
Maxime Chazal (born 24 April 1993, in Nouméa, New Caledonia) is a French tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 234, achieved on 7 March 2016 and a doubles ranking of No. 347, achieved on 19 February 2018. Professional career 2013: ATP Tour Double debut In February, Chazal made his ATP main draw doubles debut in Marseille, partnering with Martin Vaïsse. The pair lost in the first round. 2014: ATP Tour qualifying debut In January, Chazal won his first ATP singles qualifying debut in Auckland, defeating Ross Hutchins in the first round and losing to Steve Johnson in the final round. 2016: Grand Slam qualifying debut In January, Chazal made his Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open, losing in the first qualifying round to fellow countryman Maxime Janvier. In May, he made his debut at the French Open, also losing in the first qualifying round. 2017: Maiden ATP Tour doubles win In February, Chazal won his first match on the ATP main draw doubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsombor Piros
Zsombor Piros (born 13 October 1999) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. Piros has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 106, achieved on 4 March 2024. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 991, achieved on 8 August 2022. He is currently the No. 3 Hungarian player. Junior career On the junior tour Piros had a career-high ranking of 3 achieved on 4 September 2017. Piros won the 2017 Australian Open – Boys' singles, 2017 Australian Open boys' singles championships, defeating Israeli Yshai Oliel in the final. He made headlines at Wimbledon 2017 when he and doubles partner Yibing Wu fell foul of Wimbledon's pants police, and were required to change their underpants from black to white to comply with regulations. Even without their lucky pants they won the subsequent match 6–4 6–1. Piros won the Hungarian Tennis Championships on 1 October 2017. Professional career 2018: First Challenger win, first Top 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Gimeno Traver
Daniel Gimeno Traver (; born 7 August 1985) is a professional Spanish tennis player who turned pro in 2004, when he was eighteen years old. He reached the final of Casablanca in 2015 and has won 12 Challenger Tour events, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 48 in March 2013. Personal life Daniel Gimeno Traver was born 7 August 1985 in Valencia, Spain. He is the son of Javier, a chemist, and Marisol, a nurse, and is the second of four brothers, Carlos, Miguel and Víctor being his siblings. Tennis career Gimeno Traver started playing tennis at the age of 2. He prefers to play on clay and is currently coached by Israel Sevilla. Juniors As a junior, he won the European Championships in 2003 beating Marcos Baghdatis in Switzerland. Gimeno Traver won a further 5 junior titles, compiling a singles win–loss record of 51–10 and reaching as high as No. 4 in the junior world rankings in May 2003. He also beat Novak Djokovic on the way to a quarter-final pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmer Coppejans
Kimmer Coppejans (born 7 February 1994) is a Belgium, Belgian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is world No. 97, achieved in June 2015. Coppejans competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Career He was the Junior Champion at the 2012 French Open – Boys' singles, 2012 French Open, defeating Filip Peliwo of Canada 6–1, 6–4 in the final. He qualified for the 2023 Wimbledon Championships making his debut at this Major. Performance timeline Singles ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals Singles: 30 (17–13) Doubles: 7 (1–6) Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) References External links * * 1994 births Living people Belgian male tennis players Sportspeople from Ostend French Open junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles 21st-century Belgian sportsmen Long stubs with short prose {{Belgium-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Pellegrino
Andrea Pellegrino (; born 23 March 1997) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 136 achieved on 26 September 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 81 achieved on 8 January 2024. Pellegrino has won one doubles ATP Tour title at the 2023 Chile Open. He has also won three singles and five doubles ATP Challenger Tour titles. Career in June 2025, Pellegrino won his third Challenger title in Perugia Perugia ( , ; ; ) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area. It has 162,467 ..., returning to his career-high in singles, from three years prior, of world No. 136 on 16 June 2025. ATP Tour finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals Singles: 15 (8–6) Doubles: 18 (11–7) References External links * * * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gian Marco Moroni
Gian Marco Moroni (born 13 February 1998) is an Italian professional tennis player. Moroni has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 159, which he first achieved in June 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 327, attained in May 2019. He has reached seven career singles finals, with a record of two wins and five losses, including a 1–4 record in ATP Challenger finals. Additionally, he has reached one career doubles final, in which he finished runner-up, at the ITF Futures level. Career 2019: ATP debut Moroni made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Swiss Open Gstaad after successfully qualifying for the singles main draw. He defeated Luca Margaroli ''6–3, 6–4'' and Marco Trungelliti ''6–3, 6–2'' during qualifying rounds and then upset veteran Spaniard Tommy Robredo in the first round with a ''6–2, 6–2'' straight sets victory. He was ultimately eliminated in the second round by fifth seed and eventual semi-finalist João Sousa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
