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2020 ATP Finals – Singles
Daniil Medvedev defeated Dominic Thiem in the final, 4–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–4 to win the singles tennis title at the 2020 ATP Finals. Medvedev became the fourth man to defeat the world's top-three ranked players en route to a title (after David Nalbandian, Novak Djokovic and Boris Becker). Stefanos Tsitsipas was the defending champion, but was eliminated in the round-robin stage. This marked the first time since 2009 that the defending champion was eliminated in the round-robin stage. Novak Djokovic was attempting to equal Roger Federer's record of six Tour Finals titles, but was defeated by Thiem in the semifinals. His loss guaranteed a maiden ATP Finals titleist for the fifth consecutive year. Rafael Nadal was attempting to become only the second man (after Andre Agassi) to complete the career Super Slam, but was defeated by Medvedev in the semifinals. Despite qualifying with the world No. 5 ranking, Federer was absent due to an ongoing knee injury. Andrey Rublev and Diego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev ( rus, Даниил Сергеевич Медведев, p=dənʲɪˈil sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 11 February 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Medvedev has won 20 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 2021 US Open – Men's singles, 2021 US Open and 2020 ATP Finals – Singles, 2020 ATP Finals. Medvedev made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2015 Kremlin Cup – Men's doubles, 2015 Kremlin Cup, and in 2017, he participated in a singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major for the first time at 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, Wimbledon. In 2018, Medvedev won his first ATP Tour singles titles, and achieved a breakthrough in 2019, making his top 10 debut and reaching six consecutive tournament finals, including at the 2019 US Open – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year. In doubles, a Grand Slam may be achieved as a team or as an individual with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a "non-calendar-year Grand Slam", while winning the four majors at any point during the course of a career is known as a "Career Grand Slam". The term Grand Slam is also attributed to the Grand Slam tournaments, referred to as Majors, and they are the world's four most important annual professional tennis tournaments. They offer the most ranking points, prize money, public and media attention, the greatest strength and size of the field and, in recent years, the longest matches for men (best of five sets, best of three for the women). The tournaments are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), rather than the separate men's and women's tour orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters
The 1970 Masters (also known as the 1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. It was the first edition of the year-end Masters Grand Prix and was held from December 9 through December 15, 1970. The event included a singles and doubles draw, both of which were held in a round robin format. Stan Smith won the first singles title and then partnered Arthur Ashe to the doubles title as well. The best six players from the 1970 Grand Prix circuit ranking qualified for the singles event. Cliff Richey, the winner of the Grand Prix ranking, could not participate due to illness. John Newcombe was the first replacement as the number seven ranked but was unable to play which meant that Jan Kodeš, ranked eight, completed the field. Stan Smith won the singles title in the round robin format and earned $15,000 first-prize money. Finals Singles Stan Smith won a round robin com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Shapovalov
Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born ) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, which he first achieved on September 21, 2020. Shapovalov has won three ATP Tour singles titles and produced his best Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam performance at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2021 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the semifinals. Shapovalov also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 44, which he achieved on February 24, 2020. Shapovalov is the third highest-ranked Canadian singles male player in history behind Milos Raonic (world No. 3 in 2016) and Félix Auger-Aliassime (world No. 6 in 2022). As a junior, he has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. He won two junior Grand Slam titles, his first being the doubles title at the 2015 US Open – Boys' doubles, 2015 US Open with Auger-Aliassime and his second being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Berrettini
Matteo Berrettini (; born 12 April 1996) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in January 2022, and world No. 105 in doubles, attained in July 2019. Berrettini has won ten ATP Tour singles titles and two doubles titles, and produced his best Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major performance by reaching the singles final of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2021 Wimbledon Championships. He is the first man born in the 1990s and first Italian man to reach the quarterfinals or better at all four majors. Berrettini was part of the Italy Davis Cup team that won the 2024 Davis Cup, 2024 crown, going undefeated in all his rubbers. After turning professional in 2015, Berrettini won two singles titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour and three on the ATP Challenger Tour, breaking into the top 100 of the ATP rankings in May 2018. Two month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player and the current world No. 3. He has won 24 ATP Tour titles in singles and two in doubles, and has been runner-up at three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors. His career highlights include a gold medal at the Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2020 Tokyo Olympics and titles at the 2018 ATP Finals – Singles, 2018 and the 2021 ATP Finals – Singles, 2021 ATP Finals. Zverev is a former junior world No. 1, and won a junior major singles title at the 2014 Australian Open – Boys' singles, 2014 Australian Open. He had an early breakthrough on the professional tour as well, becoming one of the youngest ATP Challenger Tour, Challenger Tour title winners in history at the age of 17. As a teenager, Zverev won two ATP titles and upset then-world No. 3 Roger Federer on Grass court, grass. At 20 years old, he became the youngest player to debut in the top 20 since Novak Djokovic. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Schwartzman
Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (, ; born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He won four ATP Tour singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist, his best results were on this surface. He was noted for his high-quality return game."Diego Schwartzman’s Return Game Is Even Better Than I Thought," Heavy Topspin, 26 April 2017.Craig O'Shannessy (18 August 2017) "How Schwartzman Became The Return Giant In 2017," ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Rublev
Andrey Andreyevich Rublev (; born 20 October 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 5 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in September 2021. Rublev has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including two ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters 1000 events at the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters – Singles, 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters and the 2024 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's singles, 2024 Madrid Open. He has reached the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors. Rublev also has four ATP Tour-level doubles titles, including a Masters 1000 event at the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's doubles, 2023 Madrid Open partnering Karen Khachanov, and a gold medal in Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Mixed doubles, mixed doubles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics partnering Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. In his junior career, Rublev won the 2014 French Open – Boys' singles, 2014 French Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Glory And Career Super Slam
Return may refer to: In business, economics, and finance * Return on investment (ROI), the financial gain after an expense. * Rate of return, the financial term for the profit or loss derived from an investment * Tax return, a blank document or template supplied by a government for use in the reporting of tax information * Product return, the process of bringing back merchandise to a retailer for a refund or exchange * Returns (economics), the benefit distributed to the owner of a factor of production * Abnormal return, denoting the difference in behaviour between one stock and the overall stock market * Taxes, where tax returns are forms submitted to taxation authorities In technology * Return (architecture), the receding edge of a flat face * Carriage return, a key on an alphanumeric keyboard commonly equated with the "enter" key * Return statement, a computer programming statement that ends a subroutine and resumes execution where the subroutine was called * Return code, a met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including a major at the 2020 US Open. He finished runner-up at three other majors, the 2018 and 2019 French Opens and the 2020 Australian Open. Thiem was also runner-up at the 2019 and 2020 ATP Finals. As a junior, Thiem was ranked as high as world No. 2. He was runner-up at the 2011 French Open boys tournament, and won the 2011 Orange Bowl. As a professional, he broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2014. In 2015, he won his first ATP title at the 2015 Open de Nice Côte d'Azur. He reached his first major semifinal at the 2016 French Open. In doing so, he first entered the top ten in the ATP rankings. He went on to reach his first Masters 1000 final in 2017 at the Madrid Open, then reaching his first majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 209 weeks, and finished as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 five times. Nadal won 92 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including 22 List of Grand Slam men's singles champions#Champions list, major titles (among which a Rafael Nadal at the French Open, record 14 French Open titles), as well as 36 ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters titles and an Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Olympic gold medal. Nadal is one of three men to complete the List of Grand Slam men's singles champions#Career Golden Slam, career Golden Slam in singles. His Rafael Nadal career statistics#81 match win streak on clay courts, 81 consecutive wins on clay constitute the longest single-surface win streak in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Federer
Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks (List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, second-most of all time), including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 five times. Federer won 103 singles titles on the ATP Tour, the second most since the start of the Open Era in 1968, including 20 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major men's singles titles (among which a record eight men's singles Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon titles, and an Open Era joint-record five men's singles US Open (tennis), US Open titles) and six ATP Finals, year-end championships. For nearly two decades, Federer was a leading figure in men's tennis alongside Rafael Nadal a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
