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2020 Open Du Pays D'Aix
The 2020 Open du Pays d'Aix was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2020 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Aix-en-Provence, France between 7 and 13 September 2020. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 31 August 2020. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Quentin Halys * Harold Mayot * Gilles Simon The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: * Dustin Brown (tennis), Dustin Brown The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts: * Daniel Altmaier * Oscar Otte The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Roberto Cid Subervi * Hugo Gaston * Renzo Olivo * Elias Ymer The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Ruben Bemelmans * Arthur Cazaux Champions Singles * Oscar Otte def. Thiago Seyboth Wild 6–2, 6 ... [...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, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. The French Open uses clay courts, the only Grand Slam tournament to do so. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness. Play Clay courts are considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Points are usually longer as there are fewer winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Cecchinato
Marco Cecchinato (; born 30 September 1992) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 16 reached on 25 February 2019. On 29 April 2018, he won his first ATP World Tour title at the 2018 Hungarian Open, becoming the first Sicilian tennis player to win an ATP title. Cecchinato is a clay specialist and his best Grand Slam result is a semifinal at the 2018 French Open. Career 2013–2017: ATP and Grand Slam debut In May 2013, Cecchinato qualified for the main draw at the ATP tournament in Nice, losing to countryman and No. 6 seed, Fabio Fognini, in the first round. In July 2014, Cecchinato qualified for Umag, where he played another countryman and No. 6 seed, Andreas Seppi, in the first round. Cecchinato lost the match in three sets. Cecchinato then made his Grand Slam debut at the 2015 US Open. On 20 July 2016, Cecchinato was suspended for 18 months (until January 2018) and fined €40,000 by the Italian tennis federation for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonzalo Escobar
Gonzalo Escobar (; born 20 January 1989, in Manta) is an Ecuadorian tennis player. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 38, achieved on 15 November 2021. He has won three doubles titles with Uruguayan partner Ariel Behar. Escobar has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 281 achieved on 15 June 2015. Playing for Ecuador in Davis Cup, Escobar has a W/L record of 8–9. Career 2018-2022: Three ATP doubles titles and top 50 Partnering with Uruguyan Ariel Behar, Escobar won two ATP titles at the 2021 Delray Beach Open and the 2021 Andalucía Open and reached three other finals on the ATP tour in 2021 after winning two ATP Challenger Tour titles together in 2020. He entered the top 50 following the final at the 2021 Serbia Open on 26 April 2021. The pair has also won a total of 8 Challenger titles. Escobar finished the year 2021 ranked No. 38, a career-high doubles ranking. In 2022, he reached a fourth final and won his third ATP 250 title with Behar at the 2022 Serbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Behar
Ariel Behar (; born November 12, 1989 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. He specializes in men's doubles and has won three ATP titles with Ecuadorian partner Gonzalo Escobar. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 39 achieved on 31 January 2022. He has taken part of the Uruguay Davis Cup team since 2009. Professional career 2012-2017: ATP and Grand Slam debut Since the mid 2010s, Behar competed primarily on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he has won 22 doubles titles. Partnering with Aliaksandr Bury, he was a semi-finalist at the 2017 Estoril Open, an ATP 250 tournament. He entered the main draw at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, his first appearance at a Grand Slam. 2018-2022: Three doubles titles, top 50 Partnering with Ecuadorian Gonzalo Escobar, Behar won two ATP titles at the 2021 Delray Beach Open and the 2021 Andalucía Open and reached three other finals on the ATP tour in 2021 after winning two ATP Challenger Tour titles together in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiago Seyboth Wild
Thiago Seyboth Wild (; born 10 March 2000) is a Brazilian tennis player. He won 2018 US Open junior singles title. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 106 on September 14, 2020 and a career high ITF junior ranking of No. 8 on January 22, 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 393 achieved on February 10, 2020. Seyboth Wild made his ATP main draw debut at the 2018 Brasil Open after receiving a wildcard into the singles main draw. He won his first Challenger title at Guayaquil defeating Bolivian Hugo Dellien on November 3, 2019. At just 19 years old, he won his first ATP Tour title in Santiago defeating Norwegian Casper Ruud on 1 March 2020. By winning this title he became the youngest Brazilian ever to win an ATP title. He also became the first player on the ATP Tour born in or beyond the year 2000 to win a non-exhibition ATP title. Career 2018: Junior Grand Slam title Wild became the second Brazilian to win a junior Grand Slam ( US Open) on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cazaux
Arthur Cazaux (; born 23 August 2002) is a French tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 126 achieved on 14 August 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 430, achieved of 1 November 2021. Cazaux has won 1 singles Challenger title and 3 singles ITF titles. Junior career As a junior, Cazaux reached his highest ranking of number 4 in the world, in the combined singles and doubles junior ranking system. This was highlighted by a runner-up finish at the 2020 Australian Open where he was defeated by compatriot Harold Mayot in straight sets. Professional career 2020: Grand Slam doubles debut Cazaux made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 Open 13 in the doubles draw partnering Harold Mayot when they were granted a wildcard entry. They were defeated in the first round by Nicolas Mahut and Vasek Pospisil in straight sets 5–7, 1–6. Pairing Mayot again, they were also given a wildcard entry into the main doubles draw of the 2020 Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruben Bemelmans
Ruben Bemelmans (; born 14 January 1988) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 84 in singles, achieved on 28 September 2015, and world No. 128 in doubles, achieved on 1 October 2012. Bemelmans competed mainly in the Challenger tour circuit. Tennis career 2006–2009: Turned Pro Bemelmans won his first Futures event in Espelkamp, Germany in July 2007. His best performance to date was in winning the Volkswagen Challenger event in Wolfsburg in March 2009, winning three matches in qualifying before going on to beat Stefano Galvani of Italy in the final. He won this tournament again in 2011. 2010–2014: ATP and Grand Slam debut, Hopman Cup finalist In February 2010 Bemelmans succeeded in qualifying for his first ATP level event, the Zagreb Indoors tournament. However he lost in the first round to Alexandre Sidorenko of France in three sets. In June 2010, he entered the main draw of the 2010 Gerry Weber Open in Halle as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Ymer
Elias Ymer (born 10 April 1996) is a Swedish tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 105, achieved on 11 June 2018. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 188, achieved on 16 October 2017. Personal info Ymer was born in Skara, Sweden to Ethiopian immigrant parents. His mother, Kelem, is a physician; his father, Wondwosen, works at a dairy company. He is the elder brother of fellow tennis player Mikael Ymer. From 2017 to 2018, Ymer was coached by Robin Söderling. In the autumn of 2022 Ymer, together with ten other athletes was accepted as a student at Harvard Business School's “Crossover into Business” program. Career 2014: ATP debut Ymer made his ATP main draw singles debut at the 2013 Swedish Open where he lost in the first round to Grigor Dimitrov. Ymer received a wildcard at the 2014 Swedish Open defeating Mikhail Kukushkin in the first round before falling to João Sousa in the second round. 2015: Qualification at all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renzo Olivo
Renzo Olivo (; born 15 March 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 78 achieved on 9 January 2016 and a doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 29 April 2013. Career In Bastad he made it through three rounds of qualifying to reach his first ATP tour main draw, where he reached the quarterfinals, defeating second seed Tommy Robredo. He earned the biggest win of his career at the 2017 French Open, when he beat twelfth seed and home favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (; born 17 April 1985) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in February 2012. Tsonga won 18 singles titles on th ... in four sets. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 16 (8–8) Doubles: 31 (16–15) Singles perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Gaston
Hugo Gaston (; born 26 September 2000) is a French tennis player. His career high ATP rankings#Current ranking, ATP ranking in singles is world No. 58, which he achieved on 11 July 2022, and in doubles is world No. 220, which he achieved on 16 May 2022. He won the 2018 Australian Open – Boys' doubles title with compatriot Clément Tabur. Junior career In December 2017, Gaston won the Orange Bowl (tennis), Orange Bowl International Tennis Championship. In 2018, Gaston won the Boys' Doubles at the 2018 Australian Open, Australian Open with fellow countryman Clément Tabur. The same year, he was named flag bearer for France at the Youth Summer Olympics in Buenos Aires. There, Gaston captured his first singles major title as well as two bronze medals, with Clément Tabur in the boys' doubles and with Clara Burel in the mixed doubles. He achieved a junior career-high ranking of No.2 the next week. Gaston also qualified for the ITF Junior Masters, where he reached the semifinals, lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Cid Subervi
Roberto Cid Subervi (; born 30 August 1993) is a Dominican– American tennis player. Cid Subervi has a career high ATP singles ranking of 211 achieved on 14 September 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 262, achieved on 19 October 2020. Cid Subervi has won 4 ITF singles titles and 1 ITF doubles title. Cid Subervi has represented Dominican Republic at Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 4–11. College career In 2016, Cid Subervi was ranked no. 2 in the nation in the NCAA Div 1 singles rankings in his last year at University of South Florida. Parterning with Sasha Gozun, he was ranked no. 6 in the nation in the NCAA Div 1 doubles rankings in 2015. He reached the Quarterfinals of the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships in singles before losing to the eventual champion Mackenzie McDonald from UCLA and had wins over top ranked players such as Dominik Kopfer from Tulane, Cameron Norrie from TCU and Ryan Shane from Virginia. In 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Altmaier
Daniel Altmaier (born 12 September 1998) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved on 23 May 2022. Tennis career 2017: ATP debut Altmaier made his ATP main draw debut as a qualifier at the 2017 Geneva Open, defeating Alexander Ward and Petr Michnev in qualifying. He lost to Sam Querrey in the first round. He won his first ATP tour-level match as a lucky loser at the 2017 Antalya Open when he beat Víctor Estrella Burgos. In the next round, he defeated wildcard Marsel İlhan to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to Yūichi Sugita. Both of his victories were decided by a third set tiebreak. 2020: Grand Slam debut & fourth round & first top-10 win Shoulder and hip injuries held back Altmaier’s progress in his tennis career, but victories in qualifying over Tallon Griekspoor and Ruben Bemelmans led to his Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open, where he defeated Feliciano Lopez, 30th seed Jan-Lennard Struff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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