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2023 HPP Open
The 2023 HPP Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Helsinki, Finland between 6 and 12 November 2023. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 30 October 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Patrick Kaukovalta * Mark Lajal * Eero Vasa The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: * Antoine Bellier The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: * Sumit Nagal The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Alibek Kachmazov * Oleksii Krutykh * Francesco Maestrelli * Maximilian Neuchrist * Dennis Novak * Denis Yevseyev The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Stefano Travaglia Champions Singles * Corentin Moutet def. Sumit Nagal 6–3, 3–6, 6–2. Dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both Types of tennis match, doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game. Dimensions The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written down in the annual 'Rules of Tennis' document. The court is long. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. The Service line (tennis), service line is from the net. Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of wide and long. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the Glossary of tennis terms#Baseline, baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Broady
Liam Tarquin Broady ( ; born 4 January 1994) is a British professional tennis player who competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. He reached a career high ranking of world No. 93 on 25 September 2023. Early and personal life Broady, the younger brother of fellow tennis player Naomi Broady, has another sister, Emma and a brother, Calum. The family grew up in Heaton Chapel, Heaton Chapel, Stockport. Their parents, Shirley and Simon, took the young Liam and Naomi to tennis tournaments. Broady started playing table tennis at the age of four and went to Matchpoint in Bramhall for lessons. His first tournament was at the age of eight and he showed potential at ten. He attended List of schools in Stockport, Norris Bank primary and Priestnall School where he completed his GCSEs in 2010. In 2007, the Lawn Tennis Association suspended his seventeen-year-old sister Naomi's funding, for 'unprofessional' postings on a social networking site. Their father Simon was so angry with the decis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Sundar Prashanth
Vijay SP Natarajan (born 27 October 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 80 achieved on 29 January 2024. He also has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 335 achieved on 5 October 2015. Early life Vijay was born in Chennai. He started playing tennis at the age of 5, when his grandfather introduced him to the sport. He did his schooling at PSSB (Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan) and completed his graduation from Loyola college. Professional career 2015: ATP singles debut; National Games in Trivandrum, Kerala He caught everyone's eye, when he won against Indian Davis Cup player Yuki Bhambri at 2015 Aircel Chennai Open. He went on to become the fourth Indian ever to qualify for the main draw. Medalist at the 35th National Games held in Trivandrum, Kerala in 2015 EAM- Gold medal; INDIVIDUAL DOUBLES- Silver medal 2016: South Asian Games in Guwahati, India Prashanth won the men's doubles gold medal at the 2016 South Asian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (born 20 October 1988) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 64 achieved on 18 March 2019. He won the doubles title with Rohan Bopanna at the 2017 Chennai Open, in a historic final featuring four Indian players. Personal life He is the grandson of veteran political leader V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, who was acting chief minister of Tamil Nadu in two tenures. Maternally he is the grandson of Col.Dr. M. D. K. Kuthalingam, who was a former vice chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University, and has also been Jeevan's mentor. Jeevan also found the love of his life in 2024 when he married Vishnupriya Chiteri Meyyappan. Professional career 2011: Turned pro Nedunchezhiyan turned pro in year 2011. 2017: First ATP doubles title Nedunchezhiyan won his first ATP World Tour level title at the 2017 Aircel Chennai Open. He won the title with partner Rohan Bopanna by defeating a pair of compatriots, Purav Raja and Divij Sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Travaglia
Stefano Travaglia (born 18 December 1991 in Ascoli Piceno) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 60, which he reached on 8 February 2021. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 224 achieved on 31 January 2022. Career 2014: ATP debut, First Challenger title Travaglia made his ATP main-draw debut at the 2014 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where he qualified for the main draw by defeating Albert Montañés and Blaž Rola in the qualifying rounds. In the main draw, he put up a good fight against fellow Italian Simone Bolelli in the first round. Travaglia won his first Challenger title in the doubles event at the 2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes, partnering Hans Podlipnik-Castillo, defeating Gerard Granollers and Jordi Samper Montaña Jordi Samper Montaña (; born 23 April 1990) is a Spanish tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 16 September 2013, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 211 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Yevseyev
Denis Yevseyev (born 22 May 1993) is a Kazakh tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 153 achieved on 22 July 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 247 achieved on 12 July 2021. Career 2017 He played at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in singles but was defeated by Farrukh Dustov in the quarterfinal. In men's doubles partnering Timur Khabibulin, he lost the final and won a silver medal. 2018: Silver medalist at the Asian Games Yevseyev participated at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. In singles, he lost to the bronze medalist South Korean Lee Duck-hee in the third round. In doubles, he won the silver medal after losing in the final with his partner Alexander Bublik against the Indian duo of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan. 2019-2020: ATP doubles debut In 2019, Yevseyev was nominated for the Kazakhstan Davis Cup team but did not participated in a match. Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Novak
Dennis Novak (; born 28 August 1993, in Wiener Neustadt) is an Austrian professional tennis player. Novak achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 85 in March 2020. He is currently the No. 7 Austrian player. Professional career 2013: ATP debut Novak made his ATP main draw debut at the 2013 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel where he defeated Matthias Haim, Lorenzo Giustino and Tihomir Grozdanov in the qualifying rounds. In the main draw, Novak lost to compatriot Andreas Haider-Maurer. 2018-2020: Major debut & third round, Two Challenger titles, top 100 In April 2019, he won his first ATP Challenger Tour title in Taipei. In November, he won his second at the 2019 Slovak Open. He made his debut in the top 100 on 13 January 2020 at world No. 99 and reached a career high ranking of No. 85 on 2 March 2020. 2022-2024: Austrian No.1, out of top 350 He reached the second round at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships for a second time with a win over Facundo Bagnis. He became A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximilian Neuchrist
Maximilian Neuchrist (born 22 July 1991) is an Austrian professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player who competes on the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures tour level. Neuchrist has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 182 achieved on 17 April 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 135 achieved on 3 March 2014. Career Neuchrist has reached 27 career singles finals with a record of 13 wins and 14 losses, one at the ATP Challenger and the rest at the ITF Futures level. Additionally, he has reached 60 career doubles finals posting a record of 37 wins and 23 losses, which includes a 2–3 record in ATP Challenger finals. Neuchrist made his ATP Tour debut at the 2012 Vienna Open where he was granted a wildcard entry int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Maestrelli
Francesco Maestrelli (born 21 December 2002) is an Italian tennis player. Maestrelli has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 149 achieved on 26 June 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 318 achieved on 21 August 2023. Career Maestrelli won his maiden ATP Challenger title at the 2022 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Verona. In June 2023, he reached the top 150 following his 2023 Emilia-Romagna Open Challenger final showing in Montechiarugolo Montechiarugolo ( Parmigiano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Parma in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna and about southeast of Parma. Montechiarugolo borders the following municipalities: ..., Parma, Italy. He returned to the top 250 at No. 240 in the singles rankings on 25 November 2024 following his final showing at the 2024 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Rovereto Challenger. Grand Slam performance timeline Singles ATP Challeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksii Krutykh
Oleksii Krutykh (born 10 March 2000) is a Ukrainian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 160 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 275 achieved on 5 December 2022. He has won two ATP Challenger singles titles and two doubles titles. Career 2022: Two Challenger titles, top 200 debut In August, Krutych won his first Challenger title at the 2022 IBG Prague Open defeating German Lucas Gerch and becoming the youngest Ukrainian champion on the Challenger Tour since Alexandr Dolgpolov won the Meknes Challenger in 2010 and the first Ukrainian to win a Challenger title in the season. He rose to a career-high No. 226 on 29 August 2022. He reached the top 200 in singles at world No. 190 climbing more than 60 positions up on 28 November 2022 after winning his second Challenger for the season and in his career in Valencia. At the same tournament he also won the doubles event climbing to a new career-high ranking of No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alibek Kachmazov
Alibek Muratovich Kachmazov ( rus, Алибек Муратович Качмазов, , ɐlʲɪˈbʲek kɐˈt͡ɕmazəf, links=no; born 17 August 2002) is a Russian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 161 achieved on 5 May 2025. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 250 achieved on 8 May 2023. Career 2019-2023: ATP debut and first win Kachmazov made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Kremlin Cup after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. He entered the main draw at the 2023 Chengdu Open as a qualifier but lost in the first round to Christopher O'Connell. He entered the qualifying draw at the 2023 Astana Open as an alternate and won in the first round against third seed Fabian Marozsan and seventh seed Damir Dzumhur to qualify for his third main draw. He won his first ATP Tour level match against Corentin Moutet. 2024: First ATP semifinal, top 200 debut Ranked No. 252, he again entered the main draw at the 2024 Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumit Nagal
Sumit Nagal (born 16 August 1997) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 68 achieved on 15 July 2024. Nagal is currently the No. 1 ranked Indian player. Since 2018, he has been a member of India's national Davis Cup squad. He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with Vietnamese Lý Hoàng Nam, becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title. Personal information Sumit Nagal was born on 16 August 1997 to school teacher Suresh Nagal and his wife Krishna Devi, a homemaker in Jhajjar, Haryana. Nagal started playing tennis at the age of eight at a local sports club. When he was ten years old, he was selected to join Mahesh Bhupathi's training academy, as part of the first batch of Mahesh Bhupathi's Apollo Tyres Mission 2008 programme. As part of the programme, between 2008 and 2010, Nagal was based in Bengaluru. Upon the programme closing down, Nagal moved to Toronto for training with Coach Bobby Maha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
