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2023 Swedish Open
The 2023 Swedish Open (also known as the Nordea Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts as part of the ATP Tour 250 Series of the 2023 ATP Tour and as part of the WTA 125 tournaments. It took place in Båstad, Sweden, from 10 through 15 July 2023 for the women's tournament, and from 17 through 23 July 2023 for the men's tournament. It was the 75th edition of the event for the men and the 13th edition for the women. Champions Men's singles * Andrey Rublev def. Casper Ruud, 7–6(7–3), 6–0 Women's singles * Olga Danilović def. Emma Navarro 7–6(7–4), 3–6, 6–3 Men's doubles * Gonzalo Escobar / Aleksandr Nedovyesov def. Francisco Cabral / Rafael Matos, 6–2, 6–2 Women's doubles * Irina Khromacheva / Panna Udvardy def. Eri Hozumi / Jang Su-jeong 4–6, 6–3, 0–5 Points and prize money Point distribution Prize money 1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money * per te ... [...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] |
Eri Hozumi
is a Japanese tennis player. On 10 November 2014, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 144. On 27 May 2019, she peaked at No. 28 in the WTA doubles rankings. Partnering with Makoto Ninomiya, she reached the final of the 2018 French Open. Career Hozumi won her first WTA Tour doubles title in 2016, at the Katowice Open alongside Miyu Kato. With Kato she also reached the semifinals of the 2017 Australian Open. She reached her biggest final at the 2018 French Open with partner Makoto Ninomiya, losing to sixth seeds Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková. Alongside Jang Su-jeong, Hozumi was runner-up in the doubles at the 2023 Swedish Open, losing to Misaki Doi and Rebecca Peterson in the final. Back playing with Makoto Ninomiya she reached the final of the 2023 Jiangxi Open where they lost to second seeds Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva. Partnering with Shuko Aoyama, Hozumi won the doubles title at the 2024 Pan Pacific Open, defeating Ena Shi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Kotov (tennis)
Pavel Vyacheslavovich Kotov ( rus, Павел Вячеславович Котов, , ˈpavʲɪl ˈkotəf; born 18 November 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. Kotov has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 50 achieved on 17 June 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 226 achieved on 8 November 2021. Career 2020–2021: ATP debut, Maiden Challengers in singles & doubles He made his ATP debut at the 2020 St. Petersburg Open as a qualifier where he was defeated by Ugo Humbert. Kotov won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2020 Challenger La Manche and maiden single title at the 2021 Città di Forlì III. 2022: First ATP win, Grand Slam and top 100 debuts He won his first ATP match at the 2022 Grand Prix Hassan II as a qualifier defeating ninth seed Tallon Griekspoor. He won his second singles Challenger title at 2022 Città di Forlì III. He reached the top 150 on 16 May 2022 at World No. 143. At the 2022 French Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Dellien
Hugo Dellien Velasco (; born 16 June 1993) is a Bolivian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 64, achieved on 1 August 2022, becoming the highest-ranked Bolivian since Mario Martínez (No. 60) in November 1983. He is the current No. 1 Bolivian tennis player. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 185 achieved on 2 February 2015. In juniors, Dellien had a career-high combined ranking of No. 2 in March 2011. Professional career 2019–2022: ATP, Major debuts and first wins, Olympics and top 65 debuts He made his ATP debut at the 2019 Córdoba Open as a lucky loser. At the 2019 Rio Open, Dellien defeated Carlos Berlocq in qualifying competition, Guido Andreozzi in the first round, and Roberto Carballés Baena in the second to reach the quarterfinals recording his first ATP main draw wins. Hugo became the first Bolivian player with an ATP win since Martínez at the French Open in 1984, trailing 3–1 in both sets before perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Ymer
Elias Ymer (born 10 April 1996) is a Swedish tennis player. Ymer has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, 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. He is the current No. 1 Swedish singles player. Personal info Ymer was born in Skara, Sweden to Ethiopian immigrant parents. He is the elder brother of 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 Grand Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragoș Nicolae Mădăraș
Dragoș Nicolae Mădăraș (born 12 September 1997) is a Romanian-born Swedish former professional tennis player who was banned from the sport for breaking anti-corruption rules. He had a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 191 achieved on 17 July 2023. His career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 420 was achieved on 14 August 2023. Career 2022: ATP debut He made his ATP debut at the 2022 Sofia Open as a qualifier where he lost to Oscar Otte in the first round. 2023: ITF success and provisional ban Mădăraș first half of the season led him to winning a record-breaking of 10 ITF titles in one season. However, on 17 August he was provisionally suspended from all tennis by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after failing to comply with the anti-corruption rules. 2024: Suspension from professional tennis On 14 March the ITIA revealed the final verdict (four years and five months suspension) and the details of the incident that had led up to the ban. At the 2023 Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Borg
Leo Karl Borg (; born 15 May 2003) is a Swedish tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 334, achieved on 11 September 2023. He is the current No. 2 Swedish singles player. Personal info He is the son of 11-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1, Björn Borg. Junior career Borg excelled on the ITF Junior Circuit, defeating world No. 1 junior Bruno Kuzuhara in the final of the Porto Alegre in Brazil, one of the top junior tournaments, in March 2021. Borg also qualified for and played in the 2021 junior majors, including Wimbledon. His junior ranking peaked at No. 12 in the world. Professional career 2021: ATP Tour debut Borg received a number of wildcards in ATP Challenger events and ATP Tour qualifying and main events and competed regularly on the ITF World Tour. He made his ATP Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Stockholm Open as a wildcard, where he lost in the first round to eventual champion Tommy Paul. 2022: Maiden ITF Tour title On Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. For Summer Olympic Games, some National Olympic Committees, whose nations are underrepresented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastián Báez
Sebastián Báez (; born 28 December 2000) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 18, achieved on 24 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of world No. 189, achieved on 29 July 2024. Báez has won seven ATP singles titles. He is currently the No. 2 player from Argentina. Career Junior Báez became the top-ranked junior in the ITF combined ranking on 12 March 2018. 2021: ATP debut, six Challenger titles, NextGen finals & top 100 Báez made his ATP debut at the 2021 Chile Open where he lost to 2019 Junior French Open champion Holger Rune in straight sets. He earned his first tour-level win at the 2021 Hamburg European Open, where he defeated Frenchman Corentin Moutet in the first round. Baez became the youngest player in history to claim five ATP Challenger Tour titles in a season, lifting the trophy in Concepción (d. F. Cerundolo), Santiago (d. Barrios Vera), Zagreb (d. Varillas), Santiago-3 (d. Meligeni Rodrigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (born 5 June 1999) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 21 achieved on 21 August 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 196 achieved on 21 February 2022. He is currently the No. 2 Spanish player. Early life Davidovich Fokina was born and raised in La Cala del Moral, Rincón de la Victoria, about 10 km away from Málaga, Spain, to Swedish-Russian father Eduard Mark Davidovich, and Russian mother Tatiana Fokina. His father is a former boxer. Davidovich Fokina has a brother, Mark. Alejandro began playing tennis with his father at the age of three. When he turned five, he started training at Calaflores and later Serramar tennis courts with coach Manolo Rubiales. Junior career Davidovich Fokina was Spanish Champion at U12, U15 and U18 levels. He started his professional tennis career in 2016. He won his first ITF Grade 1 in Canada at the Repentigny Internationaux de Tennis Junior, defeating Fé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Martín Etcheverry
Tomás Martín Etcheverry (born 18 July 1999) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 27, achieved on 12 February 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 203, achieved on 6 January 2025. He is currently the No. 3 player from Argentina. Professional career 2021: ATP debut, maiden Challenger title, top 150 debut Etcheverry made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Delray Beach Open and won his first ATP match at the 2021 Córdoba Open defeating Andrej Martin. Etcheverry won his maiden Challenger title in Perugia, Italy, defeating top seed Salvatore Caruso in the semifinal, for his maiden top 100 win, and Vitaliy Sachko in the final, rising to a new career-high ranking of World No. 166 on 19 July 2021. He made his top 150 debut in singles at World No. 148 on 2 August 2021 after winning the Challenger title in Trieste, Italy. A week later he made his third Challenger final in Cordenons, Italy for 2021, where he lost to compatrio ... [...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] |
