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Alexis Galarneau
Alexis Galarneau (; born 2 March 1999) is a Canadian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking by the ATP of world No. 155, achieved on May 6, 2024. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 311, achieved on June 11, 2023. College career Galarneau played college tennis at North Carolina State University. Professional career 2021–22: ATP, Masters & top 250 debuts, Davis Cup champion Galarneau made his ATP main-draw debut at the 2021 National Bank Open after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with partner Félix Auger-Aliassime. He made his singles debut the following year in 2022, when he lost to 16th-seeded Grigor Dimitrov in the first round. As a result, he made his top 250 debut at world No. 238 on 1 August 2022. 2023–24: First ATP win, Top 155 debut Galarneau received a wildcard into the 2023 Canadian Open, and lost to Francisco Cerúndolo in the first round. In September 2023, Galarneau recorded his first tour-level victory at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2022 Internationaux De Tennis De Blois
The 2022 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Blois, France between 13 and 19 June 2022. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 6 June 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Térence Atmane * Arthur Fils * Corentin Moutet The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: * Gonzalo Lama * Genaro Alberto Olivieri The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Gabriel Décamps * Evgeny Karlovskiy * Shintaro Mochizuki * Alex Rybakov * Nikolás Sánchez Izquierdo * Luca Van Assche Champions Singles * Alexandre Müller def. Nikola Milojević (tennis), Nikola Milojević 7–6(7–3), 6–1. Doubles * Sriram Balaji / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan def. Romain Arneodo / Jonathan Eysseric 6–4, 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2022 National Bank Open – Men's Singles
Pablo Carreño Busta defeated Hubert Hurkacz in the final, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2022 Canadian Open. Carreño Busta's first title of the season was also his maiden ATP Masters 1000 title. Hurkacz's defeat in the contest for his second Masters 1000 title was also a career-first loss in a tour-level final after he was bidding to win a sixth title in six finals. Daniil Medvedev was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Nick Kyrgios. For the first time since 1999 Indian Wells, the top three seeds at a Masters 1000 tournament were defeated in their opening matches. Jannik Sinners loss in the third round also guaranteed a maiden Masters 1000 finalist in the bottom half of the draw, from which Carreño Busta emerged. Seeds The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round. Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Seeded players The following are the seeded players. See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
JC Aragone
Juan Cruz "JC" Aragone (born June 28, 1995) is an American former professional tennis player. He attended the University of Virginia and was a member of three NCAA Men's Tennis Championship winning teams. Aragone made his first ATP main-draw appearance at the 2017 US Open after coming through qualifying. Early life and amateur career Aragone is from Yorba Linda, California and took classes through the Parkview School, an independent study school based in Placentia, California. In January 2012, Aragone was hospitalized due to liver and kidney failure after developing an allergic reaction to an acne medication. That same year, he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Despite these challenges, Aragone finished his junior career competing in two junior US Opens and ranked 14th in his graduating class. He committed to playing college tennis at the University of Virginia. While at Virginia, Aragone helped the Cavaliers win three straight NCAA Men's Tennis Championships. He was name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kelowna
Kelowna ( ) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan, Okanagan Valley in the British Columbia Interior, southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from the Okanagan language, Okanagan word ', referring to a grizzly bear. Kelowna is the province's third-largest Greater Kelowna, metropolitan area (after Greater Vancouver, Vancouver and Greater Victoria, Victoria). It is the List of municipalities in British Columbia, seventh-largest municipality in BC and the largest in the Interior. It is the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, 20th-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city proper encompasses , and the Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan area, census metropolitan area . Kelowna's population in 2025 is 165,907 in the city proper. Nearby communities include the City of West Kelowna (also referred to as Westbank and Westside) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate its founding, the CBC is the oldest continually-existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique (international radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website). The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the French-language Ici Radio-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Canadian Press
The Canadian Press (CP; , ) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Established in 1917 as a vehicle for Canadian newspapers to exchange news and information, The Canadian Press has been a privately-held company, private, Nonprofit organization, not-for-profit cooperative owned and operated by its member newspapers for most of its history. In mid-2010, however, it announced plans to become a business, for-profit business owned by three media companies once certain conditions were met. Over the years, The Canadian Press and its affiliates have adapted to reflect changes in the Mass media, media industry, including technological changes and the growing demand for 24-hour news cycle, rapid news updates. It currently offers a wide variety of text, audio, photographic, video, and graphic content to websites, radio, television, and commercial clients in addition to newspapers and its longstanding ally, the Associated Press (AP), a global news service based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil ( ; , ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 Wimbledon Championships and the 2015 BNP Paribas Open, 2015 Indian Wells Masters men's doubles titles. He also reached the quarterfinals in singles at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Early life and career Vasek was born on June 23, 1990, in Vernon, British Columbia, to Miloš and Mila. In 1988, before Vasek was born, his parents and older brothers unlawfully drove from Czechoslovakia to Austria to escape the Communist regime. Before moving, Miloš worked as the plant manager of a dairy factory, and Mila taught in a kindergarten. Both had experience playing recreational sports such as tennis with their sons and in local tournaments. The family lived in northeastern Austria and saved up to move to Canada d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Chile had a population of 17.5 million as of the latest census in 2017 and has a territorial area of , sharing borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. The country also controls several Pacific islands, including Juan Fernández Islands, Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas Islands, Desventuradas, and Easter Island, and claims about of Antarctica as the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The capital and largest city of Chile is Santiago, and the national language is Spanish language, Spanish. Conquest of Chile, Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Incas in Central Chile, Inca rule; however, they Arauco War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alejandro Tabilo
Alejandro Tabilo Álvarez (born 2 June 1997) is a Chilean professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the ATP as high as world No. 19 in singles, achieved on 1 July 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 108, attained on 6 January 2025. He is currently the No. 1 player from Chile. Personal life Alejandro Tabilo Álvarez was born in Toronto, Canada on June 2, 1997. His parents are Chileans, his father Ricardo (a native of Antofagasta) settled in North America in 1988, where he met his mother María, who is from San Felipe. After obtaining dual nationality, he traveled to Santiago for the first time to compete when he was 18 years old, taking the opportunity to get to know the country. He decided to move to Chile for a year, being adopted by Julio Rueda and Patricia Farías, a couple in charge of bringing him closer to Chilean culture. At the age of 19, he settled in Chile permanently, but always dreamt of representing the country of his parents. Career 2020: ATP Cup, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sportsnet
Sportsnet is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language Discretionary service, discretionary sports broadcasting, sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture between CTV Television Network, CTV, Liberty Media, and Rogers Media. CTV parent Bell Globemedia then was required to divest its stake in the network following its 2001 acquisition of competing network The Sports Network, TSN. Rogers then became the sole owner of Sportsnet in 2004 after it bought the remaining minority stake that was held by 21st Century Fox, Fox. The Sportsnet license comprises four 24-hour programming services; Sportsnet was originally licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as a category A service, operating as a group of regional sports networks offering programming tailored to each feed's region (in contrast to TSN, which was licensed at the time to operate as a national sports s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lorenzo Sonego
Lorenzo Sonego (; born 11 May 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player. Sonego has won four singles titles on the ATP Tour, and two doubles titles. He has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ATP rankings, ranking of world No. 21 achieved on 4 October 2021, and a career high doubles ranking of No. 60 achieved on 12 September 2022. Sonego was part of the Italy Davis Cup team, Italian team that won the Davis Cup in 2023 Davis Cup, 2023, and he reached a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major quarterfinal at the 2025 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2025 Australian Open. Early life Sonego was born in Turin, Italy. He began playing tennis when he was 11 years old, encouraged by his father Giorgio and his coach Gipo Arbino. A fan of Italian football club Torino F.C., Torino, he played for the Torino youth academy between the age of six and 13 before focusing on tennis. Music Sonego has released three singles, all alongside AlterEdo: "Un solo secondo" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2023 Davis Cup Finals
Italy defeated Australia 2–0 in the final of the 2023 Davis Cup. It was Italy's second Davis Cup title, having previously won in 1976. The Finals, formerly known as World Group, were the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2023. They took place from 12 to 17 September and from 21 to 26 November 2023. The ties were contested in a best-of-three rubbers format and played on one day. There were two singles followed by a doubles. Canada was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Finland. Group stage Participating teams 16 nations took part in the group stage of the finals. The qualification was as follows: * 2 finalists of the 2022 Finals (Australia and Canada) * 2 wild card teams (Italy and Spain) * 12 winners of the qualifying round, in February 2023 TH = Title holder, 2022F = Finalist from the 2022 tournament, WC = Wild card, H = Host Seeds The seedings were based on the Davis Cup Ranking of 6 February 2023. The winner of the 2022 Finals Canada were s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
