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Filip Polášek
Filip Polášek (; born 21 July 1985) is an inactive Slovak professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He reached his highest doubles ranking of world No. 7 in February 2020, and has won 17 titles on the ATP Tour. He was forced to retire in 2013 due to health issues, but returned in 2018 and began the most successful phase of his career. Polášek won his first Grand Slam title at the 2021 Australian Open alongside Ivan Dodig, and also won the 2019 Cincinnati Masters and 2021 Indian Wells Masters, with Dodig and John Peers respectively. Polášek was the first Slovak man to reach, or win a major doubles final. He also reached the semifinals at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, 2020 Australian Open and 2021 US Open. He qualified for the ATP Finals in both 2019 and 2021. Polášek has represented Slovakia in the Davis Cup since 2008, and also competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics partnering Lukáš Klein. Career 2008: First ATP titles Polášek reached his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bratislava
Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, some sources estimate daily number of people moving around the city based on mobile phone SIM cards is more than 570,000. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia at the foot of the Little Carpathians, occupying both banks of the Danube and the left bank of the Morava (river), River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital to border two sovereign states. The city's history has been influenced by people of many nations and religions, including Austrians, Bulgarians, Croats, Czechs, Germans, Hungarian people, Hungarians, Jews and Slovaks. It was the coronation site and legislative center and capital of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1536 to 1783; elev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 French Open – Mixed Doubles
Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi were the defending champions, but decided not to participate together. Mirza played alongside Robert Lindstedt, but lost in the first round to Cara Black and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, while Bhupathi competed with Casey Dellacqua, but lost to Anastasia Rodionova and Santiago González in the first round. Lucie Hradecká and František Čermák won the title, defeating Kristina Mladenovic and Daniel Nestor in the final, 1–6, 6–4, 0–6 Seeds Main draw Finals Top half Bottom half External links Main draw at the |
Travis Parrott
Travis Parrott (born August 16, 1980) is an American former professional ATP tennis doubles player. He is primarily a doubles specialist. Travis is the son of Brian Parrott, a pro tennis organizer who helped bring a pair of events to Portland in the 1980s. Grand Slam results Parrott competed in the doubles at the |
2008 Valencia Open 500
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Lukáš Klein
Lukáš Klein (born 22 March 1998) is a Slovak professional tennis player. Klein has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 109, achieved on 5 August 2024. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 240, achieved on 5 April 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Slovak tennis player in singles. Klein has reached 15 career singles finals, with a record of 9 wins and 6 losses, including 3 ATP Challenger titles. Additionally, he has reached 11 career doubles finals, with a record of 5 wins and 6 losses, including a 1–3 result in Challenger finals. Career 2021: ATP & top 250 & Olympics debut Klein won the doubles title at the 2021 Challenger La Manche with compatriot Alex Molčan 1–6, 7–5, 0–6 Klein made his ATP main draw singles debut in March at the 2021 Argentina Open, where he defeated Andrea Collarini, Thiago Seyboth Wild and Ernesto Escobedo to qualify for the main draw. Klein then went on to upset compatriot Andrej Martin in straight sets. He would go on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Australian Open – Men's Doubles
Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury defeated Max Purcell and Luke Saville in the final, 6–4, 6–2 to win the men's doubles tennis title at the 2020 Australian Open. Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut were the defending champions, but were defeated in the first round by Simone Bolelli and Benoît Paire. Marcelo Arévalo became the first Salvadoran to reach a major quarterfinal. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Other entry information Wild cards Alternate pairs Withdrawals * Radu Albot / Denys Molchanov ''(Albot withdrew due to personal reasons)'' * Márton Fucsovics / Cameron Norrie ''(Fucsovics withdrew due to focusing on singles match)'' References External linksDraw2020 Australian Open – Men's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Peers
John William Peers (born 25 July 1988) is an Australian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He reached a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 2 on 3 April 2017, and a singles ranking of No. 456 in June 2012. He has won three Grand Slams, in doubles at the 2017 Australian Open with Henri Kontinen, and in mixed doubles at the 2022 US Open with fellow Australian Storm Sanders and the 2025 Australian Open with another compatriot Olivia Gadecki. He has competed three times at the Olympic Games, winning the mixed doubles bronze medal in 2021 with Ashleigh Barty, and the doubles gold medal in 2024 with Matthew Ebden. Peers also finished runner up at the Wimbledon Championships and US Open in 2015 alongside Jamie Murray, and at the 2019 Australian Open with Kontinen. Peers has won 27 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2016 and 2017 ATP Finals as well as four at Masters 1000 level. He has represented Australia in the Davis Cup sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Doubles
John Peers and Filip Polášek defeated Aslan Karatsev and Andrey Rublev in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–5) to win the men's doubles tennis title at the 2021 Indian Wells Masters. Nikola Mektić and Horacio Zeballos were the defending champions from when the tournament was last held in 2019, but chose to compete with different partners. Mektić played alongside Mate Pavić, but lost to Peers and Polášek in the quarterfinals. Zeballos played alongside Marcel Granollers, but lost to Fabio Fognini and 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 o ... in the first round. Mektić usurped his doubles partner Pavić for the ATP No. 1 doubles ranking after the event, as the latter dropped points from the 2019 Shanghai Masters. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Botto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Western & Southern Open – Men's Doubles
Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate together this year. Murray played alongside Neal Skupski, but lost in the semifinals to Ivan Dodig and Filip Polášek. Soares played alongside Mate Pavić, but lost in the semifinals to Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah Robert Charbel Farah Maksoud (; born 20 January 1987) is a Colombian former professional tennis player. A world No. 1 in doubles, he also reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 163 in June 2011. Farah is a two-time Grand Slam Champion .... Dodig and Polášek went on to win the title, defeating Cabal and Farah in the final, 4–6, 6–4, 0–6 Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half ReferencesMain draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2019 Western and Southern Open - Men's Doubles Western and Southern Open Doubles Men's Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber tennis ball, ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's tennis court, court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. If a player is unable to return the ball successfully, the opponent scores a Point (tennis), point. Playable at all levels of society and at all ages, tennis can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including Wheelchair tennis, wheelchair users. The original forms of tennis developed in France during the late Middle Ages. The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections to various field (lawn) games such as croqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Desirae Krawczyk and Joe Salisbury defeated Giuliana Olmos and Marcelo Arévalo in the final, 7–5, 6–2 to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 2021 US Open. By winning the title, Krawczyk and Salisbury received their third and second major mixed doubles title, respectively. Their victory together made Krawczyk the first player to win three consecutive mixed doubles major trophies since Mahesh Bhupathi in 2005 and 2006, and the seventh player in the Open Era to win three mixed doubles titles in a single season. Salisbury became the first man to win both the men's doubles and mixed doubles titles at the US Open in the same year since Bob Bryan in 2010. Arévalo became the first player from Central America to reach a Grand Slam final. Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jamie Murray were the two-time defending champions, having won the most recent editions in 2018 and 2019, but lost in the first round to Andreja Klepač and Joran Vliegen. Seeds Draw Finals Top half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 US Open – Mixed Doubles
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