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2008 Masters France

The tournament was open to the top eight French players who had performed best at ATP Tour events held in France during 2008 (at Metz, Lyon, Marseille and the Masters Series event in Paris).

2008 PBZ Zagreb Indoors

Twenty-two-year-old Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky, who entered the tournament as world number 209, became the first lucky loser to reach an ATP Tour final since Nicklas Kulti at Halle in 1999.

Axel Pretzsch

His best result on the ATP Tour came at the 1999 President's Cup in Tashkent, where he had to best win of his career, defeating world number 60 Sargis Sargsian en route to the quarter-finals.

Bart Wuyts

Wuyts never reached a final on the ATP Tour, the closest he got was in 1992, when he reached the semi-finals of the Grand Prix Hassan II tournament in Morocco and was a semi-finalist at Italy's Bologna Outdoor.

C More Tennis

C More Tennis is a Scandinavian premium sports channel, and it replaced Canal+ Sport 2 on September 4, 2012 and became an sports channel with only tennis from ATP Tour, WTA Tour & Davis Cup.

David Witt

His career on the main tour proved less fruitful, failing to break into the top 100 and winning no titles; the closest he came was in the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, where he and Brian MacPhie were runners-up in the doubles in 1994.

Diego Hartfield

Diego Hartfield (born January 31, 1981 in Oberá, Misiones), nicknamed El Gato Hartfield (Hartfield the Cat in Spanish) is a tennis player on the ATP Tour from Argentina.

Diego Moyano

His next appearance on the ATP Tour was in the 2001 Cerveza Club Colombia Open, where he was unable to get past qualifier Alexandre Simoni in the first round.

Johan Donar

Donar was a doubles specialist and appeared in only one singles event during his career on the ATP Tour, at Mexico City in 1993, where he was defeated in the opening round by Thomas Muster.

Joost Winnink

Winnink, and his partner Filip Dewulf, reached the semi-finals of the 1994 Monte Carlo Open, but his best result on the ATP Tour was when he finished runner-up at the 1995 South African Open, also in the doubles.

Răzvan Sabău

His biggest achievements in the ATP Tour are reaching the semifinals twice, at the Bucharest Open in 2003, where he lost to Nicolás Massú and at Gstaad in 2005, where he lost to Stanislas Wawrinka.

Santiago Ventura Bertomeu

He was the first player to be beaten by Andy Murray on the ATP Tour, in the first round of the Aegon Championships tournament in 2005.

Tomáš Anzari

He reached eight doubles semi-finals on the ATP Tour, but only once made it into the final, in 1992, when he and Carl Limberger were runners-up at the BMW Open.


see also

1994 ATP Tour World Championships

The 1994 ATP Tour World Championships (also known for the singles event as the IBM-ATP Tour World Championship for sponsorship reasons) were tennis tournaments played on indoor carpet courts.

1995 ATP Tour World Championships

The 1995 ATP Tour World Championships (also known for the singles event as the IBM-ATP Tour World Championship for sponsorship reasons) were tennis tournaments played on indoor carpet courts.

Cipolla

Flavio Cipolla (born 1983), a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from Italy

Ivica Ančić

In May, 1997, he finished second in the Croatia #2 Satellite series, collecting 41 ATP Tour points in the process.

Jérôme Golmard

Among the many notable players he beat on the ATP Tour are former World No. 1s Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Gustavo Kuerten, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marcelo Ríos and Carlos Moyá, as well as Grand Slam champions Richard Krajicek, Goran Ivanišević, Albert Costa, Gastón Gaudio, Thomas Johansson and Michael Chang.

Louis Gloria

In 1994, Gloria had his best year on the ATP Tour, making the second round of three tournaments, the Lipton Championships, EA Generali Open and the Japan Open.

Riklis

1991 Riklis Classic, tennis tournament played on hard courts that was part of the World Series of the 1991 ATP Tour

1990 Riklis Classic, tennis tournament played on hard courts that was part of the World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour