Wyatt Demulling defeated Paul Spencer in the qualifying round of the Winston-Salem tournament

Wyatt DemullingAmerican won by 7-5 and 6-1 to the American player Paolo Spencer in the qualifying round of the tournament Winston-Salem. After this result, the winner will be in the next stage of the tournament Winston-Salem.

the tournament of Winston-Salem (ITF USA F45) provides a preliminary entry phase in which players with the lowest ranking must obtain the highest possible score to qualify and participate in the official tournament. In this particular phase, 56 players face off. Likewise, it is held from 7 to 13 November on a covered concrete pitch.

Tennis, a sport for everyone

Tennis is undoubtedly a classic sport. Every year, four tournaments (the so-called ‘Grand Slams’) concentrate all the attention of the world: the season begins with the Open Australiacontinue with the dirt track of Roland Garrosthen he goes to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and ends in the USA with the US Open.

For the rest of the year, players continue to play around the world by completing seasons on different surfaces: hard or fast track, clay or grass.

Tennis was born Europe at the end of the 18th century and since 1926 it is a professional sport, date of creation of the tour. It was especially popular with the affluent classes in English-speaking countries, but today it is a world sport. Is divided into of categories: men’s competition (ATP) and women’s competition (WTA).

ATP

The ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) is the association of professional tennis players that brings together players from all over the world in the men’s category.

The ATP tour organizes several tournaments throughout the year: ATP 1000 Masters (where the tournament winner will receive 1,000 points to add to the ATP rankings), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, on a lower level, we would have the ATP Challenger Tour, where the future stars of world tennis are fighting. In addition, the association also deals with the Grand Slams.

The fight to be the best in history is still active in the men’s category. The Spanish Rafael Nadalthe Serbia Novak Djokovic and the Swiss Roger Federer they compete to break all records and get the most Grand Slams. The three players are commonly called “Big three‘against the new generations or’ Next Gen ‘.

These promising tennis stars have entered the world tennis circuit with a bang, as in the case of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasof the Italian Matteo BerrettiniGerman Alexander Zverev or the Russians Medvedev y Rublev.

Novak Djokovic currently holds the record for weeks at number 1 in the ATP rankings, closely followed by Roger Federer, the legendary American player Pete Sampras, Iván Lendl and Jimmy Connors.

WTA

The WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was created in 1973 by the famous former tennis player Billie Jean King. The Californian has won 39 Grand Slam titles during her active career and is an icon in the world of tennis.

Currently, there are many female tennis players competing to stay at the top of the world tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Players like the Pole Iga Świątek (Roland Garros champion in 2021), the Greek Maria Sakkari or Paola Badosa (the first Spanish winner of Indian Wells) are struggling to stay in the top 10 of the WTA rankings.

In the year 2022, the Australian tennis player Asleigh Barty announced his permanent retirement from tennis and has left an impressive career with several Grand Slams behind him. Now is the time for the other players to take over and become number 1.

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