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2023 H-E-B PLAYER BIOS: SEEDED PLAYERS

BERNARD TOMIC (Seeded NO. 1)

Age: 30. Country: Australia. Current ATP ranking: 513. Career-high ranking: 17 (January 2016). 2022 Highlights: two M15 Cancun titles. Recent career highlights: 250 Chengdu Open title (2018); Mallorca Challenger title (2018); 250 Bogota title (2014, 2015); 250 Sydney title, (2013). Grand Slam highlights: Australian Open fourth round (2015, 2016); Wimbledon fourth round (2013, 2016); 2009 U.S. Open junior singles title, 2008 Australian Open junior singles title. Extra: Tomic is staging a comeback through ITF World Tennis Tour events. Instagram: @realbernardtomic.

JACK PENNINGTON JONES (2)

Age: 19. Country: Great Britain. Current ATP ranking: 568. Career-high ranking: 489 (April 2022). 2022 Highlights: Title, M25 Santa Margherita du Pula, Italy (May); Semifinals, M25 Santa Margherita du Pula, Italy (April). Career Highlights: M15 titles in Greece and Turkey (2021). Extra: Was British No. 1 junior in 2019. … has two junior singles titles and five junior doubles titles. Twitter: @PinningtonJames.

ALEXANDER COZBINOV (3)

Age: 27. Country: Moldova. Current ATP ranking: 558. Career-high ranking: 556 (Oct. 17, 2022). 2022 Highlights: Title, M15 in Cancun, Mexico (September). Career Highlights: Title, M15 in Pittsburgh (July 2019). Extra: Played at University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 2014 to 2018; Plays Davis Cup for Moldova.

ROBERTO CID SUBERVI (4)

Age: 29. Country: Dominican Republic. Current ATP ranking: 610. Career-high ranking: 211 (2020). 2022 Highlights: Title, M25 Santo Domingo (June). Career Highlights: Eight titles including ITF M25 Fayetteville, Arkansas (2019) and M15 Gyor, Hungary (2019). Extra: As senior at University of South Florida, reached the NCAA singles quarterfinals. Instagram: @robertocidsubervi.

 

 

 

 

 

COLIN MARKES (5)

Age: 25. Hometown: Round Rock, Texas (Westwood High School). Current ATP ranking: 615 (career high). 2022 Highlights: Final, M15 Monastir, Tunisia (September); semifinal, M15 Heraklion, Greece (May). Career highlights: Semifinals, M25 Austin (2021). College highlights: At University of Texas at Austin, was part of 2019 NCAA team championship, 2019 Big 12 Individual Champion at No. 5 singles, 2019 Academic All-Big 12 (first team), 2019 ITA National Indoor All-Tournament Team at No. 5 singles. Extra: Name is pronounced MARK-iss; is ambidextrous.

ANDRES ANDRADE (6)

Age: 23. Country: Ecuador. Current ATP singles ranking: 641. Career-high ranking: 640 (October 2022). 2022 Highlights: Title, M15 in Quito, Ecuador (June); final, M15 Cancun, Mexico (August); semifinals, M15 Cancun, Mexico (October); 3 doubles titles. Extra: At University of Florida, he was the 2021 NCAA singles champion and the 2022, 2021 and 2019 SEC champion; Two junior singles titles, five junior doubles titles. … Is seeded first in doubles with Johannes Ingildsen of Denmark.

JOHANNES INGILDSEN (7)

Age: 25. Country: Denmark. Current ATP ranking: 670. Career-high ranking: 638 (September 2022). 2022 Highlights: singles quarterfinals, M25 in Lesa, Italy (August), M25 Frederiksberg, Denmark (August), M25 Poprad, Slovakia (July) and M25 in Skopje, Macedonia (June); four M25 doubles titles and two M15 doubles titles. Career Highlights: singles title, M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2021); four doubles titles in 2021. Extra: Part of University of Florida’s 2021 NCAA championship team. Received bachelor’s in Sport Management and master’s degree in International Business; two junior singles titles, four junior doubles titles. … Is seeded first in doubles with Andres Andrade.

GABI ADRIAN BOITAN (8)

Age: 23. Country: Romania. Current ATP ranking: 705. Career-high ranking: 554 (August 2022). 2022 Highlights: final, M25 Dallas (July); doubles title M15 Constanta. Career Highlights: Final, M25 Harlingen, Texas (November 2021); final, M15 Champaign, Illinois (September 2021). Extra: At Baylor, he was 2021 ITA All-American (singles) and 2021 Big 12 Championship most outstanding Player; Won 4 junior titles; Represents Romania in Davis Cup.

Rest of Main Draw

TADEAS PAROULEK

Age: 22. Country: Czech Republic. Current ATP ranking: 716. Career-high ranking: 538 (2018). 2022 Highlights: Title, M15 Novi Sad, Serbia (August); final M15 Novi Sad, Serbia (July). Extra: Plays for Baylor, where he was named Most Outstanding Performer at 2022 Big 12 Tournament.

KAREEM AL ALLAF

Age: 24. Country: Syria. Current ATP ranking: 781. Career-high ranking: 772 (September 2020). 2022 Highlights: Semifinals, M15 Cancun, Mexico (September), quarterfinals M25 Champaign, Illinois (July). Extra: Qualified for 2021 Austin event, reaching quarterfinals; Played for Iowa Hawkeyes; Plays Davis Cup for Syria.

MACIEJ RAJSKI

Age: 31. Country: Poland. Current ATP ranking: 772. Career-high ranking: 532 (2017). 2022 Highlights: final, M15 Albuquerque, New Mexico (October); semifinal, M15 Wroclaw, Poland (July). Career Highlights: Title, M15 Lodz, Poland (2021); title, Futures Poland (2017). Instagram: @maciejrajski.

MARTIN BREYSACH

Age: 20. Country: France. Current ATP ranking: 784. Career-high ranking: 729 (August 2022). 2022 Highlights: Semifinals, M15 Cretell, France (March), quarterfinals, Monastir, Tunisia (April). Career Highlight: title, M15 Monastir, Tunisia (2021). Extra: Playing in his first year for Baylor Bears; Won 13 junior titles and was world No. 19 in world junior rankings.

CHRISTIAN SIGSGAARD

Age: 25. Country: Denmark. Current ATP ranking: 878. Career-high ranking: 779 (August 2022). 2022 Highlights: quarterfinals, M15 in Manacor, Spain (January); two M15 titles. Extra: Played No. 1 singles and doubles on UT-Austin’s 2019 NCAA championship team … three-time ITA All-America honors …  graduated with a degree in philosophy.

DARIAN KING

Age: 30. Country: Barbados. Current singles ranking: 976. Career-high ranking: 106 (May 2017). 2022 Highlights: Quarterfinals, M15 Naples, Florida (February). Career highlights: 3 Challenger singles titles in 2016 and 13 Futures singles titles from 2012 to 2016. … Played in 2017 U.S. Open main draw, losing to Alexander Zverev in first round. Extra: Represented Barbados in 2016 Olympics and in Davis Cup … Instagram is @tennisdarian.

ALEX KUPERSTEIN 

Age: 23. Country: Palm Desert, California. Current ATP ranking: 1,110 (career-high). 2022 Highlights: Semifinals, M15 Cancun, Mexico (October); quarterfinal M 15 Cancun, Mexico (September) Extra: Was a hitting partner for WTA No. 1 Iga Swiatek at the 2022 Miami Open.

DEMETRIS AZOIDES

Age: 22. Country: Greece. Current ATP ranking: 1,195. Career-high ranking: 1,145 (October). 2022 Highlights: Quarterfinals, M15 Lubbock, Texas (September); doubles title, M15 Kfar Saba, Israel (August); doubles final, M15 Albuquerque, New Mexico (October).  Extra: 2017 Ioannina Cup 2017 junior doubles champion. 

SEBASTIAN GORZNY

Age: 18. Hometown: Fountain Valley, CA Current ATP ranking: *None; ITF ranking: 1556 Career-high ranking: *; ITF career high: 1291 (April 2022). 2022 highlights: Won J3 Delray Beach in April, Won J1 Roehampton Doubles in June, Won Wimbledon Junior Doubles Championships in July. Career highlights: Career high ranking of 38 in ITF Juniors (January 2022) Extra: Freshman on TCU tennis team. Instagram: @sebgorzny. 

GABRIEL EVANS

Age: 26. Hometown: San Antonio, Texas. Current ATP ranking: 1,029 (career-high). 2022 Highlights: second round, M25 Decatur, Illinois (August). Extra: Played for University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio.

PHILIP HENNING

Age: 21. Country: South Africa. Current ATP ranking: 1114. Career-high ranking: 1114 (November 2022). 2022 Highlights: Reached the semifinals at M15 Tallahassee in October. Has a bid to both the singles and doubles NCAA National Championships.

 

 

 

 

LUCAS RENARD

 Age: 30. Country: Sweden. Current ATP singles ranking: 1,199. Career-high ranking: 672 (2013). 2022 Highlights:  two second-round main draws, M25 Falun, Sweden (October) and M25 Kalmar, Sweden (May). Career Highlights: doubles F2 Futures title in 2016 w/ Daniel Windahl (Turkey); doubles F5 Futures title in 2014 w/ Giorgio Portaluri (India).

RYAN DICKERSON

Age: 25. Hometown: Marlton, New Jersey. Current ATP ranking: 1,410 Career-high ranking: 1, 389 (October 2022) 2022 Highlights: Quarterfinals, M15 Albuquerque, New Mexico (October). Doubles final w/ Francesco Ferrari, M15 Cancun, Mexico (February). Extra: Played for Duke and Baylor, where he was 2021 Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

ERIC HADIGIAN 

Age: 22. Hometown: Sacramento, California. Current ATP ranking: 1,579. Career-high ranking: 1,290 (June 2022). 2022 Highlights: Reached quarterfinal at M15 San Diego in June.

MICAH BRASWELL

Age: 21. Hometown: Sarasota, Florida. Current ATP ranking: 1,891. Career-high ranking: 1,590 (August 2022). 2022 Highlights: As Texas Longhorn, was selected for the NCAA Championships draw for singles, Named First-Team All-Big 12. Career Highlights: Named Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2021.

SIEM WOLDEAB

Age: 21. Hometown: La Mesa, California. Current ATP ranking: 1,382. Career-high ranking: 1,217 (February 2022). 2022 Highlights: Reached the quarterfinal of the M15 San Diego in June. Extra: As Texas Longhorn, named ITF doubles All American, selected for the NCAA Championships draw for doubles as a 5-8 seed.

MARKO MESAROVIC

Age: 18. Hometown: Round Rock, Texas. Current ITF junior ranking: 169. Career-high junior ranking: 139 (June 2022). 2022 Highlights: Qualified for M25 Harlingen, Texas, where he lost to Trey Hilderbrand in the first round (October); won two J3 junior titles and one J5 junior title. Extra: A Westwood High School senior in the north Austin suburb of Round Rock. He is part dominating team that recently won the state’s highest high school division, Class 6A, for the third title in five seasons and this time without losing a match in the semifinals or final. … Announced on Twitter (@marko_mesarovic) that he is committed to Clemson.

HAMISH STEWART

Age: 23 Hometown: Glasgow, Scotland Current ATP singles ranking: 1807 Career ATP ranking: 1701 Highlights: In the 2021-2022 season, Stewart was Georgia’s No.1 singles player as he finished 28-13 overall, 20-7 in dual matches, 8-3 against conference opponents and 18-9 against nationally ranked opponents for the Bulldog’s best records of the season. Before attending the University of Georgia, Stewart achieved career high world junior ITF ranking of No. 185, 11th in the UK, and No. 2 in Scotland, he also represented Scotland in the 2017 Commonwealth Games.

JOHN CHIN

Age: 19. Country: Jamaica. Current ATP ranking: 1,074. Career-high ranking: 1,005 (August 2022). Career highlight: Semifinal, J4 Plantation (2021). Extra: A sophomore at Middle Tennessee State, majoring in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship. … was Caribbean and Central America’s highest-ranked junior.

ZSOMBOR VELCZ

Age: 19. Country: Hungary. Current ATP ranking: 877. Career-high ranking: 816 (December 2021). 2022 Highlights: Quarterfinals M15 Celje, Slovakia (August). Career Highlights: Title, M15 Gurugram, Indonesia (2021); doubles title, M15 Bratislava (2021). Extra: In first year playing for Baylor; Won national Hungarian championships.