Gimcheon is a city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is situated on the major land transportation routes between Seoul and Busan, namely the Gyeongbu Expressway and Gyeongbu Line railway.
Gimcheon Sangmu FC is a professional football club that competes in the K League 1. The club is based in Gimcheon, South Korea. Sangmu means martialism and is the sports division of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.
The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organisation is the WTA Tour.
The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP Tour. The ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments are on the entry-level of international professional tennis competition. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to become eligible for main draw or qualifying draw entry at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are usually young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP players looking to get back into the big tour.
2002 Korean FA Cup, known as the Hana-Seoul Bank FA Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 7th edition of the Korean FA Cup.
Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and had been playing mostly at the Challenger level from 2005 to 2008. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 31 and he has reached as high as No. 33 in doubles.
Gimcheon–Gumi station, officially Gimcheon (Gumi), is a Korea Train Express station on the Gyeongbu KTX Line in Gimcheon City, North Gyeongsang Province, servicing Gimcheon and the nearby industrial center of Gumi. Services began on November 1, 2010. Only select KTX trains stop at Gimcheon-Gumi.
Marcus Daniell is a New Zealand professional tennis player. He reached his career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 34 on 29 January 2018 after reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. He won a bronze medal in the men's doubles at the 2020 Summer Olympics, alongside Michael Venus.
Luke Saville is an Australian professional tennis player. He has had success as a doubles player where he reached his highest ranking of World No. 23 on 8 November 2021. Saville reached the final at the 2020 Australian Open, partnering with fellow Australian Max Purcell.
Gimcheon Korea Expressway Corporation Hi-Pass is a South Korean professional women's volleyball team. The team was founded in 1970 and became fully professional in 2005. They are based in Gimcheon and are members of the Korea Volleyball Federation (KOVO). Their home arena is Gimcheon Gymnasium in Gimcheon.
Andrew Whittington is a former Australian professional tennis player. Whittington has now turned to coaching, he will be coaching former doubles partner and current professional Australian tennis player Alex Bolt for the upcoming 2022 summer. He made the world's top 200 in August 2016 following a semi-final run at the 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships.
The 2014 Adidas International Gimcheon was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Gimcheon, Korea between 5 and 11 May 2014.
The 2015 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Gimcheon, Korea between 1 and 7 June 2015.
Alexander Sarkissian is an American professional tennis player of Armenian descent. He won his first ATP Challenger title at the 2015 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger in South Korea in June 2015.
The 2016 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It is the third edition of the tournament which is part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It takes place in Gimcheon, Korea between 18 and 24 July 2016.
Max Purcell is an Australian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 163, achieved on 7 March 2022, and his doubles ranking is world No. 28 achieved on 18 October 2021. He reached the men's doubles final at the 2020 Australian Open partnering Luke Saville, and the 2022 Australian Open partnering Matthew Ebden. As a junior, he reached the quarterfinals of the 2016 Australian Open boys' singles event and semifinals of the boys' doubles. Purcell represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in tennis in singles and doubles, partnering John Peers.
Christopher "Chris" O'Connell is an Australian professional tennis player. He grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. O'Connell reached a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 111 on 14 September 2020 and a doubles ranking of No. 481 on 31 January 2022. He made his ATP Tour debut in January 2017 in his hometown at the Sydney International.
The 2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Gimcheon, Korea between 1 and 7 May 2017.
The 2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Gimcheon, Korea between 7 and 13 May 2018.
2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger 
