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Ramkumar Ramanathan entered the final in Manama with a 0-6 win/loss record in championship matches at Challenger level. The Indian played fearlessly though and was finally able to get that obstacle off his way. Oscar Otte is now just fifteen points away from getting to the top 100, following a title at Bari. Read back […] READ MORE
Two of the most rapidly improving players on the ATP Challenger Tour managed to grab their top 100 spots before the end of the season (and with them, a secure main draw spot at the Australian Open). Stefan Kozlov achieved it in a different way, clinching the USTA Australian Open wildcard challenge. Read back on […] READ MORE
Alex Molcan has enjoyed a breakout season in 2021, clinching his maiden Challenger title at Liberec and even getting to a championship match at the higher level, losing to Novak Djokovic in Belgrade. The 23-year-old is currently chasing a debut appearance in the top 100, playing his last tournament of the season in Helsinki. Molcan […] READ MORE
Top-seeded Harri Heliovaara and Jean-Julien Rojer reached the doubles final at the Helsinki Challenger in stunning fashion. The newly-formed duo dropped their serve just once and never gave their opponents more than four games in a single set. Talking about playing together for the first time, Rojer was very appreciative of his partner – “Henri […] READ MORE
–Helsinki Joris de Loore qualified for the 2021 HPP Open, taking out Roberto Quiroz and Viktor Durasovic. The former was the top seed in the qualifying in Helsinki and de Loore had to go the distance to beat him, the latter was closed out in straights but not without a tough battle. The 28-year-old Belgian […] READ MORE
On paper, this should be the highest quality matchup of the Red Group at the ATP Finals. However, their match at the Rolex Paris Masters was lop-sided and disappointing as a spectacle. Can Daniil Medvedev prove himself superior once again? Nitto ATP Finals Day 3 Prediction Daniil Medvedev vs Alexander Zverev Head-to-head: 5-5 The two […] READ MORE
It’s five events no more as the Challenger Tour went through a last week that busy this year. The action doesn’t stop until the 19th of December though and there was plenty of excitement again as Tallon Griekspoor won his fifth consecutive event, taking his all-time record of most titles in a single season to […] READ MORE
Shuai Peng hasn’t played since the beginning of the pandemic, but the former doubles World No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion has recently become involved in a Chinese political scandal and no one has heard from her in the past couple of days. Last Tuesday, the 35-year-old made a post on Weibo (a Chinese […] READ MORE
18-year-old wunderkind Carlos Alcaraz drew the seemingly tougher group at the 2021 NextGen Finals. Holger Rune and Brandon Nakashima have already won Challenger events indoors this year with the clay-court specialist Juan Manuel Cerundolo standing as the outsider that was rather unlikely to qualify. Seeing the latter eliminated after the first two days and Alcaraz […] READ MORE
The WTA Linz Open sort of unusually ends on a Friday, meaning that the semifinal round of this event will be contested on Thursday. Simona Halep takes on Jaqueline Cristian in an all-Romanian meeting that we’ve already seen in Cluj this year, while Danielle Collins and Alison Riske will battle for who gets to play […] READ MORE