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Late in the afternoon on August 21, 2019 Tommy Paul missed a forehand to end his second round US Open Qualifying match against Spain’s Pedro Martinez. Dejected, Paul violently slammed his racket into the ground. Paul destroyed the racket, then he somberly exited the grounds at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center before the […] READ MORE
The 2019 ATP Challenger Tour saw 158 events played around the globe over the course of almost eleven months. It was the Tour’s 42nd edition, although it was known as the ATP Challenger Series until 2008, and as ever it saw no shortage of thrilling tennis, with both young guns and experienced veterans battling it […] READ MORE
Just one tournament was played in the very last week of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour season. As Bari Challenger was canceled due to “irreparable damage” to the stadium, Portuguese city Maia was the only center of the action. Jozef Kovalik was crowned as the champion for the second time this year. The Slovak smashed […] READ MORE
It was a crazy week on the ATP Challenger Tour. Just one tournament remains to be played in the 2019 calendar and all the drama happening in Houston, Champaign, Ortisei, Helsinki, and Pune serves as a great farewell. Hopefully the Maia Challenger next week will grant the fans so many emotions as well. Oracle Challenger […] READ MORE
Tell me you didn’t fall for that again. Dennis Novak clinched his second Challenger title at the Peugeot Slovak Open, absolutely destroying Damir Dzumhur in the final, 6-1 6-1. The 50-minute championship might have been easy but Novak’s route to the final certainly wasn’t. The Austrian, who was ranked no. 126 at the start of […] READ MORE
This week’s Challenger Tour Weekly Recap main story will not be focused on a winner from this week. Steve Darcis, often nicknamed “Shark” for his tattoo of this rapacious animal, lost the championship match in Eckental to Jiri Vesely. But it was the Belgian legend’s last Challenger Tour event and he clearly deserves the exception. […] READ MORE
Better known for his long and funny-sounding name than his results so far, Botic Van De Zandschulp was another victim of the ITF reform, which forced him to work hard for half a year to even get a chance to play on the Challenger Tour. However, titles at Bolton, Nussloch, and Prijedor allowed him to […] READ MORE
Former world #25 Vasek Pospisil took home his eighth ATP Challenger Tour title in Las Vegas. The Canadian had to go through herniated disc surgery in January and thus did not start his season until Wimbledon. But his comeback really kicked off in the Autumn as he beat ninth seed Karen Khachanov at the US […] READ MORE
Last week in Campinas, Juan Pablo Varillas became the first Peruvian in 12 years to capture an ATP Challenger Tour title. In a battle of Juan Pablos, he beat the Argentinian Juan Pablo Ficovich in three sets to become the fifth men from his country to win an event at that level after Pablo Arraya, […] READ MORE
Do you know who made the most finals this season? Not one of the big three. Not Danill Medvedev, despite the fact that he’s just made six in a row. It’s a 25-year-old Australian Christopher O’Connell. By defeating Kevin King on Saturday, he made his thirteenth final of the season. Christopher O’Connell and Health issues […] READ MORE