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Carlos Alcaraz Garfia made incredible progress in 2020 to highlight his status as one of the brightest young ATP talents. After starting the year at #490 in the ATP rankings, the Spaniard climbed 354 places to reach a career-high position of #136 in October. Alcaraz Garfia ended the year at #141 and as the youngest […] READ MORE
An abbreviated season due to COVID-19 saw the ATP Challenger Tour complete just 56 tournaments in 2020, in turn severely reducing the number of matches that took place, despite that, there was some great tennis action on the ATP’s minor league tour on the season. Here is a look at 10 of the best during […] READ MORE
Compared to a total of 158 ATP Challenger Tour events that took place in 2019, organizing just 59 (and finishing 56) seems like a failure. But considering what happened this year, men’s tennis’ second-tier circuit did well to manage to give the lower-ranked players great opportunities to compete while doing well to avoid an extensive […] READ MORE
Pedro Sousa met Carlos Taberner in Sunday’s Maia Challenger final. The Portuguese had already made another final in his country in 2020, losing to Jaume Munar at the Lisbon Challenger. The indoor clay conditions seemed to really suit his game and he was able to advance to the final in dominant fashion. Taberner, meanwhile, won […] READ MORE
The Campinas Challenger final featured a battle between two excellent clay-courters: Francisco Cerundolo and Roberto Carballes Baena. Having won two Challenger titles in the past three months, the Argentinian has been in fantastic form since the tour restarted. But he did not have things all his own way in Campinas and when he was taken […] READ MORE
The Challenger Tour events at Campinas and Maia were the last of the 2020 season. Campinas brought an end to a November/December South American swing, while Maia was the tour’s final visit in Europe, as well as the only event contested on an indoor clay court. As always, the players delivered with a bunch of […] READ MORE
The penultimate week of the 2020 ATP Challenger Tour has come to an end. The focus was on South America, with clay-court events taking place in Lima and Sao Paolo and it proved to be a week of shocks, with three players reaching maiden finals on the circuit. Here’s a recap of what you might […] READ MORE
Another exciting week has passed on the ATP Challenger Tour with plenty of variety in surfaces, overhead conditions and even time zones. Tournaments were contested on a very fast indoor court in Ortisei, a slower, outdoor hard court in Orlando and an on a South American clay court in Guayaquil. Here’s a recap of what […] READ MORE
With the ATP 250 Sofia Open the only main tour action this week, fans had more time than usual to follow the ATP Challenger Tour. The European indoor swing continued in the Slovakian capital Bratislava, whilst in the United States the first Challenger since March was held in Cary. Here’s a recap of what you […] READ MORE
Just four weeks remain before the 2020 ATP Challenger Tour comes to an end and the players will get to rest up and train in the off-season. The European indoor circuit continues in Bratislava, while the United States gets its first event since Indian Wells. It will be held in Cary, North Carolina. But back […] READ MORE
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