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Well, that wasn’t the debut that Tennys Sandgren was looking for at the Atlantic Tire Championships Challenger event in Cary. Things were going relatively smooth for #1 seed Sandgren during the early stages of his first round match against Christopher Eubanks. He was up a break in the first set, *1-0, and was 40-30 ahead […] READ MORE
Sebastian Baez walked up to the net somberly while his opponent in the final of the Kyiv Open, Franco Agamenome, fell onto clay, arms raised. It just wasn’t Baez’s day at the office, winning only 51% of his service points in a 5-7 2-6 defeat to Agamenome. But, despite the loss, the 20 year-old Baez […] READ MORE
While some of the regular Challenger Tour contenders made big runs at the US Open, others contested two hard-court and one clay-court event in Europe. At St. Tropez, Benjamin Bonzi took the lone lead in titles won on the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. Juan Manuel Cerundolo claimed a second trophy this year, while Lukas Lacko […] READ MORE
Holger Rune looked to the mostly-empty stands, screaming and clenching his fist. It was the end of what was a very tough journey for the 18 year-old rising star from Denmark. Rune had just beaten Germany’s Mats Moraing 6-4 3-6 6-3 to qualify for the US Open. It broke a streak of 17 sets in-a-row […] READ MORE
Alex Molcan was barely losing games this week in Liberec, claiming his maiden Challenger Tour title. Meanwhile, three Argentinians got to the semifinals at Cordenons and managed to take the title home. Read back on this week’s action: Liberec Alex Molcan dropped just eighteen games on the way to the final, half of them against […] READ MORE
Tomas Martin Etcheverry had every reason to have an early exit in this past week’s Cordenons Challenger. He had just won the title in Trieste the week before, the second Challenger title of his career. His first Challenger singles title wasn’t too long ago either–he won the Perugia Challenger in July in his maiden run. […] READ MORE
Benjamin Bonzi managed to join the world’s best hundred tennis players by taking his third Challenger title of the season in Segovia this week. In other news, Tomas Martin Etcheverry continued his dominance of Italian Challengers, while Bernabe Zapata Miralles lived up to his status as the top seed in Poznan. Read back on this […] READ MORE
For the second time in ATP Challenger Tour history, there was a final contested between two players coming from Turkey. In Tampere, Jiri Lehecka joined Carlos Alcaraz, Holger Rune, Dominic Stricker, Juan Manuel Cerundolo, Brandon Nakashima, and Carlos Gimeno Valero as the 7th teenage titlist of the season. Read back on this week’s action: Tampere […] READ MORE
With the 2021 Wimbledon into its first week, just one Challenger Tour event was held this week on hard courts in Porto. Quentin Halys demonstrated his ability to quickly switch surfaces by reaching the finals at Forli, then playing Wimbledon qualifying, only to go all the way on the Portuguese hard courts the week after. […] READ MORE
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Challenger Tour will host five events in the same week, something that used to happen quite regularly before. What’s crazy is that all three surfaces will be in play – grass in Nottingham, hard courts in Orlando, and three other clay-court tournaments. But before we get […] READ MORE