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The ATP Challenger Tour visited Nur-Sultan and Gran Canaria this week. The two venues will also hold second events next week with an additional Challenger 50 tournament at Saint Petersburg. Read back on the action on the Canary Islands and in the capital of Kazakhstan. ATP Challenger Tour Weekly Recap Nur-Sultan Mackenzie McDonald recently made […] READ MORE
Forget about multimillionaires battling each other in the Australian Open final. The real struggle is here and it’s been another fascinating week at the ATP Challenger Tour. Soon-Woo Kwon made a great return to the circuit, while Sebastian Baez and Jenson Brooksby added to the growing list of Next-Gen winners of 2021. Read back on […] READ MORE
Almost everyone’s attention was focused on Melbourne this week and the first rounds of the 2021 Australian Open. The Challenger Tour never sleeps though and as always, it delivered three events just packed with action and interesting storylines. Among them was a return to the circuit from a certain former World No. 1… Biella One […] READ MORE
Andy Murray’s comeback on the Challenger Tour continued as he prevailed over world #159 Blaz Rola 6-4 7-6 (9) in the Biella Challenger quarterfinals. At 30-years-old, Rola is a stalwart of the Challenger Tour and his experience showed as he put up a tremendous resistance. The match may have finished in straight sets but the […] READ MORE
As tennis fans around the world scanned through the Australian Open men’s draw, plenty of matches stood out. Denis Shapovalov vs Jannik Sinner, Grigor Dimitrov vs Marin Cilic, and Kei Nishikori vs Pablo Carreno Busta all are matchups that jump off the page. But, what if I told you there was a matchup between two […] READ MORE
The ATP Challenger Tour was in Quimper and Antalya for the second week in a row. Jaume Munar almost repeated his trophy run from last week, while in the north of France, Brandon Nakashima won his 2nd title on this circuit. Quimper 2 Embed from Getty Images Top-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina was fully in control […] READ MORE
The focus of the tennis world may now be turning towards the first Grand Slam of the year, but there was plenty of entertaining tennis elsewhere. In fact, the second week of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour brought an unusual number of tight matches, only for both of the finals leave something to be desired. […] READ MORE
The ATP Tour kicked off in Antalya this year and the first ATP Challenger Tour event of the season was also held in Turkey. The players must have been glad that, opposed to Antalya, it was an indoor event as for the first half of the week Istanbul was covered in snow. But regardless of […] READ MORE
In August of 2020, Aslan Karatsev broke into the top 200 at World No. 194. It had been awhile. The last time Karatsev had been a top 200 player was in March of 2016. So, what happened? And what’s changed now? After the coronavirus hiatus in 2020, and following many exhibition matches during that hiatus, […] READ MORE
The year-end ATP Rankings for the 2020 season feature a total of 18 teenagers in the world’s first 500 ranked players. 14 of them are already 19 years of age, while just two have not yet attained adulthood yet. Some had amazing success on the Juniors tour, while some only broke through on the professional […] READ MORE