Why not, let's pay attention to Challengers too...

James P

G.O.A.T.
All 5 winners this week were multi title winners this season:

Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN): 4th singles title (also has won 2 doubles titles this season)
James Duckworth (AUS): 4th singles title
Jannik Sinner (ITA): 3rd singles title
Marcos Giron (USA): 2nd singles title (2 doubles)
JJ Wolf (USA): 2nd singles title

Great season for those gentlemen.
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
All 5 winners this week were multi title winners this season:

Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN): 4th singles title (also has won 2 doubles titles this season)
James Duckworth (AUS): 4th singles title
Jannik Sinner (ITA): 3rd singles title
Marcos Giron (USA): 2nd singles title (2 doubles)
JJ Wolf (USA): 2nd singles title

Great season for those gentlemen.
Fitting that a Finn Finnished in Finland with a flourish!
 

James P

G.O.A.T.
JJ Wolf is on a 10 Challenger match win streak, going for 11 and 2 consecutive title lifts in Noumea. He's currently up 6-2 after one. Good way to go into Aussie quallies.
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
JJ Wolf is on a 10 Challenger match win streak, going for 11 and 2 consecutive title lifts in Noumea. He's currently up 6-2 after one. Good way to go into Aussie quallies.
Wolf wolfed the rest of the match down in one bite, beating Sugita in the second set by the identical croissant, 2&2.
 

atatu

Legend
Nakashima into the second round in Cleveland to face Mmoh. Just watched a few minutes of doubles and saw Treat Huey, reminded me that I saw him play doubles with Janowicz at Indian Wells a few years back.
 

atatu

Legend
I guess I'm the only one posting in this thread but shout out to Ulises Blanch for making the quarters in Cleveland, he is some information about him:

 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
I guess I'm the only one posting in this thread but shout out to Ulises Blanch for making the quarters in Cleveland, he is some information about him:

Breaking news: the Indian Tennis Federation has fired the man they recently hired to guide their players, who went 0-6 in matches on Thursday at the Bengaluru Challenger 125. Severance package included two free AYCE buffet pa.s.ses and two dozen gulab jamuns as real paring gifts. He must get back to San Poobiego on his own.
 

James P

G.O.A.T.
Mikael Torpegaard has weirdly participated in 5 finals, winning 3 titles in Challengers, not just in the same country (USA), but in the same state (Ohio). He's now 3-2 in finals in Columbus or Cleveland, OH, and 0-0 everywhere else. (And yes, I'm aware he attended college at THE Ohio State University)
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
James Duckworth won his 11th Challenger title at the Bengaluru 125 Open on Sunday. Eight of those titles have been won in Australasia. The other three were won in the SE USA triangle of VA/NC/KY.
 

James P

G.O.A.T.
Jurij Rodionov is in his second Challlenger final in the early going this season. Good run the last three weeks, going 11-1 in three Challengers, while beating 2 top-100 players enroute to his earlier Dallas title.
 

James P

G.O.A.T.
Bergamo Challenger final has been cancelled due to...coronavirus. No joke ---> here

Tomas Machac just became the first teenage Challenger champion of 2020, taking the title in Koblenz 6-3 4-6 6-3 over Botic Van de Zandschulp.
 

James P

G.O.A.T.
Arthur Rinderknech, guy I've never heard of out of France, has participated in 6 challengers this winter. He's now won 2 and got to the final of a 3rd. He's gone from a ranking of #328 6 weeks ago to a new career high of #160 this week. He's 24 years old, so a bit of a late bloomer, but really good results the last couple months.
 

NaBUru38

Rookie
At the Indian Wells Challenger, quarter-finalsits include Jack Sock, Steve Johson and Grégoire Barrère.

Jannik Sinner vs Denis Kudla is in the third set.
 

James P

G.O.A.T.
Aslan Karatsev of Russia has been on fire since the restart, going 13-1 so far, all at 125 level tournaments. Ranked #253 at the cessation of tennis, he's reached 2 finals, winning 1 and losing 1, and is now in the SF of a third. His current live ranking is up to #129. Massive leap forward.

Prague I
R1 Haase 6-4 6-2
R2 Vesely 6-3 6-4
R3 Gulbis 6-3 6-3
QF Laaksonen 7-6 6-4
SF Herbert 7-5 7-6

F Wawrinka 6-7 4-6 loss

Prague II
R1 Couacaud 3-6 7-5 7-5
R2 Diez 6-1 6-2
R3 Gulbis 6-2 6-1

QF Wawrinka w/o win
SF Popko 7-5 4-6 7-5
F Griekspoor 6-4 7-6


Ostrava
R1 Machac 6-4 6-4
R2 Gulbis 6-1 6-4
QF Moraing 6-3 6-3


Carlos Alcaraz of Spain has also came out on fire since the restart, going 8-1 in challengers, plus 4-0 in challenger quallies, at three 100 level tournaments. Ranked #318 at the cessation of tennis, having never before made a challenger SF, he's now made back to back SFs including winning last week, still in competition this week hunting down a back to back title. His live ranking is currently #198.

Todi
Q1 Cobolli 6-2 6-3
Q2 Gojo 6-4 6-4

R1 Moroni 6-3 6-2 loss

Trieste
Q1 Dambrosi 6-2 3-6 6-3
Q2 Kamke 6-3 6-3
R1 Bourgue 6-3 6-3
R2 Viola 6-4 6-2
QF Etcheverry 7-6 6-3
SF Musetti 7-5 2-6 6-3
F Bonadio 6-4 6-3


Cordenons
R1 Ficovich 4-6 6-3 7-5
R2 Bonzi 6-3 7-6
QF Bagnis 7-6 4-6 6-2
 
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stringertom

Bionic Poster
Thread bumpity for a special occasion:

Bernard Tomic likes the exotic locales to tank matches in a classic way; nobody has forgotten his Miami Open’14 tank to the now FINNISHED Finnish Jarkko Niemenin, going away 0&1 in 28 minutes. Now, 7.5 years later while laboring for peanuts on the Challenger circuit, St. Bernard tried to outdo himself but just slightly failed: against Frenchman Quentin Halys in Istanbul he took 8 minutes longer to match that bagel/breadstick result.

So much time left over to go count that money and co-star in the IG GF vlog. There is method to his madness!
 

NaBUru38

Rookie
I attended the ATP Challenger Uruguay Open for the first time last Thursday. Two years ago I went on Sunday but tickets were sold out.


Sadly the Wikimedia Commons video upload converter is broken, and I can't easily convert the videos to the appropriate format.

I'll try to attend this week's WTA 125k Montevideo Open.
 

Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
Thread bump for @Aabye5

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BGod

G.O.A.T.
Looking at attending Mont-Tremblant ITF tournament in June held in Quebec. It's a nice area and I can hike the mountain so not a waste of time and I'll try to schedule for Quarterfinals.

For Challenger in Canada, apparently Winnipeg is returning this year but other events like Granby seem to have died (both FB & Instagram pages no longer exist....)

All 6 Cancelled in 2021

The ATP website only goes through April for tournaments listed with ones in Florida and Savannah, GA.
 

Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
Only Vasek Pospisil and Roman Safiullin were able to prevent a full French sweep in the quarterfinals. Granted, they started with an army...
 

Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
Over in Italy, the host country has been locked out, despite fielding their own army of players. But no. 1 seed Tomas Machac has reached the QFs...
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Over in Italy, the host country has been locked out, despite fielding their own army of players. But no. 1 seed Tomas Machac has reached the QFs...
Jack Draper may consider getting honorary Forlì citizenship, having won two Challenger titles there and now into another QF. NCH #157.

The Italians have really hit on a nice concept with Forlì hosting this string of Challengers. The Turks did this a few years ago at Futures level with their string of tournaments hosted in Antalya during the winter.
 

Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
Jack Draper may consider getting honorary Forlì citizenship, having won two Challenger titles there and now into another QF. NCH #157.

The Italians have really hit on a nice concept with Forlì hosting this string of Challengers. The Turks did this a few years ago at Futures level with their string of tournaments hosted in Antalya during the winter.

I think he would rather have a seeding at the next tournament...and based on his live rankings he will be.
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Draper is a final away from a third Challenger title in Forlì. His opponent will be Alexander Ritschard, Swiss born Fututes/Challenger veteran who now plays for the U.S.A.

Should the Brit win he moves up to a NCH of T144.
 

Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
In the Pau final, Canadian Vasek Pospisil will take on local favorite, Quentin Halys. Both finalists are expected to appear next week in Torino.
 
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Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
Jackie Draper lost a lot (all?) of my respect...somebody stop him before he turns into Zverev.

Draper, still up a break at 5-4 in the 3rd set, hurls his racquet at the wall, when Ritschard gets a chance to break back. It ricochets off, of course. Just glad there were no ball kids standing there. Punk.
 

Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
After 4 match points for Ritschard in the tie-break, one for Draper, we are at 8-8. Now, second match point Draper, 8-9.
 

Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
Draper takes it...after a very close line call that would have given Ritschard the match. Terrible behavior...
 
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