A LOOK BACK Open d'Orleans (Orleans, France): Last year, Norbert Gombos finished runner-up to Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the Orleans final. On Sunday, the fourth seed went one step further, claiming the title at the prestigious $150,000 event with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 win over another Frenchman - Julien Benneteau. Gombos will rise to a career-high No. 80 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, having notched his fifth ATP Challenger Tour title and first in nearly one year. [ALSO LIKE] BFD Challenger (Rome, Italy): The 2017 season has become the year of the Serbian on the ATP Challenger Tour. Filip Krajinovic secured a tour-leading 10th title for the European nation with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Daniel Gimeno-Traver in Rome. Krajinovic, who...
With the competition as fierce as ever, the ATP Challenger Tour demands countless hours on the court and in the gym, week in and week out. Any small reprieve is a welcome one for players looking to end their season on a high note. For those competing at the Tiburon Challenger presented by Wells Fargo in California, that reprieve wasn’t so small – in fact, it was quite large... and came in the form of a 98-foot yacht. Several players from the picturesque ATP Challenger Tour event were treated to a luxurious cruise on the San Francisco Bay, courtesy of a generous patron of the tournament’s Tiburon Peninsula Club. With views of the Tiburon and San Francisco shorelines, the Golden...
Carlos Taberner, a semi-finalist this week at the BFD Challenger event in Rome, knew what he was getting himself into even before the 2017 season began. The #NextGenATP star entered the season with the goal of playing as many events on the ATP Challenger Tour as possible. After what he admitted weren't ideal results, Taberner has now reached at least the semi-finals in each of the past three weeks, including appearances in the title match in both Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Sibiu, Romania. "My goal at the beginning of the year was to compete full-time on the Challenger Tour," Taberner said. "I've been working really [hard] from the beginning of the season. "I would come through qualifiers and...
It has been a long and winding road for Ante Pavic throughout his eight-year career. But as arduous as the journey has been for the 28 year old, victory never tasted so sweet. Pavic stood in the winners' circle for the first time on the ATP Challenger Tour on Sunday, lifting the trophy in Columbus, Ohio. It came in dramatic fashion, as the Croatian stormed back from a set and a break down to defeat Alexander Ward 6-7(11), 6-4, 6-3. "It was a really good feeling,” Pavic told ATPWorldtour.com. “I've had good results, winning a round at Wimbledon and some matches in ATP events, but I never won a Challenger. It was a great feeling and I was just relieved." After...
Watch a trio of stunning defensive digs from Day Two at the Tiburon Challenger, as Americans Evan King, Tennys Sandgren and Tim Smyczek earn Hot Shot honours.
