2007 ATP Challenger Series explained

2007 ATP Challenger Series
Duration:1 January 2007 – 9 December 2007
Edition:30th
Tournaments:171
Previous:2006
Next:2008

The ATP Challenger Series is the second tier tour for professional tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 2007 ATP Challenger Series calendar comprised 174 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $150,000.[1] [2]

Schedule

January

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
01.01.BrazilSão Paulo Challenger$ 100,000Hard Guillermo Cañas Pablo Cuevas
Adrián García
FranceNouméa Challenger$ 75,000Hard Michael Russell Alex Kuznetsov
Phillip Simmonds
15.01.ChileLa Serena Challenger$ 50,000Clay Mariano Zabaleta Marc López
Simone Vagnozzi
22.01.South AfricaDurban Challenger$ 125,000Hard Mathieu Montcourt Rik de Voest
Dominik Meffert
GermanyHeilbronn Open$ 100,000Hard (i) Michael Berrer Michael Kohlmann
Rainer Schüttler
United StatesHilton Waikoloa Village USTA Challenger$ 50,000Hard Michael Russell Brendan Evans
Scott Oudsema
ChileSantiago de Chile Challenger$ 25,000Clay Martín Vassallo Argüello Brian Dabul
Marc López
United KingdomWrexham Challenger$ 25,000Hard (i) Michał Przysiężny Thomas Oger
Nicolas Tourte

February

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
05.02.PolandWroclaw Challenger$ 125,000Hard (i) Werner Eschauer Lukáš Rosol
Jan Vacek
ItalyBergamo Challenger$ 100,000Carpet (i) Fabrice Santoro Jérôme Haehnel
Jean-René Lisnard
United StatesChallenger of Dallas$ 50,000Hard (i) Robert Kendrick Eric Butorac
Jamie Murray
BrazilFlorianópolis Challenger I$ 35,000Clay Óscar Hernández Márcio Carlsson
Lucas Engel
AustraliaBurnie Challenger I$ 25,000Hard Nathan Healey Nathan Healey
Robert Smeets
12.02.United StatesJoplin Challenger$ 50,000Hard (i) Michael Russell Patrick Briaud
Donald Young
19.02.FranceBesançon Challenger$ 100,000Hard (i) Ernests Gulbis Christopher Kas
Alexander Peya
26.02.FranceCherbourg Challenger$ 50,000Hard (i) Federico Luzzi Michal Mertiňák
Robin Vik
GermanyVolkswagen Challenger$ 25,000Carpet (i) Robin Haase Alexander Peya
Lars Uebel

March

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
05.03.JapanKyōto Challenger$ 25,000Carpet v(i) Takao Suzuki Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
EcuadorSalinas Challenger$ 25,000Hard Juan Pablo Brzezicki Scott Lipsky
David Martin
12.03.ColombiaBogotá Challenger I$ 125,000Clay Santiago Giraldo Martín García
Diego Hartfield
United StatesSunrise Challenger$ 100,000Hard Gaël Monfils Konstantinos Economidis
Kristof Vliegen
VietnamSamsung Challenger$ 50,000Hard Pavel Šnobel Yu Xinyuan
Zeng Shaoxuan
Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevo Challenger$ 25,000Hard (i) Ernests Gulbis Ernests Gulbis
Deniss Pavlovs
19.03.MoroccoRabat Challenger$ 35,000Clay Stefano Galvani Yuri Schukin
Orest Tereshchuk
ItalyBarletta Challenger$ 25,000Clay Carlos Berlocq David Marrero
Albert Portas
26.03.MexicoMexiko-Stadt Challenger$ 125,000Clay Ramón Delgado' Marcelo Melo
Horacio Zeballos
ItalyNeapel Challenger$ 100,000Clay Potito Starace Flavio Cipolla
Marcel Granollers
MoroccoFès Challenger$ 35,000Clay Peter Luczak Sergiy Stakhovsky
Orest Tereshchuk
FranceSaint-Brieuc Challenger$ 25,000Clay(i) Kristian Pless Jean-Baptiste Perlant
Xavier Pujo

April

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
02.04.MexicoSan Luis Potosí Challenger$ 50,000Clay Fernando Vicente Jérémy Chardy
Marcelo Melo
United StatesTallahassee Challenger$ 50,000Hard Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Izak van der Merwe
Wesley Whitehouse
ItalyMonza Challenger$ 25,000Clay Werner Eschauer Nathan Healey
Jordan Kerr
09.04.MoroccoCasablanca Challenger$ 75,000Clay Marin Čilić Łukasz Kubot
Oliver Marach
United StatesSanta Clarita Challenger$ 50,000Hard Alex Bogdanovic Harel Levy
Sam Warburg
SwitzerlandChiasso Challenger$ 25,000Clay Werner Eschauer Bart Beks
Matwé Middelkoop
MexicoMexiko-Stadt Challenger$ 25,000Hard Ramón Delgado Marcelo Melo
Horacio Zeballos
16.04.United KingdomBermuda Challenger$ 100,000Clay Mariano Zabaleta Marcelo Melo
André Sá
MoroccoMarrakesch Challenger$ 100,000Clay Younes El Aynaoui Tomáš Cibulec
Jordan Kerr
United KingdomCardiff Challenger$ 25,000Hard (i) Frédéric Niemeyer Pavel Šnobel
Jan Vacek
23.04.BrazilFlorianópolis Challenger II$ 50,000Clay Paul Capdeville Pablo Cuevas
Horacio Zeballos
30.04.TunisiaTunis Open$ 125,000Clay Simone Bolelli Łukasz Kubot
Oliver Marach
SpainLanzarote Challenger$ 50,000Hard Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Luke Bourgeois
Rik de Voest
United StatesNaples Challenger$ 50,000Clay Bobby Reynolds Juan Pablo Brzezicki
Leonardo Mayer
Czech RepublicOstrava Challenger$ 50,000Clay Bohdan Ulihrach Bastian Knittel
Lukáš Rosol
ItalyRom Challenger$ 25,000Clay Thierry Ascione Flavio Cipolla
Marcel Granollers

May

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
07.05.Czech RepublicPrague Challenger$ 100,000Clay Dušan Lojda Tomáš Cibulec
Jordan Kerr
GermanyOstdeutscher Sparkassen Cup$ 50,000Clay Yuri Schukin Tomas Behrend
Christopher Kas
United StatesTunica Resorts Challenger$ 50,000Clay (i) Pablo Cuevas Paul Goldstein
Donald Young
CroatiaRijeka Challenger$ 35,000Clay Marin Čilić Jérôme Haehnel
Jean-René Lisnard
SpainMaspalomas Challenger$ 25,000Clay Peter Luczak Marcel Granollers
Marc López
14.05.United StatesForest Hills Challenger$ 50,000Clay Paul Goldstein Rajeev Ram
Bobby Reynolds
CroatiaZagreb Challenger$ 50,000Clay Janko Tipsarević Tomas Behrend
André Ghem
ItalySanremo Challenger$ 25,000Clay Francesco Aldi Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
21.05.UzbekistanFergana Challenger$ 35,000Hard Antony Dupuis Daniel Brands
John Paul Fruttero
28.05.South KoreaBusan Challenger$ 75,000Hard Jimmy Wang Sergei Bubka
John Paul Fruttero
United StatesCarson Challenger$ 50,000Hard Alex Bogomolov Jr. Bobby Reynolds
Rajeev Ram
GermanyKarlsruhe Challenger$ 25,000Clay Mischa Zverev Alex Kuznetsov
Mischa Zverev

June

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
04.06.Czech RepublicProstějov Challenger$ 150,000Clay Sergio Roitman Ramón Delgado
Juan Pablo Guzmán
GermanySchickedanz Open$ 50,000Clay Peter Luczak Bruno Echagaray
André Ghem
United KingdomSurbiton Challenger$ 50,000Grass Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Alex Kuznetsov
Mischa Zverev
United StatesYuba City Challenger$ 50,000Hard Kevin Kim Harel Levy
Sam Warburg
ItalySassuolo Challenger$ 25,000Clay Alexandr Dolgopolov Giorgio Galimberti
Márcio Torres
11.06.SwitzerlandLugano Challenger$ 100,000Clay Werner Eschauer Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
KazakhstanAstana Challenger$ 75,000Hard Mikhail Ledovskikh Daniel Brands
Adam Feeney
PolandBytom Challenger$ 35,000Clay Peter Luczak Hugo Armando
Brian Dabul
SlovakiaKošice Challenger$ 25,000Clay Jérémy Chardy Filip Polášek
Lukáš Rosol
18.06.GermanyNord/LB Open$ 125,000Clay Óscar Hernández Tomas Behrend
Christopher Kas
KazakhstanAlmaty Challenger I$ 35,000Clay Simon Greul Kamil Čapkovič
Ivan Dodig
ItalyMailand Challenger$ 25,000Clay Santiago Ventura Fabio Colangelo
Martín Vilarrubí
25.06.KazakhstanAlmaty Challenger II$ 35,000Clay Simon Greul Teodor-Dacian Crăciun
Florin Mergea
ItalyReggio nell’Emilia Challenger$ 35,000Clay Olivier Patience Franco Ferreiro
Lamine Ouahab
RoumaniaConstanța Challenger$ 25,000Clay Sebastián Decoud Marc Fornell Mestres
Gabriel Trujillo Soler

July

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
02.07.SpainCórdoba Challenger$ 125,000Hard Adrián Menéndez Santiago Ventura
Fernando Vicente
ItalyTurin Challenger$ 100,000Clay Carlos Berlocq Pablo Cuevas
Horacio Zeballos
IrelandDublin Challenger$ 50,000Carpet Rohan Bopanna Rohan Bopanna
Adam Feeney
United StatesWinnetka Challenger$ 50,000Hard Noam Okun Patrick Briaud
Chris Drake
FranceMontauban Challenger$ 25,000Clay Michael Lammer Marc Fornell Mestres
Gabriel Trujillo Soler
09.07.NetherlandsScheveningen Challenger$ 100,000Clay Pablo Cuevas Raemon Sluiter
Peter Wessels
ColombiaBogotá Challenger II$ 50,000Clay Carlos Salamanca Brian Dabul
Santiago González
ItalyMantua Challenger$ 50,000Clay Alessio di Mauro Andrey Golubev
Francesco Piccari
GermanyOberstaufen Cup$ 25,000Clay Gabriel Trujillo Soler Filip Polášek
Igor Zelenay
16.07.United StatesAptos Challenger$ 75,000Hard Donald Young Rajeev Ram
Bobby Reynolds
ItalyRimini Challenger$ 50,000Clay Oliver Marach Carles Poch Gradin
Santiago Ventura
SpainCuenca Challenger$ 25,000Clay Leonardo Mayer Bruno Soares
Márcio Torres
United KingdomManchester Challenger$ 25,000Grass Harel Levy Rohan Bopanna
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
RussiaTogliatti Cup$ 25,000Hard Dudi Sela Johan Brunström
Mohammad Ghareeb
23.07.PolandPosen Challenger$ 100,000Clay Raemon Sluiter Marc López
Santiago Ventura
CanadaGranby Challenger$ 50,000Hard Takao Suzuki Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
United StatesLexington Challenger$ 50,000Hard John Isner Brendan Evans
Ryan Sweeting
RussiaPensa Challenger$ 50,000Hard Benedikt Dorsch Alexandre Krasnoroutskiy
Alexander Kudryavtsev
United KingdomNottingham Challenger$ 25,000Grass Alun Jones Rohan Bopanna
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
ItalyRecanati Challenger$ 25,000Hard Jimmy Wang Fabio Colangelo
Sergiy Stakhovsky
30.07.SpainSegovia Challenger$ 125,000Hard Fernando Verdasco Rohan Bopanna
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
CanadaVancouver Challenger$ 100,000Hard Frédéric Niemeyer Rik de Voest
Ashley Fisher
FinlandTampere Challenger$ 50,000Clay Éric Prodon Johan Brunström
Mohammad Ghareeb
ItalyTrani Challenger$ 50,000Clay Flavio Cipolla Leonardo Azzaro
Daniele Giorgini
RoumaniaTimișoara Challenger$ 35,000Clay Victor Hănescu Marcel Granollers
Santiago Ventura
BrazilBelo Horizonte Challenger$ 25,000Hard Brian Dabul Santiago González
Bruno Soares
RussiaSaransk Challenger$ 25,000Clay Mikhail Kukushkin Antal van der Duim
Boy Westerhof

August

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
06.08.TurkeyIstanbul Challenger$ 100,000Hard Mischa Zverev James Auckland
Ross Hutchins
San MarinoSan Marino Challenger$ 100,000Clay Potito Starace Pablo Cuevas
Juan Pablo Guzmán
United StatesLevene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger$ 50,000Hard Thomas Johansson Scott Oudsema
Ryan Sweeting
BrazilCampos do Jordão Challenger$ 50,000Hard Brian Dabul Eduardo Schwank
Horacio Zeballos
UzbekistanSamarkand Challenger$ 35,000Clay Mikhail Kukushkin Sergei Bubka
Evgeny Kirillov
SpainVigo Challenger$ 35,000Clay Máximo González Leonardo Azzaro
Lamine Ouahab
13.08.United StatesBronx Challenger$ 50,000Hard Sam Warburg Rohan Bopanna
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
FranceCordenons Challenger$ 50,000Clay Máximo González Alessandro da Col
Andrea Stoppini
UzbekistanBukhara Challenger$ 35,000Hard Denis Istomin Evgeny Kirillov
Alexander Kudryavtsev
AustriaGraz Challenger$ 25,000Clay Victor Hănescu Sebastián Decoud
Yuri Schukin
EcuadorManta Challenger$ 25,000Hard Go Soeda Eduardo Schwank
Horacio Zeballos
20.08.ItalyManerbio Challenger$ 50,000Clay Jiří Vaněk Antal van der Duim
Boy Westerhof
SwitzerlandGenf Challenger$ 35,000Clay Yuri Schukin Sebastián Decoud
Yuri Schukin
UzbekistanQarshi Challenger$ 35,000Hard Denis Istomin Andrew Coelho
Adam Feeney
27.08.UkraineTscherkassy Challenger$ 50,000Clay Boris Pašanski Daniel Muñoz de la Nava
Santiago Ventura
ItalyComo Challenger$ 50,000Clay Máximo González Máximo González
Simone Vagnozzi
GermanyBlack Forest Open$ 25,000Clay Ivo Minář Marc López
Martín Vilarrubí

September

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
03.09.NetherlandsAlphen aan den Rijn Challenger$ 50,000Clay Jesse Huta Galung Leonardo Azzaro
Lovro Zovko
UkraineDonezk Challenger$ 50,000Hard Roko Karanušić Philipp Petzschner
Simon Stadler
RoumaniaBrașov Challenger$ 25,000Clay Máximo González Florin Mergea
Horia Tecău
GermanyDüsseldorf Open Challenger$ 25,000Clay Denis Gremelmayr Fabio Colangelo
Philipp Marx
ItalyGenua Challenger$ 25,000Clay Flavio Cipolla Daniele Giorgini
Simone Vagnozzi
10.09.FranceOrléans Challenger$ 100,000Hard (i) Olivier Rochus James Cerretani
Frank Moser
SloveniaLjubljana Challenger$ 50,000Clay Marco Mirnegg Alexander Kudryavtsev
Alexandre Krasnoroutskiy
United StatesNew Orleans Challenger$ 50,000Hard Kevin Anderson Kevin Anderson
Ryler DeHeart
SpainSevilla Challenger$ 50,000Clay Frederico Gil Marcel Granollers
Santiago Ventura
ItalyTodi Challenger$ 35,000Clay Stefano Galvani Daniele Giorgini
Alessandro Motti
17.09.PolandStettin Challenger$ 125,000Clay Sergio Roitman Tomas Behrend
Christopher Kas
United StatesLubbock Challenger$ 50,000Hard Robert Smeets Alex Kuznetsov
Ryan Sweeting
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBanja Luka Challenger$ 25,000Clay Konstantinos Economidis Alexandre Krasnoroutskiy
Alexander Kudryavtsev
24.09.FranceGrenoble Challenger$ 50,000Hard (i) Nicolás Lapentti Jasper Smit
Martijn van Haasteren
SlovakiaTrnava Challenger$ 50,000Clay Jan Hernych Filip Polášek
Igor Zelenay
United StatesTulsa Challenger$ 50,000Hard Jesse Witten Bobby Reynolds
Rajeev Ram
RoumaniaBukarest Challenger$ 35,000Clay Victor Hănescu Marcel Granollers
Santiago Ventura
ItalyNeapel Challenger$ 35,000Clay Potito Starace Flavio Cipolla
Marcel Granollers

October

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
01.10.BelgiumMons Challenger$ 125,000Hard (i) Ernests Gulbis Tomasz Bednarek
Filip Polášek
SpainTarragona Challenger$ 50,000Clay Alberto Martín Marcel Granollers
Santiago Ventura
ColombiaMedellín Challenger$ 25,000Clay Eduardo Schwank Pablo Cuevas
Horacio Zeballos
08.10.United StatesSacramento Challenger$ 75,000Hard Wayne Odesnik Robert Kendrick
Brian Wilson
FranceRennes Challenger$ 50,000Hard (i) Philipp Petzschner Philipp Petzschner
Björn Phau
EcuadorQuito Challenger$ 25,000Clay Santiago Giraldo Brian Dabul
Marcos Daniel
15.10.FranceChallenger 42$ 125,000Hard (i) Thierry Ascione Martín García
Sebastián Prieto
ColombiaBogotá Challenger III$ 75,000Clay Marcos Daniel Thomaz Bellucci
Bruno Soares
United StatesCalabasas Challenger$ 50,000Hard Robert Kendrick John Isner
Brian Wilson
DenmarkKolding Challenger$ 50,000Hard (i) Lukáš Lacko Frederik Nielsen
Rasmus Nørby
22.10.South KoreaSeoul Challenger$ 125,000Hard Dudi Sela Rik de Voest
Lu Yen-hsun
BrazilBelo Horizonte Challenger$ 75,000Clay Brian Dabul Santiago González
Bruno Soares
United KingdomTarka Challenger$ 25,000Hard (i) Jérémy Chardy Frederik Nielsen
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
CanadaRimouski Challenger$ 25,000Carpet (i) Brendan Evans Daniel King-Turner
Robert Smeets
29.10.South KoreaBusan Challenger$ 100,000Hard Jimmy Wang Sergei Bubka
John Paul Fruttero
UruguayMontevideo Challenger$ 75,000Clay Santiago Ventura Pablo Cuevas
Luis Horna
GermanyLambertz Open by STAWAG$ 50,000Carpet (i) Evgeny Korolev Philipp Petzschner
Alexander Peya
United StatesLouisville Challenger$ 50,000Hard (i) Matthias Bachinger John Isner
Travis Parrott

November

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
05.11.SlovakiaBratislava Challenger$ 100,000Hard (i) Simone Bolelli Tomáš Cibulec
Jaroslav Levinský
ParaguayAsunción Challenger$ 75,000Clay Franco Ferreiro Carlos Berlocq
Martín Vassallo Argüello
United StatesNashville Challenger$ 75,000Hard (i) Jesse Levine Rajeev Ram
Bobby Reynolds
EcuadorGuayaquil Challenger$ 50,000Clay Nicolás Lapentti Brian Dabul
Juan Pablo Guzmán
TunisiaTunis Challenger$ 35,000Hard Simone Bolelli Łukasz Kubot
Oliver Marach
GermanyBauer Watertechnology Cup$ 25,000Carpet (i) Denis Gremelmayr Philipp Petzschner
Alexander Peya
12.11.UkraineDnipro Challenger$ 125,000Hard (i) Mischa Zverev Christopher Kas
Lovro Zovko
ArgentinaBuenos Aires Challenger$ 75,000Clay Sergio Roitman Marcelo Melo
Sebastián Prieto
FranceChampaign Challenger$ 50,000Hard (i) Jesse Levine Harel Levy
Sam Warburg
FinlandHelsinki Challenger$ 50,000Hard (i) Steve Darcis Mikhail Elgin
Alexander Kudryavtsev
ChinaKaohsiung Challenger$ 50,000Hard Lu Yen-hsun Stephen Amritraj
Dudi Sela
19.11.MalaysiaMalaysia Open$ 150,000Carpet (i) Rainer Schüttler Stephen Huss
Wesley Moodie
United StatesKnoxville Challenger$ 50,000Hard (i) Robert Kendrick Harel Levy
Sam Warburg
PeruLima Challenger$ 50,000Clay Pablo Cuevas Pablo Cuevas
Eduardo Schwank
JapanYokohama Challenger$ 35,000Hard Dudi Sela Hiroki Kondo
Go Soeda
AustraliaCaloundra Challenger$ 25,000Hard Joseph Sirianni Chen Ti
Jun Woong-sun
MexicoPuebla Challenger$ 25,000Hard Leonardo Mayer Raphael Durek
Dawid Olejniczak
United KingdomLTA Shrewsbury Challenger$ 25,000Hard (i) Igor Kunitsyn Frederik Nielsen
Rasmus Nørby
26.11.IndiaNeu-Delhi Challenger I$ 50,000Hard Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Rik de Voest
Wesley Moodie
AustraliaBrisbane Challenger$ 25,000Hard (i) Joseph Sirianni Rameez Junaid
Daniel King-Turner

December

DateCountryTournamentPrizemoneySurfaceSingles championDoubles champions
03.12.IndiaNeu-Delhi Challenger II$ 50,000Hard Mikhail Elgin Yu Xinyuan
Zeng Shaoxuan
AustraliaBurnie Challenger II$ 35,000Hard Alun Jones Sam Groth
Joseph Sirianni

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Results Archive . ATP Tour.
  2. Web site: ITF Men's World Tour Calendar . www.itftennis.com.