Will gamers from France mix to interrupt Argentina’s ATP Challenger Tour document from final 12 months?
Argentines mixed for 23 Challenger titles in 2022, marking essentially the most titles by a single nation in a season. The Frenchmen had been only one wanting tying the document. This 12 months, gamers from France are on observe to make historical past in a league of their very own.
On Sunday, Hugo Gaston and Hugo Grenier claimed their second Challenger titles of the season to increase France’s result in 17 Challenger crowns this 12 months, with Argentina in second at 12.
Gaston, 22, survived a marathon week on the Citta di Trieste Challenger in Italy, the place he wanted a deciding set in 4 of 5 matches to seal back-to-back Challenger titles. Within the last, the fourth seed defeated sixth seed Italian Francesco Passaro 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 to increase his successful streak to 10 after triumphing in Iasi, Romania final week.
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The lefty Gaston, who rose to World No. 92 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings on Monday, competed on the 2021 Subsequent Gen ATP Finals and reached a career-high No. 58 final 12 months. The Toulouse-native is considered one of 12 Frenchmen within the High 100. His triumph in Trieste marks his third Challenger title.
Passaro rallied from 3-6, 2-4 towards Fabian Marozsan within the semi-finals, which was accomplished Sunday after being suspended attributable to darkness Saturday. The 22-year-old Italian mounted a comeback after which returned to courtroom to compete in his first Challenger last of 2023.
A number of hours after Gaston’s title, the 27-year-old Grenier was topped champion on the Open de Tenis Ciudad de Pozoblanco in Spain. The highest seed escaped Argentine Juan Pablo Ficovich 6-7(4), 6-2, 7-6(3) in a marathon three-hour, 13-minute last.
Hugo Grenier wins his fifth ATP Challenger Tour title in Pozoblanco, Spain. Credit score: Open de Tenis Ciudad de Pozoblanco
Grenier has performed his greatest tennis in Spain this season, having triumphed on the Les Franqueses Del Valles Challenger in March and making a third-round look on the Mutua Madrid Open as a qualifier.
In different Pozoblanco motion, Spaniard Adrian Menendez-Maceiras bid farewell to his 18-year professional profession. The 37-year-old, who reached a career-high No. 111, was given a foremost draw wild card and was honoured with a plaque from the match.
Sumit Nagal captured his second Challenger title of the season on the Tampere Open, which is the longest-running match (41 years) on the ATP Challenger Tour. Seventh seed Nagal ousted #NextGenATP star Dalibor Svrcina 6-4, 7-5 within the last.
Earlier this season, Nagal returned to the Challenger winners’ circle in Rome, Georgia after 4 tough years that noticed the 25-year-old endure hip surgical procedure and combat Covid a number of instances. The World No. 178 continued his resurgence in Finland, the place he earned his fourth Challenger trophy and have become the primary Indian to win two Challenger singles titles in Europe.
Canadian Alexis Galarneau ascended to a career-high No. 162 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings following his title on residence soil in Granby. The 24-year-old downed Australian teen Philip Sekulic 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 within the last.
Galarneau performed faculty tennis at North Carolina State College, the place he was a two-time ITA All-American (2020, 2021) and earned a Bachelor’s Diploma in finance. He’s the primary Canadian Challenger champion of 2023 and the second participant from N.C. State to win a Challenger title (John Sadri, 1984).
Galarneau is considered one of 5 Canadians to win the Granby Challenger, becoming a member of Frank Dancevic, Vasek Pospisil, Peter Polansky and Gabriel Diallo.
Maximilian Marterer collected his first Challenger title since 2020 by successful the Van Mossel KIA Dutch Open in Amersfoort. The 28-year-old lefty defeated Frenchman Titouan Droguet 6-4, 6-2 within the last and didn’t a drop set all week on the clay-court occasion.
Marterer capped his good week by successful 76 per cent of first-serve factors and keeping off all three break factors towards the eighth seed Droguet.
The German Marterer boasts an 8-3 document in Challenger finals and has loved a standout month, having reached the third spherical at Wimbledon as a qualifier.
Again within the winners’ circle 🏆
Maximilian Marterer wins the eighth #ATPChallenger title of his profession and the primary since 2020! pic.twitter.com/nLJD95IfK2
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