ATP Challenger Athens

Status Athens Open
ATP Challenger Tour
venue	Athens Greece
First run	1981
Last event	2012
category	Challenger
Tournament type	Free place tournament
Game surface	Hard court
draw	32E / 32Q / 16D
Prize money	€ 42,500
Status: end of the tournament

The ATP Challenger Athens (official name: "Status Athens Open" ) was a tennis tournament held annually in Athens from 2008 to 2012 . It was part of the ATP Challenger Tour and was played outdoors on hard courts. Already in 1981 and 1986 one event took place at the same place. Lu Yen-hsun is the record winner of the tournament with one title each in singles and doubles. Vincent Van Patten won both competitors in the first edition.

List of winners

singles

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
2012	Marinko Matosevic	Ruben Bemelmans	6: 3, 6: 4
2011	Matthias Bachinger	Dmitri Tursunov	without a fight
2010	Lu Yen-hsun	Rainer Schüttler	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 4
2009	Rui Machado	Daniel Muñoz de La Nava	6: 3, 7: 6 4
2008	Martin Verkerk	Adrian Cruciat	6: 3, 6: 3
1987–2007: not held
1986	Lars-Anders Wahlgren	Hans-Dieter Beutel	6: 4, 6: 3
1982–1985: not held
1981	Vincent Van Patten	Zoltán Kuhárszky	7: 5, 6: 4

Double

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
2012	Andre Begemann Jordan Kerr	Gerard Granollers Alexandros Giakoupovits	6: 2, 6: 3
2011	Colin Fleming Scott Lipsky	Matthias Bachinger Benjamin Becker	without a fight
2010	Rik De Voest Lu Yen-hsun	Robin Haase Igor Sijsling	6: 3, 6: 4
2009	Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx	Jesse Huta Galung Rui Machado	6: 4, 6: 3
2008	Marc López Gabriel Trujillo Soler	Konstantinos Economidis Alexandros Giakoupovits	6: 4, 6: 4
1987–2007: not held
1986	Wolfgang Popp Udo Riglewski	Stefan Svensson Lars-Anders Wahlgren	2: 6, 6: 2, 7: 6
1982–1985: not held
1981	Vincent Van Patten Nels Van Patten	Nanad Ilekovic George Kalovelonis	7: 6, 7: 6

Web links

• Official homepage of the tournament ( Memento from June 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )