ATP Challenger Fuerth

Franken Challenge
ATP Challenger Tour
venue	Fürth Germany
First run	1979
category	Challenger
Tournament type	Free place tournament
Game surface	sand
draw	32E / 32Q / 16D
Prize money	€ 42,500
Website	Official website
As of April 20, 2016

The ATP Challenger Fürth (official name: "Franken Challenge", formerly "Schickedanz Open") was an annual tennis tournament in Fürth from 1979 onwards . From 1979 to 1985 it was a club event, in 1986 it was part of the ITF Future Tour , from 1987 it was part of the ATP Challenger Tour and was played outdoors on clay courts. In singles, Balázs Taróczy was the only player who could win the tournament four times. Rameez Junaid managed to do this three times in doubles .

With 38 uninterrupted events, the tournament was one of the most traditional Challenger tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour. Due to financial bottlenecks, the tournament was no longer continued in 2017.

List of winners

ATP Challenger Tour

ITF Future Tour

Club event

singles

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
2016	Radu Albot	Jan-Lennard Struff	6: 3, 6: 4
2015	Taro Daniel	Albert Montañés	6: 3, 6: 0
2014	Tobias Kamke	Íñigo Cervantes	6: 3, 6: 2
2013	Joao Sousa (2)	Wayne Odesnik	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
2012	Blaž Kavčič	Serhiy Stachowskyj	6: 3, 2: 6, 6: 2
2011	Joao Sousa (1)	Jan-Lennard Struff	6: 2, 0: 6, 6: 2
2010	Robin Haase	Tobias Kamke	6: 4, 6: 2
2009	Peter Luczak (2)	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	6: 2, 6: 0
2008	Daniel Köllerer	Santiago Giraldo	6: 1, 6: 3
2007	Peter Luczak (1)	Fabio Fognini	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
2006	Florian Mayer	Torsten Popp	6: 3, 6: 1
2005	Albert Portas	Philipp Kohlschreiber	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
2004	Jiří Vaněk	Gilles Simon	7: 5, 6: 2
2003	Jan Frode Andersen	Óscar Hernández	2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
2002	Luis Horna	Jürgen Melzer	6: 4, 6: 2
2001	Germán Puentes	Kristian Pless	6: 4, 6: 3
2000	Irakli Labadze	Daniel Elsner	6: 4, 6: 4
1999	Ronald Agénor	Tomáš Zíb	6: 2, 7: 6
1998	Christian Ruud (2)	Jan Frode Andersen	6: 4, 7: 5
1997	Davide Sanguinetti	Tomas Nydahl	6: 4, 6: 2
1996	Hicham Arazi	Andrei Chesnokov	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
1995	Christian Ruud (1)	Magnus Gustafsson	7: 6, 6: 4
1994	Kris Goossens	Dirk Dier	6: 7, 6: 3, 6: 2
1993	Mikael Pernfors	Bart Wuyts	6: 4, 1: 6, 6: 3
1992	Martin Střelba	Raul Viver	6: 1, 6: 2
1991	Marcos Aurelio Górriz	Dmitri Polyakov	6: 2, 3: 0 task
1990	Jeff Tarango	Felipe Rivera	6-0, 6-0
1989	Dmitri Polyakov	Federico Mordegan	6: 2, 6: 1
1988	Hans-Dieter Beutel	Richard Vogel	1: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
1987	Patrick Baur	Edoardo Mazza	6: 3, 7: 5
1986	Ivo Werner	Pavel Vojtisek	7: 6, 4: 6, 6: 2
1985	Ricki Osterthun	Jaromir Becka	6: 3, 6: 3
1984	Klaus Eberhard	Stanislav Birner	3: 6, 6: 0, 6: 4
1983	Balázs Taroczy (4)	Andreas Maurer	7: 6, 7: 6
1982	Heinz Günthardt	Pavel Složil	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 4
1981	Balázs Taroczy (3)	Tomáš Šmíd	5: 7, 6: 1, 7: 6
1980	Balázs Taroczy (2)	Klaus Eberhard	5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 3
1979	Balázs Taroczy (1)	Johnny Muller	6: 0, 6: 3

Double

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
2016	Facundo Argüello Roberto Maytín	Andrej Martin Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6: 3, 6: 4
2015	Guillermo Durán Horacio Zeballos	Íñigo Cervantes Renzo Olivo	6: 1, 6: 3
2014	Gerard Granollers Jordi Samper Montaña	Adrián Menéndez Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	7: 6 1 , 6: 2
2013	Colin Ebelthite Rameez Junaid (3)	Christian Harrison Michael Venus	6: 4, 7: 5
2012	João Sousa Arnau Brugués Davi	Rameez Junaid Purav Raja	7: 5, 6: 7 4 , [11: 9]
2011	Rameez Junaid (2) Frank Moser	Jorge Aguilar Júlio César Campozano	6: 2, 6: 7 2 , [10: 6]
2010	Dustin Brown Rameez Junaid (1)	Martin Emmrich Joseph Sirianni	6: 3, 6: 1
2009	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Santiago Ventura	Simon Greul Alessandro Motti	4: 6, 6: 1, [10: 6]
2008	Philipp Marx Alexander Peya	Daniel Köllerer Frank Moser	6: 3, 6: 3
2007	Bruno Echagaray André Ghem	Fabio Fognini Frederico Gil	7: 6 1 , 4: 6, [13:11]
2006	Vasilis Mazarakis Felipe Parada	Philipp Marx Torsten Popp	6: 3, 6: 2
2005	Amir Hadad Harel Levy	Jan Frode Andersen Johan Landsberg	6: 1, 6: 2
2004	Adrián García Janko Tipsarević	Simon Aspelin Graydon Oliver	6: 4, 6: 4
2003	Denis Gremelmayr Simon Greul	Tomas Behrend Karsten Braasch	6: 3, 1: 6, 7: 6 5
2002	Salvador Navarro Gabriel Trujillo Soler	Vadim Kutsenko Oleg Ogorodov	6: 2, 6: 4
2001	Hugo Armando Andrei Stolyarov	Vadim Kutsenko Oleg Ogorodov	6-0, 6-0
2000	Eduardo Nicolás Germán Puentes	Devin Bowen Brandon Coupe	6: 4, 6: 2
1999	Nebojša Đorđević Marcos Ondruska	Diego del Río Martin Rodríguez	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
1998	Álex López Morón Albert Portas	Juan Ignacio Carrasco Martin Rodríguez	6: 4, 6: 4
1997	Brandon Coupe Paul Rosner	Martin Sinner Joost Winnink	7: 5, 6: 3
1996	Joshua Eagle Tom Kempers	Aleksandar Kitinov Gábor Köves	6: 4, 6: 7, 6: 4
1995	Andrew Kratzmann Brent Larkham	Ken Flat Kent Kinnear	6: 4, 6: 7, 7: 6
1994	Vojtěch Flégl Andrew Florent	Gastón Etlis Christian Miniussi	7: 6, 6: 1
1993	Nils Holm Lars-Anders Wahlgren	Ģirts Dzelde Wladimer Gabritschidze	without a fight
1992	Rüdiger Haas Udo Riglewski	Brian Joelson Bertrand Madsen	6: 1, 6: 3
1991	Marcos Aurelio Górriz Maurice Ruah	Jamie Morgan Sandon Stolle	6: 2, 6: 4
1990	Peter Ballauff Ricki Osterthun	Marcos Aurelio Górriz Andrei Olchowski	7: 6, 4: 6, 6: 3
1989	Vladimer Gabritschidze Dmitri Polyakov	Cristiano Caratti Federico Mordegan	6: 4, 6: 7, 6: 4
1988	Michael Stich Martin Sinner	Wojciech Kowalski Adrian Marcu	4: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6
1987	Nick Fulwood Cyril Suk	Axel Hornung Karsten Saniter	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franken Challenge 2017 - Important information! In: franken-challenge.de. April 21, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .