ATP Challenger Series 2008

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The following table shows the tournaments of the 2008 ATP Challenger Series professional men's tennis season . It consisted of 20 tournaments of the Tretorn SERIES + and 156 regular tournaments with prize money between 30,000 and 127,500 euros. It was the 32nd edition of the Challenger tournament cycle and the last under that name. Two tournaments in the series started last year.

Tournament schedule

January

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
December 31
2007
BrazilBrazil São Paulo Aberto de Sao Paulo $ 100,000 + H Hard court BrazilBrazil Thiago Alves United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jamie Delgado Bruno Soares
BrazilBrazil 
New CaledoniaNew Caledonia Nouméa Internationaux de Nouvelle-Calédonie $ 075,000 + H Hard court ItalyItaly Flavio Cipolla ItalyItaly Flavio Cipolla Simone Vagnozzi
ItalyItaly 
14 01st United StatesUnited States Miami ITG Miami Challenger $ 050,000 + H sand FranceFrance Eric Prodon SerbiaSerbia Ilija Bozoljac Dušan Vemić
SerbiaSerbia 
ChileChile La Serena La Serena Open $ 050,000 sand SpainSpain Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo EcuadorEcuador Nicolás Lapentti Eduardo Schwank
ArgentinaArgentina 
21 01st GermanyGermany Heilbronn Heilbronn Open 085,000 + h Hard court (i) RussiaRussia Andrei Golubev South AfricaSouth Africa Rik De Voest Bobby Reynolds
United StatesUnited States 
United StatesUnited States Waikoloa Hilton Waikoloa Village USTA Challenger $ 035,000 + H Hard court Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Lu Yen-hsun United StatesUnited States Scott Lipsky David Martin
United StatesUnited States 
28 01st PolandPoland Wroclaw KGHM Dialog Polish Indoors € 106,500 + h Hard court (i) BelgiumBelgium Kristof Viegen United StatesUnited States James Cerretani Lukáš Rosol
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
United StatesUnited States Dallas AT&T Challenger of Dallas $ 050,000 Hard court (i) United StatesUnited States Amer Delic GermanyGermany Benedikt Dorsch Björn Phau
GermanyGermany 
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Guangzhou China TCL Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court SwedenSweden Bjorn Rehnquist China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yu Xinyuan Zeng Shaoxuan
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 

February

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
04. 02. ItalyItaly Bergamo Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo € 106,500 + h Hard court (i) ItalyItaly Andreas Seppi ItalyItaly Simone Bolelli Andreas Seppi
ItalyItaly 
11.2 0. South AfricaSouth Africa East London South African Airways Open $ 125,000 + H Hard court CroatiaCroatia Ivan Ljubičić SwedenSweden Jonas Björkman Kevin Ullyett
ZimbabweZimbabwe 
SerbiaSerbia Belgrade Sony Ericsson Challenger Open € 106,500 + h Carpet (i) CroatiaCroatia Roco Karanušić ItalyItaly Flavio Cipolla Konstantinos Economidis
GreeceGreece 
18. 02. FranceFrance Besançon Open de Franche-Comté - Internationaux du Doubs 085,000 + h Hard court (i) FranceFrance Marc Gicquel GermanyGermany Philipp Petzschner Alexander Peya
AustriaAustria 
25.2 0. FranceFrance Cherbourg-Octeville Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg 042,500 + H Hard court (i) FranceFrance Thierry Ascione RomaniaRomania Florin Mergea Horia Tecau
RomaniaRomania 
ChileChile Santiago de Chile Challenger de Providencia $ 035,000 + H sand BrazilBrazil Thomaz Bellucci ArgentinaArgentina Mariano Hood Eduardo Schwank
ArgentinaArgentina 
GermanyGermany Wolfsburg Volkswagen Challenger 030,000 + H Carpet (i) IrelandIreland Louk Sorensen AustraliaAustralia Carsten Ball Izak van der Merwe
South AfricaSouth Africa 

March

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
03. 03. ColombiaColombia Bogotá Bancolombia Open Bogotá $ 125,000 + H sand BrazilBrazil Marcos Daniel ArgentinaArgentina Brian Dabul Ramon Delgado
Paraguay 1990Paraguay 
JapanJapan Kyoto Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships $ 035,000 + H Hard court (i) JapanJapan Go Soeda GermanyGermany Dieter Kindlmann Martin Slanar
AustriaAustria 
10. 03. EcuadorEcuador Salinas Abierto Internacional de Salinas $ 035,000 + H Hard court PeruPeru Iván Miranda BrazilBrazil Júlio Silva Caio Zampieri
BrazilBrazil 
MoroccoMorocco Tangier Morocco Tennis Tour Tangier 030,000 + H sand SpainSpain Marcel Granollers SpainSpain Miguel Ángel López Jaén Iván Navarro
SpainSpain 
17. 03. United StatesUnited States Sunrise BMW Tennis Championship $ 100,000 + H Hard court NetherlandsNetherlands Robin Haase SerbiaSerbia Janko Tipsarević Dušan Vemić
SerbiaSerbia 
MexicoMexico San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí Challenger $ 050,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Brian Dabul United StatesUnited States Travis Parrott Filip Polášek
SlovakiaSlovakia 
MoroccoMorocco Meknes Morocco Tennis Tour Meknes 030,000 + H sand SpainSpain Iván Navarro SpainSpain Alberto Martín Daniel Muñoz de La Nava
SpainSpain 
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo BH Telecom Indoor 030,000 + H Hard court (i) GermanyGermany Andreas Beck SwedenSweden Johan Brunström Frederik Nielsen
DenmarkDenmark 
24. 03. MexicoMexico Leon AGT Challenger $ 050,000 + H Hard court MexicoMexico Bruno Echagaray United StatesUnited States Travis Parrott Filip Polášek
SlovakiaSlovakia 
ItalyItaly Barletta Open Barletta 042,500 + H sand RussiaRussia Mikhail Kukushkin ItalyItaly Flavio Cipolla Marcel Granollers
SpainSpain 
31. 03. ItalyItaly Naples Tennis Napoli Cup 085,000 + h sand ItalyItaly Potito Starace Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Cibulec Jaroslav Levinský
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
FranceFrance Saint-Brieuc Open Prévadiès 030,000 + H Sand (i) BelgiumBelgium Christophe Rochus RomaniaRomania Adrian Cruciat Daniel Muñoz de La Nava
SpainSpain 

April

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
07. 04. Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Humacao Puerto Rico Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court LuxembourgLuxembourg Gilles Muller United StatesUnited States Rajeev Ram Bobby Reynolds
United StatesUnited States 
ItalyItaly Monza Mitsubishi Electric Europe Cup 030,000 + H sand SpainSpain Albert Montañés ItalyItaly Stefano Galvani Alberto Martín
SpainSpain 
14. 04. Korea SouthSouth Korea Busan Busan Open Challenger Tennis $ 075,000 + H Hard court JapanJapan Go Soeda South AfricaSouth Africa Rik De Voest Łukasz Kubot
PolandPoland 
GreeceGreece Athens Status Athens Open 042,500 + H sand NetherlandsNetherlands Martin Verkerk SpainSpain Marc López Gabriel Trujillo Soler
SpainSpain 
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Chiasso Challenger Internazionale Dell'Insubria 030,000 + H sand MoroccoMorocco Younes El Aynaoui ArgentinaArgentina Mariano Hood Alberto Martín
SpainSpain 
BrazilBrazil Florianópolis Aberto de Tênis de Santa Catarina $ 035,000 + H sand BrazilBrazil Thomaz Bellucci ChileChile Adrián García Leonardo Mayer
ArgentinaArgentina 
ItalyItaly Mexico city Challenger Casablanca San Angel $ 035,000 + H Hard court PolandPoland David Olejniczak AustraliaAustralia Carsten Ball Robert Smeets
AustraliaAustralia 
United StatesUnited States Tallahassee Tallahassee Tennis Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Bobby Reynolds United StatesUnited States Rajeev Ram Bobby Reynolds
United StatesUnited States 
21 04th BermudaBermuda Bermuda Bermuda Open $ 100,000 + H sand JapanJapan Kei Nishikori IsraelIsrael Harel Levy Jim Thomas
United StatesUnited States 
United StatesUnited States Baton Rouge Baton Rouge Pro Tennis Classic $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Bobby Reynolds United StatesUnited States Phillip Simmonds Tim Smyczek
United StatesUnited States 
ItalyItaly Cremona Trofeo Paolo Corazzi 030,000 + H Hard court ArgentinaArgentina Eduardo Schwank ArgentinaArgentina Eduardo Schwank Dušan Vemić
SerbiaSerbia 
28 04th TunisiaTunisia Tunis Tunis Open $ 125,000 + H sand BrazilBrazil Thomaz Bellucci BrazilBrazil Thomaz Bellucci Bruno Soares
BrazilBrazil 
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague ECM Prague Open 064,000 sand Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jan Hernych Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Dlouhý Petr Pála
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
SpainSpain Lanzarote Isla de Lanzarote 042,500 + H Hard court SwitzerlandSwitzerland Stéphane Bohli South AfricaSouth Africa Rik De Voest Łukasz Kubot
PolandPoland 
ItalyItaly Rome Roma Open Challenger 030,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Eduardo Schwank ItalyItaly Flavio Cipolla Simone Vagnozzi
ItalyItaly 

May

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
05. 05. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ostrava Prosperita Open 042,500 + H sand Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiří Vaněk UkraineUkraine Serhij Stachowskyj Tomáš Zíb
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
MoroccoMorocco Rabat Morocco Tennis Tour Rabat 042,500 + H sand BrazilBrazil Thomaz Bellucci SpainSpain Guillermo García López Mariano Hood
ArgentinaArgentina 
GermanyGermany Dresden East German Sparkassen Cup 042,500 sand GermanyGermany Andreas Beck GermanyGermany Daniel Brands Jun Woong-sun
Korea SouthSouth Korea 
CroatiaCroatia Rijeka Rijeka Open 030,000 + H sand ChileChile Nicolás Massú Czech RepublicCzech Republic Dušan Karol Jaroslav Pospíšil
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
SpainSpain Telde Challenger Isla de Gran Canaria 030,000 + H sand RussiaRussia Teimuras Gabashvili SpainSpain Daniel Gimeno Traver Daniel Muñoz de La Nava
SpainSpain 
United StatesUnited States Tunica resorts Men's Pro Challenger at Tunica National $ 050,000 Sand (i) PeruPeru Iván Miranda SerbiaSerbia Vladimir Obradović Izak van der Merwe
South AfricaSouth Africa 
12. 05. FranceFrance Bordeaux BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux 085,000 + h sand ArgentinaArgentina Eduardo Schwank ArgentinaArgentina Diego Hartfield Sergio Roitman
ArgentinaArgentina 
MoroccoMorocco Marrakech Morocco Tennis Tour Marrakech 085,000 + h sand FranceFrance Gaël Monfils PortugalPortugal Frederico Gil Florin Mergea
RomaniaRomania 
DenmarkDenmark Aarhus Pharma Medico Open 042,500 + H sand SpainSpain Daniel Gimeno Traver PolandPoland Dawid Olejniczak Jean-Julien Rojer
Netherlands AntillesNetherlands Antilles 
CroatiaCroatia Zagreb Zagreb Open $ 050,000 + H sand BelgiumBelgium Christophe Rochus CroatiaCroatia Ivan Dodig Júlio Silva
BrazilBrazil 
United StatesUnited States Bradenton Hurricane Tennis Open $ 050,000 sand United StatesUnited States Jesse Levine AustraliaAustralia Carsten Ball Lester Cook
United StatesUnited States 
IndiaIndia New Delhi New Delhi Challenger I. $ 050,000 Hard court Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Lu Yen-hsun AustraliaAustralia Colin Ebelthite Samuel Groth
AustraliaAustralia 
ItalyItaly Sanremo Sanremo Tennis Cup 030,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Diego Junqueira IsraelIsrael Harel Levy Jim Thomas
United StatesUnited States 
19. 05. UzbekistanUzbekistan Fargʻona Fergana Challenger $ 035,000 + H Hard court Czech RepublicCzech Republic Pavel Šnobel RussiaRussia Konstantin Kravchuk Łukasz Kubot
PolandPoland 
IndiaIndia New Delhi New Delhi Challenger II $ 050,000 Hard court JapanJapan Go Soeda IndiaIndia Harsh Mankad Ashutosh Singh
IndiaIndia 
26. 05. TurkeyTurkey Izmir İzmir Cup 064,000 Hard court LuxembourgLuxembourg Gilles Muller United StatesUnited States Jesse Levine Kei Nishikori
JapanJapan 
United StatesUnited States Carson Countrywide Classic USTA Men's Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Amer Delic AustraliaAustralia Carsten Ball Travis Rettenmaier
United StatesUnited States 
ItalyItaly Alessandria Trofeo Cassa di Risparmio 030,000 + H sand ItalyItaly Paolo Lorenzi ItalyItaly Flavio Cipolla Simone Vagnozzi
ItalyItaly 
GermanyGermany Karlsruhe Bathing Open 030,000 + H sand RussiaRussia Teimuras Gabashvili AustriaAustria Daniel Köllerer Frank Moser
GermanyGermany 

June

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
02. 06. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prostějov Unicredit Czech Open € 127,500 + H. sand ArgentinaArgentina Agustín Calleri South AfricaSouth Africa Rik De Voest Łukasz Kubot
PolandPoland 
GermanyGermany Fuerth Schickedanz Open 042,500 + H sand AustriaAustria Daniel Köllerer GermanyGermany Philipp Marx Alexander Peya
AustriaAustria 
ItalyItaly Sassuolo Memorial Argo Manfredini 030,000 + H sand PortugalPortugal Frederico Gil ArgentinaArgentina Juan-Martín Aranguren Stefano Galvani
ItalyItaly 
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Surbiton The Surbiton Trophy 042,500 race CanadaCanada Frank Dancevic FranceFrance Arnaud Clément Édouard Roger-Vasselin
FranceFrance 
United StatesUnited States Yuba City Sunset Molding Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Michael Yani United StatesUnited States Nicholas Monroe Michael Yani
United StatesUnited States 
09. 06. BulgariaBulgaria Sofia Bulgarian Open Challenger 042,500 sand RomaniaRomania Adrian Ungur BrazilBrazil Franco Ferreiro Mariano Puerta
ArgentinaArgentina 
SlovakiaSlovakia Košice Košice Open 030,000 + H sand Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Rosol PolandPoland Tomasz Bednarek Igor Zelenay
SlovakiaSlovakia 
ItalyItaly Milan Zenith Tennis Cup 030,000 + H sand RussiaRussia Teimuras Gabashvili SwitzerlandSwitzerland Yves Allegro Horia Tecau
RomaniaRomania 
16. 06. GermanyGermany Braunschweig Nord / LB Open € 106,250 + H. sand FranceFrance Nicolas Devilder ItalyItaly Marco Crugnola Óscar Hernández
SpainSpain 
PolandPoland Bytom Polska Energia Open 030,000 + H sand FranceFrance Laurent Recouderc PolandPoland Marcin Gawron Mateusz Kowalczyk
PolandPoland 
ItalyItaly Recanati Guzzini Challenger 030,000 + H Hard court ArgentinaArgentina Horacio Zeballos GermanyGermany Benedikt Dorsch Björn Phau
GermanyGermany 
23 06th ItalyItaly Reggio nell'Emilia Lines Trophy 042,500 + H sand FranceFrance Mathieu Montcourt China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yu Xinyuan Zeng Shaoxuan
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
RomaniaRomania Constanța Mamaia Challenger 030,000 + H sand FranceFrance Nicolas Devilder RomaniaRomania Florin Mergea Horia Tecau
RomaniaRomania 
30. 06. SpainSpain Pozoblanco Open Diputación Ciudad de Pozoblanco € 106,500 + h Hard court SpainSpain Iván Navarro SwedenSweden Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer
Netherlands AntillesNetherlands Antilles 
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lugano BSI Challenger Lugano 085,000 + h sand PeruPeru Luis Horna AustraliaAustralia Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx
GermanyGermany 
ItalyItaly Turin Sporting Challenger 085,000 + h sand ItalyItaly Fabio Fognini ArgentinaArgentina Carlos Berlocq Frederico Gil
PortugalPortugal 
IrelandIreland Dublin Dublin Challenger 064,000 carpet AustraliaAustralia Robert Smeets IndiaIndia Prakash Amritraj Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
PakistanPakistan 
United StatesUnited States Winnetka Nielsen USTA Pro Tennis Championships $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Rajeev Ram United StatesUnited States Todd Widom Michael Yani
United StatesUnited States 

July

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
07. 07. ColombiaColombia Bogotá Open Seguros Bolívar Bogotá $ 125,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Mariano Puerta BelgiumBelgium Xavier Malisse Carlos Salamanca
ColombiaColombia 
NetherlandsNetherlands Scheveningen Siemens Open 085,000 + h sand NetherlandsNetherlands Jesse Huta Galung AustraliaAustralia Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx
GermanyGermany 
CanadaCanada Granby Challenger National Bank Granby $ 050,000 + H Hard court United KingdomUnited Kingdom Alex Bogdanovic CanadaCanada Philip Bester Peter Polansky
CanadaCanada 
IsraelIsrael Ramat Hasharon Israel Open $ 050,000 Hard court TurkeyTurkey Marsel İlhan IsraelIsrael Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram
IsraelIsrael 
ItalyItaly San Benedetto Carisap Tennis Cup 030,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Máximo González ItalyItaly Paolo Lorenzi Júlio Silva
BrazilBrazil 
14. 07. United StatesUnited States Aptos Comerica Bank Challenger $ 075,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Kevin Kim IsraelIsrael Noam Okun Amir grapes
IsraelIsrael 
ItalyItaly Rimini Rimini Challenger Riviera 042,500 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Diego Junqueira ItalyItaly Leonardo Azzaro Marco Crugnola
ItalyItaly 
EcuadorEcuador manta Manta Open - Trofeo Ricardo Delgado Aray $ 035,000 + H Hard court EcuadorEcuador Giovanni Lapentti ColombiaColombia Alejandro González Eduardo Struvay
ColombiaColombia 
CanadaCanada Moncton Moncton Men's Challenger $ 035,000 + H Hard court BelgiumBelgium Xavier Malisse Korea SouthSouth Korea To Jae-sung Hiroki Kondō
JapanJapan 
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Manchester LTA Manchester Trophy 030,000 + H race SwedenSweden Bjorn Rehnquist AustraliaAustralia Adam Feeney Robert Smeets
AustraliaAustralia 
GermanyGermany Oberstaufen Oberstaufen Cup 030,000 + H sand PolandPoland Łukasz Kubot Czech RepublicCzech Republic Dušan Karol Jaroslav Pospíšil
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
21. 07. PolandPoland Poses Porsche Open 085,000 + h sand FranceFrance Nicolas Devilder SwedenSweden Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer
Netherlands AntillesNetherlands Antilles 
San MarinoSan Marino San Marino San Marino CEPU Open 085,000 + h sand ItalyItaly Filippo Volandri SwitzerlandSwitzerland Yves Allegro Horia Tecau
RomaniaRomania 
United StatesUnited States Lexington Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships $ 050,000 Hard court IndiaIndia Somdev Devvarman ItalyItaly Alessandro Da Col Andrea Stoppini
ItalyItaly 
RussiaRussia Penza Penza Cup $ 050,000 Hard court GermanyGermany Benedict Dorsch UzbekistanUzbekistan Denis Istomin Yevgeny Kirillov
RussiaRussia 
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Međugorje Medjugorje Open 030,000 + H sand SpainSpain Iván Navarro Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jan Minář Martin Slanar
AustriaAustria 
28 07th ItalyItaly Cordenons Kos Zucchetti Tennis Cup 085,000 + h sand ItalyItaly Filippo Volandri ItalyItaly Marco Crugnola Alessio di Mauro
ItalyItaly 
CanadaCanada Vancouver Odlum Brown Vancouver Open $ 100,000 Hard court IsraelIsrael Dudi Sela United StatesUnited States Eric Butorac Travis Parrott
United StatesUnited States 
RussiaRussia Saransk Mordovia Cup $ 050,000 sand RussiaRussia Mikhail Jelgin UzbekistanUzbekistan Denis Istomin Yevgeny Kirillov
RussiaRussia 
FinlandFinland Tampere Aamulehti Tampere Open 042,500 sand FranceFrance Mathieu Montcourt SwedenSweden Ervin Eleskovic Michael Ryderstedt
SwedenSweden 
BrazilBrazil Belo Horizonte Bra tennis open $ 035,000 + H Hard court MexicoMexico Santiago González MexicoMexico Santiago González Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
PakistanPakistan 
AustriaAustria Graz s'Tennis Masters Challenger 030,000 + H sand FranceFrance Jérémy Chardy AustriaAustria Jürgen Melzer Gerald Melzer
AustriaAustria 
RomaniaRomania Timișoara Timișoara Challenger 030,000 + H sand GermanyGermany Daniel Brands SpainSpain Daniel Muñoz de La Nava Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
SpainSpain 

August

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
04. 08. SpainSpain Segovia ATP Open Castilla y León € 106,500 + h Hard court UkraineUkraine Serhiy Stachowskyj United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ross Hutchins Jim Thomas
United StatesUnited States 
BrazilBrazil Campos do Jordão Credicard Citi Mastercard Tennis Cup $ 050,000 + H Hard court ArgentinaArgentina Brian Dabul ArgentinaArgentina Brian Dabul Marcel Felder
UruguayUruguay 
United StatesUnited States Binghamton Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court ChileChile Paul Capdeville AustraliaAustralia Carsten Ball Travis Rettenmaier
United StatesUnited States 
IndiaIndia New Delhi New Delhi Challenger III $ 050,000 Hard court IrelandIreland Conor Niland United KingdomUnited Kingdom Joshua Goodall James Ward
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
UzbekistanUzbekistan Samarqand Samarkand Challenger $ 035,000 + H sand RussiaRussia Mikhail Jelgin GeorgiaGeorgia Irakli Labadze Denis Mazukevich
RussiaRussia 
11th 08 TurkeyTurkey Istanbul TED Open $ 100,000 + H Hard court PortugalPortugal Frederico Gil GermanyGermany Michael Kohlmann Frank Moser
GermanyGermany 
United StatesUnited States Bronx GHI Bronx Tennis Classic $ 050,000 Hard court Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Dlouhý Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Dlouhý Tomáš Zíb
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
IndiaIndia New Delhi New Delhi Challenger IV $ 050,000 Hard court GermanyGermany Dieter Kindlmann IndiaIndia Harsh Mankad Ashutosh Singh
IndiaIndia 
UzbekistanUzbekistan Buxoro Bukhara Challenger $ 035,000 + H Hard court UzbekistanUzbekistan Denis Istomin RussiaRussia Pavel Chekhov Mikhail Jelgin
RussiaRussia 
SpainSpain Vigo Concurso Internacional de Tenis 030,000 + H sand SpainSpain Pablo Andújar ItalyItaly Alessandro Motti Marco Crugnola
ItalyItaly 
18. 08. ItalyItaly Manerbio Trofeo Dimmidisì 064,000 + H sand RomaniaRomania Victor Crivoi ItalyItaly Thomas Fabbiano Boris Pašanski
SerbiaSerbia 
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva Geneva Challenger 030,000 + H sand BelgiumBelgium Kristof Viegen AustriaAustria Daniel Köllerer Frank Moser
GermanyGermany 
SpainSpain Donostia-San Sebastian Concurso Internacional Tenis San Sebastián 030,000 + H sand SpainSpain Pablo Andújar SpainSpain Marc López Gabriel Trujillo Soler
SpainSpain 
UzbekistanUzbekistan Qarshi Karshi Challenger $ 035,000 + H Hard court UzbekistanUzbekistan Denis Istomin PolandPoland Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach
AustriaAustria 
25. 08 ItalyItaly Como Città di Como Challenger 042,500 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Diego Junqueira ArgentinaArgentina Mariano Hood Alberto Martín
SpainSpain 
KazakhstanKazakhstan Almaty Southern Capital Cup $ 035,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Sebastián Decoud RussiaRussia Alexander Krasnoruzki Denys Molchanov
UkraineUkraine 
GermanyGermany Freudenstadt Black Forest Open 030,000 + H sand GermanyGermany Simon Greul BelgiumBelgium Dick Norman Kristof Viegen
BelgiumBelgium 

September

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
01. 09. UkraineUkraine Cherkassy UTC Open $ 050,000 + H sand FranceFrance Olivier Patience RussiaRussia Mikhail Jelgin Alexander Krasnoruzki
RussiaRussia 
NetherlandsNetherlands Alphen aan den Rijn Tean International 042,500 sand GermanyGermany Simon Greul AustraliaAustralia Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx
GermanyGermany 
RomaniaRomania Brașov Brașov Challenger 030,000 + H sand SpainSpain Daniel Gimeno Traver SpainSpain David Marrero Daniel Muñoz de La Nava
SpainSpain 
GermanyGermany Dusseldorf Düsseldorf Open Challenger 030,000 + H sand BelgiumBelgium Kristof Viegen Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jan Hájek Tomáš Zíb
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
ItalyItaly Genoa Genoa Open Challenger 030,000 + H sand ItalyItaly Fabio Fognini ItalyItaly Gianluca Naso Walter Trusendi
ItalyItaly 
08. 09 FranceFrance Orleans Open d'Orléans € 106,500 + h Hard court (i) FranceFrance Nicolas Mahut UkraineUkraine Serhiy Stachowskyi Lovro Zovko
CroatiaCroatia 
UkraineUkraine Donetsk Alexander Kolyaskin Memorial $ 050,000 + H Hard court RussiaRussia Igor Kunitsyn BelgiumBelgium Xavier Malisse Dick Norman
BelgiumBelgium 
United StatesUnited States Tulsa Semgroup Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Kevin Kim AustraliaAustralia Ashley Fisher Stephen Huss
AustraliaAustralia 
SpainSpain Seville Challenger Copa Seville 042,500 + H sand SpainSpain Pere Riba SpainSpain David Marrero Pablo Santos-González
SpainSpain 
SloveniaSlovenia Ljubljana Ljubljana Open 042,500 sand SerbiaSerbia Ilija Bozoljac ArgentinaArgentina Juan Pablo Brzezicki Mariano Hood
ArgentinaArgentina 
EcuadorEcuador Quito Club Premium Open $ 035,000 + H sand EcuadorEcuador Giovanni Lapentti United StatesUnited States Hugo Armando Leonardo Mayer
ArgentinaArgentina 
15 0September PolandPoland Szczecin Pekao Szczecin Open € 106,500 + h sand FranceFrance Florent Serra SpainSpain David Marrero Dawid Olejniczak
PolandPoland 
ColombiaColombia Cali Seguros Bolívar Open Cali $ 075,000 + H sand BrazilBrazil Marcos Daniel ColombiaColombia Juan Sebastián Cabal Alejandro Falla
ColombiaColombia 
ItalyItaly Todi Internazionale di Tennis dell'Umbria 042,500 + H sand ItalyItaly Tomas Tenconi ItalyItaly Gianluca Naso Walter Trusendi
ItalyItaly 
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Banja Luka Banja Luka Challenger 030,000 + H sand SerbiaSerbia Ilija Bozoljac HungaryHungary Attila Balázs Amir Hadad
IsraelIsrael 
United StatesUnited States Waco Waco Tennis Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Vincent Spadea United StatesUnited States Alex Bogomolov junior Dušan Vemić
SerbiaSerbia 
22. 09 SlovakiaSlovakia Trnava ATP Challenger Trophy 085,000 + h sand SpainSpain Alberto Martín Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Škoch Igor Zelenay
SlovakiaSlovakia 
ColombiaColombia Bogotá Copa Petrobras Bogotá $ 075,000 + H sand BrazilBrazil Marcos Daniel ColombiaColombia Juan Sebastián Cabal Alejandro Falla
ColombiaColombia 
FranceFrance Grenoble Open des Alpes Trophée BNP Paribas 042,500 + H Hard court (i) BelgiumBelgium Kristof Viegen AustriaAustria Martin Fischer Philipp Oswald
AustriaAustria 
ItalyItaly Naples Tennislife Cup 042,500 + H sand ItalyItaly Tomas Tenconi ItalyItaly Leonardo Azzaro Alessandro Motti
ItalyItaly 
RomaniaRomania Bucharest Ipsos Bucharest Challenger 030,000 + H sand SpainSpain Santiago Ventura SpainSpain Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Santiago Ventura
SpainSpain 
United StatesUnited States Lubbock Lubbock Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States John Isner Moldova RepublicRepublic of Moldova Roman Borvanov Artem Sitak
RussiaRussia 
29. 09 BelgiumBelgium Mons Ethias Trophy € 106,500 + h Hard court (i) RussiaRussia Teimuras Gabashvili SlovakiaSlovakia Michal Mertiňák Lovro Zovko
CroatiaCroatia 
BrazilBrazil Aracaju Copa Petrobras Aracaju $ 075,000 + H sand ChileChile Paul Capdeville ArgentinaArgentina Juan-Martín Aranguren Franco Ferreiro
BrazilBrazil 
SpainSpain Tarragona Open Tarragona Costa Daurada $ 042,500 + H sand SpainSpain Alberto Martín Czech RepublicCzech Republic Dušan Karol Daniel Köllerer
AustriaAustria 

October

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
06.10. Paraguay 1990Paraguay Asunción Copa Petrobras Asunción $ 075,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Martín Vassallo Argüello ArgentinaArgentina Alejandro Fabbri Leonardo Mayer
ArgentinaArgentina 
United StatesUnited States Sacramento Sacramento Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Donald Young United StatesUnited States Brian Battistone Then Battistone
United StatesUnited States 
FranceFrance Rennes Open de Rennes 042,500 + H Hard court (i) FranceFrance Josselin Ouanna United KingdomUnited Kingdom James Auckland Dick Norman
BelgiumBelgium 
BrazilBrazil Florianópolis Cycle Open de Tênis $ 035,000 + H sand ChileChile Nicolás Massú BrazilBrazil Rogério Dutra da Silva Júlio Silva
AustriaAustria 
13.10. UzbekistanUzbekistan Tashkent Tashkent Open $ 125,000 + H Hard court Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Lu Yen-hsun ItalyItaly Flavio Cipolla Pavel Šnobel
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
UruguayUruguay Montevideo Copa Petrobras Montevideo $ 075,000 + H sand AustraliaAustralia Peter Luczak BrazilBrazil Franco Ferreiro Flávio Saretta
BrazilBrazil 
DenmarkDenmark Kolding Købstædernes ATP Challenger 042,500 + H Hard court (i) CroatiaCroatia Roco Karanušić United StatesUnited States Brendan Evans Chris Haggard
South AfricaSouth Africa 
United StatesUnited States Calabasas Mercedes Benz of Calabasas $ 050,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Vincent Spadea SerbiaSerbia Ilija Bozoljac Dušan Vemić
SerbiaSerbia 
20.10. Korea SouthSouth Korea Seoul Samsung Securities Cup $ 125,000 + H Hard court Korea SouthSouth Korea Lee Hyung-taik PolandPoland Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach
AustriaAustria 
ArgentinaArgentina Buenos Aires Copa Petrobras Buenos Aires $ 075,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Martín Vassallo Argüello ArgentinaArgentina Máximo González Sebastián Prieto
ArgentinaArgentina 
10/27 ColombiaColombia Cali Bancolombia Open Cali $ 125,000 + H sand AustriaAustria Daniel Köllerer AustriaAustria Daniel Köllerer Boris Pašanski
SerbiaSerbia 
Korea SouthSouth Korea Busan Flea Market Cup Busan Challenger Tennis $ 100,000 + H Hard court JapanJapan Go Soeda South AfricaSouth Africa Rik De Voest Łukasz Kubot
PolandPoland 
GermanyGermany Aachen Lambertz Open by STAWAG 042,500 + H Carpet (i) RussiaRussia Yevgeny Korolyov GermanyGermany Michael Kohlmann Alexander Waske
GermanyGermany 
United StatesUnited States Louisville Ford Tennis Championships $ 050,000 + H Hard court (i) United StatesUnited States Robert Kendrick IndiaIndia Prakash Amritraj Jesse Levine
United StatesUnited States 

November

date place competition Prize money Topping Winner
singles
Winner
double
03.11. SlovakiaSlovakia Bratislava Tatra Banka Slovak Open € 106,500 + h Hard court (i) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jan Hernych Czech RepublicCzech Republic František Čermák Łukasz Kubot
PolandPoland 
KazakhstanKazakhstan Astana President's Cup $ 075,000 Hard court KazakhstanKazakhstan Andrei Golubev RussiaRussia Mikhail Yelgin Alexander Kudryavzew
RussiaRussia 
EcuadorEcuador Guayaquil Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship $ 050,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Sergio Roitman ArgentinaArgentina Sebastián Decoud Santiago Giraldo
ColombiaColombia 
United StatesUnited States Nashville Music City Challenger $ 075,000 Hard court (i) United StatesUnited States Robert Kendrick AustraliaAustralia Carsten Ball Travis Rettenmaier
United StatesUnited States 
GermanyGermany Eckental Bauer Watertechnology Cup 030,000 + H Carpet (i) GermanyGermany Denis Gremelmayr SwitzerlandSwitzerland Yves Allegro Horia Tecau
RomaniaRomania 
CanadaCanada Rimouski National Bank Men's Rimouski Challenger $ 035,000 + H Carpet (i) United StatesUnited States Ryan Sweeting CanadaCanada Vasek Pospisil Milos Raonic
CanadaCanada 
11/10 UkraineUkraine Dnipro PEOPLEnet Cup $ 125,000 + H Hard court (i) FranceFrance Fabrice Santoro ArgentinaArgentina Guillermo Cañas Dmitri Tursunov
RussiaRussia 
United StatesUnited States Champaign JSM Challenger of Champaign-Urbana $ 050,000 + H Hard court (i) South AfricaSouth Africa Kevin Anderson United StatesUnited States Rajeev Ram Bobby Reynolds
United StatesUnited States 
ColombiaColombia Medellin Open Seguros Bolívar Medellín $ 035,000 + H sand ArgentinaArgentina Leonardo Mayer ColombiaColombia Juan Sebastián Cabal Alejandro Falla
ColombiaColombia 
United KingdomUnited Kingdom jersey Caversham ATP Mens Challenger 030,000 + H Hard court (i) FranceFrance Adrian Mannarino United KingdomUnited Kingdom Colin Fleming Ken Skupski
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
11/17 FinlandFinland Helsinki IPP Open € 106,500 + h Hard court (i) RussiaRussia Dmitri Tursunov PolandPoland Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach
AustriaAustria 
United StatesUnited States Knoxville Knoxville Challenger $ 050,000 Hard court (i) United StatesUnited States Bobby Reynolds South AfricaSouth Africa Kevin Anderson G.D. Jones
New ZealandNew Zealand 
MexicoMexico Puebla Challenger Britania Zavaleta $ 035,000 + H Hard court SwitzerlandSwitzerland Michael Lammer United StatesUnited States Nicholas Monroe Eric Nunez
United StatesUnited States 
JapanJapan Yokohama Keio Challenger $ 035,000 + H Hard court Korea SouthSouth Korea Lee Hyung-taik Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Cakl Marek Semjan
SlovakiaSlovakia 
11/24 PeruPeru Lima Lima Challenger $ 050,000 sand ArgentinaArgentina Martín Vassallo Argüello PeruPeru Luis Horna Sebastián Prieto
ArgentinaArgentina 
MexicoMexico Cancun Abierto Internacional Cancun $ 035,000 + H sand SloveniaSlovenia Grega Žemlja PolandPoland Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach
AustriaAustria 
JapanJapan Toyota Dunlop World Challenge $ 035,000 + H Carpet (i) JapanJapan Go Soeda DenmarkDenmark Frederik Nielsen Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
PakistanPakistan 
  • 1 start of the tournament (without qualification)
  • 2 The abbreviation + H (= hospitality) means that the tournament in question accommodates the players
  • 3 The abbreviation "(i)" (= indoor) means that the tournament in question will be held in a hall.

Distribution of world ranking points

An overview of the point distribution in the respective challenger categories in 2008.

Tournament category Total
prize money
S. F. HF VF AF Additional
qualification points
Challenger 0127,500 + H. 100 70 45 23 10 3
Challenger $ 0125,000 + H
0106,500 + H
090 63 40 21st 09 3
Challenger $ 0125,000
$ 0100,000 + H
0106,500
0085,000 + H
080 56 36 19th 08th 3
Challenger $ 0100,000
$ 0075,000 + H
0085,000
0064,000 + H
070 49 31 16 07th 3
Challenger $ 0075,000
$ 0050,000 + H
0064,000
0042,500 + H
060 42 27 14th 06th 3
Challenger $ 0050,000
$ 0035,000 + H
0042,500
0030,000 + H
055 38 24 13 05 2
  • Explanation of the header: S = winner; F = (losing) finalist; HF = reached semi-finals (and then eliminated); VF = quarter finals; AF = round of 16
  • + H = tournaments that provide accommodation for the players in addition to the prize money are moved to the next higher prize money category.
  • Couples in doubles receive no points before the quarter-finals.

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