ATP Challenger Sofia

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tennis Zagorka Cup
ATP Challenger Tour
venue Sofia Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgaria 
First run 1980
Last event 2009
category Challenger
Tournament type Free place tournament
Game surface sand
draw 32E / 32Q / 16D
Prize money 85,000 
As of August 14, 2016

The ATP Challenger Sofia (officially: Zagorka Cup ) was a tennis tournament that first took place in Sofia in 1994 . After a break, the annual event was resumed in 1999 and ended in 2003, before tournaments were held again in 2008 and 2009. In 1980, 1981 and 1988 there were tournaments in Sofia under a different license. The tournament was part of the ATP Challenger Tour and was played outdoors on clay. Tomas Behrend is the only multiple title holder with one title each in singles and doubles.

List of winners

singles

year winner Final opponent Result
2009 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ivo Minář GermanyGermany Florian Mayer 6: 4, 6: 3
2008 RomaniaRomania Adrian Ungur BrazilBrazil Franco Ferreiro 6: 3, 6: 0
2004–2007: not held
2003 FranceFrance Stéphane Robert GermanyGermany Daniel Elsner 6: 1, 4: 6, 7: 6 4
2002 GermanyGermany Tomas Behrend AustriaAustria Werner Eschauer 6: 0, 6: 3
2001 GreeceGreece Vasilis Mazarakis ItalyItaly Stefano Galvani 7: 6 5 , 6: 4
2000 ItalyItaly Stefano Tarallo ItalyItaly Stefano Galvani 6.1, 6: 2
1999 GermanyGermany Marcello Craca BulgariaBulgaria Orlin Stanoichev 7: 6, 6: 0
1995–1998: not held
1994 GermanyGermany Martin Sinner PeruPeru Alejandro Aramburú 6: 2, 7: 5
1989–1993: not held
1988 NetherlandsNetherlands Johan Vekemans CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Jaroslav Bulant 7: 5, 7: 6
1982–1987: not held
1981 United StatesUnited States Richard Meyer FinlandFinland Leo Palin 6: 4, 7: 6, 7: 6
1980 SwedenSweden Per Hjertquist Soviet UnionSoviet Union Vadim Borisov 6: 3, 6: 2, 7: 5

Double

year winner Final opponent Result
2009 SlovakiaSlovakia Dominik Hrbatý David Škoch
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
United KingdomUnited Kingdom James Auckland Peter Luczak
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 2, 6: 4
2008 BrazilBrazil Franco Ferreiro Mariano Puerta
ArgentinaArgentina 
North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Lazar Magdinčev Predrag Rusevski
North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia 
6: 3, 1: 6, [10: 3]
2004–2007: not held
2003 BulgariaBulgaria Ilya Kuschew Luben Pampoulov
AustriaAustria 
BulgariaBulgaria Todor Enew Dimo Tolew
BulgariaBulgaria 
6: 3, 6: 1
2002 GermanyGermany Christopher Kas Oliver Marach
AustriaAustria 
BulgariaBulgaria Ilya Kuschew Luben Pampoulov
AustriaAustria 
7: 6 4 , 6: 7 7 , 6: 2
2001 ItalyItaly Igor Gaudi Stefano Galvani
ItalyItaly 
SpainSpain Óscar Hernández Dmitri Vlasov
RussiaRussia 
6: 4, 6: 1
2000 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Dejan Petrović Orlin Stanoitschew
BulgariaBulgaria 
BulgariaBulgaria Radoslaw Lukaew Luben Pampoulov
AustriaAustria 
6: 2, 6: 7 5 , 6: 7 5
1999 GermanyGermany Karsten Braasch Tomas Behrend
GermanyGermany 
SwedenSweden Simon Aspelin Tobias Hildebrand
SwedenSweden 
6: 3, 6: 4
1995–1998: not held
1994 EgyptEgypt Tamer El Sawy Tom Kempers
NetherlandsNetherlands 
HungaryHungary Gábor Köves Patrick Mohr
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
6: 2, 6: 7, 6: 3
1989–1993: not held
1988 Romania 1965Romania Adrian Marcu Florin Segărceanu
Romania 1965Romania 
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jaroslav Bulant Richard Vogel
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
7: 5, 6: 2
1982–1987: not held
1981 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Thomas Emmrich Jiří Granát
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia 
Egypt 1972Egypt Ismail El Shafei Richard Meyer
United StatesUnited States 
7: 6, 2: 6, 6: 4
1980 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Hartmut Kirchhübel Robert Reininger
AustriaAustria 
Soviet UnionSoviet Union Wadim Borissow Thomas Emmrich
Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 
4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4

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