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The Challenger Tour rests quietly and rigidly - exceptionally

At some point, the ATP Challenger Tour will also have to take a break. And now. A small balance sheet.

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last edit: Dec 07, 2022, 11:48 am

Jack Draper has won four titles on the Challenger Tour in 2022

As? No Challenger tournament this week? Not even in Forli, Italy, where what feels like 28 events at the second-highest level of professional tennis were played (in fact, there were "only" six - the last one won by Lorenzo Musetti)? No - the game operation is suspended for the current week. At least when it comes to collecting points for the ATP world rankings.
Time to take stock.

Two players have managed to claim four Challenger titles: Jack Draper and Pedro Cachin. Fun Fact: Draper has won four times on hard, Cachin each on clay. The German Daniel Altmaier, Constant Lestienne, Quentin Halys (both from France), Wu Yibing (China), Ben Shelton (USA) and Luca Nardi (Italy) were able to write as tournament winners three times.
Filip Misolic (Austria, 20 years old) and Mili Poljicak (Croatia, 17 years old) played in the most recent final in Zagreb. The oldest Fernando Verdasco (Spain, 38) and Prainesh Gunneswaran (India, 32) in Quimper, France.
A total of twelve teenagers were able to win a title on the 2022 Challenger Tour. The youngest winner was Shang Juncheng of Lexington, USA, aged 17 years and six months.
The two Brits Julian Cash and Henry Patten won the most doubles titles - namely ten.
52 players were able to win a championship for the first time. Among them Filip Misolic in Zagreb and the Swiss Leandro Riedi in Helsinki and Alexander Ritschard in Hamburg.
The Swiss were successful eight times (Huesler, Stricker, Riedi heweils two, plus Ritcshard and Bellier), seven titles went to Germany (Altmaier three, Struff, Moraing, Stebe, Koepfer one each), Austrians were able to celebrate four times (Rodionov twice , Ofner and Misolic once each).
Incidentally, historically, eight titles by a player are the measure of all things: Tallon Griekspoor did it in 2021.