The Numbers Game: 2016 ATP Challenger Tour

Match Win-Loss Leaders
Brazil’s Rogerio Dutra Silva was the lone player to claim 50 match wins this year, but it was Yen-Hsun Lu earning the highest win percentage (min. 30 matches played).

Singles Title Leaders
Facundo Bagnis became just the third player to win six titles in a season, joining Younes El Aynaoui (1998) and Juan Ignacio Chela (2001).

#NextGen Winners (17)
Twelve different #NextGen stars accounted for a total of 17 Challenger titles this year, with Frances Tiafoe, Ernesto Escobedo, Hyeon Chung, Yoshihito Nishioka and Kyle Edmund winning multiple crowns. In 2016, #NextGen players were born 1995 or later and inside the Top 200 of the Emirates ATP Rankings.

Title Leaders By Country
Argentina claimed 20 titles this year, tying the record for most in a single season by a country.

Outside Top 400 Winners (5)
At World No. 762, Aussie teen Max Purcell became the second-lowest ranked Challenger winner since 2000 with his title in Gimcheon, South Korea.

ATP World Tour & ATP Challenger Tour Winners (4)
Four players lifted trophies on both the ATP World Tour and ATP Challenger Tour this year.

Match Points Saved In Finals (5)
Sergiy Stakhovsky saved the most match points in an ATP Challenger Tour final this year, turning aside seven in beating Yen-Hsun Lu for the Seoul crown.

Fast Facts

• At 17 years, 9 months, Casper Ruud was the youngest winner, claiming his maiden title in Sevilla, Spain. The third Norwegian champ in Challenger history, Ruud became the fourth-youngest player to win on debut.
• Two all-teen finals were contested this year, as Quentin Halys (19) beat Frances Tiafoe (18) in Tallahassee, USA and Maxime Janvier (19) defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas (18) in Casablanca, Morocco.
• Teenagers reached a total of 30 finals, winning 13 titles. Tiafoe was a five-time finalist, lifting trophies in Granby, Canada and Stockton, USA.
• At 35 years, 9 months and 4 days, Stephane Robert was the oldest winner, claiming his seventh title in New Delhi, India. Robert was just two days older than Michael Berrer, who won in Leon, Mexico at 35 years, 9 months and 2 days.
• At 38 years, 8 months, Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo became the oldest player to reach a final in Challenger history, when he finished runner-up in Qingdao, China.
• Ramirez Hidalgo made more history as the first player to reach 400 match wins, on 4 August in Chengdu, China.
• Three unseeded wild cards won titles: Blake Mott (Launceston, AUS), Alexandre Sidorenko (Saint-Brieuc, FRA) and Mikael Torpegaard (Columbus, USA)
• Qualifiers went 7-10 in finals, with Norbert Gombos becoming the lone Lucky Loser champ, in Brest, France. Gombos was the first LL winner in three years and the 12th in Challenger history.
• Four players successfully defended titles: Facundo Bagnis (Santiago, CHI), Hyeon Chung (Kaohsiung, TPE), Yen-Hsun Lu (Ningbo, CHN) and Henri Laaksonen (Champaign, USA).
• There were a total of 34 first-time winners this year (11 more than in 2015), with 17-year-old Ruud the youngest and 29-year-old James McGee the oldest.
• National firsts: Di Wu became the first Chinese winner (Maui, USA) and Darian King the first titlist from Barbados (Cali, COL). Marcelo Arevalo is the first finalist from El Salvador, finishing runner-up in San Luis Potosi, MEX.
• Longest finals: Andrey Golubev won the first three tie-break final since 2012, beating Karen Khachanov 6-7(9), 7-6(5), 7-6(4) in Jonkoping, SWE. The longest timed final registered at three hours, 13 minutes, with Joao Souza beating Nicolas Kicker in Fano, ITA.
• Shortest completed finals: Games – Yen-Hsun Lu beat Stefan Kozlov 6-0, 6-1 in Suzhou, CHN. Time – At 48 minutes, Jan-Lennard Struff beat Vincent Millot in Mons, BEL and Frances Tiafoe beat Marcelo Arevalo in Granby, CAN.