#NextGenATP Ymer Stays Perfect In Challenger Finals

  • Posted: Aug 21, 2017

#NextGenATP Ymer Stays Perfect In Challenger Finals

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Revisit the week that was on the ATP Challenger Tour as we applaud the achievements of those on the rise and look ahead to who’s in action in the week to come

A LOOK BACK

Acqua Dolomia Tennis Cup (Cordenons, Italy): Swedish 21-year-old Elias Ymer secured his third Challenger title with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Roberto Carballes Baena in Cordenons. It was the third straight week a #NextGenATP player had won a Challenger title with Michael Mmoh in Lexington, Alexander Bublik in Aptos and now Ymer in Cordenons all triumphing. Ymer had fallen to No. 293 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, but continued his resurgence and did not drop a set all week.

Odlum Brown VanOpen (Vancouver, Canada): After being sidelined for nearly three years due to hip surgery and other injuries, German Cedrik-Marcel Stebe claimed his second ATP Challenger Tour title of the season in Vancouver on Sunday. A former No. 71 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, Stebe routed Australia’s Jordan Thompson 6-0, 6-1 in the 54-minute final, the second fastest decider of 2017. It marked the return of the hugely popular $100,000 Vancouver Challenger event after a one-year hiatus. Second seed Thompson was bidding for his fifth Challenger title and first of the year. The 26 year old Stebe was ranked outside the Top 500 a year ago and will close in on a return to the Top 100 at No. 106. Read More: Fast Cars And World-Class Tennis In Vancouver.

Milex Open 2017 (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic): There were huge celebrations in the Dominican Republic on Saturday when 37-year-old local Victor Estrella Burgos defeated 2015 champion Damir Dzhumur in Santo Domingo. It was his seventh ATP Challenger Tour title and first in more than two years. It also meant the first home-grown winner at the $125,000 Challenger event and the oldest titlist on the circuit this year. Estrella Burgos claimed the title with a 7-6(4), 6-4 victory over the top seed, before an exuberant and passionate crowd at the Santo Domingo Tenis Club. Learn More About The Milex Open and home favourite Estrella Burgos. 

Bucher Reisen Tennis Grand Prix (Meerbusch, Germany): Spaniard Ricardo Ojeda Lara had just five ATP Challenger match wins in his career until the Meerbusch final. His 6-4, 6-3 defeat of Austrian Andreas Hairder-Maurer landed him a maiden Challenger tile and made him a tour-leading sixth different Spanish winner on the tour this year, joining Adrian Menendez-Maceiras, Nicola Kuhn, Jaume Munar, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and Roberto Carballes Baena.

A LOOK AHEAD

The Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì in Mangerbio, Italy is the sole Challenger event to take place this week. The $50,000 clay-court event has been staged since 1999 with David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro among the past champions. This year, Spanish former World No. 23, Guillermo Garcia Lopez is the top seed with Czech Adam Pavlasek seeded second. Garcia Lopez’s countryman, former World No. 5 Tommy Robredo, has also entered while Challenger title winners from the weekend – Elias Ymer and Ricardo Ojeda Lara – will look to make it back-to-back triumphs.

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