The Numbers Game: 2017 ATP Challenger Tour

Match Win-Loss Leaders
Slovenia’s Blaz Kavcic was the lone player to claim 50 match wins this year, but it was Yen-Hsun Lu earning the highest win percentage (min. 25 matches played). Kavcic is one of just five players to achieve the feat in ATP Challenger Tour history.

Singles Title Leaders
Serbians Filip Krajinovic (5) and Janko Tipsarevic (4) lifted the most trophies this year. Krajinovic’s five victories made him the biggest mover to the Top 50 of the Emirates ATP Rankings, soaring 203 spots to a year-end No. 34. Tipsarevic completed a perfect 20-0 campaign, claiming a pair of titles on the hard courts of Bankgok and two more on the Chinese clay of Qingdao and Anning.

Teen Titlists (15)
Twelve different teenagers accounted for a total of 15 Challenger titles this year, with Denis Shapovalov, Frances Tiafoe and Felix Auger-Aliassime winning multiple crowns. At 16 years, 10 months, Auger-Aliassime became the eighth-youngest winner in history with his triumph in Lyon, France. 

At 17, Nicola Kuhn became the youngest from Spain to win a title since Rafael Nadal in 2003, while 18-year-old Miomir Kecmanovic became the youngest from Serbia to do so since Novak Djokovic in 2005. China’s Wu Yibing is the first teen titlist from his country, prevailing on home soil in Shanghai.

Title Leaders By Country
Players from 41 countries won titles this year, with Marcelo Arevalo becoming the first from El Salvador to lift a trophy. Serbia and the United States boasted a tour-leading 12 winners apiece, with nine different players from the U.S. emerging victorious. Meanwhile, Belarus completed a perfect 6-0 campaign in Challenger finals, with Egor Gerasimov winning three titles, Uladzimir Ignatik two and Ilya Ivashka one.

Outside Top 400 Winners (7)
The slipper fit for seven Cinderella stories, with a bevy of players ranked outside the Top 400 tasting success. At No. 615, Jason Kubler was the highest-ranked of the group, winning on home soil in Traralgon in his first Challenger event in more than two years due to injury.

ATP World Tour & ATP Challenger Tour Winners (6)
Six players lifted trophies on both the ATP World Tour and ATP Challenger Tour this year. Ryan Harrison became the first to win a Challenger title and then a tour-level crown in consecutive tournaments since David Goffin in 2014.

Match Points Saved In Finals (5)
Alexey Vatutin saved the most match points in an ATP Challenger Tour final this year, turning aside six in beating Guido Andreozzi 2-6, 7-6(10), 6-3 for the crown in Poznan, Poland.

Fast Facts

• The lone all-teen final came in Brest, France, with home hope Corentin Moutet (18) defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas (19) for his maiden Challenger title.
• Teenagers reached a total of 24 finals, winning 15 titles. Denis Shapovalov led all teens with three final appearances, hoisting trophies on home soil in Drummondville and Gatineau. 
• At 37 years, 5 months, Stephane Robert became the third-oldest winner in Challenger history with his title in Kobe, Japan. Fellow 37-year-old Victor Estrella Burgos became the fourth-oldest champion with his victory in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• Yuichi Sugita became the only player to win ATP World Tour and ATP Challenger Tour titles on grass in a single season, prevailing in Surbiton, Great Britain and at the 250 event in Antalya.
• Six unseeded wild cards won titles: Jerzy Janowicz (Bergamo, ITA), Felix Auger-Aliassime (Lyon, FRA), Stefanos Tsitsipas (Genova, ITA), Wu Yibing (Shanghai, CHN), Lorenzo Sonego (Ortisei, ITA) and Corentin Moutet (Brest, FRA)
• Qualifiers won 10 titles, with Adrian Menendez-Maceiras and Roberto Quiroz contesting the first all-qualifier final since 2010. Uladzimir Ignatik was the lone lucky loser champ, in Rennes, France.
• Four players successfully defended titles: Adrian Mannarino (Noumea), Janko Tipsarevic (Qingdao, CHN), Paolo Lorenzi (Caltanissetta, ITA) and Malek Jaziri (Istanbul, TUR)
• There were a total of 33 first-time winners this year, with 16-year-old Auger-Aliassime the youngest and 28-year-old Pedro Sousa the oldest.
• Longest final: The longest final registered at two hours, 51 minutes, with Radu Albot beating Hubert Hurkacz 7-6(6), 6-7(3), 6-4 in Shenzhen, China.
• Shortest completed final: At 46 minutes, Lukas Lacko downed Laurynas Grigelis 6-1, 6-2 in Brescia, Italy, in the shortest final of the year.