By The Numbers: 2022 ATP Challenger Tour | ATP Tour


True tennis fanatics discover pleasure in sharing any random reality or report that they will recite from reminiscence. The 2022 ATP Challenger Tour season held no scarcity of historic moments that may be shared as your subsequent trivia query.

After 11 months of nonstop tennis, ATPTour.com takes a deep dive into the information and figures from the 2022 Challenger Tour season.

Halys Held Most Wins
For the second straight 12 months, a Frenchman topped the Challenger match wins leaderboard. This season, Quentin Halys was practically unstoppable as he collected a 43-10 report on the Challenger Tour.

The 26-year-old reached seven Challenger finals, together with in Pau, Lille, and Ismaning, the place he captured the title. Halys completed the 12 months at a career-high 64 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings. 

Title Leaders
Pedro Cachin and Jack Draper completed with a season-leading 4 Challenger titles. Whereas the Argentine Cachin competed in seven finals, he was topped champion in Madrid, Prague, Todi, and Santo Domingo. Draper’s early-season surge helped pave the trail of his commencement to Tour-level tournaments and qualification for the Intesa Sanpaolo Subsequent Gen ATP Finals. The Briton triumphed on the Forli-2, Forli-4, Forli-5, and Saint-Brieuc Challengers.

Teen Titans
9 youngsters broke by means of to triumph on the Challenger degree. China’s Shang Juncheng gained the Lexington Challenger to grow to be the youngest (17 years, 6 months) Challenger champion of 2022. The Beijing native is the youngest Chinese language champion in Challenger Tour historical past. Luca Nardi and Dominic Stricker had been the one youngsters to win a number of Challenger titles this season.

Different teen champions embrace Luca Van Assche, Holger Rune, Hamad Medjedovic, Francesco Maestrelli, Flavio Cobolli, and Zachary Svajda.

Largest Movers To High 100
Ben Shelton, who was a six-time Challenger finalist this 12 months, led the way in which as one of many 4 largest movers to the High 100.

Title Leaders By Nation
Gamers from 38 international locations gained titles this 12 months. Argentines collected a historic 23 Challenger titles, which surpassed their very own report for many titles by a rustic in a single season (20). French gamers, who mixed for 22 titles, weren’t far behind.

Valentin Vacherot, who gained the Nonthaburi Challenger, turned the second participant from Monaco to win a title and the primary since 2004.

Nation

Titles

Winners

Argentina

23

Cachin-4, Comesana-2, Ugo Carabelli-2, Bagnis-2, JM Cerundolo-2, Rodriguez Taverna-1, F Cerundolo-1, Etcheverry-1, Diaz Acosta-1, Coria-1, Mena-1, Bautista Torres-1, Ficovich-1, Kicker-1, Olivieri-1, Andreozzi-1

France

22

Lestienne-3, Halys-3, Bonzi-2, Grenier-2, Moutet-2, Barrere-2, Guinard-1, Furness-1, Rinderknech-1, Muller-1, Cazaux-1, Humbert-1, Gaston-1, Van Assche-1

Italy

16

Nardi-3, Cecchinato-2, Bellucci-2, Mager-1, Cobolli-1, Agamenone-1, Arnaldi-1, Pellegrino-1, Musetti-1, Maestrelli-1, Passaro-1, Brancaccio-1

United States

12

Shelton-3, Mmoh-2, Escobedo-1, Kudla-1, Sock-1, Nava-1, Svajda-1, Moreno de Alboran-1, Sandgren-1

ATP Tour & Challenger Tour Winners
Borna Coric and Holger Rune confirmed their dominance on the Challenger degree and on the ATP Tour in 2022.

Coric, who gained the Parma Challenger in June, upset three High-10 gamers en path to profitable the title in Cincinnati to grow to be the primary participant since 1993 to win a Challenger and an ATP Masters 1000 title in the identical season. After which it was the Danish teen’s flip in Bercy.

Rune, 19, claimed the Sanremo Challenger in April earlier than rising to a few Tour-level titles, together with the ATP Masters 1000 occasion in Paris.

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4 different gamers additionally had been topped champions at each ranges: Yoshihito Nishioka, Marc-Andrea Huesler, Francisco Cerundolo, and Lorenzo Musetti.

Doubles Titles Historical past
Within the span of six months, British duo Julian Money and Henry Patten went from scrambling to achieve entry into Challenger tournaments to ending the season with a record-setting 10 titles.

In Might, Money and Patten had been ranked outdoors the High 300 within the Pepperstone ATP Doubles Rankings. The previous faculty standouts made fast progress as they collected titles on all three surfaces and surpassed the earlier Challenger doubles titles report, eight, which was set in 2012 by twin brothers from Thailand, Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana.

Quick Information

  • A complete of 52 gamers collected their maiden title this season. Shang, 17, was the youngest of the bunch whereas 28-year-old Alexander Ritschard was the oldest participant to win his first title in 2022.
  • #NextGenATP stars lit up the Challenger Tour this 12 months. Gamers born in 2001 or later mixed for 40 titles.
  • A single-season report 22 gamers superior by means of qualifying en path to capturing a Challenger title.
  • Longest last: Genaro Alberto Olivieri and Tomas Martin Etcheverry tied the report for the longest Challenger last. After three hours, 31 minutes, Olivieri defeated his countryman 6-7(3), 7-6(5), 6-3 to win the Montevideo Challenger.
  • Shortest last: Hamad Medjedovic wanted simply 48 minutes to down Zhang Zhizhen 6-1, 6-2 on the Luedenscheid Challenger.
  • Youngest last: Hungary’s Filip Misolic, 20, defeated 17-year-old Mili Poljicak to win the Zagreb Challenger. In Granby, 20-year-old Gabriel Diallo defeated Chinese language teen Shang Juncheng within the championship match.
  • Oldest winner: Fernando Verdasco gained the Monterrey Challenger to grow to be the season’s oldest champion (38 years, 3 months). Solely Ivo Karlovic has gained a Challenger at an older age: 39 years, 7 months (2018 Calgary).
  • 4 gamers saved at the least one match level in a Challenger last: Wu Yibing (6) in Indianapolis, Jack Draper (4) on the Forli-5 occasion, Emilio Gomez (4) in Salinas, and Zizou Bergs (1) in Ilkley.
  • Guido Andreozzi turned the lowest-ranked champion since 2000. The Argentine was No. 901 when he triumphed on the Temuco Challenger.
  • Ben Shelton turned the youngest participant in Challenger historical past to win three titles in as many weeks (Charlottesville, Knoxville, Champaign).
  • On the Orleans Challenger, Gregoire Barrere turned the fifth participant since 2010 to defeat 4 High-100 gamers en path to a title.
  • Francisco and Juan Manuel Cerundolo turned the first pair of brothers to win titles in back-to-back seasons.
  • A record-setting 184 tournaments had been performed throughout 38 international locations.
  • The Tampere Open, which is the longest-running occasion on the Challenger Tour, turned the primary event to rejoice its 40-year anniversary.