Franken Challenge

The Franken Challenge (former Schickedanz Open) is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Fürth, Germany, since 1979 (as a club event from 1979 to 1985, as a Futures in 1986, as a Challenger since 1987). After having been on the calendar for 38 years, the 2017 edition had to be cancelled for lack of funding.[1]

Franken Challenge
2016 Franken Challenge
ATP Challenger Tour
Event nameFranken Challenge
LocationFürth, Germany
VenueTV Fürth 1860
CategoryATP Challenger Tour
SurfaceClay
Draw32S/31Q/16D
Prize money42,500+H
WebsiteWebsite
Australian Peter Luczak took the singles title in Fürth in 2007 and 2009
Florian Mayer from Germany won the event in singles in 2006
Morocco's Hicham Arazi defeated Andrei Chesnokov for the 1996 singles
Eventual German World No. 2 Michael Stich won the doubles in 1988 with Martin Sinner

Past finals

Singles

Year Champion Runner-up Score
2016 Radu Albot Jan-Lennard Struff6–3, 6–4
2015 Taro Daniel Albert Montañés6–3, 6–0
2014 Tobias Kamke Iñigo Cervantes Huegun6–3, 6–2
2013 João Sousa Wayne Odesnik3–6, 6–3, 6–4
2012 Blaž Kavčič Sergiy Stakhovsky6–3, 2–6, 6–2
2011 João Sousa Jan-Lennard Struff6–2, 0–6, 6–2
2010 Robin Haase Tobias Kamke6–4, 6–2
2009 Peter Luczak Juan Pablo Brzezicki6–2, 6–0
2008 Daniel Köllerer Santiago Giraldo6–1, 6–3
2007 Peter Luczak Fabio Fognini4–6, 6–2, 6–2
2006 Florian Mayer Torsten Popp6–3, 6–1
2005 Albert Portas Philipp Kohlschreiber7–6(5), 6–2
2004 Jiří Vaněk Gilles Simon7–5, 6–2
2003 Jan Frode Andersen Óscar Hernández2–6, 6–2, 6–2
2002 Luis Horna Jürgen Melzer6–4, 6–2
2001 Germán Puentes-Alcañiz Kristian Pless6–4, 6–3
2000 Irakli Labadze Daniel Elsner6–4, 6–4
1999 Ronald Agénor Tomáš Zíb6–2, 7–6
1998 Christian Ruud Jan Frode Andersen6–4, 7–5
1997 Davide Sanguinetti Tomas Nydahl6–4, 6–2
1996 Hicham Arazi Andrei Chesnokov3–6, 6–2, 6–2
1995 Christian Ruud Magnus Gustafsson7–6, 6–4
1994 Kris Goossens Dirk Dier6–7, 6–3, 6–2
1993 Mikael Pernfors Bart Wuyts6–4, 1–6, 6–3
1992 Martin Střelba Raúl Viver6–1, 6–2
1991 Marcos Aurelio Gorriz Dimitri Poliakov6–2, 3–0 retired
1990 Jeff Tarango Felipe Rivera6–0, 6–0
1989 Dimitri Poliakov Federico Mordegan6–2, 6–1
1988 Hans-Dieter Beutel Richard Vogel1–6, 6–3, 6–4
1987 Patrick Baur Edoardo Mazza6–3, 7–5

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2016 Facundo Argüello
Roberto Maytín
Andrej Martin
Tristan-Samuel Weissborn
6–3, 6–4
2015 Guillermo Durán
Horacio Zeballos
Íñigo Cervantes
Renzo Olivo
6–1, 6–3
2014 Gerard Granollers
Jordi Samper Montaña
Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
7–6(7–1), 6–2
2013 Colin Ebelthite
Rameez Junaid
Christian Harrison
Michael Venus
6–4, 7–5
2012 Arnau Brugués-Davi
João Sousa
Rameez Junaid
Purav Raja
7–5, 6–7(4–7), [11–9]
2011 Rameez Junaid
Frank Moser
Jorge Aguilar
Júlio César Campozano
6–2, 6–7(2), [10–6]
2010 Dustin Brown
Rameez Junaid
Martin Emmrich
Joseph Sirianni
6–3, 6–1
2009 Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
Santiago Ventura
Simon Greul
Alessandro Motti
4–6, 6–1, 10–6
2008 Philipp Marx
Alexander Peya
Daniel Köllerer
Frank Moser
6–3, 6–3
2007 Bruno Echagaray
André Ghem
Fabio Fognini
Frederico Gil
7–6(1), 4–6, 13–11
2006 Vasilis Mazarakis
Felipe Parada
Philipp Marx
Torsten Popp
6–3, 6–2
2005 Amir Hadad
Harel Levy
Jan Frode Andersen
Johan Landsberg
6–1, 6–2
2004 Adrián García
Janko Tipsarević
Simon Aspelin
Graydon Oliver
6–4, 6–4
2003 Denis Gremelmayr
Simon Greul
Tomas Behrend
Karsten Braasch
6–3, 1–6, 7–6(5)
2002 Salvador Navarro-Gutierrez
Gabriel Trujillo-Soler
Vadim Kutsenko
Oleg Ogorodov
6–2, 6–4
2001 Hugo Armando
Andrei Stoliarov
Vadim Kutsenko
Oleg Ogorodov
6–0, 6–0
2000 Eduardo Nicolás-Espín
Germán Puentes-Alcañiz
Devin Bowen
Brandon Coupe
6–4, 6–2
1999 Nebojša Đorđević
Marcos Ondruska
Diego del Río
Martín Rodríguez
4–6, 6–3, 6–4
1998 Álex López Morón
Albert Portas
Juan-Ignacio Carrasco
Martín Rodríguez
6–4, 6–4
1997 Brandon Coupe
Paul Rosner
Martin Sinner
Joost Winnink
7–5, 6–3
1996 Joshua Eagle
Tom Kempers
Aleksandar Kitinov
Gábor Köves
6–4, 6–7, 6–4
1995 Andrew Kratzmann
Brent Larkham
Ken Flach
Kent Kinnear
6–4, 6–7, 7–6
1994 Vojtech Flegl
Andrew Florent
Gastón Etlis
Cristian Miniussi
7–6, 6–1
1993 Nils Holm
Lars-Anders Wahlgren
Ģirts Dzelde
Vladimer Gabrichidze
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1992 Rüdiger Haas
Udo Riglewski
Brian Joelson
Bertrand Madsen
6–1, 6–3
1991 Marcos Aurelio Gorriz
Maurice Ruah
Jamie Morgan
Sandon Stolle
6–2, 6–4
1990 Peter Ballauff
Ricki Osterthun
Marcos-Aurelio Gorriz-Bonhora
Andrei Olhovskiy
7–6, 4–6, 6–3
1989 Vladimer Gabrichidze
Dimitri Poliakov
Cristiano Caratti
Federico Mordegan
6–4, 6–7, 6–4
1988 Michael Stich
Martin Sinner
Wojciech Kowalski
Adrian Marcu
4–6, 6–3, 7–6
1987 Nick Fulwood
Cyril Suk
Axel Hornung
Karsten Saniter
4–6, 6–3, 6–2

References

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