BRD Timișoara Challenger

The BRD Timișoara Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Timișoara, Romania since 2004. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on outdoor clay courts. For the last three years the tournament was not held due to financial reasons.^[1] In early 2012 it was announced that BRD – Groupe Société Générale will sponsor the tournament and thus will rename it to BRD Timișoara Challenger.^[2]

BRD Timișoara Challenger
2013 BRD Timișoara Challenger
ATP Challenger Tour
Location	Timișoara, Romania
Venue	Enel Romania Sports Center
Category	ATP Challenger Tour
Surface	Clay – Outdoors
Draw	32S/10Q/16D
Prize money	€30,000+H

German Daniel Brands lifted the trophy in 2008

Eventual Top 10 doubles player, Romanian Horia Tecău, lifted the doubles trophy in 2004

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2004	Marc Gicquel	Oliver Marach	6–3, 6–1
2005	Jean-Christophe Faurel	Jakub Záhlava	6–3, 7–5
2006	Nicolas Devilder	Pablo Santos-Gonzalez	7–6, 6–2
2007	Victor Hănescu	Santiago Ventura	7–6, 6–3
2008	Daniel Brands	Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava	6–4, 7–6
2009	Not Held
2010	Not Held
2011	Not Held
2012	Victor Hănescu	Guillaume Rufin	6–0, 6–3
2013	Andreas Haider-Maurer	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6–4, 3–6, 6-4

Doubles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2004	Florin Mergea   Horia Tecău	Marius Călugăru   Ciprian Petre Porumb	6–3, 6–3
2005	Ionuț Moldovan   Gabriel Moraru	Ilia Kushev   Radoslav Lukaev	6–2, 6–0
2006	Victor Crivoi   Victor Ioniță	Ervin Eleskovic   Michael Ryderstedt	6–3, 6–4
2007	Marcel Granollers   Santiago Ventura	Lazar Magdinčev   Predrag Rusevski	6–1, 6–4
2008	Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava   Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	Adrian Cruciat   Florin Mergea	3–6, 6–4, [11–9]
2009	Not Held
2010	Not Held
2011	Not Held
2012	Goran Tošić   Denis Zivkovic	Andrei Dăescu   Florin Mergea	6–2, 7–5

References

1. . agenda.ro. 2010-01-28. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22.
2. . brd-nastase-tiriac-trophy.ro. Archived from the original on 2012-03-28.

External links

• Romanian Tennis Federation