Challenger de Salinas

The Salinas Challenger, previously known as Challenger ATP de Salinas Diario Expreso, is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It has been part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It was held annually in Salinas, Ecuador from 1996 to 2014. After a hiatus, it came back in 2021, and it was played on hard court instead of red clay.

Salinas Challenger
2022 Salinas Challenger
ATP Challenger Tour
Event name	Challenger ATP de Salinas Diario Expreso (1996- 2014) Challenger de Salinas (2021- current)
Location	Salinas, Ecuador
Venue	Salinas Golf y Tenis Club
Category	ATP Challenger Tour
Surface	Hard (1996–2010) Clay (2011–2014) Hard (2021–present)
Draw	32S/24Q/16D
Prize money	$ 53,120 (2022)
Website	challengersalinas.com/
Current champions (2022)
Singles	Emilio Gómez
Doubles	Yuki Bhambri Saketh Myneni

Santiago Giraldo of Colombia, took the title over American Michael Russell in 2009

Argentine David Nalbandian, like Sá and Brzezicki, won both the singles and the doubles titles (partnering Peruvian Luis Horna), in 2001

David Nalbandian was the only one to have won both singles and doubles titles in the same year

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2023	Illya Marchenko	Matija Pecotić	6–4, 6–4
2022	Emilio Gómez (2)	Nicolas Moreno de Alboran	6–7^(2–7), 7–6^(7–4), 7–5
2021 (2)	Emilio Gómez (1)	Nicolás Jarry	4–6, 7–6^(8–6), 6–4
2021 (1)	Nicolás Jarry	Nicolás Mejía	7–6^(9–7), 6–1
2015–2020	Not Held
2014	Víctor Estrella	Andrea Collarini	6–3, 6–4
2013	Alejandro González	Renzo Olivo	4–6, 6–3, 7–6^(9–7)
2012	Guido Pella	Paolo Lorenzi	1–6, 7–5, 6–3
2011	Andrés Molteni	Horacio Zeballos	7–5, 7–6^(7–4)
2010	Brian Dabul	Nicolás Massú	6–3, 6–2
2009	Santiago Giraldo	Michael Russell	6–3, 6–2
2008	Iván Miranda (2)	Diego Junqueira	6–2, 6–2
2007	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	Marcos Daniel	6–4, 6–4
2006	Benjamin Becker	Jesse Witten	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
2005	Dennis van Scheppingen	Franco Ferreiro	6–2, 6–4
2004	Alejandro Falla	Gilles Müller	6–7^(6–8), 6–2, 6–2
2003	Giovanni Lapentti	Iván Miranda	6–3, 6–4
2002	Iván Miranda (1)	Ricardo Mello	6–3, 6–4
2001	David Nalbandian	Ronald Agénor	6–4, 6–2
2000	Davide Sanguinetti	Luis Horna	6–2, 6–2
1999	Juan Ignacio Chela	Hernán Gumy	6–4, 7–6
1998	André Sá	Guillermo Cañas	7–5, 5–7, 6–4
1997	Oliver Gross	Gilbert Schaller	6–1, 3–6, 6–2
1996	Óscar Martínez	Luis Morejón	6–2, 6–7, 6–3

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2023	Vasil Kirkov   Alfredo Perez	Ángel Díaz Jalil   Álvaro Guillén Meza	7–5, 7–5
2022	Yuki Bhambri   Saketh Myneni	JC Aragone   Roberto Quiroz	4–6, 6–3, [10–7]
2021 (2)	Nicolás Barrientos   Sergio Galdós (2)	Antonio Cayetano March   Thiago Agustín Tirante	Walkover
2021 (1)	Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela   Fernando Romboli (2)	Diego Hidalgo   Skander Mansouri	7–5, 4–6, [10–2]
2015–2020	Not Held
2014	Roberto Maytín   Fernando Romboli (1)	Hugo Dellien   Eduardo Schwank	6–3, 6–4
2013	Sergio Galdós (1)   Marco Trungelliti	Jean Andersen   Izak van der Merwe	6–4, 6–4
2012	Martín Alund   Horacio Zeballos	Ariel Behar   Carlos Salamanca	6–3, 6–3
2011	Facundo Bagnis   Federico Delbonis	Rogério Dutra da Silva   João Souza	6–2, 6–1
2010	Jonathan Marray   Jamie Murray	Sanchai Ratiwatana   Sonchat Ratiwatana	6–3, 6–4
2009	Sanchai Ratiwatana   Sonchat Ratiwatana	Juan Pablo Brzezicki   Iván Miranda	6–3, 7–6^(7–4)
2008	Júlio Silva (1)   Caio Zampieri	Sebastián Decoud   Dick Norman	7–6^(8–6), 6–2
2007	Scott Lipsky   David Martin	Thiago Alves   Franco Ferreiro	7–5, 7–6^(11–9)
2006	Thiago Alves   Júlio Silva (1)	André Ghem   Alexandre Simoni	3–6, 6–4, 10–4
2005	Juan Pablo Brzezicki   Cristian Villagrán	Juan Pablo Guzmán   Sergio Roitman	6–2, 6–4
2004	Federico Browne   Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	José de Armas   Eric Nunez	6–3, 6–3
2003	Martín García   Sebastián Prieto (2)	Michael Kohlmann   Harel Levy	walkover
2002	Brandon Coupe   Jeff Salzenstein	Martín Rodríguez   Diego Veronelli	6–7^(3–7), 6–4, 7–6^(7–3)
2001	Luis Horna   David Nalbandian	Daniel Melo   Flávio Saretta	6–4, 0–6, 6–1
2000	Juan Balcells   Mauricio Hadad	Emilio Benfele Álvarez   Álex Calatrava	walkover
1999	Mariano Hood   Sebastián Prieto (1)	Lucas Arnold Ker   Daniel Orsanic	6–2, 7–6
1998	David DiLucia   Michael Sell	Mariano Hood   Sebastián Prieto	7–6, 6–4
1997	Fernando Meligeni   André Sá	Donald Johnson   Francisco Montana	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
1996	Juan Carlos Bianchi   Claude N'Goran	Daniel Orsanic   Laurence Tieleman	7–5, 6–4

References

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