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 name	Franken Challenge
Location	Fürth, Germany
Venue	TV Fürth 1860
Category	ATP Challenger Tour
Surface	Clay
Draw	32S/31Q/16D
Prize money	€42,500+H
Website	Website

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 Struff	6–3, 6–4
2015	Taro Daniel	Albert Montañés	6–3, 6–0
2014	Tobias Kamke	Iñigo Cervantes Huegun	6–3, 6–2
2013	João Sousa	Wayne Odesnik	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
2012	Blaž Kavčič	Sergiy Stakhovsky	6–3, 2–6, 6–2
2011	João Sousa	Jan-Lennard Struff	6–2, 0–6, 6–2
2010	Robin Haase	Tobias Kamke	6–4, 6–2
2009	Peter Luczak	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	6–2, 6–0
2008	Daniel Köllerer	Santiago Giraldo	6–1, 6–3
2007	Peter Luczak	Fabio Fognini	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
2006	Florian Mayer	Torsten Popp	6–3, 6–1
2005	Albert Portas	Philipp Kohlschreiber	7–6(5), 6–2
2004	Jiří Vaněk	Gilles Simon	7–5, 6–2
2003	Jan Frode Andersen	Óscar Hernández	2–6, 6–2, 6–2
2002	Luis Horna	Jürgen Melzer	6–4, 6–2
2001	Germán Puentes-Alcañiz	Kristian Pless	6–4, 6–3
2000	Irakli Labadze	Daniel Elsner	6–4, 6–4
1999	Ronald Agénor	Tomáš Zíb	6–2, 7–6
1998	Christian Ruud	Jan Frode Andersen	6–4, 7–5
1997	Davide Sanguinetti	Tomas Nydahl	6–4, 6–2
1996	Hicham Arazi	Andrei Chesnokov	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
1995	Christian Ruud	Magnus Gustafsson	7–6, 6–4
1994	Kris Goossens	Dirk Dier	6–7, 6–3, 6–2
1993	Mikael Pernfors	Bart Wuyts	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
1992	Martin Střelba	Raúl Viver	6–1, 6–2
1991	Marcos Aurelio Gorriz	Dimitri Poliakov	6–2, 3–0 retired
1990	Jeff Tarango	Felipe Rivera	6–0, 6–0
1989	Dimitri Poliakov	Federico Mordegan	6–2, 6–1
1988	Hans-Dieter Beutel	Richard Vogel	1–6, 6–3, 6–4
1987	Patrick Baur	Edoardo Mazza	6–3, 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   Christian Miniussi	7–6, 6–1
1993	Nils Holm   Lars-Anders Wahlgren	Ģirts Dzelde   Vladimer Gabrichidze	walkover
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

1. http://www.franken-challenge.de/2017/04/21/franken-challenge-2017-wichtige-information/^{[dead link]}

External links

• Official website