2006 ATP Challenger Series

2006 ATP Challenger Series
Details
Duration2 January 2006 – 3 December 2006
Edition29th
Tournaments160
Achievements (singles)
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The ATP Challenger Series is the second tier tour for professional tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 2006 ATP Challenger Series calendar comprised 161 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $125,000.[1][2]

Schedule

January

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
02.01.  Brazil São Paulo Challenger $ 100,000 Hard Flávio Saretta Thiago Alves
Flávio Saretta
 New Caledonia Nouméa Challenger $ 75,000 Hard Gilles Simon Alex Bogomolov Jr.
Todd Widom
23.01.  Germany Heilbronn Open $ 100,000 Carpet (i) Robin Söderling Christopher Kas
Philipp Petzschner
 United States Hilton Waikoloa Village USTA Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Frank Dancevic Michael Kohlmann
Cecil Mamiit
 Chile Santiago de Chile Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Boris Pašanski Máximo González
Sergio Roitman
 Great Britain Wrexham Challenger $ 25,000 Hard (i) Alex Bogdanovic Jean-François Bachelot
Stéphane Robert
30.01.  France Andrezieux Challenger $ 100,000 Hard (i) Gilles Elseneer Julien Benneteau
Nicolas Mahut
 Brazil Florianópolis Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Ricardo Mello Máximo González
Sergio Roitman

February

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
06.02.  Poland Breslau Challenger $ 125,000 Hard (i) Lukáš Dlouhý Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Marcin Matkowski
 Italy Bergamo Challenger I $ 50,000 Carpet (i) Alex Bogdanovic Daniele Bracciali
Giorgio Galimberti
 United States Challenger of Dallas $ 50,000 Hard (i) Kevin Kim Rajeev Ram
Bobby Reynolds
 Australia Burnie Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Konstantinos Economidis Luke Bourgeois
Lu Yen-hsun
13.02.  Serbia Belgrad Challenger $ 100,000 Carpet (i) Janko Tipsarević Michael Kohlmann
Alexander Waske
 United States Joplin Challenger $ 50,000 Hard (i) Jesse Witten Henry Adjei-Darko
Lesley Joseph
20.02.  France Besançon Challenger $ 100,000 Hard (i) Nicolas Mahut Christopher Kas
Philipp Petzschner
27.02.  France Cherbourg Challenger $ 50,000 Hard (i) Nicolas Mahut Jean-François Bachelot
Stéphane Robert
 Germany Volkswagen Challenger $ 25,000 Carpet (i) Alexander Waske Jean-Claude Scherrer
Uros Vico

March

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
06.03.  Japan Kyōto Challenger $ 25,000 Carpet (i) Nicolas Mahut Alun Jones
Jonathan Marray
13.03.  United States Sunrise Challenger $ 100,000 Hard Dmitry Tursunov Petr Pála
Robin Vik
 Vietnam HTV Challenger Romano Cup $ 50,000 Hard Zack Fleishman Lee Hyung-taik
Cecil Mamiit
 Ecuador Salinas Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Benjamin Becker Thiago Alves
Júlio Silva
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Challenger $ 25,000 Hard (i) Andreas Beck Ilija Bozoljac
Viktor Troicki
20.03.  Italy Barletta Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Jan Hájek Santiago Ventura
Fernando Vicente
27.03.  Mexico Mexiko-Stadt Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Ramón Delgado Tripp Phillips
Rogier Wassen
 Italy Naples Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Potito Starace Tomáš Cibulec
Łukasz Kubot
 France St. Brieuc Challenger $ 25,000 Clay (i) Marc Gicquel Eric Butorac
Chris Drake

April

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
03.04.  United States Tallahassee Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Mardy Fish Rik de Voest
Glenn Weiner
 Mexico Aguascalientes Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Juan Martín del Potro Juan Martín del Potro
Martín Vassallo Argüello
 Italy Monza Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Nicolas Devilder Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
Tomas Tenconi
10.04.  Brazil Florianopolis Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Diego Junqueira Cristian Villagrán
Juan Pablo Brzezicki
 Mexico San Luis Potosí Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Rainer Eitzinger Daniel Garza
Dawid Olejniczak
 United States Valencia Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Frédéric Niemeyer John Paul Fruttero
Sam Warburg
17.04.  Bermuda Bermuda Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Fernando Vicente Tomáš Cibulec
Robert Lindstedt
 Great Britain Cardiff Challenger $ 25,000 Hard (i) Jan Vacek Philipp Petzschner
Alexander Peya
  Switzerland Chiasso Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Werner Eschauer Leonardo Azzaro
Lovro Zovko
 India Chikmagalur Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Danai Udomchoke Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
 Mexico León Challenger I $ 25,000 Hard Phillip Simmonds Juan Manuel Elizondo
Miguel Gallardo Valles
24.04.  Colombia Bogotá Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Alejandro Falla Eric Butorac
Chris Drake
 Italy Bergamo Challenger II $ 25,000 Clay Nicolas Devilder Jan Hájek
Jaroslav Pospíšil
 India PVG Open $ 25,000 Hard Viktor Troicki Kamil Čapkovič
Lukáš Lacko
 Spain Lanzarote Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Filip Prpic Grégory Carraz
Jean-Michel Pequery
 Mexico León Challenger II $ 25,000 Hard Rik de Voest Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
André Ghem

May

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
01.05.  Tunisia Tunis Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Lamine Ouahab Daniel Gimeno Traver
Iván Navarro
 United States Atlanta Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Diego Hartfield Hugo Armando
André Sá
 Czech Republic Ostrava Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Ivo Minář Jaroslav Pospíšil
Pavel Šnobel
 Italy Rome Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Oliver Marach Konstantinos Economidis
Amir Hadad
 Spain Telde Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Marc López Adam Chadaj
Michael Ryderstedt
08.05.  Czech Republic Prague Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Robin Vik Petr Pála
David Škoch
 United States Tunica Resorts Challenger $ 50,000 Clay (i) Diego Hartfield Jeff Morrison
Bobby Reynolds
 Germany Ostdeutscher Sparkassen Cup $ 25,000 Clay Simon Greul Yves Allegro
Michal Mertiňák
15.05.  United States Forest Hills Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Robert Kendrick Chris Drake
Cecil Mamiit
 Croatia Zagreb Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Daniel Elsner Yves Allegro
Michal Mertiňák
 Uzbekistan Fergana Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Danai Udomchoke Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
 Italy Sanremo Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Olivier Patience Julien Benneteau
Nicolas Mahut
29.05.  South Korea Busan Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Lee Hyung-taik Scott Lipsky
Todd Widom
 Germany Ettlingen Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Simon Greul Vasilis Mazarakis
Felipe Parada
 Italy Turin Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Flavio Cipolla Marcel Granollers
Marc López

June

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
05.06.  Czech Republic Prostějov Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Jan Hájek František Čermák
Jaroslav Levinský
 Germany Schickedanz Open $ 50,000 Clay Florian Mayer Vasilis Mazarakis
Felipe Parada
 Great Britain Surbiton Challenger $ 50,000 Grass Mardy Fish Jordan Kerr
Jim Thomas
 United States Yuba City Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Sam Querrey Scott Lipsky
David Martin
 Italy Sassuolo Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Frederico Gil Francesco Aldi
Tomas Tenconi
12.06.   Switzerland Lugano Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Olivier Patience Giorgio Galimberti
Oliver Marach
 Slovakia Košice Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Nicolas Devilder Viktor Bruthans
Pavel Šnobel
19.06.  Germany Nord/LB Open $ 125,000 Clay Jan Hájek Tomas Behrend
Christopher Kas
 Italy MILAN Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Wayne Odesnik Giorgio Galimberti
Harel Levy
26.06.  Romania Constanța Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Konstantinos Economidis Konstantinos Economidis
Jean-Julien Rojer
 Italy Reggio Emilia Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Olivier Patience Fabio Colangelo
Giancarlo Petrazzuolo

July

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
03.07.  Spain Córdoba Challenger $ 125,000 Hard Simon Greul Justin Gimelstob
Kevin Kim
 Italy Biella Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Simone Bolelli Lucas Arnold Ker
Agustín Calleri
 Ireland Dublin Challenger $ 50,000 Carpet Mischa Zverev Jasper Smit
Martijn van Haasteren
 United States Winnetka Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Sam Querrey Cecil Mamiit
Eric Taino
 France Montauban Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Lamine Ouahab Pablo Cuevas
Adrián García
10.07.  Poland Posen Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Jan Hájek Tomasz Bednarek
Michał Przysiężny
 Netherlands Scheveningen Challenger $ 75,000 Clay Guillermo García López Guillermo García López
Salvador Navarro
 Ecuador Cuenca Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Carlos Salamanca Frank Moser
Alexander Satschko
 Italy Mantua Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Cristian Villagrán Pablo Andújar
Marcel Granollers
 Germany Oberstaufen Cup $ 25,000 Clay Michal Tabara Ernests Gulbis
Mischa Zverev
17.07.  Colombia Bogotá Challenger II $ 125,000 Clay Santiago Giraldo Daniel Garza
Michael Quintero
 Turkey Istanbul Challenger $ 125,000 Hard Alexander Peya Alexey Kedryuk
Orest Tereshchuk
 United States Aptos Challenger $ 75,000 Hard Alex Kuznetsov Prakash Amritraj
Rohan Bopanna
 Russia Penza Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Farrukh Dustov Murad Inoyatov
Denis Istomin
 Italy Rimini Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Pablo Andújar Juan Pablo Brzezicki
Cristian Villagrán
 Great Britain Manchester Challenger $ 25,000 Grass Harsh Mankad Josh Goodall
Ross Hutchins
24.07.  Brazil Campos do Jordão Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Ricardo Mello Marcelo Melo
André Sá
 Canada Granby Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Frank Dancevic Alessandro Gravina
Gary Lugassy
 United States Lexington Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Lee Hyung-taik Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
 Finland Tampere Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Florian Mayer Thierry Ascione
Édouard Roger-Vasselin
 Great Britain Nottingham Challenger I $ 25,000 Grass Antony Dupuis Martin Lee
Jonathan Marray
 Italy Recanati Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Davide Sanguinetti Simone Bolelli
Davide Sanguinetti
 Russia Togliatti Cup $ 25,000 Hard Uros Vico Alexander Peya
Uros Vico
31.07.  Spain Segovia Challenger $ 100,000 Hard Juan Martín del Potro Paul Baccanello
Chris Guccione
 Canada Vancouver Challenger $ 100,000 Hard Rik de Voest Eric Butorac
Travis Parrott
 Italy Trani Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Juan Pablo Guzmán Leonardo Azzaro
Daniele Giorgini
 Brazil Belo Horizonte Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Thiago Alves Marcelo Melo
André Sá
 Russia Saransk Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Igor Sijsling Alexey Kedryuk
Orest Tereshchuk
 Romania Timișoara Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Nicolas Devilder Victor Crivoi
Victor Ioniță

August

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
07.08.  San Marino San Marino Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Albert Montañés Máximo González
Sergio Roitman
 United States DBI Tennis Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Scott Oudsema Scott Lipsky
David Martin
 Brazil Joinville Challenger $ 50,000 Clay André Ghem André Ghem
Alexandre Simoni
 Spain Vigo Challenger $ 37.500 Clay Pablo Andújar Pablo Andújar
Marcel Granollers
 Russia St. Petersburg Challenger $ 25,000 Clay David Guez Murad Inoyatov
Denis Istomin
14.08.  United States Bronx Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Michael Russell Martin Lee
Harel Levy
 France Cordenons Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Konstantinos Economidis Francesco Aldi
Lovro Zovko
 Austria Graz Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Florian Mayer Ross Hutchins
Jonathan Marray
 Ecuador Manta Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Thiago Alves Eric Nunez
Jean-Julien Rojer
 Uzbekistan Samarkand Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Janko Tipsarević Satoshi Iwabuchi
Gouichi Motomura
21.08.  Italy Manerbio Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Andreas Vinciguerra Gabriel Moraru
Adrian Ungur
  Switzerland Genf Challenger $ 37.500 Clay Jérôme Haehnel Michal Navrátil
Yuri Schukin
 Uzbekistan Bukhara Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Janko Tipsarević Nicolas Renavand
Nicolas Tourte
28.08.  Italy Como Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Simone Bolelli Jamie Delgado
Jamie Murray
 Germany Black Forest Open $ 25,000 Clay Hugo Armando Tomas Behrend
Dominik Meffert
 Slovenia Kranj Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Werner Eschauer Antonio Baldellou-Esteva
Héctor Ruiz-Cadenas

September

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
04.09.  Romania Brașov Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Marc López Lazar Magdinčev
Predrag Rusevski
 Ukraine Donetsk Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Ilija Bozoljac Aleksandr Nedovyesov
Aleksandr Yarmola
 Germany Düsseldorf Open Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Evgeny Korolev Hugo Armando
Tomas Behrend
 Italy Genua Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Gorka Fraile Adriano Biasella
Marcelo Charpentier
11.09.  France Orléans Challenger $ 75,000 Hard (i) Olivier Rochus Grégory Carraz
Dick Norman
 United States New Orleans Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Cecil Mamiit Cecil Mamiit
Sam Warburg
 Spain Sevilla Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Iván Navarro Pablo Andújar
Marcel Granollers
 Brazil Belém Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Guillermo Cañas Brian Dabul
Cristian Villagrán
18.09.  Poland Szczecin Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Nicolás Lapentti Tomas Behrend
Christopher Kas
 United States Lubbock Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Sam Querrey Chris Drake
Scott Lipsky
 Spain Tarragona Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Paolo Lorenzi Hugo Armando
Gabriel Trujillo Soler
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Banja Luka Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Marco Mirnegg Joseph Sirianni
Stefan Wauters
25.09.  France Grenoble Challenger $ 50,000 Hard (i) Michaël Llodra Teymuraz Gabashvili
Evgeny Korolev
 United States Tulsa Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Bobby Reynolds Bobby Reynolds
Rajeev Ram
 Slovakia Bratislava Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Michal Mertiňák Eric Butorac
Travis Parrott
 Brazil Gramado Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Franco Ferreiro Franco Ferreiro
Martín Vilarrubí

October

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
02.10.  Belgium Mons Challenger $ 125,000 Hard (i) Janko Tipsarević Jean-Claude Scherrer
Lovro Zovko
 Ecuador Quito Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Chris Guccione Rogério Dutra Silva
Marcelo Melo
09.10.  United States Sacramento Challenger $ 75,000 Hard Paul Goldstein Paul Goldstein
Jeff Morrison
 France Rennes Challenger $ 50,000 Hard (i) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Grégory Carraz
Mathieu Montcourt
 Spain Barcelona Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Marcel Granollers Tomas Behrend
Flavio Cipolla
 Colombia Medellín Challenger $ 25,000 Clay Chris Guccione André Ghem
Marcelo Melo
16.10.  Colombia Bogotá Challenger III $ 75,000 Clay Diego Hartfield Marcelo Melo
André Sá
 United States Calabasas Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Mark Philippoussis Robert Kendrick
Cecil Mamiit
 Denmark Kolding Challenger $ 50,000 Hard (i) Michaël Llodra Jeff Coetzee
Rogier Wassen
23.10.  Uruguay Montevideo Challenger $ 75,000 Clay Guillermo Cañas Máximo González
Sergio Roitman
 Great Britain Nottingham Challenger II $ 25,000 Hard (i) Alexander Waske Filip Prpic
Nicolas Tourte
30.10.  South Korea Seoul Challenger $ 100,000 Hard Lee Hyung-taik Alexander Peya
Björn Phau
 Brazil Aracaju Challenger $ 75,000 Clay Sergio Roitman Máximo González
Sergio Roitman
 Germany Lambertz Open by STAWAG $ 50,000 Carpet (i) Rainer Schüttler Mischa Zverev
Ernests Gulbis
 United States Louisville Challenger $ 50,000 Hard (i) Amer Delić Robin Haase
Igor Sijsling
 Canada Rimouski Challenger $ 25,000 Hard (i) Kristian Pless Frederik Nielsen
Kristian Pless

November

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
06.11.  Slovakia Bratislava Challenger $ 100,000 Hard (i) Michal Mertiňák Eric Butorac
Travis Parrott
 Argentina Buenos Aires Challenger $ 75,000 Clay Guillermo Cañas André Ghem
Flávio Saretta
 South Korea Busan Challenger $ 75,000 Hard Lee Hyung-taik Scott Lipsky
Todd Widom
 United States Nashville Challenger $ 75,000 Hard (i) Robin Haase Scott Lipsky
David Martin
 Germany Bauer Watertechnology Cup $ 25,000 Carpet (i) Ernests Gulbis Josh Goodall
Ross Hutchins
13.11.  Ukraine Dnipropetrovs'k Challenger $ 125,000 Hard (i) Dmitry Tursunov Sergiy Stakhovsky
Orest Tereshchuk
 Paraguay Asunción Challenger $ 75,000 Clay Guillermo Cañas Tomas Behrend
André Ghem
 France Champaign Challenger $ 50,000 Hard (i) Amer Delić Rajeev Ram
Rik de Voest
 Ecuador Guayaquil Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Sergio Roitman Juan Pablo Brzezicki
Leonardo Mayer
 Finland Helsinki Challenger $ 50,000 Hard (i) Michael Berrer Jasper Smit
Martijn van Haasteren
 Australia Caloundra Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Lu Yen-hsun Nathan Healey
Robert Smeets
20.11.  Italy Naples Challenger $ 50,000 Clay Potito Starace Tomáš Cibulec
Łukasz Kubot
 Australia Kawana Challenger $ 25,000 Hard (i) Julien Jeanpierre Nathan Healey
Robert Smeets
 Mexico Puebla Challenger $ 25,000 Hard Robert Kendrick Daniel Garza
Jean-Julien Rojer
 Great Britain LTA Shrewsbury Challenger $ 25,000 Hard (i) Alex Bogdanovic Philipp Marx
Frederik Nielsen
27.11.  United States Maui Challenger $ 50,000 Hard Michael Russell Rajeev Ram
Brian Wilsson

References

  1. ^ "Results Archive". ATP Tour.
  2. ^ "ITF Men's World Tour Calendar". www.itftennis.com.
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