By The Numbers: 2023 ATP Challenger Tour | ATP Tour

The longest ATP Challenger Tour last in historical past? The primary unranked Challenger champion? France’s record-breaking 27 titles? All of those occured throughout the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour season, by which 46 completely different international locations hosted a match whereas witnessing the fast rise of younger stars and the resurgence of Tour veterans.

ATPTour.com evaluations key info and figures to recollect from the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour season.

Comesana Collects Most Match Wins
Argentine Francisco Comesana tallied a 45-21 Challenger-match report in 2023, edging countryman Facundo Diaz Acosta by one match for probably the most wins this season. Comesana, 23, was topped champion in Vicenza and Liberec. On two separate events, Comesana went on sizzling streaks by which he received 12 of 13 matches throughout three tournaments.

The 22-year-old Diaz Acosta was not far behind with a 44-16 match report. The Buenos Aires native captured 4 titles (Savannah, Oeiras, Milan, Montevideo) and hit a career-high No. 93 in August after making his High 100 debut the earlier month.

Navone Nails 5 Titles
Argentine Mariano Navone was unstoppable throughout the second half of the 12 months. From 19 June to 12 November, the 22-year-old competed in six Challenger finals, triumphing in 5 of them: Poznan, Santa Fe, Santa Cruz, Buenos Aires and Santa Fe-2.

“In Could of final 12 months I used to be shedding within the first spherical of an M15 and at the moment I’ve received 5 Challengers,” Navone stated in October. “At that second it was troublesome however to that child I’d inform him to be calm, that good issues are going to return.”

Diaz Acosta, Aleksandar Kovacevic, Thiago Seyboth Wild and Alejandro Tabilo all tied for second with 4 Challenger trophies in 2023.

Teen Titans
At 17 years, eight months, Czech Jakub Mensik received on residence soil in Prague to turn into the youngest Challenger champion of 2023. Mensik was considered one of 12 youngsters to say a Challenger title this season. Solely three teenagers earned a couple of Challenger title in 2023: Luca Van Assche, Alex Michelsen and Hamad Medjedovic.

Largest Movers To High 100
American Alex Michelsen, who earned two ATP Challenger Tour titles this season, led the best way as one of many 5 greatest movers to the High 100.

Title Leaders By Nation
Gamers from 33 international locations received titles this 12 months. Frenchmen earned a record-setting 27 trophies, marking probably the most titles by a rustic in a single season, surpassing Argentina’s 23 from final 12 months.

In October, Abdullah Shelbayh grew to become the primary participant from Jordan to win an ATP Challenger Tour title when he received the LTP Challenger in Charleston, South Carolina.

ATP Tour & Challenger Tour champions
Roberto Carballes Baena, Arthur Fils and Ugo Humbert secured dream runs on each the ATP Tour and Challenger Tour this season. The Spaniard Carballes Baena, who received the ATP 250 occasion in Marrakech, defended his Seville Challenger title in September.

France’s 19-year-old Fils began the season in one of the best ways potential, successful the opening week Oeiras Indoor 2. His breakthrough 12 months continued as he grew to become the youngest ATP Tour champion this season when he triumphed in Lyon. Fils completed the season at World No. 36.

Regardless of Humbert’s transient exit from the High 100 in January, the Frenchman launched into a memorable season by which he claimed two consecutive ATP Challenger Tour 175 titles: Cagliari and Bordeaux. The 25-year-old closed the season by successful the ATP 250 occasion in Lyon, ending at a career-high No. 20.

ATP Challenger 175 Occasions
In March, the ATP Challenger Tour started 175 class tournaments, that are held throughout choose ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. Nuno Borges received the premiere occasion on the Arizona Tennis Traditional in Phoenix. Andy Murray earned his first title at any stage since 2019 when he received the Aix-en-Provence Challenger. Humbert received in Cagliari and Bordeaux whereas German Dominik Koepfer returned to the winners’ circle in Turin.

Quick Details

• Luca Van Assche and Ugo Humbert battled for 3 hours and 56 minutes within the Pau last, setting the report for longest Challenger title match.
• Roman Safiullin grew to become the first participant to win a Challenger title and attain the Wimbledon quarter-finals in the identical season since Nick Kyrgios in 2014.
• A single-season report 16 completely different gamers that competed in faculty tennis accounted for twenty-four Challenger titles this 12 months, led by four-time winner Aleksandar Kovacevic (Illinois) and three-time champion Nuno Borges (Mississippi State).
• Subsequent Gen ATP Finals champion Hamad Medjedovic joined Novak Djokovic and Janko Tipsarevic as the one Serbian gamers with three or extra Challenger titles as youngsters. Medjedovic completed his 2023 marketing campaign with an ideal 3-0 report in Challenger finals.
• Kei Nishikori received in Palmas del Mar, Puerto Rico to turn into the first unranked champion in Challenger historical past. Nishikori’s victory got here in his first match after a 20-month damage hiatus.
• A report 9 titles have been received with the champion saving match level(s) within the last, led by Terence Atmane in Guangzhou, the place he saved three championship factors.
• At 31 years and three months, France’s Arthur Weber grew to become the oldest participant to win a title in his Challenger debut (Zhuhai).
• Andy Murray set the report for longest hole between Challenger titles. The Scot triumphed in Aix-en-Provence 17 years and eight months after his title in Binghamton in 2005.
• Luca Van Assche, Arthur Fils and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard grew to become the first French teen trio to say Challenger titles in a single season since 2005 (Monfils, Gasquet, Tsonga).
• Dino Prizmic, 18, received his maiden ATP Challenger Tour in Banja Luka to turn into the youngest Croatian champion since Borna Coric in 2014.
• The-then 18-year-old Alex Michelsen received the Chicago Challenger to turn into the youngest American winner since Stefan Kozlov in 2016.
• Jakub Mensik grew to become the youngest Czech champion in historical past (17 years, 8 months) when he took the title in Prague in Could.
• Evan King and Reese Stalder claimed the most crew titles in 2023, lifting seven trophies collectively, marking probably the most for an all-American duo in a single season. 
• The Challenger Cherbourg La Manche grew to become the first indoor match to rejoice 30 years on the ATP Challenger Tour. Cherbourg is joined by Prostejov, Czech Republic (30), Cordenons, Italy (20) and Ostrava, Czech Republic (20) in celebrating vital milestone anniversaries in 2023.
• A complete of 46 completely different international locations hosted Challenger tournaments in 2023.