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atp Challenger Series

atp Challenger Series

The ATP Challenger Tour is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments that allow players to win enough ranking points to earn an entry ...

The atp Challenger Series is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments that allow players to win enough ranking points to earn an entry into an ATP-level main draw or qualifying draw. They are fully administered by the ATP Tour.

atp Challenger Series offer total prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $150,000, which, along with whether the tournament provides "hospitality" (food, lodging) to the players, determines the number of points a player gets for winning each match in the atp Challenger Series tournament.

In contrast, atp Challenger Series-level tournaments offer total prize money from $400K to over $6 Million and points to the overall winners from 175 to 1000.

Players have usually had success at the futures levels of the atp tour before competing in Challengers. Due to the lower level of points and money available at the Challenger level, most players in a Challenger have a world ranking of 100 to 500 for a $25K tournament and 50 to 250 for a $150K tournament.

One exception to this is during the 2nd week of a Grand Slam-level tournament, when top-100 players who have already lost in the Slam will take a Wildcard entry into a atp Challenger Series tournament beginning that 2nd week.

Another exception is for a tournament to which a particular player has a sentimental attachment, such as in his hometown.

Arguably the most notable atp Challenger Series appearance came in late 1997 in Las Vegas, when Andre Agassi, whose world ranking had dropped to 141 at age 27, played his hometown Las Vegas challenger, losing in the final, to begin his steady climb up the rankings to his first time ever at #1, 18 months later.

UNICEF and the atp Challenger Series formed a global partnership aimed at harnessing the power of tennis to help ensure the health, education and protection of children every where. The UNICEF-ATP partnership, which is called ACE (Assisting Children Everywhere), will focus on fundraising and advocacy. Among the first joint initiatives of the ACE campaign will be an initiative designed to raise money for global child immunization programs.

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