David Goffin, Gregoire Barrere, and Federico Coria had been all topped champions throughout this week’s robust competitors on the ATP Challenger Tour. From the indoor exhausting courts of Western Europe to the clay courts of Chile, all three Challenger winners on Sunday had been gamers from the Top 100 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings.
In Belgium, dwelling favorite Goffin dropped only one set all week to seize the BW Open. The former World No. 50 made the very best use of a wild card after struggling an sickness in Melbourne that pressured him to overlook the season’s first Slam. In the championship match, the highest seed transformed six of 13 break factors to down World No. 69 Mikael Ymer 6-4, 6-1.
“Winning in Belgium is so good for me,” Goffin stated. “I do know that I’ve received huge tournaments however successful at house is so particular… This last had an important degree, just like an ATP 250.”
Goffin and Ymer’s conflict marked the primary Challenger last with two Top-70 gamers since Phoenix 2019, when the-then No. 43 Matteo Berrettini defeated No. 57 Mikhail Kukushkin.
Goffin’s final Challenger title earlier than rising to a career-high No. 7 in 2017 got here three years prior in Mons (2014). The 32-year-old has received the previous eight Challenger finals through which he’s competed in.
In Quimper, France, second seed Barrere captured his sixth Challenger title by taking down countryman Arthur Fils 6-1, 6-4 within the last.
Barrere, 28, has earned all of his Challenger titles on dwelling soil. The Charenton-Le-Pont native has loved nice success in Quimper, the place he has made 4 Challenger finals, together with a pair of titles.
Gregoire Barrere is topped champion on the Challenger 125 occasion in Quimper. Credit: Nicolas Averty
After rallying from a set down in his opening match, Barrere didn’t hand over a set the remainder of the week to say the Open Quimper Bretagne Occidentale. The title lifts the Frenchman to a career-high 76 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings.
The 18-year-old Fils was using a nine-match successful streak heading into Sunday’s last. The #NextGenATP star, who’s the youngest Frenchman within the Top 200, captured his maiden Challenger crown two weeks in the past in Oeiras, Portugal.
At the Challenger Dove Men+Care Concepcion in Chile, prime seed Federico Coria captured his fifth Challenger title. In the ultimate, the Argentine defeated Kazakhstan’s Timofey Skatov 6-4, 6-3.
“I’m very glad,” Coria stated. “Concepcion will all the time stay in my reminiscence as a result of it is likely one of the 5 titles I’ve received. It is a vital match and I’m grateful to the town and to ‘el Pulga’ [Horacio de La Peña] for organising such an important match.”
Federico Coria in motion on the 2023 Concepcion Challenger. Credit: Challenger Dove Men+Care Concepcion
Following a record-setting 23 Challenger titles in 2022, gamers from Argentina are off to quick begin to surpass their very own milestone, claiming 4 titles in as many weeks. Coria joins Andrea Collarini and Juan Manuel Cerundolo as Argentine Challenger champions this yr. Cerundolo, 21, received two titles in Tigre to open the season.
This previous season, Coria reached a career-high 52 after a semi-final look on the ATP 250 occasion in Marrakech (l. Goffin). The 30-year-old was a five-time Challenger semi-finalist in 2022 and received the Milan Challenger with out dropping a set.
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