Sporting Challenger

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Sporting Challenger
ATP Challenger Tour
Event nameTurin
Location Turin, Italy
VenueCircolo della Stampa
Category ATP Challenger Tour,
Tretorn SERIE+
Surface Clay (red)
Draw32S/16Q/16D
Prize money€85,000+H
Website www.sporting.to.it
Italian Fabio Fognini, the latest singles champion, beat Argentine Diego Junqueira for the title in 2008 Fabio Fognini Montreal07.jpg
Italian Fabio Fognini, the latest singles champion, beat Argentine Diego Junqueira for the title in 2008
Carlos Berlocq from Argentina won two singles titles in Turin, in 2005 and 2007, and one doubles title in 2008 Carlos Berlocq Umag 2007.JPG
Carlos Berlocq from Argentina won two singles titles in Turin, in 2005 and 2007, and one doubles title in 2008

The Sporting Challenger 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 at the Circolo della Stampa in Turin, Italy, since 2002.

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Past finals

Singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
2011 Flag of Argentina.svg Carlos Berlocq Flag of Spain.svg Albert Ramos 6–4, 6–3
2010 Flag of Italy.svg Simone Bolelli Flag of Italy.svg Potito Starace 7–6(7), 6–2
2009 Flag of Italy.svg Potito Starace Flag of Argentina.svg Máximo González 76(4), 63
2008 Flag of Italy.svg Fabio Fognini Flag of Argentina.svg Diego Junqueira 63, 61
2007 Flag of Argentina.svg Carlos Berlocq Flag of Serbia.svg Boris Pašanski 64, 62
2006 Flag of Italy.svg Flavio Cipolla Flag of Spain.svg Marcel Granollers 63, 63
2005 Flag of Argentina.svg Carlos Berlocq Flag of Italy.svg Alessio di Mauro 75, 61
2004 Flag of Spain.svg Álex Calatrava Flag of Chile.svg Hermes Gamonal 57, 63, 62
2003 Flag of Spain.svg Óscar Serrano Flag of Spain.svg Joan Albert Viloca 62, 62
2002 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Martin Verkerk Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Vadim Kutsenko 46, 64, 63

Doubles

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
2011 Flag of Austria.svg Martin Fischer
Flag of Austria.svg Philipp Oswald
Flag of Belarus.svg Uladzimir Ignatik
Flag of Slovakia.svg Martin Kližan
6–3, 6–4
2010 Flag of Argentina.svg Carlos Berlocq
Flag of Portugal.svg Frederico Gil
Flag of Italy.svg Daniele Bracciali
Flag of Italy.svg Potito Starace
6–3, 7–6(5)
2009 Flag of Italy.svg Daniele Bracciali
Flag of Italy.svg Potito Starace
Flag of Colombia.svg Santiago Giraldo
Flag of Spain.svg Pere Riba
63, 64
2008 Flag of Argentina.svg Carlos Berlocq
Flag of Portugal.svg Frederico Gil
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Tomáš Cibulec
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jaroslav Levinský
64, 63
2007 Flag of Uruguay.svg Pablo Cuevas
Flag of Argentina.svg Horacio Zeballos
Flag of Spain.svg Pablo Andújar
Flag of Brazil.svg Flávio Saretta
63, 61
2006 Flag of Spain.svg Marcel Granollers
Flag of Spain.svg Marc López
Flag of Italy.svg Leonardo Azzaro
Flag of Italy.svg Flavio Cipolla
64, 63
2005 Flag of Brazil.svg Franco Ferreiro
Flag of Argentina.svg Sergio Roitman
Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Aldi
Flag of Italy.svg Alessio di Mauro
67(7), 75, 76(2)
2004 Flag of Italy.svg Leonardo Azzaro
Flag of Italy.svg Giorgio Galimberti
Flag of Chile.svg Hermes Gamonal
Flag of Chile.svg Adrián García
61, 63
2003 Flag of Spain.svg Emilio Benfele Álvarez
Flag of Spain.svg Gabriel Trujillo Soler
Flag of the United States.svg Jack Brasington
Flag of Russia.svg Dmitry Tursunov
64, 62
2002 Flag of Romania.svg Victor Hănescu
Flag of Spain.svg Óscar Hernández
Flag of Russia.svg Denis Golovanov
Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Vadim Kutsenko
64, 63

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