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Sporting Challenger

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Sporting Challenger
ATP Challenger Tour
Event nameTurin
LocationTurin, Italy
VenueCircolo della Stampa
CategoryATP Challenger Tour,
Tretorn SERIE+
SurfaceClay (red)
Draw32S/16Q/16D
Prize money€85,000+H
Websitewww.sporting.to.it
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

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.

Past finals

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Singles

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Year Champion Runner-up Score
2011 Argentina Carlos Berlocq Spain Albert Ramos 6–4, 6–3
2010 Italy Simone Bolelli Italy Potito Starace 7–6(7), 6–2
2009 Italy Potito Starace Argentina Máximo González 7–6(4), 6–3
2008 Italy Fabio Fognini Argentina Diego Junqueira 6–3, 6–1
2007 Argentina Carlos Berlocq Serbia Boris Pašanski 6–4, 6–2
2006 Italy Flavio Cipolla Spain Marcel Granollers 6–3, 6–3
2005 Argentina Carlos Berlocq Italy Alessio di Mauro 7–5, 6–1
2004 Spain Álex Calatrava Chile Hermes Gamonal 5–7, 6–3, 6–2
2003 Spain Óscar Serrano Spain Joan Albert Viloca 6–2, 6–2
2002 Netherlands Martin Verkerk Uzbekistan Vadim Kutsenko 4–6, 6–4, 6–3

Doubles

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Year Champions Runners-up Score
2011 Austria Martin Fischer
Austria Philipp Oswald
Belarus Uladzimir Ignatik
Slovakia Martin Kližan
6–3, 6–4
2010 Argentina Carlos Berlocq
Portugal Frederico Gil
Italy Daniele Bracciali
Italy Potito Starace
6–3, 7–6(5)
2009 Italy Daniele Bracciali
Italy Potito Starace
Colombia Santiago Giraldo
Spain Pere Riba
6–3, 6–4
2008 Argentina Carlos Berlocq
Portugal Frederico Gil
Czech Republic Tomáš Cibulec
Czech Republic Jaroslav Levinský
6–4, 6–3
2007 Uruguay Pablo Cuevas
Argentina Horacio Zeballos
Spain Pablo Andújar
Brazil Flávio Saretta
6–3, 6–1
2006 Spain Marcel Granollers
Spain Marc López
Italy Leonardo Azzaro
Italy Flavio Cipolla
6–4, 6–3
2005 Brazil Franco Ferreiro
Argentina Sergio Roitman
Italy Francesco Aldi
Italy Alessio di Mauro
6–7(7), 7–5, 7–6(2)
2004 Italy Leonardo Azzaro
Italy Giorgio Galimberti
Chile Hermes Gamonal
Chile Adrián García
6–1, 6–3
2003 Spain Emilio Benfele Álvarez
Spain Gabriel Trujillo Soler
United States Jack Brasington
Russia Dmitry Tursunov
6–4, 6–2
2002 Romania Victor Hănescu
Spain Óscar Hernández
Russia Denis Golovanov
Uzbekistan Vadim Kutsenko
6–4, 6–3
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