The 2013 ATP Challenger Tour Finals is a tennis tournament played at the Sociedade Harmonia de Tênis in São Paulo, Brazil, between 13 and 17 November 2013.[1] It will be the third edition of the event.
The venue went from Ginásio do Ibirapuera to Sociedade Harmonia de Tênis, because of the change of venue, the tournament will be played in outdoor clay courts for the first time. In the previous editions, it was played in indoor hard courts.
Format
The seven best players of the season and a wild card awardee qualify for the event and are split into two groups of four. During this stage, players compete in a round robin format (meaning players play against all the other players in their group).
The two players with the best results in each group progress to the semifinals where the winners of a group face the runners-up of the other group. The winners of the semifinals reach the tournament final.
Points and prize money
The total prize money for the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour Finals was US$220,000.
Stage
Prize Money
Points
Champion
RR + $66,000
RR + 80
Runner-up
RR + $21,000
RR + 30
Round robin win per match
$6,300
15
Participation
$6,300
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Alternates
$3,500
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RR is points or prize money won in the round robin stage.
Qualification
The top seven players with the most points accumulated in ATP Challenger tournaments during the year plus one wild card entrant from the host country qualified for the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour Finals. Countable points include points earned in 2013 until 21 October, plus points earned at late-season 2012 Challenger tournaments. However, players were only eligible to qualify for the tournament if they played a minimum of eight ATP Challenger Tour tournaments during the season. Moreover, the accumulated year-to-date points were only countable to a maximum of ten best results.
1 ATP Year-To-Date Challenger Rankings as of 21 October 2013. 2 Seedings were determined according to the ATP Singles Rankings as of 11 November 2013.
Key
Qualified
Wildcard awardee
Declined participation
The tournament line-up was initially announced on 23 October 2013 at the tournament's website,[3] based on the 2013 ATP Year-To-Date Challenger Rankings up to that date. On 28 October 2013, the ATP announced the same line-up at its website.[1]
Teymuraz Gabashvili
Gabashvili also a former fourth rounder of a slam, also at French Open, but this time in 2010, where he upset Andy Roddick in the third round as a qualifier. The Russian won two Challenger titles in the year both coming in Uzbekistan, at the Karshi Challenger and Samarkand Challenger defeating Radu Albot and Aleksandr Nedovyesov, respectively in straight sets. He also reached the final of the Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra retiring a game away from losing to Dominic Thiem. In his third Challenger final in Uzbekistan at the Tashkent Challenger, he lost this time to Israeli Dudi Sela. At the ATP World Tour, the Russian reached the quarterfinals of his home tournament of Kremlin Cup losing to world no. 10 Richard Gasquet
Jesse Huta Galung
At the age of 28, the Dutchman has discovered the best form of his career in 2013, after being below 300 at a point to breaking into the top 100 for the first time in his career in August. Huta Galung had a 4–1 record in the finals of the ATP Challenger Tour. Three of his titles came against French players, against Vincent Millot at the Challenger La Manche in straight sets, at the Open Harmonie mutuelle against Kenny de Schepper in a tight three setter winning it in a tie-break, and at the Tampere Open against Maxime Teixeira in straight sets. He won another title, in his home country in Netherlands at the Sport 1 Open against compatriot Robin Haase in three sets. He also reached another final at the Maserati Challenger losing to Czech Jan Hájek. He also earned a top 30 win in a dead rubber at the Davis Cup World Group play-offs against Austria defeating Jürgen Melzer in three sets. He also reached the doubles final of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in the ATP World Tour, pairing with Thiemo de Bakker but lost to Robert Lindstedt and Nenad Zimonjić but lost in a Match Tie Break.
Adrian Ungur plays for the second consecutive time.
Adrian Ungur
The defending ATP Challenger Tour Finals runner-up is back in São Paulo. The only former contestant in the field, the Romanian fell in a third-set tie-break to Guido Pella in last year's title bout. Ungur claimed two titles in the Challenger Circuit at the Tunis Open defeating Diego Sebastián Schwartzman in three sets dropping only 2 games in the final 2 sets at his home crowd at the BRD Arad Challenger over compatriot Marius Copil in two tight sets. He then fell into the final of the Arimex Challenger Trophy losing to Julian Reister.
Guilherme Clezar
The youngest player in the field, Clezar was awarded the tournament's wild card. The 20-year-old Brazilian is also the lowest ranked, at World No. 177. He won his second title at the Challenger level Tetra Pak Tennis Cup defeating Facundo Bagnis in the final, and did not drop a set all tournament.
Player head-to-heads
These were the head-to-head records between the qualified players, immediately before the tournament. Head to head includes challengers.
^"ATP announces the seven qualifiers". challengerfinals.com.br (in Portuguese). ATP Challenger Tour Finals Official Website. 23 October 2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
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