The week between 18 and 24 October will be played on Challenger of Bogotá, a tennis tournament organized by the ATP and whose prize pool exceeds US $ 10,000 and which gives the champion the sum of 80 points for the ranking. The big favorite for the title will be Colombian Daniel Galán, runner-up in this tournament in 2017.
The venue chosen for the realization of the Challenger It will be the clay courts of the Carmel Club in the Colombian capital. In the list of registered for the tournament will also be the second Colombian with the best ATP ranking, Nicolás Mejía.
Among the most outstanding international players of the contest, the German stands out Daniel Altmaier, champion in the 2021 Sauerland Open and the Braunschweig Challenger in Germany. What’s more. The Latin American group will be made up of; the chileans Tomas Barrios, Alejandro Tabilo and Nicolás Jarry; Brazilians Orlando Luz and Matheus Pucinelli; the Argentinian Facundo Mena and the Ecuadorian Roberto Quiroz.
Another of the prominent Europeans is the Austrian Thanasi Kokkinakis, 25-year-old player who reached his best ranking in the ATP in 2015 when he was 69 in the world. He was a finalist in the 2017 ATP 250 tournament in Los Cabos in Mexico and his best participation in a Grand Slam It was in 2015 when he reached the third round of Roland Garros.
This is how the points and money will be distributed among the athletes present at the Bogotá Challenger:
Result ATP Points Economic Prize
Champion 80 $ 7,200
Finalist 48 $ 4,240
Semifinalist $ 29 2,510
quarterfinalist 15 $ 1,460
2nd round 7,860 dollars
1st round 0 520 dollars
Qualifer 4 260 dollars
Final Qualy 2 $ 130
This is the complete list of registered tennis players Challenger of Bogotá:
Daniel Galán (COL)
Daniel Altmaier (GER)
Tomás Barrios (CHI)
Alejandro Tabilo (CHI)
Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)
Vit Kopriva (CZE)
Nicolas Jarry (CHI)
Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL)
Jesper de Jong (NED)
Facundo Mena (ARG)
Yosuke Watanuki (JPN)
Stefan Kozlov (USA)
Ulises Blanch (USA)
Malek Jaziri (TUN)
Nicolás Mejía (COL)
Orlando Luz (BRA)
Julian Lenz (GER)
Roberto Quiroz (ECU)
Pedja Krstin (SRB)
Gonçalo Oliveira (POR)
Matheus Pucinelli (BRA)
Miljan Zekic (SRB)
Gerald Melzer (AUT)
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