The fifth edition of Alicante Ferrero Challenger will start this Sunday with a poster showing the presence of the current champion Constant Lestienne, the veteran Ferdinand Verdasco or the great promise of Spanish tennis and current junior US Open champion, Martin Landaluce.
The tournament will be played on the slopes of Juan Carlos Ferrero Equalite Academy Where is this week? Carlos Alcaraz, managed by his teammates after rising to the top of the world rankings.
The youngest number 1 in history, who lives and trains in this academy, won the tournament two years ago that will be held between October 2 and 9 on hard courts, with the distribution of 45,000 dollars in prizes and covering the everyone’s hospitality. professional competitors.
In this edition, the organization of the event has already confirmed the presence of important players such as Lestienne, who is currently among the 70 best players in the world and current champion of the tournament, who will fight to try to reaffirm the title as Pablo Andújar. achieved in the first editions. .
He is joined by other great players such as young Portuguese and Top100 Nuno Borges, former world number 7, Fernando Verdasco, or Emilio Nava who trained at the academy himself and came off winning his first Grand Slam at the US Open, before losing in four sets to Andy Murray.
Another of the main attractions is Martín Landaluce, who at the age of 16 will make his debut in a professional ATP team thanks to an invitation from the organization.
In previous editions, the tournament featured players of the stature of Jannik Sinner, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Álex de Miñaur, Alejandro Davidovich and Carlos Alcaraz.
Former world number one and tournament director, Juan Carlos Ferrero, said the tournament aims to continue to grow in the coming years.
“Next year we intend to increase the prizes and the category of our ATP Challenger, thus increasing the number of points and prize money to be distributed, thus giving a new leap in quality to this important Valencian tennis event Community”, he explained. .
Source: La Verdad
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