1998 ATP Challenger Series

The ATP Challenger Series is the second tier tour for professional tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 1998 ATP Challenger Series calendar comprised 114 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $125,000.[1][2]

1998 ATP Challenger Series
Details
Duration26 January 1998 – 4 January 1999
Edition21st
Achievements (singles)
1997
1999

Schedule

January

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
26.01.  Germany Heilbronn Open $ 100,000 Carpet (i) Martin Sinner Geoff Grant
Mark Merklein

February

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
02.02.  South Africa West Bloomfield Challenger $ 050,000 Hard (i) Alex O'Brien Jim Thomas
Laurence Tieleman
 Germany Lippstadt Challenger $ 025,000 Carpet (i) Dirk Dier Andrew Richardson
Myles Wakefield
09.02.  Germany Volkswagen Challenger $ 025,000 Carpet (i) Ivo Heuberger Marat Safin
Dušan Vemić
16.02.  Singapore Singapore Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Fernando Vicente Jim Thomas
Laurence Tieleman
 Germany Warsteiner Challenger Lübeck $ 025,000 Carpet (i) Peter Wessels Lorenzo Manta
Andrew Richardson
23.02.  Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Challenger $ 050,000 Hard André Sá Mahesh Bhupathi
Peter Tramacchi
 France Cherbourg Challenger $ 025,000 Hard (i) Jérôme Golmard Massimo Ardinghi
Massimo Bertolini

March

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
02.03.  Thailand Bangkok Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Leander Paes Peter Tramacchi
Kevin Ullyett
 Germany Residenza Open Magdeburg $ 025,000 Carpet (i) Lars Burgsmüller Eyal Erlich
Mosé Navarra
09.03.  Ecuador Salinas Challenger $ 050,000 Hard André Sá David DiLucia
Michael Sell
 Japan Kyoto Challenger $ 025,000 Carpet (i) Michael Kohlmann Takao Suzuki
Kevin Ullyett
30.03.  Italy Barletta Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Francisco Cabello Joan Balcells
Juan Ignacio Carrasco

April

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
06.04.  Bermuda XL Bermuda Open $ 100,000 Clay Hernán Gumy Doug Flach
Richey Reneberg
 Italy Napoli Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Davide Sanguinetti Massimo Bertolini
Devin Bowen
 Mexico San Luis Potosí Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Luis Morejón Edwin Kempes
Peter Wessels
13.04.  France Nice Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Mariano Puerta Devin Bowen
Mariano Hood
 United States Birmingham Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Christian Ruud Doug Flach
David Witt
 India Vadodara Challenger $ 050,000 Grass Peter Tramacchi Myles Wakefield
Wesley Whitehouse
 Mexico Puerto Vallarta Challenger $ 025,000 Hard (i) Geoff Grant Luis Herrera
Gabriel Trifu
20.04.  Portugal Espinho Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Guillermo Cañas Jens Knippschild
Stephen Noteboom
 Czech Republic Prague Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Michal Tabara Joan Balcells
Nenad Zimonjić

May

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
04.05.  Slovenia Ljubljana Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Dinu Pescariu Marius Barnard
Stephen Noteboom
 Israel Jerusalem Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Neville Godwin Noam Behr
Eyal Erlich
11.05.  Czech Republic Košice Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Dominik Hrbatý Jiří Novák
David Rikl
 Germany Ostdeutscher Sparkassen Cup $ 050,000 Clay Dirk Dier Pablo Albano
Sander Groen
18.05.  Hungary Budapest Challenger I $ 050,000 Clay Marcos Ondruska Chris Haggard
Paul Rosner
25.05.  Ukraine Kyiv Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Nenad Zimonjić Thomas Buchmayer
Thomas Strengberger
 Colombia Medellín Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Adriano Ferreira Adriano Ferreira
Cristiano Testa

June

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
01.06.  Czech Republic Prostějov Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Richard Fromberg Edwin Kempes
Peter Wessels
 Germany Quelle Cup $ 050,000 Clay Christian Ruud Álex López Morón
Albert Portas
 Great Britain Surbiton Challenger $ 050,000 Grass Gianluca Pozzi Sandon Stolle
Peter Tramacchi
08.06.  Croatia Split Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Orlin Stanoytchev Geoff Grant
Attila Sávolt
 Germany ATU Cup $ 025,000 Clay Agustín Calleri Nuno Marques
Nenad Zimonjić
15.06.  Germany Nord/LB Open $ 125,000 Clay Franco Squillari Tomás Carbonell
Francisco Roig
 Croatia Zagreb Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Jiří Novák Julián Alonso
Mariano Puerta
22.06.  Italy Biella Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Andrew Ilie Diego del Río
Eric Taino
 Germany Wartburg Open $ 025,000 Clay Edwin Kempes Jaime Oncins
Cristiano Testa
 Czech Republic Příbram Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Arnaud Di Pasquale Ota Fukárek
Udo Plamberger
29.06.  Italy Venice Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Adrian Voinea Nebojša Đorđević
Marcos Ondruska
 United States Denver Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Takao Suzuki Michael Hill
Glenn Weiner
 Germany Müller Cup $ 050,000 Clay Younes El Aynaoui Márcio Carlsson
Jaime Oncins
 France Montauban Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Edwin Kempes Eduardo Nicolás
Germán Puentes

July

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
06.07.  Belgium Ostend Challenger $ 075,000 Clay Andrew Ilie Cristian Brandi
Filippo Messori
 Great Britain Bristol Challenger $ 050,000 Grass Denis van Uffelen Max Mirnyi
Vladimir Voltchkov
 Canada Granby Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Takao Suzuki Gouichi Motomura
Takao Suzuki
 Germany Oberstaufen Cup $ 025,000 Clay Wolfgang Schranz Nuno Marques
Rogier Wassen
13.07.  Italy Merano Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Ctislav Doseděl Pablo Albano
Nicolás Lapentti
 United States Aptos Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Cecil Mamiit Bob Bryan
Mike Bryan
 France Contrexéville Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Younes El Aynaoui Diego del Río
Martín Rodríguez
 Great Britain Manchester Challenger $ 050,000 Grass Chris Wilkinson Mosé Navarra
Stefano Pescosolido
20.07.  Great Britain Newcastle Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Agustín Calleri Jeff Coetzee
Edwin Kempes
 Finland Tampere Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Tomáš Zíb Tobias Hildebrand
Fredrik Lovén
27.07.  Turkey Istanbul Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Tomáš Zíb Petr Luxa
Eyal Ran
 Netherlands Scheveningen Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Younes El Aynaoui Agustín Calleri
Tobias Hildebrand
 United States Winnetka Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Geoff Grant Grant Silcock
Myles Wakefield

August

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
03.08.  Poland Poznań Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Christian Ruud Sebastián Prieto
Martín Rodríguez
 Spain Open Castilla y León $ 100,000 Hard Radek Štěpánek Radek Štěpánek
Tomáš Zíb
 United States Lexington Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Paul Goldstein Ben Ellwood
Lleyton Hewitt
 Brazil Gramado Challenger $ 025,000 Hard André Sá Jeff Coetzee
Damien Roberts
 Mexico Tijuana Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Michael Hill Michael Hill
Scott Humphries
10.08.  United States Binghamton Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Takao Suzuki Myles Wakefield
Wesley Whitehouse
 Brazil Belo Horizonte Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Francisco Costa Satoshi Iwabuchi
Thomas Shimada
 Austria Nettingsdorf Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Markus Hipfl Tomáš Krupa
Borut Urh
 Poland Sopot Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Michał Chmela James Greenhalgh
Nenad Zimonjić
17.08.  Austria Graz Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Carlos Costa Dinu Pescariu
Albert Portas
 United States Bronx Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Miles Maclagan Jared Palmer
Takao Suzuki
 Poland Warsaw Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Jiří Vaněk James Greenhalgh
Nenad Zimonjić
24.08.   Switzerland Geneva Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Juan Albert Viloca Rikard Bergh
Jens Knippschild
31.08.  Austria Alpirsbach Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Stefan Koubek Tomáš Cibulec
Leoš Friedl
 Serbia Belgrade Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Jiří Vaněk Raemon Sluiter
Nenad Zimonjić
 Bolivia Santa Cruz Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Gastón Gaudio Marcelo Charpentier
Andrés Schneiter

September

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
07.09.  Romania Brașov Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Dinu Pescariu Juan Ignacio Carrasco
Jairo Velasco Jr.
 Great Britain Edinburgh Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Tomas Nydahl Edwin Kempes
Peter Wessels
 Ecuador Quito Challenger $ 050,000 Clay Nicolás Massú Adriano Ferreira
Óscar Ortiz
 FR Yugoslavia Budva Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Tomas Behrend Eduardo Nicolás
Germán Puentes
14.09.  Brazil Florianópolis Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Guillermo Cañas Jaime Oncins
André Sá
 Hungary Budapest Challenger II $ 050,000 Clay Renzo Furlan Gábor Köves
Thomas Strengberger
 North Macedonia Skopje Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Jordi Mas Eduardo Nicolás
Germán Puentes
21.09.  Poland Szczecin Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Younes El Aynaoui Orlin Stanoytchev
Radomír Vašek
 United States Urbana Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Daniel Nestor Jared Palmer
Jonathan Stark
 Spain Copa Sevilla $ 025,000 Clay Alberto Martín Alberto Martín
Salvador Navarro
28.09.  Portugal Oporto Challenger $ 125,000 Clay Younes El Aynaoui Juan Ignacio Carrasco
Jairo Velasco Jr.
 Venezuela Caracas Challenger $ 100,000 Hard Adriano Ferreira Geoff Grant
Maurice Ruah
 United States Dallas Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Daniel Nestor Jared Palmer
Jonathan Stark
 Italy Olbia Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Daniele Bracciali Todd Larkham
Chris Wilkinson

October

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
05.10.  Chile Santiago Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Sebastián Prieto Ota Fukárek
Attila Sávolt
 United States San Antonio Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Geoff Grant David DiLucia
Michael Sell
 Israel Tel Aviv Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Gianluca Pozzi Radek Štěpánek
Michal Tabara
12.10.  Spain Barcelona Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Fernando Vicente José Antonio Conde
Javier Sánchez
 Brazil São Paulo Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Fernando Meligeni Diego del Río
Martín Rodríguez
 United States San Diego Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Ville Liukko Paul Goldstein
Adam Peterson
19.10.  Egypt Cairo Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Albert Portas Albert Portas
Álex López Morón
 Uruguay Montevideo Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Eduardo Medica Francisco Cabello
Agustín Calleri
 Hong Kong Hongkong Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Not completed
 Germany Okal Cup $ 025,000 Carpet (i) Jared Palmer Tomáš Cibulec
Raemon Sluiter
 Uzbekistan Samarkand Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Fredrik Jonsson Noam Behr
Eyal Ran
26.10.  France Brest Challenger $ 100,000 Hard (i) Jérôme Golmard Neville Godwin
Marcos Ondruska

November

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
02.11.  Germany Lambertz Open by STAWAG $ 050,000 Hard (i) Hendrik Dreekmann Menno Oosting
Pavel Vízner
09.11.  United States Las Vegas Challenger $ 050,000 Hard Cecil Mamiit Marcos Ondruska
Byron Talbot
16.11.  Andorra Andorra Challenger $ 100,000 Hard (i) Justin Gimelstob Justin Gimelstob
Jack Waite
 Argentina Buenos Aires Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Younes El Aynaoui Guillermo Cañas
Martín García
 Mexico Puebla Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Vladimir Voltchkov Alejandro González
Mariano Sánchez
 United States Rancho Mirage Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Christian Ruud Wayne Arthurs
Peter Tramacchi
23.11.  Peru Lima Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Stefan Koubek Diego del Río
Martin Rodriguez
 United States Burbank Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Cecil Mamiit Mike Bryan
Mike Bryan
 Slovenia Portorož Challenger $ 025,000 Hard (i) Rainer Schüttler Max Mirnyi
Andrei Olhovskiy
 Mexico Toluca Challenger $ 025,000 Clay Rogier Wassen Alejandro Hernández
Mariano Sánchez
30.11.  Mexico Guadalajara Challenger $ 100,000 Clay Markus Hipfl Sander Groen
Ali Hamadeh
 Germany Nümbrecht Challenger $ 050,000 Carpet (i) Christian Vinck Max Mirnyi
Andrei Olhovskiy

December

Date Country Tournament Prizemoney Surface Singles champion Doubles champions
07.12.  Australia Perth Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Lleyton Hewitt Lleyton Hewitt
Paul Kilderry
 Chile Cerveza Cristal $ 025,000 Clay Gastón Gaudio Enzo Artoni
Federico Browne
21.12.  India Ahmedabad Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Antony Dupuis Noam Okun
Nir Welgreen
28.12.  India Mumbai Challenger $ 025,000 Hard Antony Dupuis Noam Behr
Eyal Ran

References

  1. "Results Archive". ATP Tour.
  2. "ITF Men's World Tour Calendar". www.itftennis.com.
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