Trophée des Alpilles

Trophée des Alpilles
2016 Trophée des Alpilles
ATP Challenger Tour
Event name	St. Remy
Location	Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
Venue	Tennis Club de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Category	ATP Challenger Tour
Surface	Hard
Draw	32S/32Q/16D
Prize money	€42,500
Website	Website

The Trophée des Alpilles is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Tennis Club de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, since 2009.

History

The creation of an ATP Challenger Tour event in the Provence region had been envisioned for several years by several tennis tournaments organisers, as well as former World No. 4, Marseille-born Sébastien Grosjean, before the project came to life during 2008 and 2009 when the Saint-Rémy-de-Provence organisers, sponsored by Grosjean, met with the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) to discuss the introduction of such an event in the calendar.^[1][2]

The €42,500 tournament was set in the time slot of the second week of the US Open in September, to allow players eliminated in the qualifications or in the early rounds to compete in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. As a follow-up to the US Open, the event uses the same tennis balls, and outdoor hard courts similar to the ones of the American Grand Slam.^[2] For the 2009 inaugural edition, the line up, attracted with the help of Grosjean, included Top 100 players Björn Phau and Adrian Mannarino or former Wimbledon semifinalists Marcos Baghdatis and Xavier Malisse, who both reached the singles final, in which Baghdatis eventually won his second title on the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour.^[2]

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2016	Daniil Medvedev	Joris De Loore	6–3, 6–3
2015	Ivan Dodig	Nils Langer	6–3, 6–2
2014	Nicolas Mahut	Vincent Millot	6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–3
2013	Marc Gicquel	Matteo Viola	6–4, 6–3
2012	Josselin Ouanna	Flavio Cipolla	6–4, 7–5
2011	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Arnaud Clément	6–4, 6–3
2010	Jerzy Janowicz	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	3–6, 7–6(10–8), 7–6(8–6)
2009	Marcos Baghdatis	Xavier Malisse	6–4, 6–1

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2016	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	David O'Hare Joe Salisbury	6–7(5–7), 6–4, [10–5]
2015	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	Andrej Martin Igor Zelenay	6–4, 6–1
2014	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Konstantin Kravchuk	David Guez Martin Vaïsse	6–1, 7–6(7–3)
2013	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Albano Olivetti	Marc Gicquel Josselin Ouanna	6–3, 6–7(5–7), [15–13]
2012	Laurynas Grigelis Uladzimir Ignatik	Jordi Marsé-Vidri Carles Poch Gradin	6–7(4–7), 6–3, [10–6]
2011	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Arnaud Clément Nicolas Renavand	6–0, 4–6, [10–7]
2010	Gilles Müller Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Andis Juška Deniss Pavlovs	6–0, 2–6, [13–11]
2009	Jiří Krkoška Lukáš Lacko	Ruben Bemelmans Niels Desein	6–1, 3–6, [10–3]

References

External links

• Official website
• ITF search