Franken Challenge
2016 Franken Challenge
ATP Challenger Tour
Event name	Franken Challenge
Location	Fürth, Germany
Venue	TV Fürth 1860
Category	ATP Challenger Tour
Surface	Clay
Draw	32S/31Q/16D
Prize money	€42,500+H
Website	Website

TheFranken Challenge (formerSchickedanz Open) is a professionaltennis tournament played on outdoorred clay courts. It is currently part of theAssociation of Tennis Professionals (ATP)Challenger Tour. It is held annually inFürth, Germany, since 1979 (as a club event from 1979 to 1985, as aFutures in 1986, as a Challenger since 1987). After having been on the calendar for 38 years, the 2017 edition had to be cancelled for lack of funding.^[1]

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2016	Radu Albot	Jan-Lennard Struff	6–3, 6–4
2015	Taro Daniel	Albert Montañés	6–3, 6–0
2014	Tobias Kamke	Iñigo Cervantes Huegun	6–3, 6–2
2013	João Sousa	Wayne Odesnik	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
2012	Blaž Kavčič	Sergiy Stakhovsky	6–3, 2–6, 6–2
2011	João Sousa	Jan-Lennard Struff	6–2, 0–6, 6–2
2010	Robin Haase	Tobias Kamke	6–4, 6–2
2009	Peter Luczak	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	6–2, 6–0
2008	Daniel Köllerer	Santiago Giraldo	6–1, 6–3
2007	Peter Luczak	Fabio Fognini	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
2006	Florian Mayer	Torsten Popp	6–3, 6–1
2005	Albert Portas	Philipp Kohlschreiber	7–6(5), 6–2
2004	Jiří Vaněk	Gilles Simon	7–5, 6–2
2003	Jan Frode Andersen	Óscar Hernández	2–6, 6–2, 6–2
2002	Luis Horna	Jürgen Melzer	6–4, 6–2
2001	Germán Puentes-Alcañiz	Kristian Pless	6–4, 6–3
2000	Irakli Labadze	Daniel Elsner	6–4, 6–4
1999	Ronald Agénor	Tomáš Zíb	6–2, 7–6
1998	Christian Ruud	Jan Frode Andersen	6–4, 7–5
1997	Davide Sanguinetti	Tomas Nydahl	6–4, 6–2
1996	Hicham Arazi	Andrei Chesnokov	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
1995	Christian Ruud	Magnus Gustafsson	7–6, 6–4
1994	Kris Goossens	Dirk Dier	6–7, 6–3, 6–2
1993	Mikael Pernfors	Bart Wuyts	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
1992	Martin Střelba	Raúl Viver	6–1, 6–2
1991	Marcos Aurelio Gorriz	Dimitri Poliakov	6–2, 3–0 retired
1990	Jeff Tarango	Felipe Rivera	6–0, 6–0
1989	Dimitri Poliakov	Federico Mordegan	6–2, 6–1
1988	Hans-Dieter Beutel	Richard Vogel	1–6, 6–3, 6–4
1987	Patrick Baur	Edoardo Mazza	6–3, 7–5

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2016	Facundo Argüello Roberto Maytín	Andrej Martin Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6–3, 6–4
2015	Guillermo Durán Horacio Zeballos	Íñigo Cervantes Renzo Olivo	6–1, 6–3
2014	Gerard Granollers Jordi Samper Montaña	Adrián Menéndez Maceiras Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	7–6(7–1), 6–2
2013	Colin Ebelthite Rameez Junaid	Christian Harrison Michael Venus	6–4, 7–5
2012	Arnau Brugués-Davi João Sousa	Rameez Junaid Purav Raja	7–5, 6–7(4–7), [11–9]
2011	Rameez Junaid Frank Moser	Jorge Aguilar Júlio César Campozano	6–2, 6–7(2), [10–6]
2010	Dustin Brown Rameez Junaid	Martin Emmrich Joseph Sirianni	6–3, 6–1
2009	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Santiago Ventura	Simon Greul Alessandro Motti	4–6, 6–1, 10–6
2008	Philipp Marx Alexander Peya	Daniel Köllerer Frank Moser	6–3, 6–3
2007	Bruno Echagaray André Ghem	Fabio Fognini Frederico Gil	7–6(1), 4–6, 13–11
2006	Vasilis Mazarakis Felipe Parada	Philipp Marx Torsten Popp	6–3, 6–2
2005	Amir Hadad Harel Levy	Jan Frode Andersen Johan Landsberg	6–1, 6–2
2004	Adrián García Janko Tipsarević	Simon Aspelin Graydon Oliver	6–4, 6–4
2003	Denis Gremelmayr Simon Greul	Tomas Behrend Karsten Braasch	6–3, 1–6, 7–6(5)
2002	Salvador Navarro-Gutierrez Gabriel Trujillo Soler	Vadim Kutsenko Oleg Ogorodov	6–2, 6–4
2001	Hugo Armando Andrei Stoliarov	Vadim Kutsenko Oleg Ogorodov	6–0, 6–0
2000	Eduardo Nicolás-Espín Germán Puentes-Alcañiz	Devin Bowen Brandon Coupe	6–4, 6–2
1999	Nebojša Đorđević Marcos Ondruska	Diego del Río Martín Rodríguez	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
1998	Álex López Morón Albert Portas	Juan-Ignacio Carrasco Martín Rodríguez	6–4, 6–4
1997	Brandon Coupe Paul Rosner	Martin Sinner Joost Winnink	7–5, 6–3
1996	Joshua Eagle Tom Kempers	Aleksandar Kitinov Gábor Köves	6–4, 6–7, 6–4
1995	Andrew Kratzmann Brent Larkham	Ken Flach Kent Kinnear	6–4, 6–7, 7–6
1994	Vojtech Flegl Andrew Florent	Gastón Etlis Christian Miniussi	7–6, 6–1
1993	Nils Holm Lars-Anders Wahlgren	Ģirts Dzelde Vladimer Gabrichidze	walkover
1992	Rüdiger Haas Udo Riglewski	Brian Joelson Bertrand Madsen	6–1, 6–3
1991	Marcos Aurelio Gorriz Maurice Ruah	Jamie Morgan Sandon Stolle	6–2, 6–4
1990	Peter Ballauff Ricki Osterthun	Marcos-Aurelio Gorriz-Bonhora Andrei Olhovskiy	7–6, 4–6, 6–3
1989	Vladimer Gabrichidze Dimitri Poliakov	Cristiano Caratti Federico Mordegan	6–4, 6–7, 6–4
1988	Michael Stich Martin Sinner	Wojciech Kowalski Adrian Marcu	4–6, 6–3, 7–6
1987	Nick Fulwood Cyril Suk	Axel Hornung Karsten Saniter	4–6, 6–3, 6–2

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