From zero ATP Challenger occasions in 2021, India is prone to host 4 over the following few months as per the All India Tennis Affiliation’s (AITA) calendar from November 2022 to March 2023.
Nagpur is anticipated to get a maiden ATP 50 Challenger occasion, scheduled for February 2023. Pune, Bengaluru and Chennai will host three 100 Challengers. AITA has utilized for them and whereas the ultimate approval from ATP will likely be topic to venue inspection and different clearances, the federation is assured. “They’ve their formalities to be performed however we must always get it,” Anil Dhupar, AITA secretary-general, stated.
India didn’t host a single Challenger occasion final 12 months amid the pandemic. Whereas Pune and Bengaluru have been on the calendar, Chennai will mark its return to the circuit after holding simply two editions, in 2018 and 2019. The three 100 Challengers—all have been upgraded from class 80—other than the match in Nagpur will likely be excellent news for India’s prime male gamers, who can compete at dwelling, make deep runs and climb up the rankings chart.
“The 2 years of Covid took its toll on tournaments in India, however the document occasions will assist our gamers bounce again,” Dhupar stated.
Aside from the Challengers, AITA additionally introduced 8 ITF males’s occasions, 9 girls’s occasions and 11 ITF junior occasions at dwelling throughout the five-month interval. The ITF girls’s tournaments will embody a few $40,000 occasions, the primary in India, in Pune and Indore in January.