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Entry List 2019

Original Cut Off:411 (ATP) / 117 (ITF)
Rankings Date: 7/1/2019

MAIN DRAW (ATP DIRECT ACCEPTANCE)

Altamirano, Collin USA 268
Aragone, JC USA 256
Bangoura, Sekou USA 381
Barrios Vera, Marcelo Tomas CHI 281
Cressy, Maxime USA 314
Descotte, Matias Franco ARG 323
Duckworth, James AUS 145
Gabashvili, Teymuraz RUS 405
Gomez-Herrera, Carlos ESP 411
Gonzalez, Alejandro COL 382
Granollers, Marcel ESP 105
Karlovskiy, Evgeny RUS 216
Kokkinakis, Thanasi AUS 192
Korda, Sebastian USA 383
Kozlov, Stefan USA 406
Kwiatkowski, Thai-Son USA 205
Lacko, Lukas SVK 207
Lee, Duckhee KOR 217
Leshem, Edan ISR 404
Menezes, Joao BRA 267
Ortega-Olmedo, Roberto ESP 282
Polmans, Marc AUS 189
Purcell, Max AUS 264
Ramanathan, Ramkumar IND 151
Redlicki, Martin USA 388
Sarmiento, Raymond USA 369
Saville, Luke AUS 316
Sela, Dudi ISR 154
Shane, Ryan USA 343
Sinner, Jannik ITA 209
Smith, Roy USA 325
Sugita, Yuichi JPN 274
Tabilo, Alejandro CHI 313
Vukic, Aleksandar AUS 293
Wolf, J.J. USA 270

MAIN DRAW (ITF DIRECT ACCEPTANCE)

Glasspool, Lloyd GBR 56
Pervolarakis, Michai GRE 99
Petrone, Alessandro ITA 103
Martineau, Matteo FRA 109
Manafov, Vladyslav UKR 117

Direct Acceptances 35 (ATP) / 5 (ITF)
Wild Cards Strong Kirchheimer, Mitchell Krueger (2016 LG&T Challenger finalist), John McNally, Alexander Ritschard, Noah Rubin, Sergiy Stakhovsky (2014 LG&T Challenger champ)
Qualifiers 2
Special Exempts 1

The Fastest Week of the Summer 2019

Clarke slides in 2018 finalEnjoy 7 days of international professional tennis at the 26th Annual Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger! See the Binghamton stop of the ATP Challenger tour at Recreation Park, professional tennis’ most intimate competitive courts. Matches start 10am Monday-Thursday. And 11AM Friday through Championship Sunday. Continue reading

Clarke Knocks Off Thompson to Become 25th Champion

20 year old Jay Clarke celebrates his first ATP Challenger win

A large crowd watched Singles & Doubles final matches that were filled with exciting, tight play. The singles match between Jay Clarke (GBR) and Jordan Tompson (AUS) was the longest match of the 2018 tournament, clocking in at an official match time of 176 minutes, a full half hour longer than the second longest match, the 2nd Round match between Dominik Koepfer (GER) and Edan Leshem (ISR), 144 minutes.

Clarke Thompson 2018 Singles Final

Clarke (No. 225) faced off against last year’s LG&T Challenger runner-up Jordan Thompson (No. 98). Both men had to work and grind for every point throughout the match. After a very back and forth contest, Clarke finally pulled ahead and defeated Thompson, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5), 6-4. This was twenty year old Clarke’s first ATP Challenger victory.

On the doubles side the family duo of Gerarld Granollers (No. 157) and his brother Marcel Granollers (No. 26) matched up against Alejandro Gomez (No. 382) and his partner Caio Silva (No. 307). The Granollers brothers ,who have been hot all summer, handled their business today. They won the match 7-6 (2), 6-4 in a match that lasted one hour and twenty four minutes. This was the family duo’s third title this summer.

Thompson Reaches Finals For Back To Back Years

After two wash outs the LG&T Challenger caught back up with the schedule and finished all semi final matches today. Two finals matches tomorrow decide the Singles & Doubles Champions. Everyone has worked hard to get back on track and players cooperated tremendously to help us get to this point.
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Top Seeds Advance To Semi Finals

Friday saw ten total matches, six different singles matches and four doubles, played at Recreation Park.

Top seed Jordan Thompson (No. 98) won his match against Dominik Koepfer (No. 228) 6-4, 6-1. The tournament’s second seed was also in action today: Marcel Granollers (No. 104) defeated Lloyd Harris 6-1, 6-2. Both Thompson and Granollers are in the semi finals.
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Playing Catch Up with 20 Matches in One Day

Twenty-two matches were scheduled for Thursday, the first dry day since the LG&T Challenger main draw started, and 20 were completed. A few players had to double up on matches to try to keep the 9 day tournament on schedule for the start of Championship Weekend Friday.
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25th Anniversary Videos

25th Anniversary Champs Teaser

Posted by Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger: USTA Pro Circuit Event on Monday, July 23, 2018

25th Anniversary Past Champions Reflections

25th Anniversary Past Champions Reflections

For our 25th year we asked our past champions and finalists to share their memories from our past tournaments. Throughout years of traveling across the globe our players share their fond memories and still hold close the awarded key to Binghamton!

Posted by Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger: USTA Pro Circuit Event on Monday, July 23, 2018