FÜRTH, April 27, 2017

One of the longest running tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour has come to an end. The organizers of the Franken Challenge in Fürth announced that the annual event, which was supposed to take place the week of June 5, has been cancelled.

“We have tried to save this fantastic and traditional tennis event, but despite the great support of loyal sponsors and the ATP, we were unable to create the necessary base,” tournament director André Zietsman stated on the official website of the TV Fürth 1860.

“In recent years, it has unfortunately become more and more difficult to provide the financial commitment for this large event. It was anything but easy for us to make this difficult decision.”

The first edition of the tournamet was held as a club event from 1979 to 1985, becoming an ITF Futures in 1986. It had been part of the the ATP Challenger Tour since 1987.

Earlier this month, the organizers of the Ethias Trophy communicated the end of the tournament in Mons, one of the ATP Challengers of the Year 2016.

List Of Past Champions In Fürth

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