STARNBERG, July 19, 2018

According to the Italian tennis website “Ubitennis”, the 42nd edition of the ATP Challenger tournament Internazionali di Manerbio been cancelled due to lack of finance. The clay-court event was scheduled to take place from 18 to 26 August 2018.

The first tennis tournament in Manerbio was held in 1974. It has been part of the ATP Challenger Tour since 1999. The total prize money offered was €43,000. With the relocation of the Cortina d’Ampezzo tournament, which will be played in Padua this year, Manerbio would have been the second smallest Italian town to host an ATP Challenger – only Ortisei has fewer inhabitants.

“We have the great pride of having hosted 41 total editions, of which the last fifteen with an ATP Challenger,” former tournament director Gianni Saldini was quoted on Ubitennis. A lot of well-known players participated in the tournament. David Ferrer won in 2002. Novak Djokovic battled through the qualifying in 2004, beat Paolo Lorenzi in a hard fought match before falling to Nicolas Almagro in the quarterfinals.

List of champions and finalists at ATP Challenger Manerbio:

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2017	Roberto Carballés Baena	Guillermo García López	6–4, 2–6, 6–2
2016	Leonardo Mayer	Filip Krajinović	7–6(7–3), 7–5
2015	Andrey Kuznetsov	Daniel Muñoz de la Nava	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
2011	Adrian Ungur	Peter Gojowczyk	4–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–2
2010	Robin Haase	Marco Crugnola	6–3, 6–2
2009	Federico Delbonis	Leonardo Tavares	6–1, 6–3
2008	Victor Crivoi	Christophe Rochus	7–6, 6–2
2007	Jiří Vaněk	Éric Prodon	6–0, 6–4
2006	Andreas Vinciguerra	Adrián García	7–6, 6–1
2005	Oliver Marach	Melle van Gemerden	6–3, 6–2
2004	Nicolás Almagro	Francesco Aldi	7–6, 6–4
2003	Olivier Patience	Martín Vassallo Argüello	3–6, 6–3, 7–6
2002	David Ferrer	Vadim Kutsenko	6–2, 6–0
2001	Attila Sávolt	Irakli Labadze	7–5, 6–2
2000	Stefano Tarallo	Kris Goossens	6–3, 6–4
1999	Attila Sávolt	Thierry Guardiola	6–4, 7–6