Hubert Hurkacz and Brandon Nakashima are entered in ATP Challenger Tour 175 events held from 13-18 May, during the second week of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. The Pole Hurkacz is signed up for Piemonte Open Intesa Sanpaolo in Turin, Italy while Nakashima is on the list for the BNP Paribas Primrose in Bordeaux, France.
Hurkacz, No. 28 in the PIF ATP Rankings, is the highest-ranked player on either list and has not competed on the ATP Challenger Tour since 2019. Home favourites Lorenzo Sonego and Luciano Darderi are the among the potential starters in Turin, where 17 players inside the Top 100 are on the entry list.
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Other Italians that could compete in Turin include Luca Nardi and defending champion Francesco Passaro. Last year, Passaro defeated five Top 100 players en route to the title, becoming the first player since Robin Soderling in 2009 to achieve that feat at the Challenger level.
In Bordeaux, Nakashima is joined on the entry list by fellow Top 50 players Sebastian Baez, Tallon Griekspoor, Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Alexandre Muller.
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Aleksandar Kovacevic, who won the Cap Cana Challenger 175 event last month, is one of four Americans that could appear at the French clay-court event. Reilly Opelka and #NextGenATP Nishesh Basavareddy are also on the list.
Introduced in 2023, the Challenger 175 category tournaments are held during the second week of select ATP Masters 1000 events and often attract world-class fields. Joao Fonseca won the Arizona Tennis Classic in March while Kovacevic was crowned champion in the Dominican Republic. The ATP Challenger Tour will feature two events at 175 level next week, in Estoril and Aix-en-Provence.
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