Challenger de Salinas

The Salinas Challenger (previously known as Challenger ATP de Salinas Diario Expreso) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hardcourts. It was part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It was held annually in Salinas, Ecuador, from 1996 to 2014. After a hiatus, it came back in 2021, and it was played on hardcourt instead of red clay until 2023.^[1]

Salinas Challenger
2023 Salinas Challenger
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name	Challenger ATP de Salinas Diario Expreso (1996–2014) Challenger de Salinas (2021–2023)
Location	Salinas, Ecuador
Venue	Salinas Golf y Tenis Club
Category	ATP Challenger Tour
Surface	Hard (1996–2010) Clay (2011–2014) Hard (2021–2023)
Draw	32S/24Q/16D
Prize money	$ 53,120 (2022)
Website	challengersalinas.com/
Current champions (2023)
Singles	Illya Marchenko
Doubles	Vasil Kirkov Alfredo Perez

Santiago Giraldo of Colombia, took the title over American Michael Russell in 2009.

Argentine David Nalbandian, like Sá and Brzezicki, won both the singles and the doubles titles (partnering Peruvian Luis Horna), in 2001.

David Nalbandian was the only one to have won both singles and doubles titles in the same year

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2023	Illya Marchenko	Matija Pecotić	6–4, 6–4
2022	Emilio Gómez (2)	Nicolas Moreno de Alboran	6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–4), 7–5
2021 (2)	Emilio Gómez (1)	Nicolás Jarry	4–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–4
2021 (1)	Nicolás Jarry	Nicolás Mejía	7–6(9–7), 6–1
2015–2020	Not Held
2014	Víctor Estrella	Andrea Collarini	6–3, 6–4
2013	Alejandro González	Renzo Olivo	4–6, 6–3, 7–6(9–7)
2012	Guido Pella	Paolo Lorenzi	1–6, 7–5, 6–3
2011	Andrés Molteni	Horacio Zeballos	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
2010	Brian Dabul	Nicolás Massú	6–3, 6–2
2009	Santiago Giraldo	Michael Russell	6–3, 6–2
2008	Iván Miranda (2)	Diego Junqueira	6–2, 6–2
2007	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	Marcos Daniel	6–4, 6–4
2006	Benjamin Becker	Jesse Witten	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
2005	Dennis van Scheppingen	Franco Ferreiro	6–2, 6–4
2004	Alejandro Falla	Gilles Müller	6–7(6–8), 6–2, 6–2
2003	Giovanni Lapentti	Iván Miranda	6–3, 6–4
2002	Iván Miranda (1)	Ricardo Mello	6–3, 6–4
2001	David Nalbandian	Ronald Agénor	6–4, 6–2
2000	Davide Sanguinetti	Luis Horna	6–2, 6–2
1999	Juan Ignacio Chela	Hernán Gumy	6–4, 7–6
1998	André Sá	Guillermo Cañas	7–5, 5–7, 6–4
1997	Oliver Gross	Gilbert Schaller	6–1, 3–6, 6–2
1996	Óscar Martínez	Luis Morejón	6–2, 6–7, 6–3

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2023	Vasil Kirkov Alfredo Perez	Ángel Díaz Jalil Álvaro Guillén Meza	7–5, 7–5
2022	Yuki Bhambri Saketh Myneni	JC Aragone Roberto Quiroz	4–6, 6–3, [10–7]
2021 (2)	Nicolás Barrientos Sergio Galdós (2)	Antonio Cayetano March Thiago Agustín Tirante	Walkover
2021 (1)	Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela Fernando Romboli (2)	Diego Hidalgo Skander Mansouri	7–5, 4–6, [10–2]
2015–2020	Not Held
2014	Roberto Maytín Fernando Romboli (1)	Hugo Dellien Eduardo Schwank	6–3, 6–4
2013	Sergio Galdós (1) Marco Trungelliti	Jean Andersen Izak van der Merwe	6–4, 6–4
2012	Martín Alund Horacio Zeballos	Ariel Behar Carlos Salamanca	6–3, 6–3
2011	Facundo Bagnis Federico Delbonis	Rogério Dutra da Silva João Souza	6–2, 6–1
2010	Jonathan Marray Jamie Murray	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6–3, 6–4
2009	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	Juan Pablo Brzezicki Iván Miranda	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
2008	Júlio Silva (1) Caio Zampieri	Sebastián Decoud Dick Norman	7–6(8–6), 6–2
2007	Scott Lipsky David Martin	Thiago Alves Franco Ferreiro	7–5, 7–6(11–9)
2006	Thiago Alves Júlio Silva (1)	André Ghem Alexandre Simoni	3–6, 6–4, 10–4
2005	Juan Pablo Brzezicki Cristian Villagrán	Juan Pablo Guzmán Sergio Roitman	6–2, 6–4
2004	Federico Browne Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	José de Armas Eric Nunez	6–3, 6–3
2003	Martín García Sebastián Prieto (2)	Michael Kohlmann Harel Levy	walkover
2002	Brandon Coupe Jeff Salzenstein	Martín Rodríguez Diego Veronelli	6–7(3–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–3)
2001	Luis Horna David Nalbandian	Daniel Melo Flávio Saretta	6–4, 0–6, 6–1
2000	Juan Balcells Mauricio Hadad	Emilio Benfele Álvarez Álex Calatrava	walkover
1999	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto (1)	Lucas Arnold Ker Daniel Orsanic	6–2, 7–6
1998	David DiLucia Michael Sell	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	7–6, 6–4
1997	Fernando Meligeni André Sá	Donald Johnson Francisco Montana	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
1996	Juan Carlos Bianchi Claude N'Goran	Daniel Orsanic Laurence Tieleman	7–5, 6–4