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The ATP Challenger Tour is hosting three tournaments next week. One is our featured tournament which happens on clay in Bordeaux, France, but then there is another tournament scheduled as well, in Zagreb, Croatia, also played on clay courts and worth $50,000. Finally, there is a hard court tournament in Busan, South Korea. Click on the links on this page and get your membership to watch live tennis from your computer. You'll get access to ATP, WTA and ITF events throughout the year no matter where you live.

 

 

The tournament in France this week is called the BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, and it is worth eighty five thousand Euros for these players. The tournament will run from May 7^th to the 15^th, and it will be held on Red Clay. Jeremy Chardy is the top seed for this event, taking on Eduardo Schwank from Argentina in the first round and then the second seed of the BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux is 74^th ranked Olivier Rochus, who will be facing Portugal tennis player Rui Machado in the very first round.

 

 

The third seed is going to be the 88^th ranked Julien Benneteau and then we have Nicolas Mahut as the fourth seed. Mahut is ranked 90^th in the world right now. The number five seed is Alex Bogomolov Jr., and then Mischa Zverev is the number six seed. Meanwhile, Benoit Paire and Florent Serra are the number seven and number eight seeds. You can watch events on the ATP Challenger Tour and tennis events from around the world via your internet connection in high quality streaming video by signing up at the links on this page.

 

Posted: 10th May 2010

 

The ATP Challenger Tour goes to Bordeaux, France for the BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, which will be held May 10^th through the 16^th as part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour, which is intended for the tennis stars of tommorow to earn points, prize money and advance on the ATP world ranking list. If you want to watch this Challenger tournament then all you have to do is click on the banners on this page and sign up for your membership, where you'll be able to watch professional tennis in high quality video right from your computer.  

 

 

Last year, the final ended up between Marc Gicquel and mathieu Montcourt with Gicquel winning 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Before that, in 2008, it was Eduardo Schwank from Argentina, beating Russian Stanislas Wawrinka 6-2, 6-2. The schedule for the tournament has qualifying on Saturday and Sunday, May 8^th and 9^th, with round one on Monday and Tuesday and then round two played Wednesday and Thursday, May 12^th and 13^th. The quarterfinals are on Friday, the Semis on Saturday and the final match will be on Sunday, May 16^th at 2:00PM local time.  

 

Players for the BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux Live include 28-year-old Karol Beck, Thiago Alves, Jose Acasuso from Argentina, Begian Steve Darcis, Ramon Delgado,

 

 

defending champion Marc Gicquel, American Robby Ginepri as well as Jan Hernych, Michael Llodra and Florent Serra from France. If you want to watch this challenger tournament live then simply click on the banners here on this page for access to our member's area where you can get high quality streaming video that is always live from the event.

 

Posted: 12th May 2009

 

This is the first year the the ATP Challenger Series has been called The ATP Challenger Tour. The tour began in 1978 with 18 initial events. Last year, the ATP Challenger Series had some stars shine bright as the men of tennis competed for a chance to be recognized as the best of the best.

 

 

The BNP Paribas Primrose in Bordeaux, France is a tournament on the Challenger Tour that will begin barely hours from now. The tournament will run from May 11^th to 17^th and is barely in its infancy, 2008 being the first year the tournament was played.

 

Last year, Argentina's Eduardo Schwank beat Igor Kunitsyn with two sets, both that ended 6-2 for an easy win. In the doubles another pair of Argentinians took the trophy home, with Diego Hartfield and Sergio Roitman winning against Tomasz Bednarek from Poland and Serbia's Dusan Vernic 6-4, 6-4.

 

The Bordeaux Tournament has a total purse of 85,000 Euros with draw of 32 singles, 32 qualifers and 16 doubles and it is played on clay courts at Villa Primrose in Bordeaux. The official name of the tourney is BNP Paribas Primrose. 

 

 

Following this tourney in the ATP Challenger Tour is The Buscan, Korea event which has a purse of $75,000, played on hard courts. With your membership you'll be able to watch the entire ATP Challenger Series, as the up and coming of Men's Tennis will fiercely play for a place in the top, and the chance to move forward to the more prestigious men's tennis tournaments.

 

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