Challenger Burnie Live
The ATP Challenger Tour will be holding two tournaments this week, in the Tour that is especially for up and coming tennis players that will be the stars of tomorrow. This week's tournament is the McDonald's Burnie International, and it will be held from the 30th of January to the 5th of February, in Burnie, Australia. This is a hard court tournament that is worth $50,000 and it will be joined by the only other major Challenger event this week, the $75,000 Kazan Kremlin Cup, another hard court event that happens in Kazan, Russia.
Denis Istomin is the top seed for this tournament, with Yen-Hsun Lu coming in as second Tatsuma Ito was the third and then Tsung-Hua Yang is number four. Greg Jones takes the fifth seed spot and Danal Udomchoke is the sixth. Marinko Matosevic is seventh and Yuichi Sugita takes eighth. The winner of this tournament will take home $7200 in cash and $4240 will go to second place. Sign up at the bnners and you'll get instant access to high quality video from your computer or mobile device. All you have to do is sign up at the links on this page.
Posted: 2nd February 2010
Burnie, Australia, is the place for the ATP Challenger event of the week. It's the Burnie International, with players on the Challenger Tour hoping to improve their skills and prove that they can hack it on the main tour. This tournament is sponsored by McDonalds and is a $50,000 hard court tourney that goes on Tuesday, February 2nd. You can watch this exciting ATP Challenger Tournament by clicking on the links on this page and getting your membership to watch in high quality video right from your computer.
This tournament features Bernard Tomic, a seventeen year old from Germany who has been making waves on the international tennis circuit. He played Marin Cilic in the Australian Open and amazingly was able to keep him going for five grueling sets. Tomic is just one of the rising stars that has qualified for this year's main draw in the Burnie International, and the top seed is Grega Zemlja from Slovakia who is paired up in the first round against Australian Rameez Junaid. Tomic will play New Zealander Daniel-King Turner.
The rest of the seeds go as follows: Guillaume Rufin in the number two spot, matched up in round one against Jose Statham and Marinko Matosevic as the third seed against Sadik Kadir from Australia. Fourth seed is Brydan Klein from Australia and a Japanese player is the fifth: Tatsuma Ito. Sixth seed will be Australian Nick Lindahl followed by Greg Jones and Matthew Ebden. You can watch this event right from your computer with your membership, which can be had by clicking on any of the banners on this page as the Burnie International starts on Feburary 2nd.
Tags: ATP Challenger Tour, Burnie, Kazan Kremlin Cup, Denis Istomin, Danal Udomchoke, ATP Challenger, Bernard Tomic, Marin Cilic, Grega Zemlja, Rameez Junaid Posted: 31st January 2012 ATP Tour » Challenger Burnie Live |
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