The ATP Challenger Tour holds several events this week, one in Vancouver, Canada that features a giant prize purse of $100,000. Then we have another event that will be held fro $75,000 that will happen in Biejing, China and then our featured event will happen in Manta, Ecuador. This ATP Challenger tournament is worth $35,000, and it is officially called the IX Manta Open – Trofeo Ricardo Delgado Aray. The dates are from the 30^th of July to the 4^th of August and the surface will be hard courts.

The winner of this tournament will ge to take home 80 points and $5000, while the finalist gets $3000 and 48 points. The semifinalists will receive a prize of $1,755 and 29 points and then quarterfinalist get $1,020 and 15 points. The top seed in this tournament is Joao Souza with Guido Pella as second. Third and fourth seeds are Victor Estrella and Guido Andreozzi and then Augustin Velotti comes in at fifth while Carlos Salamanca takes the sixth spot. Julio Ceasar Campozano and Facundo Arguello will take the seventh and eighth seeded spots.