This week on the ATP Challenger Tour, an event in Penza, Russia that is to be played on hard courts for $50,000. This event is one of the four big ones this week and will be joined by a clay court event in An-Ning, China, That tournament is also worth $50,000 as are two others. One of them is in the United States, in Binghamton, New York and is played on hard courts and another is also on hard surface played in Granby, Canada. Then, wehave an event in Poznan, Poland that will be played on clay and another on hard courts in Recanti, Italy.

The official name of this tournament is the Penza Cup 2012, and the tournament dates are from the 16^th of July to the 21^st. The winner gets $7200 and 80 points, the finalist 48 points and $4240. Semifinalist get 29 points and $2510. The top seed is Alexander Kudryavtsev and the second is Evgeny Donskoy. Konstantin Kravchuk is third and Yuki Bhambri is the fourth seed. Fifth and sixth are Kamil Capkovic and Denya Molchanov, and then the seventh is a player named Evgeny Kirillov. Andrey Kumantsov is the eighth seed.