STARNBERG, December 23, 2021

The 2022 season on the ATP Challenger Tour will be unwrapped in the first week of January with a quartet of tournaments to be held on three different continents, as players hit the hard courts in Australia and Italy as well as the clay courts in South America.

In the lead up to the Australian Open, the Bendigo Tennis Association will welcome the tennis pros in Victoria for the $58,320 Bendigo International. The entry list is led by three players ranked inside the Top 150: World No. 138 Nikola Milojevic of Serbia, World No. 144 Cem Ilkel from Turkey and 150th-ranked Frenchman Hugo Grenier.

Traralgon, a town located in the east of the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria will host the eighth edition of the $58,320 Traralgon International. The projected top three seeds are all from the Czech Republic: World No. 141 Jiri Lehecka, World No. 142 Zdenek Kolar and World No. 143 Tomas Machac. Both tournaments down under will feature a 48-man draw.

The Dove Men & Care Legión Sudamericana Tigre will be held in Buenos Aires, as Argentina joins the opening-week party. The $37,250 clay-court tournament will be hosted by the Club Naútico Hacoaj. A strong contingent of home favourites will dominate the entry list led by World No. 271 Guido Andreozzi, World No. 303 Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna and World No. 313 Genaro Alberto Olivieri.

The first of four tournaments “Città di Forli” in Forli, a city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, will also take place that week. World No. 215 Jay Clarke of Great Britain, World No. 227 Cedrik-Marcel Stebe from Germany and US-American Christian Harrison, ranked World No. 256, are the projected top three seeds of the €31,440 indoor event hosted by the Cooperativa Tennis Villa Carpena.

January calendar is out! The 2022 opening slate…

3 Jan
🇦🇺 Bendigo | 🇦🇺 Traralgon | 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires | 🇮🇹 Forli-1

10 Jan
🇧🇷 Florianopolis | 🇮🇹 Forli-2

17 Jan
🇨🇱 Concepcion | 🇮🇹 Forli-3

24 Jan
🇫🇷 Quimper | 🇧🇴 Santa Cruz | 🇺🇸 Columbus

31 Jan
🇵🇷 Bayamon | 🇺🇸 Cleveland pic.twitter.com/gaTf30brVJ

— ATP Challenger Tour (@ATPChallenger) November 26, 2021

Bendigo International Entry List 

1 Nikola Milojevic 138
2 Cem Ilkel 144
3 Hugo Grenier 150
4 Quentin Halys 151
5 Federico Gaio 153
6 Salvatore Caruso 157
7 Damir Dzumhur 158
8 Stefan Kozlov 159
9 Ernesto Escobedo 164
10 Gregoire Barrere 166
11 Jason Jung 178
12 Enzo Couacaud 179
13 Dmitry Popko 180
14 Blaz Rola 181
15 Daniel Masur 183
16 Dimitar Kuzmanov 187
Renzo Olivo 189
Zizou Bergs 191
Gian Marco Moroni 197
Vit Kopriva 198
Marco Trungelliti 199
Franco Agamenone 201
Roberto Marcora 202
Yasutaka Uchiyama 203
Thomas Fabbiano 204
Flavio Cobolli 205
Lorenzo Giustino 207
Facundo Mena 209
Mathias Bourgue 211
Ruben Bemelmans 212
Camilo Ugo Carabelli 213
Mohamed Safwat 214
Nicolas Kicker 216
Gastao Elias 217
Andrea Pellegrino 218
Alexandre Muller 224
Mikael Torpegaard 231
Mirza Basic 233
Matthias Bachinger 234

Traralgon International Entry List

1 Jiri Lehecka 141
2 Zdenek Kolar 142
3 Tomas Machac 143
4 Christopher Eubanks 160
5 Illya Marchenko 163
6 Bjorn Fratangelo 165
7 Mitchell Krueger 169
8 J.J. Wolf 174
9 Mikhail Kukushkin 182
10 Marc-Andrea Huesler 186
11 Filip Horansky 195
12 Jason Kubler 206
13 Kimmer Coppejans 208
14 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski 221
15 Jesper De Jong 226
16 Maximilian Marterer 229
Robin Haase 230
Geoffrey Blancaneaux 235
Juan Pablo Ficovich 236
Frederico Ferreira Silva 240
Thiago Agustin Tirante 241
Nicola Kuhn 242
Manuel Guinard 243
Vitaliy Sachko 244
Pedro Cachin 245
Dominic Stricker 246
Go Soeda 247
Nino Serdarusic 252
Tobias Kamke 255
Timofey Skatov 257
Tim Van Rijthoven 261
Andrea Collarini 262
Yosuke Watanuki 266
Ryan Peniston 268
Lukas Rosol 273
Hiroki Moriya 289
Akira Santillan 335

Buenos Aires ATP Challenger Tour Entry List 

1 Guido Andreozzi 271
2 Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna 303
3 Genaro Alberto Olivieri 313
4 Gonzalo Lama 322
5 Igor Marcondes 324
6 Hernan Casanova 325
7 Carlos Gimeno Valero 329
8 Facundo Diaz Acosta 338
Luciano Darderi 341
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 349
Daniel Dutra da Silva 350
Nick Hardt 353
Alexis Gautier 357
Pedro Sakamoto 359
Matteo Arnaldi 362
Facundo Juarez 377
Noah Rubin 390
Mats Rosenkranz 404
Francisco Comesana 411
Carlos Gomez-Herrera 412
Nicolas Alvarez 415
Gonzalo Villanueva 437

Città di Forli ATP Challenger Tour Entry List

1 Jay Clarke 215
2 Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 227
3 Christian Harrison 256
4 Tung-Lin Wu 270
5 Alexander Ritschard 276
6 Tristan Lamasine 277
7 Goncalo Oliveira 282
8 Evgenii Tiurnev 283
Zsombor Piros 288
Evan Furness 290
Arthur Cazaux 297
Nerman Fatic 299
Julian Lenz 301
Matteo Viola 304
Riccardo Bonadio 305
Zhizhen Zhang 321
Alexander Shevchenko 328
Francesco Forti 330
Miljan Zekic 332
Jelle Sels 333
Michael Geerts 336
Ergi Kirkin 337
Alexey Vatutin 339