Tennis Napoli Cup

Tennis Napoli Cup
2013 Tennis Napoli Cup
ATP Challenger Tour
Event name	Tennis Napoli Cup
Location	Naples, Italy
Venue	Tennis Club Napoli
Category	ATP Challenger Tour
Surface	Clay
Draw	32S/27Q/16D
Prize money	€30,000+H
Website	Website

Italy's Potito Starace finished runner-up in 2005, before collecting three straight singles titles from 2006 to 2008.

Frenchman Richard Gasquet won the singles twice in 2003 and 2005.

Eventual World No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero from Spain won in singles in 1999.

The Tennis Napoli Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Tennis Club Napoli in Naples, Italy, since 1995.

History

The tournament is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in Italy, the Campionato Partenopeo (Parthenopean Championship), which for men's singles was first contested in 1905. Over the years the men's tournament has been combined with other trophies, such as Coppa Gordon Bennet (1907–1910 and 1937), Coppa Reale (1912–1915), Coppa del Municipio di Napoli (1926–1938), Campionato dell’Europa Centrale (1937–1938), Coppa Città di Napoli (1953–1970), Coppa Carlo D'Avalos (1970).

At the time of the amateur tennis the Naples tournament gained increasing importance over the years, becoming one of the pivotal events of the spring season of the courts of Europe and a decisive step in preparation for the Internationals of Italy and those of France. Following the affirmation of professionalism, the tournament lost its relevance and disappeared, rising from the mid-1990s and finding a place within the category of ATP Challenger.

The women's tournament (singles and doubles), played simultaneously with the men's tournament until 1970, now no longer takes place.

Venue

From the beginning, the tournament is played on the courts of the Circolo del Tennis di Napoli, which occupies an area near the ancient Villa Reale di Chiaia, a few meters from the Gulf of Naples and minutes from downtown and historic centre.

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2013	Potito Starace	Alessandro Giannessi	6–2, 2–0 ret.
2012	Andrey Kuznetsov	Jonathan Dasnières de Veigy	7–6(8–6), 7–6(8–6)
2011	Thomas Schoorel	Filippo Volandri	6–2, 7–6(4)
2010	Rui Machado	Federico del Bonis	6–4, 6–4
2009	Pablo Cuevas	Victor Crivoi	6–1, 6–3
2008	Potito Starace	Marcos Daniel	6–4, 4–6, 7–6(3)
2007	Potito Starace	Younes El Aynaoui	7–5, 6–2
2006	Potito Starace	Alessio di Mauro	6–0, 5–1 retired
2005	Richard Gasquet	Potito Starace	4–6, 6–3, 7–5
2004	Gilles Müller	Arnaud di Pasquale	7–6(7), 6–7(1), 6–1
2003	Richard Gasquet	Gilles Müller	6–4, 6–4
2002	David Ferrer	Jean-René Lisnard	6–1, 6–1
2001	Not held
2000	Not held
1999	Juan Carlos Ferrero	Juan Albert Viloca	3–6, 7–6, 6–1
1998	Davide Sanguinetti	Marat Safin	6–4, 6–4
1997	Dinu Pescariu	Oliver Gross	6–4, 6–2
1996	Félix Mantilla	Karim Alami	6–3, 7–5
1995	Thomas Johansson	Frédéric Vitoux	6–0, 6–0
1982-1994	Not held
1981	Damir Keretić
1980	Christophe Roger Vasselin
1979	Josè Damiani
1978	Peter McNamara
1976-1977	Not held
1975	Ezio Di Matteo
1971-1974	Not held
1970	Ilie Năstase
1969	Patricio Rodríguez
1968	Martin Mulligan
1967	Martin Mulligan
1966	Nicola Pietrangeli
1965	Martin Mulligan
1964	Nicola Pietrangeli
1963	Jan-Erik Lundquist	Fred Stolle	6–3, 0–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–1
1962	Fausto Gardini
1961	Nicola Pietrangeli	Jan-Erik Lundquist	6–1, 6–1, 6–2
1960	Not held
1959	Nicola Pietrangeli
1958	Mervyn Rose
1957	Orlando Sirola
1956	Lewis Hoad
1955	Giuseppe Merlo
1954	Not held
1953	Budge Patty
1939-1952	Not held
1938	Boris Maneff
1937	Giovanni Palmieri
1936	Giovanni Palmieri
1935	Giovanni Palmieri
1934	Roderich Menzel
1933	Giorgio De Stefani
1932	Giorgio De Stefani
1931	George Lyttleton-Rogers
1930	Clemente Serventi
1929	Carlo d’Avalos
1928	Antoine Gentien
1927	Carlo d’Avalos
1926	Carlo d’Avalos
1925	Carlo d’Avalos
1924	Carlo d’Avalos
1923	Riccardo Sabbadini
1922	George Grounsell
1921	Riccardo Sabbadini
1920	Riccardo Sabbadini
1919	George Grounsell	Autumn edition
1919	Eugenio Schioppa	Spring edition
1916-1918	Not held due to WWI
1915	Eugenio Schioppa
1914	Mino Balbi di Robecco
1913	Eugenio Schioppa	Autumn edition
1913	Eugenio Schioppa	Spring edition
1912	Tullio Jappelli	Autumn edition
1912	Tullio Jappelli	Spring edition
1911	Title not awarded
1910	Eugenio Schioppa	Autumn edition
1910	Alfredo Pflucker	Spring edition
1909	Alfredo Pflucker	Autumn edition
1909	Alfredo Pflucker	Spring edition
1908	Alfredo Pflucker	Autumn edition
1908	Robert Hotham	Spring edition
1907	Alfredo Pflucker	Autumn edition
1907	Alfredo Pflucker	Spring edition
1906	Alfredo Pflucker
1905	Geoffrey Smith

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2013	Stefano Ianni Potito Starace	Alessandro Giannessi Andrey Golubev	6–1, 6–3
2012	Laurynas Grigelis Alessandro Motti	Rameez Junaid Igor Zelenay	6–4, 6–4
2011	Travis Rettenmaier Simon Stadler	Travis Parrott Andreas Siljeström	6–4, 6–4
2010	Dustin Brown Jesse Witten	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7–6(4), 7–5
2009	Pablo Cuevas David Marrero	Lukáš Rosol Frank Moser	6–4, 6–3
2008	Tomáš Cibulec Jaroslav Levinský	Frederico Gil Luis Horna	6–1, 6–3
2007	Flavio Cipolla Marcel Granollers	Marco Crugnola Alessio di Mauro	6–4, 6–2
2006	Tomáš Cibulec Łukasz Kubot	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	7–5, 4–6, 10–7
2005	Janko Tipsarević Jiří Vaněk	Massimo Bertolini Uros Vico	3–6, 6–4, 6–2
2004	Tomas Behrend Giorgio Galimberti	Michal Tabara Jiří Vaněk	6–1, 6–3
2003	Massimo Bertolini Giorgio Galimberti	Amir Hadad Christophe Rochus	2–6, 7–5, 6–4
2002	Gabriel Trifu Vladimir Voltchkov	Leonardo Olguin Martín Vassallo Argüello	7–5, 7–6(5)
2001	Not held
2000	Not held
1999	Marcos Ondruska Jack Waite	Massimo Bertolini Cristian Brandi	6–4, 7–6
1998	Massimo Bertolini Devin Bowen	Tamer El Sawy Gábor Köves	7–6, 6–2
1997	Aleksandar Kitinov Tom Vanhoudt	Tomás Carbonell Francisco Roig	7–6, 6–4
1996	Omar Camporese Diego Nargiso	Ģirts Dzelde Tomas Nydahl	3–6, 6–4, 7–6
1995	Stefano Pescosolido Vincenzo Santopadre	Kent Kinnear Jack Waite	6–1, 3–6, 6–3

External links

• Official website
• History of the club by Tennis Club Napoli (part 1)
• History of the club by Tennis Club Napoli (part 2)
• 'oro%20e%20risultati%20dei%20tornei%20internazionali).pdf History of the club by Tennis Club Napoli (part 3)