Five Challenger Tour Players To Watch At Wimbledon | ATP Tour | Tennis

ATPTour.com seems to be at 5 ATP Challenger Tour gamers to maintain your eyes on throughout Wimbledon.

Max Purcell
The Australian has lit up the Challenger circuit this season, boasting a 34-7 match document at that stage. Purcell has competed in six Challenger finals in 2023 and loved a 15-match profitable streak in February, when he triumphed at Challengers in Chennai, Bengaluru and Pune.

The World No. 64 is now in place to compete in additional ATP Tour occasions and can subsequent purpose to proceed his breakthrough 12 months on the season’s third main. A part of what makes Purcell a difficult opponent on grass is his distinctive fashion of play, which he’ll placed on show in opposition to seventh seed Andrey Rublev within the opening spherical.

“I don’t see anybody hitting slice forehands like I do, so I feel that’s fairly distinctive,” Purcell advised ATPTour.com earlier this 12 months. “I don’t assume you see many singles guys volleying in addition to I do, from all of the doubles [I’ve played]. Huge emphasis on coming to the online once I can and once I do come to the online, ensuring I pull off some good volleys.”

Final 12 months, the 25-year-old Purcell partnered countryman Matthew Ebden at Wimbledon and went on a dream title run to win the lads’s doubles crown. 5 of their six matches went the space, together with the championship match in opposition to Croatians Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic.

Dominic Stricker
The World No. 117 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings, who was topped champion at this 12 months’s Rovereto and Prague Challengers, is the one Swiss participant to win 5 Challenger titles earlier than his twenty first birthday.

The lefty will look to construct on his momentum at Wimbledonthe place he meets Australian Alexei Popyrin within the first spherical. Ought to Stricker advance in his SW19 debut, it could be his first Grand Slam main-draw victory.

The previous junior World No. 3 was a semi-finalist eventually 12 months’s Next Gen ATP Finals and is eligible for the 21-and-under occasion once more this 12 months. Stricker is presently eighth within the Pepperstone ATP Dwell Subsequent Gen Race.

Matthew Arnaldi
The 22-year-old superior via qualifying as the highest seed and can face Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena within the first spherical. Arnaldi has collected a trio of Challenger titles this season, together with final month in Heilbronn, the place the Italian rose to a career-high No. 72 following his triumph.

Arnaldi relied on his deadly forehand to earn his first Prime-10 win on the Mutua Madrid Openthe place he downed third seed Casper Ruud in what he described because the “greatest match of my life”. The Sanremo-native is making his Wimbledon debut.

Sebastian Ofner
The Austrian has tallied a 30-12 Challenger document this season and has competed in 5 Challenger finals. Following a finalist end two weeks in the past on the grass-court Ilkley Challenger, Ofner was awarded a wild card into Wimbledon. The 27-year-old will subsequent purpose to again up his shock run at Roland Garrosthe place he reached the fourth spherical as a qualifier and sealed his Prime 100 debut.

In 2017, Ofner made his first Grand Slam event look on the All England Membership and upset seventeenth seed Jack Sock en path to the third spherical. Ofner will bid for one more run when he begins on Tuesday in opposition to World No. 36 Use Lehecka.

Shintaro Mochizuki
A former junior No. 1, Mochizuki turned the primary Japanese male participant in historical past to win a serious boys’ singles title at Wimbledon in 2019.

The #NextGenATP star has since graduated to the ATP Challenger Tour, the place he received his maiden title in April on the Barletta Challenger. The then-19-year-old turned the third Japanese teenager to win a Challenger title, becoming a member of Kei Nishikori (Bermuda 2008) and Yoshihito Nishioka (Shanghai 2014).

The Kawasaki-native will search for the largest win of his profession within the first spherical when he meets sixteenth seed Tommy Paul.