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Manchester Trophy Challenger

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Manchester Trophy
Tournament information
Event nameManchester Trophy
LocationManchester, United Kingdom
VenueNorthern Lawn Tennis Club
SurfaceGrass
WebsiteOfficial website
ATP Tour
CategoryATP Challenger Tour
Draw32S / 32Q / 16D
Prize money€42,500
WTA Tour
CategoryITF Women's Circuit
Draw32S / 32Q / 16D
Prize money$100,000
French Nicolas Mahut won his first Challenger title in Manchester in 2003
2008 Australian Open doubles champion Andy Ram titled in 2000 alongside Dejan Petrovic
Eventual British top tenner Tim Henman won the doubles event in 1995, partnering Mark Petchey

The Manchester Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was previously part of the ATP Challenger Tour and now currently part of the ITF Women's Circuit. It is held annually at the Northern Lawn Tennis Club in the Didsbury suburb of Manchester, England since 1995. The original defunct tournament, the Manchester Open, began in 1880 as the prestigious Northern Championships and continued until the event became a lower level Challenger tournament in 1995. The Challenger event ended in 2009, but was revived in 2015. The men's tournament was discontinued after the 2016 edition while the women's tournament was established in 2017 and ended in 2019.

Past finals

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Men's singles

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Year Champion Runner-up Score
2016 Germany Dustin Brown Chinese Taipei Lu Yen-hsun 7–6(7–5), 6–1
2015 Australia Sam Groth Australia Luke Saville 7–5, 6–1
2010–
2014
Not held
2009 Belgium Olivier Rochus Netherlands Igor Sijsling 6–3, 4–6, 6–2
2008 Sweden Björn Rehnquist United Kingdom Richard Bloomfield 7–6(10–8), 0–6, 6–3
2007 Israel Harel Levy United States Travis Rettenmaier 6–2, 6–4
2006 India Harsh Mankad United Kingdom Joshua Goodall 7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–4)
2005 Italy Daniele Bracciali Slovakia Igor Zelenay 6–4, 6–4
2004 United Kingdom Alex Bogdanovic Slovakia Michal Mertiňák 6–1, 6–3
2003 France Nicolas Mahut Belgium Gilles Elseneer 6–3, 7–6(7–5)
2002 Belarus Vladimir Voltchkov Slovakia Karol Beck 6–4, 7–6(7–2)
2001 France Jean-François Bachelot United Kingdom Jamie Delgado 6–4, 6–4
2000 Italy Mosé Navarra United Kingdom Martin Lee 6–4, 6–3
1999 Italy Igor Gaudi South Africa Neville Godwin 7–6, 6–2
1998 United Kingdom Chris Wilkinson Italy Stefano Pescosolido 6–3, 6–4
1997 Spain Oscar Burrieza-Lopez Italy Stefano Pescosolido 7–6, 2–6, 6–1
1996 Australia Ben Ellwood Netherlands Fernon Wibier 6–4, 6–4
1995 United Kingdom Chris Wilkinson Germany Christian Saceanu 6–4, 6–4

Women's singles

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Year Champion Runner-up Score
2020
Tournament cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019 Poland Magda Linette Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas 7–6(7–1), 2–6, 6–3
2018 Tunisia Ons Jabeur Spain Sara Sorribes Tormo 6–2, 6–1
2017 Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas Serbia Aleksandra Krunić 6–4, 6–4

Men's doubles

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Year Champions Runners-up Score
2016 India Purav Raja
India Divij Sharan
United Kingdom Ken Skupski
United Kingdom Neal Skupski
6–3, 3–6, [11–9]
2015 Australia Chris Guccione
Brazil André Sá
South Africa Raven Klaasen
United States Rajeev Ram
walkover
2010–
2014
Not held
2009 United Kingdom Joshua Goodall
United Kingdom Jonathan Marray
United Kingdom Colin Fleming
United Kingdom Ken Skupski
6–7(1–7), 6–3, 11–9
2008 Australia Adam Feeney
Australia Robert Smeets
India Harsh Mankad
India Ashutosh Singh
6–3, 6–7(5–7), 10–6
2007 India Rohan Bopanna
Pakistan Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Netherlands Jesse Huta Galung
Sweden Michael Ryderstedt
4–6, 6–3, 10–5
2006 United Kingdom Joshua Goodall
United Kingdom Ross Hutchins
Australia Chris Guccione
France Thomas Oger
3–6, 7–5, 10–5
2005 United Kingdom Mark Hilton
United Kingdom Jonathan Marray
United Kingdom James Auckland
United Kingdom Dan Kiernan
6–3, 6–2
2004 France Jean-François Bachelot
France Nicolas Mahut
Pakistan Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Croatia Lovro Zovko
6–2, 6–4
2003 United Kingdom Martin Lee
United Kingdom Arvind Parmar
United Kingdom Dan Kiernan
United Kingdom David Sherwood
6–3, 2–6, 6–2
2002 Slovakia Karol Beck
Pakistan Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Hong Kong John Hui
Australia Anthony Ross
6–3, 7–6(7–2)
2001 Australia Ben Ellwood
Sweden Fredrik Lovén
South Africa Wesley Moodie
South Africa Shaun Rudman
4–6, 7–5, 6–4
2000 Australia Dejan Petrovic
Israel Andy Ram
Switzerland Yves Allegro
Switzerland Ivo Heuberger
6–2, 7–6
1999 South Africa Jeff Coetzee
South Africa Neville Godwin
United Kingdom Jamie Delgado
United Kingdom Martin Lee
6–4, 6–2
1998 Italy Mosé Navarra
Italy Stefano Pescosolido
Australia Wayne Arthurs
Australia Ben Ellwood
6–1, 6–7, 7–6
1997 United Kingdom Mark Petchey
United Kingdom Danny Sapsford
Israel Noam Behr
Switzerland Filippo Veglio
6–3, 6–7, 7–6
1996 Belarus Max Mirnyi
Israel Lior Mor
Belgium Dick Norman
Netherlands Fernon Wibier
7–5, 7–6
1995 United Kingdom Tim Henman
United Kingdom Mark Petchey
Italy Massimo Bertolini
Italy Diego Nargiso
6–3, 6–4

Women's doubles

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Year Champions Runners-up Score
2020
Tournament cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019 China Duan Yingying
China Zhu Lin
United States Robin Anderson
Romania Laura Ioana Paar
6–4, 6–3
2018 Thailand Luksika Kumkhum
India Prarthana Thombare
United Kingdom Naomi Broady
United States Asia Muhammad
7–6(7–5), 6–3
2017 Poland Magdalena Fręch
Belgium An-Sophie Mestach
Chinese Taipei Chang Kai-chen
New Zealand Marina Erakovic
6–4, 7–6(7–5)
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