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<\/p>\n Challenger
\n Cazaux climbs to career high following Jinan Challenger title run<\/p>\n
Virtanen wins in Roanne; Choinski joins tie for season-leading title count<\/p>\n
October 14, 2025<\/p>\n
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2025 Jinan Open<\/p>\n
Arthur Cazaux is crowned champion at the Jinan Challenger.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Frenchman Arthur Cazaux<\/a> captured his fourth ATP Challenger Tour title on Sunday to secure a new career-high in the PIF ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n \nThe top seed at the 2025 Jinan Open<\/a>, Cazaux dropped just one set all week. He raced past Mackenzie McDonald<\/a> 6-3, 6-2 in the final, earning revenge on the American who beat him in the Shenzhen Challenger final 12 months ago.<\/p>\n \nFollowing his triumph, the 23-year-old is now No. 58 in the PIF ATP Rankings. Jinan marks Cazaux\u2019s first Challenger trophy of this season, during which he has competed in five events at that level. The Montpellier native reached his first tour-level final this year in Kitzb\u00fchel. <\/p>\n \n\u201cFirst title of the year!\u201d Cazaux wrote on Instagram, adding a hashtag \u2018#loveindoors\u2019.<\/p>\n Virtanen remains perfect in Challenger finals \nVirtanen, No. 116 in the PIF ATP Rankings, extended his perfect record in Challenger finals to 8-0. Seven of those eight matches have been played at indoor events, including Roanne. Virtanen\u2019s first Challenger trophy this year came on grass in Birmingham.<\/p>\n University of Arizona standout Friend claims maiden title in surprise run \nFriend, who hails from Tokyo, Japan, qualified for the ATP Next Gen Accelerator programme this year, thanks to his collegiate success at Arizona.<\/p>\n Entering the week as World No. 743, Friend is the second lowest-ranked champion on the Challenger circuit this season (No. 847 Stefano Napolitano<\/a> won in Biella). Friend has soared 263 spots to a career-high No. 480. He entered Fairfield with two victories at the Challenger level, including an August win against Valentin Vacherot<\/a>, who won the ATP Masters 1000 event in Shanghai.<\/p>\n Briton Choinski earns fourth title of 2025, countryman Peniston also wins \nFollowing Choinski\u2019s fourth Challenger trophy of the season, the 29-year-old is now tied atop the 2025 title leaderboard, joining Borna Coric<\/a>, Emilio Nava<\/a> and #NextGenATP Nicolai Budkov Kjaer<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nPeniston dropped just one set across five matches to win the Hersonissos Challenger 5<\/a>. The 29-year-old beat top seed Kimmer Coppejans<\/a> 6-3, 7-5 in the final to secure his Top 200 return for the first time in 20 months.<\/p>\n \nBarrios Vera captures clay-court crown in Cali \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Challenger Cazaux climbs to career high following Jinan Challenger title run Virtanen wins in Roanne; Choinski joins tie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Finland\u2019s Otto Virtanen<\/a> returned to the winner\u2019s circle, claiming his second Challenger title of the year and eighth overall. The 24-year-old won the l’Open Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes de Roanne<\/a>, where he outlasted home hope Hugo Gaston<\/a> 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 in the final.<\/p>\nOtto Virtanen at the Roanne Challenger.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2025\/10\/13\/13\/56\/virtanen-roannech-2025.jpg?w=100%25″>
Otto Virtanen<\/a> at the Roanne Challenger. Credit: Clement Corso<\/p>\n
Jay Dylan Friend<\/a> earned a milestone victory at the Solano Challenger in Fairfield, California. A senior at the University of Arizona, the 21-year-old Friend captured his maiden Challenger title in just his fourth outing at that level. Friend advanced through qualifying en route to the title, ousting a fellow qualifier, Edward Winter<\/a>, 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-2 in the championship match.<\/p>\n
Jan Choinski<\/a> and Ryan Peniston<\/a> took contrasting paths to add hardware to their trophy cabinets. Choinski needed a deciding set in four of his five matches at the Copa Faulcombridge by Marcos Automocion<\/a> in Valencia. In the final, he ended Croatian Luka Mikrut<\/a>\u2019s nine-match winning streak with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 victory. Mikrut won the previous week\u2019s Braga Challenger.<\/p>\nJan Choinski in action at the Valencia Challenger.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2025\/10\/13\/13\/52\/choinski-valenciach-2025.jpg”>
Jan Choinski<\/a> in action at the Valencia Challenger. Credit: Copa Faulcombridge by Marcos Automocion<\/a><\/p>\n
Chilean Tomas Barrios Vera<\/a> capped a dominant week at the Kia Open<\/a> in Cali, Colombia by earning his sixth Challenger title. The top seed raced past Juan Carlos Prado Angelo<\/a> 6-1, 6-4 in the final. Barrios Vera surrendered no more than six games in a match en route to the title. <\/p>\n