pFans better get used to the name a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/learner-tien/t0ha/overview'Learner Tien/a./p
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The #NextGenATP star joined elite company in the record books Sunday, when he became the fourth American to win three ATP Challenger Tour titles before his 19th birthday. a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/taylor-fritz/fb98/overview'Taylor Fritz/a, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/andy-roddick/r485/overview'Andy Roddick/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/sam-querrey/q927/overview'Sam Querrey/a also achieved the feat./p
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Tien was crowned champion at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/fairfield/7339/2024/results'Taube - Grossman Pro Tennis Tournament/a, an ATP Challenger 75 event in Fairfield, California, his home state. The lefty raced past Australian a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/bernard-tomic/ta46/overview'Bernard Tomic/a 6-0, 6-1 in a 39-minute final, the shortest championship match in Challenger history. Tien boasts a 28-6 season record at the Challenger level with three titles: Bloomfield Hills, Las Vegas and Fairfield. He is up to a career-high No. 124 in the PIF ATP Rankings./p
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ldquo;If you would have told me six months ago that this is how my year wouldrsquo;ve looked, I probably wouldrsquo;ve been a bit sceptical,rdquo; Tien told commentator Mike Cation. ldquo;But Irsquo;m really happy with how Irsquo;m playing right now and still have a few more to end the year, so hopefully I can keep it rolling.rdquo;/p
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At 18 years, 10 months, Tien is the youngest player to win his third Challenger title since an 18-year-old a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/holger-rune/r0dg/overview'Holger Rune/a in 2021. Tien is sixth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah. He is aiming for maiden qualification for the the 20-and-under a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/next-gen-atp-finals/7696/overview'Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF/a, which runs from 18-22 December in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia./p
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strongVilla Maria/strongbr /
In other Challenger action, it was less straightforward for a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/camilo-ugo-carabelli/u182/overview'Camilo Ugo Carabelli/a, who survived a marathon final to lift his seventh Challenger trophy at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/villa-maria/2811/2024/results'AAT Challenger Santander Edicion Villa Maria/a. The 25-year-old Argentine overcame Dutchman a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jesper-de-jong/d0c1/overview'Jesper de Jong/a 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-4 after three hours, during which Ugo Carabelli saved 10 of the 16 break points he faced, according to Infosys ATP Stats. Ugo Carabelli has won three Challenger titles in 2024./p
pldquo;[Jesper] defeated me in a great battle at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/australian-open/580/overview'Australian Open/a, third round of qualifying... I served for the match and I lost, and today that situation came to my mind," Ugo Carabelli said in Spanish. "The support of the people here made me strong to help me to get the victory."/p
pimg alt="a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/camilo-ugo-carabelli/u182/overview'Camilo Ugo Carabelli/a celebrates winning the Villa Maria Challenger." style="width:100%;" src="/-/media/images/news/2024/10/14/14/00/ugo-carabelli-villamariach-2024.jpg" /br /emsupa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/camilo-ugo-carabelli/u182/overview'Camilo Ugo Carabelli/a celebrates winning the Villa Maria Challenger. Credit: Omar Erre/sup/em
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/strongSpaniard a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/pedro-martinez/mo44/overview'Pedro Martinez/a was crowned champion at the Copa Faulcombridge by Marcos Automocion to reach a career-high No. 39 in the PIF ATP Rankings. The top seed did not drop a set all week to lift his seventh Challenger title. Martinez defeated Portugalrsquo;s a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jaime-faria/f0f2/overview'Jaime Faria/a 6-1, 6-3 in the final./pblockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"Dominant week from start to finish ???? ????br /br /No sets dropped in Valencia for a href="https://twitter.com/PedroMPortero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@PedroMPortero/a as he captures the title with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jaime-faria/f0f2/overview'Jaime Faria/a!a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ATPChallenger?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#ATPChallenger/a | a href="https://twitter.com/copafbvalencia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@copafbvalencia/a a href="https://t.co/pupcVVYEx2"pic.twitter.com/pupcVVYEx2/a/pmdash; ATP Challenger Tour (@ATPChallenger) a href="https://twitter.com/ATPChallenger/status/1845521922106290564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"October 13, 2024/a/blockquote script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"/script
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Australian a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/james-duckworth/d994/overview'James Duckworth/a fought off an early scare en route to a title run at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/hangzhou/2947/2024/results'Hangzhou Binjiang International Tennis Challenger/a. Duckworth, 32, saved a match point in a hard-fought, opening-round match against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/yasutaka-uchiyama/u134/overview'Yasutaka Uchiyama/a and built upon his momentum to claim his 15th Challenger title./p
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The Sydney native rallied past American a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mackenzie-mcdonald/mk66/overview'Mackenzie McDonald/a 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 in the final. Duckworth is the fourth active player to win 15 Challenger titles: a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/ricardas-berankis/be90/overview'Ricardas Berankis/a, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mikhail-kukushkin/k926/overview'Mikhail Kukushkin/a (16) and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/facundo-bagnis/bf23/overview'Facundo Bagnis/a (17)./p
pimg alt="a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/james-duckworth/d994/overview'James Duckworth/a during the Hangzhou Challenger final." style="width:100%;" src="/-/media/images/news/2024/10/14/14/13/duckworth-hangzhouch-2024.jpg" /br /emsupa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/james-duckworth/d994/overview'James Duckworth/a during the Hangzhou Challenger final. Credit: a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/hangzhou/2947/2024/results'Hangzhou Binjiang International Tennis Challenger/a/sup/em
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strongRoanne/strongbr /
Home favourite a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/benjamin-bonzi/bm95/overview'Benjamin Bonzi/a won his second Challenger title of the season and 10th overall at the Open Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes de Roanne. The 28-year-old downed four fellow Frenchmen en route to the title, including a 7-5, 6-1 final victory against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/matteo-martineau/mw76/overview'Matteo Martineau/a./p
pimg alt="a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/benjamin-bonzi/bm95/overview'Benjamin Bonzi/a wins the Roanne Challenger." style="width:100%;" src="/-/media/images/news/2024/10/14/14/22/bonzi-roannech-2024.jpg" /br /emsupa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/benjamin-bonzi/bm95/overview'Benjamin Bonzi/a wins the Roanne Challenger. Credit: Open Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes de Roanne/sup/em
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