The Tennis Napoli Cup (formerly the Capri Watch Cup) is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor 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. The event was given a single-year ATP 250 license in 2022 due to the cancellation of tournaments in China because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Tennis Napoli Cup
Current event 2024 Tennis Napoli Cup
ATP Challenger Tour
Event nameTennis Napoli Cup
LocationNaples, Italy
VenueTennis Club Napoli
CategoryATP Challenger Tour 125
SurfaceClay
Draw32S/27Q/16D
Prize money 148,625 +H
WebsiteWebsite
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.

History

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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

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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

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Singles

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Year Champion Runner-up Score
2024   Luca Nardi   Pierre-Hugues Herbert 5–7, 7–6(7–3), 6–2
2023 Not held
2022   Lorenzo Musetti   Matteo Berrettini 7–6(7–5), 6–2
2021   Tallon Griekspoor   Andrea Pellegrino 6–3, 6–2
2017–2020 Not held
2016   Jozef Kovalík   Arthur De Greef 6–3, 6–2
2015   Daniel Muñoz de la Nava   Matteo Donati 6–2, 6–1
2014 Not held
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(7–4)
2010   Rui Machado   Federico Delbonis 6–4, 6–4
2009   Pablo Cuevas   Victor Crivoi 6–1, 6–3
2008   Potito Starace   Marcos Daniel 6–4, 4–6, 7–6(7–3)
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(9–7), 6–7(1–7), 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   Gustavo Guerrero 4–6, 6–2, 6–2
1980   Christophe Roger-Vasselin
1979   José Luis Damiani
1978   Peter McNamara
1976–1977 Not held
1975   Ezio Di Matteo
1971–1974 Not held
1970   Ilie Năstase   Martin Mulligan 6–1, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3
1969   Patricio Rodríguez   Martin Mulligan 8–6, 6–3, 0–6, 6–3
1968   Martin Mulligan   Nicola Pietrangeli 6–1, 6–2, 6–2
1967   Martin Mulligan   Nicola Pietrangeli 5–7, 4–6, 6–0, 6–1, 6–0
1966   Nicola Pietrangeli   Tony Roche 8–6, 2–6, 6–2, 6–1
1965   Martin Mulligan   Nicola Pietrangeli 6–4, 6–3, 6–3
1964   Nicola Pietrangeli   José Edison Mandarino 2–6, 6–4, 6–1, 6–3
1963   Jan-Erik Lundqvist   Fred Stolle 6–3, 0–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–1
1962   Fausto Gardini   Sergio Tacchini 4–6, 6–2, 6–1, 6–1
1961   Nicola Pietrangeli   Jan-Erik Lundqvist 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 World War I
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

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Year Champions Runners-up Score
2024   Guido Andreozzi
  Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela
  Théo Arribagé
  Victor Vlad Cornea
6–4, 1–6, [10–7]
2023 Not held
2022   Ivan Dodig
  Austin Krajicek
  Matthew Ebden
  John Peers
6–3, 1–6, [10–8]
2021   Dustin Brown
  Andrea Vavassori
  Mirza Bašić
  Nino Serdarušić
7–5, 7–6(7–5)
2017–
2020
Not held
2016   Gero Kretschmer
  Alexander Satschko
  Matteo Donati
  Stefano Napolitano
6–1, 6–3
2015   Ilija Bozoljac
  Filip Krajinović
  Nikoloz Basilashvili
  Aliaksandr Bury
6–1, 6–2
2014 Not held
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(7–4), 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 Olguín
  Martín Vassallo Argüello
7–5, 7–6(7–5)
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

References

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  1. ^ "ATP Issues 2022 Calendar Updates". atptour.com. 21 July 2022.
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