Volkswagen Challenger

The Volkswagen Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts.

It was part of the ATP Challenger Tour.

It was held annually at the Tennisclub Grün-Gold Wolfsburg in Wolfsburg, Germany, between 1993 and 2012.

Many players won two titles, Axel Pretzsch Ruben Bemelmans in singles Robert Lindstedt, Jean-Claude Scherrer and Martin Sinner in doubles.

But only Axel Pretzsch won both titles simultaneously.

Finn player Jarkko Nieminen took the singles title in 2001
Russian Marat Safin partnered with Dušan Vemić in 1998 to win the doubles
Former World No. 1 in doubles Leander Paes from India won the first edition of the doubles event, alongside Donald Johnson