It is preparation time for the clay court season in Colombia this week and five top 100 players will be there along with a number of others who are hoping to reach that milestone at some point this season. The first round has thrown out a lot of interesting matches and with a number one seed who isn't generally at her best on the clay courts, it's all to play for in Cali.

Two finals that were very different in terms of the gulf between the finalists this week. Julia Boserup's destructive form continued as she smashed her way past Lauren Davis. On the other hand, it took two tie-break sets to finally separate the Pliskova twins.

Robert Kendrick comes back after his 8 month ban (initially 12 month, but it got shortened) for using methylhexaneamine. Instantly he gets to play a hot name and big hope Jack Sock. Another futures steam player Rhyne Williams gets Robby Ginepri who was so good in Hawaii challenger. Very cruel draw here.

This year we're aiming at becoming a more complete tennis website and this way you'll have a pleasure of reading here tennis articles. You can find the list on the strap below the logo. Welcome our publicist, Maria (yes, that's the girl on the photo and yes, that's the annual Ostrava Challenger reporter).

Defending champion David Guez stands in front of a big chance for a failure as he drew top seed Edouard Roger-Vasselin who is in alright shape and even tried himself on the main tour. Of course ERV is a favourite in this match and one of the main tournament favourites.

Estonian Jurgen Zopp beat defending champion Marius Copil from Romania 7-6(4) 7-6(4) to win his first challenger title in Kazan, Russia.

Two young, unseeded Americans will meet in the Rancho Santa Fe final. Julia Boserup has pulled off some big results while Lauren Davis has taken advantage of her draw to reach the final. Davis is seen as having more potential by most people than Boserup, but a win today will start more and more people wondering what Boserup has to offer.

The prediction that this tournament would be all about the Pliskova sisters has come true and they meet in the final today. Kristyna Pliskova had to save match point in the semi final, but battled through to face her sister in what is expected to be a very close final.

Decent Yen-Hsun Lu from Taipei is the top seed and the terribly out of shape home boy Marinko Matosevic is seeded second. The first plays a qualifier (no one dangerous in there) and the other faces his compatriot James Lemke. The chap hasn't made a bigger career other than winning some Australian futures; maybe because as his ITF profile claims he had started playing tennis aged 73.

Jurgen Zopp from Estonia received a walkover from Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili while defending champion Marius Copil (ROU) beat Ivo Minar from Czech Republic 6-3 6-4.

Winner of Burnie Challenger, Danai Udomchoke, gives a post-match interview to the tournament website. Here is our transcript.