The 2009 ATP Challenger Trophy

ATP Challenger Trophy

The ATP Challenger Trophy is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Trnava, Slovakia, since 2007.-Singles:-Doubles:...

was a professional tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour

2009 ATP Challenger Tour

The Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour is the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2009 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprises 20 top tier Tretorn SERIE+ tournaments, and 142 regular series tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to...

. It took place in Trnava

Trnava

Trnava is a city in western Slovakia, 47 km to the north-east of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a kraj and of an okres . It was the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric . The city has a historic center...

, Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 between 21 and 27 September 2009.

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
Russia	Teymuraz Gabashvili	79	1
Algeria	Lamine Ouahab Lamine Ouahab Lamine Ouahab is a professional Algerian tennis player.-Career:Ouahab turned professional in 2004, when he got a wild card into the Olympics main draw....	118	2
Czech Republic	Jan Hájek Jan Hájek (tennis) Jan Hájek is a male professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is right-handed with a double handed backhand. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on November 6, 2006, when he reached world number 71....	121	3
Ukraine	Sergiy Stakhovsky Sergiy Stakhovsky Sergiy Stakhovsky is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and had been playing mostly at the Challenger level from 2005–2008. His career high in singles of #31 and his high of #86 in doubles...	147	4
Slovakia	Dominik Hrbatý Dominik Hrbatý Dominik Hrbatý is a retired professional tennis player from Slovakia.-Personal life:Hrbatý was born on 4 January 1978 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. His father was an architecture engineer and his younger brother is an umpire...	154	5
Germany	Julian Reister Julian Reister Julian Reister is a German professional tennis player. His career high rank was No. 92, achieved on May 2, 2011.-2006:...	160	6
Ukraine	Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr.	164	7
Czech Republic	Jiří Vaněk Jirí Vanek (tennis) Jiří Vaněk is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He was born in Domažlice and lives in Prague. He turned professional in 1995. As of 11 February 2009 he was ranked 119 in the world.-External links:* *...	172	8

• Rankings are as of 14 September, 2009.

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Jaroslav Pospíšil

Jaroslav Pospíšil

Jaroslav Pospíšil is a Czech tennis player playing on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. On May 23, 2011, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 103.-Singles: 4 :-Doubles: 11 :...

 Marek Semjan

Marek Semjan

Marek Semjan is a Slovak tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On August 30, 2010, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 218.-Challenger finals:-Singles: 2 :-Doubles: 2 :-External links:...

 Bohdan Ulihrach

Bohdan Ulihrach

Bohdan Ulihrach is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.-Career:Ulihrach turned professional in 1993. He won his first top-level singles title in July 1995 at Prague, where he defeated Javier Sánchez in the final...

 Lukas Weinhandl

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: György Balázs Cătălin Gârd

Cătălin Gârd

Cătălin-Ionuţ Gârd is a Romanian tennis player. On February 18, 2008, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 224 whilst his highest doubles ranking was 528 achieved on April 20, 2009.-External links:...

 Andrej Martin

Andrej Martin

Andrej Martin is a Slovak tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On January 31, 2011, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 160.-Singles: 1 :-External links:...

 Grzegorz Panfil

Grzegorz Panfil

-Titles :-Runner-Up :-External links:*...

Singles

  Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. def.   Lamine Ouahab

Lamine Ouahab

Lamine Ouahab is a professional Algerian tennis player.-Career:Ouahab turned professional in 2004, when he got a wild card into the Olympics main draw....

, 6–2, 6–2

Doubles

  Grigor Dimitrov

Grigor Dimitrov

Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

/   Teymuraz Gabashvili def.   Jan Minář

Jan Minár

Jan Minář is a professional Czech tennis player. His brother Ivo is also a professional player.-Wins :-Runners-up :-Wins :-Runners-up :-External links:...

 /   Lukáš Rosol

Lukáš Rosol

Lukáš Rosol is a Czech professional tennis player. Rosol competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. Rosol was coached by former Czech player, 1999 US Open quarterfinalist Ctislav Doseděl.-Singles: 19 :-Doubles: 34 :-External links:...

, 6–4, 2–6, [10–8]