The 2009 Bancolombia Open 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 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 Bogotá

Bogotá

Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 between 16 and 22 March 2009.

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
Spain	Óscar Hernández	67	1
Portugal	Frederico Gil Frederico Gil Frederico Gil is a Portuguese professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Tour. In April 2011, he achieved a career-high singles world ranking no. 62, the highest ranking a Portuguese player has ever held until September when Rui Machado placed 61st in the rankings...	79	2
Argentina	Brian Dabul Brian Dabul Brian Dabul is a professional tennis player.-Juniors career:Dabul was an outstanding player in juniors tennis, reaching #1 in the world in January, 2002.-2003 to 2007:...	82	3
Spain	Iván Navarro Iván Navarro (tennis) Iván Navarro Pastor is a professional tennis player from Spain. He is sponsored by Head and Li-Ning for his racquets and attire. He employs the serve-and-volley strategy, very much like his compatriot Feliciano López. He has a habit of changing racquets each game, using one racquet for serving and...	83	4
Argentina	Máximo González Máximo González Máximo González Mereira is a professional tennis player from Argentina. His career high ranking is #58, achieved on July 6, 2009.- Early career through 2006 :...	96	5
Argentina	Leonardo Mayer Leonardo Mayer Leonardo Martin Mayer is an Argentine professional tennis player.Mayer achieved a singles career high of world no. 51 on June 7, 2010. His career high in doubles was world no. 94 on March 1, 2010.http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/player.asp?player=100049039 He is coached by Emiliano Redondi...	97	6
Argentina	Sergio Roitman Sergio Roitman Sergio Andres Roitman in Buenos Aires, Argentina, nicknamed Escopeta is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina....	103	7
Brazil	Thiago Alves Thiago Alves (tennis) Thiago Alves is a professional tennis player who competes mainly on the ITF Tour. His career high rank was #88, achieved on July 13, 2009.- In Grand Slams :He has made four Grand Slam main draw appearances, qualifying into the...	123	8

• Rankings are as of March 9, 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Juan Sebastián Cabal

Juan Sebastián Cabal

Juan Sebastián Cabal is a Colombian professional tennis player.-Singles Titles :-Doubles: 1 :-External links:*...

 Alejandro González

Alejandro González (tennis)

Alejandro González is a Colombian professional tennis player. His coach is Ricardo Acioly.-Doubles Titles :-External links:**...

 Michael Quintero

Michael Quintero

Michael Quintero Aguilar is a Colombian professional tennis player. Michael Quintero won eight tournaments in Colombia, Jamaica and Cuba...

 Carlos Salamanca

Carlos Salamanca

Carlos Salamanca Caicedo is a Colombian professional tennis player.-Singles Titles :-External links:*...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Juan Pablo Amado Diego Álvarez Marcel Felder

Marcel Felder

Marcel Felder is a Uruguayan professional tennis player.-Runner-Up :-External links:*...

 Riccardo Ghedin

Riccardo Ghedin

Riccardo Ghedin is an Italian tennis player.Ghedin qualified for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and lost in the first round of the main draw to Latvian Ernests Gulbis 2-6, 4-6, 4-6....

Men's singles

  Horacio Zeballos def.   Santiago González, 7–6(3), 6–0

Men's doubles

  Sebastián Prieto

Sebastián Prieto

Sebastián Prieto is a professional tennis player from Argentina.Primarily a doubles specialist, Prieto has won 9 doubles titles in his career. He began playing for the Argentina Davis Cup team in 1999....

/   Horacio Zeballos def.   Alexander Peya

Alexander Peya

Alexander Peya is an Austrian male tennis player. He reached a career high singles ranking of No. 92 on April 30, 2007. His career high doubles ranking was No. 48 on January 15, 2007. He was born in Vienna, Austria, and currently resides there.In September 2008 Peya helped Austria to a Davis Cup...

 /   Fernando Vicente

Fernando Vicente

Fernando Vicente Fibla is a tennis player from Spain, who turned professional in 1996. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 12 June 2000, when he became the World Number 29.-Singles: 6 :Wins...

, 4–6, 6–1, [11–9]