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The 2009 Chennai Open was a tennis

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tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 14th edition of the Chennai Open

Chennai Open

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, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series

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of the 2009 ATP World Tour

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. It took place at the SDAT Tennis Stadium

SDAT Tennis Stadium

Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu Tennis Stadium, commonly known as SDAT Stadium, sometimes also called Nungambakkam Tennis Stadium, is located in Nungambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and plays host for the Chennai Open ATP Tennis championships held in the first week of January every...

in Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

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, India

India

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, from January 5 through January 10, 2009.

The singles line up was led by Association of Tennis Professionals

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(ATP) No. 5, Tennis Masters Cup

2008 Tennis Masters Cup

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runner-up, Miami

2008 Miami Masters

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Masters, Pörtschach

2008 Hypo Group Tennis International

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and Warsaw

2008 Orange Warsaw Open

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champion Nikolay Davydenko

Nikolay Davydenko

Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko is a Ukrainian-Russian tennis player. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam tournament has been reaching the semifinals, which he has done on four occasions: twice each at the French Open and the U.S. Open. His biggest achievement to date was winning the 2009 ATP...

, Rome

2008 Rome Masters

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Masters finalist and Beijing Olympics doubles gold medalist

Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Stanislas Wawrinka

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, and Costa do Sauípe

2008 Brasil Open

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and Bucharest

2008 BCR Open Romania

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runner-up, 2004 and 2005 Chennai

Chennai Open

The Chennai Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour...

champion Carlos Moyá

Carlos Moyá

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Day One

Marin Čilić

Marin Cilic

Marin Čilić , is a Croatian professional tennis player. His career high ATP ranking is no. 9, achieved on 22 February 2010, following his best-ever performance at a Grand Slam, reaching the semi-finals in the 2010 Australian Open...

, Simon Greul

Simon Greul

Simon Greul is a German male tennis player born April 13, 1981. He is 6'1" tall and weighs 176 lbs . His career high rank was #55, achieved on March 22, 2010.-Career:...

and Björn Phau

Bjorn Phau

Björn Phau is a German tennis player and the son of a German mother and an Indonesian father. He reached a singles ranking of 59 in the world on 19 June 2006. He defeated Andre Agassi 7–5, 7–5 at the 2006 Dubai Tennis Championships. In an interview, Agassi cited Phau as one of the quickest tennis...

were the early winners in the singles event. The no. 3 seed Čilić overcame Alberto Martín

Alberto Martín

----Alberto Martín Magret is a retired tennis player from Spain. He turned professional in 1995.Martin's best Grand Slam performance was reaching the fourth round of Roland Garros in 2006. En route to this performance, Martín's first round win was his first victory over former World number 1 Andy...

from Spain 6–4, 6–4. The German player Greul had a comfortable 6–3, 6–4 victory over Daniel Gimeno-Traver while compatriot Phau beat Santiago Ventura

Santiago Ventura Bertomeu

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6–2, 7–5. Greul will now play another German, the no. 5 seed Rainer Schüttler

Rainer Schüttler

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, who took three sets to emerge victorious against home-favourite Prakash Amritraj

Prakash Amritraj

Prakash Amritraj is a now inactive tour professional tennis player.-Background:Amritaj is the son of Indian tennis great Vijay Amritraj, who played at Wimbledon for 17 years and in the Davis Cup for 20 years. He is also the cousin of fellow tour pro Stephen Amritraj, whose father Anand was also a...

6–2, 4–6, 6–1. In the other completed matches, seeded player Marcel Granollers

Marcel Granollers

Marcel Granollers i Pujol is a professional tennis player from Spain who turned professional in 2003. He reached his highest singles ranking of World Number 33 on August 1, 2011, and his highest doubles ranking of World Number 5.-2006:Granollers made the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in...

(8) reached the second round without too much difficulty, beating Hyung Taik-Lee

Lee Hyung-taik

Hyung-Taik Lee is a retired professional tennis player from South Korea. Lee's career-high ranking in singles is World No. 36, which he achieved in August 2007.-Personal life:...

of South Korea 6–4, 7–5. The only non-Indian wildcard Lukáš Dlouhý

Lukáš Dlouhý

Lukáš Dlouhý is a professional Czech tennis player on the ATP Tour. A doubles specialist, Dlouhý reached a career-high ranking of World Number 5 on June 22, 2009.-2006-2008:...

recorded a 3–6, 6–2, 6–4 win against Go Soeda

Go Soeda

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from Japan and Israel's top player Dudi Sela

Dudi Sela

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overcame Spaniard Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo

Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo

Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo is a professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP entry ranking is #50 , and his current ranking is #84 . He turned pro in 1998...

4–6, 7–6(3), 6–1.

The men's doubles also started on the first day. The only seeds in action, American Scott Lipsky

Scott Lipsky

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and David Martin

David Martin (tennis)

David Martin is a professional American tennis player.He teamed with Scott Lipsky to win his first ATP doubles title in February 2008 at the SAP Open in San Jose, California, defeating the number one ranked doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan.-Tennis career:Before attending Stanford, David was a US...

of Sweden progressed to the second round with a 7–6(9), 6–3 victory over home player Rohan Bopanna

Rohan Bopanna

Rohan Bopanna is an Indian professional tennis player. His singles career high ranking was 213th in 2007. Recently, most of his appearances in professional tournaments has been in doubles matches. He is a member of the Indian Davis Cup team since 2002...

and Italian Flavio Cipolla

Flavio Cipolla

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. American duo Eric Butorac

Eric Butorac

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and Rajeev Ram

Rajeev Ram

Rajeev Ram is an American professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. Rajeev is a tall, lanky player with a serve-and-volley style who is known best as a doubles specialist. He has advanced as far as the quarter-finals in doubles at three Grand Slams, most recently with Scott Lipsky at the 2011...

advanced 6–1, 6–2 against home wildcards Yuki Bhambri

Yuki Bhambri

Yuki Bhambri is a male Indian professional tennis player. Yuki is managed by IMG and trains at the IMG Bollettieri Academy in Bradenton, Florida.-Junior career:...

and Harsh Mankad

Harsh Mankad

----Harsh Mankad is a professional tennis player from India. He is the grandson of cricketer Vinoo Mankad, and the son of cricketer Ashok Mankad, and tennis player Nirupama Vasant....

. Oliver Marach

Oliver Marach

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of Austria and Serbian Janko Tipsarević

Janko Tipsarevic

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beat Spaniards Carlos Moyá

Carlos Moyá

and Pablo Andújar

Pablo Andújar

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3–6, 6–3, [10-4] (champions tiebreak) to set up a match with Lipsky and Martin in round two.

Seeded players out (singles): None
Seeded players out (doubles): None

Day Two

In the remaining first round matches, world #5 and top seed, Russian Nikolay Davydenko

Nikolay Davydenko

, eased to a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Austrian Daniel Köllerer

Daniel Köllerer

Daniel Köllerer is a former professional tennis player from Austria who turned professional in 2002. Nicknamed "Crazy Dani" for his controversial behaviour while on court, he achieved his career-high ranking of #55 on October 19, 2009. He is serving a lifetime ban from the sport for match-fixing...

in his first match. He was joined by #4 seed Ivo Karlović

Ivo Karlovic

Ivo Karlović is a Croatian tennis player. He has won four ATP singles titles: three in 2007 and one in 2008. Karlović is the tallest player ever on the ATP Tour at 208 cm . He is a serve-and-volleyer, Karlovic holds the fastest serve recorded in professional tennis, measured at 251 km/h ...

of Croatia (defeated American Rajeev Ram

Rajeev Ram

6–0, 6–3), #6 Carlos Moyá

Carlos Moyá

of Spain (triumphed against Danai Udomchoke

Danai Udomchoke

Danai Udomchoke is a professional tennis player from Thailand. He was born in Bangkok, where he still resides.Udomchoke turned professional in 1997, and is coached by Jan Stoce. He is sponsored by Dunlop Sport for his racquets and apparel. His career-best ranking is World No...

6–3, 7–6(4)), and #7 Janko Tipsarević

Janko Tipsarevic

Janko Tipsarević is a Serbian tennis player. His career-high ranking is No. 9, achieved on 14 November 2011. He is the 117th player in history to crack the top 10....

of Serbia, comfortably advancing with a 6–2, 6–3 victory over Spaniard Pablo Andújar

Pablo Andújar

.#2 seed Stanislas Wawrinka

Stanislas Wawrinka

of Switzerland wasn't as fortunate, falling to Italian qualifer Flavio Cipolla

Flavio Cipolla

6–4, 6–1. The winners were also joined by Uzbek Denis Istomin

Denis Istomin

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who will play Čilić following a 6–4, 7–6 triumph against home player Rohan Bopanna

Rohan Bopanna

; German Andreas Beck

Andreas Beck (tennis)

Andreas Beck is a professional male tennis player of Germany. His career high rank was #33, achieved on November 2, 2009.- 2008 :...

who will play Marcel Granollers after thrashing Roko Karanušić

Roko Karanušic

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6–0, 6–1 and Czech Ivo Minář

Ivo Minár

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, who beat Wayne Odesnik

Wayne Odesnik

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of America 6–0, 6–3 and preceded to face Karlović in round two.

On the doubles side, #3 seeds Rogier Wassen

Rogier Wassen

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& Lovro Zovko

Lovro Zovko

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won their first match, beating Alberto Martín

Alberto Martín

& Dudi Sela

Dudi Sela

6–3, 6–1. They will next face Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram in the quarter-finals. In an all-Spanish match between Daniel Gimeno-Traver / Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo

Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo

Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo is a professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP entry ranking is #50 , and his current ranking is #84 . He turned pro in 1998...

and Marcel Granollers

Marcel Granollers

/ Santiago Ventura

Santiago Ventura Bertomeu

, the latter pair comfortably won 6–4, 6–2.

Seeded players out (singles): [2] Stanislas Wawrinka
Seeded players out (doubles): None

Day Three

Because of rain, no matches were played. However, Lukáš Dlouhý

Lukáš Dlouhý

Lukáš Dlouhý is a professional Czech tennis player on the ATP Tour. A doubles specialist, Dlouhý reached a career-high ranking of World Number 5 on June 22, 2009.-2006-2008:...

advanced when top seed Nikolay Davydenko

Nikolay Davydenko

was forced to withdraw because of a heel inflammation, which will also keep him out of the Australian Open.

Seeded players out (singles): [1] Nikolay Davydenko (withdrew)
Seeded players out (doubles): None

Day Four

Seeded players out (singles): [6] Carlos Moyá
Seeded players out (doubles): [3] Rogier Wassen /Lovro Zovko

Day Five

Seeded players out (singles): [4] Ivo Karlović, [7] Janko Tipsarević
Seeded players out (doubles): [1] Mahesh Bhupathi /Mark Knowles

Day Six

Seeded players out (singles): [8] Marcel Granollers, [5] Rainer Schüttler (withdrew)
Seeded players out (doubles): [4] Scott Lipsky /David Martin

Singles

Marin Čilić
Marin Cilic
Marin Čilić , is a Croatian professional tennis player. His career high ATP ranking is no. 9, achieved on 22 February 2010, following his best-ever performance at a Grand Slam, reaching the semi-finals in the 2010 Australian Open...

def.

Somdev Devvarman

Somdev Devvarman , is a professional Indian tennis player. Three of Devvarman's college conquests, John Isner, Kevin Anderson, and Jesse Levine have successful pro careers. He hit the headlines for being the only collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA, winning...

, 6-4, 7-6(3)

It was Čilić's first title of the year and 2nd of his career.

Doubles

Eric Butorac
Eric Butorac
Eric "Booty" Butorac is an American tennis player. He is a doubles specialist, and has achieved some success in partnership with Britain's Jamie Murray, a fellow left-hander known as "Stretch". He was nicknamed 'Booty' by partner Murray...

/ Rajeev Ram
Rajeev Ram
Rajeev Ram is an American professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. Rajeev is a tall, lanky player with a serve-and-volley style who is known best as a doubles specialist. He has advanced as far as the quarter-finals in doubles at three Grand Slams, most recently with Scott Lipsky at the 2011...

def.

Jean-Claude Scherrer

Jean-Claude Scherrer is a professional tennis player from Switzerland who entered professional play in 1998.-Runners-up :-External links:*...

Stanislas Wawrinka

, 6-3, 6-4

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