The 2009 San Luis Potosí Challenger

San Luis Potosi Challenger

The San Luis Potosí Challenger 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 San Luis Potosí, Mexico, since 1984 and also in 1980 and 1981...

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 San Luis Potosí

San Luis Potosí

San Luis Potosí officially Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and its capital city is San Luis Potosí....

, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 between 6 and 12 April 2009.

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
Argentina	Horacio Zeballos	126	1
Colombia	Santiago Giraldo Santiago Giraldo Santiago Giraldo Salazar is a Colombian male tennis player from Pereira in Colombia. He plays on the ATP tour and represents Colombia in the Davis Cup competition.-ATP Tour:...	146	2
Brazil	Franco Ferreiro Franco Ferreiro Franco Ferreiro is a professional Brazilian tennis player. He qualified for the 2009 French Open, but lost to Feliciano López in five sets in the first round after leading two sets to love.-Doubles: 2 :...	155	3
Argentina	Mariano Puerta Mariano Puerta Mariano Ruben Puerta is a former Argentine professional male tennis player best known for making the final of the French Open in 2005, where he lost to Rafael Nadal in four sets.-Career:...	205	4
Colombia	Alejandro Falla Alejandro Falla Alejandro Falla Ramirez is a professional male tennis player from Colombia. He turned pro in 2000, plays left-handed, weighs 169 lb and measures 6'1" . At the 2006 Wimbledon tournament, Falla upset 9th seed Nikolay Davydenko and at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open he beat 9th seed Tommy Haas in...	207	5
Switzerland	Michael Lammer Michael Lammer Michael Lammer is a Swiss professional tennis player. He plays right-handed. At the 2009 Allianz Suisse Open in Gstaad, won the doubles tournament with compatriot Marco Chiudinelli...	219	6
Mexico	Santiago González	223	7
Italy	Paolo Lorenzi Paolo Lorenzi Paolo Lorenzi is an Italian professional tennis player. Lorenzi competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 83, on November 9, 2009, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 241, on January 12, 2009...	227	8

• Rankings are as of March 23, 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Luis Manuel Flores Mariano Puerta

Mariano Puerta

Mariano Ruben Puerta is a former Argentine professional male tennis player best known for making the final of the French Open in 2005, where he lost to Rafael Nadal in four sets.-Career:...

 Manuel Sánchez Mariano Zabaleta

Mariano Zabaleta

Mariano Zabaleta is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. He turned professional in 1996. He had an unusual but effective service motion and fighting spirit...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Júlio César Campozano

Júlio César Campozano

Júlio César Campozano is a Ecuadorian tennis player.He sweeped seven singles and five doubles Futures titles, but these aren't his biggest achievements. He won doubles title in 2009 Guayaquil Challenger, competing with his compatriot Emilio Gómez...

 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:**...

 Vincent Millot

Vincent Millot

Vincent Millot is a professional tennis player.-Singles :-External links:...

Men's singles

  Santiago Giraldo

Santiago Giraldo

Santiago Giraldo Salazar is a Colombian male tennis player from Pereira in Colombia. He plays on the ATP tour and represents Colombia in the Davis Cup competition.-ATP Tour:...

def.   Paolo Lorenzi

Paolo Lorenzi

Paolo Lorenzi is an Italian professional tennis player. Lorenzi competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 83, on November 9, 2009, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 241, on January 12, 2009...

, 6–2, 6–7(3), 6–2

Men's doubles

  Santiago González /   Horacio Zeballos def.   Franco Ferreiro

Franco Ferreiro

Franco Ferreiro is a professional Brazilian tennis player. He qualified for the 2009 French Open, but lost to Feliciano López in five sets in the first round after leading two sets to love.-Doubles: 2 :...

 /   Júlio Silva

Júlio Silva

Júlio Silva is a professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1999.He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on November 16, 2009, when he became the number 144 of the world.- Singles :...

, 6–2, 7–6(5)