The 2009 Sanremo Tennis Cup 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 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 Sanremo

Sanremo

Sanremo or San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Founded in Roman times, the city is best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts numerous cultural events, such as the Sanremo Music Festival...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 between May 4 and May 10, 2009.

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
Serbia	Ilija Bozoljac Ilija Bozoljac Ilija Bozoljac or Ilia Bozoljac is a professional male tennis player from Serbia....	136	1
Spain	Pere Riba Pere Riba Pere Riba Madrid is a Spanish professional tennis player. Riba competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 65, on May 16, 2011, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 81, on June 7, 2010...	145	2
Italy	Filippo Volandri Filippo Volandri Filippo Volandri is an Italian professional male tennis player. Volandri is a right-handed player who reached a career-high ranking of 25 on July 23, 2007. He turned pro in 1997, and as of January 2006, had earned over $1,300,000 in prize money...	149	3
Netherlands	Jesse Huta Galung Jesse Huta Galung Jesse Huta Galung is a professional Dutch tennis player.-Singles Titles:-External links:*...	153	4
Italy	Tomas Tenconi Tomas Tenconi Tomas Tenconi is an Italian professional tennis player.-ATP Tournaments Finals:-Titles :-External links:*...	156	5
Spain	Miguel Ángel López Jaén Miguel Angel Lopez Jaen Miguel Ángel López Jaén is a professional tennis player from Spain.- Junior career :López Jaén had a brief career at the top level of Juniors play, reaching a high of #76 in April, 2000 before turning his sights on pro tournaments.- 2000 to 2007 :López Jaén cracked the top-300 as a 20 year old in...	171	6
South Africa	Kevin Anderson Kevin Anderson (tennis) Kevin Anderson is a male South African tennis player.He became the top-ranked South African player on 10 March 2008 after making the final at the 2008 Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas...	171	7
Kazakhstan	Yuri Schukin Yuri Schukin -2008:The 6 ft 2 inch 181 pound Russian began the 2008 tour season by losing in the first round to Rajeev Ram at the Chennai Open 6–7 , 6–7 .-References:...	177	8

• Rankings are as of April 27, 2009.

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Daniele Bracciali

Daniele Bracciali

Daniele Bracciali is an Italian tennis player. His career-high ranking in singles is World No. 49, achieved on May 8, 2006.-Career:Bracciali won his only ATP singles title so far in April 2006, at Casablanca, on clay...

 Thomas Fabbiano

Thomas Fabbiano

Thomas Fabbiano is an Italian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On November 15, 2010, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 305 whilst his highest doubles ranking was No. 208 on July 20, 2009.-Doubles finals: 1 :...

 Enrico Fioravante Giancarlo Petrazzuolo

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Martín Alund

Martín Alund

Martín Alund is an Argentine professional tennis player. Alund has won one ATP Challenger event, in doubles.-ATP Tournaments Finals:-Runner-Up :-External links:*...

 Benjamin Balleret

Benjamin Balleret

Benjamin Balleret is a professional tennis player on the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour.-Career:...

 Daniele Giorgini

Daniele Giorgini

Daniele Giorgini is an Italian professional tennis player.-Doubles: 12 :-External links:...

 Blaž Kavčič

Blaž Kavčič

Blaž Kavčič is a Slovenian professional tennis player, turned professional in 2005. He considers clay his favourite surface...

The following players received special exempt into the singles main draw: Ivan Dodig

Ivan Dodig

Ivan Dodig is a Croatian tennis player. His career-high rank ATP singles ranking is No. 32 and his best doubles rank is No. 129.-2010:...

 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....

Singles

  Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson (tennis)

Kevin Anderson is a male South African tennis player.He became the top-ranked South African player on 10 March 2008 after making the final at the 2008 Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas...

def.   Blaž Kavčič

Blaž Kavčič

Blaž Kavčič is a Slovenian professional tennis player, turned professional in 2005. He considers clay his favourite surface...

, 2–6, 6–2, 7–5.

Doubles

  Yuri Schukin

Yuri Schukin

-2008:The 6 ft 2 inch 181 pound Russian began the 2008 tour season by losing in the first round to Rajeev Ram at the Chennai Open 6–7 , 6–7 .-References:...

/   Dmitri Sitak

Dmitri Sitak

Dmitri Yurievich Sitak is a Russian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On November 17, 2003, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 356, whilst his highest doubles ranking of 138 was reached on March 22, 2010...

def.   Daniele Bracciali

Daniele Bracciali

Daniele Bracciali is an Italian tennis player. His career-high ranking in singles is World No. 49, achieved on May 8, 2006.-Career:Bracciali won his only ATP singles title so far in April 2006, at Casablanca, on clay...

 /   Giancarlo Petrazzuolo, 6–4, 7–6(4).