The 2009 Status Athens Open

Status Athens Open

The Status Athens Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Athens, Greece, since 2008.-Singles:-Doubles:...

was a professional tennis

Tennis

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

2009 ATP Challenger Tour

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. It took place in Athens

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, Greece

Greece

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 between 6 and 12 April 2009.

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
Czech Republic	Ivo Minář Ivo Minár Ivo Minář is a professional male tennis player from the Czech Republic. On July 20, 2009, Minář reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 62...	96	1
Uzbekistan	Denis Istomin Denis Istomin Denis Istomin is a professional Uzbek tennis player. His career high rank is #39, achieved on August 30, 2010. He is coached by his mother.- 2006 :...	106	2
Romania	Victor Crivoi Victor Crivoi Victor Crivoi is a Romanian tennis player who lives in Bucharest. In 2005, he played in the International Tennis Federation's Professional Circuit and won seven titles. As a result, he was named the ITF's "Player Of The Year" for 2005. At the end of 2005, he was ranked #269 by the ATP, up from...	115	3
Croatia	Roko Karanušić Roko Karanušic Roko Karanušić is a Croatian professional tennis player. He turned pro in 2000, and his career high was on February 2, 2009, when he reached No. 88 in the ATP rankings.-Singles Titles:...	116	4
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:* *...	122	5
Uruguay	Pablo Cuevas Pablo Cuevas Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open Men's Doubles title with Luis Horna....	129	6
Serbia	Ilija Bozoljac Ilija Bozoljac Ilija Bozoljac or Ilia Bozoljac is a professional male tennis player from Serbia....	133	7
Czech Republic	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:...	137	8

• Rankings are as of March 23, 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Konstantinos Economidis

Konstantinos Economidis

Konstantinos Economidis is a professional Greek tennis player. In 2007, he qualified for the French Open and defeated Australian Chris Guccione in the first round before losing to Tommy Robredo in the second round. He suffered injury in 2008 and in January 2010 was ranked 653 in the world. He...

 Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas Alex Jakupovic

Alex Jakupovic

Alexandros Jakupovic is a Greek tennis player.His career high ATP singles rank is 464, which he achieved on March 9, 2009. As of October 17,2011, on the futures level in singles, he has 28 quartefinal losses, 13 semifinal losses, 7 runner-ups and 2 titles. As for doubles on the futures level, he...

 Dimitris Kleftakos

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Leonardo Azzaro Jan Hájek

Jan Hájek (tennis)

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 Dušan Lojda

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 Joseph Sirianni

Joseph Sirianni

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Men's singles

  Rui Machado

Rui Machado

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def.   Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava

Daniel Muñoz-De La Nava

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Men's doubles

  Rameez Junaid

Rameez Junaid

Rameez Junaid is an Australian tennis player of Pakistani descent.Junaid is based in Melbourne, Victoria. He usually plays doubles with Philipp Marx from Germany. Rameez is currently ranked top 100 in doubles, and has also played doubles with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi before, in Dubai in...

/   Philipp Marx

Philipp Marx

Philipp Marx is a German professional tennis player. Marx competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 300, on April 3, 2006, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No...

def.   Jesse Huta Galung

Jesse Huta Galung

Jesse Huta Galung is a professional Dutch tennis player.-Singles Titles:-External links:*...

 /   Rui Machado

Rui Machado

Rui Machado is a Portuguese professional tennis player that competes in the ATP World Tour. In October 2011, he achieved he achieved a career-high singles world ranking no. 59, the highest ranking a Portuguese player has ever held.- Early life :At the age of six, Machado was first introduced to...

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