The 2009 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger

Tallahassee Tennis Challenger

The Tallahassee Tennis Challenger 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 at the Forestmeadows Tennis Complex in Tallahasee, Florida, USA, since...

was a professional tennis

Tennis

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 tournament played on outdoor hard 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 Tallahassee

Tallahassee, Florida

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, United States

United States

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 between 20 and 26 April 2009.

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
United States	Bobby Reynolds Bobby Reynolds ----Robert "Bobby" Thomas Reynolds in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) is an American professional tennis player who resides in Acworth, Georgia.-Professional career:...	67	1
United States	Robert Kendrick Robert Kendrick Robert Bradley Kendrick is an American tennis player. He turned professional in 1999. His career high single ranking is world no. 69, achieved on July 20, 2009. He was suspended for a year after testing positive at the 2011 French Open for the drug methylhexanamine, which has been banned in sport...	82	2
United States	Kevin Kim Kevin Kim - External links :* *...	104	3
United States	Vince Spadea Vince Spadea Vincent Spadea [SPAY-dee-ya] is an ATP Tour professional tennis player from the United States. He is one of only four players in history to defeat Roger Federer 6–0 in set, at a major event....	109	4
Canada	Frank Dancevic Frank Dancevic Frank Russell Dancevic is a Canadian professional tennis player. He first became the country's top singles player, according to ATP rankings, on February 10, 2003, as an eighteen-year old, and remained so from January 30, 2006 until June 20, 2010. He is the Canada No...	112	5
Japan	Go Soeda Go Soeda Go Soeda is a male Japanese tennis player. He is currently coached by Davide Sanguinetti.He started playing tennis at the age of 4, and turned professional in April 2003.- Juniors :...	117	6
United States	John Isner John Isner John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of no. 18 on July 5, 2010, and has been as high as the second-ranked American tennis player behind Andy Roddick...	126	7
United States	Jesse Levine Jesse Levine Jesse Levine is a Canadian-born American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles rank of No. 94 on November 3, 2008....	132	8

• Rankings are as of April 12, 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Jean-Yves Aubone Taylor Dent

Taylor Dent

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 Michael McClune

Michael McClune

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 Tim Smyczek

Tim Smyczek

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The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Ričardas Berankis

Ricardas Berankis

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 Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming is a British professional tennis player who lives in Linlithgow.He was selected for 2009 Great Britain Davis Cup team....

 Andis Juška

Andis Juška

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 Jesse Witten

Jesse Witten

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The following players received special exempt into the singles main draw: Im Kyu-tae

Men's singles

  John Isner

John Isner

John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of no. 18 on July 5, 2010, and has been as high as the second-ranked American tennis player behind Andy Roddick...

def.   Donald Young, 7–5, 6–4

Men's doubles

  Eric Butorac

Eric Butorac

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/   Scott Lipsky

Scott Lipsky

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def.   Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming is a British professional tennis player who lives in Linlithgow.He was selected for 2009 Great Britain Davis Cup team....

 /   Ken Skupski

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Ken Skupski is a professional tennis player who lives in Liverpool, England. He is best known as a doubles player, most successfully partnering Colin Fleming. Having played college tennis at the Louisiana State University, he turned professional in 2007...

, 6–1, 6–4