The 2009 Tampere Open

Tampere Open

The Tampere Open 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 at the Tampere Tennis Center in Tampere, Finland, since 1982...

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 court

Clay court

A clay court is one of the four different types of tennis court. Clay courts are made of crushed shale, stone or brick. The red clay is slower than the green, or Har-Tru "American" clay. The French Open uses clay courts, making it unique among the Grand Slam tournaments.Clay courts are more common...

s. It was the twenty-eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour

2009 ATP Challenger Tour

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. It took place in Tampere

Tampere

Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...

, Finland between 27 July and 2 August 2009.

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
Germany	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...	60	1
Australia	Peter Luczak Peter Luczak Peter Luczak is a professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP Entry ranking was No. 64 on 12 October 2009.At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Luczak won the gold in the doubles....	137	2
Germany	Florian Mayer Florian Mayer Florian Mayer is a German professional tennis player. He plays on both the ATP Tour and the Challenger Tour. He has won nine Challenger events, which has helped him stay in the top 50 on the rankings....	150	3
France	Stéphane Robert Stéphane Robert Stéphane Robert is a professional French professional tennis player.He reached his first ATP-level final at the 2010 SA Tennis Open, falling to Feliciano López 5–7, 1–6....	173	4
Germany	Julian Reister Julian Reister Julian Reister is a German professional tennis player. His career high rank was No. 92, achieved on May 2, 2011.-2006:...	181	5
Austria	Andreas Haider-Maurer Andreas Haider-Maurer Andreas Haider-Maurer is an Austrian professional tennis player. In the first round of 2010 US Open he forced world no. 5 Robin Söderling to a fifth set before losing the match....	192	6
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:...	195	7
Slovakia	Kamil Čapkovič Kamil Capkovic Kamil Čapkovič is a professional Slovak tennis player. He was born in Michalovce, Slovak Republic.-Career:Čapkovič has spent most of his time on the Futures and Challenger circuits, where he has won several Futures titles....	221	8

• Rankings are as of July 20, 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Alexandros Jakupovic Henri Kontinen

Henri Kontinen

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 Micke Kontinen Henri Laaksonen

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Augustin Gensse

Augustin Gensse

Augustin Gensse is a French professional tennis player.Gensse has played two singles matches in the ATP Tour series. It was in Spain . He defeated Gorka Frailin and Alan Mackie in the qualifications...

 Tim Goransson Sebastian Rieschick

Sebastian Rieschick

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 Andoni Vivanco-Guzmán

Singles

  Thiemo de Bakker

Thiemo de Bakker

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def.   Peter Luczak

Peter Luczak

Peter Luczak is a professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP Entry ranking was No. 64 on 12 October 2009.At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Luczak won the gold in the doubles....

, 6–4, 7–6(7)

Doubles

  Peter Luczak

Peter Luczak

Peter Luczak is a professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP Entry ranking was No. 64 on 12 October 2009.At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Luczak won the gold in the 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:...

def.   Simone Vagnozzi

Simone Vagnozzi

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/   Uros Vico

Uros Vico

Uros Vico is a Croatian-born Italian tennis player.Vico has yet to win any titles on the ATP Tour and has reached one final, in doubles. He plays mainly challenger tournaments.-Wins :-Runners-up :...

, 6–1, 6–7(6), [10–4]