The 2010 Malaysian Open (also known as the 2010 Proton Malaysian Open for sponsorship reasons) was a

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cov ...

tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the Proton Malaysian Open, and was classified as an

ATP World Tour 250 Series The ATP 250 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 250'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series'', and ''ATP World Series'') are the lowest tier of annual men's tennis tournaments on the main ATP Tour, after the four Grand Slam to ...

of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Bukit Jalil Sports Complex in

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Entrants

Seeds

* Seeds are based on the rankings of 20 September 2010.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw * Yuki Bhambri * Si Yew Ming * Bernard Tomic The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Igor Andreev Igor Valeryevich Andreev (russian: link=no, И́горь Вале́рьевич Андре́ев, BGN/PCGN: ''Andreyev'', ISO 9: ''Andreev'', ; born 14 July 1983) is a Russian former professional tennis player. He won three ATP Tour singles t ...

František Čermák František Čermák (born 14 November 1976) is a Czech retired tennis player. Career In his career, Čermák won 31 doubles titles on the ATP Tour and he was a finalist 24 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 14 in ...

Milos Raonic Milos Raonic (; sr, Милош Раонић, Miloš Raonić, ; born December 27, 1990) is a Canadian inactive professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professio ...

Laurent Recouderc Laurent Recouderc is a professional tennis player from France. He was born 10 July 1984 in Toulouse. Career On the junior circuit, Recouderc had defeated Tomáš Berdych, Robin Söderling, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He has spent his professional ...

Champions

Men's singles

Mikhail Youzhny def.

Andrey Golubev Andrey Golubev ( rus, Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Го́лубев; born July 22, 1987) is a Kazakh professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 33, achieved on 4 October 2010 and his doubles ranking i ...

, 6–7^(7–9), 6–2, 7–6^(7–3). * It was Youzhny's second title of the year, and the seventh of his career.

Men's doubles

Michal Mertiňák Michal Mertiňák (born 11 October 1979) is a retired professional tennis player from Slovakia. He turned professional in 1999, and has won six doubles titles in his career on the ATP Tour. He reached his career high doubles ranking of World No. ...

def.

Mariusz Fyrstenberg Mariusz Stanisław Fyrstenberg (born 8 July 1980) is a retired left-handed Polish tennis player who was a doubles specialist. Fyrstenberg primarily partnered Marcin Matkowski. The pair won the Madrid Open twice, in addition to reaching the fin ...

Marcin Matkowski Marcin Matkowski (; born 15 January 1981) is a Polish former professional tennis player whose speciality is in doubles. He played college tennis at UCLA, where Jean-Julien Rojer was one of his teammates. Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg won t ...

, 7–6^(7–3), 7–6^(7–5).

References

External links

Official website
{{2010 in tennis Proton Malaysian Open Malaysian Open 2010 in Malaysian tennis