The 2009 ATP Challenger Trophy was a professional

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tournament played on outdoor

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. It took place in

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between 21 and 27 September 2009.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of 14 September 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Jaroslav Pospíšil Jaroslav Pospíšil (; born 9 February 1981) is a Czech tennis player playing on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. On 23 May 2011 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 103. The following year, on 1 October 2012, h ...

* Marek Semjan *

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* Lukas Weinhandl The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * György Balázs * Cătălin Gârd *

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Champions

Singles

Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. Alexandr Oleksandrovych Dolgopolov (born 7 November 1988), formerly known as Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr., is a Ukrainian retired professional tennis player. He changed his forename spelling to the current form in May 2010. Dolgopolov reached the ...

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Lamine Ouahab Lamine Ouahab (Arabic: الأمين وهاب ''al-ʼAmīn Wahhāb'') (born 22 December 1984) is a Moroccan professional tennis player. Career Juniors As a junior, Ouahab reached as high as No. 4 in singles in January 2002 (and No. 18 in doub ...

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Doubles

Grigor Dimitrov Grigor Dimitrov ( bg, Григор Димитров, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he fir ...

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Jan Minář Jan Minář (born 9 April 1981) is a professional Czech tennis player. His brother Ivo is also a professional player. Singles finals Wins (6) Runners-up (9) Doubles finals Wins (2) Runners-up (3) External links * * 1981 bi ...

Lukáš Rosol Lukáš Rosol (; born 24 July 1985) is a Czech professional tennis player. He competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP Tour, both in singles and doubles. Rosol was coached by former Czech player, 1999 US Open quarterfinalist Ctislav Dosed ...

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References

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