The 2009
Košice Open
Tournament was part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It took place annually in Košice, Slovakia from 2003 to 2014 and then was moved to Poprad
Poprad (; hu, Poprád; german: Deutschendorf) is a city in n ...
was a professional
tennis tournament played on outdoor
red clay courts. It was part of the
2009 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour is the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2009 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 20 top tier Tretorn SERIE+ tournaments, and 142 regular series tournaments, with prize money ranging from ...
. It took place in
Košice
Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...
,
Slovakia between 8 and 14 June 2009.
Singles entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of May 25, 2009.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Jerzy Janowicz
Jerzy Filip Janowicz Jr. (; born 13 November 1990) is a Polish professional tennis player. Janowicz is best known for becoming the first Polish man to reach a major semifinal at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships.
Noted for his very powerful serv ...
*
Martin Kližan
*
Miloslav Mečíř Jr.
Miloslav Mečíř Jr. (; born 20 January 1988) is a Slovak former tennis player. He is the son of Slovak tennis player and Olympic Gold medalist, Miloslav Mečíř. He qualified for his first Grand Slam at the 2014 French Open, but exited at t ...
* Nicolas Reissig
The following players received entry a special Exempt into the singles main draw:
*
Jan Hájek
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Diego Álvarez
*
Kamil Čapkovič
Kamil Čapkovič (; born 2 June 1986) is a professional Slovak tennis player. He was born in Michalovce, Slovak Republic
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked ...
*
Ádám Kellner
*
Marek Semjan
Marek Semjan (; born 7 November 1987) is a Slovak tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 30 August 2010, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 218.
Career
He won over top seed Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Car ...
(as a Lucky loser)
*
Ivan Sergeyev
Champions
Singles
Stéphane Robert def.
Jiří Vaněk, 7–6(5), 7–6(5)
Doubles
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo (; born 6 January 1978 in Alicante, Spain) is a former professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 50, achieved on 2 October 2006. His favourite surface is clay, where h ...
/
Santiago Ventura def.
Dominik Hrbatý /
Martin Kližan, 6–2, 7–6(5)
References
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