The 2009 Malaysian Open (also known as the 2009 Proton Malaysian Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's

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tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the Malaysian Open, and was classified as an

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. It was played at the Bukit Jalil Sports Complex in

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, Malaysia. The inaugural edition was scheduled to take place from 26 September to 4 October 2009.

Entrants

Seeds

* Seeds are based on the rankings of 21 September 2009

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw *

Joachim Johansson Joachim Johansson (born 1 July 1982) is a former professional male tennis player from Sweden. He reached the semifinals of the 2004 US Open, won 3 singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 9 in February 2005. Backg ...

Taylor Dent Taylor Phillip Dent (born April 24, 1981) is a retired professional tennis player from the United States. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 21, winning 4 singles titles. Career Early career and back injury Dent won ATP titl ...

Marcos Baghdatis Marcos Baghdatis (Greek language, Greek: Μάρκος Παγδατής, Arabic language, Arabic: ماركوس بغداتيس); born 17 June 1985 is a Greek Cypriot former professional tennis player and coach. He was the runner-up at the 2006 Aus ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Brendan Evans Brendan Evans (born April 8, 1986) is an American retired professional tennis player. Tennis career Juniors On the junior circuit, Evans reached as high as No. 2 in the combined junior world rankings in July 2004, when he won the Australian O ...

Mikhail Kukushkin Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kukushkin (; born 26 December 1987) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 39, achieved on 25 February 2019. Career 2006–10: Turned pro, Masters ...

Michael Yani Michael Yani (born December 31, 1980) is a former American tennis player. He turned professional in 2003. Yani is 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) and 75 kg (165 lb). He resides in Honolulu, Hawaii. After attending on a tennis scholarshi ...

Rohan Bopanna Rohan Machanda Bopanna ( ; born 4 March 1980) is an Indian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He attained the List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 ranking after winning his first Grand Slam (tenni ...

Finals

Singles

Nikolay Davydenko Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko ( ; born 2 June 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 in November 2006. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournam ...

defeated

Fernando Verdasco Fernando Verdasco Carmona (; born 15 November 1983) is a Spaniards, Spanish tennis coach and a former professional player. He was ranked world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, achieved in April 2009, and w ...

, 6–4, 7–5. * It was Davydenko's third title of the year and 17th of his career.

Doubles

Mariusz Fyrstenberg Mariusz Stanisław Fyrstenberg (born 8 July 1980) is a retired Polish tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of ...

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 Jean-Julien Rojer ( "John Julian" , ; born 25 August 1981) is a ...

defeated

Igor Kunitsyn Igor Konstantinovich Kunitsyn ( rus, И́горь Константи́нович Куни́цын, , ˈiɡərʲ kʊˈnʲitsɨn; born September 30, 1981) is a retired tennis player from Russia. He made it into the top 100 for the first time in 20 ...

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, 6–2, 6–1.

References

External links

ATP tournament overview
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