The 2010

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was a professional

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tournament played on indoor

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s. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the

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of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in

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, Belgium between 4 and 11 October 2010.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of September 27, 2010.

Other entrants

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

Ruben Bemelmans Ruben Bemelmans (; born 14 January 1988) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 84 in singles, achieved on 28 September 2015, and world No. 128 in doubles, achieved on 1 October 2012. Beme ...

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The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Brian Battistone Brian Battistone (born August 10, 1979) is an American professional tennis player. He was born in Santa Barbara, California and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Throughout his career, Battistone has reach a career high ranking of 853 in ...

* Adrien Bossel * Yannick Mertens *

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Marc Gicquel Marc Gicquel (born 30 March 1977) is a former professional male tennis player from France. Tennis career Gicquel turned pro in 1999. He made his ATP Tour singles debut at the 2002 Open 13 tournament on hard courts in Marseilles, France. He w ...

(Lucky loser replacing

Xavier Malisse Xavier Malisse (born 19 July 1980) is a former Belgian professional tennis player. Born in the north-western Flemish city of Kortrijk and nicknamed ''X-Man'', he is one of only two Belgian men (the other being David Goffin) to have been ranked i ...

)

Champions

Singles

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, 7–5, 6–2

Doubles

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/ Igor Zelenay def.

/ Yannick Mertens, 3–6, 6–4, 0–5

External links

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ATP official site

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