The 2013 Busan Open Challenger Tennis was a professional

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tournament played on

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. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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between 13 and 19 May 2013.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of May 6, 2013.

Other entrants

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

Chung Hyeon Chung Hyeon (; ; born 19 May 1996) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He is the 2017 Next Gen Finals champion. As an unseeded player, he became the first Korean player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open. J ...

Lee Duck-hee Lee Duck-hee (; born 29 May 1998) is a South Korean professional tennis player. Personal life Lee was born deaf. On the tennis court, he can hear vibrations, but must rely on hand gestures to pick up line calls and the umpire. In 2015, his ...

* Lim Yong-kyu *

Nam Ji-sung Nam Ji-sung (born 15 August 1993) is a South Korean tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 236 achieved on 12 August 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 102 achieved on 3 February 2020. In ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Laurynas Grigelis Laurynas Grigelis (born August 14, 1991) is a Lithuanian former professional tennis player and a prominent member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team. Grigelis holds the best ATP doubles ranking of world No. 132 for a Lithuanian player of all time ...

Yuichi Ito is a Japanese tennis player. Ito has a career high ATP singles ranking of 325 achieved on 5 July 2010. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 328, achieved on 8 July 2013. Ito has won 4 ITF singles titles and 11 ITF doubles titles. ...

Dane Propoggia Dane Propoggia (born 24 April 1990) is an Australian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures The ITF Men's World Tennis Tour (formerly ''ITF Men's Circuit'') is a series of professional tenni ...

Jose Rubin Statham Rubin Statham (born 25 April 1987), often referred to by his nickname of "José," is a professional tennis player from New Zealand. He has reached a ATP career high ranking of No. 279 in singles on 25 February 2013, and No. 139 in doubles on 17 ...

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of May 6, 2013.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Im Kyu-tae Im Kyu-tae (born January 6, 1981, in Seoul, South Korea) is a retired professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between ...

Lee Hyung-taik Lee Hyung-taik (, born 3 January 1976) is a former professional tennis player from South Korea. He won one singles title and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 36, in August 2007. Personal life Lee was born in a potato-farming ...

* Jeong Suk-young / Lim Yong-kyu

Champions

Singles

Dudi Sela David "Dudi" Sela (; born 4 April 1985) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 29 in July 2009. Sela won the French Open 2003 junior doubles title. Representing Israel Davis Cup te ...

def. Alex Bogomolov Jr., 6–1, 6–4

Doubles

Peng Hsien-yin Peng Hsien-yin (; born 22 December 1989) is a Taiwanese professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. Peng reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 956 ...

Yang Tsung-hua Yang Tsung-hua (; born 29 March 1991) is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. On the junior circuit, Yang reached a career-high combined ranking of No. 1 in 2008, when he won the French Open singles title against Polish player Jerzy Janowicz ...

def. Jeong Suk-young / Lim Yong-kyu, 6–4, 6–3

External links

Official Website
{{2013 ATP Challenger Tour Busan Open Challenger Tennis Busan Open May 2013 sports events in South Korea