The 2013 Challenger ATP de Salinas Diario Expreso was a professional

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tournament played on

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s. It was the 18th edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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between February 25 and March 3, 2013.

ATP entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of February 18, 2013.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Lucas Dages * Diego Hidalgo *

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The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Jean Andersen Jean Andersen (born 17 June 1988) is a South African professional tennis player. He has represented South Africa in Davis Cup matches. College career Andersen played college tennis for the Texas Longhorns and was an All-American, ranking as h ...

Jozef Kovalík Jozef Kovalík (; born 4 November 1992) is a Slovak professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 80 and a doubles ranking of No. 245 reached in 2018. He is currently t ...

Gonzalo Lama Gonzalo Andrés Lama Feliu (; born 27 April 1993 in Santiago) is a former Chilean professional tennis player. His best singles ranking was 160 in June 2016. He won two Challengers (Cali and São Paulo), along with fourteen futures, twelve in sin ...

Stefano Travaglia Stefano Travaglia (born 18 December 1991 in Ascoli Piceno) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 60, which he reached on 8 February 2021. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 224 achieved on ...

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of February 18, 2013.

Other entrants

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

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* Lucas Dages /

* Diego Hidalgo /

Agustín Velotti Agustín Velotti (; born May 24, 1992) is an Argentine tennis player. Velotti won the 2010 French Open Boys' singles competition after beating his good friend Andrea Collarini, 6–4, 7–5. Previously, he had won different junior tournaments, ...

Champions

Singles

* Alejandro González def.

Renzo Olivo Renzo Olivo (; born 15 March 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 78 achieved on 9 January ...

, 4–6, 6–3, 7–6^(9–7)

Doubles

Sergio Galdós Sergio Galdós (; born January 2, 1990) is a Peruvian tennis player. He is a regular member of the Peruvian Davis Cup team. In 2016 he broke into the top 100 of the men's doubles rankings for the first time finishing the year ranked No. 80 in t ...

Marco Trungelliti Marco Trungelliti (; born 31 January 1990) is an Argentine professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. On 4 March 2019, Trungelliti achieved his best singles rankings of ...

def.

Izak van der Merwe Izak van der Merwe (born 26 January 1984) is a retired South African tennis player. Van der Merwe had a career-high ATP singles ranking of 113 achieved on 1 August 2011. Van der Merwe represented South Africa at the Davis Cup. He says he tri ...

, 6–4, 6–4

References

External links

Official website
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