The 2013 Kunming Challenger was a professional

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tournament played on

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

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. It took place in

Kunming Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China. The political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province, Kunming is also the seat of the provincial government. During World War II, Kunming was a Ch ...

, China between 6 and 12 May 2013.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of April 29, 2013.

Other entrants

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

Gong Maoxin Gong Maoxin (; ; born August 24, 1987), is a Chinese former 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 two teams ...

* Li Zhe *

Ouyang Bowen Ouyang Bowen (; born 19 May 1992 in Xinjing) is a Chinese former 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 two ...

The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw: *

Márton Fucsovics Márton Fucsovics (, ; born 8 February 1992) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 31 on 4 March 2019. He is currently the No. 2 Hungarian player. Early life Fucsovics started playing t ...

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 ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Victor Baluda Victor Mikhaylovich Baluda (; born 30 September 1992) is a Russian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a series of international men's prof ...

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 ...

* James McGee *

John-Patrick Smith John-Patrick Tracey "JP" Smith (born 24 January 1989) is an Australian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 108 on 28 September 2015, and his highest doubles ranking of N ...

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of April 29, 2013.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Gao Xin / Li Zhe *

Zhang Ze Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese former professional tennis player. Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 China Open (defeating Richard Gasquet en route), playing the Australian Open main dra ...

* Tan Haiyun / Yang Jingzhu The following pair received entry as an alternate: *

Go Soeda is a former professional Japanese tennis player. He started playing tennis at the age of four and turned professional in April 2003. He has won 18 singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of w ...

Yasutaka Uchiyama is a Japanese tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 78 on 4 November 2019 and doubles ranking of No. 102 on 20 August 2018. He is currently the No. 5 player from Japan. C ...

Champions

Singles

* Alex Bogomolov Jr. def.

Rik de Voest Rik de Voest (born 5 June 1980) is a former professional South African tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 110 in August 2006. Rik resides in Vancouver, Canada where he pursues a career in real estate. De V ...

, 6–3, 4–6, 7–6^(7–2)

Doubles

Samuel Groth Samuel Groth (born 19 October 1987) is an Australian politician and a former professional tennis player. Sitting as a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Groth represents the Liberal Party in the seat of Nepean. He is currently the de ...

def.

, 6–4, 6–1

External links

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