The 2013
Savannah Challenger was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
clay court
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s. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the
2013 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour is the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 2013 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 149 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $35,000 up to $220,00 ...
. It took place in
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah ( ) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the Kingdom of Great Brita ...
, United States between April 22 and April 28, 2013.
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of April 15, 2013.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Sekou Bangoura
Sekou Bangoura Jr. (born November 18, 1991) is an American professional tennis player.
Bangoura partnered with Nathan Pasha to win the 2010 Kalamazoo Boys' Junior National Tennis Championship, defeating Jack Sock and Matthew Kandath 7–5, 6� ...
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Mardy Fish
Mardy Simpson Fish (born December 9, 1981) is an American former professional tennis player. He was a hardcourt specialist. He is one of several American tennis players who rose to prominence in the early 2000s.
Fish won six tournaments on the ...
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Mitchell Krueger
Mitchell Krueger (born January 12, 1994) is an American tennis player.
He has a career-high singles ranking by the ATP of world No. 135, achieved on July 18, 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 173, achieved on April 27, 2015.
Professional caree ...
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Tennys Sandgren
Tennys Loren Sandgren II ( ; born July 22, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. He has achieved a career-high ATP singles ATP rankings, ranking of No. 41 on January 14, 2019. He played two years of college tennis at the Univer ...
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:
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Alex Kuznetsov
Alex Kuznetsov (born February 5, 1987) is a retired professional tennis player. He is a former hitting partner of Maria Sharapova.
Personal life
Kuznetsov was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine). His family moved to t ...
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Denys Molchanov
Denys Petrovych Molchanov (; born 16 May 1987) is a Ukrainian tennis player competing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has won two ATP doubles titles. He has also won 15 ITF singles and 66 doubles titles, 36 of them Challengers. On 5 January 2015 ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Taro Daniel
is an American-Japanese professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 58 on 15 January 2024. He has won one ATP Tour singles title at the 2018 Istanbul Open, as well as nine ATP Challenger Tour singles ti ...
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Bjorn Fratangelo
Bjorn Fratangelo ( ; born July 19, 1993) is an American tennis coach and former professional player.
In 2011, he won the boys' singles title at the French Open defeating Dominic Thiem. Fratangelo was only the second American to win the event, f ...
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Nicolás Massú
Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried (; born 10 October 1979), nicknamed ''El Vampiro'' (Spanish, 'the vampire'), is a Chilean tennis
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Ricardo Rodríguez
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
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Nikoloz Basilashvili
Nikoloz Basilashvili ( ka, ნიკოლოზ ბასილაშვილი, tr, ; born 23 February 1992) is a Georgian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 16 on 27 May 2019 making him the ...
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of April 15, 2013.
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* Reid Carleton /
Vahid Mirzadeh
Vahid Mirzadeh (born December 28, 1986, in Lake Worth Beach, Florida) is an American tennis player.
Mirzadeh was a wildcard entrant at the 2014 US Open in the doubles event, where he partnered Philip Simmonds, but they lost in the first round ...
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Bjorn Fratangelo
Bjorn Fratangelo ( ; born July 19, 1993) is an American tennis coach and former professional player.
In 2011, he won the boys' singles title at the French Open defeating Dominic Thiem. Fratangelo was only the second American to win the event, f ...
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Mitchell Krueger
Mitchell Krueger (born January 12, 1994) is an American tennis player.
He has a career-high singles ranking by the ATP of world No. 135, achieved on July 18, 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 173, achieved on April 27, 2015.
Professional caree ...
* Daniel Regan / Georgi Rumenov Payakov
The following pair received entry using a protected ranking:
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Ilija Bozoljac
Ilija Bozoljac ( sr-Cyrl, Илија Бозољац, ; born 2 August 1985) is a former Serbian professional tennis player and coach. Bozoljac achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 101 on 29 January 2007. In doubles, he reached a c ...
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Somdev Devvarman
Somdev Kishore Devvarman (born 13 February 1985) is an Indian former professional tennis player. He is known for being one of the few collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship, NCAA, ...
The following pairs received entry from the qualifying draw:
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David Rice /
Sean Thornley
Sean Thornley (born 31 May 1989) is a former British tennis player, best known for playing on the doubles circuit with David Rice.
Career
In 2011 Thornley and Rice qualified for the Men's Doubles at Wimbledon. They lost in the first round to J ...
Champions
Singles
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Ryan Harrison
Ryan Harrison (born May 7, 1992) is an American former professional tennis player. Harrison won one career Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP title in singles at the 2017 Memphis Open to go along with four in doubles, including the 2017 F ...
def.
Facundo Argüello, 6–2, 6–3
Doubles
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Teymuraz Gabashvili
Teymuraz Besikovich Gabashvili ( rus, Теймураз Бесикович Габашвили, , tɛɪ̯mʊˈraz ɡəbɐˈʂvʲilʲɪ; born 23 May 1985) is a Russian-Georgian professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of Wo ...
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Denys Molchanov
Denys Petrovych Molchanov (; born 16 May 1987) is a Ukrainian tennis player competing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has won two ATP doubles titles. He has also won 15 ITF singles and 66 doubles titles, 36 of them Challengers. On 5 January 2015 ...
def.
Michael Russell /
Tim Smyczek
Timothy Allen Salazar Smyczek ( ; ; born December 30, 1987) is an American former professional tennis player. He made three quarterfinals on the main tour as well as the semi-finals of Newport in 2018. Additionally he won seven Challenger title ...
, 6–2, 7–5
External links
Official Website
{{2013 ATP Challenger Tour
Savannah Challenger
Savannah Challenger
Tennis tournaments in Georgia (U.S. state)