The 2015

Amex-Istanbul Challenger The Istanbul Challenger is a professional tennis tournament played on hard court. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Istanbul, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, T ...

was a professional

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tournament played on

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. It was the 28th edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

, Turkey between 14 and 20 September 2015.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of September 7, 2015.

Other entrants

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

Barış Ergüden Barış Ergüden (born 1 January 1986) is a Turkish tennis player. Ergüden has a career high ATP singles ranking of 520 achieved on 15 June 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 532, achieved on 16 June 2014. Ergüden has re ...

* Sergiy Stakhovsky * Barkın Yalçınkale * Anıl Yüksel The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Ilya Ivashka *

Mikhail Ledovskikh Mikhail Ledovskikh (born August 8, 1986) is a professional tennis player. He began playing tennis when he was seven. Currently residing in Sochi, Russia, he is coached by Alec Baranov. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 5 (1–4) ...

* Daniel Masur * Andrei Vasilevski The following players received entry as a lucky loser: * Markus Eriksson

Champions

Singles

Karen Khachanov Karen Abgarovich Khachanov (russian: Каре́н Абга́рович Хача́нов; born 21 May 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. Khachanov has won four ATP Tour singles titles, including a ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 ti ...

def. Sergiy Stakhovsky 4–6, 6–4, 6–3

Doubles

* Andrey Kuznetsov / Aleksandr Nedovyesov def.

Aleksandre Metreveli Aleksandre Metreveli ( ka, ალექსანდრე მეტრეველი, tr, ; born 10 August 1993), nicknamed Sandro, is a Georgian tennis player. Metreveli has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 264 achieved on 6 Jun ...

Anton Zaitcev Anton Anatolyevich Zaitcev (russian: Антон Анатольевич Зайцев, Zaytsev; born 22 July 1987) is a Russian tennis player. Tennis career Zaitcev has a career high ATP singles ranking of 296 achieved on 24 November 2014. This ...

6–2, 5–7, 0–8

External links

Official Website
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