The 2022

Kobe Challenger The Kobe Challenger is a tennis List of tennis tournaments, tournament held near Kobe, Japan in Miki, Hyōgo, Miki at the Beans Dome in Miki Disaster Management Park, since 2015. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on indoor ...

was a professional

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tournament played on indoor

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. It was the 6th edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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, Japan between 14 and 20 November 2022.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of 7 November 2022.

Other entrants

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

Shinji Hazawa is a Japanese tennis player. Hazawa has a career high ATP singles ranking of 501 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 249 achieved on 17 April 2023. Hazawa has won 1 ATP Challenger doubles title at the 20 ...

Taisei Ichikawa Taisei Ichikawa (born 21 December 2000) is a Japanese tennis player. Ichikawa has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 636 achieved on 27 January 2025. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 308 achieved on 30 October 20 ...

* Shintaro Imai The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings: *

Tatsuma Ito is a Japanese former professional tennis player. He has won 7 Challenger tournaments and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 60 in October 2012. Ito reached the quarterfinals of 's-Hertogenbosch and Moscow in 2012 an ...

Yūichi Sugita is a Japanese former professional tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 36 on 9 October 2017. Career Juniors As a junior Sugita compiled a win–loss record of 34–19 (and 26 ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Chung Yun-seong Chung Yun-seong (; born 27 March 1998) is a South Korean 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 players ...

Jason Jung Jason Jung ( zh, c=莊吉生, p=Zhuāng Jíshēng, poj=Chng Kit-seng; ; born 15 June 1989) is an American-born Taiwanese inactive professional tennis player representing team Chinese Taipei. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. ...

Shintaro Mochizuki Shintaro Mochizuki (Japanese: 望月慎太郎, ''Mochizuki Shintarō'', born 2 June 2003) is a Japanese professional tennis player. He has an ATP career-high singles ranking of world No. 129 achieved on 6 November 2023 and a doubles ranking of ...

Naoki Nakagawa is a Japanese tennis player. Nakagawa has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 332 achieved on 16 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of world No. 726 achieved on 30 July 2018. As a teen, Nakagawa reached his highest ranking of world N ...

Marc Polmans Marc David Polmans (born 2 May 1997) is a South African-born Australian professional tennis player. Polmans has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 116 achieved on 12 October 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of W ...

* Colin Sinclair

Champions

Singles

Yosuke Watanuki is a Japanese professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 72 achieved on 30 October 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 374 achieved on 7 January 2019. He is currently the No. 6 Japanese player. Career 2016: Junior ...

def.

Frederico Ferreira Silva Frederico Ferreira "Kiko" Silva (; born 18 March 1995) is a Portuguese tennis player who currently competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. On May 24, 2021, Silva reached a career singles high ranking of No. 168. He also reached a career-hig ...

6–7^(3–7), 7–5, 6–4.

Doubles

Yuta Shimizu is a Japanese tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 180 achieved on 24 February 2025. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 143 achieved on 12 June 2023. He won his first ATP Challenger Tour title a ...

def. Andrew Harris /

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 ...

6–4, 6–4.

References

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