The 2023 Lexington Challenger was a professional

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

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, and the 26th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in

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, United States between 31 July and 6 August 2023.

Champions

Men's singles

* Steve Johnson def.

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7–6^(7–5), 6–4.

Men's doubles

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Tyler Zink Tyler Zink (born January 30, 2001) is an American tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 316, achieved on 16 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 232, achieved on 26 May 2025. He played college tennis at Oklahom ...

def. George Goldhoff /

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4–6, 6–3, 0–8

Women's singles

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def.

Caroline Dolehide Caroline Dolehide ( ; born September 5, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 41 on 2 October 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 9 on 26 August 2024. Dolehide has won two WTA To ...

1–6, 7–6^(7–4), 7–5.

Women's doubles

* Alexis Blokhina / Ava Markham def.

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/ Dalayna Hewitt 6–4, 7–6^(7–1).

Men's singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 24 July 2023.

Other entrants

The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: *

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* Joshua Lapadat The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: *

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The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: *

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* Nathan Ponwith The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Justin Boulais Justin Boulais (born 20 October 2001) is an American-born Canadian tennis player. Boulais has a career high ATP singles ranking of 483 achieved on 7 August 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 382 achieved on 21 October 2024. ...

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* Stefan Dostanic * Aidan Mayo * Yuki Mochizuki * Philip Sekulic

Women's singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 24 July 2023.

Other entrants

The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * Elizabeth Eades * Dalayna Hewitt *

McCartney Kessler McCartney Kessler (born July 8, 1999) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 32 in singles, and No. 152 in doubles, achieved on March 31, 2025. Kessler has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour. Early life Fro ...

* Madison Sieg The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Chloe Beck Chloe Beck (born August 30, 2001) is an American tennis player. Beck won the junior doubles tournament of the 2019 French Open – Girls' doubles, 2019 French Open with Emma Navarro, and they also finished runners-up in the 2019 Australian Open ...

* DJ Bennett *

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* Sara Daavettila * Tatum Evans *

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* Christina Rosca

References

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