2009 Almaty Cup

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2009 Almaty Cup
Date August 24 – August 30
Edition 3rd
Location Almaty, Kazakhstan
Champions
Singles
Flag of Ukraine.svg Ivan Sergeyev
Doubles
Flag of Ukraine.svg Denys Molchanov / Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Yang Tsung-hua
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The 2009 Almaty Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan between 24 and 30 August 2009.

Almaty Cup

The Almaty Cup is a tennis tournament held in Almaty, Kazakhstan since 2007. The event is part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour and is played on outdoor hard courts. There are two editions in 2007.

Tennis ball sport with racket and net

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour is the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2009 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 20 top tier Tretorn SERIE+ tournaments, and 142 regular series tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $150,000.

Contents

Singles entrants

Seeds

Nationality Player Ranking* Seeding
Flag of Russia.svg  RUS Michail Elgin 194 1
Flag of Slovakia.svg  SVK Kamil Čapkovič 213 2
Flag of Ukraine.svg  UKR Ivan Sergeyev 271 3
Flag of Jamaica.svg  JAM Dustin Brown 274 4
Flag of Latvia.svg  LAT Andis Juška 278 5
Flag of Japan.svg  JPN Junn Mitsuhashi 297 6
Flag of Australia.svg  AUS Greg Jones 305 7
Flag of Latvia.svg  LAT Deniss Pavlovs 311 8

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Sadik Kadir is a former professional tennis player from Australia.

Mikhail Ledovskikh, born August 8, 1986 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, is a professional tennis player. He began playing tennis when he was seven. Currently residing in Sochi, Russia, he is coached by Alec Baranov.

James McGee (tennis) Irish tennis player

James McGee is an Irish professional tennis player. He was born in Castleknock, Ireland. He attended Belvedere College in Dublin, Co. Dublin. He currently is the highest ranked Irish tennis player and has been playing for the Ireland Davis Cup team since 2009.

Champions

Singles

Flag of Ukraine.svg Ivan Sergeyev def. Flag of Jamaica.svg Dustin Brown, 6–3, 5–7, 6–4

Doubles

Flag of Ukraine.svg Denys Molchanov / Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Yang Tsung-hua def. Flag of Canada.svg Pierre-Ludovic Duclos / Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Alexey Kedryuk, 4–6, 7–6(5), [11–9]

Denys Molchanov Ukrainian tennis player

Denys Petrovych Molchanov is a Ukrainian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On January 5, 2015 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 169, whilst his highest doubles ranking of 69 was reached on October 15, 2018. He also played for the Ukraine Davis Cup team.

Yang Tsung-hua tennis player

Yang Tsung-hua, born March 29, 1991 in Taiwan, 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 in two sets, and the Australian Open and Wimbledon doubles titles alongside Hsieh Cheng-peng.

Pierre-Ludovic Duclos-Lasnier, commonly referred to as Pierre-Ludovic Duclos, is a Canadian former professional tour tennis player. He is currently serving a six-year prison sentence in Florida for attempting to have a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl.

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