2009 San Benedetto Tennis Cup

2009 Carisap Tennis Cup
Date	July 6 – July 12
Edition	5th
Location	San Benedetto, Italy
Champions
Singles
	Fabio Fognini
Doubles
	Stefano Ianni / Cristian Villagrán

Last updated March 04, 2019

The 2009 Carisap Tennis Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in San Benedetto, Italy between 6 and 12 July 2009.

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.

A clay court is one of many different types of tennis court. Clay courts are made of crushed shale, stone, brick, or other unbound mineral aggregates. The French Open uses clay courts, making it unique among the Grand Slam tournaments. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness.

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.

Singles entrants

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
ITA	Fabio Fognini	66	1
ESP	Óscar Hernández	75	2
ARG	Diego Junqueira	85	3
ESP	Alberto Martín	95	4
CHI	Nicolás Massú	100	5
SRB	Ilija Bozoljac	114	6
BRA	Thomaz Bellucci	131	7
ITA	Alessio di Mauro	151	8

Rankings are as of June 29, 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

Fabio Fognini is an Italian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked as the world number 15 by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Fognini's most successful surface is red clay, upon which he won his five ATP singles titles in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Viña del Mar, Umag, and Swedish Open, as well as having reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 French Open and the semifinals of the 2013 Monte-Carlo Masters. Together with Simone Bolelli, Fognini won the 2015 Australian Open doubles event, becoming the first all Italian men's pair to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era. In 2017, Fognini was handed a suspended Grand Slam ban and $96,000 fine for verbally abusing a female umpire at the US Open.

Guillermo Olaso de la Rica is a Spanish professional tennis player.

Stefano Travaglia is an Italian tennis player.

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Martin Kližan is a Slovak professional tennis player. Winner of the boys' singles title at the French Open in 2006, Kližan turned pro in 2007 and has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 24, achieved in April 2015.

Pedro Sousa is a Portuguese professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Tour. In September 2017, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 102.

Cristian Villagrán is a Swiss-Argentine professional tennis player.

Champions

Singles

Fabio Fognini def. Cristian Villagrán, 6–7(5), 7–6(2), 6–0

Doubles

Stefano Ianni / Cristian Villagrán def. Niels Desein / Stéphane Robert, 7–6(3), 1–6, [10–6]

Stefano Ianni is an Italian professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 300 on 11 June 2007, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 118, on 6 May 2014.

Niels Desein is a Belgian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He was born in Ghent, Belgium, and currently resides in Wondelgem, Belgium.

Stéphane Robert is a professional French tennis player.

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