2009 Tampere Open

2009 Tampere Open
Date	July 27 – August 2
Edition	28th
Location	Tampere, Finland
Champions
Singles
	Thiemo de Bakker
Doubles
	Peter Luczak / Yuri Schukin

Last updated March 04, 2019

The 2009 Tampere Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the twenty-eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tampere, Finland between 27 July and 2 August 2009.

The Tampere Open is a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Tampere Tennis Center in Tampere, Finland, since 1982. There has been a women's future tournament for the last couple of years held at the same venue.

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.

Singles entrants

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
GER	Björn Phau	60	1
AUS	Peter Luczak	137	2
GER	Florian Mayer	150	3
FRA	Stéphane Robert	173	4
GER	Julian Reister	181	5
AUT	Andreas Haider-Maurer	192	6
KAZ	Yuri Schukin	195	7
SVK	Kamil Čapkovič	221	8

Rankings are as of July 20, 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

Alexandros Jakupovic is a Greek former tennis player who was handed a lifetime ban in November 2015 by the Tennis Integrity Unit.

Henri Kontinen is a Finnish tennis player.

Henri Joona Julius Laaksonen is a Swiss-Finnish tennis player. His highest singles ranking is world No. 93, which he achieved in August 2017, and his highest doubles ranking is world no. 191, achieved in December 2018.

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Augustin Gensse is a French professional tennis player.

Sebastian Rieschick is a German tennis player. He has a career high-ranking of 199. His coach is Peter Pfannkoch.

Champions

Singles

Thiemo de Bakker def. Peter Luczak, 6–4, 7–6(7)

Doubles

Peter Luczak / Yuri Schukin def. Simone Vagnozzi / Uros Vico , 6–1, 6–7(6), [10–4]

Peter Luczak is a retired professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP singles ranking was World No. 64, achieved in October 2009.

Yuri Schukin is a Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player.

Simone Vagnozzi is an Italian professional tennis player.

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