2010 Tennislife Cup

2010 Tennislife Cup
Date	27 September – 3 October
Edition	4th
Location	Naples, Italy
Champions
Singles
	Fabio Fognini
Doubles
	Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava / Simone Vagnozzi

Last updated March 04, 2019

The 2010 Tennislife Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Naples, Italy between 27 September and 3 October 2010.

The Tennislife Cup is a tennis tournament held in Naples, Italy since 2007. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on outdoor red clay courts.

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 2010 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprises 13 top tier Tretorn SERIE+ tournaments, and approximately 150 regular series tournaments, with prize money ranging from $35,000 up to $150,000.

ATP entrants

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
ITA	Potito Starace	50	1
ITA	Fabio Fognini	68	2
POR	Frederico Gil	84	3
ITA	Filippo Volandri	97	4
ESP	~~Pablo Andújar~~	~~105~~	5
ESP	Albert Ramos-Viñolas	110	6
ITA	Paolo Lorenzi	111	7
ITA	Simone Bolelli	116	8

Rankings are as of September 20, 2010.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

Alberto Brizzi is an Italian professional tennis player. On 8 February 2010 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 230 while his best doubles ranking was 253 on 15 August 2011.

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.

Potito Starace is an Italian retired professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world no. 27 on October 15, 2007. He was a clay court specialist, and was coached by Umberto Rianna.

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Andrea Arnaboldi is an Italian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He advanced to the main draw in the 2014 French Open and 2015 French Open.

Farrukh Dustov is an Uzbek tennis player playing on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. In February 2015, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 98.

Boris Pašanski, often spelled Pashanski in English-language media, is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of world number 55 on 27 February 2006.

Champions

Singles

Fabio Fognini def. Boris Pašanski, 6–4, 4–2, RET.

Doubles

Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava / Simone Vagnozzi def. Andreas Haider-Maurer / Bastian Knittel, 1–6, 7–6(5), [10–6]

Simone Vagnozzi is an Italian professional tennis player.

Andreas Haider-Maurer is a former Austrian professional tennis player.

Bastian Knittel is a German tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 157 in February 2011.

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