2013 Geneva Open Challenger

2013 Geneva Open Challenger
Date	28 October – 3 November
Edition	26th
Surface	Hard
Location	Geneva, Switzerland
Champions
Singles
	Malek Jaziri
Doubles
	Oliver Marach / Florin Mergea

Last updated March 04, 2019

The 2013 Geneva Open Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Geneva, Switzerland between 28 October and 3 November 2013.

The Geneva Open Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Geneva, Switzerland since 1988. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour. Previously played on outdoor clay courts, it has been played indoors on hard GreenSet courts since 2011, at Sport Center of the Queue d'Arve. Originally, it was held at the Drizia-Miremont Tennis Club. Two-time Swiss champion Stanislas Wawrinka would later enter the world top 10 in the ATP rankings in 2008.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour is the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2013 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 149 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $35,000 up to $220,000.

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country situated in western, central and southern Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities. The sovereign state is a federal republic bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km² (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million people is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global cities and economic centres Zürich and Geneva.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
~~KAZ~~	~~Mikhail Kukushkin~~	67	1
RUS	Evgeny Donskoy	78	2
RUS	Teymuraz Gabashvili	93	3
NED	Jesse Huta Galung	98	4
ROU	Adrian Ungur	110	5
SVK	Martin Kližan	112	6
GER	Jan-Lennard Struff	114	7
KAZ	Andrey Golubev	117	8
SVK	Andrej Martin	124	9

¹ Rankings are as of 21 October 2013.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

Stéphane Bohli is a professional tennis player from Switzerland.

Sandro Ehrat is a Swiss tennis player. Ehrat has a career high ATP singles ranking of 295, achieved on 13 May 2013 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 554, achieved on 10 September 2012. Ehrat made his ATP main draw debut at the 2010 MercedesCup, partnering Raphael Hemmeler in doubles, but they lost in the first round.

Karen Abgarovich Khachanov is a Russian tennis player. He has won four ATP singles titles. Khachanov achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 on 5th November 2018, after winning the Paris Masters.

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Grégoire Burquier is a French 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 of World No. 167 in September 2011, and his highest ATP doubles ranking of World No. 251 in September 2011.

Matteo Donati is an Italian professional tennis player. On 13 April 2015, he reached the final of the ATP Challenger Tour Napoli Cup to claim a career-high of no. 247 on the ATP World Tour Singles rankings.

Michael Lammer is a retired Swiss professional tennis player. At the 2009 Allianz Suisse Open in Gstaad, he won the doubles tournament with compatriot Marco Chiudinelli. It was his only ATP tour title.

The following players received entry as a Lucky Loser:

Laurent Recouderc

Champions

Singles

Malek Jaziri def. Jan-Lennard Struff 6–4, 6–3

Doubles

Oliver Marach / Florin Mergea def. František Čermák / Philipp Oswald 6–4, 6–3

Oliver Marach is an Austrian professional tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is world No. 82, which he reached on August 7, 2005. His career high in doubles is world No. 2, set on May 28, 2018, after winning his first major at the 2018 Australian Open in January and reaching his first Masters final in Monte Carlo in April, both partnering Mate Pavić.

Florin Mergea is a Romanian tennis player and a doubles specialist. He has reached the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in 2015 and won an ATP Masters title at the Mutua Madrid Open earlier that year. He achieved a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 7 in doubles and World No. 243 in singles.

František Čermák is a Czech professional tennis player. He has won 31 doubles titles on the ATP Tour and has been a finalist 24 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 14 in February 2010. He usually plays doubles with Filip Polášek. In mixed doubles, Čermák and partner Lucie Hradecká reached the final of the 2013 Australian Open and won the 2013 French Open. In singles, Čermák won 1 Challenger title and 10 Futures titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 201 in October 2003.

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