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The 2009 UniCredit Czech Open
UniCredit Czech Open
The UniCredit Czech Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Prostějov Tennis Complex in Prostějov, Czech Republic, since 1994.-Singles:-Doubles:-External...

was a tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

clay-court tournament included in the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour

2009 ATP Challenger Tour

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

. Agustín Calleri

Agustín Calleri

Agustín Calleri Shaal is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. His nickname is Gordo which means Fat in Spanish. He is known as a hard-hitter and he prefers playing on clay....

was the defending singles champion, but could not get past the first round. Jan Hájek

Jan Hájek (tennis)

Jan Hájek is a male professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is right-handed with a double handed backhand. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on November 6, 2006, when he reached world number 71....

, world no. 288, came from the qualifying round and took the title in front of his home crowd by beating the top-100 player Steve Darcis

Steve Darcis

Steve Darcis is a male professional tennis player. He achieved his career high ranking of #44 on 12 May 2008.-2007:...

in the final. Johan Brunström

Johan Brunström

Johan Brunström is a professional Swedish tennis player. His highest ATP doubles ranking is 31st, which he reached on March 22, 2010. His career high in singles is 377th, which he reached on September 24, 2007.-Doubles: 10 :...

and Jean-Julien Rojer

Jean-Julien Rojer

Jean-Julien Rojer is a professional Curaçao tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 218th, which he reached on August 15, 2005. A doubles specialist, his career high in doubles is 18th, which he reached on July 4, 2011. His current doubles partner is Eric Butorac.-Doubles: 13...

won the doubles event.

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
Russia	Mikhail Youzhny Mikhail Youzhny Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny , is a professional Russian tennis player, noted for his consistency and all-court play style. He has been coached by Boris Sobkin for 17 years....	30	1
Romania	Victor Hănescu Victor Hanescu Victor Hănescu is a Romanian tennis player. He achieved his career high rank of no. 26 on July 6, 2009.- Professional career :...	31	2
Serbia	Viktor Troicki Viktor Troicki Viktor Troicki is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has Serb and Russian ethnic roots. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Tver and Rostov-on-Don to Serbia in 1917. His career-high ranking is no. 12, achieved on 6 June 2011. He won his first ATP singles title at the 2010 Kremlin Cup,...	32	3
France	Jérémy Chardy Jérémy Chardy Jérémy Chardy is a French professional tennis player. He won the 2005 Wimbledon Championships Boys' Singles title, and finished as the runner-up at the 2005 US Open Boys' Singles, losing to Ryan Sweeting. His career high rank is no...	36	4
Russia	Igor Andreev Igor Andreev Igor Valerievich Andreev is a Russian professional tennis player, born in Moscow.-2003:Andreev made his ATP debut in September 2003 at Bucharest, Romania as a qualifier and defeated top seed Nikolay Davydenko 7–5, 6–7, 6–0 in the first round, before losing in the next round to José Acasuso.At the...	41	5
Russia	Evgeny Korolev Evgeny Korolev Evgeny Korolev is a Kazakhstani tennis player and the cousin of former Russian player Anna Kournikova. He began playing tennis at age four with his father, and picked up his first ATP points at age 15 in three German challenger events...	51	6
Uruguay	Pablo Cuevas Pablo Cuevas Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open Men's Doubles title with Luis Horna....	52	7
Argentina	Horacio Zeballos	54	8

Rankings are as of May 25, 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Michail Elgin

Michail Elgin

Michail Elgin, is a Russian professional tennis player.Elgin became famous when he advanced to the quarter–finals in singles at the 2008 St. Petersburg Open, where he lost to Victor Hănescu from Romania 1–6, 4–6.-Doubles: 1 :-External links:...

Andrey Kuznetsov

Andrey Kuznetsov (tennis)

Andrey Kuznetsov , is a professional Russian tennis player.Kuznetsov won the Boy's Singles title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.He is coached by his father, Alexander ....

Stanislav Vovk

The following players received entry a special Exempt into the singles main draw: Mikhail Kukushkin

Mikhail Kukushkin

Mikhail Kukushkin is a professional Kazakh tennis player of Russian origin.-History:Born in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, he turned pro in 2006 and achieved his highest ranking on 1 November 2010....

Illya Marchenko

Illya Marchenko is a Ukrainian male tennis player. Marchenko turned professional in 2005 and had been playing at the Futures and Challengers level from 2005–2008. His career high in singles is #67 and he is inactive in doubles...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. Petru-Alexandru Luncanu

Petru-Alexandru Luncanu

Petru-Alexandru Luncanu is a Romanian tennis player. On November 2, 2009, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 304 whilst his highest doubles ranking was 384 achieved on May 12, 2008.-External links:...

Yuri Schukin

-2008:The 6 ft 2 inch 181 pound Russian began the 2008 tour season by losing in the first round to Rajeev Ram at the Chennai Open 6–7 , 6–7 .-References:...

Sergiy Stakhovsky

Sergiy Stakhovsky is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and had been playing mostly at the Challenger level from 2005–2008. His career high in singles of #31 and his high of #86 in doubles...

Singles

Jan Hájek
Jan Hájek (tennis)
Jan Hájek is a male professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is right-handed with a double handed backhand. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on November 6, 2006, when he reached world number 71....

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Steve Darcis

Steve Darcis is a male professional tennis player. He achieved his career high ranking of #44 on 12 May 2008.-2007:...

, 6–2, 1–6, 6–4

Doubles

Johan Brunström
Johan Brunström
Johan Brunström is a professional Swedish tennis player. His highest ATP doubles ranking is 31st, which he reached on March 22, 2010. His career high in singles is 377th, which he reached on September 24, 2007.-Doubles: 10 :...

/ Jean-Julien Rojer
Jean-Julien Rojer
Jean-Julien Rojer is a professional Curaçao tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 218th, which he reached on August 15, 2005. A doubles specialist, his career high in doubles is 18th, which he reached on July 4, 2011. His current doubles partner is Eric Butorac.-Doubles: 13...

def.

Pablo Cuevas

Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open Men's Doubles title with Luis Horna....

Dominik Hrbatý

Dominik Hrbatý is a retired professional tennis player from Slovakia.-Personal life:Hrbatý was born on 4 January 1978 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. His father was an architecture engineer and his younger brother is an umpire...

, 6–2, 6–3

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