The 2010 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships

Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships

The Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour and the ITF Women's tour. It is held annually at the Hilary J...

was a professional tennis

Tennis

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 tournament played on Hard court. It was a sixteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour

2010 ATP Challenger Tour

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. It took place in Lexington

Lexington, Kentucky

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, United States

United States

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 between 19 July and 24 July 2010.

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
Australia	Carsten Ball Carsten Ball Carsten Thomas Ball is a professional Australian tennis player. Although born and based in the U.S., Carsten has continued to compete as an Australian player.-Tennis career:...	129	1
Lithuania	Ričardas Berankis Ricardas Berankis Ričardas Berankis is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the highest ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time.- Early career :Berankis began playing tennis at the age of two...	132	2
Brazil	João Souza João Souza João Olavo Soares de Souza is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Souza competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 90 August 7, 2011, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 171, on September 21, 2009...	139	3
United States	Kevin Kim Kevin Kim - External links :* *...	152	4
United States	Jesse Levine Jesse Levine Jesse Levine is a Canadian-born American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles rank of No. 94 on November 3, 2008....	158	5
Chile	Paul Capdeville Paul Capdeville Paul Gerard Capdeville Castro is a Chilean tennis player.Capdeville was born in Santiago, Chile. On May 18, 2009, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of 76....	191	6
Canada	Peter Polansky Peter Polansky Peter Polansky is a Canadian professional tennis player. He is now Canada's seventh-ranked singles performer, according to the ATP; he was however the country's top singles player from June 21, 2010 until January 17, 2011. Previously he was also Canada's No...	195	7
Australia	Greg Jones Greg Jones (tennis) Greg Jones is an Australian professional tennis player.-Early life:Born in Sydney, Jones is an only child. He is the son of Russell Jones, a quantity surveyor, and Donna Jones, a teacher...	198	8

• Rankings are as of July 12, 2010.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Sekou Bangoura Jarmere Jenkins Denis Kudla

Denis Kudla

Denis Kudla is a professional tennis player. Representing the United States, he is a former World No. 3 junior player who has, still early in his career, appeared in a handful of ATP World Tour main draw matches....

 Eric Quigley

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Pierre-Ludovic Duclos

Pierre-Ludovic Duclos

Pierre-Ludovic Duclos-Lasnier, commonly referred to as Pierre-Ludovic Duclos, is a Canadian professional tennis player...

 Gong Maoxin

Gong Maoxin

Gong Maoxin , is a professional male tennis player.-Doubles: 3 :- External links :* * *...

 Brydan Klein

Brydan Klein

Brydan Klein is an Australian professional tennis player. He prefers to play on a fast surface, such as grass or hard.Klein has yet to become an active competitor on the main ATP Tour. However, he did receive a wildcard from Tennis Australia for the 2008 Australian Open, but lost to Paul Capdeville...

 Fritz Wolmarans

Fritz Wolmarans

Fritz Wolmarans is a South African tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has also played for the South Africa Davis Cup team....

Singles

  Carsten Ball

Carsten Ball

Carsten Thomas Ball is a professional Australian tennis player. Although born and based in the U.S., Carsten has continued to compete as an Australian player.-Tennis career:...

def.   Jesse Levine

Jesse Levine

Jesse Levine is a Canadian-born American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles rank of No. 94 on November 3, 2008....

, 6–4, 7–6(1)

Doubles

  Raven Klaasen

Raven Klaasen

Raven Klaasen born October 16, 1982 in King William's Town, South Africa is a professional South African player on the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour. Klaasen's career-high ranking was World Number 208, which he achieved on October 24, 2011...

/   Izak van der Merwe

Izak van der Merwe

- Professional career :In June 2008, van der Merwe qualified into the 2008 Wimbledon main draw, beating World No. 177 Miguel Ángel López Jaén, World No. 126 Kristian Pless, and World No. 246 Frédéric Niemeyer...

def.   Kaden Hensel /   Adam Hubble, 5–7, 6–4, [10–7]