2010 Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament
Encyclopedia
The 2010 Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament was a professional tennis
tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour
. It took place in Sacramento
, USA between 4 and 11 October 2010.
Michael McClune
Dennis Novikov Fritz Wolmarans
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Daniel Cox
Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
Luka Gregorc
Dimitar Kutrovsky
Andrew Anderson
(Lucky Loser replacing Jesse Levine
)
John Millman
def.
Robert Kendrick
, 6–3, 6–2
Rik de Voest
/ Izak van der Merwe
def. Nicholas Monroe / Donald Young, 4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
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...
tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour
2010 ATP Challenger Tour
The Association of Tennis Professionals 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...
. It took place in Sacramento
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
, USA between 4 and 11 October 2010.
Seeds
| Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|
 Germany |
Tobias Kamke Tobias Kamke Tobias Kamke is a German tennis player. He reached his career high ranking in singles at No. 64 on 31 January 2011 and in doubles at No. 419 on 17 October 2011.-2008:... |
88 | 1 |
| United States |
Donald Young | 106 | 2 |
| Germany |
Julian Reister Julian Reister Julian Reister is a German professional tennis player. His career high rank was No. 92, achieved on May 2, 2011.-2006:... |
111 | 3 |
| United States |
Ryan Sweeting Ryan Sweeting Ryan Sweeting is a Bahamian-born American professional tennis player.-Tennis career:Sweeting was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and has lived and trained in Ft. Lauderdale since the age of 12... |
114 | 4 |
| United States |
Robert Kendrick Robert Kendrick Robert Bradley Kendrick is an American tennis player. He turned professional in 1999. His career high single ranking is world no. 69, achieved on July 20, 2009. He was suspended for a year after testing positive at the 2011 French Open for the drug methylhexanamine, which has been banned in sport... |
151 | 5 |
| 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:... |
153 | 6 |
| South Africa |
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... |
155 | 7 |
| United States |
Kevin Kim Kevin Kim - External links :* *... |
162 | 8 |
- Rankings are as of September 27, 2010.
Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Denis KudlaDenis 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....
Michael McClune
Michael McClune
Michael McClune is an American professional tennis player.He turned professional in 2007, is represented by Olivier van Lindonk of IMG, and signed a lucrative contract with Nike.-Junior career:...
Dennis Novikov 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....
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Daniel Cox
Daniel Cox
Daniel Cox , is a British tennis player.Daniel, whilst playing tennis for Lancashire, first came into international prominence when he reached the finals of Le Petit As, Tarbes...
Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
Pierre-Ludovic Duclos
Pierre-Ludovic Duclos-Lasnier, commonly referred to as Pierre-Ludovic Duclos, is a Canadian professional tennis player...
Luka Gregorc
Luka Gregorc
Luka Gregorc is a tennis player from Slovenia. Gregorc reached his highest singles ranking of World Number 172 on August 3, 2009, and highest doubles ranking on September 12, 2005, reaching World Number 557...
Dimitar Kutrovsky
Dimitar Kutrovsky
Dimitar Kutrovsky is a tennis player from Bulgaria. At the moment he is the second best ranked Bulgarian after Grigor Dimitrov. In 2011 he was invited to play for the Bulgarian Davis Cup team and he started with a win over Siarhei Betau....
Andrew Anderson
Andrew Anderson (tennis)
Andrew Anderson is a South African tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour.As of January, 2011, Anderson has played in one main draw match in an ATP Tour event. He qualified for the singles main draw of the 2009 SA Tennis Open - he lost this match 4-6, 2-6 to No. 8 seed Marcos Baghdatis...
(Lucky Loser replacing 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....
)
Singles
John MillmanJohn Millman
John Millman is an Australian professional tennis player. He reached a career high ranking of 179 in October 2010.- 2008 :...
def.
Robert KendrickRobert Kendrick
Robert Bradley Kendrick is an American tennis player. He turned professional in 1999. His career high single ranking is world no. 69, achieved on July 20, 2009. He was suspended for a year after testing positive at the 2011 French Open for the drug methylhexanamine, which has been banned in sport...
, 6–3, 6–2
Doubles
Rik de VoestRik de Voest
Rik de Voest is a professional South African tennis player. As of September 6, 2007, de Voest's career-high ranking was World Number 110, which he achieved on August 21, 2006....
/
Izak van der MerweIzak 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.
Nicholas Monroe / Donald Young, 4–6, 6–4, [10–7]