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s at the

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from 8 to 14 May 2006. It was the 15th edition of the men's tournament which was part of the 2006 ATP Challenger Series and the 5th edition of the women's tournament which was part of the

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as a Tier IV tournament.

Points and prize money

''Note: this information was only available for the women's tournament''

Point distribution

Prize money

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Men's singles entrants

Seeds

¹ Source: ATP

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Dušan Karol Dušan Karol (born 19 May 1983) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Biography Born in Jihlava, Karol was a right-handed player, with a double handed backhand. As a junior he had a win over Tomas Berdych at the Czech ...

Michal Navrátil Michal Navrátil (; born 5 June 1985) is a Czech professional diver. Personal life Michal Navrátil was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Originally his family come from Pilsen, Bohemia. His father introduced him to swimming competitions from ...

Wolfgang Schranz Wolfgang Schranz (born 18 or 19 March 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. Schranz won the 1992 Austrian National Championships, for the 16 and under age group. He competed in main draw of the French Open twice, in 1997 a ...

* Mike Steinherr The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Konstantinos Economidis Konstantinos Economidis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Οικονομίδης, born 2 November 1977) is a retired professional Greek tennis player and a former Greek No. 1. In 2007, he qualified for the French Open and defeated Australian Chris ...

* Jan Hájek *

Petr Kralert Petr Kralert (born 20 October 1979) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Tennis career Juniors Kralert had a good year as a junior in 1996, when he won the Banana Bowl; was a doubles champion at the Orange Bowl, partner ...

Simone Vagnozzi Simone Vagnozzi (; born 30 May 1983) is an Italian former professional tennis player. Vagnozzi had a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 161 achieved on 7 November 2011. He also had a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 74 ach ...

The following players received entry as special exempts: *

Marcel Granollers-Pujol Marcel Granollers Pujol (; ; born 12 April 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 19 in July 2012, and his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4 in February 2013. Granollers h ...

''(reached the final at

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last week)'' *

Lamine Ouahab Lamine Ouahab (Arabic: الأمين وهاب ''al-ʼAmīn Wahhāb'') (born 22 December 1984) is a Moroccan professional tennis player. Career Juniors As a junior, Ouahab reached as high as No. 4 in singles in January 2002 (and No. 18 in doub ...

''(won in

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last week)''

Men's doubles entrants

Seeds

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Martin Damm Martin Damm Sr. (born 1 August 1972) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known as a doubles player (his highest ranking being No. 5 in the world in April 2007). His highest singles ranking was No. 42 in A ...

* Jan Hájek /

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* Miloslav Navrátil / Filip Zeman The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Florin Mergea Florin Mergea (; born 26 January 1985) 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 c ...

Andrei Pavel Andrei Pavel (born 27 January 1974) is a Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. Career Andrei began playing tennis at age eight, and moved to Germany at age sixteen. Turned professional in 1995. He won three singles tit ...

Women's singles entrants

Seeds

¹ Rankings as of 1 May 2006.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Nikola Fraňková Nikola Fraňková (born 7 February 1988) is a Czech former tennis player. In her career, Fraňková won one singles title and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 9 March 2009, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 249. ...

Magdaléna Rybáriková Magdaléna Rybáriková (; born 4 October 1988) is a retired Slovak tennis player. In her career, she won four singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour. Rybáriková reached the semifinals of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships and bro ...

Barbora Strýcová Barbora Strýcová (; born 28 March 1986), formerly known as Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, is a Czech former professional tennis player who was ranked List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. She won her fir ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Victoria Azarenka Victória Fyódarauna Azárenka ( be, Вікторыя Фёдараўна Азаранка; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Azarenka is a former wo ...

Natalie Grandin Natalie Grandin (born 27 February 1981) is a retired tennis player from South Africa. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of 144 as of 12 September 2005. On 14 May 2012, she peaked at No. 22 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she ...

Michaela Paštiková Michaela Paštiková (born 27 March 1980) is a retired tennis player from the Czech Republic. On 31 January 2005, Paštiková achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 89. On 25 July 2005, she peaked at No. 35 of the WTA doubles r ...

Agnieszka Radwańska Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player. She won 20 career singles WTA Tour titles, two doubles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 on 9 July 2012. Her achievem ...

Women's doubles entrants

Seeds

¹ Rankings as of 1 May 2006.

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw: *

Kateřina Vaňková Kateřina Vaňková (born 30 December 1989) is a Czech former professional tennis player. She has won 15 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 20 April 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 218. On 18 Apr ...

The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Kristina Brandi Kristina Brandi (born March 29, 1977) is a former Puerto Rican tennis player. She was the first tennis player representing Puerto Rico to win a singles match in an Olympic tennis tournament. Some of Brandi's career highlights: She achieved her b ...

Aleke Tsoubanos Aleke Joy Tsoubanos (born April 27, 1982) is an American former professional tennis player. Tsoubanos, the daughter of Greek-born parents, is originally from St. Louis and played collegiate tennis for Vanderbilt University. She was a member of th ...

Finals

Men's singles

Robin Vik Robin Vik (born 5 February 1980 in Hradec Králové) is a Czech professional tennis player. Vik turned professional in 1995 and he reached a career high ranking of World No. 57 in January 2006. Career highlight runs are reaching the semifinals o ...

defeated Jan Hajek, 6–4, 7–6^(7–4)

Men's doubles

Petr Pála Petr Pála (born 2 October 1975) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Together with Pavel Vízner he reached the men's doubles final of the 2001 French Open but lost to Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Lean ...

David Škoch David Škoch (born 6 November 1976) is a professional doubles tennis player from the Czech Republic. He was the Wimbledon boys' singles champion in 1992. In 2012–2019 he played in ITF tournaments with Petr Nouza, recently in May 2019 in Jabl ...

defeated

Ramón Delgado Ramón Delgado (; born 14 November 1976) is a Paraguayan retired tennis player and current tennis coach. He turned professional in 1995 and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 52 in April 1999. He reached the final at Bogotá in ...

Sergio Roitman Sergio Andres Roitman (born 16 May 1979), nicknamed 'Motoneta' (''Shotgun'' in Spanish) is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina. He achieved a career-high rankings of world No. 62 in singles in October 2007, and world No. 45 in do ...

, 6–0, 6–0

Women's singles

Shahar Pe'er Shahar Pe'er ( he, שחר פאר, ; born ) is an Israeli retired tennis player. Pe'er won five singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. She reached ...

defeated

Samantha Stosur Samantha Jane Stosur ( ; born 30 March 1984) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she first achieved on 6 February 2006 and held for 61 consecutive weeks. Also a former top ten s ...

, 4–6, 6–2, 6–1 It was the 2nd singles title for Pe'er in the season and her career.

Women's doubles

Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli (; born 2 October 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title after previously being runner-up in 2007, and was a semifinalist at the 2011 French Open. She als ...

defeated

Ashley Harkleroad Ashley Harkleroad Adams (born May 2, 1985) is a former professional American tennis player. She reached a career-high ranking in singles of 39 in June 2003. Career Raised in Chickamauga, Georgia (near Chattanooga, Tennessee), Harkleroad turned p ...

Bethanie Mattek Bethanie Mattek-Sands ( Bethanie Lynn Mattek; born March 23, 1985) is an American professional tennis player. She has won nine Grand Slam titles (five in women's doubles and four in mixed doubles), and an Olympic gold medal, and is a former w ...

, 6–4, 6–4 It was the 3rd title for Bartoli and the 1st title for Pe'er in their respective doubles careers.

References

External links

Official Results Archive (ATP)

Official Results Archive (WTA)
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