The 2007 Orange Prokom Open was the tenth edition of this men's

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tournament and was played on outdoor clay courts. The tournament was part of the International Series of the 2007 ATP Tour. It took place in

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from 30 July through 6 August 2007.

Tommy Robredo Tomás Robredo Garcés, known as Tommy Robredo (, ; born 1 May 1982), is a Spanish former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 5, which he reached in August 2006 as a result of winning the Hamburg Masters ea ...

won the singles title.

Betting controversy

Nikolay Davydenko Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko ( rus, Никола́й Влади́мирович Давыде́нко ; born 2 June 1981) is a Ukrainian-born Russian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 i ...

, then world number 4, was questioned under suspicion of match fixing after his unexpected second round loss to world number 87

Martín Vassallo Argüello Martín Miguel Vassallo Argüello (born 10 February 1980) is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. His career-high ATP singles ranking is World No. 47, achieved in April 2009 shortly after reaching the semifinals of Acapulco ...

, 2–6, 6–3, 2–1 by retirement. Online betting company

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reported its suspicions to the game's governing body, the

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, after irregular betting patterns occurred. Betfair took the unprecedented step of voiding all bets on the match, with came to a sum of around £3.6m, ten times the usual amount for a match at this level.BBC SPORT , Tennis , Davydenko faces betting inquiry
/ref> Argüello's odds to win the match also rocketed early in the second set, despite being in a losing position. Davydenko retired with a foot injury and called the trainer out towards the end of the second set.

Finals

Men's singles

defeated

José Acasuso José Javier "Chucho" Acasuso (; born 20 October 1982) is a former professional male tennis player from Argentina. Like many of his fellow countrymen, he favoured clay. He was known for his strong serve and his hard groundstrokes off both side ...

, 7–5, 6–0 *It was Robredo's first title of the year and the fifth of his career.

Men's doubles

Mariusz Fyrstenberg Mariusz Stanisław Fyrstenberg (born 8 July 1980) is a retired left-handed Polish tennis player who was a doubles specialist. Fyrstenberg primarily partnered Marcin Matkowski. The pair won the Madrid Open twice, in addition to reaching the fin ...

Marcin Matkowski Marcin Matkowski (; born 15 January 1981) is a Polish former professional tennis player whose speciality is in doubles. He played college tennis at UCLA, where Jean-Julien Rojer was one of his teammates. Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg won t ...

defeated Martín García / Sebastián Prieto, 6–1, 6–1

References

External links

Men's Singles drawMen's Doubles draw
{{2007 ATP Tour

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