The 2013

Kunming Challenger The Kunming Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Kunming, China since 2013. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on hard courts A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually ...

was a professional

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

tournament played on

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. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the

2013 ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour is the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 2013 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 149 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $35,000 up to $220,00 ...

. It took place in

Kunming Kunming (; ), also known as Yunnan-Fu, is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The headquar ...

, China between 6 and 12 May 2013.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of April 29, 2013.

Other entrants

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

Gong Maoxin Gong Maoxin (; ; born August 24, 1987), is a professional male tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a ...

* Li Zhe *

Ouyang Bowen Ouyang Bowen (; born 19 May 1992 in Xinjing) is a Chinese male tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses ...

The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw: *

Márton Fucsovics Márton Fucsovics ( hu, Fucsovics Márton, ; born 8 February 1992) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 31 on 4 March 2019. He is currently the No. 1 Hungarian player. Early life Fucs ...

* Yang Tsung-hua The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Victor Baluda Victor Mikhaylovich Baluda (russian: Виктор Михайлович Балуда; born 30 September 1992) is a Russian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challe ...

Laurynas Grigelis Laurynas Grigelis (born August 14, 1991) is a Lithuanian former professional tennis player and a prominent member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team. Grigelis holds the best ATP doubles ranking for Lithuanian player of all time. Grigelis won his ...

* James McGee * John-Patrick Smith

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of April 29, 2013.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Gao Xin / Li Zhe *

/ Zhang Ze * Tan Haiyun / Yang Jingzhu The following pair received entry as an alternate: *

Go Soeda is a former professional Japanese tennis player. He started playing tennis at the age of four and turned professional in April 2003. He has won 18 singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of w ...

/ Yasutaka Uchiyama

Champions

Singles

Alex Bogomolov Jr. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolov Jr. (russian: Александр Александрович «Алекс» Богомолов; born April 23, 1983), nicknamed Bogie, is a Russian-American retired professional tennis player. Tennis caree ...

def.

Rik de Voest Rik de Voest (born 5 June 1980) is a former professional South African tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 110 in August 2006. Rik resides in Vancouver, Canada where he pursues a career in real estate. De V ...

, 6–3, 4–6, 7–6^(7–2)

Doubles

* Samuel Groth / John-Patrick Smith def.

/ Yasutaka Uchiyama, 6–4, 6–1

External links

{{2013 ATP Challenger Tour

Kunming Challenger 2013 in Chinese tennis