The 2017

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s. It was the fifteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in

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, Italy between 5 and 10 September 2017.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of 28 August 2017.

Other entrants

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

Matteo Donati Matteo Donati (; born 28 February 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player. On 13 April 2015, he reached the final of the ATP Challenger Tour Napoli Cup to claim a career-high of no. 247 on the ATP World Tour Singles rankings. Professiona ...

Julian Ocleppo Julian Ocleppo (born 1 August 1997) is an Italian tennis player. Ocleppo has a career high ATP singles ranking of 309 achieved on 24 February 2020. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 167 achieved on 23 July 2018. Ocleppo has won 3 AT ...

Andreas Seppi Andreas Seppi (born 21 February 1984) is an Italian former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 on 28 January 2013. He became the first Italian to win a title on all three surfaces. Tennis car ...

Stefanos Tsitsipas Stefanos Tsitsipas ( gr, Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς, ; born 12 August 1998) is a Greek professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 9 ...

The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates: *

Riccardo Bonadio Riccardo Bonadio (born 13 July 1993) is an Italian tennis player. Bonadio has a career high ATP singles ranking of 177 achieved on 15 August 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 278 achieved on 21 March 2022. Bonadio has won 1 ATP ...

Federico Gaio Federico Gaio (; born 5 March 1992) is an Italian professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and on the ITF circuit. He has won four Challenger titles and nine ITF futures singles titles. He reached his career hig ...

Hubert Hurkacz Hubert Hurkacz (; born 11 February 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 9 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in November 2021, making him the highe ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Andrea Basso * Gianluca Di Nicola *

Andrea Pellegrino Andrea Pellegrino (; born 23 March 1997) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 136 achieved on 26 September 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 165 achieved on 13 January 2020. ...

Tim Pütz Tim Pütz (; born 19 November 1987) is a German professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 7 on 29 August 2022, and has won seven doubles titles on the ATP Tour, most notably t ...

Champions

Singles

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Guillermo García López Guillermo García López (, born 4 June 1983) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He has won five singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 23 in February 2011. As of 2021, he has collected thirteen w ...

7–5, 7–6^(7–2).

Doubles

Jan-Lennard Struff Jan-Lennard Struff (; born 25 April 1990) is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 29 in August 2020. In doubles, he achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 21 in October 2018. He ha ...

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Guido Andreozzi Guido Andreozzi (; ; born 5 August 1991) is an Argentine professional tennis player of Italian descent. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. His career-high rankings are World No. 70 in sin ...

Ariel Behar Ariel Behar (; born November 12, 1989 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. He specializes in men's doubles and has won three ATP titles with Ecuadorian partner Gonzalo Escobar. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 3 ...

7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(10–8).

References

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