The 2017 Caterpillar
Burnie International
The Burnie International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hardcourts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Women's Circuit. It is a $75k level tournament for the Challenger Tour and a $60,000 level tourn ...
is a professional
tennis
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tournament played on outdoor
hard court
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s as part of the
2017 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, in 2017, was the secondary men's professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2017 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprises 155 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $50,000 up to $150,000. It was the 40th edit ...
and the
2017 ITF Women's Circuit
The 2017 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit is a second-tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organized by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The ITF Wo ...
, offering a total of $75,000 in prize money for men and $60,000 for women. It was the fourteenth (for men) and eighth (for women) edition of the tournament, which returned to the tennis calendar after missing 2016 due to difficulty acquiring funds.
It took place in
Burnie, Tasmania
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s.
, Burnie had an urban popu ...
, Australia, on 28 January–4 February 2017.
Men's singles entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings as of 16 January 2017.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Alex Bolt
Alex Bolt (born 5 January 1993) is an inactive Australian professional tennis player. His career-high ranking is World No. 125 in singles and World No. 81 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Highlights of Bolt's career ...
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Harry Bourchier
Harry Bourchier (born 24 January 1996) is an Australian tennis player.
Bourchier has a career high ATP singles ranking of 279 achieved on 13 January 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 275 achieved on 2 March 2020.
Bourchie ...
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Matthew Ebden
Matthew Ebden (born 26 November 1987) is an Australian professional tennis player.
He is a two-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships in men's ...
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Bradley Mousley
Bradley Mousley (born 3 January 1996) is an Australian tennis player. Mousley won the Australian Open boys' doubles title in both 2013 and 2014.
In August 2014, Mousley received a one-year ban, backdated to 30 May 2014, after testing positive ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Maverick Banes
Maverick Banes (born 10 April 1992) is an inactive Australian 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 ...
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James Frawley
James Joseph Frawley (September 29, 1936 – January 22, 2019) was an American director and actor. He was a member of the Actors Studio since around 1961. He was best known for directing ''The Muppet Movie'' (1979) and ''The Monkees'' television ...
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Greg Jones
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Dayne Kelly
Dayne Kelly (born 23 July 1990) is an Australian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tourna ...
Women's singles entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of 16 January 2017
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Naiktha Bains
Naiktha Bains (born 17 December 1997) is an Australian-British tennis player.
Bains has won two singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She has reached best WTA ranking of world No. 199 in singles. On 24 September 2018, she p ...
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Jaimee Fourlis
Jaimee Fourlis (born 17 September 1999) is a professional Australian tennis player of Greek descent. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 147, achieved on 18 July 2022, and a highest doubles ranking of world No. 138, reached on 2 ...
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Olivia Tjandramulia
Olivia Tjandramulia (born 11 May 1997) is an Indonesian-born Australian tennis player.
She was born in Jakarta, Indonesia but grew up in Rockhampton, Australia, and made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Hobart International, in singles and i ...
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Sara Tomic
Sara Tomic (; hr, Sara Tomić, ; born 5 February 1998) is a professional Australian tennis player. She is the younger sister of tennis player Bernard Tomic.
In June 2015, she won her first professional-level title in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
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The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Tessah Andrianjafitrimo
Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (born 11 October 1998) is a French professional female tennis player of Malagasy descent. She was born in Montpellier, France.
On 20 June 2022, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 139. Andrianjafitrimo has wo ...
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Alexandra Stevenson
Alexandra Winfield Stevenson (born December 15, 1980) is an American former professional tennis player.
Early life and education
Stevenson's mother is Samantha Stevenson, a sports journalist. Her father is former National Basketball Associati ...
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Aleksandra Wozniak
Aleksandra Wozniak ( pl, Woźniak; born September 7, 1987) is a Canadian former tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005, and achieved a career-best ranking of No. 21 in June 2009, making her the fifth highest-ranked Canadian singl ...
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Zuzana Zlochová
Zuzana Zlochová (born 24 January 1990) is a Slovakian professional tennis player.
Zlochová made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Swedish Open in the singles tournament, and in the doubles main draw, partnering Karman Thandi.
In 2011 ...
Champions
Men's singles
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Omar Jasika
Omar Jasika (; born 18 May 1997) is an Australian tennis player. He is the 2014 US Open boys' singles champion defeating Quentin Halys in the final. Jasika along with Naoki Nakagawa also won the 2014 US Open boys' doubles title after defeating ...
def.
Blake Mott
Blake Mott (born 21 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player. He competes mainly in the Challenger Tour. He reached his career high singles ranking of World No. 220 in June 2017. He won his first Challenger title in the 2016 La ...
6–2, 6–2.
Women's singles
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Asia Muhammad
Asia Muhammad (born April 4, 1991) is an American professional tennis player.
A doubles specialist, Muhammad has won seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, four doubles titles on WTA Challenger Tour as well as 13 singles and 35 doubles titles on ...
def.
Arina Rodionova
Arina Ivanovna Rodionova (russian: Арина Ивановна Родионова; born 15 December 1989) is a Russian-born Australian tennis player.
Rodionova has won nine singles and 42 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In 2007, ...
6–2, 6–1.
Men's doubles
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Brydan Klein
Brydan Klein (born 31 December 1989) is an Australian-born British professional tennis player. As a junior, Klein won the 2007 Australian Open and reached a career-high top five in the ITF junior rankings. However, Klein has struggled to make ...
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Dane Propoggia
Dane Propoggia (born 24 April 1990) is an Australian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures
The ITF World Tennis Tour (formerly known as the ''ITF Men's World Tennis Tour'', and previously '' ...
def.
Steven de Waard
Steven de Waard (born 5 May 1991) is an Australian tennis player.
De Waard has a career high ATP singles ranking of 707 achieved on 14 November 2016. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 129 achieved on 26 June 2017.
De Waard has won ...
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Luke Saville
Luke Saville (born 1 February 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has had success as a doubles player where he reached his highest ranking of World No. 23 on 8 November 2021. Saville reached the final at the 2020 Australian Op ...
6–3, 6–4.
Women's doubles
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Riko Sawayanagi
is a Japanese 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 ...
/
Barbora Štefková
Barbora Štefková (born 4 April 1995) is a retired Czech tennis player.
Štefková had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 154, achieved on 27 February 2017. On 14 January 2019, she peaked at No. 100 in the doubles rankings. She won nine ...
def.
Alison Bai
Alison Bai (born 18 January 1990) is a professional Australian tennis player. Her highest WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking is No. 305, which she reached on 2 November 2015. Her career-high in doubles is No. 125, set on 20 January 2020.
On the ...
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Varatchaya Wongteanchai
Varatchaya "Pias" Wongteanchai ( th, วรัชญา วงค์เทียนชัย; born 7 September 1989) is a former professional tennis player from Thailand.
In her career, she won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four ...
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(8–6), 4–6,
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External links
2017 Caterpillar Burnie Internationalat Tennis Australia
Official website
References
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2017 ATP Challenger Tour
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