The 2017

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, Australia, between 9 and 14 January 2017.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of January 2, 2017.

Other entrants

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

Alexei Popyrin Alexei Popyrin (born 5 August 1999) is an Australian professional tennis player. Popyrin has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 59 achieved on 8 November 2021. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 235 achieved in June 20 ...

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Brandon Walkin Brandon Walkin (born 16 August 1994) is an Australian tennis player. Walkin has a career high ATP ATP doubles ranking of 204 and a singles ranking of 702 achieved on 17 February 2020 Walkin made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Adelaide In ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

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Luca Margaroli Luca Margaroli (born 15 February 1992) is a Swiss tennis player. Margaroli has a career high ATP singles ranking of 692, achieved on 23 October 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 128 achieved on 6 June 2019. Margaroli made ...

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The following player received entry as a lucky loser: *

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Champions

Men's singles

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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 ...

3–6, 6–4, 6–3.

Men's doubles

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Carlos Berlocq Carlos Alberto Berlocq (; born February 3, 1983) is an Argentine retired professional tennis player nicknamed ''Charly'', ''Panther'' and ''Warlocq''. His favourite surface was clay and he was last coached by Walter Grinovero. Berlocq's career ...

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6–3, 6–4.

External links

Official Website

ATP Challenger Tour official site
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