The 2019
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 ...
was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
hard courts
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. It was the sixteenth (men) and tenth (women) editions of the tournament which was part of the
2019 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour in 2019 was the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2019 ATP Challenger Tour calendar had 158 tournaments scheduled, with prize money ranging from $54,160 up to $162,480. It was the 42nd edition ...
and the
2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour
The 2019 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's World Tennis Tour 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. ...
. It took place in
Burnie
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 between 21 and 27 January 2019.
Men's singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of 14 January 2019.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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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 ...
* Jacob Grills
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Christopher O'Connell
Christopher O'Connell (born 3 June 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player. He grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. O'Connell reached a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 78 on 28 November 2022 and a doubles ranking ...
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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 ...
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Aleksandar Vukic
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:
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Daniel Altmaier
Daniel Altmaier (born 12 September 1998) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved on 23 May 2022.
Tennis career 2017: ATP debut
Altmaier made his ATP main draw debut as a qualifi ...
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:
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Alessandro Bega
Alessandro Bega (born 11 January 1991) is an Italian former tennis player. He predominantly plays on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour.
Bega has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 259 achieved on 25 July 2016. He also has ...
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Andrew Harris
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Harri Heliövaara
Harri Heliövaara (born 4 June 1989) is a Finnish tennis player. His highest ranking in singles is World No. 194, which he achieved on 19 December 2011. His highest ranking in doubles is world No. 9, which he achieved on 9 January 2023. In double ...
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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 ...
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Bradley Mousley
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:
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Steven Diez
Steven Diez ( es, Díez, ; born March 17, 1991) is a Canadian and former Spanish professional tennis player. Raised primarily in and competing for Spain early in his career, he has since gone on to represent the country of his birth, Canada, in ...
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David Pérez Sanz
David Pérez Sanz (; born 15 May 1994) is a Spanish tennis player.
Pérez Sanz has a career high ATP singles ranking of 216, achieved on 6 June 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 158 achieved on 19 September 2016. Pérez San ...
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Jordi Samper Montaña
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Alexander Zhurbin
Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin (Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Журби́н; born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 7 August 1945) is a Russian composer.
Biography
Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin was born in Tashkent. In 1963, he graduate ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Jeremy Beale
Jeremy Beale (born 4 October 1994) is an 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 tennis r ...
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Sadio Doumbia
Sadio Doumbia (born 12 September 1990) is a French tennis player.
Doumbia has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 250 achieved on 7 November 2016. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 52 achieved on 13 February 2023. Doumbia has ...
Women's singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of 14 January 2019.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Destanee Aiava
Destanee Gabriella Aiava (born 10 May 2000) is an Australian professional tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 147 in singles, achieved on 11 September 2017, and of 192 in doubles, achieved October 2019. Aiava has won five single ...
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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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Lizette Cabrera
Lizette Faith Cabrera (born 19 December 1997) is an Australian tennis player of Filipino descent. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 119, achieved on 3 February 2020.
Early life
Cabrera was born and raised in Townsville by her paren ...
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Zoe Hives
Zoe Hives (born 24 October 1996) is a professional Australian tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of World No. 142 in singles and World No. 144 in doubles, both achieved in 2019. Hives so far has won four singles and two doubles t ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Alison Bai
Alison Bai (born 18 January 1990) is a professional Australian tennis player. Her highest 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 ITF Circuit ...
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Chang Kai-chen
Chang Kai-chen (; ; born January 13, 1991) is a Taiwanese former professional tennis player.
Career
Her father is Chang Chin-lai and mother is Jun Yu-mei; she has two older brothers, Yao-lun and Yao-chung (both play tennis). Born and raised ...
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Gabriella Da Silva-Fick
Gabriella Da Silva-Fick (born 23 August 2000) is an Australian tennis player.
Da Silva-Fick has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 460, achieved on 22 February 2021. She also has a best WTA doubles ranking of 413, reached on 14 October ...
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Jennifer Elie
Jennifer Elie (born September 22, 1986) is an American former professional tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 219 in singles, achieved June 2017, and 237 in doubles, set in May 2013. Elie has won two singles titles and six doubl ...
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Nadia Podoroska
Nadia Natacha Podoroska (; born 10 February 1997) is an Argentine professional tennis player. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Podoroska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, along with 14 singles titles and seven doubles titles on ...
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Belinda Woolcock
Belinda Woolcock (born 24 January 1995) is an Australian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of 290 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 18 November 2019, and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 207, reached on ...
Champions
Men's singles
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Steven Diez
Steven Diez ( es, Díez, ; born March 17, 1991) is a Canadian and former Spanish professional tennis player. Raised primarily in and competing for Spain early in his career, he has since gone on to represent the country of his birth, Canada, in ...
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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 ...
, 7–5, 6–1
Women's singles
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Belinda Woolcock
Belinda Woolcock (born 24 January 1995) is an Australian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of 290 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 18 November 2019, and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 207, reached on ...
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Paula Badosa Gibert
Paula Badosa Gibert () (born 15 November 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which she achieved on 25 April 2022, and No. 124 in doubles, a ...
, 7–6
(7–3), 7–6
(7–4)
Men's doubles
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Lloyd Harris /
Dudi Sela
David "Dudi" Sela ( he, דודי סלע; born 4 April 1985) is an Israeli professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 29 in July 2009.
Sela won the French Open 2003 junior doubles title. Representing Israe ...
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Mirza Bašić
Mirza Bašić (; born 12 July 1991) is a Bosnian professional tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title and is a member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team.
Bašić reached his first Grand Slam tournament after qualifying for t ...
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Tomislav Brkić
Tomislav Brkić (; born 9 March 1990) is a Bosnian professional tennis player. He has won one ATP doubles title with Serbian partner Nikola Ćaćić. Brkić achieved a career-high in doubles of World No. 37 on 23 May 2022. He is currently the cap ...
6–3, 6–7
(3–7),
0–8
Women's doubles
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Ellen Perez
Ellen Perez (born 10 October 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player.
Perez has won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as two singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. ...
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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, ...
def.
Irina Khromacheva
Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva ( rus, Ирина Павловна Хромачёва; born 12 May 1995) is a professional tennis player from Russia.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 89 in singles and 41 in doubles.
Khromacheva was provisionally ...
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Maryna Zanevska
Maryna Volodymyrivna Zanevska ( uk, Марина Володимирівна Заневська; born 24 August 1993) is a Ukrainian-born Belgian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 62, achieved on 23 May 2022, and ...
, 6–4, 6–3
References
External links
2019 Burnie Internationalat ITFtennis.com
Official website
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2019 ATP Challenger Tour
2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour
2019 in Australian tennis
January 2019 sports events in Australia