The 2021

Cary Challenger The Atlantic Tire Championships is a tennis tournament held in Cary, North Carolina, United States since 2015. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on outdoor hard courts. Past finals Singles Doubles Reference ...

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. It was the 7th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in

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, United States between 19 and 25 July 2021.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of July 12, 2021.

Other entrants

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

William Blumberg William Blumberg (born January 26, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. A former college player at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Blumberg has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 74 achieved on September 12, ...

Govind Nanda Govind Nanda (born February 17, 2001) is an American tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of 339 achieved on October 3, 2022, and a career-high doubles ranking of 497 achieved on August 22, 2022. Personal life Nanda is of Indian ...

Sam Riffice Sam Riffice (born 1 March 1999) is an American tennis player. Early life and career His mother, Lori Riffice, is a national coach with USTA Player Development. The family relocated to Central Florida to be a part of the USTA National Campus staf ...

The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: *

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The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Alexis Galarneau * Aleksandar Kovacevic *

Shintaro Mochizuki Shintaro Mochizuki (Japanese: 望月慎太郎, ''Mochizuki Shintaro'', born 2 June 2003) is a Japanese tennis player. He has an ATP career-high singles ranking of world No. 348 achieved on 18 July 2022. Mochizuki has a career high ITF junior ...

Genaro Alberto Olivieri Genaro Alberto Olivieri (born 4 August 1998) is an Argentine professional tennis player. Olivieri has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 137 achieved on 18 September 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 304 achieved on 29 ...

The following player received entry as a lucky loser: *

Aidan McHugh Aidan McHugh (born 9 July 2000) is a British professional tennis player. He has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 298 achieved on 28 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking ...

Champions

Singles

Mitchell Krueger Mitchell Krueger (born January 12, 1994) is an American tennis player. Krueger has a career-high singles ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) of world No. 135, achieved on 18 July 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ...

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Ramkumar Ramanathan Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as No. 111 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No. 58 ac ...

7–6^(7–4), 6–2.

Doubles

Christian Harrison Christian Harrison (born May 29, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 198 achieved on 2 July 2018 and a doubles ranking of world No. 162 achieved on 26 August 2013. He is the younger brother ...

Dennis Novikov Dennis Novikov (born 6 November 1993 in Moscow, Russia) is an American professional tennis player born in Russia. He won both the singles and doubles titles at the USTA Boys 18s National Championships in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2012. As a resul ...

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Petros Chrysochos Petros Chrysochos (Greek: Πέτρος Χρυσοχός; born April 8, 1996) is a professional Cypriot tennis player and a member of Cyprus Davis Cup team. He won his first professional ITF futures tournament in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt without ...

Michail Pervolarakis Michail Pervolarakis (born 6 June 1996) is a Cypriot-born Greek tennis player. Pervolarakis has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 366 achieved on 10 January 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 157 achie ...

6–3, 6–3.

References

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