The 2009

Aberto de São Paulo The Aberto de São Paulo was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It was held annually at the Villa-Lobos State Park, Parque Villa Lobos in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2001. All the Brazilia ...

was a professional

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tournament played on outdoor

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s. It was part of the

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. It took place in

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between 5 and 11 January 2009.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of December 28, 2008.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Eric Gomes * Nicolás Santos *

Flávio Saretta Flávio Saretta Filho (born June 28, 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1998. Tennis career Saretta has won one ATP Tour doubles title, the 2004 Croatia Open Umag with José Acasuso, defea ...

* Daniel Silva The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Rafael Camilo *

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Frédéric Niemeyer Frédéric Niemeyer (born April 24, 1976) is a Canadian retired, professional tennis player and was tennis coach at Tennis Canada for 10 years and he is now a freelance Tennis Consultant and Coach. Career Niemeyer reached a career-high ATP s ...

Izak van der Merwe Izak van der Merwe (born 26 January 1984) is a retired South African tennis player. Van der Merwe had a career-high ATP singles ranking of 113 achieved on 1 August 2011. Van der Merwe represented South Africa at the Davis Cup. He says he tri ...

Champions

Men's singles

Ricardo Mello Ricardo Mello (born 21 December 1980) is a Brazilian retired tennis player. His preference is for clay courts. He has had the occasional win in hard court tournaments. His best singles rank was No. 50 in 2005. He won one singles tournament (Delra ...

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Paul Capdeville Paul Gerard Capdeville Castro (; born 2 April 1983) is a Chilean former tennis player. He was born in Santiago. Tennis career In May 2009, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 76. At the 2006 French Open, Capdeville had a s ...

, 6–2, 6–4

Men's doubles

Carlos Berlocq Carlos Alberto Berlocq (; born February 3, 1983) is an Argentine former professional tennis player and coach nicknamed ''Charly'', ''Panther'' and ''Warlocq''. Berlocq's career-high singles ranking was World No. 37, achieved in March 2012. His ...

Leonardo Mayer Leonardo Martín Mayer (, ; born May 15, 1987) is a tennis coach and a former professional player from Argentina. Mayer achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 21 in June 2015 and world No. 48 in doubles in January 2019. Career ...

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Mariano Hood Mariano Hood (born 14 August 1973) is a retired left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles. In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and curren ...

Horacio Zeballos Horacio Zeballos Jr. (, ; born 27 April 1985) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 1 on 6 May 2024, becoming the first Argentinian man to achieve the feat. He is a Grand Slam champion ...

, 7–6(1), 6–3

External links

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