The 2019
Columbus Challenger
The Columbus Challenger is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour and WTA 125K series. The ATP event is held annually in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A, as it has been since 2015, the tournam ...
II was a 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 cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...
tournament played on
hard court
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface ...
s. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the
2019 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour in 2019 in tennis, 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 t ...
. It took place in
Columbus
Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "''Colombo''". It most commonly refers to:
* Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), the Italian explorer
* Columbus, Ohio, capital of the U.S. state of Ohio
Columbus may also refer to:
Places ...
,
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ...
between 10 and 16 June 2019.
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of May 27, 2019.
Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as wildcards:
*
Justin Boulais
Justin Boulais (born 20 October 2001) is an American-born Canadian tennis player.
Boulais has a career high ATP singles ranking of 483 achieved on 7 August 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 439 achieved on 11 November 2023.
...
*
Cannon Kingsley
Cannon Kingsley (born 6 May 2001) is an American tennis player.
Kingsley has a career high ATP singles ranking of 418 achieved on 13 November 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 425 achieved on 13 November 2023.
Kingsley has w ...
*
John McNally
*
Nicolás Mejía
Nicolás Mejía (; born 11 February 2000) is a Colombian tennis player.
Mejía has a career high ATP singles ranking of 239 achieved on 18 April 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 154 achieved on 3 October 2022.
Mejía ...
*
James Trotter
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:
*
Carlos Gómez-Herrera
Carlos Gómez-Herrera (; born 30 April 1990) is a Spanish tennis player.
Gómez-Herrera has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 268 achieved on 7 May 2018. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 195 achieved on 26 July ...
*
Daniel Nguyen
Daniel Nguyen (born October 16, 1990) is an inactive tennis player. He is the first Vietnamese American to play in the US Open tennis tournament. He has won a total of 15 singles and 5 doubles Futures titles and 2 doubles Challenger titles as ...
*
Raymond Sarmiento
Raymond Sarmiento (born July 24, 1992) is an American professional tennis player.
Sarmiento has a career high ATP singles ranking of 287 achieved on September 11, 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 386 achieved on March 7, ...
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:
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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 ...
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:
*
Nicolás Álvarez
*
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
Geoffrey Blancaneaux (born 8 August 1998) is a French tennis player.
He competes mainly on the ITF Men's Circuit and ATP Challenger Tour.
Blancaneaux has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 134 achieved on 14 November 2022 and a doubl ...
*
Gijs Brouwer
Gijs Brouwer (born 14 March 1996) is an American-born Dutch tennis player.
Brouwer has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 116 achieved on 20 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 22 Augu ...
*
Francisco Cerúndolo
Francisco Cerúndolo (born 13 August 1998) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title.
Cerúndolo attained a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 24 on 25 July 2022. He also has a career high doubles ran ...
*
Orlando Luz
Orlando Moraes Luz (born 8 February 1998 in Carazinho) is a Brazilian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 272 achieved on 16 August 2021, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 90 achieved on 27 September 202 ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Alejandro González
*
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 ...
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
*
Aleksandar Kovacevic
Champions
Singles
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Mikael Torpegaard
Mikael Torpegaard (born 8 May 1994) is a Danish professional tennis player, who as of April 2022 is the second highest ranked male tennis player from Denmark behind Holger Rune. Mikael Torpegaard is a member of the Denmark Davis Cup team.
Earl ...
def.
Nam Ji-sung
Nam Ji-sung (born 15 August 1993, in Busan) is a South Korean tennis player.
Nam has a career high ATP singles ranking of 236 achieved on 12 August 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 102 achieved on 3 February 2020.
Pla ...
6–1, 7–5.
Doubles
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Roberto Maytín
Roberto Maytín (; born 2 January 1989, in Carabobo) is a Venezuelan tennis player. He played for the Venezuelan Davis Cup squad in 2012. In 2015 he broke into the top 100 doubles rankings reaching a high of 86 in the world.
He is known mostly f ...
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Jackson Withrow
Jackson Withrow (born July 7, 1993) is an American professional tennis player. He played college tennis at Texas A&M. Withrow has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 50 achieved on 26 September 2022.
Career 2011
Withrow competed at t ...
def.
Hans Hach Verdugo
Hans Hach Verdugo (born 11 November 1989) is a Mexican tennis player.
Hach Verdugo has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 60 achieved on 11 July 2022. He has a career high singles ranking of World No. 528 achieved on 20 July 2015. ...
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Donald Young 6–7
(4–7), 7–6
(7–2),
0–5
References
External links
Official website
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June 2019 sports events in the United States