The 2019

Oracle Challenger Series – Houston The Oracle Challenger Series – Houston is a professional tennis tournament played on hardcourt, hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) WTA 125K series, 125K series. It is held annual ...

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. This tournament was part of the

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and the

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. The second edition took place at the George R. Brown Tennis Center from November 10 to 17, 2019 in

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Men's singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of 4 November 2019.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Mohamed Abdel-Aziz *

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Brandon Holt Brandon Holt (born April 6, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. Holt has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 101 achieved on 26 May 2025. He also attained a doubles ranking of No. 473 on 10 February 2020. In 2022, Holt q ...

Zane Khan Zane Khan (born February 11, 2002) is an American professional tennis player. Khan has a career high ATP singles ranking of 404 achieved on November 8, 2021. Khan made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 European Open in the doubles draw par ...

* Sumit Sarkar The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Alafia Ayeni *

Alexis Galarneau Alexis Galarneau (; born 2 March 1999) is a Canadian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking by the ATP of world No. 155, achieved on May 6, 2024. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 311, achieved on June 11, 2023. Coll ...

Women's singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of 4 November 2019.

Other entrants

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

Danielle Collins Danielle Rose Collins (born December 13, 1993) is an American professional tennis player. She has reached career-high WTA rankings of world No. 7 in singles and No. 79 in doubles. Collins has won four singles titles, including a WTA 1000 titl ...

* Linda Huang *

Katarina Jokić Katarina Jokić ( sr-cyrl, Катарина Јокић; born 19 April 1998) is a Serbian tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or bet ...

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* CoCo Vandeweghe The following player received entry into the singles main draw through protected ranking: *

Irina Falconi Irina Falconi Hartman (; born Irina Alejandra Falconi; May 4, 1990) is an Ecuadorian-born United States, American former professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 63, which she reached in May 2016. Her career-high in doubles ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Catherine Bellis Catherine Cartan "CiCi" Bellis (born April 8, 1999) is an American former professional tennis player. In early 2018, she was the second youngest player in the top 100 of the WTA rankings. Bellis has a career-high ranking of world No. 35 by the ...

* Sophie Chang The following player received entry into the main draw as lucky loser: *

Kayla Day Kayla Day (born September 28, 1999) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 84 by the WTA. As a junior, she won one junior Grand Slam title, at the 2016 US Open. There, she finished runner- ...

Withdrawals

Sara Errani Sara Errani (; born 29 April 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. Errani is one of only seven women who have completed a career Grand Slam (tennis)#Golden Slam, Golden Slam in doubles. She is an Olympic Games gold medalist, a former ...

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Fanny Stollár Fanny Stollár (born 12 November 1998) is a Hungarian tennis player. On 19 May 2025, she peaked at world No. 50 in the WTA doubles rankings. On 19 November 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of No. 114. Stollár has won four doubles tit ...

Jaimee Fourlis Jaimee Fourlis (born 17 September 1999) is an Australian tennis player of Greek descent. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 147, achieved on 18 July 2022, and a highest doubles ranking of world No. 138, reached on 2 March 2020. ...

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Katarzyna Kawa Katarzyna Kawa (; born 17 November 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are No. 64 in doubles, set on 10 October 2022, and No. 112 in singles, achieved on 9 November 2020. She has won five WTA Challenger d ...

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Grace Min Grace Min (born May 6, 1994) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 97, achieved on 2 March 2015, and she peaked at No. 308 in the doubles rankings, on 17 September 2012. Min won the 2011 US Open girls ...

Kristína Kučová Kristína Kučová (; born 23 May 1990) is a Slovak tennis player. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 71. On 5 October 2009, she peaked at No. 168 in the WTA doubles rankings. She has won one singles title on ...

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Mari Osaka is a Japanese Haitian-American fashion designer, and former tennis player. In her career, she reached four ITF finals. She is the older sister of Naomi Osaka, with whom she has collaborated on several fashion design and art projects. Biogra ...

Anastasiya Komardina Anastasiya Andreyevna Komardina (; born 8 July 1997) is an inactive Russian tennis player. Komardina has reached a career-high junior ranking of No. 15 in July 2014. On 10 April 2017, she achieved her best singles ranking of world No. 172. On 1 ...

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Asia Muhammad Asia Muhammad (born April 4, 1991) is an American professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has been ranked as high as world No. 8 in doubles by the WTA, achieved on March 17, 2025. Muhammad has won 13 doubles titles on the WT ...

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Deniz Khazaniuk Deniz Khazaniuk (; born 24 October 1994) is an Israeli former tennis player. Khazaniuk has career-high WTA rankings of 200 in singles, achieved on 11 June 2018, and of 445 in doubles, achieved on 16 June 2014. She has won 21 singles titles and ...

Jessica Pegula Jessica Pegula (born February 24, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings in singles of world No. 3, achieved October 2022, and in doubles of world No. 1, set on 11 September 2023. Pegula reached the single ...

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Hailey Baptiste Hailey Baptiste (born November 3, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. She reached her best singles ranking of world No. 70 on 19 May 2025. She has won one WTA Tour and two WTA Challenger Tour doubles titles. Her highest doubles rank ...

Olivia Rogowska Olivia Rogowska (; born 7 June 1991) is an Australian former tennis player. Both of her parents are Polish. The right-hander was born in and lives in Melbourne. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 102, achieved on 11 August 2014. He ...

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Gabriela Cé Gabriela Vianna Cé (born 3 March 1993) is a Brazilian professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two ...

Katherine Sebov Katherine Sebov (born January 5, 1999) is a Canadians, Canadian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking of No. 136, on 10 April 2023. Sebov has a career-high combined ITF junior ranking of No. 22, a ...

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Giuliana Olmos Giuliana Marion Olmos Dick (born 4 March 1993) is an Austrian-born Mexican professional tennis player. Olmos, a graduate of USC, has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 6, achieved on 10 April 2023. She has won seven doubles titles on the ...

Katie Swan Katie Swan (born 24 March 1999) is a British tennis player. She has won 13 International Tennis Federation, ITF singles titles and one in doubles. Her peak world ranking in singles is 118 and her highest in doubles is 293. When she made her deb ...

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Anna Danilina Anna Sergeyevna Danilina (; born 20 August 1995) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 9 in doubles by the WTA. She is a Grand Slam mixed-doubles champion, having won the 2023 US Open with Harri Heliö ...

Patricia Maria Țig Patricia Maria Țig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player. Țig has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 56, achieved on 26 October 2020. Her best doubles ranking of No. 155 was achieved on 14 November 2016. Țig has won one ...

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Quinn Gleason Quinn Gleason (born November 10, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA ranking of No. 86 in doubles and No. 323 in singles. Gleason has won one WTA Tour and two WTA 125 doubles titles and 15 on the ITF Circu ...

Women's doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 4 November 2019.

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw: *

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Champions

Men's singles

Marcos Giron Marcos Andres Giron ( ; born July 24, 1993; ) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 37 achieved on August 5, 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 194 achieved on August 1, 2022. Giron won the s ...

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Ivo Karlović Ivo Karlović (; born 28 February 1979) is a Croatian former professional tennis player. His height of 211 cm (6 ft 11 in) makes him the joint-tallest ranked tennis player in history (along with Reilly Opelka). He won eight ATP Tour si ...

7–5, 6–7^(5–7), 7–6^(11–9).

Women's singles

Kirsten Flipkens Kirsten "Flipper" Flipkens (; born 10 January 1986) is a Belgian tennis coach and a former professional player. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Flipkens has won one singles title on the WTA T ...

def. CoCo Vandeweghe 7–6^(7–4), 6–4

Men's doubles

Jonathan Erlich Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich (; born 5 April 1977) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the 2008 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2008 Aus ...

/ Santiago González def.

Ariel Behar Ariel Behar (; born November 12, 1989) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 34 achieved on 6 May 2024. He has won three ATP titles with Ecuadorian partner Gonzalo Esc ...

Gonzalo Escobar Gonzalo Escobar (; born 20 January 1989, in Manta, Ecuador, Manta) is an Ecuadorian tennis player. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 38, achieved on 15 November 2021. He has won three ATP doubles titles with Uruguayan Ariel Behar and ...

6–3, 7–6^(7–4).

Women's doubles

Ellen Perez Ellen Perez (born 10 October 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings in singles and doubles are world No. 162 and No. 7, achieved in August 2019 and in April 2024, respectively. She has won eight doubles titl ...

Luisa Stefani Luisa Veras Stefani (; born 9 August 1997) is a professional tennis player from Brazil who specializes in doubles. Stefani is the first Brazilian woman to reach the WTA rankings, WTA top 10 in the Open Era. This milestone for Brazilian tennis w ...

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Sharon Fichman Sharon Fichman ( ; born December 3, 1990) is a Canadian former tennis player. She achieved career-high WTA rankings of 77 in singles (May 2014) and 21 in doubles (January 2022). In 2005, Fichman won the gold medal in women's singles at the 200 ...

Ena Shibahara is an American-born Japanese professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She reached her career-high rankings of world No. 4 in doubles and No. 119 in singles. Shibahara has won eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including two W ...

, 1–6, 6–4, 0–5

References

External links

Official website
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