The 2019
Savannah Challenger was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
clay court
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T ...
s. It was the eleventh 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
Savannah, Georgia
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, United States between 29 April and 5 May 2019.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of April 22, 2019.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
* Jordi Arconada
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Christopher Eubanks
Christopher Eubanks (born May 5, 1996) is an American professional tennis player. He played college tennis for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. There, he was a two-time All-American and twice named ACC Player of the Year.
Early life and back ...
* Cannon Kingsley
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Sebastian Korda
Sebastian Korda (born July 5, 2000) is an American professional tennis player. Korda's career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 26 was achieved on 30 January 2023. He has won one ATP singles tournament, the 2021 Emilia-Romagna Open. He also ...
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Tennys Sandgren
Tennys Sandgren II ( ; born July 22, 1991) is an American professional tennis player. He has achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 41 on January 14, 2019. He broke into the top 100 of the ATP rankings toward the end of 2017 after comp ...
The following players received entry into the singles main using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:
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Sandro Ehrat
Sandro Ehrat (born 18 April 1991) is a Swiss tennis player. Ehrat has a career high ATP singles ranking of 286, achieved on 9 September 2019 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 467, achieved on 12 July 2021. Ehrat made his ATP main draw debu ...
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Manuel Guinard
Manuel Guinard (born 15 November 1995) is a French tennis player.
Guinard has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 134 achieved on 31 October 2022, and a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 146 achieved on 3 October 2022.
Pr ...
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Arthur Rinderknech
Arthur Rinderknech (born 23 July 1995) is a French tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 42 achieved on 31 October 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 124 achieved on 8 November 2021.
P ...
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Alexander Ritschard
Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss– American tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 163 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 388 achieved on 4 ...
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Camilo Ugo Carabelli
Camilo Ugo Carabelli (born 17 June 1999) is an Argentine professional tennis player.
He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 96 achieved on 15 August 2022 and a doubles ranking of world No. 232 achieved on 21 March 2022. Ugo Carabel ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Ricardo Rodríguez
*
Evan Zhu
Evan Zhu (born August 15, 1998 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an United States of America, American tennis player.
Zhu has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of 315, achieved on August 15, 2022. He also has a car ...
Champions
Singles
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Federico Coria
Federico Coria (born 9 March 1992) is an Argentine tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 49 achieved on 13 February 2023. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 238, achieved on 22 November 2021. Coria has won on ...
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Paolo Lorenzi
Paolo Lorenzi (; born 15 December 1981) is an Italian former professional tennis player. Lorenzi was coached by Claudio Galoppini.
Tennis career
Lorenzi reached his first ATP World Tour final at the age of 32, in São Paulo. Here, at the 2014 ...
6–3, 4–6, 6–2.
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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Fernando Romboli
Fernando Romboli de Souza (born 4 January 1989, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, Romboli competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 2 ...
def. Manuel Guinard /
Arthur Rinderknech
Arthur Rinderknech (born 23 July 1995) is a French tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 42 achieved on 31 October 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 124 achieved on 8 November 2021.
P ...
6–7
(5–7), 6–4,
1–9
References
External links
Official Website
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2019 ATP Challenger Tour
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2019 in American tennis
April 2019 sports events in the United States
May 2019 sports events in the United States
2019 in sports in Georgia (U.S. state)