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2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships
DateJuly 20–26
Edition22nd
Category ATP World Tour 250
Draw32S / 16D
Prize money$450,000
SurfaceHard / outdoor
Location Indianapolis, United States
Champions
Singles
United States Robby Ginepri [1]
Doubles
Latvia Ernests Gulbis/ Russia Dmitry Tursunov [2]
←  2008 · Indianapolis Tennis Championships ·  2010 →
Robby Ginepri defeated Sam Querrey for his third career title, his first since 2005.
Sam Querrey lost his second straight final, after the 2009 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships two weeks earlier.
Ernests Gulbis and Dmitry Tursunov partnered to their first doubles title together.

The 2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships (also known as the Indianapolis Tennis Championships presented by Lilly for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 22nd edition of the event known that year as the Indianapolis Tennis Championships and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Indianapolis Tennis Center in Indianapolis, United States, from July 20 through July 26, 2009. The Indianapolis Tennis Championships was the first ATP stop of the 2009 US Open Series. Unseeded Robby Ginepri won the singles title, his second at the event after 2005.

Finals

Singles

United States Robby Ginepri defeated United States Sam Querrey, 6–2, 6–4

  • It was Ginepri's only singles title of the year, and the 3rd and last of his career.

Doubles

Latvia Ernests Gulbis / Russia Dmitry Tursunov defeated Australia Ashley Fisher / Australia Jordan Kerr, 6–4, 3–6, [11–9]

  • It was Gulbis' only doubles title of the year and the 2nd and last of his career. It was Tursunov's 2nd and last doubles title of the year and the 4th of his career.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Player Nation Ranking* Seeding
Dmitry Tursunov   RUS 24 1
Dudi Sela   ISR 30 2
Sam Querrey  USA 34 3
Igor Kunitsyn   RUS 36 4
Benjamin Becker   GER 44 5
Lu Yen-hsun   TPE 57 6
Marc Gicquel   FRA 64 7
Denis Istomin   UZB 68 8

*Seedings based on the July 13, 2009 rankings.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

References

  1. ^ "2009 Indianapolis – Singles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  2. ^ "2009 Indianapolis – Doubles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

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