The 2009 Copa Petrobras Bogotá was a professional tennis

Tennis

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 tournament played on outdoor Clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour

2009 ATP Challenger Tour

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. It took place in Bogotá

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, Colombia

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 between 21 and 27 September 2009.

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
Argentina	Horacio Zeballos	66	1
Chile	Paul Capdeville Paul Capdeville Paul Gerard Capdeville Castro is a Chilean tennis player.Capdeville was born in Santiago, Chile. On May 18, 2009, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of 76....	84	2
Colombia	Santiago Giraldo Santiago Giraldo Santiago Giraldo Salazar is a Colombian male tennis player from Pereira in Colombia. He plays on the ATP tour and represents Colombia in the Davis Cup competition.-ATP Tour:...	115	3
Argentina	Brian Dabul Brian Dabul Brian Dabul is a professional tennis player.-Juniors career:Dabul was an outstanding player in juniors tennis, reaching #1 in the world in January, 2002.-2003 to 2007:...	129	4
Argentina	Sergio Roitman Sergio Roitman Sergio Andres Roitman in Buenos Aires, Argentina, nicknamed Escopeta is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina....	130	5
Colombia	Alejandro Falla Alejandro Falla Alejandro Falla Ramirez is a professional male tennis player from Colombia. He turned pro in 2000, plays left-handed, weighs 169 lb and measures 6'1" . At the 2006 Wimbledon tournament, Falla upset 9th seed Nikolay Davydenko and at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open he beat 9th seed Tommy Haas in...	143	6
Argentina	Eduardo Schwank Eduardo Schwank Eduardo Jonatan Schwank is a professional tennis player from Argentina on the ATP Tour. He is currently coached by Javier Nalbandian, the brother of David Nalbandian....	156	7
United States	Alex Bogomolov Jr.	158	8

• Rankings are as of 14 September, 2009.

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Alejandro González

Alejandro González (tennis)

Alejandro González is a Colombian professional tennis player. His coach is Ricardo Acioly.-Doubles Titles :-External links:**...

 Sebastián López Mariano Puerta

Mariano Puerta

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 Eduardo Struvay

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Andre Begemann

Andre Begemann

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 Michael Quintero

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 Nicolás Todero Caio Zampieri

Caio Zampieri

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Singles

  Carlos Salamanca

Carlos Salamanca

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def.   Riccardo Ghedin

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, 6–1, 7–6(5)

Doubles

  Alejandro Falla

Alejandro Falla

Alejandro Falla Ramirez is a professional male tennis player from Colombia. He turned pro in 2000, plays left-handed, weighs 169 lb and measures 6'1" . At the 2006 Wimbledon tournament, Falla upset 9th seed Nikolay Davydenko and at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open he beat 9th seed Tommy Haas in...

/   Alejandro González

Alejandro González (tennis)

Alejandro González is a Colombian professional tennis player. His coach is Ricardo Acioly.-Doubles Titles :-External links:**...

def.   Sebastián Decoud

Sebastian Decoud

Sebastián Decoud is a professional Argentine tennis player. He is a late-blooming pro who is on the verge of cracking into the top-200 in singles in 2008, and did crack the top-200 in doubles in March, 2008....

 /   Diego Álvarez, 5–7, 6–4, [10–8]