The 2009 Soweto Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Johannesburg, South Africa between 13 and 18 April 2009.
Singles entrants
Seeds Nationality Player Ranking* Seeding Fabrice Santoro 52 1 Gilles Müller 67 2 Michael Berrer 109 3 Thiago Alves 121 4 Mikhail Elgin 135 5 Nicolas Mahut 139 6 Chris Guccione 149 7 Karol Beck 159 8 Rankings are as of 6 April 2009.
Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Andrew Anderson Raven Klaasen Fritz Wolmarans
The following players entry from the qualifying draw: Chris Eaton Jun Woong-Sun Denys Molchanov Noam Okun
The following players entry from Lucky loser draw: Benjamin Janse van Rensburg
Champions
Men's singles
Fabrice Santoro def. Rik de Voest, 7–5, 6–4
Men's doubles
Chris Guccione / George Bastl def. Mikhail Elgin / Alexander Kudryavtsev, 6–2, 4–6, [11–9]
References 2009 Draws Official website South Africa Tennis Association official website ITF search