The 2019 Launceston Tennis International was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth (men) and eighth (women) editions of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia between 28 January and 3 February 2019.
Men's singles main-draw entrants
Seeds Country Player Rank1 SeedLloyd Harris1191Tatsuma Ito1502Pedro Martínez1653Marc Polmans1694Sebastian Ofner1805Hiroki Moriya1856Mohamed Safwat1867Stéphane Robert1978Stefano Napolitano1989Federico Gaio20910Go Soeda21111Lorenzo Giustino22212Gian Marco Moroni22613Guilherme Clezar23414Jay Clarke23615Dudi Sela23916 1 Rankings are as of 14 January 2019.
Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Harry Bourchier Jacob Grills Rinky Hijikata Christopher O'Connell Andrew Whittington
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings: Daniel Altmaier Daniel Nguyen
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking: Steven Diez David Pérez Sanz Jordi Samper Montaña Alexander Zhurbin
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Alessandro Bega Yuta Shimizu
Women's singles main-draw entrants
Seeds Country Player Rank1 SeedLaura Siegemund1101Nao Hibino1152Marta Kostyuk1163Irina Khromacheva1354Paula Badosa Gibert1415Georgina García Pérez1446Viktoriya Tomova1517Irina Bara1568 1 Rankings are as of 14 January 2019.
Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Kaylah McPhee Abbie Myers Belinda Woolcock
The following player received entry using a protected ranking: Nadia Podoroska
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Alison Bai Naiktha Bains Chang Kai-chen Leylah Annie Fernandez Maddison Inglis Isabelle Wallace
Champions
Men's singles
Lloyd Harris def. Lorenzo Giustino 6–2, 6–2.
Women's singles
Elena Rybakina def. Irina Khromacheva, 7–5, 3–3, ret.
Men's doubles
Max Purcell / Luke Saville def. Hiroki Moriya / Mohamed Safwat 7–5, 6–4.
Women's doubles
Chang Kai-chen / Hsu Ching-wen def. Alexandra Bozovic / Isabelle Wallace, 6–2, 6–4
References
External links 2019 Launceston Tennis International at ITFtennis.com Official website