2019 Columbus Challenger
# 2019 Columbus Challenger

The 2019 Columbus Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Columbus, United States between 7 and 13 January 2019.

## Singles main draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| NED | Thiemo de Bakker | 242 | 1 |
| CAN | Filip Peliwo | 243 | 2 |
| SVK | Norbert Gombos | 247 | 3 |
| BLR | Uladzimir Ignatik | 250 | 4 |
| COL | Santiago Giraldo | 253 | 5 |
| USA | Dennis Novikov | 257 | 6 |
| FRA | Benjamin Bonzi | 261 | 7 |
| USA | Kevin King | 262 | 8 |
| POR | Gastão Elias | 263 | 9 |
| CRO | Nino Serdarušić | 264 | 10 |
| FRA | Mathias Bourgue | 265 | 11 |
| ESP | Bernabé Zapata Miralles | 266 | 12 |
| DOM | José Hernández-Fernández | 267 | 13 |
| FRA | Johan Tatlot | 269 | 14 |
| ITA | Gianluca Mager | 270 | 15 |
| ESP | Mario Vilella Martínez | 271 | 16 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of December 31, 2018.

### Other entrants

The following players received entry into the singles main draw as wildcards:

* Martin Joyce
* John McNally
* Kyle Seelig
* Mikael Torpegaard
* J. J. Wolf

The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:

* Tom Jomby
* Fabien Reboul
* Jelle Sels
* João Souza

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Gijs Brouwer
* João Menezes

## Champions

### Singles

* J. J. Wolf def. Mikael Torpegaard $6–7^{(4–7)},$ 6–3, 6–4.

### Doubles

* Maxime Cressy / Bernardo Saraiva def. Robert Galloway / Nathaniel Lammons 7–5, $7–6^{(7–3)}.$
