2019 Launceston Tennis International
# 2019 Launceston Tennis International

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 | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| RSA | Lloyd Harris | 119 | 1 |
| JPN | Tatsuma Ito | 150 | 2 |
| ESP | Pedro Martínez | 165 | 3 |
| AUS | Marc Polmans | 169 | 4 |
| AUT | Sebastian Ofner | 180 | 5 |
| JPN | Hiroki Moriya | 185 | 6 |
| EGY | Mohamed Safwat | 186 | 7 |
| FRA | Stéphane Robert | 197 | 8 |
| ITA | Stefano Napolitano | 198 | 9 |
| ITA | Federico Gaio | 209 | 10 |
| JPN | Go Soeda | 211 | 11 |
| ITA | Lorenzo Giustino | 222 | 12 |
| ITA | Gian Marco Moroni | 226 | 13 |
| BRA | Guilherme Clezar | 234 | 14 |
| GBR | Jay Clarke | 236 | 15 |
| ISR | Dudi Sela | 239 | 16 |

* $^1$ 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 | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| GER | Laura Siegemund | 110 | 1 |
| JPN | Nao Hibino | 115 | 2 |
| UKR | Marta Kostyuk | 116 | 3 |
| RUS | Irina Khromacheva | 135 | 4 |
| ESP | Paula Badosa Gibert | 141 | 5 |
| ESP | Georgina García Pérez | 144 | 6 |
| BUL | Viktoriya Tomova | 151 | 7 |
| ROU | Irina Bara | 156 | 8 |

* $^1$ 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
