Copa Claro 2013

ATP World Tour
Copa Claro 2013

date	February 16, 2013 - February 24, 2013
Edition	36
navigation	2012 ◄ 2013 ► 2014
venue	Buenos Aires Argentina Argentina
Tournament number	506
category	World Tour 250
Tournament type	Free place tournament
Game surface	sand
draw	32E / 32Q / 16D
Prize money	US $ 493,670
Website	Official website

Last year's winner (individual)	Spain David Ferrer
Last year's winner (double)	Spain David Marrero Fernando Verdasco Spain

Winner (singles)	Spain David Ferrer
Winner (doubles)	Italy Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini Italy

Tournament supervisor	Damian Steiner
Last direct assumption	Spain Tommy Robredo

Status: February 24, 2013

The 2013 Copa Claro was a tennis tournament that took place in Buenos Aires from February 16 to 24, 2013 . It was part of the ATP World Tour 2013 and was played outdoors on sand. In the same week, the US National Indoor Tennis Championships were played in Memphis and the Open 13 in Marseille . Like the Copa Claro, the latter belonged to the ATP World Tour 250 category , while the US National Indoor Tennis Championships 2013 belonged to the ATP World Tour 500 category .

Last year's individual winner, David Ferrer , was able to confidently defend his title. He won the final against the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka in three sets. In the current year he celebrated the second tournament victory after winning the tournament in Auckland . In doubles, David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco were the defending champions. This year's event was won by the Italian duo Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini against the German-American duo Simon Stadler and Nicholas Monroe in straight sets.

The field of participants in the individual competition consisted of 32 players, that of the doubles competition consisted of 16 pairs.

qualification

Qualification for the Copa Claro 2013 took place from February 16 to 18, 2013. Four qualifying places were played, which entitle them to participate in the main draw of the tournament.

The following players had passed the qualification and played in the main field of the tournament:

Qualifiers	Lucky Loser
Serbia Dušan Lajović	Argentina Marco Trungelliti
Argentina Facundo Argüello
Portugal Gastão Elias
Germany Julian Reister

Prize money and world ranking points

At the Copa Claro 2013, the following prize money and world ranking points were paid or credited for reaching the respective round. Players who entered the main field from qualification received the specified qualification points in addition to those for reaching the respective round. Otherwise the amounts are not to be understood as cumulative. The amounts for the double competition were per player.

singles
round	Points	Prize money
victory	250	$ 84,550
final	150	$ 44,525
Semifinals	90	$ 24,120
Quarter finals	45	$ 13,740
Round of 16	20th	$ 8,100
First round	0	$ 4,800

Qualification individual
round	Points	Prize money
Qualifier	12
Qualifying round	6th	$ 815
2nd round	0	$ 390
1 round	0	$ 0

Double
round	Points	Prize money
victory	250	$ 27,070
final	150	$ 14,230
Semifinals	90	$ 7,710
Quarter finals	45	$ 4,410
First round	0	$ 2,580

singles

Seeding list

No.	player	Round reached
01.	Spain David Ferrer	victory
02.	Spain Nicolás Almagro	Semifinals
03.	Switzerland Stanislas Wawrinka	final
04th	Brazil Thomaz Bellucci	1 round

No.	player	Round reached
05.	Argentina Horacio Zeballos	1 round
06th	Italy Fabio Fognini	Quarter finals
07th	Spain Pablo Andújar	1 round
08th.	Spain Albert Ramos	Quarter finals

Explanation of symbols

Q = qualifier
WC = wildcard
LL = Lucky Loser
ITF = qualified via ITF ranking

ALT = replacement (alternate)
PR = Protected Ranking
SE = Special Exempt

r = retired
d = disqualification
where = walkover

Results

First round

Round of 16

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

1

Spain D. Ferrer

6th

WC

A. Velotti

4th

1

Spain D. Ferrer

2

6th

C. Berlocq

3

6th

3

D. Nalbandian

6th

4th

0

Argentina D. Nalbandian

6th

2

6th

1

Spain D. Ferrer

6th

LL

Argentina M. Trungelliti

4th

6th

1

6th

F. Fognini

2

1

Q

F. Argüello

6th

3

0 r

LL

M. Trungelliti

5

2

G. García-López

5

3

6th

Italy F. Fognini

7th

6th

6th

Italy F. Fognini

7th

6th

1

Spain D. Ferrer

6th

4th

T. Bellucci

4th

6th

1

T. Robredo

3

2

WC

Argentina DS Schwartzman

6th

4th

6th

WC

DS Schwartzman

3

1

Spain T. Robredo

6th

Spain T. Robredo

6th

Q

G. Elias

3

0

Spain T. Robredo

6th

Q

Germany J. Reister

7th

6th

Q

J. Reister

3

2

SE

M. Alund

5

1

Q

Germany J. Reister

6th

1

6th

Slovenia A. Bedene

4th

7th

6th

A. Bedene

1

6th

2

5

H. Zeballos

6th

6 ⁴

3

1

Spain D. Ferrer

6th

3

6th

8th

Spain A. Ramos

6th

3

S. Wawrinka

4th

6th

1

F. Cipolla

1

0

8th

Spain A. Ramos

6th

7th

Argentina L. Mayer

5

6th

L. Mayer

3

6 ³

S. Bolelli

7th

2

3

8th

A. Ramos

6 ⁴

4th

Q

D. Lajović

4th

5

3

Switzerland S. Wawrinka

7th

6th

Spain D. Gimeno Traver

6th

7th

D. Gimeno Traver

1

4th

P. Lorenzi

3

Switzerland S. Wawrinka

6th

3

Switzerland S. Wawrinka

6th

3

Switzerland S. Wawrinka

6th

7th

7th

P. Andújar

6th

2

4th

2

N. Almagro

3

5

Spain A. Montañés

5

6th

A. Montañés

1

4th

J. Sousa

1

4th

WC

Argentina F. Delbonis

6th

WC

Argentina F. Delbonis

6th

WC

F. Delbonis

1

6 ³

Russia A. Kuznetsov

7th

6th

2

Spain N. Almagro

6th

7th

F. Volandri

6 ⁵

3

A. Kuznetsov

6 ⁵

2

G. Pella

3

2

Spain N. Almagro

7th

6th

2

Spain N. Almagro

6th

Double

Seeding list

No.	pairing	Round reached
01.	Czech Republic František Čermák Michal Mertiňák Slovakia	Quarter finals
02.	Italy Daniele Bracciali Lukáš Dlouhý Czech Republic	Quarter finals
03.	Austria Oliver Marach Horacio Zeballos Argentina	Semifinals
04th	Germany Dustin Brown Christopher Kas Germany	Quarter finals