title: 2019 Maia Challenger
text: # 2019 Maia Challenger
  
  The 2019 Maia Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Maia, Portugal from 18 to 24 November 2019.
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | SVK | Andrej Martin | 110 | 1 |
  | ITA | Thomas Fabbiano | 117 | 2 |
  | ITA | Paolo Lorenzi | 118 | 3 |
  | ITA | Gianluca Mager | 119 | 4 |
  | HUN | Attila Balázs | 135 | 5 |
  | CAN | Steven Diez | 136 | 6 |
  | ESP | Guillermo García López | 145 | 7 |
  | POR | Pedro Sousa | 146 | 8 |
  | SRB | Nikola Milojević | 160 | 9 |
  | SVK | Jozef Kovalík | 167 | 10 |
  | POR | Frederico Ferreira Silva | 174 | 11 |
  | USA | Maxime Cressy | 179 | 12 |
  | ITA | Roberto Marcora | 183 | 13 |
  | POR | João Domingues | 185 | 14 |
  | EGY | Mohamed Safwat | 203 | 15 |
  | ITA | Filippo Baldi | 211 | 16 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of 11 November 2019.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Nuno Borges
  * Francisco Cabral
  * Tiago Cação
  * Luís Faria
  * João Monteiro
  
  The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:
  
  * Íñigo Cervantes
  * Carlos Gómez-Herrera
  * Javier Martí
  * Maximilian Neuchrist
  
  The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:
  
  * Riccardo Bonadio
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Fabrizio Ornago
  * Andrea Vavassori
  
  The following players received entry as lucky losers:
  
  * Fábio Coelho
  * Maxime Hamou
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Jozef Kovalík def. Constant Lestienne 6–0, 6–4.
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Andre Begemann / Daniel Masur def. Guillermo García López / David Vega Hernández $7–6^{(7–2)},$ 6–4.
  