title: 2019 Shymkent Challenger
text: # 2019 Shymkent Challenger
  
  The 2019 Shymkent Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Shymkent, Kazakhstan between 6 and 12 May 2019.
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | BLR | Egor Gerasimov | 133 | 1 |
  | GBR | Jay Clarke | 159 | 2 |
  | AUT | Jurij Rodionov | 190 | 3 |
  | SVK | Andrej Martin | 199 | 4 |
  | KAZ | Aleksandr Nedovyesov | 210 | 5 |
  | BLR | Uladzimir Ignatik | 243 | 6 |
  | POR | Gonçalo Oliveira | 259 | 7 |
  | AUT | Gerald Melzer | 288 | 8 |
  | RUS | Roman Safiullin | 294 | 9 |
  | DOM | Roberto Cid Subervi | 297 | 10 |
  | RUS | Pavel Kotov | 300 | 11 |
  | CHI | Marcelo Tomás Barrios Vera | 301 | 12 |
  | KAZ | Denis Yevseyev | 315 | 13 |
  | AUS | Aleksandar Vukic | 354 | 14 |
  | BRA | Thiago Seyboth Wild | 362 | 15 |
  | NOR | Viktor Durasovic | 365 | 16 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of 29 April 2019.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Andrey Golubev
  * Grigoriy Lomakin
  * Dmitry Popko
  * Dostanbek Tashbulatov
  * Dimitriy Voronin
  
  The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:
  
  * Anton Chekhov
  * Timofei Skatov
  
  The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:
  
  * Gijs Brouwer
  * Sanjar Fayziev
  * Konstantin Kravchuk
  * Karim-Mohamed Maamoun
  * Alexander Zhurbin
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Timur Khabibulin
  * Vladyslav Manafov
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Andrej Martin def. Dmitry Popko 5–7, 6–4, 6–4.
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Jurij Rodionov / Emil Ruusuvuori def. Gonçalo Oliveira / Andrei Vasilevski 6–4, 3–6, [10–8].
  