title: 2017 Tempe Challenger
text: # 2017 Tempe Challenger
  
  The 2017 Tempe Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tempe, United States between 13 and 19 February 2017.
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | USA | Ernesto Escobedo | 120 | 1 |
  | USA | Stefan Kozlov | 121 | 2 |
  | SUI | Henri Laaksonen | 124 | 3 |
  | CAN | Vasek Pospisil | 131 | 4 |
  | ARG | Marco Trungelliti | 158 | 5 |
  | RUS | Teymuraz Gabashvili | 160 | 6 |
  | USA | Dennis Novikov | 178 | 7 |
  | ESA | Marcelo Arévalo | 181 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of February 6, 2017.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Roberto Cid Subervi
  * Michael Geerts
  * Benjamin Hannestad
  * Bradley Klahn
  
  The following player received entry as an alternate:
  
  * Salvatore Caruso
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Luke Bambridge
  * Daniel Elahi Galán
  * Nicolás Jarry
  * Brayden Schnur
  
  The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
  
  * José Hernández-Fernández
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Tennys Sandgren def. Nikola Milojević 4–6, 6–0, 6–3.
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Walter Trusendi / Matteo Viola def. Marcelo Arévalo / José Hernández-Fernández 5–7, 6–2, [12–10].
  