title: 2008 Tashkent Challenger
text: # 2008 Tashkent Challenger
  
  The 2008 Tashkent Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2008 ATP Challenger Series. It took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan between 13 and 19 October 2008.
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | TPE | Lu Yen-hsun | 69 | 1 |
  | ISR | Dudi Sela | 70 | 2 |
  | GER | Denis Gremelmayr | 84 | 3 |
  | GER | Michael Berrer | 105 | 4 |
  | GER | Björn Phau | 117 | 5 |
  | UZB | Denis Istomin | 121 | 6 |
  | ITA | Flavio Cipolla | 124 | 7 |
  | JPN | Go Soeda | 128 | 8 |
  
  * Rankings are as of October 6, 2008.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Farrukh Dustov
  * Dudi Sela
  * Murad Inoyatov
  * Vaja Uzakov
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Rohan Bopanna
  * Oliver Marach
  * Noam Okun
  * Nathan Thompson
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  Lu Yen-hsun def. Mathieu Montcourt, 6–3, 6–2
  
  ### Doubles
  
  Flavio Cipolla / Pavel Šnobel def. Mikhail Elgin / Alexander Kudryavtsev, 6–3, 6–4
  
  