2022 Kobe Challenger Explained

Date:	14–20 November
Edition:	6th
Location:	Kobe, Japan
Champs:	Yosuke Watanuki
Champd:	Shinji Hazawa / Yuta Shimizu
Before Year:	2019

The 2022 Kobe Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 6th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kobe, Japan between 14 and 20 November 2022.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
Australia	Christopher O'Connell	84	1
Australia	John Millman	155	2
Australia	Rinky Hijikata	167	3
Japan	Kaichi Uchida	169	4
Australia	James Duckworth	171	5
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Damir Džumhur	180	6
Japan	Yosuke Watanuki	193	7
Australia	Li Tu	196	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of 7 November 2022.^[1]

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Shinji Hazawa
• Taisei Ichikawa
• Shintaro Imai

The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:

• Tatsuma Ito
• Yūichi Sugita

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Chung Yun-seong
• Jason Jung
• Shintaro Mochizuki
• Naoki Nakagawa
• Marc Polmans
• Colin Sinclair

Champions

Singles

See main article: 2022 Kobe Challenger – Singles.

• Yosuke Watanuki def. Frederico Ferreira Silva 6–7^(3–7), 7–5, 6–4.

Doubles

See main article: 2022 Kobe Challenger – Doubles.

• Shinji Hazawa / Yuta Shimizu def. Andrew Harris / John-Patrick Smith 6–4, 6–4.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rankings | Singles | ATP Tour | Tennis. ATP Tour.