St. Petersburg Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated October 26, 2009)

Tournament Name: ST. PETERSBURG OPEN
Location: ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
Dates: OCTOBER 25–NOVEMBER 1, 2009 (SUNDAY START)
Prize Money: US $750,000 (US $663,750)
32 DRAW

SITE: Sports Complex “Petersburgsky”
Pr. Gagarina 8
St. Petersburg, Russia
SURFACE: GERFLOR ACRYLIC
BALL: tba
PRIZE MONEY: US Dollars—Paid by the ATP
WEB SITE: http://www.spbopen.ru/

Qualifying draw: Friday, October 23, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, October 24, 1:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, October 24, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 250
F: 150
SF: 90
QF: 45
R16: 20
R32: 0
Q: +12

Entry deadline: September 14, 2009
Seeding: October 19, 2009

1 Hanescu, Victor ROU 28
2 Troicki, Viktor SRB 32
3 Chardy, Jeremy FRA 33
4 Andreev, Igor RUS 43
5 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 45
6 Gasquet, Richard FRA 48
OUT Zverev, Mischa GER 50
8 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 52
9 Cuevas, Pablo URU 60
10 Safin, Marat RUS 61
11 Zeballos, Horacio ARG 66
12 Golubev, Andrey KAZ 68
13 Ginepri, Robby USA 75
14 Granollers, Marcel ESP 78
15 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 79
16 Phau, Bjorn GER 81
17 Fognini, Fabio ITA 86
18 Beck, Karol SVK 89
19 Starace, Potito ITA 90
20 Korolev, Evgeny RUS 92
21 Schuettler, Rainer GER 93
OUT Russell, Michael USA 98
23 Istomin, Denis UZB 99
24 (SE) KUKUSHKIN, Mikhail KAZ
25 (SE) MARCHENKO, Illya UKR
26 (Q) Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR
27 (Q) Dogopolov, Oleksandr UKR
28 (Q) Luncanu, Petru-Alexandru ROU
29 (Q) Schukin, Yuri KAZ
30 (WC) VOVK, Stanislav RUS
31 (WC) KUZNETSOV, Andrey RUS
32 (WC) ELGIN, Michail RUS

Alternates
IN Mayer, Florian GER 100
IN Gulbis, Ernests LAT 101
OUT Gil, Frederico POR 102
OUT Dancevic, Frank CAN 104
OUT Ram, Rajeev USA 105
OUT Kim, Kevin USA 106
OUT Guccione, Chris AUS 107
OUT Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 108
OUT Kiefer, Nicolas GER 109
OUT Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 110
OUT Kubot, Lukasz POL 112
OUT Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 113
OUT Alves, Thiago BRA 116
OUT Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 117
OUT Ouahab, Lamine ALG 118
OUT Evans, Brendan USA 119
OUT Ventura, Santiago ESP 120
OUT Hajek, Jan CZE 121
OUT De Bakker, Thiemo NED 122
OUT Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 123
OUT Brands, Daniel GER 124
OUT Recouderc, Laurent FRA 125
1. Berrer, Michael GER 126
2. Karanusic, Roko CRO 131
3. Robert, Stephane FRA 135

The worst possible list. No Top-25 players :o
I`ll still go there to see Gasquet, Safin and Ginepri. Hope Dancevic can get in.
Organisers must be shocked :help:

What the fuck are they all playing in Vienna but not in St.Petersburg? I am disappointed :sad:

There is a mistake, Phau is listed twice.

:eek: Gasquet playing St. Petersburg and not Lyon? Why didn't he go to Vienna? :devil:

What the fuck are they all playing in Vienna but not in St.Petersburg? I am disappointed :sad:

It seems like St.Petersburg isn't a confortable tournament for players.

Murray won't defend his title ? And Verdasco his semi ? Really strange indeed...

Cheering on Richie, Evgeny, and Jeremy.

Murray won't defend his title ? And Verdasco his semi ? Really strange indeed...

the number of points awarded for that tournament stronly decreased with the new ranking system,

and the now strong Asian season changes the focus (same problem as Lyon, Vienna and Moscow).

Good luck Horacio Zeballos :yeah:

Chardy here and not in Lyon?

vamos Cebolla Zeballos!

It's a nice field for a tournament without anyone from the Top 25.

30 WC Kuznetsov, Andrey RUS 484

LINK (http://www.spbopen.ru/eng/players/players_list.html)

Gulbis is into Vienna and Gil into Lyon. That means Rajeev Ram should get a spot once the SE spots are cleared. Good to see him getting a direct entry here, hope he can do some damage on the singles side here.

Can Kiefer actually get in?

My coach Nikolay Mishin will probably get a WC into qualies!
Mikhail Elgin must get a WC into main draw.
Other possible candidates: Balmashev, Kudryavtsev, Karusevich, Vovk, Biryukov, Vasenichev..

Can Kiefer actually get in?

if he is healthy... he had a backinjury in Moscow this week... all alternates above him entered all 3 tournaments so he will move up when they decide where they want to play and if there won't be any special exempts eh might get in...
I hope he will play somewhere

Any updates?

Really bad list as well as in Moscow. Nobody wants to go to play in Russia :(

Really bad list as well as in Moscow. Nobody wants to go to play in Russia :(
I would easily trade the St. Petersburg list for the one of Vienna. ;)

Gulbis is into Vienna and Gil into Lyon. That means Rajeev Ram should get a spot once the SE spots are cleared. Good to see him getting a direct entry here, hope he can do some damage on the singles side here.

I guess Gulbis and Gil are both going to Vienna, so Rajeev should play here. He's also playing doubles here, hope his singles go well this time, it's kind of shit lately...

I guess Gulbis and Gil are both going to Vienna, so Rajeev should play here. He's also playing doubles here, hope his singles go well this time, it's kind of shit lately...

Agreed, he had a lower back injury a few weeks ago but he's looked fine on the doubles court so I'm not sure why he's been so lousy playing singles lately.

Rajeev Ram is in the main draw in Lyon. I guess he and Butorac will sign in on site and play doubles there. Kind of surprising they'd give up the #1 seed in St. Petersburg

GL to Florian Mayer! :yeah:

I would easily trade the St. Petersburg list for the one of Vienna. ;)

Yes, I'd trade both Vienna and Lyon lists for Marat vs Richard match :lol: I'd prefer it to be the final though :sad: