Early Commitments

- Ivan Ljubicic
- Mario Ancic
- Ivo Karlovic
- Marin Cilic

http://www.zagrebindoors.com/indoors.htm

THE BEST CROATIAN TENNIS PLAYERS AT THIS YEAR'S PBZ ZAGREB INDOORS

Ivan Ljubičić, Mario Ančić, Ivo Karlović and Marin Čilić will be playing in the third edition of PBZ Zagreb Indoors.

From the end of February and the beginning of March Zagreb will host top world tennis players. Namely, tournament director Mr Branimir Horvat and the president of the Organizational Committee, Mr Goran Ivanšević, have announced the strongest main draw of PBZ Zagreb Indoors ever, highlighting the fact that all the best Croatian tennis players will be playing in front of their audience.

Currently Karlović and Čilić are reaching best career results!Ivo Karlović, nicknamed “Giant from Šalata “ and at the moment 22 world player, is on the verge of breaking Top 20 of ATP Rankings. Moreover, Marin Čilić is making progress more each day and at the end of this season his ATP entry ranking is 71.

Moreover, Ivan Ljubičić is finishing this season as Top 18 in the ATP Rankings thus confirming once again the title of first Croatian racket.

Mario Ančić, with several this year’s wins, has showed that he is coming back to where he belongs - to the world tennis top, providing he will be healthy.

The tournament will be held from 23 February till 2 March 2008, in Zagreb sports hall „Dom Sportova“. The main draw consists of 32 players with prize money of 370.250EUR. The main draw matches will start 25 February.

fantastic :yeah:

safin, gasquet, and djokovic were asked to play, but all of them asked for ridiculous sums of money

http://www.zagrebindoors.com/indoors.htm

ZAGREB, 17th December – The best Croatian tennis players will be playing at PBZ Zagreb Indoors 2008 as it was confirmed at today's press conference.
The tournament, which will take place from 23rd February till 2nd March, in Dom Sportova hall, will host best Croatian tennis players: Ivan Ljubičić, Mario Ančić, Ivo Karlović and Marin Čilić, while one of three wild cards will be saved for Roko Karanušić, in case his ATP ranking will not make him possible to enter directly.
A complete list of players playing at the third edition of PBZ Zagreb Indoors 2008 will be made and concluded six weeks before the tournament starts (it means in the middle of January) what is according to the ATP rules.
Among the players who might be playing at the forthcoming tournament are Novak Đoković, Marat Safin, Richard Gasquet or Marcos Baghdatis, though their participation depends on their financial requests.
"What they asked for in the beginning is just too much, and our budget doesn't allow us that. Whoever wants to play at PBZ Zagreb Indoors 2008 is welcome, of course, but Croatian tennis players are the most important for us. Moreover, I hope that one of them will win the tournament eventually“– said Goran Ivanišević, the President of the Organizing Committee.

safin, gasquet, and djokovic were asked to play, but all of them asked for ridiculous sums of money

Zagreb has a tough spot in the calendar this year, right after Rotterdam and just before Dubai.

i heard that this might be cancelled. there is some kind of ice skating scheduled at same time in the arena and they did this last year too and worked it out, but that might not be the case this time around.