Washington Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated August 2, 2009)

Tournament Name: LEGG MASON TENNIS CLASSIC
Location: WASHINGTON, DC, USA
Dates: AUGUST 2–9, 2009 (SUNDAY START)
Prize Money: US $1,402,000 (US $1,165,500)
48 MAIN DRAW & 24 QUALIFYING DRAW

SITE: William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center
16TH and Kennedy Streets, NW
Washington, DC, 20011
SURFACE: HARD COURT
BALL: WILSON EXTRA DUTY (US OPEN)
PRIZE MONEY: U.S. Dollars–Paid by ATP
WEB SITE: http://www.leggmasontennisclassic.com/

Qualifying draw: Friday, July 31, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Friday, July 31, TBD
Doubles draw: Saturday, August 1, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 500
F: 300
SF: 180
QF: 90
R16: 45
R32: 20 (Seeds: 0)
R64: 0
Q: +10
Q12: 4
Q24: 0

Entry deadline: June 22, 2009
Seeding: July 27, 2009

1 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 5
2 Roddick, Andy USA 6
3 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 9
4 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 10
5 Soderling, Robin SWE 12
6 Cilic, Marin CRO 13
OUT Monfils, Gael FRA 14
8 Robredo, Tommy ESP 15
OUT Blake, James USA 17
10 Berdych, Tomas CZE 20
11 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 22
OUT Stepanek, Radek CZE 23
13 Fish, Mardy USA 25
14 Andreev, Igor RUS 26
15 Schuettler, Rainer GER 29
16 Troicki, Viktor SRB 31
17 Haas, Tommy GER 34
18 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 36
19 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 39
20 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 44
21 Sela, Dudi ISR 46
22 Querrey, Sam USA 47
23 Becker, Benjamin GER 49
OUT Clement, Arnaud FRA 53
25 Petzschner, Philipp GER 55
26 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 56
27 Gicquel, Marc FRA 59
28 Mayer, Leonardo ARG 64
29 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 65
30 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 70
31 Istomin, Denis UZB 71
32 Golubev, Andrey KAZ 73
33 Gulbis, Ernests LAT 74
34 Kendrick, Robert USA 76
35 Gil, Frederico POR 83
36 Capdeville, Paul CHI 84
37 Kim, Kevin USA 86
38 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 88
39 (Q) Falla, Alejandro COL
40 (Q) Devvarman, Somdev IND
41 (Q) Sugita, Yuichi JPN
42 (Q) Giraldo, Santiago COL
43 (Q) de Chaunac, Sebastien FRA
44 (Q) Witten, Jesse USA
OUT (WC) Domijan, Alexander USA
46 (WC) Janowicz, Jerzy POL
47 (WC) Young, Donald USA
48 (WC) Russell, Michael USA
(LL) Lapentti, Nicolas ECU (replaces Domijan)

Alternates
OUT Muller, Gilles LUX 89
IN Dancevic, Frank CAN 92
OUT Reynolds, Bobby USA 94
IN Isner, John USA 97
OUT Massu, Nicolas CHI 100
OUT Pavel, Andrei ROU @100
OUT Berrer, Michael GER 102
OUT Daniel, Marcos BRA 103
OUT Cipolla, Flavio ITA 105
IN Ginepri, Robby USA 107
IN Odesnik, Wayne USA 109
OUT Karanusic, Roko CRO 110
1. Spadea, Vincent USA 113
2. Bozoljac, Ilija SRB 114
3. Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 115
OUT Nishikori, Kei JPN 117
OUT Alves, Thiago BRA 118
4. Ouanna, Josselin FRA 119
5. Udomchoke, Danai THA 120
6. Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 121

James is coming!!!!!! Every year we always hope he'll be there and he hasn't been for so long! Soooooooooooooo happy right now! :woohoo:

Gl to Leo :yeah:

Quite pleased with this list.

Nice field.:yeah:

Isner and Ginepri should get WC for sure :D

And Dent!

Good luck Juan Martin Del Potro and Leonardo Mayer :yeah:

Awesome field. I think it's time for me to go back :)

Jerzy Janowicz gets a WC (I don't know if MD or Q)

wild card to John Isner (per tournament director)

Hoping Dancevic gets a break and scores a direct entry.

Janowicz probably with MD WC

Janowicz in 90 % with WC MD. Btw, very nice field.
It will be very much emotions here. ;)

Monfils is doubtful, as usual. He was supposed to resume the training today.

Quite pleased with this list.

Ditto.

Might actually go now, if it isn't as hot as the last few years.

Monfils out according to L'Equipe.

Some weird MD WC choices with guys like Levine still in qualies. :confused:

I was thinking same thing:D

Some weird MD WC choices with guys like Levine still in qualies. :confused:Domijan, Janowicz, & Russell are BEST clients. Levine has no connection to the tournament.

James is coming!!!!!! Every year we always hope he'll be there and he hasn't been for so long! Soooooooooooooo happy right now! :woohoo:

fun while it lasted
Mighty James is Out

Come on Lleyton, Andy & Misha :woohoo: :woohoo:

Domijan, Janowicz, & Russell are BEST clients. Levine has no connection to the tournament.

is that normally how WCs are chosen??

Potro def Roddick in the final i reckon

Great entry list though with the likes of Tsonga and soderling as well

Young is in the main draw, why dont they give them to players who deserve it.

fun while it lasted
Mighty James is Out

Ugh just found out. Oh well. I'm used to him not being there. :lol:

Come On Lu!!

Some weird MD WC choices with guys like Levine still in qualies. :confused:Levine tweeted the other day he was quite looking forward to a week off. He may not have taken a WC even if he'd been offered it.

is that normally how WCs are chosen??for these smaller tourneys, it happens quite frequently. Even Miami often gives WCs to IMG clients.

is that normally how WCs are chosen??
It depends on the level of the tournament. The 250 tournaments will hold wild cards for top players who might want to play & draw some additional interest to the tournament. At the 500 level tournaments, the top players decided last fall which 500 tournaments they wanted to enter in 2009 so unless there's someone who has been out w. injury or wants more matches, there isn't much use in holding the wild cards for top players. In Washington, one wild card was held in case Murray or some other top player wanted to play. (It went to Young instead.) The other three went to BEST clients (w. Russell getting one of them after Isner got in off the alternate list). For the qualifying, three went to American juniors who train at the USTA center in College Park & the fourth went to BEST client Oudsema who has played WTT in DC for two years.

It depends on the level of the tournament. The 250 tournaments will hold wild cards for top players who might want to play & draw some additional interest to the tournament. At the 500 level tournaments, the top players decided last fall which 500 tournaments they wanted to enter in 2009 so unless there's someone who has been out w. injury or wants more matches, there isn't much use in holding the wild cards for top players. In Washington, one wild card was held in case Murray or some other top player wanted to play. (It went to Young instead.) The other three went to BEST clients (w. Russell getting one of them after Isner got in off the alternate list). For the qualifying, three went to American juniors who train at the USTA center in College Park & the fourth went to BEST client Oudsema who has played WTT in DC for two years.

What do you mean when you say best clients?

What do you mean when you say best clients?BEST (not best):
http://www.experiencebest.com/home

BEST Tennis manages players:
http://www.experiencebest.com/sports/tennis

BEST Events manages the Washington tournament for the owner (WTEF):
http://www.experiencebest.com/events

As far as I know, Magdalena Grzybowska, former WTA's TOP30 is Janowicz's manager. She works in BEST Agency.

Thanks everyone for the information. Somehow it seems odd to base a couple of the decisions on clients, but that's my ignorance.