Johannesburg Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated February 1, 2010)

Tournament Name: SA TENNIS OPEN
Location: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Dates: 1–7 FEBRUARY, 2010
Prize Money: USD $442,500
32 DRAW (Q32)

SITE: Montecasino
Number 1, Montecasino Blvd
Fourways, 2191 South Africa
SURFACE: Hard
BALL: Wilson US Open
WEB SITE: www.satennis.co.za

Qualifying draw: Friday, January 29, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, January 30, 2:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, January 30, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 250
F: 150
SF: 90
QF: 45
R16: 20
R32: 0
Q: +12
Q8: 6
Q16: 0
Q32: 0

Entry deadline: December 21, 2009
Seeding: January 25, 2010

1 Monfils, Gael FRA 13
2 Ferrer, David ESP 17
OUT Chardy, Jeremy FRA 32
4 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 47
5 Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 56
OUT Gicquel, Marc FRA 58
OUT Serra, Florent FRA 65
8 Ram, Rajeev USA 79
9 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 88
10 Malisse, Xavier BEL 94
11 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 98
12 Robert, Stephane FRA 108
OUT Vliegen, Kristof BEL 110
14 Phau, Bjorn GER 111
15 Beck, Karol SVK 114
OUT Kiefer, Nicolas GER 116
17 Levy, Harel ISR 119
18 Darcis, Steve BEL 122
19 Kavcic, Blaz SLO 125
20 Devvarman, Somdev IND 126
21 Navarro, Ivan ESP 127
22 Ouanna, Josselin FRA 130
23 Dolgopolov Jr., Oleksandr UKR 131
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (Q) WOLMARANS, Fritz RSA
27 (Q) PRPIC, Filip SWE
28 (Q) OKUN, Noam ISR
29 (Q) BALLERET, Benjamin MON
30 (WC) de Voest, Rik RSA
31 (WC) van der Merwe, Izak RSA
32 (WC) Klaasen, Raven RSA

Alternates
IN Evans, Brendan USA 137
IN Recouderc, Laurent FRA 138
OUT De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 140
IN Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 141
OUT Kendrick, Robert USA 142
IN Brown, Dustin JAM 144
OUT Ouahab, Lamine ALG 145
IN Guez, David FRA 146
OUT Bohli, Stephane SUI 147
IN Alves, Thiago BRA 149
IN Ascione, Thierry FRA 152
1 Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 153
OUT Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 156
2 Marrero, David ESP 157
OUT Cipolla, Flavio ITA 159
OUT Udomchoke, Danai THA 163
3. Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 164
OUT Ramos-Vinolas, Albert ESP 168
4. Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 170
5. Kindlmann, Dieter GER 172

Pretty bad list this. Low cut-off and no top 10 player. I thought Tsonga was like the anchorman for this tourney...

Monfils is playing every tournament so far:o

And he is already uncertain for the first one :lol:

Marco and Jérémy :dance:

awful cut-off :o the worst of the year, probably

DE VOEST, VAN DER MERWE GET SA TENNIS OPEN WILD CARDS:
http://www.satennisopen.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12:de-voest-van-der-merwe-get-sa-tennis-open-wild-cards&catid=2:latest-news-a-announcements&Itemid=2

OUT - Gicquel, Kiefer (and Kendrick from ALT)
IN - Evans, Recouderc
NEXT - De Chaunac, Hrbaty, Brown

Predictable WCs.

Cut-off down to #138 already and likely to get much lower.

OUT - Gicquel, Kiefer, Serra (and Kendrick from ALT)
IN - Evans, Recouderc, De Chaunac
NEXT - Hrbaty, Brown, Ouahab

awful cut-off :o the worst of the year, probably

... wait for Newport

Chardy won't play according to the RMC website (right wrist).

:sad:

Such a weak tournament...

Is Newport usually around that or worse at the cut off?

At least this has top 20 players. I think Mardy Fish was around #40 and a 1 seeed in 2007 or 8

Chardy won't play according to the RMC website (right wrist).

Vliegen is also out.
Guez and Bohli are in.
(Brown and Hrbaty in as 2 SE has been cleared)

With all due respect.......this field is appalling :lol:

Is Monfils really going to play here? I wouldn't be surprised if he is a late withdrawal. Or if he tanks. And then Ferrer has been in bad form, Lopez is inconsistent and may not be motivated, and Jarkko is coming back from injuries. All the rest of the players are really beatable. I wouldn't be surprised to see a huge surprise winner.

Seeded players will be ranked outside the top 100. That is pretty brutal.

Is Newport usually around that or worse at the cut off?

At least this has top 20 players. I think Mardy Fish was around #40 and a 1 seeed in 2007 or 8
Newport generally has a worse top of the draw that what is here, but the depth is usually slightly better than this.

More or less a glorified challenger at this point... even Kevin Anderson isn't playing his home tournament.

what a list :rolls:

raji ram seeded :help:
no words for that

Still better than Newport.

what a list :rolls:

raji ram seeded :help:
no words for that

Ram will lose in the first round anyway.

I was only looking foward to watching Chardy :sad: And now his out.

Good luck to Jarkko, Joss, Dustin and Blaz.

Ram will lose in the first round anyway.

False

False

False maybe if he draws a player like Levy or Recouderc, or a qualifier (outside of ERV). Outside of that, yeah, he will lose first round. He simply isn't that good.

What kind of hardcourt is there?