[smucav]

Tournament Name: US MEN’S CLAY COURT CHAMPIONSHIPS
Location: HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA
Dates: APRIL 8–14, 2013
Prize Money: US $455,775
28 MAIN DRAW & 32 QUALIFYING DRAW

SITE: River Oaks Country Club
1600 River Oaks Boulevard
Houston, TX 77019
SURFACE: Red Clay
BALL: Wilson-US Open Regular Duty
WEB SITE: www.mensclaycourt.com

Qualifying draw: Friday, April 5, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Friday, April 5, 4:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, April 6, 2:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 250
F: 150
SF: 90
QF: 45
R16: 20 (Seeds 1-4: 0)
R32: 0
Q: +12
Q8: 6
Q16: 0
Q32: 0

Entry deadline: February 25, 2013
Seeding: April 1, 2013

1 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 12
2 Monaco, Juan ARG 14
3 Isner, John USA 15
4 Haas, Tommy GER 19
OUT Querrey, Sam USA 23
6 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 24
7 Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 57
8 Russell, Michael USA 72
OUT Berlocq, Carlos ARG 75
10 Harrison, Ryan USA 76
OUT Mayer, Leonardo ARG 77
12 Devvarman, Somdev IND @85
13 Berankis, Ricardas LTU 87
14 Pella, Guido ARG 88
15 Alund, Martin ARG 91
16 Levine, Jesse CAN 95
17 Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 96
18 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 98
19 Blake, James USA 99
20 Cipolla, Flavio ITA 100
21 Smyczek, Tim USA 101
22 (Q) MELZER, Gerald AUT
23 (Q) GINEPRI, Robby USA
24 (Q) ARGUELLO, Facundo ARG
25 (Q) KLAHN, Bradley USA
26 (WC) Sock, Jack USA
27 (WC) Williams, Rhyne USA
28 (WC) Johnson, Steve USA
(LL) Karlovic, Ivo CRO (replaces Querrey)

Alternates
IN Monfils, Gael FRA 107
OUT Dutra Silva, Rogerio BRA 115
IN Ouanna, Josselin FRA 116
OUT Delbonis, Federico ARG 118
OUT Struff, Jan-Lennard GER 120
OUT Phau, Bjorn GER 121
OUT Gicquel, Marc FRA 122
OUT Petzschner, Philipp GER 123
OUT Berrer, Michael GER 125
OUT Viola, Matteo ITA 126
1. Riba, Pere ESP @126
OUT Pospisil, Vasek CAN 127
2. Sock, Jack USA 130 (WC to MD)
OUT Elias, Gastao POR 131
OUT Souza, Joao BRA 132
3. Williams, Rhyne USA 133 (WC to MD)
OUT Alves, Thiago BRA 136
4. Zverev, Mischa GER 142
OUT Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 143
5. Capdeville, Paul CHI 144

[Chip & Charge]

Woah huge jump down the rankings after Verdasco. Monfils will be chomping at the bit to get into that draw after resting through IW & Miami and as 1st alternate you'd think he is likely to get a chance.

[born_on_clay]

nice field as for Houston

[smucav]

Wild card to Jack Sock:

http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Ten...-To-Field.aspx

[Ramsay]

Gastão in the Entry List here... This tournament is related with IMG? Every year they give one WC in an american tournament to him, maybe he'll get the MD here.

[fran70]

Houston's height over the sea always was a benefit for certain hard court players. I believe certain players like Isner, Haas, Harrison, Querrey and Berankis will go ahead on here.

[Stronga23]

I would like to see Gael make a run here. At his best he is way better on clay than anyone in the draw.

[nolesfan2011]

strong field btw, much better than Houston has had in previous years... hopefully bodes well for a profitable tourney.

[F4CU]

guido

[djokovicgonzalez]

A US fast clay court tournament has a stronish first few entries!

Not very deep though

From Verdasco (24) to Lorenzi (57)

[Mae]

I had thought that this tournament was going to end?

[supertom]

Originally Posted by nolesfan2011

strong field btw, much better than Houston has had in previous years... hopefully bodes well for a profitable tourney.

Strong list if you look at the ranking..
Weak list if you look at the level of the players..

I think you can take all the players in the category "has a high ranking but plays bad" and you have the Houston EL

[igorpetrov]

Draw until it be reasonable for an ATP 250.

Look in Tommy HAAS

[Mark Lenders]

NID that Monaco would turn up here to try and feast on a weak field

[lalaland]

Originally Posted by Mark Lenders

NID that Monaco would turn up here to try and feast on a weak field

So does Almagro and Haas, who are in front of Monaco in the ranking.
And don't go into the Casablanca thread, or you'll be more appalled to find that Wawrinka getting a WC into a field that has 1 Top 30 players. Then again, you won't bcos Wawrinka is not really on your agenda.