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Tournament Name: MASTERS SERIES HAMBURG presented by EON Hanse
Location: HAMBURG, GERMANY
Dates: SUNDAY 11–SUNDAY 18 MAY 2008
Prize Money: €2,270,000 (€2,057,000)
56 DRAW

SITE: DTB ROTHENBAUM SPORT GMBH
HALLERSTRASSE 89
20149 HAMBURG
SURFACE: RED CLAY
BALL: HEAD
PRIZE MONEY: EURO
WEB SITE: http://www.dtb-tennis.de/AmRothenbaum_en/

Qualifying draw: Friday, May 9, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, May 10, 2:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, May 9, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points/ATP Race Points
W: 500/100
F: 350/70
SF: 225/45
QF: 125/25
R16: 75/15
R32: 35/7 (Seeds 1-8: 5/1)
R64: 5/1 (WC: 0/0)
Q: +15/+3
Q14: 8/0
Q28: 0/0

Entry deadline: March 31, 2008
Seeding: May 5, 2008

1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
3 Djokovic, Novak SRB 3
4 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4
5 Ferrer, David ESP 5
OUT Roddick, Andy USA 6
OUT Nalbandian, David ARG 7
8 Gasquet, Richard FRA 8
9 Blake, James USA 9
10 Berdych, Tomas CZE 10
11 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 11
12 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 12
13 Murray, Andy GBR 13
14 Robredo, Tommy ESP 14
15 Canas, Guillermo ARG 15
16 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 16
OUT Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 17
OUT Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 18
19 Monaco, Juan ARG 19
20 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 20
21 Moya, Carlos ESP 21
OUT Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 22
OUT Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 23
24 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 24
OUT Almagro, Nicolas ESP 25
26 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 26
27 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 27
OUT Stepanek, Radek CZE 28
29 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 29
30 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 30
31 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 31
32 Malisse, Xavier BEL @31
33 Andreev, Igor RUS 32
34 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 33
35 Simon, Gilles FRA 34
36 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 35
OUT Haas, Tommy GER 36
38 Starace, Potito ITA 37
39 Llodra, Michael FRA 38
40 Soderling, Robin SWE 39
41 Fish, Mardy USA 40
42 Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 41
43 Volandri, Filippo ITA 42
44 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 43
45 (SE)
46 (Q) Granollers, Marcel ESP
47 (Q) Benneteau, Julien FRA
48 (Q) Martin, Alberto ESP
49 (Q) Horna, Luis PER
50 (Q) Sanchez de Luna, Jose Antonio ESP
51 (Q) Safin, Marat RUS
52 (Q) Naso, Gianluca ITA
53 (WC) Beck, Andreas GER
54 (WC) Berrer, Michael GER
55 (WC) Schuettler, Rainer GER
56 (WC) Zverev, Mischa GER
(LL) Rochus, Olivier BEL (replaces Roddick)
(LL) Minar, Ivo CZE (replaces Stepanek)
(LL) Vliegen, Kristof BEL (replaces Almagro)

Alternates
IN Cilic, Marin CRO 44
IN Acasuso, Jose ARG 45
IN Seppi, Andreas ITA 46
IN Darcis, Steve BEL 47
OUT Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 48
OUT Santoro, Fabrice FRA 49
OUT Querrey, Sam USA 50
IN Kiefer, Nicolas GER 51
OUT Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 52
OUT Calleri, Agustin ARG 53
OUT Gicquel, Marc FRA 54
IN Bolelli, Simone ITA 55
IN Montanes, Albert ESP 56
1. Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 57
2. Koubek, Stefan AUT 58
3. Haase, Robin NED 59
4. Johansson, Thomas SWE 60
5. Sela, Dudi ISR 61
OUT Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 62
6. Ancic, Mario CRO 63

[rrfnpump]

This is an insane entry list

Hopefully, not too many withdrawals

[JMG]

Hopefully many withdrawals. It would suck if they had to waste a wc for Kiefer.

[ImmzB]

Hope they give a Wild-Card 2 Marat Safin

[Mrs. Fabregas]

Originally Posted by rrfnpump

This is an insane entry list

Hopefully, not too many withdrawals

Yes indeed ... the entry list is .... Am very, very looking forward to it already

Originally Posted by ImmzB

Hope they give a Wild-Card 2 Marat Safin

I do hope so so so so so so so so very much too

[ZackBusner]

Any new theories about who will get the Wild Cards?
As always, they will all go to german players. First WC to Andi Beck as he won the WC tournament. If Kiwi doesn't get a direct entry he'll get the second WC. I think Berrer is quite sure as well since he played Davis Cup this year. So there is one more: Zverev? Mayer? Gremelmayr? Petzschner? Schüttler ?

[davis]

Originally Posted by ZackBusner

Any new theories about who will get the Wild Cards?
As always, they will all go to german players. First WC to Andi Beck as he won the WC tournament. If Kiwi doesn't get a direct entry he'll get the second WC. I think Berrer is quite sure as well since he played Davis Cup this year. So there is one more: Zverev? Mayer? Gremelmayr? Petzschner? Schüttler ?

Maybe Steeb as tournament director will be a bit more open-minded and won't stick to the stupid "German players only" rule.

Guga would probably get one if he wanted to play (though after today's slaughter I hope he reconsiders ).

Safin and Ancic? Marat as a crowd-pleaser, Mario because of his "heroic" fight back from injury? They'll both at least try.

If it's just Germans again, Zverev should get a WC since he lives in Hamburg (local hero, LOL). I kinda doubt Berrer would even want one, he doesn't like clay too much. But Mayer perhaps?

Let's take it the Zen way - wait patiently and see

[Eden]

Originally Posted by davis

Guga would probably get one if he wanted to play (though after today's slaughter I hope he reconsiders ).

It was said that he don't get a WC. Beside this Hamburg isn't mentioned on his homepage. Guga will play Barcelona and Paris before retiring.

[Winnipeg]

Gremelmayr will receive a WC,
mainly for his estorli performance...

[JMG]

Originally Posted by Winnipeg

Gremelmayr will receive a WC,
mainly for his estorli performance...

Why do you say that as if you are sure?

Gremelmayr committed to Zagreb that week.

[ZackBusner]

At the moment I guess the WCs will go to Kiefer, Berrer, Gremelmayr, Beck. If Kiefer gets direct entry (what I doubt) the 4th WC will be for Schüttler.

[smucav]

OUT: Baghdatis, Haas (& Lee, Grosjean, Gicquel from ALT)
IN: Cilic, Acasuso

[Renaud]

Originally Posted by ZackBusner

If Kiefer gets direct entry (what I doubt) the 4th WC will be for Schüttler.

Santoro's participation is highly doubtful
Youzhny and Tsonga are not sure to play. Querrey told he would go back to USA for 3 weeks (right ?), and i don't think the SE spot will be used... + usual withdrawal we don't know yet but that will surely comes .
I'm pretty sure Kiefer will get in without a WC.

[Drikke]

Nadal and Malisse probably won't play here

[Filipo]

why Nadal ? if he lost early in Rome (3rd consecutive week) he could play here.