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Tournament Name: INTERNATIONAL GERMAN OPEN HAMBURG
Location: HAMBURG, GERMANY
Dates: 20–26 JULY 2009
Prize Money: €1,115,000
48 DRAW (Q24)

SITE: ROTHENBAUM SPORT GMBH
HALLERSTRASSE 89
20149 HAMBURG
GERMANY
SURFACE: RED CLAY
BALL: DUNLOP FORT TOURNAMENT
PRIZE MONEY: EUROS. PRIZE MONEY PAID BY THE ATP
WEB SITE: http://german-open-hamburg.de/en/home/

Qualifying draw: Friday, July 17, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, July 18, 2:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, July 18, 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 8, 2009
Seeding: July 13, 2009

1 Simon, Gilles FRA 7
OUT Verdasco, Fernando ESP 8
3 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 11
4 Soderling, Robin SWE 12
OUT Monfils, Gael FRA 14
6 Robredo, Tommy ESP 15
7 Ferrer, David ESP 18
8 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 19
OUT Berdych, Tomas CZE 21
10 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 24
11 Andreev, Igor RUS 26
12 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 28
13 Hanescu, Victor ROU 31
14 Schuettler, Rainer GER 32
15 Troicki, Viktor SRB 33
OUT Montanes, Albert ESP 35
17 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 37
18 Acasuso, Jose ARG 42
19 Chardy, Jeremy FRA 43
20 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 44
21 Zverev, Mischa GER 45
22 Seppi, Andreas ITA 48
23 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 51
24 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 52
25 Beck, Andreas GER 53
26 Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 54
27 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG @54
28 Serra, Florent FRA 56
29 Fognini, Fabio ITA 57
30 Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 58
31 Petzschner, Philipp GER 59
32 Monaco, Juan ARG 60
33 Rochus, Christophe BEL 61
34 Hernandez, Oscar ESP 63
35 Gonzalez, Maximo ARG 64
OUT Bolelli, Simone ITA 66
37 Hernych, Jan CZE 68
38 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 70
39 (Q) Starace, Potito ITA
40 (Q) Crivoi, Victor ROU
41 (Q) Cuevas, Pablo URU
42 (Q) Korolev, Evgeny RUS
43 (Q) Granollers, Marcel ESP
44 (Q) Riba, Pere ESP
45 (WC) Brands, Daniel GER
46 (WC) Mayer, Florian GER
47 (WC) Greul, Simon GER
48 (WC) Krawietz, Kevin GER

Alternates
IN Phau, Bjorn GER 72
IN Darcis, Steve BEL 73
OUT Golubev, Andrey KAZ 74
OUT Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 75
IN Minar, Ivo CZE 77
IN Benneteau, Julien FRA 80
IN Navarro, Ivan ESP 82
OUT Capdeville, Paul CHI 84
1. Starace, Potito ITA 85
2. Junqueira, Diego ARG 86
3. Crivoi, Victor ROU 88
4. Vliegen, Kristof BEL 89
5. Koellerer, Daniel AUT 92
6. Korolev, Evgeny RUS 94
7. Canas, Guillermo ARG 96

[interruptus25]

no nadal no djokovic wtf?!

[JMG]

No Kiefer He plays clown tournaments like Gstaad and Stutgart, but not here?

[mr_burns]

kiefer had such a great run hin hamburg last year. I know he wanna focus on hard courts early enough, but still this is ...

[Doomach777]

no one out ?!

[Davidcuervacho]

Good luck Jose Acasuso, Martin Vassallo Arguello, Juan Monaco, Maximo Gonzalez and Juan Chela

[Doomach777]

any updates ?

[walid1988]

juan carlos ferrero asked for wild card,so plz give it to him!

[Doomach777]

is ljubo in directly ?

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Originally Posted by walid1988

juan carlos ferrero asked for wild card,so plz give it to him!

Ferrero is entered in Indianapolis:
http://www.menstennisforums.com/show...41&postcount=1

[orangehat]

Quite a pathetic field here really, Wawa/Kohli for the title!

[t10eke]

Just read a rather worrying article on the Internet about this tournament on http://www.sports-city.org/news_deta...&idCategory=34.

An excerpt from the article:

"Authorities in the German city of Hamburg have issued a cease and desist order against online gaming operator bet-at-home.com and local tournament organisers, in an attempt to block the company’s title sponsorship of the ATP Hamburg Open which is due to commence later this month.

Last week the event’s organisers renamed the tournament the bet-at-home Open, dropping the .com element from all promotional material and removing hyperlinks to the online gaming site after a legal intervention by Schleswig-Holstein's state-licensed casino. The casino operator argued that the sponsorship deal represented a clear breach of the State Treaty on Gaming since bet-at-home.com does not hold a valid German gaming license.

Despite the name change however and removal of links to the gaming site from the tournament website, Hamburg authorities have increased pressure on the organisers to completely drop bet-at-home as a sponsor of the event. "

On the tournament website I cannot find anything about this. Has there been anything in the German press about it?

[Björki]

bet-at-home.com is not the sponsor any longer.

There is only a German article at the moment.

http://de.eurosport.yahoo.com/090720...ptsponsor.html

[t10eke]

Thanks for pointing out the article. Looks like they are continuing, even with the loss of that sponsor money !

[Truc]

Yep, the subforum should be renamed, it's called "International German Open" now.
http://tennismagazin.de/tour_exklusi...class=22&pid=1