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Tournament Name: PILOT PEN TENNIS
Location: NEW HAVEN, CT
Dates: AUGUST 23–29, 2009 (SUNDAY START-SATURDAY FINAL)
Prize Money: US $750,000 (US $663,750)
48 DRAW/32 DRAW QUALIFYING

SITE: 45 Yale Avenue
New Haven, CT, 06515
SURFACE: HARD COURT
BALL: WILSON
PRIZE MONEY: U.S. Dollars–Paid by ATP
WEB SITE: http://www.pilotpentennis.com/

Qualifying draw: Friday, August 21, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Friday, August 21, 12:30 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, August 22, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 250
F: 150
SF: 90
QF: 45
R16: 20
R32: 5 (Seeds: 0)
R64: 0
Q: +5

Entry deadline: July 13, 2009
Seeding: August 17, 2009

OUT Simon, Gilles FRA 7
2 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 11
3 Robredo, Tommy ESP 16
4 Fish, Mardy USA 22
OUT Ferrer, David ESP 23
6 Andreev, Igor RUS 25
7 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 28
OUT Sela, Dudi ISR 30
OUT Montanes, Albert ESP 31
10 Hanescu, Victor ROU 33
11 Querrey, Sam USA 34
12 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 36
13 Acasuso, Jose ARG 37
14 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 41
15 Chardy, Jeremy FRA 43
16 Becker, Benjamin GER 44
17 Zverev, Mischa GER 45
18 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 46
19 Petzschner, Philipp GER 47
20 Seppi, Andreas ITA 48
21 Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 49
22 Serra, Florent FRA 50
23 Beck, Andreas GER 51
24 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 53
25 Rochus, Christophe BEL 54
OUT Vliegen, Kristof BEL 55
27 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 57
28 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 59
29 Mayer, Leonardo ARG 60
OUT Monaco, Juan ARG 61
31 Darcis, Steve BEL 62
OUT Minar, Ivo CZE 63
33 Gicquel, Marc FRA 64
34 Starace, Potito ITA 65
35 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 66
36 Fognini, Fabio ITA 67
37 Istomin, Denis UZB 68
38 Phau, Bjorn GER 69
39 (SE)
40 (SE)
41 (Q) Gil, Frederico POR
42 (Q) Cuevas, Pablo URU
43 (Q) Lapentti, Nicolas ECU
44 (Q) Nielsen, Frederik DEN
45 (WC) Dent, Taylor USA
46 (WC) Verdasco, Fernando ESP
47 (WC) Baghdatis, Marcos CYP
48 (WC) Ram, Rajeev USA
(LL) Rochus, Olivier BEL (replaces Ferrer)

Alternates
IN Golubev, Andrey KAZ 71
OUT Benneteau, Julien FRA 73
IN Gonzalez, Maximo ARG 74
IN Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 75
IN Kendrick, Robert USA 76
IN Capdeville, Paul CHI 77
IN Kim, Kevin USA 78
IN Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 79
IN Bolelli, Simone ITA 80
1. Koellerer, Daniel AUT 81
2. Schuettler, Rainer GER 82
3. Hernych, Jan CZE 83
4. Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 84

[Go_Israel]

Stronger list than expected.

[kutafon]

only one top 10 player

[Labamba]

hopefully Jarkko is able to play here

[chowdahead25]

I am absolutely stunned James Blake isnt here. This is truly his home tournament. Im sure we will get a WC??

[smucav]

Originally Posted by chowdahead25

I am absolutely stunned James Blake isnt here.

He didn't enter or play last year either:
http://www.menstennisforums.com/show...19&postcount=1

[kutafon]

Originally Posted by chowdahead25

I am absolutely stunned James Blake isnt here. This is truly his home tournament. Im sure we will get a WC??

he expects(LOL) to make a big run in the us open, so playing 3straight weeks is too much for him

btw. his ego is bigger than his behind
once Arod withdrew, Indy wanted James to show up and play.
Martin tried to get a commitment from 17th-ranekd James Blake.

“We couldn't meet his expectations,” Martin said.

Martin said Blake wanted a similar player appearance fee that Roddick would have received.

“Finanically we couldn't do that,” Martin said.

james needs to realize he is not a top 10 player anymore

[chowdahead25]

Wow James. Cmon man, your home tournament bro!

[Chip_s_m]

Jeez James what's going on? You used to love this tournament.

[roberthenman]

leito Mayer ....
Montañes GL

[kutafon]

Originally Posted by Chip_s_m

Jeez James what's going on? You used to love this tournament.

money hungry dude
i am sure 300k or so would change his mind

[HattonWBA]

Good solid list

[Doomach777]

ajmo legendo!

[ImmzB]

The biggest news on the men’s side is that former top 10 players Marcos Baghdatis and Richard Gasquet have requested main draw wild cards, along with American John Isner.

http://www.middletownpress.com/artic...2425497063.txt

[Doomach777]

nice...