[smucav]

Tournament Name: RAKUTEN JAPAN OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009
Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
Dates: OCTOBER 5–11, 2009
Prize Money: US $1,226,500 (US $1,100,000)
32 DRAW (Q16)

SITE: Ariake Tennis Forest Park/Ariake Colosseum
2-2-22 Ariake, Koto-Ku
Tokyo, 135-0063 Japan
SURFACE: HARDCOURT
BALL: SRIXON made by Dunlop
PRIZE MONEY: US Dollars–Paid by the ATP
WEB SITE: http://rakutenopen.rakuten.co.jp/en/index.html

Qualifying draw: Friday, October 2, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, October 3, not before 3:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, October 3, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 500
F: 300
SF: 180
QF: 90
R16: 45
R32: 0
Q: +20
Q8: 10
Q16: 0

Entry deadline: August 24, 2009
Seeding: September 28, 2009

OUT Federer, Roger SUI 1
OUT Murray, Andy GBR 2
3 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 6
4 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 7
5 Simon, Gilles FRA 9
6 Monfils, Gael FRA 13
7 Stepanek, Radek CZE 16
8 Berdych, Tomas CZE 18
9 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 20
OUT Haas, Tommy GER 21
11 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 32
12 Sela, Dudi ISR 35
13 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 38
14 Petzschner, Philipp GER 39
15 Beck, Andreas GER 40
16 Monaco, Juan ARG 41
17 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 44
18 Gasquet, Richard FRA 46
OUT Seppi, Andreas ITA 48
20 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 49
21 Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 51
22 Zverev, Mischa GER 53
OUT Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 54
24 Isner, John USA 55
25 Schuettler, Rainer GER 99
26 (Q) Chiudinelli, Marco SUI
27 (Q) Ilhan, Marsel TUR
28 (Q) Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA
29 (Q) Gulbis, Ernests LAT
30 (WC) Ito, Tatsuma JPN
31 (WC) Suzuki, Takao JPN
32 (WC) Soeda, Go JPN

Alternates
IN Golubev, Andrey KAZ 56
OUT Daniel, Marcos BRA 57
IN Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 59
OUT Serra, Florent FRA 60
OUT Koellerer, Daniel AUT 61
OUT Vliegen, Kristof BEL 62
IN Greul, Simon GER 64
IN Mayer, Leonardo ARG 65
OUT Bolelli, Simone ITA 67
IN Bellucci, Thomaz BRA 68
OUT Hernych, Jan CZE 70
1. Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 71
2. Fognini, Fabio ITA 73
OUT Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 74
3. Ginepri, Robby USA 75
OUT Kendrick, Robert USA 77
OUT Luczak, Peter AUS 78
OUT Korolev, Evgeny RUS 80
OUT Hernandez, Oscar ESP 83
OUT Phau, Bjorn GER 85
OUT Odesnik, Wayne USA 86
OUT Granollers, Marcel ESP 87
OUT Martin, Alberto ESP 93
OUT Beck, Karol SVK 94
4. Gulbis, Ernests LAT 95

[roberthenman]

25 Schuettler, Rainer GER 99 ????' wc??
Gl to
Leo
Andy Murray
Gasquet
Bellucci

[smucav]

Originally Posted by roberthenman

25 Schuettler, Rainer GER 99 ????' wc??

Shuettler doesn't need a wild card as all commitment players are guaranteed direct entry into all 500 level tournaments.

[roberthenman]

Originally Posted by smucav

Shuettler doesn't need a wild card as all commitment players are guaranteed direct entry into all 500 level tournaments.

[Ad Wim]

What is a commitment player?

[Labamba]

Originally Posted by Ad Wim

What is a commitment player?

Top 30 player at the end of last year

[duong]

Originally Posted by Labamba

Top 30 player at the end of last year

top-30 players at the end of previous year have to play at least 4 ATP500 tournaments : that's why they are allowed to play any ATP500 tournament this year

[Davidcuervacho]

Good luck Juan Martin Del Potro, Juan Monaco and Martin Vassallo Arguello

[kingroger]

Originally Posted by duong

top-30 players at the end of previous year have to play at least 4 ATP500 tournaments : that's why they are allowed to play any ATP500 tournament this year

does this mean that schuettler is allowed to play all upcoming 500-level tournaments this year(Basel,Valencia)??

[Ertl93]

gl Tommy, Petzschner and Schüttler

[duong]

Originally Posted by kingroger

does this mean that schuettler is allowed to play all upcoming 500-level tournaments this year(Basel,Valencia)??

yes

[tennisace]

Murray is injured (wrist)...will he be able to play ?

[Aenea]

Originally Posted by tennisace

Murray is injured (wrist)...will he be able to play ?

Don't worry. DC is over so no reason to not be OK now. It turns out his injury is not as bad as he feared during DC tie. He'll play Tokyo.

[Santoro Magician]

Fed now out

[tennisace]

Federer is out of Tokyo and Shanghai. His doctors suggested him to have some rest but we don't know if he's injured or not