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Tournament Name: CHINA OPEN
Location: BEIJING, CHINA
Dates: SEPTEMBER 22-28, 2008
Prize Money: US $524,000 (US $499,000)
28 DRAW (Q16)

SITE: BEIJING TENNIS CENTRE
NO.1 GUANGCAILU, FENGTAI DISTRICT,
BEIJING, P.R. CHINA 100075
SURFACE: HARDCOURT
BALL: HEAD
PRIZE MONEY: US DOLLAR-PAID BY ATP
WEB SITE: http://www.chinaopen.com.cn/en/index.shtml

Qualifying draw: Friday, September 19, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, September 20, 2:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, September 20, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points/ATP Race Points
W: 175/35
F: 120/24
SF: 75/15
QF: 40/8
R16: 15/3 (Seeds 1-4: 0/0)
R32: 0/0
Q: +5/+1

Entry deadline: August 11, 2008
Seeding: September 15, 2008

1 Ferrer, David ESP 4
2 Roddick, Andy USA 9
3 Gasquet, Richard FRA 11
4 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 15
5 Robredo, Tommy ESP 17
OUT Kiefer, Nicolas GER 21
OUT Cilic, Marin CRO 33
8 Schuettler, Rainer GER 35
9 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 45
10 Querrey, Sam USA 49
11 Devilder, Nicolas FRA 64
12 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 67
OUT Serra, Florent FRA 70
OUT Gremelmayr, Denis GER 71
15 Navarro, Ivan ESP 73
OUT Chardy, Jeremy FRA 75
17 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 77
18 Sela, Dudi ISR 78
19 Minar, Ivo CZE 80
20 Reynolds, Bobby USA 88
21 Karanusic, Roko CRO 94
22 (Q) Evans, Brendan USA
23 (Q) Nam, Hyun-Woo KOR
24 (Q) Scherrer, Jean-Claude SUI
25 (Q) Xu, Jun-Chao CHN
26 (WC) Sun, Peng CHN
27 (WC) Bai, Yan CHN
28 (WC) Verdasco, Fernando ESP

Alternates
IN Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 96
OUT Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 101
OUT Roitman, Sergio ARG 103
IN Levine, Jesse USA 106
OUT Rochus, Christophe BEL 109
OUT Dabul, Brian ARG 111
OUT Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 112
OUT Kendrick, Robert USA 114
OUT Hernych, Jan CZE 115
OUT Petzschner, Philipp GER 117
IN Soeda, Go JPN 118
OUT Odesnik, Wayne USA 119
OUT Andujar, Pablo ESP 120
OUT Beck, Andreas GER 121
OUT Falla, Alejandro COL 122
OUT Delic, Amer USA 128
OUT Pless, Kristian DEN 129
OUT Pashanski, Boris SRB 130
OUT Istomin, Denis UZB 133
OUT Isner, John USA 134
OUT Alves, Thiago BRA 137
OUT Cipolla, Flavio ITA 140
OUT Kim, Kevin USA 141
OUT Schukin, Yuri KAZ 143
OUT Huta Galung, Jesse NED 144
IN Phau, Bjorn GER 146
OUT Warburg, Sam USA 147
OUT Dancevic, Frank CAN 148
OUT Stadler, Simon GER 150
OUT Sirianni, Joseph AUS 151
OUT Smeets, Robert AUS 152
OUT De Voest, Rik RSA 153
OUT Malisse, Xavier BEL 155
OUT Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 158
OUT Golubev, Andrey KAZ 161
OUT Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 163
OUT Hartfield, Diego ARG 165
OUT Peya, Alexander AUT 167
OUT Cruciat, Adrian ROU 168
OUT Galvani, Stefano ITA 169
OUT Munoz-De La Nava, Daniel ESP 171
OUT Lopez Jaen, Miguel Angel ESP 173
OUT Ram, Rajeev USA 174
OUT Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 177
OUT Bachinger, Matthias GER 178
OUT Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 181
IN Kudryavtsev, Alexandre RUS 184
OUT Olejniczak, Dawid POL 185
1. Evans, Brendan USA 188
OUT Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 189
OUT Meffert, Dominik GER 190
OUT Crivoi, Victor ROU 199
OUT Kubot, Lukasz POL 203
OUT Dorsch, Benedikt GER 207
OUT Vicente, Fernando ESP 208
OUT Levy, Harel ISR 210
2. Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq PAK 211
OUT Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 215
OUT Sidorenko, Alexandre FRA 219
3. Slanar, Martin AUT 220
OUT Lopez, Marc ESP 221
OUT Economidis, Konstantinos GRE 222
OUT Santos, Pablo ESP 225
OUT Ebelthite, Colin AUS 228
4. Villagran, Cristian ARG 230

[ImmzB]

Top 4 will probaly do the Semis

[Raul]

Philipp Petzschner
Tommy Robredo
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
Ivan Navarro
Nicolas Kiefer

[Cindy19]

Damn! So good for this year!
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
Lu, Yen-Hsun
Chardy, Jeremy
Gremelmayr, Denis
Shoot!

[sweeticecream]

Originally Posted by Cindy19

Damn! So good for this year!
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
Lu, Yen-Hsun
Chardy, Jeremy
Gremelmayr, Denis
Shoot!

Where is Tommy Robredo?
Don't you love him any more?

Have a lot of fun with your favorites!

[*Viva Chile*]

So Gonzo will finally have a USA-China-USA-China travelling???

[~*BGT*~]

Gasdick

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OUT: Serra (and Stakhovsky, Roitman from ALT)
IN: Lee
NEXT: Levine, C.Rochus, Dabul, Gimeno Traver, Kendrick, Hernych

[JMG]

WTF

Why do these tournaments still have only 28 entries? :retard: I thought that was created for the weeks with 4 tournaments.

[Cindy19]

Originally Posted by sweeticecream

Where is Tommy Robredo?
Don't you love him any more?

Have a lot of fun with your favorites!

he is missed,I love him for sure. Nope, i will not be there this year, I'm in shanghai, it takes time from here to Beijing

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OUT: Serra, Chardy (and Stakhovsky, Roitman, Rochus, Dabul, Gimeno, Hernych, Andujar, Beck, Falla, Pless, Pashanski, Isner from ALT)
IN: Lee, Levine
NEXT: Kendrick, Petzschner, Soeda, Odesnik, Delic

[Cindy19]

gd to hear chardy will not play there

[Bobble]

Will Ferrero play?

[ImmzB]

Hope Gasquet Can Do Really Good Here!!

[Jimnik]

I don't see how Lee can possibly be here. He has Davis Cup this week. Maybe no-one told him he made it off the alternate list.