[smucav]

Tournament Name: US MEN’S CLAY COURT CHAMPIONSHIPS
Location: HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA
Dates: APRIL 5–11, 2010
Prize Money: US $442,500
28 MAIN DRAW & 32 QUALIFYING DRAW

SITE: River Oaks Country Club
1600 River Oaks Boulevard
Houston, TX 77019
SURFACE: Red Clay
BALL: Wilson
WEB SITE: www.mensclaycourt.com

Qualifying draw: Friday, April 2, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Friday, April 2, TBA
Doubles draw: Saturday, April 3, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 250
F: 150
SF: 90
QF: 45
R16: 20 (Seeds 1-4: 0)
R32: 0
Q: +12
Q8: 6
Q16: 0
Q32: 0

Entry deadline: February 22, 2010
Seeding: March 29, 2010

1 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 12
OUT Haas, Tommy USA 19
3 Isner, John USA 21
4 Querrey, Sam USA 22
OUT Karlovic, Ivo CRO 33
6 Korolev, Evgeny KAZ 46
7 Zeballos, Horacio ARG 49
OUT Cuevas, Pablo URU 51
OUT Petzschner, Philipp GER 55
10 Sela, Dudi ISR 64
OUT Russell, Michael USA 68
OUT Mayer, Leonardo ARG 69
OUT Fish, Mardy USA 73
14 Istomin, Denis UZB 77
15 Dent, Taylor USA 78
16 Schwank, Eduardo ARG 81
17 Ram, Rajeev USA 82
18 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 83
19 Zverev, Mischa GER 86
20 (SE)
21 (SE)
22 (Q) Anderson, Kevin RSA
23 (Q) Lindahl, Nick AUS
24 (Q) Sweeting, Ryan USA
25 (Q) Niland, Conor IRL
26 (WC) Hewitt, Lleyton AUS
27 (WC) Janowicz, Jerzy POL
28 (WC) Young, Donald USA
(LL) Devvarman, Somdev IND (replaces Fish)
(LL) Yani, Michael USA (replaces Russell)

Alternates
IN Daniel, Marcos BRA 87
IN Malisse, Xavier BEL 88
OUT Acasuso, Jose ARG 90
OUT Ventura, Santiago ESP 93
OUT Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 94
IN Massu, Nicolas CHI 96
OUT Darcis, Steve BEL 102
IN Kavcic, Blaz SLO 105
OUT Granollers, Marcel ESP 106
OUT Nishikori, Kei JPN @106
IN Odesnik, Wayne USA 108
OUT Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 109
OUT Ginepri, Robby USA 113
OUT Mello, Ricardo BRA 114
OUT Rochus, Christophe BEL 115
OUT Ouanna, Josselin FRA 118
IN Levine, Jesse USA 119
IN Kukushkin, Mikhail KAZ 120
1. Machado, Rui POR 121
OUT Ball, Carsten AUS 122
OUT Kim, Kevin USA 123
OUT Phau, Bjorn GER 125
OUT Ilhan, Marsel TUR 126
OUT Brown, Dustin JAM 129
2. Navarro, Ivan ESP 130
3. Martin, Alberto ESP 131
OUT Riba, Pere ESP 132
4. Anderson, Kevin RSA 133
OUT Alves, Thiago BRA 134
5. Guez, David FRA 136

[roberthenman]

Leito

Edu

[chowdahead25]

Gonzo

[Nagime]

good luck to Daniel and Mello at the alternates/qualies!!

[Machiavelli]

Rajeev Ram on clay, watching this would be a dream come true, pure comedy

[.-Federers_Mate-.]

damn thats a strong list. Much better than auckalands

[sheva07]

Haas out with hip injury.

[josemanuel]

Good luck Argies!

[Ausie]

Luczak said in conversations with Hewitt he was confident he would be back to take on Japan.

"Hopefully Lleyton will be ready to come back for that one and that strengthens our team an incredible amount," Luczak said.

"I talk to him quite often and it seems like his recovery is going very well.

"He's planning on playing in Houston, which is only four or five weeks away, so we'll probably get a pretty good idea then if he'll be ready to play against Japan."

[~*BGT*~]

Granollers should have gotten a WC. He was the 2008 champion.

[Ausie]

Lleyton planning on playing in Houston, maybe Lleyton Hewitt WC?

[Bujilover]

Somdev in qualies?Where to see the q-entry list?

[Ausie]

Lleyton will be defending his title at Houston

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/6924133.html

[Hewitt2010]

I was at school when the article was posted on Tennis.com.au and i was so happy to see that Lleyton was going to defend his title at Houston. I don't think he will win. But the good news is he didn't lose 30 or 40 rankings while he was out, which is great news because he will probably go into Houston as the 4th seed if Karlovic dosen't play well at Miami, good luck to Lleyton.

[Davidcuervacho]

Good luck Horacio Zeballos, Leonardo Mayer, Eduardo Schwank and Juan Chela