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Tournament Name: MONTE-CARLO ROLEX MASTERS
Location: MONTE-CARLO, MONACO
Dates: SUNDAY 11–SUNDAY 18 APRIL 2010
Prize Money: €2,227,500 (Total Financial Commitment €2,543,750)
56 DRAW (Q28)

SITE: MONTE-CARLO COUNTRY CLUB
155 AVENUE PRINCESSE GRACE
06190 ROQUEBRUNE CAP MARTIN, FRANCE
SURFACE: RED CLAY
BALL: DUNLOP FORT CLAY COURT
WEB SITE: www.smett.mc

Qualifying draw: Friday, April 9, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, April 10, Noon
Doubles draw: Saturday, April 10, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 1000
F: 600
SF: 360
QF: 180
R16: 90
R32: 45 (Seeds 1-8: 10)
R64: 10 (WC: 0)
Q: +25
Q14: 14
Q28: 0

Entry deadline: March 15, 2010
Seeding: April 5, 2010

1 Djokovic, Novak SRB 2
2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 3
OUT Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 5
OUT Soderling, Robin SWE 7
5 Cilic, Marin CRO 9
6 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 11
7 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 12
8 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 13
9 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 14
OUT Monfils, Gael FRA 15
11 Nalbandian, David ARG @15
12 Ferrer, David ESP 16
OUT Stepanek, Radek CZE 17
14 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 19
OUT Simon, Gilles FRA 21
16 Robredo, Tommy ESP 23
OUT Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 24
18 Berdych, Tomas CZE 25
19 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 26
20 Monaco, Juan ARG 27
21 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 28
OUT Karlovic, Ivo CRO 29
23 Montanes, Albert ESP 30
24 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 31
25 Bellucci, Thomaz BRA 32
26 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 33
27 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 34
28 Troicki, Viktor SRB 35
OUT Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 36
30 Benneteau, Julien FRA 37
31 Andreev, Igor RUS 38
32 Becker, Benjamin GER 39
33 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 40
34 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 41
35 Kubot, Lukasz POL 42
36 Hanescu, Victor ROU 43
37 Chardy, Jeremy FRA 44
38 Gulbis, Ernests LAT 45
39 Seppi, Andreas ITA 46
OUT Cuevas, Pablo URU 47
41 Beck, Andreas GER 48
42 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 49
43 Zeballos, Horacio ARG 50
44 Berrer, Michael GER 51
OUT Moya, Carlos ESP @52
46 (Q) Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP
47 (Q) Dolgopolov, Jr., Oleksandr UKR
48 (Q) Nieminen, Jarkko FIN
49 (Q) Luczak, Peter AUS
50 (Q) de Bakker, Thiemo NED
51 (Q) Granollers, Marcel ESP
52 (Q) Golubev, Andrey KAZ
53 (WC) Gasquet, Richard FRA
54 (WC) Murray, Andy GBR
55 (WC) Bolelli, Simone ITA
56 (WC) Tomic, Bernard AUS

Alternates
OUT Mayer, Florian GER 53
IN Petzschner, Philipp GER 54
IN Fognini, Fabio ITA 55
IN Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 56
IN Korolev, Evgeny KAZ 57
IN Greul, Simon GER 58
IN Rochus, Olivier BEL 59
OUT Gicquel, Marc FRA 61
IN Robert, Stephane FRA 62
IN Serra, Florent FRA 63
IN Schwank, Eduardo ARG 64
IN Llodra, Michael FRA 65
1. Starace, Potito ITA 67
2. Russell, Michael USA 68
3. Gasquet, Richard FRA 69 (WC to MD)
4. Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 70
5. de Bakker, Thiemo NED 73
6. Luczak, Peter AUS 74
7. Istomin, Denis UZB 75
8. Clement, Arnaud FRA 76

[Ertl93]

No Federer, Murray, Davydenko, Roddick, Haas, Gonzalez, Isner und Querrey.

[duong]

Originally Posted by Ertl93

No Federer, Murray, Davydenko, Roddick, Haas, Gonzalez, Isner und Querrey.

yes only ones missing in the top-51

... and Murray might ask a wild-card (he said that he would come back either in Barcelona or in Monte-Carlo depending what he does in Miami : he's not in Barcelona's entry-list either)

... and Davydenko is probably only missing because injured.

Haas is also injured.

It means it's nearly full apart from Federer, who asked for a late WC last year seemingly because of sponsor (I think this year his choice is the final one),

and apart from the Americans and Gonzalez who choose to avoid it like last year.

Last year among the top-players there was also Tsonga who had avoided it but comes back this year, and Tursunov.

What I think is crazy is the huge number of players who will play 3 weeks in a row MonteCarlo-Barcelona-Roma (the latter one being mandatory) : all the top-Spaniards except maybe Verdasco (not in the entry-list for Barcelona) + Del Potro-Söderling-Tsonga-Simon-Berdych-Stepanek-Hewitt-Kohlschreiber-Monaco-Bellucci-Andreev

PS : Fed, Djoko, Davydenko, Cilic, Gonzalez will play 3 weeks in a row a little bit later (Roma-Estoril/Belgrade-Madrid)

[Matthieu Zéla]

Originally Posted by duong

PS : Fed, Djoko, Davydenko, Cilic, Gonzalez will play 3 weeks in a row a little bit later (Roma-Estoril/Belgrade-Madrid)

Which is weird seeing as Estoril/Belgrade are only 250 tournaments, where as Barcelona is a 500. (And in being so not only gives away more points and prize money, but also fulfills a requirement.)

Why would they make such an effort? (Apart from Djoko, who plays at home, i mean)

[josemanuel]

Good luck argies!

[samanosuke]

I assume that one WC is for Ancic

[Puschkin]

Originally Posted by samanosuke

I assume that one WC is for Ancic

This is clay. I would not rely on ot.

[samanosuke]

Originally Posted by Puschkin

This is clay. I would not rely on ot.

Tournament director is also from Split

[Puschkin]

Originally Posted by samanosuke

Tournament director is also from Split

I did not know that. But I assume he won't be able to distribute WCs based on common nationality alone.

I need one for Gasquet.

[minh]

Nole, Robin, Ernest, JCF, Bellucci................

[Jaffas85]

Is gasquet getting a wildcard?

[minh]

MArio ancic?????????????please

[Hewitt2010]

This will be Lleyton Hewitt first tournaments since Australian Open, he is obviously not the best on the clay but still can play very well, good luck to him, also im guessing someone in the top 16 will withdraw so Lleyton will end up getting a seeded spot, so that will also mean a third round meeting with Djokovic, Nadal or Del Potro.

Also im so shocked how Djokovic is still in the top 5 he is pethetic, but he is starting to prove me wrong. When he first started playing really well was probably the 07 us open where he lost to Federer in the final. I've never liked him, still dont but i reckon he'll be a top 10 player until his 30, i dont think he'll ever get to number 1.

[Truc]

Originally Posted by Puschkin

I assume he won't be able to distribute WCs based on common nationality alone.

Ancic and Ljubo both got a WC in the past two years. If Ancic wants one, he will certainly get it.

[Puschkin]

Originally Posted by Truc

Ancic and Ljubo both got a WC in the past two years. If Ancic wants one, he will certainly get it.

Ancic was there in 2009? I remember having seen him there but I thought this was in 2008!