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Tournament Name: SERBIA OPEN
Location: BELGRADE, SERBIA
Dates: 30 APRIL–6 MAY 2012
Prize Money: €366,950 (Total Financial Commitment €418,700)
28 DRAW (Q32)

SITE: MGM
TADEUSA KOSCUSKA 63
11000 BELGRADE
SURFACE: CLAY
BALL: HEAD ATP
WEB SITE: www.serbiaopen.rs

Qualifying draw: Friday, April 27, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Friday, April 27, 7:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, April 28, 2:00 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: March 19, 2012
Seeding: April 23, 2012

OUT Djokovic, Novak SRB 1
2 Andujar, Pablo ESP 38
3 Seppi, Andreas ITA 45
4 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 48
5 Nalbandian, David ARG 50
6 Kubot, Lukasz POL 51
7 Fognini, Fabio ITA 55
8 Volandri, Filippo ITA 58
9 Dodig, Ivan CRO 60
10 Sela, Dudi ISR 61
11 Muller, Gilles LUX 63
12 Lacko, Lukas SVK 66
13 Harrison, Ryan USA 73
14 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 82
15 Rosol, Lukas CZE 83
16 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 90
17 Hanescu, Victor ROU 95
18 Paire, Benoit FRA 96
OUT Beck, Andreas GER 97
20 (SE)
21 (SE)
22 (Q) GOMEZ-HERRERA, Carlos ESP
23 (Q) VEIC, Antonio CRO
24 (Q) BEDENE, Aljaz SLO
25 (Q) SCHWANK, Eduardo ARG
26 (WC) Djokovic, Marko SRB
27 (WC) Donskoy, Evgeny RUS
28 (WC) Lajovic, Dusan SRB

Alternates
OUT Andreev, Igor RUS 98
IN Ungur, Adrian ROU 100
OUT Phau, Bjorn GER 103
IN Souza, Joao BRA 104
OUT Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 105
IN Klizan, Martin SVK 106
IN Kavcic, Blaz SLO 107
OUT Bolelli, Simone ITA 109
OUT Haider-Maurer, Andreas AUT 110
OUT Junqueira, Diego ARG 112
OUT Odesnik, Wayne USA 113
OUT Prodon, Eric FRA 114
OUT Ilhan, Marsel TUR 115
OUT Berrer, Michael GER 116
OUT Reynolds, Bobby USA 118
1. Capdeville, Paul CHI 119
OUT Zopp, Jurgen EST 120
OUT Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 121
OUT Matosevic, Marinko AUS 122
2. De Voest, Rik RSA 124
3. Sijsling, Igor NED 125
4. Mannarino, Adrian FRA 126
OUT Zeballos, Horacio ARG 127
5. Mello, Ricardo BRA 129
6. Zemlja, Grega SLO 130

[Sombrerero loco]

maybe a wc for krajinovic here?

[Chris.]

Djokovic top seed Andujar second seed

[Chase Visa]

Haha, if Djoker loses more than 10 games here he should be ashamed.

[kiriri***]

What a member
This tornament is over

[djokovicgonzalez]

No Troicki or Tipsarevic? Djokovic had better play

[Filo V.]

Dismal list. A lot of hardcourters and most the claycourters are in bad form.

Pippo has a good chance to defend his SF here.

[niksonion]

Actually,I dont think that Nole will play here at all...We`ll see,but rather it will be WC for Janko or Viktor (or both),u without Nole

[Sonja1989]

Originally Posted by djokovicgonzalez

No Troicki or Tipsarevic? Djokovic had better play

Maybe waste of WCs. I mean they should be on this list and I'm not sure they don't want to play later. Especially seeing this list.

Originally Posted by niksonion

Actually,I dont think that Nole will play here at all...We`ll see,but rather it will be WC for Janko or Viktor (or both),u without Nole

I'm sure it's hard for him. Isn't needed at all but still his home event.



Btw Kubot

[andrijagajic]

Really sad to see that some regulars haven't come: Tipsarevic, Troicki, Nishikori, Granollers, Isner... Maybe Monaco, Lopez and other claycourters from last year... Anyway, this tournament never had a weaker EL than this one

[Tristanslav]

I think it's obvious really. Janko and Viktor (janko especially), are at the level where 250 events aren't really helping their rankings, unless they make a minimum of the final. With Djokovic on the list, it really makes it unlikely that either of them will win the tournament, and with the Monte Carlo, Rome, Madrid, and team championship tournaments, in successive weeks around this event - and then of course, Roland Garros, then grasscourt, and Olympics, they don't have any breaks in their schedule for months. It's the right decisions for them. If you look at the list for all three events on this week, I think there's about 8-10 players in the top 30 involved altogether, so a lot of players have made this type of decision too.

Of course, for us, and for the tournament, it is a real blow. Hopefully at least one marquee player will take a wildcard, but I very much doubt it will be either Janko or Viktor. I would imagine it will be a younger Djokovic, Lajovic, and either Cacic/Jankovic/Krajinovic to take the other. Krajinovic, at this point would probably be a waste. If they can dig another top 20-30 player out of the air, then great.

I only hope this doesn't have a negative effect in the future on the tournament. Serbia needs at least 1 event in either ATP or WTA. With Gemax gone from the last few years, this one is important. Of course the list here, is almost like a list for Gemax, with Djokovic thrown in for fun.

I wonder if this could be a chance for Vemic to officially retire also now? Maybe doubles/qualifying wild card for him

[andrijagajic]

Goran Djokovic said that one WC is sure for Marko Djokovic, that they are talking with Lajovic for the 2nd one and that they will try to give the 3rd one to foreigner...

[djokovicgonzalez]

Originally Posted by Tristanslav

I think it's obvious really. Janko and Viktor (janko especially), are at the level where 250 events aren't really helping their rankings, unless they make a minimum of the final. With Djokovic on the list, it really makes it unlikely that either of them will win the tournament, and with the Monte Carlo, Rome, Madrid, and team championship tournaments, in successive weeks around this event - and then of course, Roland Garros, then grasscourt, and Olympics, they don't have any breaks in their schedule for months. It's the right decisions for them. If you look at the list for all three events on this week, I think there's about 8-10 players in the top 30 involved altogether, so a lot of players have made this type of decision too.

Of course, for us, and for the tournament, it is a real blow. Hopefully at least one marquee player will take a wildcard, but I very much doubt it will be either Janko or Viktor. I would imagine it will be a younger Djokovic, Lajovic, and either Cacic/Jankovic/Krajinovic to take the other. Krajinovic, at this point would probably be a waste. If they can dig another top 20-30 player out of the air, then great.

I only hope this doesn't have a negative effect in the future on the tournament. Serbia needs at least 1 event in either ATP or WTA. With Gemax gone from the last few years, this one is important. Of course the list here, is almost like a list for Gemax, with Djokovic thrown in for fun.

I wonder if this could be a chance for Vemic to officially retire also now? Maybe doubles/qualifying wild card for him

It would definitely help Troicki, whose ranking is sinking fast. I imagine he might ask for one. Tipsarevic no longer needs it, but I can still see it happening

[Sauletekis]

What a joke of EL!

[nalbyfan]

Nalby in Belgrade ? What a suprise !!!