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Tournament Name: Apia INTERNATIONAL
Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Dates: 7–12 JANUARY 2013 (Saturday Final/Combined Event)
Prize Money: USD $436,630
28 DRAW & 32 QUALIFYING

SITE: Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre
Rod Laver Drive, Sydney Olympic Park
NSW Australia 2127
SURFACE: Plexicushion
BALL: Wilson Australian Open
WEB SITE: www.apiainternational.com.au

Qualifying draw: Friday, January 4, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, January 5, Noon
Doubles draw: Saturday, January 5, 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: November 26, 2012
Seeding: December 31, 2012

OUT Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 8
OUT Gasquet, Richard FRA 10
3 Isner, John USA 14
OUT Simon, Gilles FRA 16
5 Seppi, Andreas ITA 23
6 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 24
7 Mayer, Florian GER 28
8 Stepanek, Radek CZE 31
9 Chardy, Jeremy FRA 32
10 Granollers, Marcel ESP 34
11 Benneteau, Julien FRA 35
12 Anderson, Kevin RSA 37
13 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 40
14 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 41
15 Andujar, Pablo ESP 42
16 Istomin, Denis UZB 43
17 Fognini, Fabio ITA 45
18 Dimitrov, Grigor BUL 48
19 Matosevic, Marinko AUS 49
20 (SE) BAUTISTA AGUT, Roberto ESP
21 (SE) BEDENE, Aljaz SLO
22 (Q) SOUSA, Joao POR
23 (Q) HARRISON, Ryan USA
24 (Q) PHAU, Bjorn GER
25 (Q) GARCIA-LOPEZ, Guillermo ESP
26 (WC) Duckworth, James AUS
27 (WC) Ebden, Matthew AUS
28 (WC) Millman, John AUS
(LL) Klec, Ivo SVK (replaces Simon)

Alternates
IN Robredo, Tommy ESP @50
IN Tomic, Bernard AUS 52
1. Llodra, Michael FRA 53
OUT Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 58
OUT Malisse, Xavier BEL 62
OUT Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 63
OUT Hanescu, Victor ROU 64
1. Becker, Benjamin GER 65
2. Berlocq, Carlos ARG 66
3. Muller, Gilles LUX 67
4. Sijsling, Igor NED 68
5. Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 70
6. Mayer, Leonardo ARG 71
7. Rosol, Lukas CZE 73
8. Kubot, Lukasz POL 74

[duong]

Monfils was initially announced : his ranking is not high enough for a direct entry (and even to appear in that short list of alternates ) but maybe he will get a wild-card if he asks for it.

[Ausie]

Probably WC's - Tomic, Ebden and Monfils.

[Puschkin]

This looks like a French championship.

[Eddy DoubleD]

Originally Posted by Ausie

Probably WC's - Tomic, Ebden and Monfils.

Tomic will get in due his ranking most probably.

[ozfan44]

Originally Posted by Ausie

Probably WC's - Tomic, Ebden and Monfils.

Originally Posted by Eddy DoubleD

Tomic will get in due his ranking most probably.

Yeah probably Ebden, Monfils and Duckworth for wildcards....

[Ausie]

Originally Posted by ozfan44

Yeah probably Ebden, Monfils and Duckworth for wildcards....

Yeah, but at the moment, Bernie needs a wild card.

[Chris.]

Matosevic just sneaks in and Tomic I'll get in without a WC no doubt about it.

[Mr.Michael]

Adeleide announced that Matosevic is playing in that stupid exho over there. And yet he's also here? Well, someone has made a mistake.

[ozfan44]

Originally Posted by Mr.Michael

Adeleide announced that Matosevic is playing in that stupid exho over there. And yet he's also here? Well, someone has made a mistake.

Wondering the same thing??

[Guille.]

Allez Allez Richie

[supertom]

Lots of French ^^'.... and Isner

[aussie_fan]

Originally Posted by Mr.Michael

Adeleide announced that Matosevic is playing in that stupid exho over there. And yet he's also here? Well, someone has made a mistake.

He's really playing that silly exho... I guess he's trying to give himself the best prep to win a match in Melbourne but if he gets a bad draw it's just going to look silly.

[stripes]

Good list Good Luck Jeremy

[aussie_fan]

Hmmm, there was an article suggesting Matosevic was happy to be playing in sydney. Maybe he's only playing the exho if he loses early (which is quie possible).