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Tournament Name: VTB KREMLIN CUP
Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Dates: 17–23 OCTOBER, 2016
Prize Money: $717,250/Total Financial Commitment USD $792,645
28 DRAW & 16 QUALIFYING DRAW

SITE: Olympic Stadium
16 Olimpiyskiy Prospect
Moscow 129090 Russia
SURFACE: Indoor Hard, TP Surface Competition
BALL: Babolat Team
WEB SITE: VTB Kremlin Cup 2016

Qualifying draw: Friday, October 14, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, October 15, 1:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, October 15, 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

Entry deadline: September 5, 2016
Seeding: October 10, 2016

1 Bautista Agut, Roberto ESP 17
OUT Tomic, Bernard AUS 19
3 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 26
OUT Klizan, Martin SVK 29
5 Troicki, Viktor SRB 32
6 Ramos-Vinolas, Albert ESP 33
7 Fognini, Fabio ITA 38
8 Carreno Busta, Pablo ESP 39
9 Tipsarevic, Janko SRB @39
10 Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 40
11 Granollers, Marcel ESP 45
12 Kuznetsov, Andrey RUS 47
OUT Vesely, Jiri CZE 49
14 Pella, Guido ARG 51
15 Robert, Stephane FRA 52
16 Lajovic, Dusan SRB 59
17 Bellucci, Thomaz BRA 65
18 Kukushkin, Mikhail KAZ 67
19 Dzumhur, Damir BIH 72
20 (SE)
21 (SE)
22 (Q) MELZER, Jurgen AUT
23 (Q) MEDVEDEV, Daniil RUS
24 (Q) KARATSEV, Aslan RUS
25 (Q) BUBLIK, Alexander RUS
26 (WC) ILKEL, Cem TUR
27 (WC) KHACHANOV, Karen RUS
28 (WC) KRAVCHUK, Konstantin RUS
(LL) GAIO, Federico ITA (replaces Klizan)

Alternates
OUT Cervantes, Inigo ESP 75
OUT Struff, Jan-Lennard GER 78
IN Donskoy, Evgeny RUS 79
IN Rosol, Lukas CZE 81
OUT Sugita, Yuichi JPN 82
OUT Edmund, Kyle GBR 84
OUT Nishioka, Yoshihito JPN 85
OUT Seppi, Andreas ITA 87
IN Melzer, Gerald AUT 88
IN Berankis, Ricardas LTU 89
1. Kravchuk, Konstantin RUS 93 (WC to MD)
OUT Janowicz, Jerzy POL @94
2. Khachanov, Karen RUS 95 (WC to MD)
3. Albot, Radu MDA 97
OUT Lacko, Lukas SVK 99
4. Carballes Baena, Roberto ESP 103
5. Ram, Rajeev USA 104
6. Gabashvili, Teymuraz RUS 105
7. Andujar, Pablo ESP @105
8. Istomin, Denis UZB 107

 

[Lukas15]

Re: Moscow Entry List (updated October 4, 2016)

Can anyone help me with the Tipsarevic case?

This is my post from US Open thread:

After missing 75 weeks in the period 28/10/2013 – 05/04/2015, Tipsarevic returned to play in Houston with WC, which marked beginning of his 12-month protected period in which he could enter a competition with his protected ranking @39 a maximum of 12 times.

He played: Houston, Bucharest, Munich, Madrid Q, Geneva, Halle Q (all with WC) and Wimbledon, Canada and US Open (those 3 with PR). US Open was his last event before 33-week long break (07/09/2015 – 24/04/2016), which allowed him to freeze his protection period. From Houston to US Open he used 22 weeks and 3 events, which means that after return to play he has 30 weeks left in which he can enter with PR a maximum of 9 times.

He returned to play in Ostrava with WC, when his protection period restarted to run. If he will not have any more break longer than 3 months (which means he will not be able to freeze it again) his protection will end in the week of 14 November, so basically it will last till the end of the season.

Since this second return he played: Ostrava, Heilbronn, Geneva (all with WC), Roland Garros (PR), Prostejov (WC), Queen's Club, Wimbledon (both with PR), Chengdu (WC), Qingdao (Q) and pulled out too late from Cincinnati (so it counts as PR used). So, in that period in total 4 times he used PR, which gives him right to enter with it 5 more times.

Moreover, he entered US Open, St Petersburg and Shenzhen with PR, which means he has 2 chances left till the end of the season. I suppose he will do it for Beijing or Tokyo and Shanghai, since he plans to go to Asia. If he will pull out from any of them before withdrawal deadline (Friday noon, Eastern American time), they won't be counted as used, so he can potentially save some for Indoor Europe. Anyway, pending he has no more 3-month injury, @39 will no longer be valid for any event in 2017 season.

As I supposed, Tipsarevic indeed used PR to get entry into both Tokyo and Shanghai, having played with protection in the USO, St Petersburg and Shenzhen, so theoretically that should be it for him. But, as we can see, he is on the list here for Moscow and Paris with @39. I'm confused...

 

[Hawaiigrip]

Re: Moscow Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated October 4, 2016)

Supposedly Khachanov and Kravchuk are recipients of first two wild cards. Deservedly so I guess

 

[Transcender]

Re: Moscow Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated October 11, 2016)

Any word on who the 3rd WC might go to?

 

[Fogmeister]

Re: Moscow Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated October 11, 2016)

What an awful field.

Projected seeded players:
1 Bautista Agut (19)
2 Ramos Vinolas (27)
3 Kohlschreiber (30)
4 Troicki (31)
5 Klizan (33)
6 Carreno Busta (35)
7 Lorenzi (37)
8 Kuznetsov (42)

Maybe Bercych will ask for a WC here. It look like the easy tournaments he likes to play. :lol:

 

[Transcender]

Re: Moscow Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated October 11, 2016)

OUT: Vesely + 2nd SE cleared
IN: G.Melzer, Berankis
NEXT: Kravchuk

If Kravchuk gets in, then they will have to give out 2 more WC's.

 

[Agrajag]

Re: Moscow Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated October 13, 2016)

Medvedev and Rublev sounds like easy choices if they have not committed elsewhere.

 

[PortlandTimbers]

Re: Moscow Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated October 13, 2016)

WC for Kravchuk, Khachanov and ......Ilkel (!)

What's his connection to Moscow?

Gabashvili, Medvedev and Rublev have to play Qualies and he get's a WC. :scratch:

If Bautista Agut withdraws, which is in my opinion after his win against Djokovic likely, there's really no top player left.
Maybe another title for Khachanov

 

[Mahqz]

Re: Moscow Entry List/Fact Sheet (updated October 13, 2016)

WC for Kravchuk, Khachanov and ......Ilkel (!)

What's his connection to Moscow?

Gabashvili, Medvedev and Rublev have to play Qualies and he get's a WC. :scratch:

If Bautista Agut withdraws, which is in my opinion after his win against Djokovic likely, there's really no top player left.
Maybe another title for Khachanov

Looks like an agreement with Istanbul (Khachanov).

http://www.menstennisforums.com/455...-list-fact-sheet-updated-april-25-2016-a.html