Boggo has made the main draw for Beijing in the week after the US Open... 1 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4 2 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 6 3 Robredo, Tommy ESP 7 4 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 11 5 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 19 6 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 38 7 Ancic, Mario CRO 39 8 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 41 9 Becker, Benjamin GER 47 10 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 78 11 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 93 12 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 95 13 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 99 14 Udomchoke, Danai THA 106 15 Mantilla, Felix ESP 114 @ 16 Cilic, Marin CRO 115 17 Pashanski, Boris SRB 120 18 Capdeville, Paul CHI 122 19 Sela, Dudi ISR 124 20 De Voest, Rik RSA 125 21 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 127 22 Waske, Alexander GER 136 23 Garcia, Adrian CHI 140 24 (SE) 25 (SE) 26 (WC) 27 (WC) 28 (WC) 29 (Q) 30 (Q) 31 (Q) 32 (Q)
May be one of his last chances to play ATP unless he wins some points soon!
Bizarre looking entry list, as you have 9 high ranked players, and then the rest of them are a lot lower ranked (unlike Bucharest where everyone has a middling ranking)
A lot of players in the draw here that Alex can beat, and hopefully he'll end up drawing someone like Garcia or Pashanski in the first round so he can get another ATP win under his belt... but knowing his luck, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't get one of the top seeds here
Bizarre looking entry list, as you have 9 high ranked players, and then the rest of them are a lot lower ranked (unlike Bucharest where everyone has a middling ranking)
That's because the top players get very good appearence money, which players outside the top 30 (usually) don't. So most of the players who travel all the way to China are either top ranked guys who get a lot of money, or lower ranked players in search of good points.
The gap was far worse in India earlier this year.
1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 2 Nalbandian, David ARG 8 3 Malisse, Xavier BEL 37 4 Benneteau, Julien FRA 40 5 Moya, Carlos ESP 43 6 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 52 7 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 53 8 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 68 9 Phau, Bjorn GER 78 10 Koubek, Stefan AUT 79 11 Greul, Simon GER 83 12 Pless, Kristian DEN 85 13 Udomchoke, Danai THA 89 14 Andreev, Igor RUS 90 15 Schuettler, Rainer GER 95 16 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 99 17 Patience, Olivier FRA 101 18 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 102 19 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 103 20 Kim, Kevin USA 105 21 Alves, Thiago BRA 107 22 Falla, Alejandro COL 108 23 Kendrick, Robert USA 109 24 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 110 25 Marach, Oliver AUT 111
