The tournament starts on Monday 25th September so as happened last year, Andy will be making the difficult transistion from European clay to fast indoor hard courts.

Hopefully GB can wrap up the Ukraine tie in 2 days so that Andy can fly to Bangkok earlier on the Sunday, giving him more time to recover from the jetlag.

Last year Andy relished playing in front of the passionate and excitable Thai crowd, there was a real buzz in the stadium which really spurred him on in his epic victories over Ginepri and Srichaphan when he came back from losing the 1st set both times.

Andy has his biggest points haul of the autumn season to defend here, having reached the 2005 final. It's a massive boost that Federer isn't returning to defend his title.

Entry list:

1 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 3
2 Blake, James USA 5
3 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 10
4 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 11 OUT
5 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 15
6 Ginepri, Robby USA 18
7 Murray, Andy GBR 21
8 Monfils, Gael FRA 29 OUT
9 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 31
10 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 45
11 Benneteau, Julien FRA 50
12 Henman, Tim GBR 59
13 Fish, Mardy USA 65 OUT
14 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 67 OUT
15 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 69 OUT
16 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 73
17 Safin, Marat RUS 74
18 Goldstein, Paul USA 79 OUT
19 Gimelstob, Justin USA 83 OUT
20 Schuettler, Rainer GER 86
21 Kim, Kevin USA 89
22 Spadea, Vincent USA 90 OUT
23 Dancevic, Frank CAN 91
24 Daniel, Marcos BRA 95
25 Vicente, Fernando ESP 99
26 (WC) Ledovskikh, Mikhail RUS
27 (WC) Lopez, Feliciano ESP
28 (WC) Cilic, Marin CRO
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)
Waske, Alexander GER 103 IN
Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 109 IN
Massa, Edgardo ARG 109 (protected) IN
Becker, Benjamin GER 118 IN
Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 120 IN
Udomchoke, Danai THAI 125 IN
Mello, Ricardo BRA 133 IN
Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 141 IN

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