Niemenen will return to defend the title he won this year, along with Ancic who was runner up to him. Hrbaty will return for the 9th time while Ferrero makes his 2nd appearance here. Other big names include Robredo, Ferrer, Rochus, Gaudio and Chela.
No British players unfortunately but still looking forward to this
The field:
1 Tommy Robredo 7 2 Mario Ancic 9 3 David Ferrer 14 4 Jarkko Nieminen 15 5 Dominik Hrbaty 22 6 Juan Carlos Ferrero 23 7 Agustin Calleri 29 8 Stanislas Wawrinka 30 9 Kristof Vliegen 31 10 Nicolas Almagro 32 11 Juan Ignancio Chela 33 12 Gaston Gaudio 34 13 Olivier Rochus 36 14 Nicolas Massu 44 15 Gilles Simon 45 16 Mardy Fish 47 17 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 57 18 Florent Serra 60 19 Alberto Martin 61 20 Philipp Kohlschreiber 62 21 Luis Horna 63 22 Janko Tipsarevic 64 23 Daniele Bracciali 65 24 (SE) 25 (SE) 26 (Q) 27 (Q) 28 (Q) 29 (Q) 30 (WC) 31 (WC) 32 (WC)
Gael Monfils has been handed a wildcard. Got my ticket for Monday so really looking forward to it. I will of course come back with pics and a report, providing the forecast of rain proves false and there's plau.