Bratislava 100K+H Challenger

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Entry list:

1 Johansson, Thomas SWE 55
2 Becker, Benjamin GER 62
3 Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 67
4 Hajek, Jan CZE 77
5 Koubek, Stefan AUT 79
6 Greul, Simon GER 80
7 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 81
8 Vik, Robin CZE 82
9 Korolev, Evgeny RUS 86
10 Sluiter, Raemon NED 88
11 Vanek, Jiri CZE 89
12 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 96
13 Andreev, Igor RUS 97
14 Starace, Potito ITA 98
15 Marach, Oliver AUT 99
16 Falla, Alejandro COL 107
17 Pavel, Andrei ROM 108
18 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 109
19 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 114
20 Economidis, Konstantinos GRE 115
21 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 118
22 Kubot, Lukasz POL 120
23 (SE)
24 (SE)
25 (WC)
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
1. Bolelli, Simone ITA 123
2. Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 126
3. Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 139 @
4. Vinciguerra, Andreas SWE 141
5. Zib, Tomas CZE 144
6. Luzzi, Federico ITA 146
7. Minar, Ivo CZE 152
8. Zverev, Mischa GER 157
9. Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 158
10. Labadze, Irakli GEO 165
11. Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 166
12. Cakl, Tomas CZE 170
13. Crivoi, Victor ROM 190
14. Lopez, Marc ESP 204
15. Lacko, Lukas SVK 232
16. Balleret, Benjamin MON 234
17. Troicki, Viktor SRB 240
18. Azzaro, Leonardo ITA 252
19. Schukin, Yuri RUS 254
20. Ionita, Victor ROM 255

admin

This challenger is as usual, ridiculously strong - 15 top 100 players !!! Alex and Mike were having a laugh over the strength of the entry list.

It's even going to get stronger as Hrbaty is almost certain to ask for a wildcard. This challenger is like the "Wimbledon of Slovakia."

It should be upgraded to an ATP event.

Arka

This field is incredibly strong! And Del Potro, Becker and Korolev are real stars of the future.

Hopefully there will be a few withdrawals and Alex will get his ranking up by a bit. Last year the last seed was ranked 118. Last year's initial cut off was 143 and it fell to 205.

I agree about the changing it to a Tour event bit. At least they should upgrade it to a 150K+H. The cut off will most probably be higher than that of ATP Beijing.