BEIJING 2011 (ATP500), 3-9 October: Main threada - draws and information

[Sallydaisy]

CHINA OPEN
National Tennis Centre, No.2 Lin Cui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China
WEB SITE: www.chinaopen.com.cn (http://www.chinaopen.com.cn/)
Dates: OCTOBER 3-9, 2011
Prize Money: US $2,100,000
SURFACE: HARD COURT
BALL: HEAD

32 DRAW & 16 QUALIFYING DRAW
Qualifying draw: Friday, September 30, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, October 1, 2:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, October 1, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 500, F: 300, SF: 180, QF: 90, R16: 45, R32: 0, Q: +20, Q8: 10, Q16: 0

SINGLES DRAW
Entry deadline and ranking on: August 22, 2011
Seeding based on rankings on: September 26, 2011

[1]Tsonga v Dimitrov
Zhang v Li
Bellucci v Ferrero
Granollers v [5]Simon

[3]Berdych v Melzer
Qualifier v Robredo
Verdasco v Llodra
Qualifier v [8]Dolgopolov

[7]Isner v Ljubicic
F.Mayer v Qualifier
Qualifier v F.Lopez
Youzhny v [4]Almagro

[6]Roddick v Anderson
Montanes v Davydenko
Wu v Cilic
Fognini v [2]Monfils


DOUBLES DRAW
(1)Bryan/Bryan v Dlouhy/Dolgopolov
Berdych/Mayer v Fyrstenberg/Matkowski
(3)Llodra/Zimonjic v De Voest/Fisher
Granollers/Marach v Lipsky/Ram

Cilic/Ljubicic v Knowles/Melzer
Gong/Li v (4)Bhupathi/Paes
Isner/Roddick v Lindstedt/Tecau
Lopez/Verdasco v (2)Mirnyi/Nestor

[RoastLamb]

Daniel Nestor is getting his induction into Canada's walk of fame tonite in Toronto. Big tv ceremony and everything. So happy for him. Then I guess he'll be hopping on a plane to Beijing.

[Sallydaisy]

MONDAY, 3 OCTOBER, 2011

For anyone thinking this looks like R1 of a Slam it's a combined WTA/ATP event.


NATIONAL TENNIS STADIUM start 12:30 pm
[WC] D Wu (CHN) vs M Cilic (CRO) - ATP
Not Before 3:00 PM
[1] C Wozniacki (DEN) vs L Hradecka (CZE) - WTA
[12] S Peng (CHN) vs F Pennetta (ITA) - WTA
Not Before 7:30 PM
[6] A Roddick (USA) vs K Anderson (RSA) - ATP
S Arvidsson (SWE) vs [5] P Kvitova (CZE) - WTA

LOTUS COURT start 12:30 pm
[WC] J Zheng (CHN) vs A Brianti (ITA) - WTA
F Verdasco (ESP) vs M Llodra (FRA) - ATP
[Q] F Cipolla (ITA) vs [8] A Dolgopolov (UKR) - ATP
Not Before 7:30 PM
A Ivanovic (SRB) vs [16] S Kuznetsova (RUS) - WTA

MOON COURT start 12:30 pm
J Goerges (GER) vs M Kirilenko (RUS) - WTA
K Zakopalova (CZE) vs N Petrova (RUS) - WTA
D Cibulkova (SVK) vs [7] F Schiavone (ITA) - WTA
E Daniilidou (GRE) / M Koryttseva (UKR) vs R Kops-Jones (USA) / A Spears (USA) - WTA

COURT 1 start 12:30 pm
P Cetkovska (CZE) vs T Paszek (AUT) - WTA
[WC] G Dulko (ARG) vs [Q] V Razzano (FRA) - WTA
C Chuang (TPE) / O Govortsova (BLR) vs [8] D Hantuchova (SVK) / A Radwanska (POL) - WTA
S Hsieh (TPE) / G Voskoboeva (KAZ) vs V Dushevina (RUS) / S Peer (ISR) - WTA

COURT 4 start 12:30 pm
[Q] M Ilhan (TUR) vs F Lopez (ESP) - ATP
F Mayer (GER) vs [Q] A Ramos (ESP) - ATP
T Berdych (CZE) / F Mayer (GER) vs M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL) - ATP - after suitable rest

[Sallydaisy]

Monfils withdraws with a right knee injury.

Info L'Equipe : Gaël Monfils forfait pour Pékin et Shanghai (genou droit)

[cazza99]

Sky is doing a highlight program on the China Open on Sunday at 5.30 pm on SS3.