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The Stockholm Open is played Indoors on an extremely fast plexipave surface, the prizes are for 660,000€ and the winner receives 250 ATP points. The balls used are Tretorn.
After Davydenko's win in Shanghai this tournament becomes 'vital' for Robin Soderling who reached the final last year losing to Nalbandian because he needs every point now in order to qualify for London, therefore he needs to defend the points he gained with last year's final and he probably wants to win in front of his people.
Draw is relatively poor, Haas is coming from a retirement in Shanghai and should be avoided at least for the first couple of rounds until he proves he is fit, Melzer and Petzschner pulled out while Wild Cards have been given to home hero Joachim Johansson and to Bulgarian rising (or not?!) star Grigor Dimitrov.
The Kremlin Cup sees a prize money of 1,080,000$ and awards 250 ATP points to the winner. It is played Indoors on what players said is a very slow and inconsistent surface (afaik), therefore clay courters would have a small edge on pure hard courters who are used to a more consistent bounce.
Not sure why Davydenko is even here. He has no points to defend and this will be the 4th week in a row he is playing in 3 different timezones. Youzhny has a fantastic draw down low which should see him in the final without even losing a set and who knows, maybe Igor Andreev might come back to the living Tennis players in this tournament as the surface and the conditions should suit him perfectly. Korolev and Golubev are 2 players to watch as they gave some signs of life lately while Davydenko is a player to avoid this week as we all know what his habits used to be...
Last year Igor Kunitsyn won the event beating Marat Safin in the final.
After Davydenko's win in Shanghai this tournament becomes 'vital' for Robin Soderling who reached the final last year losing to Nalbandian because he needs every point now in order to qualify for London, therefore he needs to defend the points he gained with last year's final and he probably wants to win in front of his people.
Draw is relatively poor, Haas is coming from a retirement in Shanghai and should be avoided at least for the first couple of rounds until he proves he is fit, Melzer and Petzschner pulled out while Wild Cards have been given to home hero Joachim Johansson and to Bulgarian rising (or not?!) star Grigor Dimitrov.
The Kremlin Cup sees a prize money of 1,080,000$ and awards 250 ATP points to the winner. It is played Indoors on what players said is a very slow and inconsistent surface (afaik), therefore clay courters would have a small edge on pure hard courters who are used to a more consistent bounce.
Not sure why Davydenko is even here. He has no points to defend and this will be the 4th week in a row he is playing in 3 different timezones. Youzhny has a fantastic draw down low which should see him in the final without even losing a set and who knows, maybe Igor Andreev might come back to the living Tennis players in this tournament as the surface and the conditions should suit him perfectly. Korolev and Golubev are 2 players to watch as they gave some signs of life lately while Davydenko is a player to avoid this week as we all know what his habits used to be...
Last year Igor Kunitsyn won the event beating Marat Safin in the final.
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