[Lotyqnag]

What are the requirements for Newcomer? I know we went over that last year (for ATP). Outside of top 100 before the season?

I think so. In very rare cases it has been "barely inside"...

Previous winners (last 15 years):

ATP:

93' Patrick Rafter 243 to 66
94' Albert Costa 221 to 52
95' Mark Philippoussis 274 to 38
96' Dominik Hrbaty 315 to 78
97' Julian Alonso 227 to 36
98' Marat Safin 203 to 49
99' Juan Carlos Ferrero 346 to 45
00' Olivier Rochus 324 to 68
01' Andy Roddick 156 to 14
02' Paul-Henri Mathieu 150 to 36
03' Rafael Nadal 200 to 49
04' Florian Mayer 250 to 35
05' Gael Monfils 239 to 30
06' Benjamin Becker 420 to 58
07' Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 212 to 43

WTA

95" Martina Hingis 87 to 16
96' Anna Kournikova 281 to 57
97' Venus Williams 204 to 22
98' Serena Williams 99 to 20
99' Kim Clijsters 409 to 47
00' Daja Bedanova 292 to 54
01' Daniela Hantuchova 108 to 38
02' Svetlana Kuznetsova 259 to 43
03' Maria Sharapova 186 to 32
04' Tatiana Golovin 345 to 27
05' Sania Mirza 206 to 31
06' Agnieszka Radwanska 381 to 57
07' Agnes Szavay 207 to 20