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Tournament Name: ROGERS CUP presented by National Bank
Location: TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
Dates: AUGUST 6-12, 2012
Prize Money: US $2,648,700
SITE: Rexall Centre
1 Shoreham Drive, Suite 100
Toronto, Ontario, Canada–M3N 3A6
SURFACE: Hard-Decoturf
BALL: Penn ATP Tournament Select
WEB SITE: www.rogerscup.com

Qualifying draw: Friday, August 3, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, August 4, tba
Doubles draw: Saturday, August 4, 2:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 1000
F: 600
SF: 360
QF: 180
R16: 90
R32: 45 (Seeds: 0)
R64: 10 (WC: 0)
Q: +25
Q12: 16
Q24: 0

Entry deadline: June 25, 2012
Seeding: August 6, 2012

Djokovic, Novak SRB 1
Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
Federer, Roger SUI 3
Murray, Andy GBR 4
Ferrer, David ESP 5
Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 6
Berdych, Tomas CZE 7
Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 8
Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 9
Isner, John USA 10
Almagro, Nicolas ESP 11
Fish, Mardy USA 12
Simon, Gilles FRA 13
Monaco, Juan ARG 14
Monfils, Gael FRA 15
Lopez, Feliciano ESP 17
Cilic, Marin CRO 18
Gasquet, Richard FRA 19
Nishikori, Kei JPN 20
Dolgopolov, Alexandr UKR 21
Raonic, Milos CAN 22
Granollers, Marcel ESP 23
Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 24
Roddick, Andy USA 25
Seppi, Andreas ITA 26
Stepanek, Radek CZE 27
Tomic, Bernard AUS 28
Mayer, Florian GER 29
Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 30
Anderson, Kevin RSA 31
Benneteau, Julien FRA 32
Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 33
Troicki, Viktor SRB 34
Melzer, Jurgen AUT 35
Andujar, Pablo ESP 36
Berlocq, Carlos ARG 37
Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 38
Nalbandian, David ARG 40
(SE)
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(Q)
(Q)
(Q)
(Q)
(Q)
(WC)
(WC)
(WC)

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ATP Qualifying List

Haas, Tommy GER 49
Kukushkin, Mikhail KAZ 50
Chardy, Jeremy FRA 52
Lacko, Lukas SVK 53
Dimitrov, Grigor BUL 61
Mayer, Leonardo ARG 64
Fognini, Fabio ITA 65
Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 67
Matosevic, Marinko AUS 73
Zopp, Jurgen EST 81
Ebden, Matthew AUS 82
Levine, Jesse USA 85
Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 94
Russell, Michael USA 96
Cipolla, Flavio ITA 95
Dodig, Ivan CRO 100
Becker, Benjamin GER 103
Pospisil, Vasek CAN 109
Sweeting, Ryan USA 117
Odesnik, Wayne USA 120
(WC)
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Tournament: Rogers Cup
Dates: August 7 - 13, 2012
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Tier: Premier
Prize Money: $2,168,400
Surface: Hard/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Eugene Lapierre

[JulieSmithdccd]

Will be fun guessing who will and won't make it! Best week out of 4 years to be on the alternate list!

[ebBPxIai]

Rafa and Ferrer out. Monfils out here and Cincy.

[zzbust]

Reason for Ferrer?

[CialisBestPrice]

Also Verdasco and Wawrinka.

[ebBPxIai]

Harrison out of qualies.

[JulieSmithdccd]

Reason for Ferrer?

Still in the doubles at the Olympics I would guess. (Good wooden spoon pick by me!)

[sXVUOUVC]

WILDCARDS ANNOUNCED FOR ROGERS CUP PRESENTED BY NATIONAL BANK IN TORONTO

Four Canadians to have spots in the main draw; Four Canadians also entered in the qualifying tournament
Toronto, August 2, 2012 – Tennis Canada announced Thursday the men’s wildcards into the singles draw of Rogers Cup presented by National Bank in Toronto. Canadians Frank Dancevic (Niagara Falls, Ont.), Peter Polansky (Thornhill, Ont.), and Vasek Pospisil (Vancouver) have received entry into the main draw of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament.

They join world No. 23 Milos Raonic (Thornhill, Ont.), whose ranking gave him an automatic entry into the tournament, to make a total of four Canadians in the singles main draw. They could later be joined by other Canadians as well, as four of the country’s competitors will take part in the qualifying tournament.

Dancevic, 27, was enjoying great results in 2012 before a back injury interrupted his momentum earlier this season. He captured the $125K Dallas Challenger in March as a qualifier, defeating world No. 24 Marin Cilic en route, and also reached the final of the $50K Tallahassee event. The 2007 Rogers Cup quarter-finalist will be making his 10th appearance at Canada’s Masters 1000 event.

Polansky, 24, is coming into Rogers Cup at his career-high ranking of No. 155 in the world, which he accomplished in part due to an appearance in his first Challenger final at the $35K Panama City tournament just a couple weeks ago. The last time he played in Toronto in 2010, Polansky advanced into the second round following an opening victory over world No. 15 Jurgen Melzer.

Pospisil, 22, will be returning to Canada to compete in Rogers Cup after making his first Olympic Games appearance this week in London. He hit his career-high world ranking of No. 85 last Monday after winning the $50K Granby Challenger in Quebec. He secured his first ATP World Tour main draw victory at Rogers Cup last year, when he beat world No. 22 Juan Ignacio Chela in the first round.

The wildcards also have been decided for the Rogers Cup presented by National Bank qualifying tournament, which takes place August 4-5 at Rexall Centre in Toronto. Erik Chvojka (Montreal), Steven Diez (Toronto), Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (Sainte-Foy, Que.) and Filip Peliwo (North Vancouver) were given places into the qualifying draw and will battle for one of six spots in the main draw. Chvojka and Duclos have each previously made one main draw appearance at Rogers Cup, while both Diez and Peliwo have yet to play in the tournament’s main draw.

Rogers Cup presented by National Bank will take place from August 4-12 at Rexall Centre in Toronto. Tickets are available for purchase at rogerscup.com.

[AutocadOemM]

ATP withdraws. Replaced by Our Lady of Constant Sorrows High School tennis team.

[effenseshoora]

ATP withdraws. Replaced by Our Lady of Constant Sorrows High School tennis team.

And Mahut, wearing a skirt, sneaks into the draw and wins his first Masters.

[PyncGyncliacy]

PLD!! So excited he got a WC into qualies no he can really take advantage and......erm...hmmmmm...well now he can go lose in the first round of qualies here instead of some challenger somewhere, so yeah. Progression of mediocrity has arrived! Hooray scrubs!!

[sandracuk]

According to mmmm8 on Twitter, Federer is out, too.

[CialisBestPrice]

Yes, official now. Tom Tebbutt was on the radio here last night and had predicted that. Wertheim figured the winner of Djokovic/Murray wouldn't play either. Is the bronze medal match on Sunday as well? In that case, both would still be playing in London on that day, so they could be equally questionable.

Figures. After we haven't been able to attend the last couple years because of out-of-town trips, we were considering going several days this year (have tickets for Wednesday already). Plus, Raonic is scheduled to play Tuesday night.

[zzbust]

If true, this was Nadal's to lose. A shame he can't play.

[AutocadOemM]

Somewhere, Mardy is smiling. Don't blow it, kid.

[Nypbscao]

This is what happens when 3 events are crammed together into 3 weeks. In addition to figuring out the logistics of an extended grass court season by 2015, the tours need to figure out how to schedule big events so that they aren't trying to burn the players out. For example, this year what the ATP could have done is push back Toronto, Cincy, and the USO by a week. After all, it's not like there's anything important during September (there's only the Davis Cup SF and a bunch of 250s).

[Goalseexere]

This is what happens when 3 events are crammed together into 3 weeks. In addition to figuring out the logistics of an extended grass court season by 2015, the tours need to figure out how to schedule big events so that they aren't trying to burn the players out. For example, this year what the ATP could have done is push back Toronto, Cincy, and the USO by a week. After all, it's not like there's anything important during September (there's only the Davis Cup SF and a bunch of 250s).

Logical, but U$TA ain't moving the US Open from having the Labor Day weekend right smack dab in the middle of it.

[jagxj12]

Without Olympics it's ok. Top players usually are taking 4 weeks off between Wimbledon and TMS Canada.