The entry lists for the first indoor and clay court tournaments and of the Atp World Tour 2018 season have been announced.
After the Australian summer, the ATP season will continue with the Open Sud De France in Montpellier, the Garanti Koza Sofia Open in Bulgaria and the Ecuador Open in Quito. The three ATP 250 events will take place from the 1st to the 7th of February.
Montpellier and Sofia will be played on indoor-hard courts, while Quito will show some atypical conditions, with outdoor-red-clay courts on altitude. Germany’s Alexander Zverev defends the title in France, home star Grigor Dimitrov is the defending champion in Bulgaria and Dominican Republic’s Victor Estrella Burgos has incredibly won all the three editions in Ecuador (2015, 2016 and 2017).
In the entry lists, Sofia and Montpellier have the same cut-off (93), which is lower in Quito (127), where 10 of the 21 main-draw-players are ranked out of the top 100. Some big names are those of Grigor Dimitrov and Gilles Muller in Sofia, Pablo Carreno-Busta and Gael Monfils in Quito. Many high level players in France, like David Goffin, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Tomas Berdych, Alexander Zverev and Richard Gasquet.
ATP Montpellier (FRA, Hard Indoor), Entry list:
1 Goffin, David BEL 7
2 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 15
3 Berdych, Tomas CZE 19
4 Dzumhur, Damir BIH 30
5 Gasquet, Richard FRA 31
6 Zverev, Mischa GER 33
7 Ferrer, David ESP 37
8 Rublev, Andrey RUS 39
9 Sugita, Yuichi JPN 40
10 Paire, Benoit FRA 41
11 Khachanov, Karen RUS 45
12 Gojowczyk, Peter GER 60
13 Medvedev, Daniil RUS 65
14 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 70
15 Darcis, Steve BEL 77
16 Chardy, Jeremy FRA 78
17 Herbert, Pierre-Hugues FRA 81
18 Millman, John AUS @81
19 Simon, Gilles FRA 89
20 Tsitsipas, Stefanos GRE 91
21 Berankis, Ricardas LTU @93
22 [WC]
23 [WC]
24 [WC]
25 [Q]
26 [Q]
27 [Q]
28 [Q]
Alternates:
1. Kavcic, Blaz SLO 97
2. Jaziri, Malek TUN 98
3. Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 102
4. Mahut, Nicolas FRA 103
5. Kuznetsov, Andrey RUS 107
ATP Sofia (BUL, Hard Indoor), Entry List:
1 Dimitrov, Grigor BUL 3
2 Muller, Gilles LUX 25
3 Mannarino, Adrian FRA 28
4 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 29
5 Krajinovic, Filip SRB 34
6 Haase, Robin NED 42
7 Troicki, Viktor SRB 55
8 Sousa, Joao POR 57
9 Chung, Hyeon KOR 58
10 Istomin, Denis UZB 63
11 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 71
12 Donskoy, Evgeny RUS 72
13 Kukushkin, Mikhail KAZ 74
14 Ebden, Matthew AUS 76
15 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 84
16 Seppi, Andreas ITA 86
17 Albot, Radu MDA 87
18 Djere, Laslo SRB 88
19 Marterer, Maximilian GER 90
20 Lacko, Lukas SVK 92
21 Copil, Marius ROU 93
22 [WC]
23 [WC]
24 [WC]
25 [Q]
26 [Q]
27 [Q]
28 [Q]
Alternates:
1. Kavcic, Blaz SLO 97
2. Jaziri, Malek TUN 98
3. Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 102
4. Bhambri, Yuki IND 116
5. Bemelmans, Ruben BEL 118
ATP Quito (ECU, Red Clay Outdoor), Entry List:
1 Carreno-Busta, Pablo ESP 10
2 Ramos-Vinolas, Albert ESP 23
3 Dolgopolov, Alexandr UKR 38
4 Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 43
5 Monfils, Gael FRA 46
6 Zeballos, Horacio ARG 66
7 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 80
8 Estrella-Burgos, Victor DOM 83
9 Kicker, Nicolas ARG 95
10 Sandgren, Tennys USA 96
11 Melzer, Gerald AUT 100
12 Dutra Silva, Rogerio BRA 101
13 Andujar, Pablo ESP @105
14 Cecchinato, Marco ITA 109
15 Jarry, Nicolas CHI 111
16 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 112
17 Bellucci, Thomaz BRA 113
18 Hanfmann, Yannick GER 119
19 Escobedo, Ernesto USA 120
20 Monteiro, Thiago BRA 124
21 Menendez-Maceiras, Adrian ESP 127
22 [WC]
23 [WC]
24 [WC]
25 [Q]
26 [Q]
27 [Q]
28 [Q]
Alternates:
1. Travaglia, Stefano ITA 134
2. Polansky, Peter CAN 137
3. Ruud, Casper NOR 139
4. Olivo, Renzo ARG 144
5. Ito, Tatsuma JPN 153
