J. SAFRA SARASIN SWISS OPEN GSTAAD: PREVIEW & DAY 1 MEDIA NOTES Monday, July 18, 2016 Roy Emerson Arena, Gstaad, Switzerland | July 18 – 24, 2016 Draw: S-28, D-16 | Prize Money: €463,520 | Surface: Clay ATP Info: Tournament Info: ATP PR & Marketing: www.ATPWorldTour.com http://www.jsafrasarasinswissopengstaad.ch Fabienne Benoit:
[email protected] @ATPWorldTour @swissopengstaad Press Room: + 41335665219 facebook.com/ATPWorldTour facebook.com/SwissOpenGstaad J. SAFRA SARASIN SWISS OPEN GSTAAD TALKING POINTS J. SAFRA SARASIN SWISS OPEN GSTAAD: This is the 101st anniversary of the event in the Bernese Oberland. Leading the field is top seed Feliciano Lopez, who reached the final in 2006. The other seeds are: Gilles Simon, Albert Ramos-Vinolas, two-time winner Thomaz Bellucci, Guido Pella, Fernando Verdasco, Mikhail Youzhny and Paul-Henri Mathieu. DAY 1 PREVIEW: There are five matches (4 singles, 1 doubles) scheduled on opening day at the J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad. Swedish No. 1 Elias Ymer makes his tournament debut in the first match on Center Court, looking for his first ATP World Tour match win of 2016 when he takes on Germany’s Daniel Brands, a 2013 quarter-finalist. Fellow qualifiers Yann Marti of Switzerland and Jan Mertl of the Czech Republic follow in the day’s second match, a landmark occasion for 34-year-old Mertl, who is playing his first ATP World Tour main-draw match. The first of two Swiss 19-year-old wild cards making their ATP World Tour debuts today features in the third match – Johan Nikles faces an ominous opponent in the form of No.