bet-at-home OPEN: PREVIEW & DAY 1 MEDIA NOTES Monday, July 27, 2015 Hamburg Sports & Entertainment, Hamburg, Germany | July 27 – August 2, 2015 Draw: S-32, D-16 | Prize Money: €1,507,960| Surface: Outdoor Clay ATP Info: Tournament Info: ATP PR & Marketing: www.ATPWorldTour.com www.bet-at-home-open.com Martin Dagahs: [email protected] @ATPWorldTour @Am_Rothenbaum #BAHO2015 Nanette Duxin: [email protected] facebook.com/ATPWorldTour facebook.com/TennisAmRothenbaum Press Room: +49 40 524724101 HAMBURG TALKING POINTS bet-at-home Open (Hamburg): The top three seeds are led by Spaniards Rafael Nadal, the ’08 champion, Tommy Robredo, the ’06 winner, and Roberto Bautista Agut. The other Top 8 seeds are: No. 4 Andreas Seppi, No. 5 Pablo Cuevas, No. 6 Juan Monaco, the ’12 title winner, No. 7 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and No. 8 Fabio Fognini, who won the crown two years ago. Last year’s champion Leonardo Mayer (d. Ferrer) is not defending his title. Day 1 Preview: Day one at the bet-at-home Open in Hamburg features four singles matches and two doubles matches. Players in singles action include the German wildcard Florian Mayer, former World No. 9 Nicolas Almagro and all four qualifiers. In doubles the top seeds Simon Bolelli / Fabio Fognini square off against the Spanish wildcard tandem of Jaume Munar / Rafael Nadal. Nadal Top Seed: World No. 10 and 2008 champion Rafael Nadal accepted a wild card into Hamburg and he is making his fourth tournament appearance, the first since capturing the title seven years ago (d. Federer). He also reached the final in ’07 (l. to Federer). Nadal has an 11-2 career record in Hamburg. The 29-year-old Spaniard is playing in his first tournament since falling to Dustin Brown in the 2nd Round at Wimbledon on July 2. Nadal has a 34-12 match record on the season with titles in Buenos Aires in February (d. Monaco) and Stuttgart last month (d. Troicki). Rafa on Clay: Nadal comes in with a 21-6 match record on clay this season with his best result a 46th career clay title in Buenos Aires in February (d. Monaco). He also advanced to the final at ATP Masters 1000 Madrid (l. to Murray) and the semi-finals in Rio de Janeiro and ATP Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo. His 39-match winning streak at Roland Garros came to an end with his quarter-final loss to Djokovic. Nadal is looking to extend his streak of having won at least one European clay court title every year since 2004 when he captured his maiden ATP World Tour crown in Sopot. Germans in Field: There are three Germans in the main draw (not including qualifiers), led by Philipp Kohlschreiber, who is making his 11th tournament appearance (10-10). His best result was the semi-finals last year (l. to L. Mayer). Other Germans in the field are wild cards Florian Mayer and 18-year-old Alexander Zverev, who last year reached his maiden ATP World Tour semi-final in his hometown tournament. The last German winner was Michael Stich in 1993. Let’s Meet Again: No. 2 seed Robredo and Zverev will meet in the 1R after playing each other in the semi-finals in Bastad on Saturday (Robredo won 63 64). In another rematch from last week, No. 3 Bautista Agut and another teenager, Borna Coric, play again. Last week in Umag, the Spaniard won the QF match 64 64. Strong Doubles Field: Three of the Top 10 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings are in the draw, led by top seeds Bolelli-Fognini. They are No. 4 in the team rankings. Murray-Peers are No. 5 in the team rankings and seeded No. 3 while Peya-Soares are ranked No. 10 and seeded No. 2. bet-at-home Open Day 1 – Monday, July 27, 2015 Page 2 of 7 www.ATPWorldTour.com FORMER HAMBURG CHAMPIONS AND FINALISTS (Since 2004): YEAR WINNER FINALIST Bold = Denotes those in this year’s draw 2014 Leonardo Mayer David Ferrer 2013 Fabio Fognini Federico Delbonis 2012 Juan Monaco Tommy Haas 2011 Gilles Simon Nicolas Almagro 2010 Andrey Golubev Jurgen Melzer 2009 Nikolay Davydenko Paul-Henri Mathieu 2008 Rafael Nadal Roger Federer 2007 Roger Federer Rafael Nadal 2006 Tommy Robredo Radek Stepanek 2005 Roger Federer Richard Gasquet 2004 Roger Federer Guillermo Coria FORMER HAMBURG DOUBLES CHAMPIONS (Since 2004): YEAR WINNER YEAR WINNER 2014 Marin Draganja & Florin Mergea 2008 Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonjic 2013 Mariusz Fyrstenberg & Marcin Matkowski 2007 Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan 2012 David Marrero & Fernando Verdasco 2006 Paul Hanley & Kevin Ullyett 2011 Oliver Marach & Alexander Peya 2005 Jonas Bjorkman & Max Mirnyi 2010 Marc Lopez & David Marrero 2004 Wayne Black & Kevin Ullyett 2009 Simon Aspelin & Paul Hanley SEEDS TO WATCH THIS WEEK SINGLES: SEED PLAYER RECORD BEST FINISH 1 Rafael Nadal (ESP) 11-2 W 2008 2 Tommy Robredo (ESP) 17-11 W 2006 3 Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) 1-1 R32 2013 4 Andreas Seppi (ITA) 13-9 SF 2008, ’10 5 Pablo Cuevas (URU) 4-2 SF 2009 6 Juan Monaco (ARG) 17-8 W 2012 7 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 5-6 R16 2009, ‘13 8 Fabio Fognini (ITA) 10-5 W 2013 bet-at-home Open Day 1 – Monday, July 27, 2015 Page 3 of 7 www.ATPWorldTour.com QUALIFIERS (4): WILDCARDS (4): OLDEST: Inigo Cervantes (ESP) Florian Mayer (GER) A Montanes – 33 y, 8 m Taro Daniel (JPN) Jaume Munar (ESP) Albert Montanes (ESP) Rafael Nadal (ESP) YOUNGEST: Lucas Pouille (FRA) Alexander Zverev (GER) J Munar – 18 y, 2 m TOP COUNTRY BREAKDOWN: Spain (11), France (3), Germany (3), Italy (3), Argentina (2), Czech Republic (2): Countries in total: 14 DOUBLES: SEED PLAYER BEST FINISH 1. Simone Bolelli & Fabio Fognini TEAM DEBUT 2. Alexander Peya & Bruno Soares 5-2; RUP 2013-14 3. Jamie Murray & John Peers 2-1; SF 2014 4. Pablo Cuevas & David Marrero TEAM DEBUT EMIRATES ATP RANKING POINTS AND PRIZE MONEY W F SF QF R16 R32 SINGLES RANKING POINTS 500 300 180 90 45 20 SINGLES PRIZE MONEY (€) 311,775 140,560 66,580 32,130 16,380 9,010 DOUBLES RANKING POINTS 500 300 180 90 0 — DOUBLES PRIZE MONEY (€) 92,100 41,560 19,600 9,470 4,860 — MONDAY FEDEX ATP HEAD 2 HEADS Center Court (Q) Taro Daniel (JPN) vs Jerzy Janowicz (POL) First Meeting Daniel FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: YTD W-L: 0-3 YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: January 27, 1993 Emirates ATP Ranking: 112 Hamburg W-L (Best Result-Year): Debut The 22-year-old Japanese native is making his tournament debut. No. 3 player from his country (behind No. 5 Nishikori, No. 91 Ito) and one of six Japanese in Top 150 Emirates ATP Rankings Looking for 1st tour-level win of the year (0-3). Fell in 1R as a qualifier at Montpellier (l. to Mathieu), Casablanca (l. to Almagro) and Roland Garros (l. to Verdasco) Has career 54-45 record in Challengers (21-8 in 2015) with two titles in four finals. Captured first career Challenger title at Vercelli (d. Volandri) in April, captured 2nd at Furth (d. Montanes) In Grand Slam play (0-1 record), as a qualifier fell in1R at Roland Garros (l. to Verdasco), fell in qualifying at Australian Open (l. to Berrer in Q1) and Wimbledon (l.to Falla in Q1) bet-at-home Open Day 1 – Monday, July 27, 2015 Page 4 of 7 www.ATPWorldTour.com Janowicz FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: F: Montpellier (l Gasquet); QF: Halle (l Nishikori) YTD W-L: 17-15 YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: November 13, 1990 Emirates ATP Ranking: 51 Hamburg W-L (Best Result-Year): 2-2 (3R 2013) The 24-year-old Pole is playing here for the third year in a row. Best result was 3R in tournament debut in 2013 (l. to Verdasco, 1R bye), fell in 2R last year (l. to Dolgopolov). Has a 2-2 record In February, reached 3rd career ATP World Tour final at Montpellier (l. to Gasquet, ret. 0-3 in 1st- set due to illness). He was attempting to become the first Polish player to win an ATP World Tour singles title since Fibak at 1982 Chicago Last month reached QF at Halle (l. to Nishikori) In Grand Slam play (3-3 record), best result was 3R at Australian Open (l. to Lopez). Reached 2R at Roland Garros (l. to L. Mayer), fell in 1R at Wimbledon (l. to Ilhan) Best ATP Masters 1000 result is 3R at Miami (l. to Goffin) (WC) Florian Mayer (GER) vs (Q) Albert Montanes (ESP) Mayer Leads 1-0 11 ATP Masters 1000 Miami (U.S.A.) Hard R64 Florian Mayer 6-4 3-1 ret Other meetings: 02 Aschaffenburg CH (Germany) Clay R16 Albert Montanes 2-6 6-3 6-4 06 Scheveningen CH (Netherlands) Clay QF Albert Montanes 6-2 6-4 12 Prostejov CH (Czech Republic) Clay QF Florian Mayer 7-6(2) 4-6 6-4 15 Furth CH (Germany) Clay R32 Albert Montanes 6-3 6-1 Mayer FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: QF: Halle (l Federer) YTD W-L: 3-7 YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 1 Date of Birth: October 5, 1983 Emirates ATP Ranking: 261 Hamburg W-L (Best Result-Year): 15-9 (SF 2010) The 31-year-old German wildcard is making his 10th appearance here and has a 15-9 tournament record. Best result was SF in 2010 (l. to Golubev), also reached QF twice - 2011 (l. to Almagro) and 2013 (l. to Haas) Best result of the year is QF at Halle lastt month (l.