The entry lists for the two Atp 500 tournaments of Basel and Vienna have come out.
The Swiss Indoors tournament, taking place in Basel (Switzerland), and the Erste Bank Open, held in Vienna (Austria), will be played from the 24th to the 30th of October on indoor-hard-courts.
Even if Basel has more top-10 players in the entry list (4, 3 in Vienna), Vienna has the higher main-draw cut-off, at 34 (50 in Basel). The reason is that four “Commitment players” got into the main draw of Vienna without being ranked inside the top 34. “2016 Commitment players” are those players positioned in the Top 30 of the Atp Ranking at the end of 2015 season, and they are accepted in any Atp 500 main draw (from Atp 2016 rulebook).
With defending champion Roger Federer not playing, highest ranked players in Swiss Indoors entry list are Stan Wawrinka, Rafael Nadal, Kei Nishikori and Milos Raonic.
Instead, Wimbledon winner Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych and Dominic Thiem lead the Erste Bank Open field.
ATP 500 Basel (SUI, Hard Indoor) entry list:
1. Stan Wawrinka (SUI)
2. Rafael Nadal (ESP)
3. Kei Nishikori (JPN)
4. Milos Raonic (CAN)
5. Marin Cilic (CRO)
6. David Goffin (BEL)
7. Nick Kyrgios (AUS)
8. Richard Gasquet (FRA)
9. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)
10. Jack Sock (USA)
11. Paolo Lorenzi (ITA)
12. Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)
13. Gilles Muller (LUX)
14. Benoit Paire (FRA)
15. Pablo Carreno-Busta (ESP)
16. Nicolas Mahut (FRA)
17. Federico Delbonis (ARG)
18. Borna Coric (CRO)
19. Marcel Granollers (ESP)
20. Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS)
21. Juan Monaco (ARG) (Protected Ranking)
22. Fernando Verdasco (ESP)
23. Guido Pella (ARG)
24. Ilya Marchenko (UKR)
ATP Vienna (AUT, Hard Indoor), entry list
1. Andy Murray (GBR)
2. Tomas Berdych (CZE)
3. Dominic Thiem (AUT)
4. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)
5. David Ferrer (ESP)
6. Roberto Bautista-Agut (ESP)
7. Lucas Pouille (FRA)
8. Pablo Cuevas (URU)
9. Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
10. Bernard Tomic (AUS)
11. Steve Johnson (USA)
12. John Isner (USA)
13. Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
14. Gilles Simon (FRA)
15. Sam Querrey (USA)
16. Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)
17. Martin Klizan (SVK)
18. Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP)
19. Viktor Troicki (SRB)
20. Joao Sousa (POR)
21. Fabio Fognini (ITA)
22. Kevin Anderson (RSA)
23. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)
24. Andreas Seppi (ITA)
