Cut-off: 273 (Lugassy) - includes 5 players with protected ranking at the bottom of thelist
101 Andujar, Pablo ESP -MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (Davydenko w/d) 104 Anderson, Kevin RSA - MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (Chela w/d) 105 Istomin, Denis UZB - MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (WC) 106 Korolev, Evgueni RUS 107 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 109 Beck, Andreas GER 110 Gil, Frederico POR - OUT 111 Capdeville, Paul CHI 112 Sela, Dudi ISR 114 Soeda, Go JPN 117 Kim, Kevin USA 119 Odesnik, Wayne USA 120 Phau, Bjorn GER 123 Ventura, Santiago ESP 124 Vanek, Jiri CZE - OUT 126 Greul, Simon GER 127 Cipolla, Flavio ITA 128 Bohli, Stephane SUI 130 Dancevic, Frank CAN 131 Berrer, Michael GER 133 Crivoi, Victor ROU 134 Mannarino, Adrian FRA - MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (WC) 137 Delic, Amer USA 138 Young, Donald USA - OUT 139 Bozoljac, Ilija SRB 141 Patience, Olivier FRA 144 Isner, John USA - MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (WC) 145 Beck, Karol SVK 146 Stadler, Simon GER 147 Peya, Alexander AUT 148 Kukushkin, Mikhail KAZ 149 Elgin, Michail RUS 150 Brands, Daniel GER 151 Montcourt, Mathieu FRA 152 Udomchoke, Danai THA 153 Machado, Rui POR - OUT 154 Ouanna, Josselyn FRA 155 Riba, Pere ESP 156 Luczak, Peter AUS 157 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 158 Pless, Kristian DEN 159 De Voest, Rik RSA 162 Malisse, Xavier BEL 164 Snobel, Pavel CZE 165 Bogomolov, Alex USA - OUT 166 Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 167 Dorsch, Benedikt GER 168 Prodon, Eric FRA 173 Pashanski, Boris SRB 174 Recouderc, Laurent FRA 175 Huta Galung, Jesse NED 176 Evans, Brendan USA 183 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 184 Schukin, Yuri KAZ 185 Sidorenko, Alexandre FRA 187 Ascione, Thierry FRA 188 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 189 Lopez-Jaen, Miguel Angel ESP 190 Ram, Rajeev USA 191 Rehnquist, Bjorn SWE 193 Sirianni, Joseph AUS 194 Ouahab, Lamine ALG 197 Smeets, Robert AUS 200 Zemlja, Grega SLO 203 Goodall, Joshua GBR 204 Dev Varman, Somdev K. IND 205 Guez, David FRA 207 Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 208 Koudriavtsev, Alexandre RUS 209 Kubot, Lukasz POL 210 Amritraj, Prakash IND 211 Jenkins, Scoville USA 213 Sweeting, Ryan USA 214 Polansky, Peter CAN 215 Ilhan, Marsel TUR 216 Fischer, Martin AUT 217 Galvani, Stefano ITA - OUT 218 Lisnard, Jean-Rene MON 219 Gregorc, Luka SLO 222 Lapentti, Giovanni ECU 223 Yani, Michael USA 224 Stoppini, Andrea ITA 225 Bachinger, Matthias GER 226 Petrazzuolo, Giancarlo ITA 227 Crugnola, Marco ITA 229 Pospisil, Jaroslav CZE 230 Flock, Alexander GER 231 Marchenko, Ilia UKR 232 Naso, Gianluca ITA 233 Bastl, George SUI 235 Gonzalez, Santiago MEX 236 Kindlmann, Dieter GER 237 Vemic, Dusan SRB 240 Olejniczak, Dawid POL 242 Kamke, Tobias GER 244 De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 246 Lopez, Marc ESP 250 Estrella, Victor DOM 251 Klein, Brydan AUS 253 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 254 Poch, Carles ESP 255 Ebelthite, Colin AUS - MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (WC) 256 Desein, Niels BEL 258 Nielsen, Frederik DEN 259 Ghedin, Riccardo ITA 260 Middelkoop, Matwe NED 266 Alvarez, Diego ARG 267 Lammer, Michael SUI 268 Jun, Woong-Sun KOR 269 Koning, Michel NED 271 Veic, Antonio CRO 272 Bubka, Sergei, Jr. UKR 273 Lugassy, Gary FRA
Protected Ranking: @Chiudinelli, Marco (SUI) @Dent, Taylor (USA) - OUT @Fleishman, Zack (USA) @Przysiezny, Michal (POL) @Waske, Alexander (GER) - OUT
Alternates 1- Satschko, Alexander (GER) - IN 2- Ionita, Victor (ROU) - IN 3- Eitzinger, Rainer (AUT) - IN 4- Groth, Samuel (AUS) - IN 5- Vagnozzi, Simone (ITA) - IN 6- Ward, James (GBR) - IN 7- Coutelot, Nicolas (FRA) - OUT 8- Widom, Todd (USA) - OUT 9- Niland, Conor (IRL) - IN 10 -Kavcic, Blaz (SLO) - IN 11- Marrai, Matteo (ITA) - IN 12- Matosevic, Marinko (AUS) - IN 13- Im, Kyu Tae (KOR) - IN 14- Capkovic, Kamil (SVK) - OUT 15- Slabinsky, Alexander (GBR) - IN 16- Louk Sorensen (IRL) - IN 17- Pavol Cervenak (SVK) - IN
Recent AO Q cuts when the entry lists came out and after w/ds:
2008 original 273 final ??? 2007 orig. c. 280 final 311 2006 original 279 final 295 (*) 2005 original 274 final 380 2004 original 267 final 434
(*) Bloomers is ranked 295 and Slabba 296
The really extreme cuts happened when loads of players in the Alt list opted out late on because they didn't want to risk going to Aus on the off-chance and then one or two very late withdrawals allowed Aussies who were way down on the Alt list to get in at the last moment, but even so the 'true' cut in 2004 and 2005 was about 310.
Even if you allow for the original cut being lower last year, these figures suggest that in 4 of the last 5 years, anyone in the top 300 at the cut-off date who wanted to play in qualifying got in fairly comfortably in the end. Remember that as well as qualifying w/ds creating extra spaces in the qualifying draw, main draw w/ds and most main draw WCs create extra spaces too, so it's not surprising that the cut tends to drop so far.
So, I'd say there's no way Wardy won't get in and a better than even chance that Bloomers and Slabba will if they have bothered to enter.
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