Miami 2011 Men’s Singles Draw

The 2011 Miami Open men’s singles event begins on Wednesday 23 March at 10am local time. There are 96 players in the draw divided up between 79 Direct Acceptances, 12 Qualifiers (Q) and 5 Wild Cards (WC). The cut-off date for entry was 7 February 2011. At the cut-off date Mischa Zverev of Germany then ranked at No.8o was the last direct acceptance.

In this post the full men’s singles draw will be listed below plus a number of interesting facts about the main draw as soon as the draw is completed. The official singles main draw is taking place at 12 noon today. The official tournament name of Miami is the Sony Ericsson Open due to title sponsorship naming rights and it is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 category tournament played on Laykold Cushion Plus hard courts from March 21 to April 3.

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The Seeds: In a 128-player sized draw there are 32 seeded players in order to keep the 1 seed for each 4 spots in the draw ratio according to tournament draw rules. Indian Wells has a 96-player draw so the seeds all receive a BYE in the 1st round and await the 32 winners of the 1st round matches in the 2nd round.

The seeding of players is according to the most recent rankings before the main singles draw is made, which is Monday 21 March. This means the points earned at Indian Wells will be reflected in the seeding for Miami.

The Wild Cards: On Monday 7 March the five wild cards were awarded to-> 3 Americans James BLAKE, Ryan HARRISON and Jack SOCK, Canada’s Milos RAONIC and Australian Bernard TOMIC. Tommy ROBREDO who would have been seeded withdrew with an injury so Ivo KARLOVIC was awarded a wild card on the strength of his performance at Indian Wells last week.

The Qualifiers: The 48-player qualifying tournament begins on Monday 21 March and are played over two days. As soon as the qualifying event is completed the names of the 12 qualifiers will be added into their allocated spots in the draw below and listed here-> Paul CAPDEVILLE, Grigor DIMITROV, Olivier ROCHUS, Rainer SCHUETTLER, Robert KENDRICK, Igor KUNITSYN, Ryan SWEETING, Paolo LORENZI, Alex BOGOMOLOV JNR., Marsel ILHAN, Michael RUSSELL and Donald YOUNG.

To see the FULL 2011 Men’s Schedule of Play, prize money and ATP ranking points earned per round plus more details about the qualifying event click-> Miami 2011 Men’s Schedule of Play. Once the full draw is filled in below only the Top 16 seeds names will be bolded to make it easier to spot which Top 16 seeds are drawn to play each other for a spot in the quarter finals.

The draw for the seeded players IF they all win through to the 3rd round is:

• Rafael NADAL (1) v (26) Juan Ignacio CHELA
• Alexandr DOLGOPOLOV (21) v (15) Jo-Wilfried TSONGA
• Nicolas ALMAGRO (11) v (20) Albert MONTANES
• Ernests GULBIS (28) v (7) Tomas BERDYCH
• Roger FEDERER (3) v (32) Juan MONACO
• Marcos BAGHDATIS (22) v (13) Mikhail YOUZHNY
• Jurgen MELZER (10) v (18) Marin CILIC
• Gilles SIMON (28) v (8) Andy RODDICK

The seeded match ups for the bottom half of the draw are:

• David FERRER (6) v (31) Milos RAONIC
• Michael LLODRA (23) v (12) Stanislas WAWRINKA
• Mardy FISH (14) v (17) Richard GASQUET
• Philipp KOHLSCHREIBER (29) v (4) Robin SODERLING
• Andy MURRAY (5) v (30) John ISNER
• Guillermo GARCIA-LOPEZ (24) v (9) Fernando VERDASCO
• Viktor TROICKI (16) v (19) Sam QUERREY
• Thomaz BELLUCCI (27) v (2) Novak DJOKOVIC

The draw for the 2011 Miami Open Men’s singles event is:

1. Rafael NADAL (1) v BYE
2. Jeremy CHARDY v Kei NISHIKORI
3. Feliciano LOPEZ v Richard BERANKIS
4. BYE v (26) Juan Ignacio CHELA
5. Alexandr DOLGOPOLOV (21) v BYE
6. Andreas SEPPI v Mischa ZVEREV
7. Teymuraz GABASHVILI v Daniel BRANDS
8. BYE v (15) J0-Wilfried TSONGA
9. Nicolas ALMAGRO (11) v BYE
10. Frederico GIL v (Q) Paul CAPDEVILLE
11. Florian MAYER V (WC) Ivo KARLOVIC
12. BYE V (20) Albert MONTANES
13. Ernests GULBIS (28) v BYE
14. Carlos BERLOCQ v (WC) Jack SOCK
15. Adrian MANNARINO v Ruben RAMIREZ HIDALGO
16. BYE v (7) Tomas BERDYCH
17. Roger FEDERER (3) v BYE
18. Fabio FOGNINI v Radek STEPANEK
19. Sergiy STAKHOVSKY v (Q) Grigor DIMITROV
20. BYE v (32) Juan MONACO
21. Marcos BAGHDATIS (22) v BYE
22. Blaz KAVCIC v (Q) Olivier ROCHUS
23. Pere RIBA v LU Yen-Hsun
24. BYE v (13) Mikhail YOUZHNY
25. Jurgen MELZER (10) v BYE
26. Philipp PETZSCHNER v Florent SERRA
27. Janko TIPSAREVIC v Robin HAASE
28. BYE v (18) Marin CILIC
29. Gilles SIMON (28) v BYE
30. Ryan HARRISON (WC) v (Q) Rainer SCHUETTLER
31. Pablo CUEVAS v Michael BERRER
32. BYE v (8) Andy RODDICK

The bottom half of the draw is:

1. David FERRER (6) v BYE
2. Robert KENDRICK (Q) v (Q) Igor KUNITSYN
3. Somdev DEVVARMAN v Potito STARACE
4. BYE v (31) Milos RAONIC
5. Michael LLODRA (23) v BYE
6. Xavier MALISSE v (Q) Ryan SWEETING
7. Benjamin BECKER v Marcel GRANOLLERS
8. BYE v (12) Stanislas WAWRINKA
9. Mardy FISH (14) v BYE
10. Julien BENNETEAU v Daniel GIMENO-TRAVER
11. Ivan LJUBICIC v (Q) Paolo LORENZI
12. BYE v (17) Richard GASQUET
13. Philipp KOHLSCHREIBER (29) v BYE
14. Juan Martin DEL POTRO v Ricardo MELLO
15. Ivan DODIG v Andrey GOLUBEV
16. BYE v (4) Robin SODERLING
17. Andy MURRAY (5) v BYE
18. Victor HANESCU v (Q) Alex BOGOMOLOV JNR.
19. Santiago GIRALDO v Igor ANDREEV
20. BYE v (30) John ISNER
21. Guillermo GARCIA-LOPEZ (24) v BYE
22. Nikolay DAVYDENKO v Kevin ANDERSON
23. Bernard TOMIC (WC) v Pablo ANDUJAR
24. BYE v (9) Fernando VERDASCO
25. Viktor TROICKI (16) v BYE
26. Tobias KAMKE v (Q)
27. Jarkko NIEMINEN v Mikhail KUKUSHKIN
28. BYE v (19) Sam QUERREY
29. Thomaz BELLUCCI v BYE
30. Michael RUSSELL (Q) v (WC) James BLAKE
31. Donald YOUNG (Q) v Denis ISTOMEN
32. BYE v (2) Novak DJOKOVIC

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