Other seeded players were Australian Open quarterfinalist and Adelaide runner-up Jarkko Nieminen, Rotterdam semifinalist Gilles Simon, Nicolas Mahut, Marc Gicquel and Michael Berrer.
Other top seeds competing were 2007 Vienna semifinalist Juan Carlos Ferrero, recent Adelaide runner-up Jarkko Nieminen, Nicolás Almagro, Philipp Kohlschreiber and Albert Montañés.
The men singles featured ATP No. 5, Valencia titlist and French Open quarterfinalist David Ferrer, Queen's Club quarterfinalist Richard Gasquet, and Australian Open quarterfinalist and Adelaide runner-up Jarkko Nieminen.
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