Jürgen Habermas | Jürgen Klinsmann | Jürgen Prochnow | Jürgen Möllemann | Jürgen Budday | Jürgen von Beckerath | Jürgen Vogel | Jürgen Schult | Jürgen Rüttgers | Jürgen Chrobog | Jürgen Ahrend | Jürgen Steinmetz | Jürgen Schmidhuber | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Hans-Jürgen Papier | Jürgen Trittin | Jürgen Straub | Jürgen Stark | Jürgen Schadeberg | Jürgen Rohwer | Jürgen Osterhammel | Jürgen Haffer | Jürgen Cain Külbel | Jürgen Bartsch | Jürgen Aschoff | Jürgen Alzen | Hans-Jürgen von Arnim | Hans-Jürgen Stumpff | Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | Bernd Jürgen Fischer |
Other top seeded players were Las Vegas runner-up Jürgen Melzer, French Open quarterfinalist, Båstad semifinalist Igor Andreev, Gilles Simon, Fabrice Santoro and Albert Montañés.
Also competing in the field were 2007 St. Petersburg semifinalist Mikhail Youzhny, 2007 Metz semifinalist Nicolas Mahut, Jürgen Melzer, Werner Eschauer and Marc Gicquel.
The second round produced major upsets mainly involving the Germans as clay-court specialist and 14th seed Juan Mónaco fell to Michael Berrer 6-4, 6-4, world no. 4 Andy Murray fell in just over an hour to Philipp Kohlschreiber and 15th seed Jürgen Melzer falling to Philipp Petzschner.