Five players in the Top 10 will be at the tournament to be held in Beijing in October. The big news is the presence of Rafa Nadal. It was announced by the organizers that he will take part in the event which in recent years, he had given up in favor of Tokyo.
Also returning is Novak Djokovic, who last year, had missed the entire Asian trip because of a back problem. Below is the complete entry list:
1 Djokovic, Novak SRB 2
2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 3
3 Ferrer, David ESP 5
4 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 6
5 Isner, John USA 10
6 Cilic, Marin CRO 13
7 Gasquet, Richard FRA 14
8 Dolgopolov, Alexandr UKR 15
9 Haas, Tommy GER 22
10 Mayer, Florian GER 23
11 Granollers, Marcel ESP 25
12 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 26
13 Seppi, Andreas ITA 27
14 Querrey, Sam USA 28
15 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 29
16 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 31
17 Benneteau, Julien FRA 32
18 Istomin, Denis UZB 34
19 Anderson, Kevin RSA 35
20 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 36
21 Andujar, Pablo ESP 37
22 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 44
23 Giraldo, Santiago COL 47
24 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 48
25 (Q)
26 (Q)
27 (Q)
28 (Q)
29 (WC)
30 (WC)
31 (WC)
32 (WC)
Alternates
1. Lacko, Lukas SVK 54
2. Fognini, Fabio ITA 59
3. Harrison, Ryan USA 61
4. Matosevic, Marinko AUS 62
5. Mayer, Leonardo ARG 63
6. Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 64
7. Kukushkin, Mikhail KAZ 65
8. Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 68
9. Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 69
10. Baker, Brian U.S. 70
11. Ebden, Matthew AUS 71
12. Bogomolov Jr., Alex RUS 73
13. Kavcic, Blaz SLO 74
14. Karlovic, Ivo CRO 75
15. Sijsling, Igor NED 77