It was also one of the few ATP tournaments to have been won only by European players, with France with 5 (Guy Forget, Fabrice Santoro, Arnaud Clément, Gilles Simon, and this year's defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga), Sweden with 4 (Thomas Enqvist, Joachim Johansson), Switzerland with 4 (Marc Rosset, Roger Federer), Germany with 1 (Boris Becker), Russia with 1 (Yevgeny Kafelnikov), Slovakia with 1 (Dominik Hrbatý), and Great Britain with 1 (Andy Murray).

8, 2009 French Open finalist Robin Söderling and defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Other players include Gaël Monfils, Gilles Simon, Tommy Robredo, Mikhail Youzhny, Marcos Baghdatis and Julien Benneteau.

The previous top two seeds here were Andy Murray and Juan Martín del Potro, but both had pulled out of the tournament earlier.

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following players received entry as a lucky loser from the qualifying draw: Michaël Llodra defeated Julien Benneteau, 6–3, 6–4 Julien Benneteau / Michaël Llodra defeated Julian Knowle / Robert Lindstedt, 6–3, 6–4