The Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell is underway and will officially kick off with the qualifiers this upcoming weekend. Supervised by tournament director Albert Costa and ATP’s Carlos Sanches, the draw ceremony for the qualifiers was held on Friday night at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona-1899.

Four players received a wild card into the main draw today, which will kick off on Monday, 18 April: French World No. 22 Benoit Paire (foto), who will be accompanied to the main draw by Sweden’s Elias Ymer and Spaniards Jaume Antoni Munar and Albert Montañes.

An additional six players will come out of the qualifiers. The six top-seeds are German World No. 115 Jan-Lennard Struff, Russia’s Karen Khachanov (No. 136), Slovakia’s Jozef Kovalik (139), Turkey’s Marsel Ilhan (140), Frenchman Kenny de Schepper (147), and Croatia’s Franko Skugor (131).

Czech Radek Stepanek will face local hero Gerard Granollers in the top match of Day 1 on the Pista Central.

Order of play and the draw of the qualifiers are attached below.