Seven players out of top 10 world rankings will compete during the Beijing/Tokyo ATP 500 events from 1 to 7 October 2018. The only absents will be Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem. The Swiss has not been playing during this week of the tennis season since 2006 (he always chose Tokyo), while the Serb, a six-time Beijing champion, already has a packed schedule as after the US Open he will stay in the United States to play Laver Cup.

So afterwards he will comeback to Europe to enjoy time with his family and prepare ahead of the Shanghai Masters where all the top players will compete. Thiem will have a packed schedule too, competing in Davis Cup and St. Petersburg in late September.

As always, Beijing offers a high-level field featuring seven top 15 players. Clearly, the world No. 1 Rafael Nadal will be on the spotlight, last year the Spaniard won the title 12 seasons after the first one here in 2005. In 2017 final, he defeated the Australia's Nick Kyrgios, who instead opted for Tokyo this time.

Also the world No. 4 Alexander Zverev, who lost to Kyrgios in last year's semis, the Argentinian Juan Martin del Potro - who competed through a wild card last year - and the 2016 finalist Grigor Dimitrov will play. Two years ago the Bulgarian lost to Andy Murray in the championship clash, and who knows that they will face each other again here as the Brit entered through a protected ranking.

In the last weeks John Isner often retained he is unlikely to play the Asian swing due to paternity, but still decided to enter. Younger players Borna Coric and Kyle Edmund will be there. The world No. 51 Albert Ramos is the last player in the main draw entry list, Peter Gojowczyk is the first alternate.

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1 NADAL, Rafael ESP 1

2 DEL POTRO, Juan Martin ARG 3

3 ZVEREV, Alexander GER 4

4 DIMITROV, Grigor BUL 8

5 ISNER, John USA 11

6 CARRENO BUSTA, Pablo ESP 12

7 FOGNINI, Fabio ITA 14

8 EDMUND, Kyle GBR 16

9 SOCK, Jack USA 18

10 BAUTISTA AGUT, Roberto ESP 19

11 CORIC, Borna CRO 20

12 CECCHINATO, Marco ITA 22

13 KHACHANOV, Karen RUS 27

14 VERDASCO, Fernando ESP 31

15 KRAJINOVIC, Filip SRB 32

16 QUERREY, Sam USA 35

17 BASILASHVILI, Nikoloz GEO 36

18 RUBLEV, Andrey RUS 37

19 MONFILS, Gael FRA 38

20 FUCSOVICS, Marton HUN 40

21 MAYER, Leonardo ARG 41

22 RAMOS-VINOLAS, Albert ESP 51

23 MURRAY, Andy GBR 378

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29 [Q]

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32 [Q] ALTERNATES

1 GOJOWCZYK, Peter GER 45

2 ZVEREV, Mischa GER 46

3 SEPPI, Andreas ITA 50

4 STRUFF, Jan-Lennard GER 52

5 EBDEN, Matthew AUS 53

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