The following table is in the order of the rankings at the time of draw. At the time of the draw, the lowest ranking was Mario Ancic at 113. He has now gone up by 11 places.

Copa Ericsson challenger series At Rio de Janeiro was cancelled this year. As a result, Kristian Pless as defending champion lost 62 points and fell 8 spots to No 82. Paradorn Srichaphan lost 35 points for the Bangkok King's Cup Thailand Open where he was champion last year and did not participate this year; but he has retained his ATP ranking.

 

Name	Country	ATP Ranking
		Time of draw	9 Dec, 2002
Guillermo Canas	Argentina	15	15
Paradorn Srichapahan	Thailand	16	16
Sjeng Schalken	Netherlands	20	20
Juan Ignacio Chela	Argentina	23	23
Andrei Pavel	Romania	26	26
Rainer Schuettler	Germany	33	33
Kristian Pless	Denmark	74	82
Lars Burgsmuller	Germany	77	76
Albert Montanes	Spain	80	78
Mark Philippoussis	Australia	83	80
Karol Kucera	Slovakia	84	83
Albert Portas	Spain	87	88
Dick Norman	Belgian	96	96
Sargis Sargsian	Armenia	100	103
Zeljiko Krajan	Croatia	101	108
Justin Gimelstob	USA	102	106
Michael Llodra	France	103	104
Jean-Rene Lisnard	France	104	105
Julian Knowle	Austria	107	121
Juan Balcells	Spain	108	109
Cecil Mamiit	USA	109	111
Jan Vacek	Czech Republic	110	110
Jerome Golmard	France	111	99
Mario Ancic	Croatia	113	89
Jiri Vanek*	Czech Republic	201	199

^* entry protected

ATP Champions Race - how it works:

A player's ATP Champions Race position is based on points received from the four Grand Slams (Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open), the nine Tennis Masters Series events and his best five additional results from International Series events. The Tennis Masters Cup will count as an additional 19th tournament for the eight players who qualify.

The ranking under this count would thus be slightly different from the ATP singles entry ranking. For full details, go to http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/raceleaderboard/howitworks.html

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