Juan Carlos Ferrero got a surprise when the list of wildcards for the Masters Series event in Rome next week was released yesterday - he' not on it. The Italians were feeling particularly nationalistic and gave all four wildcards to Italian players - Potito Starace, Davide Sanguinetti, Alessio de Mauro, and Andreas Seppi.
Although his play has improved of late, Ferrero's ranking still hasn't recovered to the point where he can gain direct entry. And to make matters worse, the Hamburg Masters Series event hasn't yet committed to giving him a wildcard either leaving Ferrero with the prospect of missing two key French Open tuneup events.
"I thought they were going to give me wild cards in both (the Rome and Hamburg) tournaments but they didn't," he said.
"If I want to play in Hamburg, maybe I will have to do qualifying. For sure it's not good for me to be missing two Masters events, but I haven't played qualifying for a long time. I don't know yet what I'm going to do."
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