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The Novotel hotel in Trabzon is the place where from February 14 to 20 the first World Cup of 2011 will be played. Dick Jaspers starts as the defending champion in this new cycle. The top Twelve players of the ranking are seeded automatically due to the current rules, for eight players a wildcard is reserved.
On the 1st of January there are exactly hundred players on the list of participants. The deadline for inscription is January 24. The number of entries is 156 for the qualifications.
Lütfi Cenet, who lives in Istanbul, about 600 km's from Trabzon, expects 200 inscriptions. He said: ,,Many players want to play in Turkey and Trabzon is a very popular, green city near to the black sea. The organizer, the Turkish federation, will take care that it's gonna be a great tournament.''
The seeded top twelve players are Dick Jaspers, Frederic Caudron, Kyung-Roul Kim, Eddy Merckx, Martin Horn, Daniel Sanchez, Torbjorn Blomdahl, Filippos Kasidokostas, Tayfun Tasdemir, Jeremy Bury, Sung Won Choi and Marco Zanetti.
Javier Palazón received the wildcard from the UMB, Lütfi Cenet and Murat Naci Coklu from the organization, Julian Morales (Colombia) and Ramon Rodriguez (Peru) frp, the Panamerican Confederation, Ryuji Umeda (Japan) and Han Jung Heo (Korea) from the Asian confederation. The European wildcard has not been distributed so far.