 Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and the ATP is back in full swing this week We're back after the US Open after having a much needed break last week with an ATP 250 event in Kazakhstan the Astana Open and there's a couple of names that have pulled out of this one But there are some big names playing but let's go to the withdrawal list first So only the couple of names that have pulled out of this one We have Garin he's pulled out Manorino also pulled out and McDonald is out of this one as well Starting at the top of the draw We've got eight seeds in this one and the top four seeds get a buy in the first round Carrots of the number one seed he gets a buy in the first round and looking for some much-needed form being a little bit Disappointing over the last couple of weeks He'll take on the winner of Russivari or bonsai in the second round Then we've got sepi versus the wildcard scatoff winner of that match takes on either a qualifier Or the number eight seed of Vashka in the second round Then we've got the number four seed Kriyanovic he gets a buy in the first round He'll take on the winner of either the wildcard kakushkin or duckworth in the second round Then we've got Vesely versus Munair winner of that match takes on either a qualifier or the number five seed Milman in the second round so the players were watching out for him this one got to watch out for Carrots of hasn't been great over The last couple of weeks was pretty disappointing in America, especially at the US Open So interested to see how he can bounce back especially in a tournament that he's gonna be the favorite at also interested To see how Kriyanovic does as well is an all-court player and has played well on hard courts in the past Of course the indoor Paris Masters a few years ago. He actually looked at the finals So interested to see how he does in this one and also John Milman He's the defending champion of this tournament So he's got some points to defend interested to see how he can back up his performance from this tournament last year when he won The whole thing going to the bottom half of the draw now. We've got the number seven seed Jera He takes on Gallon in the first round winner of that match takes on either a qualifier or mousetti in the second round Then we've got Kwan versus another qualifier winner of that match takes on the number three seed Lyovic who gets a buy in the first round then we've got the number six seed pair taking on Dorisimov Winner of that match takes on either Tabinah or Brinkus in the second round Then we've got the wild card Vadasko taking on Kichmenovich winner of that match takes on a number two seed Bublick in the second round so players to watch out for in this one got to watch out for Bublick He is playing in front of his home crowd So there will be a little bit of pressure on the hometown favorite of course and he's the number two seed So he's gonna be very very popular and one of the favorites to win this whole thing also live It's interesting to see how he does in this one as well more of a clay court player these days But doesn't mind playing on the hard courts as well So let's see how he does and also keeping an eye on mousetti who in the last couple of months hasn't done great We've seen him great on the clay courts He played pretty well on the hard courts at the start of the year in Acapulco So interested to see if he can actually back it up in a smaller tournament where you know anyone could probably win this So let's see how mousetti does this week as well. So there it is the Astana open It's only the second time this tournament's actually been played So it's a brand new tournament on the tour and hasn't got that much history involved yet But there are some big names playing this week and some names that I'm really interested to see how they can actually back up and maybe Play better than they have over the last couple of weeks with Carrots in public You know those players haven't done well that well over the last couple of months So interested to see if they can rebound in a smaller tournament like this But with these smaller tournaments anybody could win so watch out for the unseeded players Watch out for the low seeds as well in this one So it's gonna be interesting to see how it goes, but let me know down the comments below Who do you think's gonna win this event as I said It's kind of a smaller event with players that are not really in form at the top of the list on the seeds So anyone could win this taking a look at the draw And it's gonna be a tough one for me to pick this one because you can make a case for anybody to sort of win it But I'm gonna know with Bublick to win this one I feel like playing in front of his home crowd and being the number two seed I think he'll play well and he'll get that energy from the crowd to be a bit more of an entertainer and a Showman and want to do himself proud and he's got a pretty good draw as well with the names around there So I'm gonna go with Bublick to win this one the number two seed Again, let me know down in the comments below. Who do you think's gonna win this one? So the ATP it's back in action and we're going to Kazakhstan for an ATP 250