 The Asian Swing continues this week. Now we're going over to Beijing for the first time in a while. Haven't been to China for four years. Of course the Shanghai Masters come out next week. The biggest tournament of the Asian Swing. But let's have a look at the players that are not going to be playing next week due to withdrawal. A few players are not playing. Batista Ragu, he's pulled out. Baratini, of course pulling out with injury. Karina Buster also injured and not playing. Taylor Fritz, he's pulled out and so has Tiafo. And Fritz and Tiafo of course played Leiva a couple last week. So you wonder whether or not it was just getting from Vancouver to China with the jet lag and all of that. Maybe they didn't want to play. But some big names there that won't be playing in this event. Let's get at the top of the draw because we have some massive names that are playing in this event. We have eight seeds in this one. No one gets a buy in the first round. Al-Qaraz back for the first time. He takes that number one seed. He's taken a qualifier in the first round. Winner of that match will take on the winner of Hashinob and Rousseti who are going at it in the first round. Then you've got another qualifier taken on Etcheverry. Winner of that will take on either Strouf or the number seven seed Rude. And those guys played a very fun match at the start of the season on the clay courts. Of course we haven't seen Strouf for a long time but that could be a really fun first round match. Speaking of first round matches, number three seed Runa. He takes on Felix Oshelia Seaman in the first round. What the hell is that cut of a match for a first round? Of course FAA dropping down the rankings. That's why he's in the first round there. Unseeded, huge first round there. Winner of that will take on either McDonald or Dimitrov in the second round. Then we've got Song taken on Nishioca. Winner of that will take on either Evans. Or the number six seed Sinner. I mean there are some fire first round matches in this section. Not to mention fire second round matches as well. We've got a potential matchup in the semi-final. Elkress could take on Runa which has been a great match in the past. Elkress Sinner. We've seen that a few times this year and we'd love to see it again. Or if you want to go by something a little different you could go Rude versus Runa. Rude versus Sinner. Or some other combination of players but man it is a top-heavy draw. Going to the bottom half of the draw now we've got Zverev. The number eight seed taken on Schwartzman. Winner of that will take on either Fakina or Zoho in the second round. Then we've got a battle of the Qollies. Winner of that match will take on either Jarry or the number four seed. City passing the second round. That's a bang a first round match as well. We've got the number five seed. Rublev taken on Nori. Another crazy first round. Winner of that will take on either Umbair or Senego in the second round. Then we've got Dimitrov taken on Murray which is an insane first round again. But not as insane as this match. Paul will take on the number two seed Mevedev in that first round. I mean again crazy matchups. Jarry City pass. Schwartzman Zverev maybe two three years ago would have been interesting but not so much now. Dimitrov Murray that's going to take four hours. Paul Mevedev. What the hell does that look like? And then Rublev Nori. I mean there's some crazy matchups in the first round and potentially in the second round of this event. And if we're going by the seeds in this one we could be getting a City pass versus Mevedev semifinal. Or if you want to go by some form we can go with Mevedev versus Zverev in that semifinal. Or we could even get Rublev versus City pass. Rublev versus Zverev. Or any of the random matchups because I think we're going to get a lot of upsets in this one. So there you have it. They are the matchups for the first round. I mean this is a 500 event and it feels like a 1000 event. It feels like a grand slam without Djokovic but you know we've had a few of those lately. But man what a crazy crazy tournament. And some players that are in form means Zverev's in a final tonight. We'll see what he looks like as of tomorrow when he wins. Or if he wins but man what a crazy draw. Who's going to win this one? I don't know Mevedev I mean he's been good in Asia. Zverev's in form. If you go with City pass, Sina, Rublev, Runa, Rude, Elkiraz or do you go random? We could get an Unceded player. They'd have to beat a lot of good players to win but maybe an Unceded player. Let me know down in the comments below but the China open absolutely stacked for 2023.