A couple days back, Pilot Pen Tennis tournament director Anne Worcester said she'd be surprised if any top 10 players were added to women's No. 9 Caroline Wozniacki when she got the direct entry lists.

Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.

Gilles Simon, the No. 7 ranked player on the ATP tour, and No. 11 Nikolay Davydenko were added to the men's field. No. 14 Angieszka Radwanska, who ended the 2008 season as the ninth-ranked women's player, led the list of new additions to the women's field.

When all the names were in, the women's field had nine top 20 players - the most since the tournament became a combined event in 2005 and had a cut-off ranking of No. 42, at least 10 spots higher than expected.

No. 16 Tommy Robredo and No. 22 Mardy Fish were joined by Simon, Davydenko, No. 23 David Ferrer and No. 25 Igor Andreev to give the men's field a little more depth that tournament organizers originally thought. Sam Querrey, ranked 34th, gives the men's field an up and coming American.

The alternate lists were rather interesting as well. Leading the women's "next-in" list is Ai Sugiyama while other names of note were Sara Errani, Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Melanie Oudin, Jelena Dokic, Jill Craybas and Sania Mirza. The alternate list confirmed that Oudin will not need a wild card to get into the Pilot Pen qualifying draw. Christina McHale, one half of the Australian Open girls' juniors doubles championship team who made her Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2009 Australian Open, has requested a wild card into qualifying.

Leading the list of men's players who did not have a high enough ranking to get into the main draw are Americans Robby Ginepri, John Isner, Donald Young, Robert Kendrick, Vince Spadea and Jesse Levine as well as Germany's Rainer Schuettler and Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia. Among the names on the alternate list who interest tournament officials as potential wild cards are Ginepri and Marcus Baghdatis of Cyprus.