Ivo Karlović was last year's winner who successfully defended his title this year. In the final, he won with four seeded 7: 5, 6: 7 4 , 7: 6 8 against the third seed list Fernando Verdasco . With that, Karlović won his first title of the year and his fourth overall. Jamie Murray and Eric Butorac were successful in doubles last year, and this year they competed with other partners. While Butorac was eliminated in the first round, Murray was only eliminated in the final with Jeff Coetzee as a partner against Bruno Soares and Kevin Ullyett . Soares / Ullyett won in two sets 6: 2, 7: 6 5 . The Russian Dmitri Tursunow was disqualified in singles by the tournament management after he had not agreed with a decision of a line judge in doubles with a score of 4: 6, 1: 3, left the pitch and was therefore disqualified.
The field of participants in the individual competition consisted of 32 players, that of the doubles competition consisted of 16 pairs. The total prize money was 370,000 euros; the total financial liabilities were 370,000 euros.
The qualification took place from June 14th to 16th, 2008. Four qualifying places were played, which entitle them to participate in the main draw of the tournament. There were also two lucky losers.
The following prize money and world ranking points were paid out or credited for reaching the respective round. Players who moved into the main draw via qualification received the specified qualification points in addition to those for reaching the respective round. Otherwise the amounts are not cumulative (prize money for the double competition per team).
Ivo Karlović
Bruno Soares Kevin Ullyett
Alejandro Falla
Samuel Groth
Frederik Nielsen
Kei Nishikori
R. Štěpánek
S. Bolelli
G. Monfils
J. Bjorkman
E. Schwank
D. Sela
F. Verdasco
D. Tursunov
Y.-h. Lu
