After Robin Soderling prolonged his title at the 38th edition of the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament on Sunday it was time for tournament director Richard Krajicek to evaluate about future editions.

"I think we certainly have seen some good tennis, especially in the last four days. We've seen several standing ovations, the audience went home satisfied. Still we have to improve on certain issues," said Krajicek.

One of the issues were the empty seats in the Ahoy arena. "The arena might look more empty compared to previous years, but that's because the stadium capacity is expanded from 8500 to 10,000 seats, " Krajicek explained during a press conference in Rotterdam.

"Today we had 9600 people seeing the final and in total we had 106,258 visitors, which means the fourth best amount ever. The record is over 108,000 with Federer in 2005 and we have also reached 107,000 with Nadal in 2009 and last year we were slightly higher at 106,600."

Top seed Novak Djokovic withdrew from the tournament after winning the Australian Open and that made the field a bit less attractive, although still five players from the top 11 of the ATP world ranking were present in Rotterdam.

"After the cancellation of Djokovic I tried to get Roddick, but he had to visit a film premiere with his wife," said Krajicek. "I also tried Nadal, but no chance, just not fit enough. I did not even attempt Federer, because the tournament just did not fit into his schedule."

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