US Davis Cup players Mardy Fish and Robbie Ginepri are two of four players who have been confirmed for next month's XL Capital Bermuda Open.

Fish and Ginepri are joined by compatriot Jeff Morrison and Canadian Frank Dancevic as organisers begin the countdown to the April 14 to 20 event at Coral Beach which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.

Fish, who competed in Bermuda last year, played in his first ATP final at the weekend, going down in two sets 0-6, 6-7 to Jan-Michael Gambill in the International Tennis Championship tournament in Del Ray Beach, Florida.

The unseeded Fish took a 3-0 lead in the second set, but Gambill quickly recovered to make it 3-3 before the set eventually came down to the tiebreaker. Fish could not control his powerful serve in the first set and quickly saw his streak of winning 36 consecutive service games come to an end.

“I didn't play particularly well,” he said afterwards. “I guess I got caught up a little in the moment. I think I just needed to get a couple of games in there.

“But looking back on the match, I don't think I played that bad of a first set. He just had every answer to every shot. If he plays like that he's going to beat a lot of people.”

Despite the loss Fish moved into the top 60 in the ATP rankings for the first time this week.

The 20-year-old Ginepri from Fort Lauderdale, Florida turned professional in 2001 and last year finished the ATP Champions Race in 119th position. He is currently 61st, having won five and lost five so far this year.

In January , seeded number three, Ginepri put on a dominating performance, beating surprise finalist Neville Godwin, 6-3, 6-3, to capture the singles title at the Hilton Waikoloa Village USTA Challenger.

“It's a great way to start the year,” Ginepri told USTA.com afterwards. “My goal is to be in the top 70 in the world by the French Open, and this is a great start in that direction. It was a big win for me, and I'm really pleased.”

Ginepri is part of the new generation of American players that include Andy Roddick, Mardy Fish, Taylor Dent and James Blake, all of whom have played in Bermuda.

Resident in Marietta, Georgia, Ginepri was a multi-sport athlete who did not devote himself to tennis until he was 12-years-old. He compiled an outstanding junior tennis career that included reaching the finals of the 2000 US Open boys' junior final, where he lost to Roddick.

Morrison, meanwhile, was one of four Americans to enjoy a career breakthrough last year and finish in the top 100 for first time.

In his first full season on tour, he won nine ATP level matches and compiled an 18-5 Challenger record, winning two titles.

He also played in his first Wimbledon - as a lucky loser - and won his first career Grand Slam match over Israel's Noam Okun and followed with victory over eighth seed Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain on Centre Court. He eventually lost to Sjeng Schalken in the third round.

“You see guys going on big courts and beating seeded players - it makes you realise that you can achieve the same thing if you are playing as well as you can,'' said Morrison, a former NCAA singles champion at the University of Florida, afterwards. “And that's what happened today.''

Dancevic (18) won last year's Canada Excellence Award winner for Most Improved Male and was the Outstanding Junior Male.

He became only the fifth Canadian to win a Junior Grand Slam title when he picked up the 2001 Wimbledon boy's doubles title with Giovanni Lapentti.

The youngster's first pro title came in January this year at the USA F1 in Florida where he also picked up his first doubles trophy. He reached the semi-finals at the USA F2 event one week later, reaching a career-high number 380 on the ATP Entry System.

Dancevic's first big win of his career came in May, 2002, when he defeated Levar Harper-Griffth at the USA F12 Futures. He also became first Canadian teenager to qualify for an ATP event when he made it through the qualifying draw at the Legg Mason International in August, winning his first main draw match against Russia's Nikolay Davydenko. He was also named to the Canadian Davis Cup team for the first time in February of 2002 and holds a 1-3 singles record.