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Tim Henman faces his old nemisis Guillermo Canas in rd1 of the Miami masters series event tonight.

Henman will be looking to improve his rather disappointing record against the Argentine who's won their last 5 encounters. Canas hasn't lost to Henman since 1998. Many of those matches have been thrillers which could have gone either way, Canas won 7-5 in the 5th in rd3 of the French Open back in 2001 and 3 years ago he ended Henman's hopes in rd3 of the Aussie Open, coming back from 2 sets to love down to win 9-7 in the 5th, a match in which Henman hit over 100 clean winners.

Canas was wrongly suspended for a perceived doping offence 2 years ago and he made his return to the tour earlier this year. He returned in style, beating Juan Carlo Ferrero on the way to taking an ATP title in South America and last week he ended Roger Federer's 41 match winning streak with a 7-5, 6-2 win in rd2 of Indian Wells.

"It's a tough draw, make no mistake about that,” Henman admitted. "He was always tough to beat and although his ranking isn't quite as high as it was before he was suspended he's obviously playing well, and it won't be long until it's right back up there again. Beating Federer in Indian Wells will have given him a big boost in confidence, and having come through the qualifying rounds here in Miami he'll be used to the conditions and I'm sure he's going to make life very difficult for me."

However, Henman was bullish about his chances of defeating the Argentine "I had a tough draw here last year and played well, and I beat some very good players along the way – Hewitt and Safin – and there's no reason why I can't do that again this year. 

"I will need to serve well and be patient from the back of the court. I'll also need to make sure that when I come into the net I do so behind a decent approach, otherwise he likes a target and passes really well. It should be a good match – it will certainly be a tough test for me but it's one I'm looking forward to."



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I guess it will be on Eurosport or Sky.

Any live streams ?

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Tim will have to be at the top of his game to beat fully drugged guy. I don't understand how Canas can play. I would give him 8 year ban or even more. He wouldn't beaten Tim at Aussie or Davydenko at French. It's obscene for other players and tennis alone.



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It would be to do woth the fact that he never took drugs...

Thats why he can play.

Rusedski was more guilty if you ask me but we've all forgiven him

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johnnylad wrote:

It would be to do woth the fact that he never took drugs...

Thats why he can play.

Rusedski was more guilty if you ask me but we've all forgiven him
Are you sure he has never taken drugs? I think it was confirmed twice. I don't know about Rusedski. Could you be more specific?


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I wouldn't hold your breath for this match, peeps. It is raining in Miami and play still hasn't started, I can't see this match getting on today.

Edit - I don't know why the position of the words has gone haywire - what are Activeboard playing at now? I clicked on "reply" to post, and it came up as a quote, which I did not want as my post has nothing to do with the previous?


-- Edited by Madeline at 17:28, 2007-03-22

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Canas was fed by an ATP trainer as well as Greg. But Greg was a campaigner and such perhaps should have been even more careful

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Ghosting wrote:

Tim will have to be at the top of his game to beat fully drugged guy. I don't understand how Canas can play. I would give him 8 year ban or even more. He wouldn't beaten Tim at Aussie or Davydenko at French. It's obscene for other players and tennis alone.


woah. talk about jumping the gun. Its this kind of ignorant attitude that constantly leaves the ATP with egg on their face. He was "wrongly suspended" which you would have noted if you had bother to read the opening post.

it was the spineless acapulco officials and doctor who gave him contaminated medication (which was proven) for a throat ache and didnt even have enough remorse to admit it and/or try to help clear canas' name.

-- Edited by mkkreuk at 18:26, 2007-03-22

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oh and one other thing, as for your how him being "fully drugged" up, i dont see how this matters in the slightest as the drug he was contaminated to was a substance with no benefits by itself, other than as treatment for hypertension.

it would NOT have given him the slightest bit of advantage.

(I may sound harsh, but i like Canas and you are speaking in total ignorance and damning him without the facts.)

-- Edited by mkkreuk at 18:30, 2007-03-22

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If it's true, than I really apologise with all honesty. I read something else. I just want to say that ATP should be more strick to "drugged" players. There were many problems with Argentine players and their ban was rudiculous.

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Ghosting wrote:

If it's true, than I really apologise with all honesty. I read something else. I just want to say that ATP should be more strick to "drugged" players. There were many problems with Argentine players and their ban was rudiculous.

its the truth as far as iknow it and ha s been deemed so by the ATP hence his return (although i still think he was treated unfairly and should have got hefty compensation and at least protected ranking).

I dont know about the argentine players you are referring to and would be hypocritical to jump down their throats without knowing the facts.


However, your last bit about the argentine players  reminds me of something McEnroe said last year during wimbledon. He said that 5 out of the last 6 players to be suspended for drug use were Argentinean, when in reality it was actually 1 out of 6. 

I'm a firm believer of knowing your facts before condemning people.


-- Edited by mkkreuk at 19:50, 2007-03-22

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oh an re:the match, i think canas will probably see this match out in two sets...



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Well I have really nothing against Argentine players. I just read it in news:

Argentine, Mariano Puerta, was banned for a record eight years for failing a drugs test for the second time. He also tested positive at the French Open, for the banned stimulant etilefrine.

Puerta, 27, has since launched an appeal against the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Three other Argentines - Juan Ignacio Chela, Guillermo Coria and Guillermo Canas - have received bans for banned substances in the past five years.

Another Argentine player Mariano Hood, 32, tested positive for a masking agent, finasteride, after a men's doubles match at the French Open on May 31, 2005, when he was partnered by Martin Damm of the Czech Republic.

He is the fifth Argentine to be banned for doping in recent years.



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well i dont know about the others but coria case is very much like rusedski's - Coria tested positive for nandrolone in April 2001 for which he was suspended 3 months, instead of the mandatory 2 years, after it was proven that he ingested the substance accidentally.

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.Puerta was pretty suspicious as at RG 2005 he'd bulked up so much and was hitting his shots so much harder than before.

It was funny tho and kinda demoralising to the rest of the world's best clay-courters, even if you pump yourself full of steroids you still can't beat Nadal on clay !!

I'm not surprised that Chela got banned either, have never liked him, he's always seemed a bit of a nasty piece of work

-- Edited by Sheddie at 20:33, 2007-03-22

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