1 Nadal, Rafael 2 2 Roddick, Andy 3 3 Djokovic, Novak 5 4 Gonzalez, Fernando 6 5 Ljubicic, Ivan 8 6 Murray, Andy 10 OUT 7 Ancic, Mario 14 OUT 8 Hewitt, Lleyton 20 9 Tursunov, Dmitry 24 10 Safin, Marat 26 11 Stepanek, Radek 29 12 Fish, Mardy 31 13 Malisse, Xavier 32 OUT 14 Verdasco, Fernando 34 15 Benneteau, Julien 36 16 Bjorkman, Jonas 40 17 Mathieu, Paul-Henri 42 18 Lee, Hyung-Taik 43 19 Monfils, Gael 45 20 Ginepri, Robby 46 21 Mirnyi, Max 47 22 Henman, Tim 50 23 Clement, Arnaud 51 24 Grosjean, Sebastien 58 25 Del Potro, Juan Martin 63 26 Johansson, Thomas 67 27 Delic, Amer 72 28 Gimelstob, Justin @73 29 Serra, Florent 74 30 Lopez, Feliciano 75 31 Hernandez, Oscar 77 32 Karlovic, Ivo 78 33 Roitman, Sergio 79 34 Pless, Kristian 81 35 Llodra, Michael 82 36 Kendrick, Robert 83 37 Gulbis, Ernests 85 38 Srichaphan, Paradorn 86 OUT 39 Tipsarevic, Janko 87 40 Hernych, Jan 90 OUT 41 Kunitsyn, Igor 91 42 Peya, Alexander 92 43 Seppi, Andreas 94 44 Udomchoke, Danai 95 45 Bolelli, Simone 96 OUT 46 (SE) 47 (SE) 48 (Q) Nielsen, Frederik DEN 49 (Q) Vemic, Dusan SRB 50 (Q) Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 51 (Q) Kuznetsov, Alex USA 52 (WC) Andreev, Igor RUS 53 (WC) Cilic, Marin, CRO 54 (WC) Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 55 (WC) Bloomfield, Richard GBR 56 (WC) Baker, Jamie GBR
Alternates 1. Guccione, Chris AUS 98 IN 2. Pavel, Andrei ROU 100 OUT 3. Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 102 IN 4. Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 104 IN 5. Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 106 OUT 6. Dancevic, Frank CAN 107 IN 7. Berrer, Michael GER 108 IN 8. Mahut, Nicolas FRA 110 IN 9. Navarro Pastor, Ivan ESP 111 IN 10. Falla, Alejandro COL 114 IN 11. Giraldo, Santiago COL 115 12. Bozoljac, Ilia SRB 118 13. Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 119 IN (WC) 14. Moodie, Wesley RSA 120 15. Marach, Oliver AUT 124 OUT 16. Bracciali, Daniele ITA 125 17. Kim, Kevin USA 126 OUT 18. Portas, Albert ESP 128 19. Muller, Gilles LUX 129 20. Capdeville, Paul CHI 131
i wonder whether we should be a little more sly with our WC choices.
Its all about maximum exposure for Brits.
I reckon if we nominated Boggo to help him hit 100 then Baker and Marray...
We can expect Josh and Richard to qualify because on this surface they would have every chance (Flanagan has done it recently ), then not only would we have 7 in the main draw but 2 would have scored points in qualies too.
Clearly Baker and Marray may come through qualifying too but they may struggle a little more than the other two.
The sad reality is that some 37th ranked numpty will get unexpectantly dumped out of Roland Garros and decide he needs a quick points fix before Wimbledon and offer Stella Artois tournament director special favours and get a WC instead and the Brits will be left to rot in a sea of underachievement.