Washington 1 Roddick, Andy USA 3 2 Murray, Andy GBR 8OUT 3 Ancic, Mario CRO 23 OUT 4 Safin, Marat RUS 25 5 Fish, Mardy USA 36 6 Clement, Arnaud FRA 38 7 Becker, Benjamin GER 44 8 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 48 9 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 55 10 Benneteau, Julien FRA 57 11 Stepanek, Radek CZE 60 12 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 61 13 Spadea, Vincent USA 64 14 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 66 15 Llodra, Michael FRA 68 16 Russell, Michael USA 69 17 Delic, Amer USA 71 18 Monfils, Gael FRA 73 19 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 76 OUT 20 Johansson, Thomas SWE 77 21 Henman, Tim GBR 78 22 Korolev, Evgeny RUS 81 23 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 85 24 Kendrick, Robert USA 88 25 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 92 26 Hernych, Jan CZE 93 27 Goldstein, Paul USA 96 28 Berrer, Michael SUI 103 29 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 110 30 Giraldo, Santiago COL 119 31 Kim, Kevin USA 120 32 Falla, Alejandro COL 121 33 Vanek, Jiri CZE 122 34 Economidis, Konstantinos GRE 123 35 Capdeville, Paul CHI 124 36 Garcia, Adrian CHI 127 37 Haase, Robin NED 131 38 Zib, Tomas CZE 134 39 (SE) Nishikori, Kei JPM 40 (SE) 41 (Q) 42 (Q) 43 (Q) 44 (Q) 45 (WC) Haas, Tommy GER 46 (WC) Isner, John USA 47 (WC) Sweeting, Ryan USA 48 (WC) Klizan, Martin SVK
Alternates 1. Alves, Thiago BRA 136 OUT 2. Moodie, Wesley RSA 137 IN 3. Reynolds, Bobby USA 140 OUT 4. Bozoljac, Ilia SRB 141 IN 5. Mello, Ricardo BRA 144 IN 6. Marach, Oliver AUT 146 OUT 7. Fognini, Fabio ITA 148 OUT 8. Echagaray, Bruno MEX 156 OUT 9. Delgado, Ramon PAR 157 OUT 10. Sluiter, Raemon NED 161 OUT 11. Gremelmayr, Denis GER 162 OUT 12. Lacko, Lukas SVK 166 OUT 13. Fleishman, Zack USA 169 OUT 14. Kratochvil, Michel SUI @169 OUT 15. Pashanski, Boris SRB 171 OUT 16. Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 173 OUT 17. Healey, Nathan AUS 174 IN 18. Odesnik, Wayne USA 179 19. Okun, Noam ISR 183 OUT 20. Granollers-Pujol, Marcel ESP 184 OUT 21 Bloomfield, Richard GBR
Neither of those are bad rd1 matches all things considered. Tim should expect to win easily and Boggo can definitely beat Haase provided his back is OK and his head is in gear.
Anyone know what Bloomers is doing instead?
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thats not too bad a draw for tim and boggo. tim *should* sail through the first round and whilst haase is one for the future, and hit a bit of form at amersfoort the other week (reaching the semis), it is winnable.
Here is Isner's playing activity. I had not heard about him before. He was born in 85 and is 22...interesting WC choice by the Americans....what am I maybe missing about his college career?????
Anyway, he did rather well at his previous (and first) ATP tour event....took Dick Norman to a TB in the first set before going down 6-3 in the second....he also beat Alex and partner in the doubles. A nice match up for Tim, hopefully he will feel good about his game before beating Boris Becker in the second round....wait....oh yeah...that mean dude who beat Andre at the US Open.....
Isner has just made the final at Lexington where he's described on the website as the 6'9" bomber. Doesn't sound like he's going to be a walkover for Tim. Hoepfully very tired though.
Tim has played big men before (although this guy must have something special in order to get these two wild cards) and has worked out ways to beat them. What works at Lexington won't work so well against an experienced player like Tim. I just wonder why Isner has not played so much before getting these wild cards etc.
I am confident that Tim will get through although John being tired would be sweet too.
I'm pretty sure that Isner was at college, and had a very good career there, or so that is what I have heard about him
He is a massive server by all accounts, so Tim is unlikely to get too many chance to break him in the match, and will have to play the tie breaks well, as there is a chance that there will be one
Becker in round 2 is also winnable, as I cannot see how Becker is ranked as highly as he is, but Del Potro will probably have too much for Tim in round 3, unless Tim manages to play in the kind of form he did in Tokyo last year
Another tough draw for Alex, as Hasse appears to be in form at the moment, plus has a lot of confidence behind him. Hopefully though he struggles with the clay to hard transistion though, and Alex can catch him in the first round.
Llodra in round 2 isn't a great draw, but he is one of the lower seeds, and Boggo has played well against the serve/volleyers in the past, so if he is fully fit and mentally there could also be winnable