St. Petersburg 1 Davydenko, Nikolay 4 2 Youzhny, Mikhail 17 3 Murray, Andy 19 4 Volandri, Filippo 28 5 Tursunov, Dmitry 29 6 Starace, Potito 31 7 Melzer, Jurgen 32 8 Kohlschreiber, Philipp 33 9 Soderling, Robin 34 OUT 10 Stepanek, Radek 35 OUT 11 Verdasco, Fernando 36 12 Ancic, Mario 40 13 Gulbis, Ernests 56 14 Bjorkman, Jonas 57 15 Johansson, Thomas 59 16 Eschauer, Werner 62 17 Massu, Nicolas 71 18 Gimelstob, Justin @73 19 Lapentti, Nicolas 78 20 Vliegen, Kristof 80 21 Horna, Luis 86 OUT 22 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo 87 23 Kunitsyn, Igor 88 24 (SE) 25 (SE) 26 (Q) 27 (Q) 28 (Q) 29 (Q) 30 (WC) Elgin, Michail RUS 31 (WC) Matsukevitch, Denis RUS 32 (WC) Chekhov, Pavel RUS Korolev, Evgeny RUS IN Pashanski, Boris SRB IN Bolelli, Simone ITA IN Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS IN Mirnyi, Max BLR IN
Andy's made a great decision choosing this tourney when you consider the strength of the other european tourneys at the same time like Vienna etc. I always wished Tim would play these Russian tourneys...Greg did for a few years and always had a lot of success.
Hopefully Andy avoids likes of Soderling, Ancic and Gulbis in the early rounds
I think Mirnyi is on his way back from injury....lost easily to Clement in Stockholm earlier in the month and Andy should be able to increase his H2H to 3-0 without to much hassle !!!
Looks like Bet&win will be doing a live stream although not until Friday. So I presume quarters onwards will be on there.
Edit: Scrub that, whole tourney on there. WOOOOOOOOOOOO!
-- Edited by john at 01:05, 2007-10-22
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