After the AO there could be some changes from last year, as he has said he will arrange his schedule to accommodate the Davis Cup. Not quite sure how he is going to do that. . .
After the AO there could be some changes from last year, as he has said he will arrange his schedule to accommodate the Davis Cup. Not quite sure how he is going to do that. . .
Could involve playing Vina Del Mar, then the Davis Cup and then have a few weeks off afterwards (although I'd expect he'd play San Jose again and try and win the 3rd title there)
Slightly surprising but given that he's probably going to play San Jose and Memphis after the Davis Cup I guess he doesnt want to expend too much energy on the clay and arrive at IW burnt out
On MTF, I found this under the "early commitments" thread on the Marseille tournament:
Le chypriote Marcos BAGHDATIS finaliste de l'édition 2007, le russe Mikhaël YOUZNHY demi-finaliste de l'édition 2007 et l'écossais Andy MURRAY,ont d'ores et déjà confirmé leur participation pour l'édition 2008. En attente de confirmation : La nouvelle coqueluche du tennis mondial le serbe Novak DJOKOVIC, la nouvelle bête noire du n°1 mondial Roger Federer, l'argentin Guillermo CANAS, le numéro 1 français Richard GASQUET et le très surprenant Gaël MONFILS.
(The link given there doesn't work, the website has no news at all!)
Given that this tournament starts 11th February, he is playing Davis Cup in Argentina from 8-10th and the following week in San Jose, I am a bit sceptical and have not added it to the schedule!
After some extensive research on am.com, MTF and the various tournament sites I have now done some extensive editing on the first post, and I think the schedule is now correct up to the end of March.
So, Andy is coming back to Europe after the DC instead of going to North America. At least the matches won't be on in the middle of the night!
I'm assuming that the Indian Wells on 25th Feb is a mistake. That is the week of Memphis and Zagreb. Is Andy not playing that week then?
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At least the matches won't be on in the middle of the night!
Well unless the matches are in the middle of the night or at least 6pm onwards I can't watch them !
Good news is that Rotterdam and Marseille have fabulous live streams showing all the main draw, so all Andy's matches those weeks will be on...... that they're all scheduled for the evening session though !