Rotterdam 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 2 Djokovic, Novak SRB 3 OUT 3 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4 4 Ferrer, David ESP 5 5 Murray, Andy GBR 9 6 Robredo, Tommy ESP 11 7 Berdych, Tomas CZE 14 8 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 15 9 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 19 10 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 21 11 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 22 12 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 24 13 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 26 14 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 27 15 Simon, Gilles FRA 30 16 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 31 17 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 35 18 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 36 19 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 38 OUT 20 Monfils, Gael FRA 42 OUT 21 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 44 22 Seppi, Andreas ITA 47 23 Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 48 24 Berrer, Michael GER 52 25 Soderling, Robin SWE 53 26 (Q) 27 (Q) 28 (Q) 29 (Q) 30 (WC) Haase, Robin NED 31 (WC) Sluiter, Raemon NED 32 (WC) Baghdatis, Marcos CYP Llodra, Michael FRA 54 IN Rochus, Olivier BEL 55 IN Bolelli, Simone ITA 69 IN
Haase may be dangerous on his day, but I don't think Andy could have asked for a much better draw than a WC in R1, Berrer or Q in R2 and the Undertaker as the top 4 seed in his quarter!
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Haase may be dangerous on his day, but I don't think Andy could have asked for a much better draw than a WC in R1, Berrer or Q in R2 and the Undertaker as the top 4 seed in his quarter!
Agreed, will be interesting to see how Andy's fitness bears up, my impression is that when he goes deep one week he struggles the next, but I haven't checked my facts out, that's just a feeling I have.
The quarter finals onwards of this tournament are on Sky Sports, so (fingers crossed) if Andy gets that far, DVDs will be available for the usual price of £5 each. If he reaches the final, I may do a package of all 3 matches for a discounted price
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Bladetiger wrote:Agreed, will be interesting to see how Andy's fitness bears up, my impression is that when he goes deep one week he struggles the next, but I haven't checked my facts out, that's just a feeling I have.
That's not actually true - probably a combination of the recent pain of the Tsonga loss and the questions that used to be posed over Andy's fitness leading us astray. His record after going deep into tournaments is actually pretty respectable - the bit after the "-" is what he did the week after:
Bangkok (RU to Federer) - reached Mons Challenger QF, L to Malisse
San Jose (winner) - reached Memphis QF, L to Soderling
Washington (RU to Clement) - reached Canada AMS SF, L to Gasquet
Canada AMS (SF, L to Gasquet) - reached Cincy AMS QF, L to Roddick (after beating Fed, and this was his third good week in a row!)
Doha (RU to Ljubo) - did ok in Kooyong then reached AO R4, L to Nadal
San Jose (winner) - reached Memphis SF, L to Roddick
Indian Wells AMS (SF, L to Djokovic) - reached Miami AMS SF, L to Djokovic
Miami AMS (SF, L to Djokovic) - beat Sluiter in DC
Metz (RU to Robredo) - reached Moscow R2, L to Tipsarevic
St Petersburg (winner) - reached Paris AMS QF, L to Gasquet
Doha (winner) - lost in AO R1 to Tsonga
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