1 Federer, Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 3 Djokovic, Novak SRB 3 4 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4 5 Ferrer, David ESP 5 6 Roddick, Andy USA 6 7 Nalbandian, David ARG 7 8 Gasquet, Richard FRA 8 9 Blake, James USA 9 10 Berdych, Tomas CZE 10 OUT 11 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 11 OUT 12 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 12 13 Murray, Andy GBR 13 14 Robredo, Tommy ESP 14 15 Canas, Guillermo ARG 15 16 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 16 17 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 17 OUT 18 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 18 19 Monaco, Juan ARG 19 20 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 20 21 Moya, Carlos ESP 21 22 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 22 OUT 23 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 23 24 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 24 25 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 25 26 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 26 27 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 27 OUT 28 Stepanek, Radek CZE 28 29 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 29 30 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 30 31 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 31 32 Andreev, Igor RUS 32 33 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 33 34 Simon, Gilles FRA 34 35 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 35 36 Haas, Tommy GER 36 OUT 37 Starace, Potito ITA 37 38 Llodra, Michael FRA 38 39 Soderling, Robin SWE 39 40 Fish, Mardy USA 40 41 Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 41 42 Volandri, Filippo ITA 42 43 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 43 44 Cilic, Marin CRO 44 45 (SE) 46 (Q) 47 (Q) 48 (Q) 49 (Q) 50 (Q) 51 (Q) 52 (Q) 53 (WC) Ancic, Mario CRO 54 (WC) Cipolla, Flavio ITA 55 (WC) Naso, Gianluca ITA 56 (WC) Safin, Marat RUS
Alternates 1 Acasuso, Jose ARG 45 IN 2 Seppi, Andreas ITA 46 IN 3 Darcis, Steve BEL 47 IN 4 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 48 IN 5 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 49 IN 6 Querrey, Sam USA 50 OUT 7 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 51 IN 8 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 52 OUT 9 Calleri, Agustin ARG 53 OUT 10 Gicquel, Marc FRA 54 OUT 11 Bolelli, Simone ITA 55 IN 12 Montanes, Albert ESP 56 13 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 57 14 Koubek, Stefan AUT 58 15 Haase, Robin NED 59
It's already possible to enter the pick 'em for this, by the way, if you;re not going to be around at the weekend - but you'll have to pick virtually blind!
The entry list at present has Bolelli in as both alt and wild card, so as he has got into the main draw anyway I expect his wild card will go to somebody else.
Like to see a couple of competent wins then just give it a go against Nadal, just like in Aus; ok the surface makes victory just about impossible but Andy's got weapons and he needs to use them. Heavy serving, some serve and volley, lots of big forehands, huge backhands, aggressive returns; not the passive rubbish he played against Novak.
I want to see a display that says in 2 years' time, when he's fine-tuned his game on clay, Andy could be a threat on this surface.
Like to see a couple of competent wins then just give it a go against Nadal, just like in Aus; ok the surface makes victory just about impossible but Andy's got weapons and he needs to use them. Heavy serving, some serve and volley, lots of big forehands, huge backhands, aggressive returns; not the passive rubbish he played against Novak.
I want to see a display that says in 2 years' time, when he's fine-tuned his game on clay, Andy could be a threat on this surface.
Its good to remind ourselves of what Andy can play like. Thanks Kundalini. Agree totally.
I agree he is not going to get past Nadal on clay - what is it now, 100 wins out of 101 matches, or 101 out of 102?
1st round qualifier - sounds good, until you think that many clay-court specialists are not really highly ranked because they don't get wins on other surfaces.
2nd round - Safin or Wawrinka. Well, Safin, it depends which one turns up, though he has shown a few signs of pulling out of his slump recently (QF in Munich this week).If he has already beaten Stani, which he would have to do to meet Andy, he is not playing badly. Wawrinka - H2H 2 all, with the 2 most recent to Andy, but their only meeting on clay, which is Stani's best surface, went against Andy. And Stani is obviously in form, he is in the semi-final in Barcelona today.
Andy did play the first round in Rome last year so has 5 points to defend - he can only increase his total if he wins at least one match.