Madeline wrote:

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Simon will be harder. Go Andy, if you win that, Rafa's blisters might trouble him in the third. . .

-- Edited by Madeline at 16:13, 2008-05-12

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OK, so how does Andy take this to the third ?  
 
Sod's law, if Andy gets there, and here's hoping, Rafa will be waiting there, the picture of health.

Andy does eem to play pretty well in Hamburg for some reason.  Was having his best match on clay last year, when the wrist injury happened.

Anyway, his provisional ranking seems to be up from 14 to 12, having overtaken Moya and Youzhny ( who is out ).
 
Plenty dangers to that still around, but it would potentally be good if he could somehow hang on to no.12 and avoid the 13 - 16 spread for the French Open.

Then again that only really comes into play in the last 16, and I'd probably be more than happy if he were just to reach the last 16.