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 Blake, James USA 8 9 Murray, Andy GBR 9 10 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 10 11 Gasquet, Richard FRA 11 12 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 12 13 Stepanek, Radek CZE 13 14 Robredo, Tommy ESP 14 15 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 15 16 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 16 17 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 17 18 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 18 19 Monaco, Juan ARG 19 20 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 20 21 Berdych, Tomas CZE 21 22 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 22 23 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 23 24 Ancic, Mario CRO 24 OUT 25 Simon, Gilles FRA 25 26 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 26 OUT 27 Moya, Carlos ESP 27 28 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 28 29 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 29 OUT 30 Andreev, Igor RUS 30 31 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 31 32 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 32 33 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 33 34 Seppi, Andreas ITA 34 35 Monfils, Gael FRA 35 36 Llodra, Michael FRA 36 37 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 37 38 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 38 OUT 39 Schuettler, Rainer GER 39 40 Safin, Marat RUS 40 41 Fish, Mardy USA 41 42 Cilic, Marin CRO 42 43 Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 43 44 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 44 45 Querrey, Sam USA 45 46 Haas, Tommy GER 46 47 Bolelli, Simone ITA 47 48 Soderling, Robin SWE 48 49 Calleri, Agustin ARG 49 50 Gulbis, Ernests LAT 50 51 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 51 OUT 52 Gicquel, Marc FRA 52 53 Benneteau, Julien FRA 53 54 Acasuso, Jose ARG 54 55 Canas, Guillermo ARG 55 56 Darcis, Steve BEL 56 57 Granollers, Marcel ESP 57 58 Schwank, Eduardo ARG 58 59 Hanescu, Victor ROU 59 60 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 60 61 Starace, Potito ITA 61 62 Johansson, Thomas SWE 62 63 Montanes, Albert ESP 63 64 Ginepri, Robby USA 64 65 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 65 66 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 66 67 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 67 68 Haase, Robin NED 68 OUT 69 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 69 70 Rochus, Olivier BEL 70 71 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK @70 72 Clement, Arnaud FRA 71 73 Bellucci, Thomaz BRA 72 74 Fognini, Fabio ITA 73 75 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 74 76 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 75 77 Serra, Florent FRA 76 78 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 77 79 Sela, Dudi ISR 78 80 Daniel, Marcos BRA 79 81 Devilder, Nicolas FRA 80 82 Korolev, Evgeny RUS 81 83 Minar, Ivo CZE 82 84 Dancevic, Frank CAN 83 85 Horna, Luis PER 84 86 Koubek, Stefan AUT 85 OUT 87 Troicki, Viktor SRB 86 88 Gremelmayr, Denis GER 87 89 Young, Donald USA 88 90 Zverev, Mischa GER 89 91 Reynolds, Bobby USA 90 92 Berrer, Michael GER 91 93 Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 92 94 Guccione, Chris AUS 93 95 Spadea, Vincent USA 94 96 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 95 97 Isner, John USA 96 98 Vanek, Jiri CZE 97 99 Chardy, Jeremy FRA 98 100 Navarro, Ivan ESP 99 101 Ventura, Santiago ESP 100 102 Gonzalez, Maximo ARG 101 103 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 102 104 Roitman, Sergio ARG 103 105 (Q) Phau, Bjorn GER 106 (Q) Minar, Jan CZE 107 (Q) Smeets, Robert AUS 108 (Q) Kendrick, Robert USA 109 (Q) Zib, Tomas CZE 110 (Q) Alves, Thiago BRA 111 (Q) de Heart, Ryler USA 112 (Q) Hernych, Jan CZE 113 (Q) Machado, Rui POR 114 (Q) Beck, Andreas GER 115 (Q) de Voest, Rik RSA 116 (Q) Capdeville, Paul CHI 117 (Q) Sweeting, Ryan USA 118 (Q) Cuevas, Pablo URU 119 (Q) Muller, Gilles LUX 120 (Q) Bohli, Stephane SUI 121 (WC) Delic, Amer USA 122 (WC) Evans, Brendan USA 123 (WC) Jenkins, Scoville USA 124 (WC) Levine, Jesse USA 125 (WC) Warburg, Sam USA 126 (WC) Krajicek, Austin USA (Kalamazoo champion) 127 (WC) Ball, Carsten AUS (TA) 128 (WC) Recouderc, Laurent FRA (FFT) IN LL Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Hak PAK (replaces Koubek)
Alternates
1 Odesnik, Wayne USA 104 IN 2 Gil, Frederico POR 105 IN 3 Andujar, Pablo ESP 106 IN 4 Hernandez, Oscar ESP 107 IN 5 Karanusic, Roko CRO 108 IN 6 Nishikori, Kei JPN 109 IN 7 Becker, Benjamin GER 110 8 Dabul, Brian ARG 111 9 Anderson, Kevin RSA 112 10 Beck, Andreas GER 113 11 Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 114 12 Rochus, Christophe BEL 115 13 Junqueira, Diego ARG 116 14 Falla, Alejandro COL 117 15 Petzschner, Philipp GER 118
Hopefully the French and Aussie wild cards will go to players ranked inside 270 or so, as they affect the chances of Bloomers, Baker, Marray and Slabba getting into qualies.
The same goes for the American WCs. The Kalamazoo wild card will obviously go to someone ranked very low, but that leaves five. I think that of those outside the qualies cut, McClune will get one.
Austin Krajicek won in Kalamazoo and gets the wild card. He'll be a seriously good player once he is out of college. Actually I was quite shocked that someone as talented as him chose not to go pro.
Quote from a pre-USO article by Robbie Koenig (the South African commentator on the AMS TV feed):
" ... Koenig goes on to recollect the very first time he encountered Murray a day he never forgot.
I played him in a first round doubles match in Nottingham [in 2003] when he was 16 and I was playing some of my best tennis around that time with my partner, Chris Haggard, who had one of the trickiest lefty serves on a grass court you could ever imagine.
But this young 16-year-old kid that Id never heard of, or seen before, carved us up on serve like Ive never seen before.
He made Chris and myself look like amateurs for a set, but thank goodness his partner managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for them (*), otherwise we would have packed our bags early that week.
(*) That's not very nice to Martin Lee!
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