SITE: KHALIFA INTERNATIONAL TENNIS & SQUASH COMPLEX MAJLIS ALTAAWON ST, AL DAFNA DOHA, QATAR SURFACE: REBOUND ACE BALL: WILSON AUSTRALIAN OPEN PRIZE MONEY: US DOLLARSPAID BY ATP WEB SITE: www.qataropen.org
Qualifying draw: Friday, January 2, 9:00 p.m. Main draw: Saturday, January 3, 5:30 p.m. Doubles draw: Saturday, January 3, 6:00 p.m.
Entry deadline: November 24, 2008 Seeding: December 29, 2008
1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 2 Federer, Roger SUI 2 3 Murray, Andy GBR 4 4 Roddick, Andy USA 8 5 Andreev, Igor RUS 19 6 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 22 7 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 28 8 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 32 9 Seppi, Andreas ITA 35 10 Montanes, Albert ESP 45 11 Hanescu, Victor ROU 50 12 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 52 13 Troicki, Viktor SRB 57 14 Petzschner, Philipp GER 66 15 Hernandez, Oscar ESP 68 16 Rochus Christophe BEL 69 17 Starace, Potito ITA 71 18 Devilder, Nicolas FRA 72 19 Navarro, Ivan ESP 73 20 Chardy, Jeremy FRA 74 21 Massu, Nicolas CHI 76 OUT 22 Junqueira, Diego ARG 79 23 Hernych, Jan CZE 80 24 Gremelmayr, Denis GER 83 25 Vliegen, Kristof BEL 84 26 (Q) 27 (Q) 28 (Q) 29 (Q) 30 (WC)Monfils, Gael FRA 31 (WC)Clement, Arnaud FRA 32 (WC)Al Haji, Abdullah QAT
Alternates 1 Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 93 IN 2 Clement, Arnaud FRA 94 OUT TO MD (WC) 3 Kendrick, Robert USA 98
Andy's first match is Albert Montanes (should win that!),then either Chardy or Petschner. If people play to their seeding he should meet Tursunov in the quarters and Fed in the semis - Rafa is in the other half.