evans got davdyd!!

i cant believe that draw for all 4 WC's

Bedrdych, Llodra, Davydenko & Verdasco!!!

So we seem to have:

Josh v Llodra
Boggo v (21) Berdbrain
Wardy v (7) Verdasco
Evo v (12) Davydenko

Has there ever been a worse draw for the GB WCs? Just shows that to get someone through, you need as many in the draw as possible to maximise the chances of one of them drawing a grass court clown.

Stinker of a draw!  And Dimitrov has been drawn against Kunitsyn.

-- Edited by Guid007 on Friday 19th of June 2009 10:15:34 AM

is this the worst draw ever? What are they waiting for? An hour later and still no full draw, this is total and utter rubbish.

Davydenko's got a pretty poor grass court record - I'd have given Josh or Boggo a chance against him.

Remember Andy left it very very late a couple of years ago when many folk thought it very unlikely he was ever going to play and a lucky loser eventually took his seeded place, it being too late to even put a 33rd seed in his place.

Rafa, more than anyone, as defending champion has every right to give himself every chance to play.

Unfortunately the reports from Radio 5 about his match with Hewitt don't look encouraging.   Not only did he lose but he was evidently struggling to get down to low balls.

If Nadal withdrew the Del Potro to Nadal's place etc makes reasonable sense, in they are keeping the seed batches ( 1 to 4 ), ( 5 to 16) and ( 17 to 32 ) balanced by replacing in slots with the next best available.  I know it would be great for Andy to totally avoid having in his half of the draw any of the remaining top 4 players left, but this arrangement strikes me as pretty fair. They would though be quite fortunate that Andy is in Rafa's half.  If it had been Djoko in Nadal's half and they ended up on a Nadal withdrawal with the top 2 ranked players left in in the same half that wouldn't be so good.

It was my understanding that in the event the no 1 seed pulled out, while they were still in the period where they could rejig things, then the no 2 seed would take the no 1 seed's position at the top of the draw and the no 3 seed take the no 2 seed's place at the bottom of the draw with other changes unclear.  But clearly this is not the case or maybe things have changed this year.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 19th of June 2009 10:33:33 AM