Good question.  Why can't Canada say be a week earlier ???    Successive weeks and then one week gap to the US Open is just silly.

Anyway, I'd guess at least Andy will have more success on return against Fish than Dammit who won 8 / 48 points and didn't take Fish to deuce once on return.

I'm kinda not too bothered about the result, just please let it not be a 3 set toilier.

In contrast, Fed got a bye, a retirement in the first set and a walkover!

I'm sure one of the commentators said last week that the players had actually requested a change to the calendar and for the tournaments to be grouped together like this.

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In contrast, Fed got a bye, a retirement in the first set and a walkover!

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The way Fed is playing at the moment he could do with playing a bit more.

Another lunchtime match for Andy tomorrow. Doubles match first up at 15:00 BST followed by Andy (no earlier than 17:00 BST)

Oh had Andy been droppoing hints about his early schedule in the sun here, following on from no night matches at Toronto ?   I'd been guessing it wasn't his choice !
 
I kind of saw how Toronto was playing out, allowing for the previous day's night match and keeping prospective later oppponents playing about the same time left Andy looking likely to be earlyish each day.

Here, with prospective later opponents ( Muzza and Roddick ) playing at either ends of the day, they could really have gone either way and I would have thought more logically had their quarters the later ones.  I get the impression a prospective Nadal / Fed semi is at this stage looked on as being the later semi.  For there was to me, with Roger's day off and Nadal playing late in the afternoon but not the night match, every opportunity to have Roger and Rafa as first on followed by Djokovic vs Andy Roddick with Muzza playing the night match ( he's playing an American too so presumably not unattractive ).

Instead the first 2 matches today are Andy ( yet again ) and Roddick ( following his night match ) with Roger and Rafa ( today's night match ) to follow.

I'd put a guess which is going to be first semi on Saturday     Maybe Andy will be out of here and not involved.

Interesting look at the logic . . . good to see someone is thinking these things through! I think that today part of the situation is also his opponent: because he's still in the doubles, Fish has to play twice. That probably made an early start on the singles more likely . . . .