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This tournament follows ATP Bangkok and begins on Monday 2nd October. It's on indoor hard. Andy will be defending points from reaching the quarters of the Mons 125k challenger last year [he withdrew with a hamstring injury during his quarter-final against Xavier Malisse].

Thank goodness the ATP have got their own scoreboards for each tournament now, otherwise we'd have to try and find our way round the totally indecipherable official website [unless you're Japanese that is !] to find information

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1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
2 Nalbandian, David ARG 4 OUT
3 Robredo, Tommy ESP 6
4 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 8 OUT
5 Stepanek, Radek CZE 9 OUT
6 Roddick, Andy USA 10 OUT
7 Ancic, Mario CRO 12
8 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 15
9 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 17 OUT
10 Murray, Andy GBR 19
11 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 20 OUT
12 Ginepri, Robby USA 21
13 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 26
14 Monfils, Gael FRA 31 OUT
15 Coria, Guillermo ARG 42 OUT
16 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 43
17 Novak, Jiri CZE 49@
18 Henman, Tim GBR 62
19 Phau, Bjorn GER 68
20 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 69 OUT
21 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 70
22 Monaco, Juan ARG 72
23 Gimelstob, Justin USA 74 OUT
24 Greul, Simon GER 77
25 Schuettler, Rainer GER 79
26 Goldstein, Paul USA 80
27 Spadea, Vincent USA 81
28 Moodie, Wesley RSA 82
29 Vik, Robin CZE 85
30 Marach, Oliver AUT 86
31 Kim, Kevin USA 87
32 Dancevic, Frank CAN 90
33 Daniel, Marcos BRA 94
34 Gremelmayr, Denis GER 97 OUT
35 Vicente, Fernando ESP 98
36 Waske, Alexander GER 102
37 Galvani, Stefano ITA 105
38 Delgado, Ramon PAR 108
39 (WC)
40 (WC)
41 (WC)
42 (WC)
43 (Q)
44 (Q)
45 (Q)
46 (Q)
47 (Q)
48 (Q)
Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 109 IN
Massa, Edgardo ARG 109 protected IN
De Voest, Rik RSA 110 IN
Becker, Benjamin GER 112 IN
Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 114 IN
Koubeck, Stefan AUT 115 IN
Pless, Kristian DEN 117 IN
Udomchoke, Danai THA 119 IN
Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 120 IN
Economidis, Konstantinos GRE 125 IN
Berrer, Michael GER 129 IN

-- Edited by Madeline at 09:47, 2006-09-29

-- Edited by Madeline at 09:54, 2006-09-29

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It's a shame Andy didn't choose the ATP event in Metz this week which has a much weaker entry list, David Ferrer [who Andy beat in rd1 of Toronto] is the top seed, Andy would have been seeded 2nd.

Andy will have to face one of the top 8 in either rd 1 or rd2. Hopefully it's Stepanek or Niemenen.

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UltimateFlemingFan wrote:

It's a shame Andy didn't choose the ATP event in Metz this week which has a much weaker entry list, David Ferrer [who Andy beat in rd1 of Toronto] is the top seed, Andy would have been seeded 2nd.

Andy will have to face one of the top 8 in either rd 1 or rd2. Hopefully it's Stepanek or Niemenen.

why the easy way ?

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Because he'll have a better chance to gain more points than if he faces Federer in rd1 !!!!

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UltimateFlemingFan wrote:

Because he'll have a better chance to gain more points than if he faces Federer in rd1 !!!!

what are you saying? Federer holds no threat whatsoever!

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imoen wrote:

UltimateFlemingFan wrote:

Because he'll have a better chance to gain more points than if he faces Federer in rd1 !!!!

what are you saying? Federer holds no threat whatsoever!




I don't think Andy'd be exactly overjoyed to get him in rd1

Seriously though, I reckon Federer would have more of an edge on indoor hard courts which are a lot faster than the Cincinatti courts and so will suit his attacking game a lot more than Andy's counter-punching style. Andy can be very effective indoors, we've seen that by the guys he beat last year: Soderling, Ginepri, Srichaphan, Henman, Berdych. However, at the moment, he doesn't stand near enough to the baseline indoors. Federer plays right on the baseline, taking every ball early and so building the pressure on his opponent and reducing their recovery time if he's got them on the move. Andy plays several feet behind the baseline, which means that his opponent's got more space to work the ball into, which counts for a lot indoors. This also means that because he's not taking the ball as early as his opponents, he's forced into playing a counter-punching style. Andy likes this but in order to maximise his potential indoors he needs to be able to dominate more of the rallies.

The reason why Andy's had so much success so far indoors is because of his superb movement and anticipation and the quality of his shots on the run, particularly on the backhand side.

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UltimateFlemingFan wrote:


Andy will have to face one of the top 8 in either rd 1 or rd2. Hopefully it's Stepanek or Niemenen.


Why's that?

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maroonsox wrote:


UltimateFlemingFan wrote:



Andy will have to face one of the top 8 in either rd 1 or rd2. Hopefully it's Stepanek or Niemenen.




Why's that?


It depends on Andy's seed position.... Tokyo is a 48 draw so that means 16 seeds. The top 8 seeds are placed in the draw so that they would not meet each other in the early rounds.

The entry list sequence is not the seeding. Its the ATP rankings the Monday before the event starts.


I make it that Andy is 8th seed at present if we were to go by the current rankings...both Hewitt and Niemenen are ranked below Andy now.

So if I have got this right (and I may not have) and the ranking positions do not change between now and the preceeding Monday then Andy would be seeded 8th. This would help avoid the likes of Federer, Blake etc.....heres hoping for that !



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I'm sure Drew is right. Andy will be in position 16 on Monday 18th and as there are no ATP tournaments that week, will still be there on Monday 25th. So he should make 8th seed position.

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Madeline wrote:

I'm sure Drew is right. Andy will be in position 16 on Monday 18th and as there are no ATP tournaments that week, will still be there on Monday 25th. So he should make 8th seed position.


well if mad agrees then he must be 8th seed !

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Ah, I didn't realise that the seed positions were determined by the ATP position the Monday before the tournament. I thought they were determined by the position in the entry list.

That's great that he'll avoid the likes of Fed, Roddick, Baghdatis until the quarters. Hopefully he won't be seeded to meet Hewitt or Nieminen or Henman in rd3.

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Drew wrote:

Madeline wrote:

I'm sure Drew is right. Andy will be in position 16 on Monday 18th and as there are no ATP tournaments that week, will still be there on Monday 25th. So he should make 8th seed position.


well if mad agrees then he must be 8th seed !


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Jamie Murray is going for singles qualies again aswell as doubles with Andy here.

I wonder if Auckland and Delgado might have a go at entering the doubles [and maybe singles qualies if they don't reach the Mumbai semis], they might just make the cut.

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Pretty sure Andy will be seeded 4 in this event.


Looks as though Nalbandian, Stepanek and Roddick have pulled out and every chance Baghdatis will. Henman will be around 10th seed as well!



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That's great news, so Andy will avoid the likes of Fed, Hewitt and Ancic until the semis. Baghdatis may be ok, he said he's injured his serving shoulder and was thinking of playing out but he actually played today, lost 4 and 2

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