1 Federer, Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 3 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 3 4 Nalbandian, David ARG 4 5 Robredo, Tommy ESP 5 6 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 6 7 Safin, Marat RUS 6 @ 8 Blake, James USA 7 9 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 8 10 Stepanek, Radek CZE 9 OUT 11 Roddick, Andy USA 10 12 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 11 13 Ancic, Mario CRO 12 14 Ferrer, David ESP 13 15 Berdych, Tomas CZE 14 16 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 15 17 Haas, Tommy GER 16 18 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 17 OUT 19 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 18 20 Murray, Andy GBR 19 21 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 20 OUT 22 Johansson, Joachim SWE 21 @ 23 Ginepri, Robby USA 21 24 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 22 25 Djokovic, Novak SCG 23 26 Gaudio, Gaston ARG 24 27 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 25 28 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 26 29 Acasuso, Jose ARG 27 30 Calleri, Agustin ARG 28 31 Gasquet, Richard FRA 29 32 Rochus, Olivier BEL 30 33 Monfils, Gael FRA 31 34 Andreev, Igor RUS 32 OUT 35 Malisse, Xavier BEL 33 36 Soderling, Robin SWE 34 37 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 35 38 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 36 39 (SE) CLEARED 40 (WC) Henman, Tim GBR 41 (WC) Moya, Carlos ESP 42 (WC) Lopez, Feliciano ESP 43 (Q) 44 (Q) 45 (Q) 46 (Q) 47 (Q) 48 (Q)
Alternates 1. Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 37 IN 2. Vliegen, Kristof BEL 38 IN 3. Agassi, Andre USA 39 OUT 4. Johansson, Thomas SWE 40 OUT 5. Massu, Nicolas CHI 41 IN 6. Coria, Guillermo ARG 42 OUT 7. Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 43 IN 8. Serra, Florent FRA 44 IN 9. Verkerk, Martin NED 44 @# OUT 10. Almagro, Nicolas ESP 45 11. Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 46 12. Clement, Arnaud FRA 47 13. Moya, Carlos ESP 48 14. Santoro, Fabrice FRA 49 15. Martin, Alberto ESP 50 OUT 16. Benneteau, Julien FRA 51 17. Simon, Gilles FRA 52 18. Volandri, Filippo ITA 53 19. Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 54 20. Mirnyi, Max BLR 55
Unfortunately it looks like Tim won't be involved here bar a wildcard. He's not entered for the qualies and there's unlikely to be enough withdrawals for him to make the cut.
Hopefully Andy gets a good draw and can get his form going again. The courts in Madrid are fast and quite bouncy, the ball really flies off the court.
Tim hasn't entered Paris either which is a disappointment. I think he has decided to concentrate on Tokyo, Vienna and Basel. I read somewhere his target is to be seeded for the Aus open, which he can do if he can maintain this level. A question though: if he has not entered qualifying, will he be eligible for an SE for Madrid if he does really well in Vienna? Perhaps if he canshow he would be a real threat the Parisians may be willing to give him a wild card. The French absolutely loved the attacking tennis he played when he won there in 2003, beating Davydeno, grosjean, Kuertan, Federer, Roddick and Pavel. I remember that had to rely on withdrawals to make the cut....
This is a 48 draw event, which I think means there are 16 seeds who get a bye in the first round. As Andy will not be ranked as high as 16 on Monday he would not be seeded, but the upside is that he would not have to meet a top seed in the first round.....but then, maybe that is not so good, he seems to play better against the top players than he does against the lower ranks!
Protected Ranking. When ur injured for a certain length of time (6 months+ i think) you can use your ranking prior to the injury for a while (something like 8 tournaments or 6 months whichever comes first)