Australian Open 2007

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

RE: Australian Open 2007

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

the main draw starting in 15mins, first the womens then the mens. so i'll say about half 12 GMT, the draw will be done. i always go on eurosport, because they do 'breaking news' to who the top players are playing!

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

Its still early days BUT according to WTAworld, Serena Williams is against HINGIS!

Unofficial.

steven · Tennis legend

Hope Mrs Stepanek thrashes her and class beats brawn for once!

steven · Tennis legend

Baghdatis in same half as Fed (i.e. top half), Hewitt in the bottom half, possible Duckboy v mad Saffy in R3, that's all that's filtered out so far.

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

Hewitt's in Nadal's half, with Blake as his 4th rd opponent!

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,21047992-23216,00.html

steven · Tennis legend

Andy has Alberto Martin (ESP) in R1

Verdasco or Mathieu in R2

(17) Nieminen in R3 (or possibly Chela)

(2) Nadal in R4

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Andy plays Alberto Martin
Edit - Steven beat me to it!

-- Edited by Madeline at 00:08, 2007-01-12

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

Confirmed: Andy Murray to play Albert Martin in the 1st rd.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I have just seen that Nadal has drawn Kendrick again - the American who nearly beat him at Wimbers. . .

steven · Tennis legend

VSandhi20 wrote:

Its still early days BUT according to WTAworld, Serena Williams is against HINGIS!
Unofficial.

It was a dud rumour on one of the forums. Hingis got Déchy and Williams got Santangelo.

steven · Tennis legend

Madeline wrote:

Andy plays Alberto Martin
Edit - Steven beat me to it!

-- Edited by Madeline at 00:08, 2007-01-12

Hey, no

faces ... I spent time writing out the next three rounds as well, just to give everyone else a chance ...

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

. . .and STILL beat me!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Full draw, as posted on MTF (it would take me forever to type this lot out)

http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/.../ms/index.html

Roger Federer SUI (1) vs. Bjorn Phau GER
Jonas Bjorkman SWE vs. Olivier Patience FRA
Simon Greul GER vs. Yen-Hsun Lu TPE
Jan Hernych CZE vs. Mikhail Youzhny RUS (25)
Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP (24) vs. Jan Hajek CZE
Danai Udomchoke THA vs. Martin Vassallo Arguello ARG
Feliciano Lopez ESP vs. QUALIFIER
Nicolas Massu CHI vs. Novak Djokovic SRB (14)
Marcos Baghdatis CYP (11) vs. Rainer Schuettler GER
Gael Monfils FRA vs. Daniele Bracciali ITA
Gilles Simon FRA vs. Amer Delic USA
Filippo Volandri ITA vs. Richard Gasquet FRA (18)
Jose Acasuso ARG (27) vs. Sam Querrey USA
Florent Serra FRA vs. Nicolas Devilder FRA
Ivo Karlovic CRO vs. Jurgen Melzer AUT
Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo ESP vs. Tommy Robredo ESP (7)

Ivan Ljubicic CRO (4) vs. Mardy Fish USA
Nicolas Mahut FRA vs. Juan Monaco ARG
Stefan Koubek AUT vs. Wayne Arthurs AUS
QUALIFIER vs. Agustin Calleri ARG (30)
Radek Stepanek CZE (20) vs. Michael Llodra FRA
Lukas Dlouhy CZE vs. QUALIFIER
Thomas Johansson SWE vs. QUALIFIER
Kristian Pless DEN vs. David Ferrer ESP (16)
Mario Ancic CRO (9) vs. Go Soeda JPN
Joachim Johansson SWE vs. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP
Vincent Spadea USA vs. Igor Andreev RUS
Jiri Vanek CZE vs. Dominik Hrbaty SVK (22)
Marat Safin RUS (26) vs. Benjamin Becker GER
QUALIFIER vs. Paradorn Srichaphan THA
Marc Gicquel FRA vs. Alun Jones AUS
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA vs. Andy Roddick USA (6)

David Nalbandian ARG (8) vs. Janko Tipsarevic SRB
QUALIFIER vs. Nicolas Lapentti ECU
Chris Guccione AUS vs. Olivier Rochus BEL
Christophe Rochus BEL vs. Sebastien Grosjean FRA (28)
Robin Soderling SWE (23) vs. Florian Mayer GER
Andreas Seppi ITA vs. QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs. QUALIFIER
Albert Montanes ESP vs. Tommy Haas GER (12)
Tomas Berdych CZE (13) vs. Hyung-Taik Lee KOR
QUALIFIER vs. Robert Smeets AUS
Max Mirnyi BLR vs. Luis Horna PER
QUALIFIER vs. Dmitry Tursunov RUS (21)
Xavier Malisse BEL (29) vs. Arnaud Clement FRA
Fabrice Santoro FRA vs. Igor Kunitsyn RUS
Gilles Muller LUX vs. Gaston Gaudio ARG
Sergio Roitman ARG vs. Nikolay Davydenko RUS (3)

James Blake USA (5) vs. Carlos Moya ESP
Peter Luczak AUS vs. QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs. QUALIFIER
Robby Ginepri USA vs. Nicolas Almagro ESP (32)
Lleyton Hewitt AUS (19) vs. QUALIFIER
Frank Dancevic CAN vs. Victor Hanescu ROM
Juan Martin Del Potro ARG vs. Alessio Di Mauro ITA
Evgeny Korolev RUS vs. Fernando Gonzalez CHI (10)
Andy Murray GBR (15) vs. Alberto Martin ESP
Fernando Verdasco ESP vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA
Juan Ignacio Chela ARG vs. Potito Starace ITA
Paul Goldstein USA vs. Jarkko Nieminen FIN (17)
Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (31) vs. Kevin Kim USA
Julien Benneteau FRA vs. QUALIFIER
Kristof Vliegen BEL vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber GER
Robert Kendrick USA vs. Rafael Nadal ESP (2)

steven · Tennis legend

Alberto Martin is WR 60, got as high as 34 five years ago.

He had a 6-match losing streak in July & August then didn't play until again until Doha last week, when he lost to Christophe Rochus, whom Andy then thrashed in the next round.

7-match losing streak came to an end when he beat Monfils in Auckland this week before losing to Robredo.

The Monfils win was his first off clay since he beat di Mauro at Wimby. He was the player that Rod-duck retired against at the FO last year and he reached the L16 there before retiring himself.

He has a 0-5 record against Brits over the last 10 years - 3 losses to Tim between 2000-2002, and losses to Greg in Bournemouth in 1997 and Wimby 2005.

In other words, Andy's going to have to play seriously badly to go out in R1 of the AO again!