First time winners

[TennisLover17]

Of all the first time ATP winners this year, who do you think will defend their title in 09? Lets have a look see:

Kei Nishikori- Delray Beach
Sergiy Stakhovsky- Zagreb
Sam Querrey- Las Vegas
Marcel Granollers- Houston
Victor Hanescu- Gstaad
Juan Martin Del Potro- Stuttgart
Albert Montanes- Amersfoort
Marin Cilic- New Haven
Jo- Wilfried Tsonga- Bangkok
Philipp Petzscner- Vienna
Igor Kunitsyn- Moscow

 

[kelz]

Kei Nishikori- Delray Beach
Sergiy Stakhovsky- Zagreb
Sam Querrey- Las Vegas
Marcel Granollers- Houston
Victor Hanescu- Gstaad
Juan Martin Del Potro- Stuttgart
Albert Montanes- Amersfoort
Marin Cilic- New Haven
Jo- Wilfried Tsonga- Bangkok
Philipp Petzscner- Vienna
Igor Kunitsyn- Moscow

 

[Shaolin]

None will defend.

 

[Leublu tennis]

Probably Del Potro and Tsonga, by far the best players on the list. Nishikori is a possible.

 

[ford oliver]

First Time Winners to Defend in 2009

Kei Nishikori- Delray Beach
Sergiy Stakhovsky- Zagreb
Sam Querrey- Las Vegas
Marcel Granollers- Houston
Victor Hanescu- Gstaad
Juan Martin Del Potro- Stuttgart
Albert Montanes- Amersfoort
Marin Cilic- New Haven
Jo- Wilfried Tsonga- Bangkok
Philipp Petzscner- Vienna
Igor Kunitsyn- Moscow

kelz, pretty tough for Querrey to defend Las Vegas (and Montanes to defend Amersfoort) since the tournaments no longer exist in those cities.

 

[GrassCourtFan]

Probably none will defend. Many of them will win tournaments in othr places, but those particular tournaments - not too likely.

Perhaps JMDP and Stuttgart...