Western & Southern Financial Group Masters Draw

[MEAC_ALLAMERICAN]

1) FEDERER, Roger SUI/BYE
TURSUNOV, Dmitry RUS v Q/SE
(WC) HENMAN, Tim GBR v CHELA, Juan Ignacio ARG
BAGHDATIS, Marcos CYP v (14) MURRAY, Andy GBR

(11) LJUBICIC, Ivan CRO v Q/SE
ALMAGRO, Nicolas ESP v MAYER, Florian GER
NIEMINEN, Jarkko FIN v Q/SE
(7) ROBREDO, Tommy ESP/BYE

(4) DJOKOVIC, Novak SRB/BYE
MOYA, Carlos ESP v NALBANDIAN, David ARG
CALLERI, Agustin ARG v KOHLSCHREIBER, Philipp GER
Q/SE v (15) CANAS, Guillermo ARG

(12) HAAS, Tommy GER v ANCIC, Mario CRO
MELZER, Jurgen AUT v Q/SE
WAWRINKA, Stanislas SUI v HEWITT, Lleyton AUS
(8) GASQUET, Richard FRA/BYE

(5) DAVYDENKO, Nikolay/BYE
BJORKMAN, Jonas v (WC) GINEPRI, Robby
CLEMENT, Arnaud v MATHIEU, Paul-Henri
BECKER, Benjamin v (10) BERDYCH, Tomas

(16) FERRER, David v (WC) ISNER, John
FISH, Mardy v STEPANEK, Radek
VOLANDRI, Filippo v VERDASCO, Fernando
(3) RODDICK, Andy/BYE

(6) GONZALEZ, Fernando/BYE
FERRERO, Juan Carlos v Q/SE
SAFIN, Marat v KIEFER, Nicolas
Q/SE v (9) BLAKE, James

(13) YOUZHNY, Mikhail v HRBATY, Dominik
GICQUEL, Marc v (WC) QUERREY, Sam
Q/SE v MONACO, Juan
(2) NADAL, Rafael/BYE

 

[ken1d]

NAdal's draw is too tough too many people on his side has good record against on hard court. AFter second round every other round is gonna be a nightmare.

 

[Fedace]

Boy they must really feel sorry for Tim Henman, they keep giving him these wildcards to only get beat up in the 1st round. Chela will beat him up again and make him feel even older.

 

[scholarlyg]

i expect federer,djokovic and roddick to make the semis. nadal will make the semis if youzhy and blake continue their bad form.if either of the them play like they did last year then they will both beat nadal. he hasnt improved on hardcourts. indian wells and miam are slow and he has always played well on ultra slow hard courts (he made teh finals of miami before and semi s of iw before this year). they are the closest to clay you can get on a hardcourt.he is already struggling in montreal which is faster than IW and Miami but not nearly as fast a Cincy. nadal needs too much time to prepare to hit a forehand and too high a bounce when he has to hit low balls he hits them short.

 

[ken1d]

Thats what I said. THese courts are too fast for nadal and you can see it how many times he has miss hit balls.