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French Open - ATPSeeds are set. Murray pulled out, maybe Ancic too?Seed, Name, Country 1) Roger Federer (SUI) 2) Rafael Nadal (ESP) 3) Andy Roddick (USA) 4) Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 5) Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) 6) Novak Djokovic (SRB) 7) Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)  James Blake (USA)
9) Tommy Robredo (ESP) 10) Tommy Haas (GER) 11) Tomas Berdych (CZE) 12) Richard Gasquet (FRA) 13) David Ferrer (ESP) 14) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) 15) Llyton Hewitt (AUS) 16) Mario Ancic (CRO) (Not sure of him playing or not) 17) David Nalbandian (ARG) 1 Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)
19) Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) 20) Juan Iganacio Chela (ARG) 21) Guillermo Canas (ARG) 22) Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 23) Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 24) Marat Safin (RUS) 25) Carlos Moya (ESP) 26) Dominik Hrbaty (SVK) 27) Robin Soderling (SWE) 2 Agustin Calleri (ARG)
29) Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 30) Mardy Fish (USA) 31) Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 32) Filippo Volandri (ITA) Next up to be seeded, Julien Benneteau (FRA) Florian Mayer (GER) Nicolas Almagro (ESP) Jonas Bjorkman (SWE) |
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Malisse pulled out | ||
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Qualies Second Round
(3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) def Federick Niemeyer (CAN) 3-6 6-1 6-4 Rainer Schuettler (GER) def Benedikt Dorsch (GER) 6-7 (3) 6-4 6-3 Benjamin Balleret (MON) def Oleksandr Dolgopolov (UKR) 6-7 (5) 7-5 6-1 Laurent Recouderc (FRA) def (21) Raemon Sluiter (NED) 7-6 (3) 6-3 (5) Ivan Navarro Pastor (ESP) def Harel Levy (ISR) 6-3 6-4 Fabio Fognini (ITA) def (6) Michael Berrer (GER) 6-2 6-4 Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) def Robin Vik (CZE) 2-6 6-3 6-4 Marcos Daniel (BRA) def Diego Junqueira (ARG) 6-2 7-6 (6) (24) Juan Pablo Brzezicki (ARG) def Martin Klizan (SVK) 6-2 5-7 6-2 Flavio Cipolla (ITA) def Marcel Granollers-Pujol (ESP) 2-6 7-5 6-4 (23) Fernando Vicente (ESP) def Michal Mertinak (SVK) 7-5 6-7 (3) 7-5 (30)Konstantinos Economidis(GRE) def Simone Vagnozzi (ITA) 4-6 6-2 6-3 Pablo Andujar (ESP) def Ivo Klec (SVK) 6-4 6-2 (1) Mariano Zabaleta (ARG) def Wayne Odesnik (USA) 7-6 ( 5-7 6-3
(7) Juan-Pablo Guzman (ARG) def Simon Stadler (GER) 6-3 6-2 Marc Lopez (ESP) def (2) Andrei Pavel (ROU) 6-4 7-5 |
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| J-man |
Rainer coming back. Its been a while since I've seen him play. | ||
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Draw is out. If the seeds hold the RD32 will be,
1st Quarter Roger Federer-Julien Benneteau Juan Carlos Ferrero-Mikhail Youzhny Tommy Robredo-Marat Safin Ivan Ljubicic-Filippo Volandri 2nd Quarter Nikolay Davydenko-Nicolas Almagro David Nalbandian-Juan Ignacio Chela Richard Gasquet-Guillermo Canas Fernando Gonzalez-Jurgen Melzer 3rd Quarter Novak Djokovic-Agustin Calleri David Ferrer-Dmitry Tursunov Marcos Baghdatis-Dominik-Hrbaty Andy Roddick-Florian Mayer 4th Quarter James Blake-Philipp Kohlschreiber Tomas Berdych-Carlos Moya Llyton Hewit-Jarkko Nieminen Rafael Nadal-Robin Solderling |
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| J-man |
If the seeds hold as predicted there could be some good matches. | ||
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Some really interesting potential matches... Federer-Benneteau, Ferrero-Youzhny, Robredo-Safin, Gasquet-Canas, Gonzalez-Melzer, Berdych-Moya, Hewitt-Nieminen, and Nadal-Solderling... should be really interesting. I think Benneteau might give Federer some problems. | ||
| pacomexican |
Good luck Gasquet 
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| Tennis fan |
Nadal does not need to worry about the streak anymore... So less pressure on him... Federer has the pressure for the career GS...
Who do you think is going to win? Nadal for sure! |
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| Rattler |
Roddick out in 4 sets.... | ||
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Roddick has some serious problems on clay... no matter what he does, he can't solve the problem. Perhaps its movement? | ||
| Tennis fan |
American men have seen plenty of lousy days at Roland Garros since Andre Agassi won the 1999 title, but the first Tuesday of 2007 is sure to go down in the annals as one of the worst. All nine US men entered in the draw went on court on Tuesday and only one remained whose match was suspended after the two spilt sets due to darkness. The eight men out included third seed Andy Roddick, eighth seed James Blake, Mike Russell, Vince Spadea, Robert Kendrick, Sam Querrey, Amer Delic and Justin Gimelstob. Americans flame: Roddick, Blake and six others all lose |
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Time for the coaches to wake up. There is absolutely no reason for Americans to be doing so poorly. They need to be taught to move on the surface and adapt their games. 'Boom-boom' tennis just doesn't work on clay.
Perhaps they should be coming in to the net more often... Andre did that in the 1999 final and won. |
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| Tennis fan |
Robby Ginepri lost too in the final 1st round upset of American men to complete the unheard of 0-9
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| J-man |
It's to bad for American tennis. Roddick was really getting pushed back in that match against Igor. His court postioning was horrible. Movement has something to do with it also. | ||
| J-man |
Nadal vs Hewitt 4 round. Any thoughts guys ? | ||
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Nadal beats Hewitt in straights... I watched the first set. Hewitt's groundies actually looked really, really limp when compared to Nadal. Nadal's had so much spin and were so much quicker, while Hewitt's were flatter than I thought they were. Hewitt showed some serious determination though. He kept on fighting even when down 4-1, 5-2.... | ||
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Just watched the replay of Sets 2 & 3. Hewitt actually played some really smart points, and he demonstrated some wonderful thinking out there. Too bad he's not as talented as Nadal.... | ||
| Rattler |
Hewitt surprised me with how well he played against Nadal in Hamburg. I was expecting more of the same from him, as well as Nadal making the adjustments to counter Hewitt's strategy...Nadal really didn't allow Hewitt to pull him wide to his backhand side this time. |
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| J-man |
Federer won his match 7-5 1-6 6-1 6-2. Davydenko is also through after a straight set win over Canas and ext faces Federer which should be a good match. Davydenko is going to really need to go for his shots and take his chances against Federer. | ||
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The semifinals are set:
Federer vs. Davydenko Nadal (who trumped over Moya in straights) vs. Djokavic (who beat Andreev easily) |
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| J-man |
I was surprised that Novak D was able to beat Igor so easily. Novak was pushing Igor back which is what Igor Has been doing all week against his opponent. | ||
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Replay of last year's final... Federer vs. Nadal.
Federer got a stiff test, but beat Davydenko 7-5, 7-6(5), 7-6(7). Nadal beat out Djokavic 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. |
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| J-man |
Federe Davydenko was an intresting match, to say the least. Good start from Davydenko in both all sets but couldn't close it out.
At the end of NBC's broadcast you could see in the background Novak and Nadal warming up, as they said "So, this ends are boradcast for today"  
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Nadal triumphs over Federer 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to win his third straight. | ||
| J-man |
Man oh man. There's go's his last chance for the "Grand Slam". Federer was trying to be aggrisive off his forehand but he wasn't consistant enough. Missing many forehands. Nadal played great. Going after Fed's backhand. Making Federer play some great shots.
I was hoping Federer would win today and maybe once I would see some make the Grand Slam, once (and only once). I think as the years go by Federer's chances will dwindle. |
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| Rattler |
Yep Fed's chances to get his hands on a the Cup de Musketeers are getting pretty slim; however, I don't think he should be totally written off yet. After all he has been the second best clay courter on the men's side for the last two years. | ||
| Tennis fan |
He seems to still have a positive attitude. He said that if he wins in the future, it will be all that much more sweeter because of all these losses. | ||