2007 AO men's draw

[Brinyi]

Henman opts against warm-up event

Tim Henman will not play a warm-up tournament ahead of the Australian Open in January.

The 32-year-old Briton plans to spend more time with his family and also allow a knee injury to heal completely.

"Usually I play a tournament before the Open but this year I decided to spend a little longer at home with my family before hitting the road again.

"And it will also give me a bit of extra time to make sure my knee is fully recovered before I start."

Henman picked up the injury to his right knee at the end of the season but he came through a charity game with Mark Philippoussis earlier this month.

"It's about 85% at the moment but it's proving a bit stubborn and it's not quite fully healed yet," said Henman.

"Obviously that's my priority and I'm working hard on it at the moment."

[freudo]

good luck, Tim!!!

[Brinyi]

Kiefer has withdrawn

[DBBN]

SF last year = plummet.

[Brinyi]

Terrible shame.

[leelee]

The finalist will also drop out of the top 20.

[Brinyi]

Ze seeds
Men

1. Roger Federer, Switzerland
2. Rafael Nadal, Spain
3. Nikolay Davydenko, Russia
4. Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia
5. James Blake, United States
6. Andy Roddick, United States
7. Tommy Robredo,Spain
8. David Nalbandian, Argentina
9. Mario Ancic, Croatia
10. Fernando Gonzalez, Chile
11. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus
12. Tommy Haas, Germany
13. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic
14. Novak Djokovic, Serbia
15. Andy Murray, Britain
16. David Ferrer, Spain
17. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland
18. Richard Gasquet, France
19. Lleyton Hewitt, Australiao
20. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic
21. Dmitry Tursunov, Russia
22. Dominik Hrbaty, Slovakia
23. Robin Soderling, Sweden
24. Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain
25. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia
26. Marat Safin, Russia
27. Jose Acasuso, Argentina
28. Sebastien Grosjean, France
29. Xavier Malisse, Belgium
30. Agustin Calleri, Argentina
31. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland
32. Nicolas Almagro, Spain

[Brinyi]

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)

[leelee]

Ack, yucky draw for Kolya. He'll probably lose to Malisse.

Nadal-Kendrick rematch. I expect it to be close again, also...

Poor Baghdatis already guaranteed to lose 450 points.

[DBBN]

This may be the first time ever I'm looking more forward to the men's side of a Salami. Some really intriguing matches should occur right from Day 1.

[Brinyi]

Dancevic should at least hold true to his recent pattern of winning a match per tournament -- the word on the streets of Bucharest is that Hanescu has not yet completely recovered his strength after a car accident

[Traveling Man]

Tough break for Marcos. Blake-Moya could be fun!

I just realized it's been 10 years since Carlos' final. I was stunned when he beat Chang in the semifinals (if memory serves me right). I feel so old, now.

[Brinyi]

Q. Bit of a scare in Sydney the other day. How is the injury?
MARCOS BAGHDATIS: Fine, fine. Very good.

Q. Did you think you were in trouble there or did you know you just tweaked it?
MARCOS BAGHDATIS: I was scared a bit in the beginning. Then seeing myself getting through, the pain was slowly, slowly disappearing, I felt better.

Q. Have you had treatment on it since?
MARCOS BAGHDATIS: Yeah, I had treatment after the match against Carlos, coming here. It's much better now. Nothing to worry.