RG Men's Main Draw

[sasha]

Roger Federer SUI (1) vs Sam Querrey USA
Kristof Vliegen BEL vs Albert Montanes ESP
Qualifier vs Qualifier
Andreas Seppi ITA (31) vs Mario Ancic CRO
Ivo Karlovic CRO (20) vs Alejandro Falla COL
Vincent Spadea USA vs Julien Benneteau FRA
Qualifier vs Mischa Zverev GER
Juan Monaco ARG (13) vs Robin Soderling SWE

Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (9) vs Philipp Kohlschreiber GER
Robin Haase NED vs Marin Cilic CRO
Filippo Volandri ITA vs Qualifier
Fernando Gonzalez CHI (24) vs Pablo Cuevas URU
Igor Andreev RUS (27) vs Potito Starace ITA
Robby Ginepri USA vs Donald Young USA
Victor Hanescu ROU vs Dudi Sela ISR
Richard Gasquet FRA (8) vs Florent Serra FRA


Nikolay Davydenko RUS (4) vs Thomas Johansson SWE
Marat Safin RUS vs Qualifier
Adrian Mannarino FRA vs Qualifier
Ivan Ljubicic CRO (28) vs Eric Prodon FRA
Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP (23) vs Marcos Daniel BRA
Peter Luczak AUS vs Jurgen Melzer AUT
Arnaud Clement FRA vs Gael Monfils FRA
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (14) vs Qualifier

Tommy Robredo ESP (12) vs Guillermo Coria ARG
Marc Gicquel FRA vs Viktor Troicki SRB
Jiri Vanek CZE vs Qualifier
Radek Stepanek CZE (21) vs Gilles Simon FRA
Lleyton Hewitt AUS (25) vs Nicolas Mahut FRA
Mardy Fish USA vs Agustin Calleri ARG
Florian Mayer GER vs Fabrice Santoro FRA
David Ferrer ESP (5) vs Steve Darcis BEL




James Blake USA (7) vs Rainer Schuettler GER
Ernests Gulbis LAT vs Qualifier
Bobby Reynolds USA vs Thierry Ascione FRA
Janko Tipsarevic SRB (32) vs Nicolas Lapentti ECU
Marcos Baghdatis CYP (17) vs Simone Bolelli ITA
Juan Martin Del Potro ARG vs Fabio Fognini ITA
Olivier Patience FRA vs Michael Llodra FRA
Tomas Berdych CZE (11) vs Robert Smeets AUS

Carlos Moya ESP (16) vs Qualifier
Michael Berrer GER vs Marcel Granollers ESP
Ivo Minar CZE vs Oscar Hernandez ESP
Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA (18) vs Gustavo Kuerten BRA
Guillermo Canas ARG (29) vs Wayne Odesnik USA
Hyung-Taik Lee KOR vs Jonas Bjorkman SWE
Qualifier vs Frank Dancevic CAN
Novak Djokovic SRB (3) vs Denis Gremelmayr GER


David Nalbandian ARG (6) vs Carlos Berlocq ARG
Qualifier vs Jeremy Chardy FRA
Sergio Roitman ARG vs Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP
Dmitry Tursunov RUS (30) vs Qualifier
Nicolas Almagro ESP (19) vs Boris Pashanski SRB
Olivier Rochus BEL vs Qualifier
Jose Acasuso ARG vs Dominik Hrbaty SVK
Andy Murray GBR (10) vs Jonathan Eysseric FRA

Mikhail Youzhny RUS (15) vs Benjamin Becker GER
Qualifier vs Qualifier
Juan Ignacio Chela ARG vs John Isner USA
Fernando Verdasco ESP (22) vs Santiago Ventura ESP
Jarkko Nieminen FIN (26) vs Nicolas Kiefer GER
Feliciano Lopez ESP vs Martin Vassallo Arguello ARG
Qualifier vs Chris Guccione AUS
Rafael Nadal ESP (2) vs Qualifier

[DBBN]

Ginepri vs. Young!

[lexpretend]

Blake v Schuettler

[Brinyi]

Robin Haase NED vs Marin Cilic CRO is a good RNS matchup.
The Igor Andreev RUS (27) vs Potito Starace ITA winner might make the QF.

Kolya-Marat in the 2R?

Tommy Robredo ESP (12) vs Guillermo Coria ARG, woohoo

LOL about Blake-Schuettler, but I see big possibilities for Gulbis to maybe go very deep in that bracket, given that the other seeds are pretty bad. And in that quarter, an Ivanovician boulevard for Djokovic to the semis.

No way Murray sees the R16, either Chucho or Fathead will take him out.

Isner to whup Nadal in the R16. ;D

[DBBN]

That Blake section is truly very weak. If Snotso can get by Lapentti, he has a shot at the QF.

[sasha]

Fun section with Stan/Igor for a spot in the QF. Many dangerous floaters, and no matches easy to call. I'll go with Igor at the moment, but who knows with him.

Ivo with a bleh draw. Benneteau in R2. I'd like him over Monaco if he survives to that point.

Kolya should get through to the QF easily in the land of overranked and has-beens.

Blake-Berdych section, lolz... and the unranked players kinda suck, too. I'll go with Blake or Bolelli for the QF there. And Bolelli would be about the worst top 25 player ever.

Murray will make the QF, assuming Fathead's wrist is still an issue. Then, Murray/Nadal AGAIN which is boring.

[corswandt]

May 23, 2008 15:31:15 GMT -5 @sasha said:

Murray will make the QF, assuming Fathead's wrist is still an issue. Then, Murray/Nadal AGAIN which is boring.

No chance of a Nal vs Nad QF then?

Gil drew Chardy. Saw Chardy play two years ago, and he was all serve. Now up to #145, but considering he's a year older than Cilic or Gulbis, I'd say he still sux. So good chance of a win for our hard working overachiever.

[sasha]

I don't like how Fat's playing this clay season. The Rome loss to Almagro looked like his pre-Indoor season lazy play. And I think it's a bad matchup vs. Murray... Murray should be able to break him at will.

[corswandt]

May 23, 2008 16:42:25 GMT -5 @sasha said:

And I think it's a bad matchup vs. Murray... Murray should be able to break him at will.

Went to check the H2H and found that funny score.

Murray hasn't got much to hurt Dave from the baseline, plus he sux on clay, doesn't he?

But I'll bow to your bigger expertise here.

[lexpretend]

I think I'd rather take Almagro in the Fat/Mope section. Unless he's still injured.

[sasha]

Murray's game is fine on clay. He moves well and knows how to slide. And he thinks it's his best surface. His groundies can hurt anyone when he's playing well, and doesn't let his emotions get the best of him such as blasting every 1st serve as hard as possible and hitting 40% 1st serves, which unfortunately happens all the time because he's a jackass.

Oh, sorry for the rant. The bugger annoys me.

[Traveling Man]

May 23, 2008 20:43:28 GMT -5 @sasha said:

Oh, sorry for the rant. The bugger annoys me.

Yes.

Also, all-Swiss QF! It looks doable. I would've rooted for Kohl, but his obnoxious play against Robredo in Hamburg was a no-no. Also, he's playing against, Stan the Man!

[Brinyi]

Murray blows on clay. I don't know what he was doing in Barcelona when he was there, but it wasn't learning about how to play on clay.

[Brinyi]

Jenkins vs Tsonga
Josselin Ouanna vs Del Potron
Schwankster vs Moya
Bellucci vs Nadal

Maybe Schwankster has a shot there...

[sasha]

I give Schwank a very good chance there. A nice betting opportunity.

[sasha]

More stupid picks:

Federer d Benneteau
Andreev d Wawrinka
Davydenko d Ferrero
Stepanek d Ferrer
Bolelli d Blake
Djokovic d Hernandez
Murray d Fat Dave
Nadal d Verdasco

Federer d Andreev
Davydenko d Stepanek
Djokovic d Bolelli
Nadal d Murray

Federer d Davydenko
Nadal d Djokovic

zzzzzzzzz

[corswandt]

May 24, 2008 15:43:09 GMT -5 @sasha said:

zzzzzzzzz

Agreed.

[lexpretend]

Federer d Monaco
Andreev d Gonzalez
Davydenko d Ferrero
Ferrer d Stepanek
Tipsarevic d Baghdatis
Djokovic d Schwank
Almagro d Garcia Lopez
Nadal d Verdasco

Federer d Andreev
Davydenko d Ferrer
Djokovic d Tipsarevic
Nadal d Almagro

zzzz

[sasha]

I would have went zzzz in that round, but I think the SF results are still questionable.

I'd be jubilant if Nole could beat Rafa. I think he's the only player with a remote chance of doing so.