Last Exit Flushing Meadows - USOpen 07

[davis]

This is the culmination of the US Hardcourt Season and Marat's last chance to finish a lousy summer with a decent result.
Good luck!!!!!

2007 US OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA
AUGUST 27 - SEPTEMBER 9, 2007
QUALIFYING: AUGUST 21-24, 2007
Prize Money: US $9,098,000
128 DRAW

SITE: USTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER
Flushing Meadows - Corona Park
Flushing, NY 11368
WEB SITE: www.usopen.org

Qualifying draw: Monday, August 20, 2007, TBA
Main draw: Wednesday, August 22, 2007, TBA
Men's doubles draw: Saturday, August 25, 2007, 6:00 p.m.
Mixed doubles draw: Tuesday, August 28, 12:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points/ATP Race Points
W: 1000/200
F: 700/140
SF: 450/90
QF: 250/50
R16: 150/30
R32: 75/15
R64: 35/7
R128: 5/1 (WC: 0/0)
Q: +15/+3
Q32: 8/0
Q64: 4/0
Q128: 0/0

Entry deadline: July 16, 2007
Seeding: August 20, 2007

1 Federer,Roger/SUI 1
2 Nadal,Rafael/ESP 2
3 Djokovic,Novak/SRB 3
4 Roddick,Andy/USA 4
5 Davydenko,Nikolay/RUS 5
6 Gonzalez,Fernando/CHI 6
7 Robredo,Tommy/ESP 7
8 Gasquet,Richard/FRA 8
9 Blake,James/USA 9
10 Berdych,Tomas/CZE 10
11 Haas,Tommy/GER 11
12 Ljubicic,Ivan/CRO 12
13 Youzhny,Mikhail/RUS 13
14 Murray,Andy/GBR 14
15 Ferrer,David/ESP 15
16 Canas,Guillermo/ARG 16
17 Ferrero,Juan Carlos/ESP 17
18 Kiefer, Nicolas GER @17
19 Baghdatis,Marcos/CYP 18
20 Chela,Juan Ignacio/ARG 19
21 Moya,Carlos/ESP 20
22 Hewitt,Lleyton/AUS 21
23 Safin,Marat/RUS 22
24 Mathieu,Paul-Henri/FRA 23
25 Nalbandian,David/ARG 24
26 Nieminen,Jarkko/FIN 25
27 Volandri,Filippo/ITA 26
28 Tursunov,Dmitry/RUS 27
29 Soderling,Robin/SWE 28
30 Monaco,Juan/ARG 29
31 Calleri,Agustin/ARG 30
32 Hrbaty,Dominik/SVK 31
33 Melzer,Jurgen/AUT 32
34 Clement,Arnaud/FRA 33
35 Almagro,Nicolas/ESP 34
36 Mayer,Florian/GER 35
37 Malisse,Xavier/BEL 36
38 Kohlschreiber,Philipp/GER 37
39 Ancic,Mario/CRO 38
40 Gicquel,Marc/FRA 39
41 Fish,Mardy/USA 40
42 Karlovic,Ivo/CRO 41
43 Lee,Hyung-Taik/KOR 42
44 Santoro,Fabrice/FRA 43
45 Starace,Potito/ITA 44
46 Ginepri,Robby/USA 45
47 Becker,Benjamin/GER 46
48 Tipsarevic,Janko/SRB 47
49 Verdasco,Fernando/ESP 48
50 Acasuso,Jose/ARG 49
51 Wawrinka,Stanislas/SUI 50
52 Simon,Gilles/FRA 51
53 Hernandez,Oscar/ESP 52
54 Massu,Nicolas/CHI 53
55 Andreev,Igor/RUS 54
56 Montanes,Albert/ESP 55
57 Monfils,Gael/FRA 56
58 Del Potro,Juan Martin/ARG 57
59 Lapentti,Nicolas/ECU 58
60 Bjorkman,Jonas/SWE 59
61 Benneteau,Julien/FRA 60
62 Mahut,Nicolas/FRA 61
63 Spadea,Vincent/USA 62
64 Delic,Amer/USA 63
65 Rochus,Olivier/BEL 64
66 Llodra,Michael/FRA 65
67 Eschauer,Werner/AUT 66
68 Koubek,Stefan/AUT 67
69 Russell,Michael/USA 68
70 Henman,Tim/GBR 69
71 Johansson,Thomas/SWE 70
72 Grosjean,Sebastien/FRA 71
73 Vliegen,Kristof/BEL 72
74 Berlocq,Carlos/ARG 73
75 Gimelstob, Justin USA @73
76 Tsonga,Jo-Wilfried/FRA 74
77 Horna,Luis/PER 75
78 Roitman,Sergio/ARG 76
79 Bolelli,Simone/ITA 77
80 Srichaphan,Paradorn/THA 78
81 Zabaleta,Mariano/ARG 79
82 Garcia-Lopez,Guillermo/ESP 80
83 Serra,Florent/FRA 81
84 Roger-Vasselin,Edouard/FRA 82
85 Seppi,Andreas/ITA 83
86 Lopez,Feliciano/ESP 84
87 Vassallo Arguello,Martin/ARG 85
88 Gulbis,Ernests/LAT 86
89 Hartfield,Diego/ARG 87
90 Guccione,Chris/AUS 88
91 Korolev,Evgeny/RUS 89
92 Mirnyi,Max/BLR 90
93 Querrey,Sam/USA 91
94 Berrer,Michael/GER 92
95 Ramirez Hidalgo,Ruben/ESP 93
96 Navarro Pastor,Ivan/ESP 94
97 Pless,Kristian/DEN 95
98 Gabashvili,Teimuraz/RUS 96
99 Goldstein,Paul/USA 97
100 Luczak,Peter/AUS 98
101 Kunitsyn,Igor/RUS 99
102 Guzman,Juan-Pablo/ARG 100
103 Stepanek,Radek/CZE 101
104 Devilder, Nicolas/FRA 102
105 (Q)
106 (Q)
107 (Q)
108 (Q)
109 (Q)
110 (Q)
111 (Q)
112 (Q)
113 (Q)
114 (Q)
115 (Q)
116 (Q)
117 (Q)
118 (Q)
119 (Q)
120 (Q)
121 Donald Young USA
122 John Isner USA
123 Alex Kuznetsov USA
124 Jesse Levine USA
125 Wayne Odesnik USA
126 Ryan Sweeting USA
127 Alun Jones AUS (TA)
128 Michael McClune USA (Kalamazoo champion)


Defending US Open Champion Headlines 2007 US Open Field
All Top-100 Men Set to Compete

Federer Attempting to Set Open Era Record of Four Consecutive Singles Titles To Surpass John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., July 18, 2007 – The USTA has announced that three-time defending US Open champion Roger Federer will lead the men’s singles field for the 2007 US Open Tennis Championships, which will also feature former US Open champions Lleyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick and Marat Safin. All top-100 men, representing 27 different countries, received direct entry into the US Open.

The 2007 US Open will be played August 27 – September 9 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Both the men’s and women’s US Open singles champions will earn $1.4 million with the ability to earn an additional $1 million in bonus prize money (for a total $2.4 million potential payout) based on their performances in the US Open Series. The US Open Men’s Singles Championship is presented by Lexus.

Leading the entry list is world No. 1 Federer of Switzerland, the three-time defending US Open champion and reigning Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, who joined Ivan Lendl (1985-87) and John McEnroe (1979-81) as the only men to win three consecutive US Open men’s singles titles in the Open Era last year. Following Federer on the entry list are No. 2 Rafael Nadal of Spain, the reigning French Open champion; No. 3 Novak Djokovic of Serbia, No. 4 Andy Roddick of Austin, Texas; No. 5 Nikolay Davydenko of Russia; and No. 6 Fernando Gonzalez of Chile; No. 7 Tommy Robredo of Spain; No. 8 Richard Gasquet of France; No. 9 James Blake of Fairfield, Conn.; and No. 10 Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic.

Other American men who received direct entry into this year’s tournament include No. 40 Mardy Fish of Tampa, Fla.; No. 45 Robby Ginepri of Marietta, Ga.; No. 62 Vince Spadea of Boca Raton, Fla.; No. 63 Amer Delic of Jacksonville, Fla.; No. 68 Michael Russell of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; No. 91 Sam Querrey of Thousand Oaks, Calif.; and No. 97 Paul Goldstein of San Francisco, Calif.

In all, there are eight entrants who have won Grand Slam singles titles in their careers, including: 2003 French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain; 2002 Australian Open champion Thomas Johansson of Australia; and 1998 French Open champion Carlos Moya of Spain.

Sixteen more players will gain entry through the US Open Qualifying Tournament, August 21-24, while the remaining eight spots are wild cards awarded by the USTA.

The July 16 edition of the ATP Rankings was used to determine the US Open main draw entry list. Seedings will be based on the August 20 rankings.

The 2007 US Open will mark the culmination of the US Open Series, the six-week summer tennis season linking all major ATP and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour tournaments in North America to the US Open. The US Open is the highest annually-attended sporting event in the world. More than 95 million viewers watched the 2006 US Open on CBS Sports and USA Network, and international broadcasts reached more than 180 countries. In 2006, Roger Federer defeated Andy Roddick to win his third consecutive US Open. In the women’s singles final, Maria Sharapova defeated Justine Henin to capture her first US Open title. Both Roddick and Sharapova collected $500,000 in Bonus Prize Money based on their performance in the US Open Series and at the US Open.

The 2007 US Open will be held Monday, August 27 through Sunday, September 9. Tickets for the 2007 US Open can be purchased four ways: 1) at usopen.org; 2) by calling Ticketmaster at 1-866-OPEN-TIX; 3) at all Ticketmaster outlets; or 4) at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center box office. American Express is the Official Card of the US Open.

[Anne]

US Open Announces Wild Cards

The USTA announced Wednesday that a talented group of young Americans consisting of John Isner (Greensboro, N.C.), Alex Kuznetsov (Tampa, Fla.), Jesse Levine (Boca Raton, Fla.), Wayne Odesnik (Weston, Fla.), Ryan Sweeting (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), Donald Young (Atlanta) and 2007 USTA Boys’ 18s champion Michael McClune (Irvine, Calif.) as well as Australian Alun Jones, have been awarded men’s singles main draw wild card entries into the 2007 US Open Tennis Championships, which will be played August 27 – September 9 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. Seven of the eight wild cards are Americans 22 years old or younger

Isner, 22, is currently ranked No. 192 in the world. Two weeks ago at the Legg Mason Classic in Washington, D.C., his second career tour-level appearance, Isner notched wins over Tim Henman and Tommy Haas en route to the final where he lost to Andy Roddick. Isner set new ATP records by winning five straight matches in a third-set tiebreak and serving 144 aces throughout the week, the highest total in a non-Grand Slam event since the tour started keeping stats in 1991. He turned professional in May after leading the University of Georgia to the NCAA team title and ending his four-year collegiate career by reaching the final of the NCAA singles championship.

Jones, 27, earned his wild card through a reciprocal arrangement with Tennis Australia, which will grant a men’s singles main draw wild card into the 2008 Australian Open to a player designated by the USTA. He is currently ranked a career-high No. 123 in the world. The South-African born Aussie played the role of Tom Cavendish in the movie “Wimbledon” opposite Kirsten Dunst.

Kuznetsov, 20, is currently ranked No. 182 in the world. He qualified for the Australian Open in January where he reached the second round before losing to James Blake. He improved nearly 300 places in the rankings in 2006 through strong play on the USTA Pro Circuit after suffering a broken leg in a car accident in May 2005. He was the 2004 French Open boys’ singles runner-up.

Levine, 19, is currently ranked No. 483 in the world. Levine just finished his freshman season at the University of Florida with a 24-1 record and ranked No. 3 in the country. He earned All-American honors in singles and doubles and was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Rookie of the Year. At the tour level, Levine qualified for Delray Beach in January (winning two matches) and Newport in July.

McClune, 17, earned his wild card by winning the title at the 2007 USTA Boys’ 18s National Championship last weekend in Kalamazoo, Mich., less than two weeks before his 18th birthday. He was a finalist at the Mansfield (Texas) Futures last October, and recently attempted to qualify at the US Open Series event in Los Angeles. He is currently ranked No. 615 in the world.

Odesnik, 21, is currently ranked a career-high No. 153 in the world. He qualified for two US Open Series events thus far this summer, reaching the third round in Washington, D.C., and the second round at Montreal last week. The South African born American has won seven career Futures titles in 14 final appearances. He improved his year-end ranking for the fifth consecutive year in 2006.

Sweeting, 20, is currently ranked No. 250. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 230 in July after reaching the quarterfinals at three of the four USTA Pro Circuit Challengers he entered. The 2005 US Open boys’ singles champion became a U.S. citizen in 2006 (from Bahamas). He has served as a practice partner for the U.S. Davis Cup team in the 2006 World Group Semifinal against Russia in Moscow and 2007 first round at the Czech Republic.

Young, 18, is currently ranked No. 232 in the world. The 2007 Wimbledon boys’ champion won his first professional singles title at the Little Rock (Arkansas) Futures in April as a wild card and his first Challenger title at Aptos, Calif., in June – he is currently second in prize money earnings on the USTA Pro Circuit this season. He finished 2005 as the world's No. 1 ranked junior, the youngest ever to accomplish that feat at 16 years, 5 months. Young earned wild cards at the US Open in 2005 and 2006 as the USTA Boys’ 18s champion.

In addition to the eight US Open men’s singles main draw wild cards, the USTA also announced the nine men who have been awarded wild card entries into the US Open Qualifying Tournament, which will be held August 21-24 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Players receiving US Open qualifying wild cards are: Stephen Bass (22, Bronxville, N.Y.), Matt Bruch (20, Lake Forest, Ill.), Lester Cook (23, Sherman Oaks, Calif.) Ryler De Heart (23, Tampa, Fla.), Scoville Jenkins (20, Atlanta), Bryan Koniecko (20, Syosset, N.Y.), Nikita Kryvonos (20, Flushing, N.Y.), reigning US Open boys’ singles champion Dusan Lojda (19, Czech Republic) and Phillip Simmonds (21, Reston, Va.).

-- Information courtesy of USTA --

;D ;D

[davis]

We're getting closer... ;D The Qualifying Draw is out. All the best to Frank Dancevic, Misha Zverev and Marin Cilic - hope you guys make it to the Main Draw

Qualifying Draw

Frank Dancevic CAN (1) vs. Ivan Miranda PER
Martin Fischer AUT vs. David Guez FRA
Eric Nunez USA vs. Kenneth Carlsen DEN
Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR vs. Jan Hernych CZE (23)

Robin Haase NED (2) vs. Nicolas Tourte FRA
Frederic Niemeyer CAN vs. Michael Lammer SUI
Grega Zemlja SLO vs. Brian Wilson USA
Bruno Echagaray MEX vs. Viktor Troicki SRB (28)

Andrei Pavel ROU (3) vs. Scott Oudsema USA
Jan Mertl CZE vs. Kyu Tae Im KOR
Lukas Lacko SVK vs. Michael Quintero COL
Pavel Snobel CZE vs. Lukas Dlouhy CZE (22)

Mischa Zverev GER (4) vs. Eduardo Schwank ARG
Bryan Koniecko USA (WC) vs. Richard Bloomfield GBR
Ricardo Mello BRA vs. Lukas Rosol CZE
Marco Crugnola ITA vs. Alexander Waske GER (26)

Juan Pablo Brzezicki ARG (5) vs. Nick Lindahl AUS
Julio Silva BRA vs. Denis Gremelmayr GER
Simon Stadler GER vs. Jan Minar CZE
Noam Okun ISR vs. Steve Darcis BEL (25)

Olivier Patience FRA (6) vs. Scoville Jenkins USA (WC)
Michel Kratochvil SUI vs. Harel Levy ISR
Nikita Kryvonos USA (WC) vs. Rogerio Dutra Silva BRA
Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi PAK vs. Gilles Muller LUX (27)

Fabio Fognini ITA (7) vs. Lars Burgsmuller GER
Horacio Zeballos ARG vs. Ilia Bozoljac SRB
Jan Vacek CZE vs. Laurent Recouderc FRA
Dusan Lojda CZE (WC) vs. Rainer Schuettler GER (30)

Raemon Sluiter NED (8) vs. Michal Mertinak SVK
Brendan Evans USA vs. Jamie Baker GBR
Julien Jeanpierre FRA vs. Rohan Bopanna IND
Adrian Menendez ESP vs. Pablo Cuevas URU (19)

Bobby Reynolds USA (9) vs. Joseph Sirianni AUS
Stefan Wauters BEL vs. Peter Wessels NED
Marc Fornell ESP vs. Benedikt Dorsch GER
Kevin Kim USA vs. Rik De Voest RSA (31)

Marin Cilic CRO (10) vs. Go Soeda JPN
Andis Juska LAT vs. Antony Dupuis FRA
Michael Ryderstedt SWE vs. Phillip Simmonds USA (WC)
Dominik Meffert GER vs. Tomas Zib CZE (20)

Dudi Sela ISR (11) vs. Nathan Healey AUS
Ryler De Heart USA (WC) vs. Lester Cook USA (WC)
Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA vs. Yeu-Tzuoo Wang TPE
George Bastl SUI vs. Adrian Garcia CHI (29)

Federico Luzzi ITA (12) vs. Santiago Giraldo COL
Gabriel Trujillo-Soler ESP vs. Jean-Christophe Faurel FRA
Prakash Amritraj IND vs. Kei Nishikori JPN
Stephen Bass USA (WC) vs. Bjorn Phau GER (32)

Paul Capdeville CHI (13) vs. Rajeev Ram USA
Tomas Cakl CZE vs. Dusan Vemic SRB
Jesse Witten USA vs. Thomaz Bellucci BRA
Roko Karanusic CRO vs. Zack Fleishman USA (24)

Wesley Moodie RSA (14) vs. Takao Suzuki JPN
Brian Dabul ARG vs. Thiago Alves BRA
Hugo Armando USA vs. Leonardo Azzaro ITA
Gary Lugassy FRA vs. Thierry Ascione FRA (17)

Alejandro Falla COL (15) vs. Matt Bruch USA (WC)
Alexander Peya AUT vs. Kamil Capkovic SVK
Marcel Granollers-Pujol ESP vs. Leonardo Mayer ARG
Philipp Petzschner GER vs. Dick Norman BEL (21)

Alex Bogdanovic GBR (16) vs. Robert Smeets AUS
Micha³ Przysiê¿ny POL vs. Paolo Lorenzi ITA
Sam Warburg USA vs. Konstantinos Economidis GRE
Glenn Weiner USA vs. Lukasz Kubot POL (18)

[maryb]

Best of luck to the Big Yin. ;D I've added in an extra 4 days to my holidays so that I can watch the earlier stages of the US Open.

Good luck to Andy as well. Hope the wrist heals up and you feel confident on the forehand again.

PS Don't wear the Big Bird outfit. This is serious stuff now. Wear the Man in Black outfit. Suits you. How's the net play coming on ...? LMAO.

This morning, I'm off to stare at some really big salmon. Will take some photos to post in the travelling section. Let you all see how beautiful Scotland is!

[Alya10]

I'm tired of working today! My back aches!
So I took a break and went to check the USO website.

Found this...

Day - September 3
2000 - In one of the most unusual and exciting matches in US Open history, eventual champion Marat Safin overcomes two badly-timed rain delays before defeating Sebastien Grosjean of France 6-4, 7-6(3), 1-6, 3-6, 7-6(5) in the third round of men's singles. Safin endures an 85-minute rain delay at 4-4 (30-15) in the fifth set and is forced to borrow a new pair of socks from fellow pro Jeff Tarango. Safin then leads Grosjean 5-4 in the fifth-set tiebreak before a 1 hour and 45-minute rain delay interrupts play, while Safin seeks a new shirt, socks and shorts from fellow pro Nicolas Kiefer. After the second rain delay, Safin requires a little over a minute to win three points to win the final-set tiebreak 7-5.

;D

More such stories and curiosities here: www.usopen.org/en_US/about/history/anec_day.html

[yarina]

really nice little story alya, thanks...I also had a long day at work (and on top of that very unfulfilling and disappointing) and will have a long working night followed by another long working day...so this made me smile in between my papers...

have a nice day everyone (and don't work too hard)

[SAFINNO1]

Main Draw Singles

Roger Federer SUI (1) :Dvs.QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs.QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs.QUALIFIER
John Isner USA vs.Jarkko Nieminen FIN (26)

Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP (21) vs. Feliciano Lopez ESP
Robert Kendrick USA vs.Igor Andreev RUS
Donald Young USA vs.Chris Guccione AUS
Sergio Roitman ARG vs.Richard Gasquet FRA (13)

Tomas Berdych CZE (9) vs.Marc Gicquel FRA
Simone Bolelli ITA vs.Julien Benneteau FRA
Gilles Simon FRA vs.QUALIFIER
Fernando Verdasco ESP vs.Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA (22)

Ivo Karlovic CRO (32) vs.Arnaud Clement FRA
Thomas Johansson SWE vs.Nicolas Massu CHI
Jose Acasuso ARG vs.Martin Vassallo Arguello ARG
Justin Gimelstob USA vs.Andy Roddick USA (5)

Nikolay Davydenko RUS (4) vs.Jesse Levine USA
Nicolas Kiefer GER vs.Vincent Spadea USA
Peter Luczak AUS vs.Luis Horna PER
Alex Kuznetsov USA vs.Nicolas Almagro ESP (28)

Andy Murray GBR (19) :Dvs.QUALIFIER
Juan-Pablo Guzman ARG vs.Jonas Bjorkman SWE
Dominik Hrbaty SVK vs.Hyung-Taik Lee KOR
Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo ESP vs.Guillermo Canas ARG (14)

Tommy Haas GER (10) vs.QUALIFIER
Benjamin Becker GER vs.QUALIFIER
Paul Goldstein USA vs.Sebastien Grosjean FRA
Max Mirnyi BLRvs.Marcos Baghdatis CYP (18)

Filippo Volandri ITA (29) vs.Michael Llodra FRA
Stefan Koubek AUT vs.Sam Querrey USA
Fabrice Santoro FRA vs.Albert Montanes ESP
Michael Russell USA vs.James Blake USA (6)

Tommy Robredo ESP (8) vs.QUALIFIER
Mardy Fish USA vs.QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs.Michael Berrer GER
Ernests Gulbis LAT vs.Potito Starace ITA (30)

Carlos Moya ESP (17) vs.QUALIFIER
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP vs.Igor Kunitsyn RUS
Mariano Zabaleta ARG vs.Philipp Kohlschreiber GER
Nicolas Devilder FRA vs.Mikhail Youzhny RUS (11)

Lleyton Hewitt AUS (16) vs.Amer Delic USA
Andreas Seppi ITA vs.Agustin Calleri ARG
QUALIFIER vs.Nicolas Lapentti ECU
Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA vs.Juan Monaco ARG (23)

Jurgen Melzer AUT (31) vs.Diego Hartfield ARG
Juan Martin Del Potro ARG vs.Nicolas Mahut FRA
Carlos Berlocq ARG vs.Radek Stepanek CZE
Mario Ancic CRO vs.Novak Djokovic SRB (3)

Fernando Gonzalez CHI (7) vs.Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS
Robby Ginepri USA vs.Olivier Rochus BEL
Stanislas Wawrinka SUI vs.Evgeny Korolev RUS
QUALIFIER vs.Marat Safin RUS (25) ;D

Juan Ignacio Chela ARG (20) vs.Michael McClune USA
Danai Udomchoke THA vs.Wayne Odesnik USA
QUALIFIER vs.Gael Monfils FRA
Kristof Vliegen BEL vs.Ivan Ljubicic CRO (12)

David Ferrer ESP (15) vs.Florian Mayer GER
Florent Serra FRA vs.Werner Eschauer AUT
Xavier Malisse BEL vs.Kristian Pless DEN
Ivan Navarro Pastor ESP vs.David Nalbandian ARG (24)

Dmitry Tursunov RUS (27) vs.Tim Henman GBR ;D
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA vs.Oscar Hernandez ESP
Janko Tipsarevic SRB vs.Ryan Sweeting USA
Alun Jones AUS vs.Rafael Nadal ESP (2)

[davis]

Ancic - Djokovic in Round 1? C'mon

Apart from that it's a really good draw, especially for Marat! The two biggest names he could encounter before the Quarter finals are Gonzalez and Ljubicic and both have been searching for their form lately. Let them do that two more weeks, please Of course there are many other obstacles but I'm in an optimistic mood today Oohh, can't wait for Monday! All those lovely sleepless nights...

[Dina]

Dmitry Tursunov RUS (27) vs.Tim Henman GBR
really bad! It's Tim's last US!
good draw for Marat , anyway no :-[expectations! (as ya said Annette hope Gonzo and Ljubicic keep on the bad game just for this US!
Davai Marat and Dima and Misha and Igor!!!!!!!! ;D (Roddick also maybe!)

[jenhatter06]

Dima/Tim, Ancic/Novak (!!), Verdasco/PHM, Nieminem/Isner, Karlovic/Clement, Kiefer/Spadea, Hrbaty/Lee, Miryni/Baghdatis ........... I can't wait for Monday!!!


(and Andy's in Fed's QUARTER ?! -- bah!)

[Annie]

Oh this draw is fantabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

I need to get A LOT of sleep this weekend Considering I will be away on holidays for the second week I intend to make the most of the first one ;D

[hellanvodka]

Dmitry Tursunov RUS (27) vs.Tim Henman GBR
Oh my god! I laughed so hard for this lol.....
Isn't Dima the killer for Tim Henman.......oh Tim, if i were u, i will retire now......LOL>...
Davai Dima, udachi blondie locks....

[Alya10]

WOW! What a draw!
Better work hard this weekend so I can lounge in front of the TV next week (my back is gonna kill me )

Dmitry Tursunov RUS (27) vs.Tim Henman GBR

that's harsh

Mario Ancic CRO vs.Novak Djokovic SRB (3)

So is this one

Oh and DAVAI MARAT!!!!

;D
kisses

[krasivaya]

Hi!! I would like to know where is Marat staying during USOpen??? Any idea about his hospitality??? Thanks. Good luck Marat!!!!

[lena]

krasivaya said:

Hi!! I would like to know where is Marat staying during USOpen??? Any idea about his hospitality??? Thanks. Good luck Marat!!!!

sorry, US Open has no "Official hotel" , players stay in different hotels somewhere in manhattan ....