This is a tournament which will be a round robin format. Blake is the defending champion, but the field includes Hewitt (if he is fit), Safin (:wub: ), Malisse, who seems to be playing pretty well at the moment, as well as Ginepri, Monfils and Becker.

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Do you think Blake will be able to defend his title?

And how do you think the RR format will affect the players? Some of those players are notoriously unreliable, do you think it will mean there are a few surprises? Or will it simply allow the unreliable ones (mentioning no names Mr Safin...... :wub: ) to get through the early rounds?

Henman should make a stunning return taking the title against the odds, beating Xavier Malisse in the final.

Right the Round Robin Draw has been made for this one

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I'd assume the gaps are for winners of the qualifying......

Group 4 should be quite interesting - with Becker and Ginepri - both in pretty good form at the moment. Obviously, i'll be watching group 6 - Safin and Koubek......

Most interest should be for Henman fans, he's in group 7 with Mahut - but when he wins the group he'll most likely get to play hewitt - again! :blink:

ROUND-ROBIN

GROUP 1
(1) BLAKE, James (USA)
DEL POTRO, Juan Martin (ARG)
DELIC, Amer (USA) or KOROLEV, Evgeny (RUS)

GROUP 2
(6) BENNETEAU, Julien (FRA)
GOLDSTEIN, Paul (USA)
(WC) QUERREY, Sam (USA) or QUALIFIER

GROUP 3
(4) MELZER, Jurgen (AUT)
LLODRA, Michael (FRA)
LU, Yen-Hsun (TPE) or QUALIFIER

GROUP 4
(8) BECKER, Benjamin (GER)
GINEPRI, Robby (USA)
HERNYCH, Jan (CZE) or (WC) KUERTEN, Gustavo (BRA)

GROUP 5
(5) VERDASCO, Fernando (ESP)
MATHIEU, Paul-Henri (FRA)
KENDRICK, Robert (USA) or QUALIFIER

GROUP 6
(3) SAFIN, Marat (USA)
KOUBEK, Stefan (AUT)
KUNITSYN, Igor (USA) or DANCEVIC, Frank (CAN)

GROUP 7
(7WC) HENMAN, Tim (GBR)
MAHUT, Nicolas (FRA)
LOPEZ, Feliciano (ESP) or QUALIFIER

GROUP 8
(2) HEWITT, Lleyton (AUS)
SPADEA, Vincent (USA)
JOHANSSON, Thomas (SWE) or PHAU, Bjorn (GER)



Tim's group isn't too hard, he beat Feliciano exactly the same week last year...He's also beaten Mahut in Wimby...Hope that he makes a glorious return...

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Order of Play - Monday

eek..round robin :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

but i'd take safin or hewitt for this title please.

tim has flu :( lets hope he is over the worse of it :pray:

Day 1 results

This would appear to be updated with yesterday's results :blink:

Boggo lost to Querry :( And Henman's group now includes Lopez as well!

Wednesday Order of Play

Right, i'm trying to work out these results at the moment......

Results

Blake needs to win his match, and then I think it'll go on sets........If Blake loses then Del Potro will go through.

The winner of the Goldstein vs. Querry match will go through to the next round, same with the Melzer vs. Capdeville match.

If Kuerten wins his match it goes down to sets won, but if Hernych wins then he goes through.

Verdasco is already through, and whoever wins the Safin vs. Kunitsyn match will go through.

As Liam said in another thread, Henman has to beat Lopez to go through; and Hewitt has to beat Johansson to go through.

Please do tell me if i've got any of those wrong......it all seems awfully complicated :blink:

Order of play

Henman is on at about 12 - so i think that's 8pm GMT. :blink:

ahhh there will be some distractions during the POSCARS party then, but as its Turbo Tim, we won't mind :D :D

Order of Play

Korolev vs. Querry - 6-4, 6-4

Melzer vs Hernych - 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

Safin vs. Verdasco - 6-1, 6-4 ( :wub: )

Hewitt vs. Lopez - 6-3, 6-2


So in the semis we have:

Safin vs. Hewitt

and

Melzer vs. Korolev

I think i'd predict a Korolev/Safin final!

I think it would be great for Korolev to win it now, based on what happened to him before!