Dubai Website

Player list:

Roger Federer SUI 1
Rafael Nadal ESP 2
Novak Djokovic SRB 3
Nikolay Davydenko RUS 4
David Ferrer ESP 5
Andy Roddick USA 6
Richard Gasquet FRA 8
Andy Murray GBR 9
Tommy Haas GER 11
Tommy Robredo ESP 12
Tomas Berdych CZE 13
Mikhail Youzhny RUS 14
Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP 21
Ivo Karlovic CRO 24
Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA 25
Jarkko Nieminen FIN 26
Philipp Kohlschreiber GER 27
Fernando Verdasco ESP 28
Stanislas Wawrinka SUI 29
Nicolas Almagro ESP 31
Dmitry Tursunov RUS 32
Gilles Simon FRA 33
Igor Andreev RUS 35
Fabrice Santoro FRA 36

Being as pretty much the whole of the top 10 are playing in Dubai in a week's time, I thought i'd start the thread now. It's not going to be quite as interesting as it could have been if Nadal hadn't gone out so early in Rotterdam - the world's number 1 spot could have been up for grabs.

However, it's going to be interesting nonetheless to see how Federer copes in his first tournament since the AO and give us some idea of players' form before the 2 American masters events.

At the moment I don't know who the WCs are (although i read the other day that Safin had been offered one and chosen to play in Memphis and Las Vegas instead - suspect he thinks he might have more chance there). Also, considering how strong the women's qualifying line up is for this event, it'll be interesting to see which players come through qualifying in the men's event. I suspect this will be one of those events where drawing a qualifier is not necessarily a good thing.

That's a pretty good list of players - the field looks almost like at a MS event!

I for one am quite OK with the #1 ranking not being on the line ... it's still pretty interesting, with Roger having a lot of points to defend, and with Nadal and Djokovic both looking to improve on their quarterfinal showings last year ...

It'll also be interesting to see how Murray does ... and, as you say, the qualifiers could also have a big impact.

Looks exciting!

Murray has Federer first round. :rolleyes: