Henman vs Greg in Round I and the winner against Fed in Round II :(

Section 1

Roger Federer SUI (1) vs. Yeu-Tzuoo Wang TPE
Tim Henman GBR vs. Greg Rusedski GBR

Gilles Muller LUX vs. Vincent Spadea USA
Scoville Jenkins USA vs. Jonas Bjorkman SWE (29)


Gaston Gaudio ARG (21) vs. Andreas Seppi ITA
Sam Querrey USA vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber GER

Marc Gicquel FRA vs. Christophe Rochus BEL
QUALIFIER vs. Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP (16)





Tomas Berdych CZE (12) vs. Boris Pashanski SCG
Florian Mayer GER vs. QUALIFIER

QUALIFIER vs. QUALIFIER
Igor Kunitsyn RUS vs. Dmitry Tursunov RUS (23)


Agustin Calleri ARG (28) vs. Carlos Moya ESP
Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA vs. QUALIFIER

Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS vs. Marcos Daniel BRA
Juan Monaco ARG vs. James Blake USA (5)

If Henman beats Greg that could be the 2nd Slam in a row he meets Federer in round 2

Section 2 with Andy Murray

David Nalbandian ARG (4) vs. Michael Berrer GER
Robin Vik CZE vs. Marat Safin RUS

Guillermo Coria ARG vs. Ryan Sweeting USA
Olivier Patience FRA vs. Olivier Rochus BEL (26)


Robby Ginepri USA (18) vs. Julien Benneteau FRA
Paul Goldstein USA vs. QUALIFIER

Wayne Odesnik USA vs. Raemon Sluiter NED
Alex Kuznetsov USA vs. Tommy Haas GER (14)




Fernando Gonzalez CHI (10) vs. QUALIFIER
Jan Hajek CZE vs. Lukas Dlouhy CZE

Alessio Di Mauro ITA vs. Jurgen Melzer AUT
QUALIFIER vs. Andy Murray GBR (17)


Kristof Vliegen BEL (32) vs. QUALIFIER
Potito Starace ITA vs. QUALIFIER

Nicolas Mahut FRA vs. Rainer Schuettler GER
Ramon Delgado PAR vs. Nikolay Davydenko RUS (7)

Section 3 - with Andre...


Marcos Baghdatis CYP (8) vs. Alexander Waske GER
Andrei Pavel ROM vs Andre Agassi USA

QUALIFIER vs. Filippo Volandri ITA
Thomas Johansson SWE vs. Sebastien Grosjean FRA (30)


Fernando Verdasco ESP (22) vs. Fabrice Santoro FRA
Mariano Zabaleta ARG vs. QUALIFIER

QUALIFIER vs. Alberto Martin ESP
Florent Serra FRA vs. Andy Roddick USA (9)




Lleyton Hewitt AUS (15) vs. Albert Montanes ESP
Kevin Kim USA vs. Jan Hernych CZE

Mardy Fish USA vs. Simon Greul GER
Donald Young USA vs. Novak Djokovic SCG (20)

Richard Gasquet FRA (25) vs. Phillip Simmonds USA
Gilles Simon FRA vs. Daniele Bracciali ITA

QUALIFIER vs. Fernando Vicente ESP
Feliciano Lopez ESP vs. Ivan Ljubicic CRO (3)

Section 4 with Nadal vs Phillipoussis in Rd I

Tommy Robredo ESP (6) vs. Flavio Saretta BRA
Hyung-Taik Lee KOR vs. Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo ESP

Ivo Karlovic CRO vs. Robin Soderling SWE
Stanislas Wawrinka SUI vs. Juan Ignacio Chela ARG (31)


Dominik Hrbaty SVK (19) vs. Mikhail Youzhny RUS
Nicolas Massu CHI vs. Davide Sanguinetti ITA

Oliver Marach AUT vs Justin Gimelstob USA
Nicolas Almagro ESP vs. David Ferrer ESP (11)




Jarkko Nieminen FIN (13) vs. Xavier Malisse BEL
Bjorn Phau GER vs. QUALIFIER

Jiri Novak CZE vs. Arnaud Clement FRA
Paradorn Srichaphan THA vs. Jose Acasuso ARG (24)


Gael Monfils FRA (27) vs. QUALIFIER
Max Mirnyi BLR vs. Wesley Moodie RSA

Luis Horna PER vs. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP
Mark Philippoussis AUS vs. Rafael Nadal ESP (2)

Roger Federer SUI (1) vs. Yeu-Tzuoo Wang TPE
Tim Henman GBR vs. Greg Rusedski GBR :yikes:

Match of the round: Lopez v Ljubicic

Go Andre!! :bow:

I hope he has a good start. Agassi v. Baghdatis would be a good second round match. I'm really hoping for a good result for Agassi's final tourney, but the last few times I've seen him play, he just hasn't seemed to have the speed to keep up with some of the youngsters . . .

Do you think it is a bit strange: usually a Britain at Wimbledon will play one of the top two seeds in the first two rounds - Ok, there are 6 places he could be drawn out of 96. but it always just 'happens' that they will be lucky and play on a show court. same for Cincy - Henman/Murray played Federer and again with the US Open. Maybe it's just happens to occur during the grand slams...

fed in round 2 for the 2nd slam running. who did tim henman p*ss of in a past life?

Good matches in the opening quarter are Rusedski vs Henman, Gaudio vs Seppi, and Calleri vs Moya, no greatly exciting matches except Henman/Rusedski whcih is only interesting because we're british,

2nd quarter- Vok vsSafin could be good, Ginepri vs Benneteau and Mahut vs Schettler

3rd quarter-Johansson vs Grosjean, Lopez vs Ljubicic

4th quarter- NAdal vs Philoppossis, Nieminen vs MAlisse, Ferrer vs Almagro, Wawrinka vs Chela and Karlovic vs Soderling

Yes that is a repeat fo Wimby eh? How odd.

Very unlucky draw for Tim again. :angry:

Murray draw is good but Gonzo early on is a very tough one though.


Nadal coudl eb in danger in round one. Scud is unpredictable and itsn't fit enough consitently to win a slam, but he is a very dangerous opponent who specialises in going a few trounds with and early upset of a seed. h edid that at Wumby with Mathieu. No idea how he is goign to play but if he' son song, Nadal will struggle as from what I see he takes a while to play himself into a tournie, liek Wimby. And I dont; see much advantage to Nadal from the surface. Well I will be rooting for my boy the Scud anyway. :D This coudl eb a dramtic encounter indeed.

Let's hope Safin is back on form cos if he is he'll take out Nalby in round two.

good draw for fed. 3 us opens i hope. :)

Nalby-Safin R2 :o

Anyway, best of luck to David/Rafa :)

I know Dav, Safin is my fav p-layer and i really want him to do well at the Open :o

Hey dl, I like Marat too, but I prefer David, I wouldn't want to pick a winner, neither player is a model of consistency, to put it nicely :lol:

Yeah, and Nalby has hardly shone on this hard-court season :lol:

Still he's super-consistent at the slams, but i'm hoping Safin can rediscover some form at new York. Saying that, they probably wont even make round 2 now :lol:

I know roflmao

David does have a habit of producing the goods at the Slams, he really is the Dementieva of the ATP, right down to the wayward serve roflmao

He really is roflmao

And Safin the myskina of the ATP, furiously inconsistent.........and well, just plain furious roflmao

It's tough for Murray landing Gonzales as his first seed. He could win if he keeps up recent from but if it goes to five you've gotta like Gonzo's chances. Still if Gonzo isn't his best then Murray could just outplay him.

Amongst the FAB five who do you think is likely to make it to the top of the USO??

Djoko, Nadal ,Gasquet, Berdych, Murray...


I feel Gasquet stands the best chance,,coming close is Murray

By the way, I am very glad that Federer has a better if not easy draw this time. He deserves some good fortune right about now.....

He even agreed on an interview yesterday that he thought so too....

He deserves a walkover after that stinker of a draw at Wimbledon roflmao

My heart says Murray to go the furthest. I think Gasquet will though if he finds his best form.

Nadal could potentially go to the final we'll have to "wait and see".

Don't think Djko is back to his best form yet. Will make 4r at the AO AT LEAST though I reckon, too soon here.

Berdych tends to disappoint a bit at Slams though :(

Murray will now face Kendrick of all people, the guy he beat 6-0 6-0 at newport, but kendrcik was injured then, and he'll have played his way into some form during the qualifying wheras Murray hasn't played for a week and a half....

Goodall will face Paul Henri-Matthieu.

Wasn't it kendrick who nearly took out nadal at Wimbledon?

Yep, and a fine performance it was. Not sure he'll get the same kind of advantages on hard-courts though........

Where will you be watching the USO in the UK? I read on the beeb's board that the BBC isn't showing it. So I suppose it will be Eurosport for you as it is for me in Danmark. Tennis and adverts :o

Espn will be showing it so if you can get their international schedule or broadcast you can catch it there too...

I doubt it wether any sites will have it online, due to advertising and other legal shenanigans..but maybe due to its popularity it might be.

In the UK, its on Eurosport and Sky Sports Extra.

Some very nice pre-USO pics:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/5284660.stm

Gosh, just noticed Bryan Bros playing each other in MD :o Wonder how that pans out??

Bob and Nav beat Miek and Corina. i twas a great match by all accounts. Glad Martina got through, it would make my tennis year if she could win one more doubles title in her last tournie. guess she has a great partner, so hopefully it will be Bob and Martina lifting that trophy next week. she is in WD with petrova too. :)