Madrid is bananas. Gotta love joint tournaments. Men's draw here, women's draw here. Nole withdrew, bumping to Rafa to be seeded #2. In fact, barring a disasterous showing, Rafa should be able to overtake Nole with the #2 ranking overall and head into RG at #2. For those of us who want a Fed/Rafa final, this is a good thing.
Okay, I don't *want* a Fed/Rafa final, but you know what I mean.
There are so many insane early matchups that I got overwhelmed trying to do a draw breakdown. But let's just say I'll be sitting with a hot pot of coffee for the Ana/JJ second rounder.
Oh, and Masha's back. No big deal.
Manolo Santana (from 11.00hrs)
1.
Maria Kirilenko vs. Agnieszka Radwanska
2. Maria Sharapova vs. Lucie
Safarova
3. Justine Henin vs. Aravane Rezai
4. ATP: Ferrer vs.
Chardy (NB 17.00hrs)
5. Stefanie Voegele vs. Venus Williams
Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario (from 10.00hrs)
1.
ATP: Alcaide vs. Muñoz-de la Nava
2. Francesca Schiavone vs. Alizé
Cornet (NB 11.00hrs)
3. Safina/Szavay vs. Amanmuradova/Hsieh
4.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Daniela Hantuchova
5. Ruano
Pascual/Shaughnessy vs. García Vidagany/Soler Espinosa
Stadium 3 (from 10.00hrs)
1. ATP:
Chela vs. Cipolla
2. ATP: Korolev vs. Karlovic
3. ATP: Mónaco vs.
Greul
4. Chan/Zheng vs. Black/Vesnina
5. Errani/Vinci vs.
Chuang/King
Court 4
(from 10.00hrs)
1. ATP: Dolgopolov Jr. vs. Fish
2. ATP:
Rochus vs. Hernández (NB 12.00hrs)
3. Dominika Cibulkova vs. Iveta
Benesova
4. Govortsova/Kudryavtseva vs. Rodionova/Schnyder (after
suitable rest)
Court 5 (from
10.00hrs)
1. ATP: Anderson vs. Navarro
2. Olga Govortsova
vs. Tathiana Garbin (NB 11.00hrs)
3. Vera Dushevina vs. Kirsten
Flipkens
4. Alexandra Dulgheru vs. Melinda Czink
Court 6 (from 10.00hrs)
1. ATP:
Giraldo vs. Volandri
2. ATP: Russell vs. Gimeno-Traver
