Federer Wins, Nadal Pulls and Roddick Loses at ATP Hamburg

"I was exhausted, my feet were hurting and now I am fresh, that's important," Fed said. "I've been playing a lot this year, so I needed to save some energy."

Speaking of energy, marathon Rome winner Rafael Nadal had little left in tank following Sunday's thrilling 5-hour, 14-minute win over Guillermo “El Fragile” Coria. The 18-year-old Nadal, who had played 17 matches in 27 days, officially withdrew from Hamburg citing a bad left index finger. Nadal was joined by floundering countryman Carlos Moya who pulled with due to a right shoulder injury.

Back on court, Nicolas "Golden Boy" Massu gave No. 2 seed Andy Roddick all that he could handle and more on the slow, wet clay, defeating the American 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-5. Massu, an unlikely Gold Medal winner at the Olympics last year, is a decent clay court player, but unfortunately for Roddick, there will be about 40 Massu-types in the French draw that he may or may not have to deal with.

To his credit, Roddick did fight till the end overcoming a 3-5 deficit in the third to even it at 5-5, but then lost the match on an ill-advised drop shot. Oops.

"It was questionable," Roddick said of hitting the dropper down match point. "It's not my favorite shot."

Also posting wins on the cool, damp afternoon were “Jolly” Tim Henman (d. Lars "Burger"muller), Sebastien Grosjean (d. Pim Pim Johansson), Tommy Robredo (d. Alexander Waske), Richard Gasquet (d. "Dr." Ivo Karlovic who retired), Juan Carlos Ferrero (d. Jurgen "Tuna" Melzer) and also Gustavo Kuerten (d. Pavel).

On tap for Tuesday, Andre Agassi (v. Feli Lopez), David Naldbandian (v. Soderling), Tommy Haas (v. Hrbaty), Guillermo Coria (v. Spadea) and Marat Safin (v. A. Martin).