The Vietnam Open draws a disparate cast of characters for the country's first-ever tennis tournament with tops seeds Mariano Puerta,
Thomas Johansson,
Radek Stepanek,
Kenneth Carlsen,
Cyril Saulnier,
Juan Monaco,
Lars Burgsmuller and
Philipp Kohlschreiber.
Opening-round meetings of interest are (8) Kohlschreiber vs. Wimbledon doubles champ Weslie Moodie, (4) Carlsen vs. Swedish veteran
Jonas Bjorkman, (3) Stepanek vs. Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee, and (2) T.Johansson vs. Alexander "My Serve Has" Popp.
Scheduled for Monday are Phau vs. (WC) M.Do, and Lu vs. Dupuis.
