Seven of the Top 10 women and three of the Top 10 men are looking for some last-minute preparation before next week's US Open, competing this week at the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven.
Top 10ers on the women's side are
Amelie Mauresmo, Justine Henin-Hardenne,
Elena Dementieva,
Nadia Petrova,
Svetlana Kuznetsova,
Patty Schnyder and
Lindsay Davenport. On the men's side are
James Blake,
Nikolay Davydenko, and
Marcos Baghdatis.
Winners Sunday in unseeded play on the men's side were Swiss
Stanislas Wawrinka (d. Almagro in three), France's
Nicolas Mahut (d. Bracciali), Italian
Andreas Seppi (d. Phau), and another Frenchman in
Arnaud Clement (d. Serra).
Only two women's main draw matches were played with winners
Na Li (d. Kirilenko) and
Tatiana Golovin (d. Molik in three).
On court Wednesday in New Haven are Schiavone vs. Likhovtseva, Fish vs. Sanguinetti, (Q) T.Sun vs. (6) Schnyder, (5) Kuznetsova vs. (Q) Craybas, (WC) Gimelstob vs. Simon, Benneteau vs. Horna, (WC) Querrey vs. A.Martin, Dechy vs. Peer, Medina Garrigues vs. (Q) Daniilidou, Mirnyi vs. Mathieu, Vik vs. Santoro, Volandri vs. F.Lopez, Karlovic vs. Rusedski, (Q) Berrer vs. (Q) Sweeting, Ramirez Hidalgo vs. C.Rochus, Bartoli vs. Dulko, Muller vs. Pashanski, and (Q) Hajek vs. (Q) Gicquel.
