Top 10ers Davydenko, Robredo, Blake Headline ATP New Haven
Posted on August 20, 2007When you're the elite like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and even Andy Roddick, unless you've been injured and you're looking for last-minute match play, you take the week before a Slam off. If you're "the rest," you're still chasing points and prize money up to the last minute before the US Open begins.
Top 10ers Nikolay Davydenko, Tommy Robredo, and James Blake are the headliners this week at the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven, where Davydenko is the defending champ.
Blake, the former Connecticut resident on the top of his game after losing last week to Federer in the Masters Series-Cincinnati final, after a bye will face the winner of Frenchman Arnaud Clement and a qualifier. The top-seeded Dayvydenko opens against American Donald Young, who won his opening-round match against Amer Delic on Sunday.
Other Top 8 seeds are David Ferrer, Paul-Henri Mathieu, Jarkko Nieminen, Filippo Volandri and Potito Starace.
The lower eight seeds in the event are Dominik "The Dominator" Hrbaty, Nicolas Almagro, "Dr." Ivo Karlovic, Fernando "Hot Sauce" Verdasco, Gilles Simon, Igor Andreev, Gael "Force" Monfils and last year's runner-up Agustin Calleri.
Top 10ers Nikolay Davydenko, Tommy Robredo, and James Blake are the headliners this week at the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven, where Davydenko is the defending champ.
Blake, the former Connecticut resident on the top of his game after losing last week to Federer in the Masters Series-Cincinnati final, after a bye will face the winner of Frenchman Arnaud Clement and a qualifier. The top-seeded Dayvydenko opens against American Donald Young, who won his opening-round match against Amer Delic on Sunday.
Other Top 8 seeds are David Ferrer, Paul-Henri Mathieu, Jarkko Nieminen, Filippo Volandri and Potito Starace.
The lower eight seeds in the event are Dominik "The Dominator" Hrbaty, Nicolas Almagro, "Dr." Ivo Karlovic, Fernando "Hot Sauce" Verdasco, Gilles Simon, Igor Andreev, Gael "Force" Monfils and last year's runner-up Agustin Calleri.