World No. 5
Andy Roddick, who the ATP just announced has secured a spot at the year-ending Masters Cup, is the top seed this week at the Grand Prix de Tennis de
Lyon.
Roddick's opening match will be a crowd-pleaser when the American squares off against homecountry Frenchman Fabrice "The Magician" Santoro.
Also seeded in Lyon are
Tommy Robredo,
Tommy Haas,
Richard Gasquet,
Ivan Ljubicic,
Juan Monaco,
Nicolas Almagro and
Gilles Simon.
The No. 2-seeded Robredo also opens against a Frenchman in
Marc Gicquel.
Other openers of note are No. 8 Simon vs.
Andrei Pavel, No. 7 Almagro vs.
Mardy Fish, No. 5 Ljubicic vs. Sam Querrey, and No. 3 Haas vs.
Igor Andreev.
Gasquet is the defending champ in Lyon, in last year's all-French final defeating Gicquel 6-3, 6-1.
