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Davydenko, Murray Headline ATP St. Petersburg Open
Posted on October 21, 2007
Seeded Russians Nikolay Davydenko, Mikhail Youzhny and Dmitry Tursunov will try and protect the home turf this week at the St. Petersburg Open, joined in the field by unseeded Russians (WC) Michael Elgin, Teimuraz Gabashvili, Evgeny Korolev, Igor Kunitsyn and (WC) Pavel Chekhov.
Other seeded players are Brit Andy Murray, Italian Potito Starace, Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, German Philipp Kohlschreiber, and Swede Thomas Johansson.
Marat Safin is skipping the event after calling an early end to his season.
Davydenko opens against Italian Filippo Volandri, while the No. 2-seeded Murray will have a tester against the big-serving Max "The Beast" Mirnyi.
Other notables in the draw are former Olympic gold medalist Nicolas Massu, Swedish veteran Jonas Bjorkman, the back-from-injury Mario Ancic, and the retiring Justin Gimelstob.
Ancic is the defending champion at St. Petersburg, last year as the No. 3 seed topping Johansson 7-5, 7-6(2).
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