A sign that your tournament is struggling?
Andreas Seppi is your top seed, Guillermo Coria got directly into your main draw, and
Eduardo Schwank rates as high as your fifth seed. Welcome to the Austrian Open in
Kitzbuhel.
Also among the seeds on the dirt are
Rainer Schuettler,
Agustin Calleri,
Potito Starace,
Jurgen Melzer, Juan Martin del Potro, and
Olivier Rochus.
Opening-round matches of interest are...none, unless you want to see if Coria can get past Austrian wildcard
Alexander Peya, or (3) Calleri vs. Guillermo "G-Lo" Garcia-Lopez. Riveting.
Argentine
Juan Monaco, who bailed on this year's event, beat Starace from a set down in last year's final.
Kitzbuhel suffers from two problems in 2008: four ATP events this week instead of three due to the compressed calendar as a result of the
Beijing Olympics, and few players wanting to play a claycourt event before the hardcourt Olympics.
