ATP Kitzbuhel -- No Top 20 Players; Coria Meltdown Show
Posted on July 12, 2008
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.
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