The coastal vacation destination
Umag pulls in a respectable field this week, considering most top players are either recovering from the back-to-back clay and grasscourt seasons, or resting-up for a run at the
Beijing Olympics.
Spaniard Fernando "Hot Sauce" Verdasco is the top seed on the dirt at the ATP Studena Croatia Open, followed by "Dr."
Ivo Karlovic, former No. 1
Carlos Moya,
Igor Andreev, Croat
Ivan Ljubicic,
Guillermo Canas,
Fabio Fognini, and
Marcos Daniel.
Canas opens with a tester against claycourter and defending Olympic gold medalist
Nicolas Massu.
Last year Moya won his fifth Umag crown, defeating unseeded Romanian
Andrei Pavel 6-4, 6-2 in the final.
