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Tournament Name: LEGG MASON TENNIS CLASSIC
Location: WASHINGTON, DC, USA
Dates: AUGUST 10–17, 2008 (SUNDAY START)
Prize Money: US $508,000 (US $483,000)
32 DRAW (MD & QUALIFYING)

SITE: WILLIAM H.G. FITZGERALD TENNIS CENTER
16TH AND KENNEDY STREETS, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20011
SURFACE: HARD COURT
BALL: WILSON EXTRA DUTY (US OPEN)
PRIZE MONEY: USD
WEB SITE: http://www.leggmasontennisclassic.com/

Qualifying draw: Friday, August 8, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Friday, August 8, 6:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, August 9, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points/ATP Race Points
W: 175/35
F: 120/24
SF: 75/15
QF: 40/8
R16: 15/3
R32: 0/0
Q: +5/+1

Entry Deadline: June 30, 2008
Seeding: August 4, 2008

1 Andy Roddick USA 6
OUT Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP 23
3 Feliciano Lopez ESP 35
4 Tommy Haas GER 38
5 Mardy Fish USA 39
OUT Agustin Calleri ARG 49
OUT Steve Darcis BEL 51
8 Marcel Granollers ESP 52
9 Marc Gicquel FRA 53
10 Nicolas Mahut FRA 58
11 Eduardo Schwank ARG 60
12 Sebastien Grosjean FRA 61
13 Juan Martin Del Potro ARG 62
OUT Robin Haase NED 64
15 Dudi Sela ISR 66
OUT Olivier Rochus BEL 67
17 Florent Serra FRA 74
18 Marat Safin RUS 75
19 Igor Kunitsyn RUS 79
20 Denis Gremelmayr GER 80
21 John Isner USA 83
22 Donald Young USA 85
23 Fabio Fognini ITA 86
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (Q)
27 (Q)
28 (Q)
29 (Q)
30 (WC)
31 (WC)
32 (WC)

Alternates
IN Odesnik, Wayne USA 87
IN Troicki, Viktor SRB 89
IN Zverev, Mischa GER 92
IN Horna, Luis PER 93
OUT Dancevic, Frank CAN 95
OUT Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 96
OUT Anderson, Kevin RSA 98
IN Spadea, Vincent USA 99
1. Reynolds, Bobby USA 102
OUT Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 104
OUT Muller, Gilles LUX 105
2. Falla, Alejandro COL 106
OUT Chardy, Jeremy FRA 108
OUT Vliegen, Kristof BEL 109
OUT Gil, Frederico POR 110
OUT Karanusic, Roko CRO 111
3. Rochus, Christophe BEL 112
4. Dabul, Brian ARG 113
5. Cuevas, Pablo URU 115
OUT Becker, Benjamin GER 116
OUT Andujar, Pablo ESP 117
OUT Beck, Andreas GER 122
6. Martin, Alberto ESP 123
7. Soeda, Go JPN 124
8. Kendrick, Robert USA 125

[Falik]

My goodness, so many alternates pulling out - and going elsewhere, I assume. It will be interesting to see who makes it into the draws when they come out later today --

[BuyCheapest]

That's going to be quite a gap between the No. 1 and 2 seeds.

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Main Draw

[1] RODDICK, Andy (USA) vs QUALIFIER
GROSJEAN, Sebastien (FRA) vs SCHWANK, Eduardo (ARG)
TROICKI, Viktor (SRB) vs GREMELMAYR, Denis (GER)
REYNOLDS, Bobby (USA) vs [7] GICQUEL, Marc (FRA)

[3] LOPEZ, Feliciano (ESP) vs QUALIFIER
[WC] DENT, Taylor (USA) vs QUALIFIER
KUNITSYN, Igor (RUS) vs ZVEREV, Mischa (GER)
FOGNINI, Fabio (ITA) vs [6] SAFIN, Marat (RUS)

[5] FISH, Mardy (USA) vs FALLA, Alejandro (COL)
SERRA, Florent (FRA) vs [WC] IGNATIK, Uladzimir (BLR)
ODESNIK, Wayne (USA) vs MAHUT, Nicolas (FRA)
QUALIFIER vs [4] HAAS, Tommy (GER)

[8] GRANOLLERS, Marcel (ESP) vs ISNER, John (USA)
YOUNG, Donald (USA) vs HORNA, Luis (PER)
SELA, Dudi (ISR) vs SPADEA, Vincent (USA)
[WC] LEVINE, Jesse (USA) vs [2] DEL POTRO, Juan Martin (ARG)

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Qualifying Draw

(1) KENDRICK, Robert USA v KUZNETSOV, Alex USA
MIDDELKOOP, Matwe NED v EBELTHITE, Colin AUS
LINDAHL, Nick AUS v BLOOMFIELD, Richard GBR
HIPPENSTEEL, Kj USA v (8) GOLUBEV, Andrey KAZ

(2) SOEDA, Go JPN v STOPPINI, Andrea ITA
JUN, Woong-Sun KOR v FRANCIS, Alberto USA
BAKER, Jamie GBR v (WC) OUDSEMA, Scott USA
(WC) DEVVARMAN, Somdev IND v (5) WARBURG, Sam USA

(3) CUEVAS, Pablo URU v (WC) HOCHWALT, Tyler USA
YANI, Michael USA v GROTH, Samuel AUS
WITTEN, Jesse USA v CHEN, Ti TPE
ESTRELLA, Victor DOM v (7) DE VOEST, Rik RSA

(4) KIM, Kevin USA v BOGOMOLOV JR., Alex USA
(WC) SMYCZEK, Tim USA v MONROE, Nicholas USA
SITAK, Artem RUS v DELGADO, Ramon PAR
POLANSKY, Peter CAN v (6) SIRIANNI, Joseph AUS

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Saturday Order of Play

Notes:
All Matches Start At: 9:00 AM

SECOND ROUND MATCHES NOT BEFORE 1.30 PM

CENTER COURT

Robert KENDRICK (USA) vs Alex KUZNETSOV (USA)
followed by
Peter POLANSKY (CAN) vs Joseph SIRIANNI (AUS)
followed by
Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND) vs Sam WARBURG (USA)

GRANDSTAND

Kevin KIM (USA) vs Alex BOGOMOLOV JR. (USA)
Pablo CUEVAS (URU) vs Tyler HOCHWALT (USA)
Jamie BAKER (GBR) vs Scott OUDSEMA (USA)

COURT 1

Kj HIPPENSTEEL (USA) vs Andrey GOLUBEV (KAZ)
Tim SMYCZEK (USA) vs Nicholas MONROE (USA)
Go SOEDA (JPN) vs Andrea STOPPINI (ITA)
Jesse WITTEN (USA) vs Ti CHEN (TPE)

COURT 2

Nick LINDAHL (AUS) vs Richard BLOOMFIELD (GBR)
Artem SITAK (RUS) vs Ramon DELGADO (PAR)
Victor ESTRELLA (DOM) vs Rik DE VOEST (RSA)

COURT 3

Matwe MIDDELKOOP (NED) vs Colin EBELTHITE (AUS)
Michael YANI (USA) vs Samuel GROTH (AUS)
Woong-Sun JUN (KOR) vs Alberto FRANCIS (USA)

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ORDER OF PLAY - SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2008
CENTER COURT start 12:00 noon
Qualifying - R Kendrick (USA) vs A Golubev (KAZ)
Not Before 1:30 PM
Qualifying - G Soeda (JPN) vs [WC] S Devvarman (IND)
Not Before 3:30 PM
Main Draw - W Odesnik (USA) vs N Mahut (FRA)

GRANDSTAND start 12:30 pm
Qualifying - K Kim (USA) vs R Delgado (PAR)
Qualifying - P Cuevas (URU) vs R de Voest (RSA)

[autolubitelone]

Wayne has a day where his is the only main draw match

Let's have that happen again same time next week

[trowUrillioth]

Wayne has a day where his is the only main draw match

Let's have that happen again same time next week

Then I hope he's playing New Haven

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ORDER OF PLAY - MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2008

CENTER COURT start 4:00 pm
[WC] T Dent (USA) vs [Q] S Devvarman (IND)
Not Before 5:00 PM
[Q] R de Voest (RSA) vs [4] T Haas (GER)
Not Before 7:00 PM
[8] M Granollers (ESP) vs J Isner (USA)
D Young (USA) vs L Horna (PER)
GRANDSTAND start 4:00 pm
D Sela (ISR) vs V Spadea (USA)
[WC] Junior Ore (USA) / Denis Kudla (USA) vs L Arnold Ker (ARG) / E Schwank (ARG)
B Reynolds (USA) vs [7] M Gicquel (FRA)
[1] B Soares (BRA) / K Ullyett (ZIM) vs S Grosjean (FRA) / N Mahut (FRA)

COURT 1 start 5:00 pm
F Serra (FRA) vs [WC] U Ignatik (BLR)

[autolubitelone]

Wayne .

[teewHettive]

One has to wonder how much confidence Roddick is going to have about winning Legg Mason after that loss to Del Potro. Yeah, Del Potro is a better player than Lopez, but losing to Del Potro in a final must have did damage to his confidence.

[trowUrillioth]

RESULTS
Singles - First Round
N Mahut (FRA) d W Odesnik (USA) 46 64 64

Qualifying Singles - Final Round
R Kendrick (USA) d A Golubev (KAZ) 62 46 75
R Delgado (PAR) d K Kim (USA) 67(7) 64 62
S Devvarman (IND) d G Soeda (JPN) 75 75
R De Voest (RSA) d P Cuevas (URU) 76(4) 64

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Devvarman is in the third set against Dent.

[poonnassunlix]

By the way... the wildcards Denis Kudla and Junior Ore are the losing doubles team in the boys' 16 event in KZOO that I was at last week. Denis Kudla was also the runner-up in the singles draw.

Right now though, they're getting a lesson on professional tennis courtesy of Ker and Schwank.

[autolubitelone]

John Isner just got his sixth win in Washington (def. Granollers)! It was also his sixth win in Washington in a third set tiebreak .

[Andoror]

Donald wins 6-3, 6-1 against Horna!!

[QxmFwtlam]

Way to go, Donald!

[trowUrillioth]

RESULTS

Devvarman

Singles - First Round
[4] T Haas (GER) d [Q] R de Voest (RSA) 64 46 61
B Reynolds (USA) d [7] M Gicquel (FRA) 76(2) 36 64
J Isner (USA) d [8] M Granollers (ESP) 63 67(5) 76(1)
D Sela (ISR) d V Spadea (USA) 76(6) 63
[Q] S Devvarman (IND) d [WC] T Dent (USA) 76(3) 26 61
F Serra (FRA) d [WC] U Ignatik (BLR) 76(3) 63
D Young (USA) d L Horna (PER) 63 61

Doubles - First Round
[1] B Soares (BRA) / K Ullyett (ZIM) d S Grosjean (FRA) / N Mahut (FRA) 61 63
L Arnold Ker (ARG) / E Schwank (ARG) d [WC] J Ore (USA) / D Kudla (USA) 61 61

[georgshult]

Singles - First Round[/B]
[4] T Haas (GER) d [Q] R de Voest (RSA) 64 46 61
B Reynolds (USA) d [7] M Gicquel (FRA) 76(2) 36 64
J Isner (USA) d [8] M Granollers (ESP) 63 67(5) 76(1)
D Young (USA) d L Horna (PER) 63 61

Huzzah! It could be a good week for my team. Go non-Olympians, go!