The World No.1 Rafael Nadal and Britain's Andy Murray have been seeded No.'s 1 and 2 for the AEGON Championships, and drawn into opposite halves of the singles main draw.
Four-time champion Andy Roddick is a potential semi-final opponent of Murray for the event which starts at The Queen’s Club on Monday. In the top half of the draw, defending champion Sam Querrey and the 2009 US Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro are both potential last four opponents of Nadal.
The Spaniard is one of the top eight seeds that receive a bye into round two, and then he will face either a qualifier or India’s Somdev Devvarman in his first match. The 16th seed Ivan Ljubicic could await in the third round, with the fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in his quarter.
Murray is up against either the 2002 Wimbledon semi-finalist Xavier Malisse of Belgium or the World No.99 Matthias Bachinger of Germany in the second round. The 14th seed Janko Tipsarevic is a potential third round opponent, with Marin Cilic lurking as a possible quarter-final foe.
Third seed Roddick begins his challenge for a record fifth title against either big-serving Feliciano Lopez or Dmitry Tursunov, and another big server - Kevin Anderson - could block his path in round three. Fernando Verdasco and David Nalbandian are both in Roddick’s quarter.
The defending champion Querrey has a mouth-watering first match against the talented Japanese player Kei Nishikori. Del Potro opens against Denis Istomin.
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