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[The Wengerbabies]

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Queens starts tomorrow

Nadal and Murray no. 1 and 2 seeds respectively

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.


http://www.lta.org.uk/fans-major-eve...-Draw-is-made/

Hoping for an A-Rod victory here.

Also Nadal, Murray, Roddick and Del Potro are all taking part in doubles

This isn't as exciting as it sounds as they're not doubling up with each other,

Nadal will team up with Marc Lopez, whilst Murray joins his brother Jamie. Andy Roddick will be on the same side of the court as the 2002 Wimbledon finalist David Nalbandian, against Del Potro and Radek Stepanek . Elsewhere, Jo Wilfried Tsonga partners Nicolas Mahut.

http://www.lta.org.uk/fans-major-eve...e-Queens-Club/

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Federer will be at Halle presumably.

[The Wengerbabies]

Federer will be at Halle presumably.

Yeah along with

• Tomas Berdych
• Gael Monfils
• Mikhail Youzhny
• Viktor Troicki
• Florian Mayer
• Milos Raonic
• Lleyton Hewitt

[Master Splinter]

Murray could pull out if his ankle is still troubling him.

Federer will probably come to Queen's when he's 37 and world number 28.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

anyone else watching Queens championships or not really bothered. Well its good to have the grass court season anyway.

[Master Splinter]

anyone else watching Queens championships or not really bothered. Well its good to have the grass court season anyway.

A shame Djokovic pulled out and Murray is not 100%.

The big players rarely go all out for this. Roddick has a good chance here.

Mahut is playing now . If grass was a more prominent surface, exciting players like him would be ranked much higher.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Federer pulled out of Halle, i don't think the organiser was best pleased.

Murray vs Malisse went to a third set. Murray leads 6-3 5-7 5-2 with Malisse serving to stay in the match.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And Murray wins.

[Master Splinter]

Nadal beat Ebden 6-4 6-4.

[Cripps_orig]

Murray beat Tipsarevic 6-4 7-6

Good match

Nadal 5-1 up in the 3rd v Stepanek.