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Place: Cincinnati, Ohio
Date: July 28-August 3, 2008
Draw
Size: 64
Surface: Hard Outdoor
Prize
Money: $2,615,000
Website:  www.cincytennis.com
 The Seeds
Singles
Seeds: (cut:
Andrea Serra - 76)
1. Roger Federer
2. Rafael Nadal
3. Novak
Djokovic
4. Nikolay Davydenko
5. David Ferrer
6. Andy Roddick
7.
James Blake
8. Andy Murray
9. Stanislas Wawrinka
10. Fernando
Verdasco
11. Richard Gasquet
12. Tommy Robredo
13. Fernando
Gonzalez
14. Mikhail Youzhny
15. Radek Stepanek
16. Ivo
Karlovic
Tomas is not seeded in Cincy 
Main Draw
(1)Roger Federer (SUI) bye
Robby Ginepri
(USA) vs (q)
Mario Ancic (CRO) vs Jose Acasuso (ARG)
(16)Ivo Karlovic
(CRO) vs Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)
(12)Tommy Robredo (ESP) vs Mardy Fish
(USA)
Robin Soderling (SWE) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA)
Philipp
Kohlschreiber (GER) vs (q)
(6)Andy Roddick (USA) bye
(4)Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)
bye
Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) vs Carlos Moya (ESP)
(WC)John Isner (USA) vs
(q)
(15)Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Igor Andreev (RUS)
(11)Richard Gasquet
(FRA) vs Michael Llodra (FRA)
Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) vs (WC)Marat Safin
(RUS)
Samuel Querrey (USA) vs Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)
(8)Andy Murray
(GBR) bye
(7)James Blake (USA)
bye
Nicolas Kiefer (GER) vs Gilles Simon (FRA)
Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) vs
Ernests Gulbis (LAT)
(9)Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) vs Thomas Johansson
(SWE)
(13)Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) vs Tomas
Berdych (CZE)
Feliciano Lopez (ESP) vs Andreas Seppi
(ITA)
Simone Bolelli (ITA) vs (q)
(3)Novak Djokovic (SRB) bye
(5)David Ferrer (ESP)
bye
Nicolas Lapentti (ECU) vs Marin Cilic (CRO)
(WC)Jesse Witten (USA) vs
(q)
(10)Fernando Verdasco (ESP) vs (q)
(14)Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) vs Tommy
Haas (GER)
Gael Monfils (FRA) vs (WC)Donald Young (USA)
Florent Serra
(FRA) vs (q)
(2)Rafael Nadal (ESP) bye
Doubles : The
Seeds
Seeds: (cut:
Lipsky/Martin - 95)
1. Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2. Daniel Nestor/Nenad
Zimonjic
3. Jonathan Erlich/Andy Ram
4. Mahesh Bhupathi/Mark Knowles
5.
Jonas Bjorkman/Kevin Ullyett
6. Lukas Dlouhy/Leander Paes
7. Martin
Damm/Pavel Vizner
8. Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski
Doubles: Main Draw
(1)Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan (USA)
bye
James Blake/Samuel Querrey (USA) vs Mario Ancic/Jeff Coetzee
(CRO/RSA)
Paul Hanley/Jordan Kerr (AUS) vs Tommy Robredo/Andre Sa
(ESP/BRA)
(8)Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski (POL) bye
(4)Mahesh
Bhupathi/Mark Knowles (IND/BAH) bye
Tomas
Berdych/Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Feliciano Lopez/Fernando
Verdasco (ESP)
Arnaud Clement/Michael Llodra (FRA) vs (WC)Mardy Fish/John
Isner (USA)
(5)Jonas Bjorkman/Kevin Ullyett (SWE/ZIM) bye
(7)Martin
Damm/Pavel Vizner (CZE) bye
Simon Aspelin/Jamie Murray (SWE/GBR) vs Rohan
Bopanna/Jamie Cerretani (IND/USA)
Robert Lindstedt/Jarkko Nieminen (SWE/FIN)
vs. (WC)Jesse Levine/Donald Young (USA)
(3)Jonathan Erlich/Andy Ram (ISR)
bye
(6)Lukas Dlouhy/Leander Paes (CZE/IND) bye
Fernando Gonzalez/Janko
Tipsarevic (CHI/SRB) vs Ivo Karlovic/Rogier Wassen (CRO/NED)
Scott
Lipsky/David Martin (USA) vs Simone Bolelli/Andreas Seppi
(ITA)
(2)Daniel Nestor/Nenad Zimonjic (CAN/SRB)
bye
Results
Doubles Round 1 - Sunday, July 27,
2008
Tomas Berdych/Radek
Stepanek (CZE)
def. Feliciano Lopez/Fernando
Verdasco (ESP) 7-5 7-6(6)
Big Monday Line-up on Opening
Day
MASON - July 27, 2008 - Monday's opening schedule has been
released and an outstanding Center Court afternoon line-up includes No. 12 seed
Tommy Robredo (vs. Mardy Fish), Sam Querrey (vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu) and No. 13
Fernando Gonzalez (vs. Tomas Berdych).
The evening session, which begins at 7 p.m., features former No. 1
and recent Wimbledon semifinalist Marat Safin against Russian countryman Dmitry
Tursunov. That match will be followed by Frenchman Gael Monfils against Donald
Young.
In the first match, Robredo takes a 3-2 career advantage against
Fish, who reached the W&SFG Masters final five years ago (l. to Roddick).
Robredo advanced to the semifinals here in 2004 and '06.
In the next match, Querrey, who was a quarterfinalist last year,
takes on Mathieu for the first time. Earlier this season, the 20-year-old
Querrey captured his first ATP title in Las Vegas.
In the last day session match, Gonzalez brings a 3-0 career mark
against Berdych. Gonzalez is a
two-time semifinalist in Cincinnati (2002, '06) and enters with a 12-6 career
mark in the tournament.
Tursunov won the only previous meeting against Safin, who is a
former two-time quarterfinalist in Cincinnati. Earlier this month, Safin turned
in his best career showing at Wimbledon with a semifinal performance, defeating
No. 3 Novak Djokovic along the way.
In the final match, Monfils plays up-and-coming American Young for
the first time. Both players have finished as the No. 1 junior in the world,
Monfils in 2004 and Young in 2006.
In other opening round matches, No. 14 seed Mikhail Youhzny plays
former World No. 2 Tommy Haas (tied 2-2) on Grandstand, and No. 16 Ivo Karlovic
takes on Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci.
Round 1: Tomas
Berdych vs Fernando Gonzalez
Order of
Play - Monday, July 28, 2008
CENTER COURT
start 11:00 am
[12] Tommy Robredo (ESP) vs Mardy Fish (USA)
Sam
Querrey (USA) vs Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)
[13] Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) vs
Tomas Berdych (CZE)
Not
Before 7:00 PM
Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) vs [WC] Marat Safin (RUS)
Gael
Monfils (FRA) vs [WC] Donald Young (USA)
Berdych, Haas Post Wins Over Seeds
MASON - July 28, 2008 -
Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic
and Tommy Haas of Germany eliminated seeds in opening round action while Dmitry
Tursunov defeated former No. 1 Marat Safin in a battle of Russians on
Monday.
Berdych beat No. 13 seed Fernando Gonzalez 6-3,
3-6, 6-3, posting his first win over the Chilean in four career meetings and
Haas ousted No. 14 Mikhail Youzhny 7-6(2), 2-6, 6-4.
In the evening session,
Tursunov prevailed for the second time over Safin 7-6(5), 6-4, while Frenchman
Gael Monfils needed only 53 minutes to defeat American wild card Donald Young
6-1, 6-1.
After splitting the
first two sets, Berdych broke
Gonzalez in the second game of the final set and never faced a break point the
rest of the way in the one hour and 40-minute match.
"My memories are good
for this week and for this tournament," said Berdych, who beat No. 2 Rafael Nadal three years
ago. "Well, I'm always happy coming here, but in the few last years I didn't
have as good results as I would expect. I hope this year it's going to change
and it's going to be everything different."
Haas fired 17 aces and
improved to 3-2 lifetime against Youzhny in the two hour and eight minute
battle. Both players won 88 points each but the difference came in the third set
as Haas broke in the ninth game and served out the match.
Haas will face Gael
Monfils in the second round with the winner having a chance to possibly take on
the hottest player in the world, No. 2 Rafael Nadal, who comes into Cincinnati
with a career-best 29-match winning
streak.
Tomas Berdych in action against Fernando Gonzalez in
Cincinnati SEE
PHOTO
Interview Tomas Berdych July 28, 2008
CINCINNATI, OHIO
T. BERDYCH/F. Gonzalez
6-3, 3-6,
6-3
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. People here still
obviously remember you from the match when you beat Nadal after he won Canada. I
was wondering what this place means to you? Do you have any fond memories of
Cincinnati?
TOMAS BERDYCH:
Yeah, well, like you said, the match with Nadal, it's not every week, so of
course I remember all the matches with those guys.
I mean, with Federer,
with Nadal, yeah, those guys. Especially when you play the match and you can
beat him on any surface, any tournament, then it gets to your memory and it
stays there.
Yeah, I mean, my memories are good for this week and for this
tournament. Well, I'm always happy to come here, but in the few last years I
didn't have as good results as I would expect.
Yeah, I hope this year it's
going to change and it's going to be everything different.
Q. It's
funny, because when you beat him that year I remember in your post-match press
conference it didn't seem that big of a deal to you that you had beaten him.
TOMAS BERDYCH:: Well, I
mean, if it's like straight after the match, and then like all kind of emotions
and everything from the court, you're tired and everything and you just want to
relax. So maybe you don't like have it in your mind that you beat Nadal and all
the things like this.
It came a little bit after, or maybe the next day or
anything like that, so I think it was this case.
Q. How do you feel
your summer so far?
TOMAS
BERDYCH:: Well, I mean, my season starts pretty good, but then
with the injury in the Davis Cup match in Russia everything got changed. I was
playing really good coming after semis from Miami.
Everything was fine, but
then I was like one month off the tournaments and then coming slowly and lost
couple of pretty close matches.
So far, the summer, it's -- yeah, it can be
always better than this. But, yeah, I had the finals in Bastad, and now I think
it's getting better and better.
Q. The Olympics are coming up. The
buzz, are players feeling it?
TOMAS
BERDYCH:: I don't think it's already right now. I think it's
going to be maybe few days before or when you arrived to Beijing.
Because I
think like the tournament, when you came to the site, it's the same like here or
in New York or anywhere else in the world.
But the atmosphere on the
village, like on the place where the Olympics are, it's completely different.
You can meet all the athletes and everybody. You're staying in the Olympic
Village with all the other athletes from your country, so this is quite a big
difference.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to go there. I like to be there. I had
a great memories for my last Athens Olympic Games. Yeah, it's going to be nice
for me.
Q. The last Olympic games, of course the match with Roger. Out
of the Olympics, do you take more out of the experience of four years ago, or is
it beating Roger that really stands out?
TOMAS BERDYCH: Well, I mean, it's like you said,
it's four years ago. There it was one of my first tournaments because I was one
of the last in the draw. I was around 80, 90 in the rankings, so I was just
pretty close to just get in.
Then I was starting to play my first like big
matches. Well, I think it's these two things together. Come to the big
tournament and have a good results, and then it didn't stay just with this
result.
Because sometimes it's kind of player who just came to one
tournament then he can win or be in semifinal and then nobody heard about him no
more.
I'm pretty happy that I can start there and then to consistently keep
going and make a better result.
Q. Everybody now in the tennis world
is talking about the fight for No. 1. Rafa could do it this week. Is there a
buzz in the locker room about that, or is it, for most of the players, just
another week like you said?
TOMAS
BERDYCH:: Yeah, I think it's maybe sometimes you just talk with
maybe your coach or maybe when you just sit at the dinner or something like
this. But it's not like -- I mean, everybody watch what's -- I don't know maybe
Roger or Rafa are doing, if they're doing anything different or things like
that.
I think both of them are trying to play their best tennis. If it's the
way that Nadal is going to be first or Roger is gonna stay for another weeks, I
think it's going to be -- yeah, just it goes, and this is life.
Q. How
did Lucie like your blog last week?
TOMAS
BERDYCH:: Well, she was at home so she saw everything. Well, I
mean, took it like as a normal.
End of
FastScripts
Round 2: Tomas Berdych vs Andreas
Seppi
Order of Play - Wednesday, July 30,
2008
COURT 3 start 11:00
am
Ernests Gulbis (LAT) vs [LL] Arnaud Clement (FRA)
Tomas Berdych (CZE) vs Andreas Seppi
(ITA)
[Q] Chris Guccione (AUS) vs [10] Fernando Verdasco (ESP)
[1] B Bryan
(USA)/M Bryan (USA) vs (A) T Widom (USA)/M Yani (USA)
S Bolelli (ITA)/A Seppi
(ITA) vs [2] D Nestor (CAN)/N Zimonjic (SRB)
[WC] M Fish (USA)/J Isner (USA)
vs [5] J Bjorkman (SWE)/K Ullyett (ZIM)
To Be
Arranged
[4] M Bhupathi (IND)/M Knowles (BAH) vs T Berdych (CZE)/R Stepanek (CZE)
Results:of Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Singles Second
Round
Andreas Seppi, Italy,
def. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic,
5-7, 7-5, 7-5.
Doubles Second
Round
Mahesh Bhupathi, India,
and Mark Knowles (4), Bahamas, def. Tomas Berdych
and Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, walkover.
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