Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell Preview
Singles
Main Singles Draw - Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell
Milos Raonic (CAN) is seeded #15 in the main singles draw in Barcelona, for which the play starts tomorrow now that the qualifying has finished. The timing has yet to be posted but he will be playing Radek Stepanek (CZE) in his first round match. If he is successful there, his next match will be against the winner of the first round match between Robert Kendrick (USA) and Simon Greul (GER). Starting at the 3rd round, his opponents are a little more challenging: #3 seed Robin Soderling of Sweden followed by #5 seed Tomas Berdych (CZE) in order to make it to the semi-finals (assuming Soderling and Berdych are also successful in their first 2 and first 3 rounds respectively). His semi-final match would most likely be against Nadal (ESP) and possible contenders from the other half of the draw in the final could be Murray (GBR), Ferrer (ESP), Almagro (ESP), Melzer (AUT), or perhaps #10 seed Alexandr Dolgopolov of the Ukraine.
This would be a tall order, especially on the clay surface where so many of his opponents feel most at home, but Milos Raonic, now ranked #28 in the ATP World Tour Rankings, might just be up for such a challenge.
Doubles
Doubles Draw - Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell
Milos Raonic (CAN) and Nico Almagro (ESP) will be playing the first doubles match of the tournament at 11 am (5 am Eastern Time) against Dolgopolov (UKR) and Malisse (BEL) on "Pista Central" tomorrow morning, 18 April.
Also in the draw is familiar Canadian doubles star Daniel Nestor, who is again seeded #2 in Barcelona alongside Max Mirnyi (BLR). Their first-round bye will see them face either Bellucci (BRZ) and Dodig (CRO) or Cuevas (URU) and Dlouhy (CZE) in the second round.
Visit the official tournament website http://www.barcelonaopenbancsabadell.com
Learn about Raonic's "metoric (sic) rise up rankings" to #28 from this rather comprehensive article on sportsnet.ca http://www.sportsnet.ca/tennis/2011/04/17/barcelona_open_raonic/
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April 21st, 2011 - 14:25
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April 18th, 2011 - 18:33
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April 18th, 2011 - 15:45
that’s going to be a tough opening round match tomorrow against Stepanek. there’s no shortage of big names in this tournament. too bad Raonic is out of the doubles already — looks like Almagro and Raonic didn’t give Dolgopolov and Malisse much trouble at all.
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