US Open 2010 Men’s Singles Draw

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The 2010 US Open men’s main draw singles matches will begin this Monday 30 August at 11am local time in New York in the USA, which means 11pm Hong Kong time. There are 128 main draw spots divided up between 16 Qualifiers (Q), 8 Wild Cards (WC) and 104 Direct Acceptances.

The seeded players do not receive a BYE in the 1st round of a Grand Slam event. To win the title a player must win 7 best of 5 set matches in a row. For further details about the men’s event you can visit -> US Open 2010 Men’s Schedule of Play. Being seeded means that you the earliest round in the event that you can meet another seeded player is 3rd round in which only 32 players remain. The players name that is bolded is OCA’s prediction of who will win each match.

The draw for the seeded players if they all win through to the 3rd round is:

(1) Rafael Nadal versus (29) Philipp Kohlschreiber
(23) Feliciano Lopez v. (15) Ivan Ljubicic
(10) David Ferrer v. (24) Ernests Gulbis
(31) David Nalbandian v. (8) Fernando Verdasco
(4) Andy Murray v. (25) Stanislas Wawrinka
(20) Sam Querrey v. (15) Nicolas Almagro
(12) Mikhail Youzhny v. (18) John Isner
(28) Radek Stepanek v. (7) Tomas Berdych

Which are the match ups for the top half of the draw. In the bottom half of the draw, the players who are seeded to meet are:

(6) Nikolay Davydenko v. (26) Thomaz Bellucci
(17) Gael Monfils v. (9) Andy Roddick
(16) Marcos Baghdatis v. (19) Mardy Fish
(30) Juan Monaco v. (3) Novak Djokovic
(5) Robin Soderling v. (27) Fernando Gonzalez
(21) Albert Montanes v. (11) Marin Cilic
(13) Jurgen Melzer v. (22) Juan Carlos Ferrero
(32) Lleyton Hewitt v. (2) Roger Federer

The 2010 US Open men’s singles draw for the 1st round is:

(1) Rafael Nadal v. Teimuraz Gabashvili
Maximo Gonzalez v. Denis Istomen
Gilles Simon v. Donald Young
Tobias Kamke v. (29) Philipp Kohlschreiber
(23) Feliciano Lopez v. Santiago Giraldo
Rainer Schuettler v. Qualifier (Q)
Sergiy Stakhovsky v. Peter Luczak
(Q) v. (15) Ivan Ljubicic
(10) David Ferrer v. Alexandr Dolgopolov
Benjamin Becker v. Daniel Brands
Jarkko Nieminen v. Daniel Gimeno-Traver
Jeremy Chardy v. (24) Ernests Gulbis
(31) David Nalbandian v. (Q)
Florent Serra v. Florian Mayer
Pere Riba v. (Q)
Fabio Fognini v. (8) Fernando Verdasco
(4) Andy Murray v. Lukas Lacko
Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo v. Dustin Brown
Juan Ignacio Chela v. Lu Yen-Hsun
Mikhail Kukushkin v. (25) Stanislas Wawrinka
(20) Sam Querrey v. Bradley Klahn
Marcel Granollers v. Andreas Seppi
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez v. Lukasz Kubot
Potito Starace v. (14) Nicolas Almagro
(12) Mikhail Youzhny v. Andrey Golubev
Dudi Sela v. Xavier Malisse
Jack Sock v. Marco Chiudinelli
Frederico Gil v. (18) John Isner
(28) Radek Stepanek v. Julien Benneteau
Tommy Robredo v. (Q)
Victor Hanescu v. Carlos Berlocq
Michael Llodra v. (7) Tomas Berdych
(6) Nikolay Davydenko v. Michael Russell
Simon Greul v. Richard Gasquet
Kevin Anderson v. Somdev Devvarman
Tim Smyczek v. (26) Thomaz Bellucci
(17) Gael Monfils v. (Q)
Igor Andreev v. Horacio Zeballos
Janko Tipsarevic v. Olivier Rochus
Stephane Robert v. (9) Andy Roddick
(16) Marcos Baghdatis v. Arnaud Clement
Eduardo Schwank v. Robby Ginepri
Pablo Cuevas v. (Q)
Jan Hajek v. (19) Mardy Fish
(30) Juan Monaco v. (Q)
Kristof Vliegen v. James Blake
Philipp Petzschner v. (Q)
Viktor Troicki v. (3) Novak Djokovic
(5) Robin Soderling v. (Q)
Taylor Dent v. Alejandro Falla
Thiemo de Bakker v. (Q)
(Q) v. (27) Fernando Gonzalez
(21) Albert Montanes v. Michal Przysiezny
Carsten Ball v. (Q)
(Q) v. Evgeny Korolev
Illya Marchenko v. (11) Marin Cilic
(13) Jurgen Melzer v. Dmitry Tursunov
(Q) v. Ryan Sweeting
Bjorn Phau v. Ricardo Mello
(Q) v. (22) Juan Carlos Ferrero
(32) Lleyton Hewitt v. Paul-Henri Mathieu
Leonardo Mayer v. Guillaume Rufin
Michael Berrer v. Andreas Beck
Brian Dabul v. (2) Roger Federer

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