10. 03. 2009. · The draw has been made for the BNP Paribas Open ($4,500,000). The first Masters tournament of the season begins on Thursday, March 12th and will be held til March 22nd.
The best Serbian tennis player and defending champion Novak Djokovic is third seed and has a first-round BYE. He will open his campaign against either Martin Vassallo Arguello (ARG) or a qualifier.
Novak’s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:
3rd round: Tommy Haas (GER), Rainer Schuettler (GER,29)
4th round: Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI,16), Radek Stepanek (CZE,18)
Quarterfinals: Andy Roddick (USA,7), David Ferrer (ESP,12), Mardy Fish (USA,20)
Semifinals: Rafael Nadal (ESP,1), Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG,6), David Nalbandian (ARG,14), Marat Safin (RUS).
Roger Federer (SUI,2), Andy Murray (GBR,4), Nikolay Davydenko (RUS,5), Gilles Simon (FRA,8), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA,11)… are in the other half of the draw.
Last year Nole won the title defeating American Mardy Fish 6:2, 5:7, 6:3 in the Indian Wells men’s final.
