Rogers Masters
August 5-12, 2007
$2,200,000 / 32 Draw
Hard

Depending Champ, Federer celebrated his 26th birthday yesterday with a win over the big-serving, ace-master Ivo Karlovic (7-6(2), 7-6(3)).  Nadal also cruised past former world number one, Marat Safin (7-6, 6-0).  They are both through to the third round.

Murray, Gonzalez, Canas, Robredo and some other seeds have crashed out so early.  Who will emerge the winner?

Seeds: ¹Roger Federer, ²Rafael Nadal, ³Novak Djokovic, ⁴Nikolay Davydenko, ⁵Andy Roddick, ⁶Fernando Gonzalez, ⁷Tommy Robredo, ⁸Richard Gasquet, ⁹James Blake, ¹⁰Tomas Berdych, ¹¹Ivan Ljubicic, ¹²Tommy Haas, ¹³Andy Murray, ¹⁴Mikhail Youzhny, ¹⁵Canas Guillermo

Today's Fixtures:
Federer vs. Fognini (Murray's conqueror)
Nadal vs. Mattieu
Djokovic vs. Nalbandian
Roddick vs. Baghdatis
Haas vs. Stepanek (Mr. Hingis)
Davydenko vs. Youzhny


Happy Belated Birthday, Roger

Good to be back, briefly though

Some Third Round Results:

Davydenko - Youzhny   7-6, 6-3
Stepanek - Haas   6-3, 2-6, 6-2
Djokovic - Nalbandian   6-2, 6-3
Federer - Fognini   6-1, 6-1

Monsieur PDF; You and this your tennis sef!

woah there! i thought no one was watching the masters.

one question - why is it called the Roger's masters cup? For Roger Federer?

Dancevic just eliminated Verdasco, to play Nadal in the quarter finals. Best game so far has been Paul Henri Mathieu vs Guillermo Canas! Classic.

Davidylan is that not you!

marlet01:

Davidylan is that not you!

thou sayest.

Is anyone watching the Roddick - Baghdatis game right now? Roddick is up 6-2, 4-2. Not very impressive, take away the serve and Roddick is very beatable. Baghdatis has pretty much thrown away this match with numerous outrageous unforced errors.

2 terrific points won by Roddick!

i take my words back! some unbelievable tennis from Roddick!

David

Men; I ain't watching all those stuffs - maybe just once in a while cause of it's boringness.

boring? lol i used to think tennis was boring until i started going with my small cousin to the US junior nationals. Its so much fun once you understand the rules and how the game is played. Dont miss the Federer - Hewitt game tomorrow at 1pm ET. That promises to be a classic.

Roddick - 6-2, 6-3.

how hot is that roddick, he is the reason i started watching tennis, and how good is Roger, mannn, that dude 's got tennis veins

Roddick hot?
Roddick will be shown up against a more consistent player in Djokovic. He wont make as many errors as baghdatis did tonite.

Federer hands up is the best tennis player the world has seen in over a decade. He's won wimbledon without a coach and is throught to the QFs here with a 45 minute 6-1, 6-1 thrashing of Fabio Fognini, the same player who beat Andy Murray.

Hewitt is improving, he's got Roger's former coach now so we'll see how well he plays tomorrow. I dont see him doing better than a top ten place again.

hewitt's wife is hot. and he is like ugly. i dont know how he scored a girl like that

he's got money and he's famous.

iice:

Don't like roddick that much

Hewitt too but my bro loves Hewitt.

Hmmmm better set an alarm for the Federer game

Iice did u miss ur way ?

Am so suprised

I thought ur initial post was a mistake

@ David

I don't know what you would do to me to make me like that "Boring" Sport - Imagine Federer playing, running from one end of the court to the other and lots of pple are there applauding him - I mean It's kinda strange 2 me.
Whites are kinda dry.

PTH:

he's got money and he's famous.

so did the girl, she was a model, and had her own tv show, "home n away"

Is alrite.

Tennis and golf! Much better than the useless MLS we are fed with here.

Haha! David; you make me laugh - Nothing is more interesting than soccer itself. It brings emotions both positive and negative, The most watch, It's simply the best.

soccer is my number one sport but i dont like the MLS. give me tennis any day

Tennis is more like a recreational activity one plays with his friends just like B.ball, but soccer is the most interesting; maybe the MLS is not so interesting afterall how bout the EPL:English Premier League? ? ?

So u guys were hiding all this while. Good to see u all around.  iice, the subscriber, where's viee, dinozzo, doyin? Marlet, tennis and I are inseparable. David, u've crossed admin's path, shey?

Quarter-Final Fixtures

Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) - Radek Stepanek( CZE)
Roger Federer (SUI) - Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)
Andy Roddick (USA) - Novak Djokovic (SRB)
Frank Dancevic (CAN) - Rafael Nadal (ESP)

Stepanek earlier beat Davydenko 6-4, 7-5 to reach the semi-finals of the masters event. He will meet the winner between Federer and Hewiit.

The match between the former and current world number one is in progress.

I am particularly looking forward to a Nadal/Djokovic SF showdown.

What's with the sudden rush of form for Radek Stepanek? i wouldnt have bet $1 he could beat Davydenko.

The game of this tournament is definitely Djoko/Nadal. Let's see Nadal get through Dancevic tonite. He's got the home crowd behind him.

Hooray tennis is back. Shame I cant watch. Scaffolding around my house is blocking my signals.

Anyway

Davydenko's loss is no surprise I guess. He has been stringing together a couple of early round losses recently. Plus it seems my guy is entwined in some betting scandal.

What surface is it on by the way?

doyin13:

Hooray tennis is back. Shame I can't watch.

What surface is it on by the way?

Bro, welcome back, tennis has always been around.  The surface is Hard.

Some QF results:

[1] R Federer (SUI) d L Hewitt (AUS) 63 64
[3] N Djokovic (SRB) d [5] A Roddick (USA) 76(4) 64
Nadal faces homeboy, Dancevic later this nite.

Nadal vs Dancevic 4-6, 6-2. Third set up next.

@ doyin13, if u have a computer u can see the games here - http://livefooty.doctor-serv.com/tue7.8/Rogers_Masters2.html

wow! hows Nadal playing

Nadal vs Dancevic 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Dancevic is another great player in the making, made Nadal sweat for this match. Not totally comfortable with Nadal's level of play in this game, Federer would have required far less time to see off Dancevic. But great defence from Nadal, he's improved his serves, didnt drop a single first serve in the last set, gave away only 1 of 10 break points, very few unforced errors and a couple of impressive aces.

He will find Djoko a bit tougher but i see him getting through in three sets. I dont think he can beat a charged Federer in the final though.

Federer awaits the winner between the second and third seeds. He beat Stepanek 7-6, 6-2 to reach the final.