The draw for the 2010 US Open has just been made in New York. It sees world number 1 Rafael face Teymuraz Gabashvili and 2nd seed Roger Federer face world 94 Brian Dabul.
Defending Champion Juan Martin Del Potro will not defend his title sue to his on going wrist injury.
Andy Murray has been drawn in the same half as Rafael Nadal and will begin his 2010 campaign against Lukas Lacko of Slovakia.
His route that he will likely need to navigate if he is to the reach the finals will see him face either Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo or Dustin Brown in the second round. His third round opponent on seedings should be 25th seed Stanislas Wawrinka and in the fourth round a tough match against American Sam Querrey, the 20th seed, though Querrey would have to beat 14th seed Nicolas Almagro.
Most likely quarter final opponent for Murray would be this years Wimbledon finalist Tomas Berdych, before a possible meeting with Nadal in the semis. Nadal’s route through to the semi’s doesnt show any major problems, 29th seed Philipp Kohlschreiber, 15th seed Ivan Ljubicic are potential 3rd and 4th round matches and Fernando Verdasco and David Nalbandian most likely quarter final matches.
In the other half of the draw, Davydenko, Roddick, Baghdatis and Djokovic are all in the same quarter, whilst Federer could have some tough matches against Cilic and Soderling.
| 2010 US Open – Mens Singles – First Round Draw – 1st Quarter | |||||
| [1] Rafael Nadal (ESP) | v | Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS) | Second Round |
Third Round |
Fourth Round |
| Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) | v | Denis Istomin (UZB) | |||
| Gilles Simon (FRA) | v | (W) Donald Young (USA) | Second Round |
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| Tobias Kamke (GER) | v | [29] Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) | |||
| [23] Feliciano Lopez (ESP) | v | Santiago Giraldo (COL) | Second Round |
Third Round |
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| Rainer Schuettler (GER) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | |||
| Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) | v | Peter Luczak (AUS) | Second Round |
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| (Q) QUALIFIER | v | [15] Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) | |||
| [10] David Ferrer (ESP) | v | Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) | Second Round |
Third Round |
Fourth Round |
| Benjamin Becker (GER) | v | Daniel Brands (GER) | |||
| Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) | v | Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP) | Second Round |
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| Jeremy Chardy (FRA) | v | [24] Ernests Gulbis (LAT) | |||
| [31] David Nalbandian (ARG) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | Second Round |
Third Round |
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| Florent Serra (FRA) | v | Florian Mayer (GER) | |||
| Pere Riba (ESP) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | Second Round |
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| Fabio Fognini (ITA) | v | [8] Fernando Verdasco (ESP) | |||
| 2010 US Open – Mens Singles – First Round Draw – 2nd Quarter | |||||
| [4] Andy Murray (GBR) | v | Lukas Lacko (SVK) | Second Round |
Third Round |
Fourth Round |
| Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo (ESP) | v | Dustin Brown (JAM) | |||
| Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG) | v | Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) | Second Round |
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| Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) | v | [25] Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) | |||
| [20] Sam Querrey (USA) | v | (W) Bradley Klahn (USA) | Second Round |
Third Round |
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| Marcel Granollers (ESP) | v | Andreas Seppi (ITA) | |||
| Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) | v | Lukasz Kubot (POL) | Second Round |
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| Potito Starace (ITA) | v | [14] Nicolas Almagro (ESP) | |||
| [12] Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) | v | Andrey Golubev (KAZ) | Second Round |
Third Round |
Fourth Round |
| Dudi Sela (ISR) | v | Xavier Malisse (BEL) | |||
| (W) Jack Sock (USA) | v | Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) | Second Round |
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| Frederico Gil (POR) | v | [18] John Isner (USA) | |||
| [28] Radek Stepanek (CZE) | v | Julien Benneteau (FRA) | Second Round |
Third Round |
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| Tommy Robredo (ESP) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | |||
| Victor Hanescu (ROU) | v | Carlos Berlocq (ARG) | Second Round |
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| Michael Llodra (FRA) | v | [7] Tomas Berdych (CZE) | |||
| 2010 US Open – Mens Singles – First Round Draw – 3rd Quarter | |||||
| [6] Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) | v | Michael Russell (USA) | Second Round |
Third Round |
Fourth Round |
| Simon Greul (GER) | v | Richard Gasquet (FRA) | |||
| Kevin Anderson (RSA) | v | Somdev Devvarman (IND) | Second Round |
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| (W) Tim Smyczek (USA) | v | [26] Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) | |||
| [17] Gael Monfils (FRA) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | Second Round |
Third Round |
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| Igor Andreev (RUS) | v | Horacio Zeballos (ARG) | |||
| Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) | v | Olivier Rochus (BEL) | Second Round |
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| Stephane Robert (FRA) | v | [9] Andy Roddick (USA) | |||
| [16] Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) | v | Arnaud Clement (FRA) | Second Round |
Third Round |
Fourth Round |
| Eduardo Schwank (ARG) | v | Robby Ginepri (USA) | |||
| Pablo Cuevas (URU) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | Second Round |
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| Jan Hajek (CZE) | v | [19] Mardy Fish (USA) | |||
| [30] Juan Monaco (ARG) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | Second Round |
Third Round |
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| Kristof Vliegen (BEL) | v | (W) James Blake (USA) | |||
| Philipp Petzschner (GER) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | Second Round |
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| Viktor Troicki (SRB) | v | [3] Novak Djokovic (SRB) | |||
| 2010 US Open – Mens Singles – First Round Draw – 4th Quarter | |||||
| [5] Robin Soderling (SWE) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | Second Round |
Third Round |
Fourth Round |
| Taylor Dent (USA) | v | Alejandro Falla (COL) | |||
| Thiemo De Bakker (NED) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | Second Round |
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| (Q) QUALIFIER | v | [27] Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) | |||
| [21] Albert Montanes (ESP) | v | Michal Przysiezny (POL) | Second Round |
Third Round |
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| (W) Carsten Ball (AUS) | v | (Q) QUALIFIER | |||
| (Q) QUALIFIER | v | Evgeny Korolev (KAZ) | Second Round |
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| Illya Marchenko (UKR) | v | [11] Marin Cilic (CRO) | |||
| [13] Jurgen Melzer (AUT) | v | Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) | Second Round |
Third Round |
Fourth Round |
| (Q) QUALIFIER | v | (W) Ryan Sweeting (USA) | |||
| Bjorn Phau (GER) | v | Ricardo Mello (BRA) | Second Round |
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| (Q) QUALIFIER | v | [22] Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) | |||
| [32] Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) | v | Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) | Second Round |
Third Round |
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| Leonardo Mayer (ARG) | v | (W) Guillaume Rufin (FRA) | |||
| Michael Berrer (GER) | v | Andreas Beck (GER) | Second Round |
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| Brian Dabul (ARG) | v | [2] Roger Federer (SUI) | |||
Andy Murray failed to produce his best tennis and fell at the last hurdle losing the US Open final to former world number 1 Roger Federer 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.
Murray will of course go into the match as underdog, but the Scot does hold a winning record against Federer, they have met three times and Murray has won their last two encounters.
Murray will not follow this pattern though after all he is not English – he is proudly Scottish!
Murray raised his game with Nadal serving for the set at 5-4 and produced the first break point of the afternoon, Nadal though is number 1 in the world and fires down an ace to save the point and goes on to win the next two points and win the third set.
Andy Murray’s first and second serve were working well and Nadal seemed unable to deal with Murray when he came into net of his 1st serve or the height that Murray was generating on his second serve. Murray capitalised on his lead and secured a second break with a great pass down the line after drawing Nadal into the net.